Hello Hudson!
It’s the most wonderful time of year! If you would like to view all of the Winter Walk Window Winners, then there’s a page with a picture of each. However, my photos do not do each window justice, and I highly recommend walking around the city and looking at each window yourself.
While junktiquing across the river this week, I found this nativity set. There’s one wise man with a gift, and one rather disdainful wiseass man, who seems to be saying, “What’s the kid going to do with myrrh?”
I know it’s sacrilege, but I would buy an entire nativity set of annoyed and bored characters like the one above – maybe there’s a few shepherds huddled behind the barn, smoking.
I bought this one. She sits on the mantel in my kitchen because she looks annoyed about something. She seems to be saying, “Really, is THAT is the best you can do? Fine.”
I’ll bequeath my collection of annoyed porcelain figurines to someone, someday. It might be you!
ENJOY!
Trix
Winter Walk Window Winners
Jill Dearman’s Meta-Astrology
Jill Dearman – Hudson’s Astrologer!
Read Jill’s weekly column, Meta-Astrology
with Hudson references!
December 9 – December 15, 2023
O.G. Astrologer Jill Dearman is the author of Queer Astrology for Men and Queer Astrology for Women, the crime novels Jazzed, The Uncanny Case of Gilles/Jeannette (set in Hudson), and many other books. She analyzed the city of Hudson’s chart for Chronogram. Jill is also a PT Prof. of Writing at NYU. If you are interested in learning more about your chart, visit www.jilldearman.com.
Give the Gift of Hudson’s History for the Holidays
Gift ideas from the Hudson Area Library History Room
See the window display at 550 Warren Street during Winter Walk
Ancram Opera House Becomes
Ancram Center for the Arts
The Flow Chart Foundation Awarded $49,500
by the New York State Council on the Arts
Bimi’s Canteen Fondue
by Susan Simon
Bimi’s Canteen Fondue is the Perfect Date Night
by Trixie Starr
“A Christmas Memory”
at the Park Theater Hudson
Poignant and Powerful
Read more here.
Public Access, Alternative Media, and
“The Brenda and Glennda Show”
Guide to Cut-Your-Own Christmas Trees
by Scott Hotaling
SPECTACLE Frederic Church and
The Business of Art Opens
at Olana State Historic Site
|The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Margaret E. Dows, 1909 (09.95)
Exhibit starts November 19th – read more here.
Events listed in Chronological Order (ish)
A Christmas Memory
HOLIDELIC
Wednesday – Sunday at 7:30pm
Saturday and Sunday at 3:00pm
December 7th – December 23rd
Park Theater Hudson
Saturday, December 9th
Friday, December 15th – Saturday, December 16th
8:00pm
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park
4th Annual Festival of Wreaths
Saturday, December 9th – 10:00am – 2:00pm
Montgomery C. Smith Elementary School
Hudson Farmers’ Market – The Holiday Market
Saturday, December 9th – 10am-1pm
Elks Lodge – 201 Harry Howard
Athens Victorian Stroll 2023
Saturday, December 9th – 1:00 – 5:00pm
Athens Cultural Center
Ancram Winterfest
Saturday, December 9th – 2:00-5:00pm
Ancram Town Hall
Triform Bell Choir Winter Concert
Saturday, December 9th – 6:00pm
Claverack Free Library
Stephen Bluhm Presents
New Chamber Pop Songs
at Christ Church Episcopal in Red Hook
Saturday, December 9th – 7pm
Christ Church Episcopal, Red Hook, NY
Michael Moss: ENSEMBLE BOWS
Saturday, December 9th – 7:30pm
Bridge Street Theatre
Q-MoB Queer Men’s Coffee Klatch
@ Wylde Coffee (Hudson, NY)
Sunday, December 10th – 10:30am-12:30pm
Wylde Coffee
Holiday Hunt in the Mansion Family Program
Sundays, December 10th and 17th – Noon – 3pm
Locust Grove Estate
Congregation Ashe Emeth:
Children’s Hanukkah Party
Sunday, Dec 10th – 2-3:30pm
Congregation Anshe Emeth
Queerly
Sundays – 5pm-9pm
52 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY
Pleasure Alchemy with Maude White
Sunday, December 10th – 6:00-8:00pm
Spotty Dog Books
Free Qigong~TaiChi Classes
Tuesdays, December 12th & December 19th – 10am-11am
Hudson Area Library
Make Your Own Snow!
Tuesday, December 12th, 4pm
Hudson Area Library
A Holiday Extravaganza
Friday – Sunday – December 15th-17th
Greenport – Various Locations – Dinner and a Show
Click here for details
Music at Halfmoon
w/ Weeds, Samuel Boat & Dust Bowl Faeries
Friday, December 15h – 8pm
Half Moon, Hudson
Snow Ball with the Snow Sisters
Saturday, December 16th – 10:30am
FASNY
Winter Solstice Celebration at Olana
Winter Around the World!
Saturday, December 16th 1:00 – 5:00pm
Olana State Historic Site
Festival Holiday Hat Sale
Saturday, December 16th – 4-6pm
Claverack Free Library
Cock-Tails for the Animals
Saturday, December 16th – 5-7pm
Hudson Milliner Art Salon
Opening Reception:
Landscapes of Transcendence:
Part I – Magical Realism
Saturday, December 16th – 5-7pm
Susan Eley Fine Art
On View through January 28th
KWANZAA UMOJA CELEBRATION
Saturday, December 16th – 5pm
Hudson Hall
PS21 WINTER CELEBRATION
The Talea Ensemble performs “Solstices”
at sundown in complete darkness
Thursday, December 21st – 4:25pm-6:00pm
PS 21 Chatham
Christmas Eve
at the First Presbyterian Church Hudson
Sunday, December 24th – 7pm
First Presbyterian Church
Arts and Crafts at Locust Grove
Dec 27th, 28th, 29th – 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Locust Grove Estate
Family Kwanzaa Celebration
Friday, December 29th – 2:00-4:00pm
Claverack Free Library
First Day Hike with the
“Dogs of Olana”
Monday, January 1, 10:00-11:00am
Olana State Historic Site
First Day Hike
Monday, January 1, 1:00pm-2:00pm
Olana State Historic Site
First Day FREE Artmaking in the Afternoon
Monday, January 1st – 1:00-3:00pm
Olana State Historic Site
Close Readings
in a Virtual Space with t.liem
Thursday, January 11th – 3-4pm
The Flow Chart Foundation
OF THE SIGN:
Marjorie Welish in Conversation with Steve Clay
Saturday, January, 27th – 3pm
The Flow Chart Space
ON-GOING Events/Exhibitions
Opening Reception: Silver and Gold
On view: Saturdays – Sundays – 1:00-5:00pm
On View: Saturday and Sundays:
1:00-5:00pm until December 10th
Spencertown Academy Arts Center
D’Arcy Simpson Art Works Presents:
Local Recall by Mary Breneman
D’Arcy Simpson ArtWorks
On View until December 23rd