Hello Hudson!
Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving!
It’s Black Friday (are we still calling it that?). You are probably setting up camp outside the Toys R Us to get the latest shipment of Cabbage Patch Dolls. (Did the country really go crazy for those dolls?). Every year, we wondered what would be the toy of least supply. Tickle Me Elmo? Beanie Babies? Beanie Babies had their own trading market – it was like bitcoin of the 90s. Sorry, I’m already off-topic.
Hudson is prepping for Winter Walk next week – get ready! Decorate your windows. Saturday, December 2nd, 5-8pm.
Come visit me on Winter Walk as Trixolina Marie Clauzone, Santa’s bitter, Italian-American ex-wife. Someone once said to me, true story, “Trixie, I love how your character always seems so annoyed. Is that part of your act?” I said, “Yeah, it’s an act.”
Come to Padrona on North 4th during Winter Walk, you can watch me “acting”. Sit and have your photo taken with Ms. Clauzone by a half-Jewish elf and listen to chanteuse Ophelia Nightly.
We take Instamax instant pictures and put them in a holiday card for $5. If/when the apocalypse comes, and there is no more internet/cloud, and your phone’s photo storage is erased, you will still have that instamax physical photo of the two of us. We can admire it together as we shelter in place in JL Edward’s nuclear fallout basement and fight over a can of beans.
Who says I’m not in the holiday spirit?
See you around town, Hudson!
Trix
PS. Pics are $5 and the $ goes to Animal Kind. Stop by.
D’Arcy Simpson Art Works Presents:
Local Recall by Mary Breneman
Jill is taking a break this week, but check again next week for your Hudson-based Horoscopes
Jill Dearman – Hudson’s Astrologer!
Read Jill’s weekly column, Meta-Astrology
with Hudson references!
November 18th – November 24, 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.
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.
Yard Sales and Nihilism
by Trixie Starr
Trixie Discovers the Pickup Lockers at Lowe’s!
They are Life-Changing!
Events listed in Chronological Order (ish)
Queer Ass Film Club: I Am Divine
Friday, November 24th – 7pm
Kasuri
COMMUNITY OPEN HOUSE
Saturday, November 25th – 2pm – 5pm
Ancram Opera House
Queer Figure Drawing
Saturday, November 25th – 6pm
Kasuri
90s Dance Party at Upper Depot
Saturday, November 25th – 7-10pm
Upper Depot
“Blues Women of the Capital Region II”
Concert Featuring Gina Coleman, Leslie Barkman, and Robin O’Herin
Saturday, November 25th – 7:30pm
Spencertown Academy Arts Center
Queerly
Sundays – 5pm-9pm
52 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY
Infant Toddler Playgroup and Parent Support
Monday, November 27th, 2 – 4pm
Hudson Area Library
Art School of Columbia County’s:
A Women’s Circle, Exploring the Creative Process
Mondays in November, starting November 6th
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Art School of Columbia County
Nonfiction Book Group
Monday, November 27th – 6pm – 7pm
Hudson Area Library
Free Qigong~TaiChi Classes
Tuesdays, November 28th – December 19th – 10am-11am
Hudson Area Library
Expressive Arts Class for Adults:
with Charlotte Semmes at Art School of Columbia County
Tuesdays, November 28th – December 5th – 12:30-2:30
Art School of Columbia County
HAL Book Group
Wednesday, November 29th – 5pm
Hudson Area Library
Make Your Own Fire Cider
Thursday, November 30th – 6:00 – 7:00pm
Hudson Area Library
A Christmas Memory
Wednesday – Sunday at 7:30pm
Saturday and Sunday at 3:00pm
November 30th – December 23rd
Park Theater Hudson
Congregation Ashe Emeth:
Songful Kabbalat Shabbat Service & Kosher Oneg
Friday, December 1st – 7:00pm
Congregation Anshe Emeth
Speed Dating (& Friending) at TOASTED!
Friday, December 1st – 7:00-10:00pm
Toasted – Newburgh
Chestnut Roast at Oakdale Lake
Saturday, December 2nd – 2:00-3:00pm
Oakdale Lake
Winter Walk
at First Presbyterian Church in Hudson
Saturday, December 2nd – Noon to 8pm
First Presbyterian Church
“The Melting Pot”
Soup and Singalong Saturdays
Every Saturday, Starting December 2nd – Noon-3 PM
First Presbyterian Church
Benefit Concert for Operation Unite
Saturday, December 2nd – 3:00pm
Spencertown Academy
Opening Reception: Silver and Gold
Saturday, December 2nd – 4pm-8pm
Circle 46 Gallery
Winter Walk 2023
Saturday, December 2nd – 5pm – 8pm
Warren Street, Hudson
Congregation Ashe Emeth:
WINTER WALK
Saturday, December 2nd – 5:00-8:00pm
541 Warren Street
STARS & OBJECTS-Winter Group Exhibition
OPENS SAT 11/18, 6-8 pm
PERFORMANCES & CRAFTS FAIR FOR
HUDSON WINTER WALK, 12/2
Holiday Hunt in the Mansion Family Program
Sundays, December 3rd, 10th, and 17th – Noon – 3pm
Locust Grove Estate
Operation Unite Benefit Classical Music Concert
Sunday, December 3rd – 3pm
Spencertown Academy Arts Center
TELLING THE TRUTH AS IT COMES UP:
Alice Notley & Nick Sturm—reading & talk
Wednesday, December 6th – Noon
Virtual
Decorate the Library’s Teen Room!
Wednesday, December 6th – 3:30-5:00pm
Hudson Area Library
4th Annual Festival of Wreaths
Saturday, December 9th – 10:00am – 2:00pm
Montgomery C. Smith Elementary School
HOLIDELIC
Friday, December 8th – Saturday, December 9th
Friday, December 15th – Saturday, December 16th
8:00pm
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park
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
Congregation Ashe Emeth:
Children’s Hanukkah Party
Sunday, Dec 10th – 2-3:30pm
Congregation Anshe Emeth
Make Your Own Snow!
Tuesday, December 12th, 4pm
Hudson Area Library
Winter Solstice Celebration at Olana
Winter Around the World!
Saturday, December 16th 1:00 – 5:00pm
Olana State Historic Site
PS21 WINTER CELEBRATION
The Talea Ensemble performs “Solstices”
at sundown in complete darkness
Thursday, December 21st – 4:25pm-6:00pm
PS 21 Chatham
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
OF THE SIGN:
Marjorie Welish in Conversation with Steve Clay
Saturday, January, 27th – 3pm
The Flow Chart Space
ON-GOING Events/Exhibitions
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
PRIVATE VISIONS/PUBLIC SPACES
Davis Orton Gallery
On View: Sat-Sun 11-5:30pm until December 3rd
Black & White Show
Exhibition on View: October 19 – December 3, 2023
Susan Eley Fine Art Gallery
Special Fall Exhibit “Object Matter”
at Caldwell Gallery Hudson
October 7-November 26
Caldwell Gallery Hudson