Hello Hudson!
If you’re looking for a nativity set, you can find one like this:
If you are REALLY looking nativity sets, then go on a pilgrimage to Via San Gregorio Armeno in Naples, Italy. Otherwise known as “Christmas Alley”, this one street in Naples sells nativity sets and Christmas decorations year round. Here are photos from my day-trip to Naples.
Prior to minimalistic boutiques, Hudson had stores chock full of stuff, like this storefront:
Va fa Napoli! Buon Natale!
ENJOY!
Trix
Jill Dearman’s Meta-Astrology
Jill Dearman – Hudson’s Astrologer!
Read Jill’s weekly column, Meta-Astrology
with Hudson references!
Read this Week’s Horoscopes
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.
Interview with Lynn Brandt
Hudson’s Santa Village
Lynn Brandt, one of the organizers of the refurbished Santa’s Village Houses,
talks to Trixie’s List about the project.
Q&A with Dylan from Matter Storm Design
Learn More about the And-Hof Animals
Sanctuary for Farm Animals-Permaculture
And-Hof Animals Sanctuary Benefit at Hudson Milliner Art Salon – Saturday, Dec. 16th – 5pm
Winter Walk Window Winners
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
“A Christmas Memory”
at the Park Theater Hudson
Poignant and Powerful
Read more here.
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
Wednesday – Sunday at 7:30pm
Saturday and Sunday at 3:00pm
December 7th – December 23rd
Park Theater Hudson
A Holiday Extravaganza
Friday – Sunday – December 15th-17th
Greenport – Various Locations – Dinner and a Show
Click here for details
HOLIDELIC
Friday, December 15th – Saturday, December 16th
8:00pm
Kaatsbaan Cultural Park
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
Hudson Farmers’ Market – The Holiday Market
Saturday, December 16th – 10am-1pm
Elks Lodge – 201 Harry Howard
Winter Solstice Celebration at Olana
Winter Around the World!
Saturday, December 16th 1:00 – 5:00pm
Olana State Historic Site
The Nutcracker
Saturday, December 16th – 2pm and 6pm
Taconic Hills Performing Arts Center
Aegis: Athena’s Shield
New Work By Rachael Que Vargas
Saturday, December 16th – 3pm-6:30pm
Kasuri
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
Holiday Hunt in the Mansion Family Program
Sunday – December 17th – Noon – 3pm
Locust Grove Estate
Queerly
Sundays – 5pm-9pm
52 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY
Free Qigong~TaiChi Classes
Tuesday, December 19th – 10am-11am
Hudson Area Library
A Christmas Carol
Thursday, December 21st – 7pm
Virtual
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
December 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
Celestial New Year’s Eve
Sunday, December 31st – January 1st
The Maker
NYE Dance Party at BackBar w/DJ WildMob
Sunday, December 31st – January 1st
BackBar
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
JANUARY AT THE U.S. CAPITOL
Mark Nowak & Stacy Szymaszek—reading & talk
Friday, January 12th – 7pm
Flow Chart Space
Q-Mob’s Wylde Men’s Coffee Klatch
Every Second Sunday – January 14th – 10:30am – 12:30pm
Wylde Hudson
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
D’Arcy Simpson Art Works Presents:
Local Recall by Mary Breneman
D’Arcy Simpson ArtWorks
On View until December 23rd