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January 2019
“We Need New Roses . . .” Performance at Camphill Ghent on 1/23/19
The locally based actors Laurie Portocarrero and Franz Eilers will present their original dramatic work-in-progress, “We Need New Roses . . .” on Wednesday, January 23 at 3:30 p.m, in the Culture Hall at Camphill Ghent. This is a fairy tale for grown-ups depicting the journey of the modern human soul to melt the ice threatening to hold it fast. Camphill Ghent is an inclusive eldercare community located at 2542 Route 66 in Chatham, NY. The Culture Hall is located…
Find out more »February 2019
Vilage of Chatham Celebrates 150 Years
A Causal Open House to celebrate the Village of Chatham. The evening will be filled with delicious local foods and The Tracy will be decorated with historical photographs of the Village. A raffle will be offered featuring prizes and gift certificates from local merchants. A casual open house hosted by Friends of the Tracy The evening will be filled with delicious local foods, thirst-quenching drinks, friendly conversations and fascinating history The Tracy Memorial will be decorated with photographs of the…
Find out more »The Concerts at Camphill Ghent: The Long 19th Century—Started with Mozart
Join us for a festive concert to warm our hearts during the coldest days of winter. We are excited to welcome back cellist Roberta Cooper and violinist Eugene Drucker (Founder of the well known Emerson String Quartet and Music Director of The Berkshire Bach Ensemble). Violist William Frampton and Artistic Director and pianist Gili Melamed-Lev will join them in the Piano Quartet in G minor by Mozart, Piano Trio in one movement by Grieg, String Trio in G major by…
Find out more »Brahms in the Afternoon at Camphill Ghent
Join us in the Camphill Ghent Hall on Monday, February 25, at 3pm, for a very special afternoon treat! Williams College music (and math) majors, Benjamin Mygatt and Qiana Yang, will gift us with performances of two violin sonatas by Johannes Brahms. Benjamin Mygatt is a native of Raleigh, North Carolina majoring in music and mathematics at Williams College. Ben started playing violin at the age of 5 under the Suzuki method and later studied with Dovid Friedlander of the…
Find out more »March 2019
Call for Entries to Farm Film Fest 11 by March 1
Film entries are now being accepted for Farm Film Fest 11, the annual event sponsored by the Chatham Agricultural Partnership, the Columbia Land Conservancy, and the Crandell Theatre. The one-day film festival takes place on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at the historic Crandell Theatre in the village of Chatham, NY. The festival shows films that focus on farms and farming issues with special consideration for those with a regional connection. Interest in the festival continues to grow, with attendance increasing…
Find out more »The Keyboard Astride the Centuries
Simone Dinnerstein, piano American pianist Simone Dinnerstein is known for her “majestic originality of vision” (The Independent) and her “lean, knowing and unpretentious elegance” (The New Yorker). In 2017 Dinnerstein released the album Mozart in Havana, recorded in Cuba with the Havana Lyceum Orchestra. She went on to bring the orchestra to the United States for their first ever American tour. In the same year Dinnerstein premiered a piano concerto written for her by Philip Glass and co-commissioned by twelve…
Find out more »Emily McCully on Computer Pioneer Ada Lovelace at Chatham Bookstore
Emily Arnold McCully presents her new book “Dreaming in Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer” on Saturday, March 16, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Chatham Bookstore. The daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace created what is regarded as the first computer program in the 1840’s. A conversation with Thomas Chulak from the bookstore and Q & A will follow a brief reading. Just published by Candlewick Books, “Dreaming in Code” reveals how the daughter of Lord…
Find out more »Walking the Streets of Chatham Through Photographs
Chatham Village Historian, Gail Blass Wolczanski discusses “The Village of Chatham: A Photographic History Walking Tour Book” on Saturday, March 23, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Chatham Bookstore. A conversation with Thomas Chulak from the bookstore and Q & A will follow a brief description. Proceeds from the sale of the book fund the Chatham Village Historic Society's Blinn-Pulver Farmhouse Project. To honor Chatham's Sesquicentennial (150th Anniversary), the 85-page book of photographs was created and designed to be…
Find out more »Food, Glorious Food Celebrated at Farm Film Fest 11
Farm Film Fest 11, the eleventh film festival devoted to farms and farming, takes place at the Crandell Theatre in Chatham, NY, on Sunday, March 24, from 12:30 to 4 p.m. The afternoon festival shows films that educate and entertain about farms, farming, farmers, and farming issues both local and national. Admission is free, but cash donations are welcome; a nonperishable food item for the Chatham Silent Food Pantry is also accepted. The theme this year is “Food, Glorious Food.”…
Find out more »Poet Patty Crane reads from “Something Flown”
Berkshires poet Patty Crane reads from her new poetry chapbook, “Something Flown,” at the Chatham Bookstore on Saturday, March 30, from 5 to 7 p.m. A conversation with Thomas Chulak from the bookstore and Q & A will follow a brief reading. The book is published by Concrete Wolf Press. Patty Crane’s award-winning poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Her poem, “something flown,” from the chapbook won the 2017 Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award. Most recently, Her newest book,…
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