The 3rd Annual Bells on Broadway will be held Saturday.
On Saturday, Safe Harbors of the Hudson is presenting the 3rd annual Bells on Broadway Holiday Festival from 10 am to 4 pm in the Ritz Theater Lobby and historic Green Room at 107 Broadway.
“Bells on Broadway” will bring together live music, storytelling, a Festival of Wreaths, Santa’s Workshop, photos with Santa and a holiday-themed arts & crafts show featuring wonderful gifts from local and international artisans.
“Bells on Broadway” is the perfect opportunity to shop for everyone on your list, bring the little ones to meet Santa and get into the holiday spirit. Admittance to this event is free to the public with a nominal fee for photos with Santa. (See the Event Calendar for more details.)
One of the group portraits on exhibit at the Karpeles Manuscript Museum.
While on Broadway, check out the new exhibit opening this week at the Karpeles Manuscript Museum that features portraits of important leaders from America’s past. Artist Dona McPhillips Couch spent many years researching and creating a spectacular series of large group portraits, measuring two feet high and five feet long, that cover many aspects of American history, from the beginnings of the country through the twentieth century. “Founding Fathers” portrays such early heroes as Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin while the Civil War is covered in two paintings, one devoted to the Union side (Abraham Lincoln, flanked by generals Sheridan, Sherman, Grant, and others) and the Confederacy (Jefferson Davis with generals Forrest, Stonewall Jackson, and Robert E. Lee). Great pioneers of the 19th century are depicted, as well as Texan heroes James Bowie, Sam Houston, and Davy Crockett.
Two paintings of Native Americans show not only the well-known Geronimo, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse but also many other representatives of the Sioux, Cheyenne, Apache, and Comanche nations. Women receive equal attention with portraits of feminists Margaret Sanger, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and activist educator Mary McLeod Bethune, among others, and African Americans share a painting that includes such important figures as Malcolm X, Ralph Bunche, W.E.B. DuBois, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Luther King, Jr. All are vividly portrayed in dramatic and imaginative settings illustrative of their and lives and times. (See the Events Calendar for more details.)
Art lovers will also want to stop by an “Evening of the Arts” at Temple Beth Jacob where the work of some of the Hudson Valley’s finest artists will be on display and for sale. Vivien Collens, Elisa Mandelbaum, Joel McKible, Gail Oliver, Barry Pariser, Brian Shapiro and Alan Siegel are among the artists who will offer pieces from their collections for sale, with a large percentage of the proceeds being donated to the social action and community outreach efforts of Temple Beth Jacob. Delicious desserts and coffees, music and dancing will be enjoyed by all. Everyone is welcome and admission is free.
If you missed The Railroad Playhouse’s grand affair this past weekend when it opened its doors to Newburgh’s New Home for the Arts, you will have plenty of opportunity in December to visit the performing space in the restored West Shore Train Station.
This Sunday, the Railroad Playhouse’s Young Engineers Series, in partnership with Making Books Sing, will weave storytelling, music and puppetry, in an enchanting tale that teaches Puerto Rican folklore and the library’s important role in the community. The performance of The Storytellers Candle is at 2 pm (See the Event Calendar for details.)
More adult fare will be staged at the theatre from December 9 through 11, with a performance of The SantaLand Diaries. David Sedaris wrote this hilarious cult classic about his experience as Crumpet the Elf in Macy’s SantaLand display.
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