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August 2021
Sky Colors – Children’s Book Reading
August 7 - Sky Colors This will be the THIRD in a series of 6 readtivity events! Join librarian Christina for a FREE read aloud and hands-on art and crafting activity! This event will be taking place at The Woodland Playhouse located at 5571 Route 28, Phoenicia, NY. 3:00 to 4:00 We will be reading “Sky Color” by Peter Reynolds and crafting with attendees afterward. Artists will receive the materials necessary to create their own “sky color” - or ground…
Find out more »Twelfth Night
Catskill Mountain Shakespeare Company Presents TWELFTH NIGHT - Or What You Will August 19-29 at The Emerson Resort & Spa When Viola finds herself shipwrecked and separated from her twin brother Sebastian in the unfamiliar country of Illyria, she dresses in his clothes and calls herself Cesario in order to serve the Count Orsino. Tasked with wooing Lady Olivia on Orsino’s behalf, Viola/Cesario plunges into the social, political, and romantic intrigues of Illyria’s hoi polloi. By turns hilarious and heartrending,…
Find out more »A Butterfly is Patient – Children’s Book Reading
August 29 - A Butterfly is Patient This will be the FOURTH in a series of 6 readtivity events! Join librarian Christina for a FREE read aloud and hands-on art and crafting activity! This event will be taking place at the Phoenicia Farmer's Market which is located directly across the street from the Phoenicia Post Office. 10:00am to 2:00pm We will be reading “A Butterfly Is Patient” by Dianna Aston and crafting with attendees afterward. Phoenicia staff will show artists…
Find out more »September 2021
The Very Lonely Firefly – Children’s Book Reading
Sept. 12 - The Very Lonely Firefly This will be the FIFTH in a series of 6 readtivity events! Join librarian Christina for a FREE read aloud and hands-on art and crafting activity! This event will be taking place at The Phoenicia Farmer's Market located across the street from the Phoenicia Post Office. 10:00am to 2:00pm We will be reading “The Very Lonely Firefly” by Eric Carle and crafting with attendees afterward. Each artist will receive the items necessary to…
Find out more »The Day the Crayons Quit – Children’s Book Reading
Sept. 25 - The Day the Crayons Quit This will be the LAST in a series of 6 readtivity events! Join librarian Christina for a FREE read aloud and hands-on art and crafting activity! This event will be taking place at The Woodland Playhouse located at 5571 Rt. 28 in Phoenicia. 3:00 to 4:00pm We will be reading “The Day The Crayons Quit” by Drew Daywalt and creating with attendees afterward. Children will receive their own box of crayons and…
Find out more »Balkan Mountains Music Mini-Festival
"Balkan" means "chain of wooded mountains" in modern Turkish and has been the Turkish word for the Balkan Peninsula since Ottoman times. Some of the countries of Eastern Europe that are situated in or near the the Balkans are Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia and Turkey. On Saturday, September 25, the Phoenicia Library will celebrate the music and dance of this region with a FREE festival of Hudson Valley bands playing odd meters and unusual scales and harmonies in…
Find out more »The O&W Bridge Catrastophes at Fish’s Eddy in the 1880s
Sept. 26 - Lightning Strikes Twice: The O&W Bridge Catastrophes at Fish’s Eddy in the late 1880s is the second 2021 “Beside the Tracks in the Historic Phoenicia Railroad Station” presentation. Featured speaker is David Mazurek, Ph.D., P.E. a civil engineering professor at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
Find out more »October 2021
From Grand Central to Albany: New York Central’s Water Level Route
From Grand Central to Albany: New York Central’s Water Level Route October 30, 2021 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm Emprie State Railway Museum 70 Lower High Street, Phoenicia, NY 12464 Oct. 30 - Join us for our final 2021 presentation “Beside the Tracks in the Historic Phoenicia Railroad Station.” Local RR author and historian John M. Ham will introduce his newly published book “From Grand Central to Albany: New York Central’s Water Level Route Along the Scenic Hudson River.…
Find out more »November 2021
Sue’s Garage & Loren Daniels Trio – Live
The Phoenicia Int. Festival of the Voice has an old/new location. Having acquired a former church building on Main Street Phoenicia, “24 Main”, the Festival will inaugurate new concert series featuring both established local favorite and the usual international level artists the public has come to expect from The Festival of the Voice. On November 27th , 7pm, Jim Rauter (formerly of the Pine Mountain Boys) and Sue's Garage brings their unique blend of rock and blues performing familiar standards…
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