Let’s Do Origami!
Saturday, March 22, 11:00am, 6 Park St, Nyack
Homebody Books is hosting a workshop, Let’s Do Origami! with Itoko Kobayashi, with sessions for both young children and adults. Kobayashi has taught and exhibited the Japanese art of paper folding for more than 20 years in Japan and the U.S. Session 1, 11:00 – 11:45am is for ages 4–5. Session 2, 1:00 – 2:00pm, is for ages 6–12. Both sessions are limited to 10 and cost $20. Session 3, 2:30 – 3:30, is for age 12+, including adults, is limited to 8 and costs $30. To register, email homebodybooks@gmail.com or call 845-598-8053.
Story Time with Elisabeth at Homebody Books. 11:00–11:30am, every Saturday.
For all ages–let’s see who shows up and take it from there! Call 845-598-8053 or email homebodybooks@gmail.com for more information.
Bill Batson at Historical Society Steinman Portrait Exhibit for penultimate weekend
Saturday, March 22, 1:00 – 4:00pm, Historical Society of the Nyacks, 50 Piermont Avenue (Behind the Nyack Library), Nyack
Bill Batson, subject of one of Allen Steinman’s 24 portraits of national and local prominent African Americans, will be at the Historical Society’s museum selling books and exploring any topic that visitors wish to explore from local history to politics to culture. The exhibit closes next weekend, March 29.
Rockland County Ancient Order of Hibernians St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Sunday, March 23, Pearl River
The parade will step off at 1:30 PM leaving from south entrance / exit of the Pfizer parking lot turning east onto East Crooked Hill Road, turning south onto North Middletown Road, turning west onto East Central Avenue, turning south onto South Main Street and ending after the turn onto South Main Street.
Dan Brown’s Wild Symphony with Rockland Symphony Orchestra
Sunday, March 23, 2:00 – 3:30pm, Nyack Center, 58 Depew Ave, Nyack
Wild Symphony, by Dan Brown, New York Times best-selling author of The Da Vinci Code, brings to life nearly two dozen musical portraits drawn from the animal kingdom. From the joyous rhythms of the “Bouncing Kangaroo,” to the mysterious melodies of the “Wondrous Whale,” to the hair-raising harmonies of the “Brilliant Bat,” this is a very wild symphony indeed!
Narrator Didi Conn is a much-loved actress, best known for playing “Frenchy” in the hit movie Grease. This is an ArtsRock Milk and Cookies Playhouse performance for the whole family. Milk and Cookies are served after the show.
Dan Brown’s Wild Symphony children’s book will be available for purchase at the concert, in partnership with Big Red Books.
Tickets at ArtsRock.org.
Nyack Climate Risk and Resilience Workshop
Monday, March 24, 7:00 – 8:30pm, Nyack Center, 58 Depew Ave, Nyack
This workshop will feature four ways to adapt to challenges to climate change in our community.
What Happened to Jackson Avenue: A Story of Urban Renewal. Screened on Zoom by the Finkelstein Memorial Library
Tuesday, March 25, 7:00 – 8:00pm, online only
What Happened to Jackson Avenue offers a rare, real-life account of the human impact of Urban Renewal. Through interviews with people who experienced Nyack’s Urban Renewal first-hand, the film tells the story of how the intended revitalization ultimately resulted in the destruction of an entire community.
Bill Batson, whose family was displaced by the misguided policy, and Barbara Williams, who lived in Nyack during this time, were interviewed by the filmmakers and will participate in a discussion following the screening.
What Happened to Jackson Avenue, a film by Hakima Alem and Rudi Gohl was produced by Phoenix Theater Ensemble.
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Photos by Pam Grafstein at the Rock Shop
Through March 31, The Rock Shop, 98 Main St, Nyack
History of Movie Music with Leonard Slatkin and Elliott Forrest
Friday, March 28, 8:00pm, Nyack Center, 58 Depew Ave, Nyack
ArtsRock and Rivertown Film present a very special evening with six-time Grammy Award-winning conductor Leonard Slatkin. Elliott Forrest and Maestro Slatkin will present 30 film clips as they chronicle the history of movie music, from silent films (that were never silent) to today. Composers include: John Williams, Bernard Herrmann, Elmer Bernstein, Danny Elfman, and Terence Blanchard, among others.
Leonard Slatkin was the long-time Music Director of the St. Louis and Detroit Symphonies. Slatkin was born in Los Angeles, where both his parents played in orchestras for famous film scores. He will share his personal story, as well his vast knowledge of the history of movie music. Mr. Forrest is the Midday Host on WQXR where he plays movie music on weekdays during his “Score at 4.”
This event will also feature a live performance of “The Wizard of Oz Fantasy,” an arrangement of the beloved songs from the classic film. The piano duo will be performed live by Donna Weng Friedman and Yukimi Song to celebrate the 120th Anniversary of the birth of the film’s composer, Harold Arlen.
Tickets at ArtsRock.org.
Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round Screening
Thursday, April 3, 7:00pm, Regal Nanuet, 6201 Fashion Dr, Nanuet
The 22nd annual JCC Rockland International Jewish Film Festival presents
their 2025 Social Action Film Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round, an untold civil rights story, before the march on Washington, there was Glen Echo.
The documentary tells the story of how five Black students rode a segregated carousel in Glen Echo Park in Maryland in 1960, igniting one of the earliest organized interracial civil rights protest in US history, the Jews they marched with, Nazis they provoked, Congressmen they inspired, and Civil Rights leaders they became.
A panel discussion following the film includes:
Wilbur T. Aldridge, Mid-Hudson Regional Director, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Bill Batson, Moderator, Artist, writer, activist, 2021 inductee to the Rockland Civil Rights Hall of Fame. Peter Geffen Educator, civil rights worker for Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC),. Dr. Frances Pratt, President of the Nyack Branch of the NAACP for 41 years. Rev. Carl L. Washington, III, Pastor, Pilgrim Baptist church Nyack celebrating the 150th year. Barbara Williams, witness of bus burning in Anniston Alabama in 1965, featured What Happened to Jackson Avenue, a 2023 documentary on the Urban Renewal debacle in Nyack.
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Rockland County Warming Center
7 days a week, 7:00pm, Corner of S Broadway and Burd St, Nyack
Anyone in need of shelter can come to the corner of South Broadway and Burd Street at 7:00pm., seven days a week, for a ride to the Warming Center. This public service includes a hot meal, a place to rest overnight and a hot shower as well as access to essential services.
