Pride Night Market
Friday, September 26, 6:00 -9:00pm, Rockland County Pride Center, 28 S Franklin St, Nyack
The Pride Center will be open late, welcoming the public to shop, socialize, and raise money for their hometown Pride Center. LGBTQ+ (or allied) business owners, artists, and makers. Free. Click here for more information.
Lit by the River Presents Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Friday, September 26, 7:00pm, Nyack Library, 59 S Broadway, Nyack
Erica Armstrong Dunbar is a historian, professor of history at Rutgers University, and main historical consultant and co executive producer for HBO’s The Gilded Age, whose work shines a light on racial injustice, slavery, and gender inequality. She is the author of Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, which was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction and received the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Award.
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Penguin Rep Theatre presents the World Premiere of John J. Wooten’s Flawless
Friday, October 26 through Sunday, October 19, Penguin Rep Theatre, 7 Crickettown Rd, Stony Point
John J. Wooten’s FLAWLESS is a striking and humorous new work about the impending intersection of technology, creativity and chemistry. A writer and a software designer battle to create the next great play. But will their flirtation with artificial intelligence (AI) lead to theatrical success?
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Nyack & Valley Cottage Libraries Community Spotlight: BIPOC Business Fair
Saturday, September 27, Valley Cottage Library, 110 NY-303, Valley Cottage, and Sunday, September 28, Nyack Library, 59 S Broadway, Nyack, both days 12:00 – 3:00pm
The day will include BIPOC Vendors, Music, Flash Poetry, Children’s Activities, Live Painting, Food (Trucks), Parking Lot Art, and Community Information all throughout the library.
The event is free to the public. enjoy shopping from local businesses, performances and networking.
*BIPOC stands for Black, Indigenous, and people of color
Harlem, 1925 — Evolution of a Renaissance: A New Play by Samuel Harps
Saturday, September 27, 7:00pm, Rockland Center for the Arts, 27 S Greenbush Rd, West Nyack
Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance at a Multi-Media Staged Reading by Members of Shades Repertory Theater of a new work by Samuel Harps.
In 1925 Wallace Thurman, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston created Fire Magazine, to give a new voice to emerging young Negro Artists. Facing racism, censorship, the communist Red Scare, and a controversial new book by Carl Van Vechten, the group fought fiercely to get the first edition published.
Shades Repertory Theater provided Rockland County with new plays and films by established and up and coming playwrights, actors and filmmakers for over 20 years. Samuel Harps, the artistic director, has enlightened audiences with works on little known African-American figures and events in addition to public screenings and talks on topical issues.
This event is in partnership with The Gordon Center for Black Culture and Arts.
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Concert to Benefit Families Affected by the Nyack Plaza Fire
Sunday, September 28, 6:00pm, St, Philips AME Zion Church, 14 N Mill St, Nyack
This Benefit Music Concert, hosted by St. Philips AME Zion Church in conjunction with St. John Deliverance Tabernacle features an evening of music, worship and community. Proceeds from the event will go directly to those impacted by the June 3 fire.
A 10th Anniversary Benefit from Rich Ellis to support Art Education at the Edward Hopper House
Sunday, September 28, Edward Hopper House, 82 N Broadway, Nyack
Imagine celebrating at a special 1887 Snedens Landing venue, mingling at an exclusive VIP pre-reception “Artist’s Eye” conversation at the Museum with our current featured artist Tomokazu Matsuyama, renowned artist Eric Fischl, and the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator Kim Conaty. Savor gourmet canapes alfresco, with open bar — speakers, auction & more!
“Artist’s Eye” Conversation 2:00—3:30pm at Edward Hopper House Museum
Benefit Party 4:00—7:00pm at an Historic 1887 Stone Barn Residence & Studio in Snedens Landing, Palisades, NY (20 minutes south of the Museum)
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Spanish & Kreyol Town Hall To Save Our Health Care
Monday. September 29, 6:00pm Kurtz Center, (2nd Floor, entrance on Madison Ave), 9 N Main Street, Spring Valley
Join local healthcare activists for a community forum on Medicaid and Medicare – and how the Republican Big Ugly Bill endangers healthcare, the economy and our communities here in New York State. Beverages provided.
Phoenix Festival Live Arts in Nyack presents Sugar Ray
Friday, October 3, 7:00pm, The Angel Nyack, 18 S Broadway, Nyack
Recapturing of Sugar Ray Robinson’s life and boxing legacy in a biographical solo show that is exciting to those who idolized him and illuminating to those who grew up after his era. Tickets: $38. Click here to purchase tickets.
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