Rockland YogaFest! — Nyack’s FREE Community Yoga Day
Saturday, September 20 (rain date: Sunday, September 21), 9:00am – 5:00pm, Memorial Park, 51 Piermont Ave, Nyack
- YogaFest features outdoor Yoga sessions through multiple classes throughout the day!
- Check out the program at www.playfulyogi.space/events and register for classes to win fun prizes! Family-Friendly Activities: Kids Yoga, Family Yoga and Prenatal Yoga classes will be offered throughout the day
9:00am: Opening Remarks by Naomi Camilleri, YogaFest Organizer and Owner of Playful Yogi Space
9:15am: Playful Sun Salute Flow with Kenny Frisby (Playful Yogi Space)
10:15am: Power Flow with Donna Hunt (District Hot Yoga)
11:15am: Gentle Flow into Meditation with Betsy Ceva (Shamani Yoga)
12:15pm: Chakra Flow with Raji Thron (Raji Thron Yoga)
1:15pm: Yoga for You with Paula Heitzner (Nyack Yoga Center)
2:00pm: Move & Groove with Fogo Azul!
2:30pm: Back Care Yoga with Petrina Plecko (Petrina Yoga)
3:30pm: Gentle Yoga for Every Body with Theresa Talone (Jamie Surya Yoga Studio)
4:30pm: Sound Bath Meditation with Naomi Camilleri (Playful Yogi Space)
Event is FREE to the public!
First Annual Brick-A-Palooza
Saturday, September 20, 10:00am – 4:00pm, Jawonio Main Campus, 260 N Little Tor Rd, New City
Toys & Collectables, Lego Displays, Minifig Nunts, builder challenges, live music, food trucks and more. Purchase tickets here.
Second Hand Shop Hop Clothing Tour
Saturday, September 20, 11:00am – 5:00pm, various locations throughout Nyack
Shop your way through Nyack, visiting 8 uniques shops, each with special offers, food and beverage discounts and a raffle prize valued over $300.
How We Choose to Show Up: Marcy Axelrod with Richard Skipper
Saturday, September 20, 5:00pm, The Sparkle Bookstore, 642 Main St, Sparkill
Marcy has spent the past twenty-five years uncovering nature’s model of how human beings are designed to thrive. Since 1999, her insights have helped individuals, teams, and some of the world’s largest companies succeed.
Richard is an award-winning entertainer, storyteller, and legacy artist whose career spans more than 46 years. Through his platform Richard Skipper Celebrates and his website CallonDolly.com, he has interviewed thousands of artists and created tributes to icons like Carol Channing and Jerry Herman.
Click here to register
Sunset on SoBro: Outdoor Salsa Night
Saturday, September 20, 6:00 – 10:00pm, outside Maura’s Kitchen 81 S Broadway, Nyack
First-ever outdoor salsa night featuring , Live Salsa DJ Kelita, Free Salsa Lessons 6:00 – 7:00pm & Open Dancing, Outdoor Pop-up Tiki Bar, Extended Shopping Hours on South Broadway, South Broadway Merchants & Vendors
Sponsored by Nyack Chamber of Commerce, Hotel Nyack, Modern Druid, and Salonniere Coffee Bar
Nyack Jazz Festival
Sunday, September 21, 1:00 – 7:00pm, 2 N Broadway, Nyack
Free outdoor concert includes food trucks, wine and beer gardens and vendors. Limited seating provided, Bring a lawn chair! No coolers or outside alcoholic drinks.
Nyack Jazz Festival 2025 features: Hubert Laws, Gunhild Carling/Idun Carling Quintet, Tania Grubbs Quintet, Souren Baronians’s Taksim & Rockland Youth Jazz Ensemble
Sponsored by Maureen’s Jazz Cellar.
Rain-date: Sunday, September 28
The Nyack Jazz Festival runs through Thursday, September 25. Click here for the full roster.
Arts from India presents Devi Arpan: a music concert celebrating the Divine
Sunday, September 21, 3:30 – 6:30pm, The Angel Nyack, 18 S Broadway, Nyack
Devi Arpan is a semi-classical vocal and instrumental music concert that beautifully blends devotion and melody. The program features soulful Bhajans, expressive Thumri, and raga-based film songs, creating an atmosphere of grace and celebration in honor of the Divine. Featuring Atri Kotal of vocals, Rhitom Sarkar on and Shreyas Ravi on solo harmonium
Click here for tickets
Lit by the River: Two Truths and a Lie-Writing Memoir and Autobiographical Fiction with novelist Bushra Rehman
Monday, September 22, 6:00 – 7:30pm, Nyack Library Community Meeting Room, 59 S Broadway, Nyack
Lit by the River: A Nyack Celebration of Literature! Join novelist Bushra Rehman for a writing workshop.
Writing from life can be a tricky business. There are people to protect, faulty memories of events, and the pitfalls of self-censorship and self-aggrandizement. This workshop recognizes that our lives are too rich not to write about, and our imaginations are too strong to ignore. We will use creative techniques to help us overcome silences when writing about truths and lies of our lives.
Click here to register.
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.
Click here to register.
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.
Click here for tickets.
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)
Click here for tickets
Editor’s note: This article is sponsored by Wright Bros. Real Estate where Experience meets Excellence at Nyack’s Longest Operating Brokerage.
