Iron Love: Book Experience
Friday, October 24, 5:30 – 8:30pm, Doors open at 5:15pm, The Bathhouse at Nyack Beach State Park, 698 N Broadway, Nyack
Join Kenyatta Jones-Arietta “Iron Love: Book Experience,” for a thrilling journey through the world of literature and the celebration of our love for books!
Click her for tickets.
4th Annual Rides & Strides
Saturday, October 25, 9:00am – noon, Rockland Lake State Park, 299 Rockland Lake Rd, Valley Cottage
This event benefitting The Breast Center at Montefiore Nyack will offer participants from the Rockland County community and beyond the opportunity to come together for a great cause while enjoying exclusive access to a family run/walk and cycling event in one of the most beautiful areas of the Hudson Valley.
Click here to participate.
36th Annual Nyack Chamber of Commerce Halloween Parade
Saturday, October 25, noon – 10:00pm, Downtown Nyack
Don your most daring costume and join us in Nyack for a frighteningly fun Halloween Parade celebrating The 50th Anniversary of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show played in Nyack for 18 years and is the longest running movie in cinema history. A sceening of the film will follow the parade in the Hezekiah Easter Veterans Square parking lot.
Schedule of events:
* Pet Costume Judging: 12:00 noon, Memorial Park, 51 Piermont Ave, Nyack
* Sobro Pumpkin Painting: 1:00pm, S Broadway at Hudson Ave, Nyack
* Trunk or Treat: 2:00 – 5:00pm, Living Christ Church, 151 S Broadway, Nyack
* Costume judging: 3:00pm, Memorial Park, 51 Piermont Ave, Nyack
* Parade Steps off: 5:30pm, Memorial Park, 51 Piermont Ave, Nyack
* Monster Mash! 6:00 pm, Nyack Center, 58 Depew Ave, Nyack
* Special Post Parade Screen of Rocky Horror Picture Show following the announcement of costume contest winners: Hezekiah Easter Veterans Memorial Park, 7:00pm,
Visit nyackchamber.org for more information.
Historic Oak Hill Cemetery Tour
Sunday, October 26, 11:00am, Oak Hill Cemetery, 140 N Highland Ave, Nyack
Bill Batson and Mike Hays will lead a 90-minute tour of Nyack’s historic Oak Hill Cemetery on October 26 at 11:00am. (The weather is looking good!) Visit the gravesites of some of Nyack’s most famous citizens, including Edward Hopper, Carson McCullers, Joseph Cornell, Helen Hayes, Ben Hecht, Nyack Police Officer Waverly (Chipper) Brown – Brink’s Robbery victim. In addition, we will look at some of the most artistic and curious Oak Hill gravestones
While the tour guides share some history, be prepared to enjoy some of the finest scenery Nyack can offer, especially in this colorful autumnal Halloween season.
Space is limited.
Click this link to register.
Edinburgh Fringe Festival Meadows Award Information Session
Tuesday, October 28, 2:00 – 4:00pm, Community Room at The Nyack Library, 59 S Broadway, Nyack
Learn more about the Meadows Award which has been founded by Phoenix Festival board members Barrie Peterson and myself. Phoenix Theatre Ensemble is supporting the Meadows Award and potential applicants through this process, we welcome you to this informational session to learn more.
Please RSVP by signing up HERE
Come hear about the largest performing arts festival on the planet: the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Meadows Award to help artists of Black, Indigenous, Hispanic, Asian and other people of color from around the world in bringing their work to the Fringe at Summerhall Arts, a leading Arts Institution in Edinburgh. This informative session is geared also to spread the word around.
- Eligibility: The award is open to all artists of colour from any country.
- Purpose: To support an artist or company to present their work at Summerhall during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- The Meadows Award provides encouragement, mentorship and financial support for BIPOC Artists in bringing their show to The Edinburgh Fringe Festival at Summerhall Arts.
- The Meadows Award is designed to provide vital opportunities for underrepresented artists, supporting not just their participation in the Fringe, but also championing diversity, equality, and inclusion within the arts.
- Summerhall Arts Applications for the Edinburgh Festival launch at the start of November
- Refreshments will be served.
For those of you who cannot attend in person, we have a zoom session. But please RSVP so that we can have you on the admission list.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83002556595?pwd=81qfBcXdmecDluCzIvoDhRT3pDhOWX.1
Meeting ID: 830 0255 6595
Passcode: 856125
Envision Rockland Public Workshop
Thursday, October 30, 6:30 – 8:30pm, Haverstraw Kings’s Daughters Public Library, 10 W Ramapo Rd, Thiells
Help Shape Rockland’s Future – join the Envision Rockland Public Workshops this fall to take part in the official update of Rockland County’s Comprehensive Plan. For more project information and a list of other workshops, please visit envisionrockland.com.
Phantom Fundraising Feast Followed by Film
Friday, October 31, 6:00 and 8:00pm, The Angel Nyack, 18 S Broadway, Nyack
The talented chefs of Flours Pasta & Bakeshop will serve a frighteningly flavorful meal in an eerie Paris opera setting, before the screening of the original “Phantom of the Opera.”
This fundraiser for The Angel Nyack help preserve a historic building, nurture the arts, and sustain Soup Angels.
Costumes appreciated (masks also on hand).
Please reserve your seat by October 24. Click here for tickets
Stay for the film, with Ben Model on the amazing pipe organ!
Celebrate Halloween in a spooky historic church with live organ music! We’ll be screening the restored 1925 Phantom of the Opera, the classic silent movie starring Lon Chaney with live music by Ben Model, silent film accompanist, historian and Resident Organist at the Library of Congress. He’ll be playing on our historic Peragallo Organ.
Expect some bonus live music and projections for a real Halloween treat.
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Cover Image Credit: Andrea Swenson
Editor’s note: This article is sponsored by Wright Bros. Real Estate where Experience meets Excellence at Nyack’s Longest Operating Brokerage.
