Nosferatu – A Symphony of Horror (1922) with live score by Order of the Illusive
Friday, October 17, Doors Open: 8:00pm / Film 8:30pm, Garner Arts Center, 55 W Railroad Ave, Garnerville
ORDER OF THE ILLUSIVE is Geoff Gersh – guitar/electronics, Zach Layton – 17 string bass/electronics and Bradford Reed – pencilina/electronics & drums.
Since 2012, they have created and performed live scores for dozens of films, including Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922).
Tickets: $12 Advance Cash / $15 At Door Cash
Credit Card/Venmo: $12.72 in advance
Credit Card/Venmo: $15.90 at the door
ADVANCE SALES END FRIDAY AT 2:00pm
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Pink Weekend at First Baptist Church of Spring Valley
Saturday, October 18, 9:00am and Sunday, October 19, 10:45am, 6 Hoyt St, Spring Valley
Registrar a team to walk in support of a family member/friend in the fight or memory of a loved one. Walk, Saturday, October 18, 9:00am and Worship in Pink, Sunday, October 19, 10:45 am.
Contact t. Parker (845) 300-8126 for more information. Donations may be made via Zelle givefbcsv@gmail.com
Hopper’s Nyack Plein Air Weekend
Saturday, October 18, 11:00am – 2:00pm, Memorial Park, 51 Piermont Ave, Nyack and 5:00 – 7:00pm, Edward Hopper House 82 N Broadway, Nyack and Perry Lawson Fine Art, 90 N Broadway, Nyack
11:00am–2:00pm, Family Plein Air Pop Up Painting Day in Memorial Park. Free art-making for families and kids; all materials provided (rain date Oct 19).
4:30:pm: See the work of the Flash Sketch Mob, organized by Bill Batson
5:00 – 7:00pm Celebrate Jill Hoy & Jon Imber “Side by Side” at Edward Hopper House and Hoy’s Narratives of Form & Color at @perrylawsonfineart.
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No Kings Day: 2.0
Saturday, October 18, 12:00 – 2:00pm, Four Corners, Route 59 and N Middletown Rd, Nanuet
Organizers estimate 10 million participants. This protest follows the first “No Kings” protest, which was held in June 2025 and drew millions of participants.
Visit Indivisible Rockland for more information.
Spring Valley NAACP’s 70th Annual Freedom Fund Gala
Saturday, October 18, 12:00 – 4:00pm, Crowne Plaza Suffern, 3 Executive Blvd, Suffern
Nyack News And View’s own Bill Batson will receive the Virginia Atkins Beasley Lifetime Achievement Award. Other honorees include:
* June Van Dunk, (Unsung hero award)
* Proyecto Faro (Social Justice Leadership Award),
* Rev Theresa Darden and the Upper Room House of Worship (the Humanitarian Award)
* The Martin Luther King Multi-Purpose Center (community service award)
The event’s keynote speaker is Dr. Betty A Rosa, the New York State Commissioner of Education will be the guest speaker. Dr. Rosa is also the President of the University of the State of New York and the first Latina woman to serve in the position.
Tickets are $130 and can be purchased by calling (845) 363-6227 or click here.
Town Hall with David Hogg
Monday, October 20, 7:00 – 8:30pm , 43 S Broadway, Tarrytown
David Hogg of Leaders We Deserve at Christ Episcopal San Marcos Church in Tarrytown for a town hall organized by By CD17 Community Coalition. The evening is moderated by Pascale Jean Gilles, Deputy Mayor of Nyack and Chief-of-staff New York Assembly member Mary Jane Shimsky. The conversation will explore what young voters in the district care about, and the kind of representation they are seeking on the congressional floor.
David Hogg is a co-founder of March For Our Lives and the first Gen Z member and former DNC Vice Chair. After surviving the 2018 Parkland shooting, David and his classmates sparked one of the largest youth-led movements in the world, leading to the passage of hundreds of gun safety laws nationwide. David later found his footing in legislative campaigns by helping elect Maxwell Frost, the first Gen Z member of Congress. He and Frost’s campaign manager, Kevin Lata co-founded Leaders We Deserve, a PAC and SuperPAC dedicated to electing bold, young leaders to office, raising $11 million in its first cycle to lay a Democratic bench of Maxwell Frosts. From mobilizing tens of thousands of people and creating mass movements, to working closely with local and state leaders and helping elect Democrats up and down the ballot, time and again David has driven change and strengthened the Democratic Party from the ground up.
Tickets: Tickets for CD17 residents 44 and younger are free. For attendees over 44 years old we kindly request a donation of $20 (at minimum) to cover our event expenses. You can DONATE HERE. Thank you!
CD17 Community Coalition member co-sponsors include Indivisible Westchester, Westchester/Putnam Chapter Working Families Party, Indivisible Yorktown, Moms Demand Action, Food & Water Action, Indivisible Rockland, Citizen Action, Plus One and Peekskill Progressives.
Envision Rockland Public Workshop
Thursday, October 23, 6:30 – 8:30pm, Orangetown Town Hall, 26 Orangeburg Rd, Orangeburg
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.
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
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
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: SavetheFrogs.com
Editor’s note: This article is sponsored by Wright Bros. Real Estate where Experience meets Excellence at Nyack’s Longest Operating Brokerage.
