Calendar

02/23/2012

Mahaiwe Center for Performing Arts: film showing of An American in Paris (1951, NR) with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, Tickets: $6 general admission, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100 

La Puerta Azul: Wine Dinner, price fix wine dinner pairing, menu crafted by Chef Jeffrey, wines featured from Mexico and Argentina 

02/24/2012

Bardavon/UPAC: film showing of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) 7:30 p.m.at UPAC, $5 all seats

Kent School: Winter plays 7:30 p.m. Mattison Auditorium

Bard: American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, Music Director will perform Maurice Ravel’s La valse, Serge Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto no.2 and Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Preconcert talk, 7 p.m., Performance 8 p.m., Sosnoff Theater Richard B. Fisher Center for Performing Arts; Tickets: $20, $20, $35 (845)758-7900 

La Puerta Azul: Dinner with Live Music 8p.m. “The Differents”

The CENTER for Performing Arts Rhinebeck: Hairspray February 24-March 11, 2012. Fridays & Saturdays: 8 p.m. Sundays: 3 p.m. Tickets: $26 Adults, $24 Seniors/Children. Box Office: (845) 876-3080. 661 Route 308 Rhinebeck, NY 12572

02/25/2012

Kent School: Winter plays 8 p.m. Mattison Auditorium

Bardavon/UPAC: The Met Live in HD Verdi’s Ernani performed by Angela Meade,1 p.m. at UPAC, Tickets: $23 Adult, $21 Member, $16 Children (12 and under). http://www.bardavon.org/event_info.php?id=460&venue=upac

Bard:

American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, Music Director will perform Maurice Ravel’s La valse, Serge Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto no.2 and Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Preconcert talk, 7 p.m., Performance 8 p.m., Sosnoff Theater Richard B. Fisher Center for Performing Arts; Tickets: $20, $20, $35 www.fishercenter.bard.edu 845.758.7900

Gardening class: learn to design and maintain an herb garden. Course 123GAR183 $31/28 10 a.m.-noon 1.800.322. NYBG (6924) arboretum@bard.edu

Hudson Opera House: Color Studies with Yura Adams, learn to use color interpretively as each week focuses on a different approach; all levels of skill welcomed; $185/$150 for Members; 9:30-Noon 

Dia Beacon: Riggion Galleries: Retrospective celebrates the depth of avant-garde choreographer & filmmaker, Yvonne Rainer. February 25 & 26: noon & 2 p.m. general admission $35, members $24 students and seniors $28 

02/26/2012

Kent School: Dance recital 2 p.m. Mattison Auditorium

La Puerta Azul: Hunting For a Cure 2p.m. – 5p.m. $20 per person, 100% benefitting St. Francis Cancer Center. Live music by The Different’s with Vito Petroccitto. Raffles, Silent Auction & Door Prizes www.huntingforacure.org

Millerton Moviehouse: “Human Terrain: War Becomes Academic” an expose of the U.S. effort to enlist America’s best and brightest in a global struggle for the hearts and minds of its enemies. 11:30 a.m. presented by Salisbury Forum & FilmWorks Forum. Film followed by commentary & discussion with James Der Derian, Filmmaker & Research Fellow, Watson Institute for Interntational Studies, Brown University.

Mid-Hudson Classical Guitar Society: Music from the Baroque Period, members of the society perform solo, dui and ensemble works by J.S. Bach, F. Couperin, G.F. Handel, A. Scarlatti, D. Scarlatti and R. DeVissee. 3 p.m. Morton Memorial Library & Community House: 82 Kelly Street, Rhinecliff (845) 876-2903

 

02/27/2012

Bard:

 Innovative contemporary fiction reading series by Tom McCarthy, acclaimed conceptual artist, founder of the International Necronautical Society and author of C, Men in Space and Remainder. 2:30 p.m. Weis Cinema Bertelsmann Campus Center 845.758.7054 conjunctions@bard.edu

Bard Fiction Prize reading recipient Benjamin Hale, author of The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, will read from recent work at 7 p.m. Laszlo Z. Bito ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center 845.758.7087

02/28/2012

Bard: Conservatory concert. Olin Hall. Noon, (845) 758-7196