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Voices on the Hudson – Spencer LaJoye and Lula Pilar

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ArtsRock’s new Voices on the Hudson series presents fresh voices singing original music in an intimate setting at the Angel Nyack.

Spencer LaJoye (luh-JOY) is a singer/songwriter from the Midwest making queer indie folk music for everyone. The 2021 Kerrville Songwriting Competition and 2024 Songwriter Serenade winner spins crystalline vocals through a loop pedal while strumming an acoustic guitar in charming, banter-heavy performances that keep audiences laughing one moment and weeping the next.

Lula Pilar is a singer-songwriter born and raised in Nyack, NY. When she isn’t performing with her pop band, Aces Bridge Club, Lula is concentrating on the more intimate side of music, as featured in her performance on “Tiny Dorms,” a Yale-ified version of NPR’s “Tiny Desk.” From the keys to the guitar, her acoustic sound is the result of indie pop and jazz influences that leave listeners immersed in winding melodies, nature metaphors, and everything bittersweet.

 

Presented in partnership with the Angel Nyack and Voices in the Heights.

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All Ways Writing Circle

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The All Ways Writing Circle offers time, space, community, and inspiration to get some writing done. This is for anyone who wants to write—in any genre—and would benefit from dedicated time. Facilitated by Lily Greenberg, participants will be offered a prompt, approximately 45 minutes to write, then a chance to share their work in a warm and supportive group setting. No experience needed, all genres welcome. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Admission is $12.
Participants are encouraged to register on Eventbrite. Walk-ins are also welcome, and can pay at the door by cash, check, or Venmo.
Starting July 11, 2024, our venue is Creative Arts Workshop https://www.arts-workshop.com/ , 171 Main Street Nyack, NY.
For more info and FAQ, visit our website https://allwayswriting.org/writing-circles/ .
This program is offered by All Ways Writing Collective https://allwayswriting.org/ , a group which organizes writing circles, workshops, salons, and author readings in the lower Hudson Valley of New York (Rockland County). Our community members range from aspiring to established writers, and we strive to make our events accessible and engaging for all. Learn more about our community on our Instagram @allwayswriting and our website allwayswriting.org https://allwayswriting.org/ .
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LILY GREENBERG is a poet from Nashville, Tennessee and the author of In the Shape of a Woman (Broadstone Books 2022). Her work has appeared in New England Review, Ecotone, On the Seawall, Cortland Review, and Iron Horse Literary Review, among others. She holds an MFA from the University of New Hampshire and lives in Nyack, New York. More about her at lily-greenberg.com https://lily-greenberg.com/ .

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Circle Up

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Our weekly poets circle, Circle Up, is happening every Thursday night from 6 PM to 7 PM at X House in Nyack. This week, I’m thinking on doing a performance/delivery workshop, but usually we do either writing or editing. If you want weekly emails or texts about that, let me know and I can add you to the proper list. If you can swing it, cost is $5, paid directly to the venue.

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“River of the Dog” at Rivertown Film

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The River of the Dog

Directed by Carlos Gómez de la Espriella
Produced by Belén Orsini
Venezuela, 2024, 70 minutes, documentary, in Spanish with English subtitles

Wednesday, October 22, 8:00 pm at The Nyack Center

River of the Dog (2024), by Carlos Gómez de la Espriella, is a poetic journey into the heart of Venezuela’s central plains in the state of Guárico, where the Espino community struggles to live in harmony with, and often against, the forces of nature. Opening with words from Venezuelan poet Eugenio Montejo, the film captures a landscape where life depends on cycles of rain and drought, and where rural families -ranchers, farmers, and laborers- face the loss of basic services and the constant unpredictability of their environment. With little dialogue or narration, the documentary unfolds as a meditation on resilience, ancestry, and the fragile balance between humans and the natural world.

Far removed from the political headlines usually associated with Venezuela today, director Gómez de la Espriella introduces audiences to an isolated community where the presence of the state is almost absent and where modernization has yet to arrive. Here, past and present coexist: traditions echo the lives of ancestral peoples who once crossed these plains, even as villagers adapt to contemporary hardships.

River of the Dog is more than a conventional documentary, it is a poetic experience, revealing the Venezuelan tropic as an “absolute”: not only a place we inhabit, but a force that inhabits and determines us.

Discussion with director Carlos Gómez de la Espriella by Zoom and producer Belén Orsini via Zoom in person, moderated by Oscar Barretto-Gonzalez, Ph.D, professor at St. Thomas Aquinas College.

Presented with The Global Film Series at the Justice Studies Institute of St. Thomas Aquinas College, honoring Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month.

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Jewish Voices Series: Joshua Cohen In Conversation With Ross Benjamin

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Joshua Cohen is the author of six novels, one collection of short fiction, and one collection of nonfiction. Called “a major American writer” by the New York Times, and “an extraordinary prose stylist, surely one of the most prodigious at work in American fiction today” by the New Yorker, Cohen was awarded the 2013 Matanel Prize, and in 2017 was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. The Netanyahus won the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Ross Benjamin is a translator of German-language literature. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his translation of Franz Kafka’s Diaries, and he was awarded the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for his rendering of Michael Maar’s Speak, Nabokov. His translation of Daniel Kehlmann’s Tyll was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize. His other translations include Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion, Joseph Roth’s Job, and Daniel Kehlmann’s You Should Have Left and The Director.

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Figure Drawing

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Starting January 9, 2024, the Nyack Art Collective will sponsor weekly Figure Drawing on Tuesdays, 6:15-9:15 pm at X House Nyack, 48 S. Franklin St., Nyack, @xhousenyack https://www.instagram.com/xhousenyack/
These sessions are open to the public. Artists must provide their own materials and may bring an easel if desired. Session is $15 per person, $13 for Nyack Art Collective members.

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