Events

Elaine Sexton’s fifth collection of poetry is Site Specific: New & Selected (Grid Books, 2025). She is the author of the libretto, The Post Office, written in collaboration with the composer Laura Kaminsky, and recently performed as part of Opera Fusion: New Works/Cincinnati Opera. Her recent poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in: American Poetry Review, Five Points, Ploughshares, Provincetown Arts, and On the Seawall. She teaches text and image and poetry workshops at the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute.

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The Keys of Life and Whose Keys Are They Anyway by Ed Friedman.

Featuring: Ric Siler, Maggie Kramer, Ed Friedman & Roberta Robinson

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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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Come and have some fun at GraceMusic’s 53rd annual Messiah Sing, where you get to join in singing Handel’s rousing choruses while professional soloists sing the arias.  Scores provided or bring your own.

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In the art song and opera aria appreciation class we will be breaking down a few components of what makes the art form so delicate, grandiose and beautiful. We will touch briefly on the historical context, the musical context and the emotional psychological and human aspect of the music. In addition, I will be performing each of the songs that are talked about in the PowerPoint as well as additional music. So this will be a more immersive way of understanding, opera arias, and art songs through presentation and performance. Presented by Matthew Marano, tenor from the Taconic Opera.

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MARRIED TO THE MOB
Directed by Jonathan Demme
With Michelle Pfeiffer, Dean Stockwell, Matthew Modine
1988, USA, 106 minutes, rated R

After her husband is killed, Angela sees a way out of the Mafia. However, her husband’s boss has other ideas – he wants her for himself. Undercover FBI agent Mike Downey finds himself falling in love with her too.

Matthew Modine and production designer Kristi Zea will discuss Married to the Mob after the screening.

“Demme isn’t aghast at kitsch, or even superior to it; actually, he’s its purely loving archivist and he matches Kristi Zea’s zestful production designs, setup for setup, with song after song (the contribution of Gary Goetzman and Sharon Boyle), from an original score by longtime collaborator David Byrne.” Sheia Benson, Los Angeles Times

Getting close to the edge lately? Bumping into misfits, weirdos, the occasional psychopath? If so, you may be a character in a Jonathan Demme fantasy. But if you’re watching Demme’s pictures from a safe distance — and now it’s the delicious Mafia sendup “Married to the Mob” — you’ll thoroughly enjoy the out-of-kilter existence. After establishing an appealing sense of anarchy in his 1986 “Something Wild,” Demme has kept the oddballs rolling. As an almost-mad housewife in Mafia Heights, Long Island, Michelle Pfeiffer is delicately riotous. Dean Stockwell, as the dangerous, lusty Tony “The Tiger” Russo, pumps his character-acting for all it’s worth. And the avian-featured Matthew Modine puts an endearing twitch into Mike Downey, the FBI agent who’s eavesdropping on Tony and associates.  – Desson Howe, Washington Post

Funded in part by a grant from Nyack Tourism.

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