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SUMMARY:Getting your process unstuck: Embodied practices for creative blocks with BAC Artist-In-Residence Laura Perovich
DESCRIPTION:Getting your process unstuck: Embodied practices for creative blocks\nwith BAC Artist-in-Residence Laura Perovich \nDate & Time: Thursday\, September 24\, 2026 7-8:30PM\nFREE Community Program. Registration encouraged\, walk-ins welcome until we reach capacity. \nThis workshop explores the creative blocks that are part of many artistic practices. When there’s no way forward on a project\, how can we find a way over\, under\, and around?  \nParticipants should bring a project they’re feeling creatively stuck on. All media are welcome\, including visual arts\, writing\, music\, movement\, and craft\, among others.   \nDuring the workshop\, we will find our way through our stuckness through individual and group explorations. Activities will include structured reflection\, experimentation\, and embodied movement practices\, and will be adaptable to individual needs\, interests\, and concerns. Optional hands-on work may be offered. \nABOUT LAURA\nLaura Perovich is an interdisciplinary artist and designer. Her practice explores the push and pull between people and technologies through the lenses of craft\, community\, and corporality. She creates textile art and embodied experiences that aim to help us find something interesting about who we are\, alone and together. Perovich received her PhD from MIT and is an associate professor at Northeastern University. Her work also draws on her experience as a dancer\, somatic practitioner in training\, environmentalist\, and maker.  \nThis Community Program is a part of BAC’s Annual Fall Multidisciplinary Residency. As part of a residency at BAC\, we ask each artist to build and facilitate a Community Program. Community Programs are a unique opportunity for both artists-in-residence and our local community to gather\, engage\, and be in conversation with one another through art. Community Programs are free engagements open to the public and/or in collaboration with a local community partners.  \nLearn more about this year’s Fall Multidisciplinary Residency here! \nBAC’s 2026 Fall Multidisciplinary Residency is made possible with support from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor’s office and the New York State Legislature\, Westchester County Board of Legislators\, ArtsWestchester and Westchester County Government. 
URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/processunstuck/
LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Residencies,Community Program,Fall Multidisciplinary 2026,Program,Workshop,Workshops
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SUMMARY:A Picture Is Worth 1000 Words: a Poetry Workshop with BAC Artist-in-Residence E'mon Lauren - In Partnership with the Hudson Valley Writers Center
DESCRIPTION:A Picture Is Worth 1000 Words: a Poetry Workshop \nwith BAC Artist-in-Residence E’mon Lauren \nIn partnership with Hudson Valley Writers Center \nLocation: Hudson Valley Writers Center (300 Riverside Drive\, Sleepy Hollow\, NY) \nDate & Time: Friday September 25\, 5-6PM (before The People’s Mic!)\nAges: 18+\nFREE Community Program. Registration encouraged for workshop.\nWalk-ins welcome until we reach capacity.  \nJoin BAC Artist-in-Residence E’mon Lauren for a Ekphrastic poetry workshop prior to Hudson Valley Writers Center’s “The People’s Mic”. \nEkphrasis is the old practice of making one art form answer another. A poem written for a painting. A poem written for a photograph. The image speaks first\, and the writing answers back. In this 60-minute workshop we get into what ekphrasis is\, where it comes from\, and why writers keep returning to it. Then we try it ourselves\, in poems. No writing experience necessary and nothing to prepare.   \nYou leave with a poem that started as an image. Then stay after for The People’s Mic\, hosted by Westchester Poet Laureate\, Phylisha Villanueva. See below for info on The People’s Mic.  \nAges 18+\nBring a notebook and your favorite writing utensil.  \nFacilitated by E’mon Lauren\, Chicago’s first Youth Poet Laureate and Bethany Arts Community Fall 2026 Artist-in-Residence.  More about E’mon and our Fall Multidisciplinary Residency below! \n——  \nThe People’s Mic (following A Picture is Worth 1000 Words)\nFriday September 25\, 7-9PM (doors open at 6:30PM)\nHudson Valley Writers Center (300 Riverside Drive\, Sleepy Hollow\, NY)  \n \nThe People’s Mic is more than an open mic; it’s a community gathering rooted in care\, creativity\, and connection\, hosted by Westchester Poet Laureate Phylisha Villanueva. Join us for an evening where poets\, storytellers\, and musicians share space and truth. Whether you have a poem in your notes app\, a song in your chest\, or want to listen and be nourished by community\, this space is for you. No experience required. No perfection expected\, just presence. Centered on respect\, expression\, and collective care.  \nABOUT HUDSON VALLEY WRITERS CENTER\nHudson Valley Writers Center brings writers and readers together to celebrate the essential art of the written and spoken word. The Center fosters a vibrant literary arts community that supports and empowers writers and readers of diverse ages\, talents and backgrounds at every stage of their creative development.  \nLearn more about Hudson Valley Writers Center here!\n—\nABOUT E’MON\nE’mon Lauren is a poet\, performer\, and educator from Chicago’s West Side. She is the city’s first Youth Poet Laureate and the author of COMMANDO (Haymarket Books)\, with work published in Poetry Magazine\, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic\, and Sixty Inches From Center. For over a decade she has contributed poetry and cultural journalism to South Side Weekly and performed across Chicago\, including at the Poetry Foundation\, the Chicago Cultural Center\, and Millennium Park. She is the creator and executive producer of The Real Hoodwives of Chicago\, a podcast and talk show centering Black femme voices. Her work is rooted in hood womanism\, a framework that centers Black femme life on Chicago’s West and South Sides. Her debut full-length collection\, Finesse\, is forthcoming.\n \nThis Community Program “A Picture Is Worth 1000 Words\,” is a part of BAC’s Annual Fall Multidisciplinary Residency. As part of a residency at BAC\, we ask each artist to build and facilitate a Community Program. Community Programs are a unique opportunity for both artists-in-residence and our local community to gather\, engage\, and be in conversation with one another through art. Community Programs are free engagements open to the public and/or in collaboration with a local community partners.  \nLearn more about this year’s Fall Multidisciplinary Residency here! \nBAC’s 2026 Fall Multidisciplinary Residency is made possible with support from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor’s office and the New York State Legislature\, Westchester County Board of Legislators\, ArtsWestchester and Westchester County Government. 
URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/1000words2026/
LOCATION:Hudson Valley Writers Center\, 300 Riverside Drive\, Sleepy Hollow\, NY\, 10591\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Residencies,Community Program,Fall Multidisciplinary 2026,Poetry,Visual Art,Workshop,Workshops
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SUMMARY:This Little Glade: Sharing Plants\, Poetry\, and Rooted Power with BAC Artist-in-Residence Rita Mookerjee - In partnership with Hudson Valley Books for Humanity
DESCRIPTION:This Little Glade: Sharing Plants\, Poetry\, and Rooted Power\nwith BAC Artist-in-Residence Rita Mookerjee\nIn partnership with Hudson Valley Books for Humanity \nLocation: Hudson Valley Books for Humanity (67 Central Ave\, Ossining NY)\nDate & Time: Tuesday\, September 29\, 2026 7-8:15 PM\nAges: 18+\nFREE Community Program. Registration encouraged.\nWalk-ins welcome until we reach capacity.  \nLet us come together and create in the name of green life. Join BAC Artist-in-Residence Rita Mookerjee at Hudson Valley Books for Humanity for This Little Glade: Sharing Plants\, Poetry\, and Rooted Power.  \nIn this intersectional writing event\, we will draw upon the power of rhizomes and root systems to enrich our writing processes with the knowledge and language of plants. Using contemporary feminist poetics\, we will analyze plants as metaphors and as powerful centers of adaptation and renewal.   \nRita will close the session with a reading from her second collection\, Banana Heart. You will leave with new writing\, a cutting/seeds\, and intimate knowledge of plant magic.\n\nBring with you a notebook\, your favorite writing utensil\, and a plant cutting or seeds to exchange.  \nABOUT HUDSON VALLEY BOOKS FOR HUMANITYFor this Community Program\, we are thrilled to be collaborating with our partners and friends at Hudson Valley Books for Humanity\, a welcoming space to build community through books and art. Find Hudson Valley Books for Humanity on social media @hudsonvalleybooksforhumanity\, on their website hvbooksforhumanity.com\, or visit them at 67 Central Avenue\, Ossining\, NY 10562. \nABOUT RITA\nRita Mookerjee is an assistant professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Worcester State University. She is the winner of the 2024 Steel Toe Books Poetry Award and the author of False Offering (JackLeg Press). In 2020\, she co-founded Honey Literary\, a 501(c)3 arts and literary nonprofit. She is also the vice president of Sundress Publications and a poetry editor at Split Lip Magazine. Find her work in American Poetry Review\, CALYX\, Copper Nickel\, Poet Lore\, and the Offing. \nThis Community Program is a part of BAC’s Annual Fall Multidisciplinary Residency. As part of a residency at BAC\, we ask each artist to build and facilitate a Community Program. Community Programs are a unique opportunity for both artists-in-residence and our local community to gather\, engage\, and be in conversation with one another through art. Community Programs are free engagements open to the public and/or in collaboration with a local community partners. \n \nLearn more about this year’s Fall Multidisciplinary Residency here! \nBAC’s 2026 Fall Multidisciplinary Residency is made possible with support from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor’s office and the New York State Legislature\, Westchester County Board of Legislators\, ArtsWestchester and Westchester County Government. 
URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/thislittleglade/
LOCATION:HUDSON VALLEY BOOKS FOR HUMANITY\, 67 Central Ave\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Residencies,Community Program,Fall Multidisciplinary 2026,Poetry,Visual Art,Workshop,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Ecology of Us: A Community Conversation: Impact of Humans on Earth with Kristin Marting
DESCRIPTION:Ecology of Us: A Community Conversation: Impact of Humans on Earth\nwith BAC Artist-in-Residence Kristin Marting\nDate & Time: Wednesday September 30\, 7-9pm\nFREE Community Program. Registration encouraged. Walk-ins welcome until we reach capacity.  \nJoin BAC Artist-in-Residence Kristin Marting for a community conversation centered around the impact of humans on our earth and positive actions we can take towards sustainability.   \nKristin will read short excerpts from visionary writers Octavia Butler and Alan Weisman\, as well as an excerpt in progress from Quintessence\, her environmental speculative fiction opera.   \nKristin will then facilitate an “Open Space” format for our conversations — Open Space is a self-organizing\, participant-driven format in which attendees create the agenda together on a variety of topics in response to our central theme. As a participant\, you will be free to choose which conversation you join and move as desired between simultaneous conversations\, engaging with topics that resonate with you. We will re-gather as a group towards the end to share findings with the full group.   \nOur friends at Riverkeeper will join to share local issues affecting the Hudson River and provide resources for framing solutions. Riverkeeper protects and restores the Hudson River from source to sea and safeguards drinking water supplies\, through advocacy rooted in community partnerships\, science and law. ‌‍Learn more about Riverkeeper and their work here. ‌ ‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‌‍‍‌‌‍‍  \nAbout Quintessence \nInspired by the speculative fiction of Octavia Butler and the environmental nonfiction writing of Alan Weisman\, Quintessence is a new environmental science fiction opera about othering\, nonconformity\, intolerance\, and community that Kristin is co-creating as librettist/director with composer Paul Pinto.   \nThe 90-minute multimedia opera tells the story of our dying planet in seven parts\, scored for an ensemble of seven singers\, four instrumentalists and electronics. Our earth is sick – it has been damaged beyond repair by our species. All humanity share an existential awareness of our fragility. There are too many of us\, but too few other species. Our earth is no longer able to produce anything naturally so food and drink are created through technology. One world government controls all resources\, which are distributed unevenly to haves and have-nots. As humans scramble to survive\, genetic modification has become a worldwide practice with almost no one unmodified. But the modifications induce unpredictable abilities. Ongoing human conflict is weakening our already ailing earth.  \nABOUT KRISTIN\nKristin Marting is an award winning director & creative producer based in NYC. She has constructed 38 world premieres (15 hybrid\, 10 opera/music-theatre\, 9 adaptations of novels & 5 classics). Selected premieres: BAM\, HERE\, Ohio Theatre\, Soho Rep. Selected touring: 7 Stages\, Berkshire Festival\, Brown\, MCA\, New World\, Painted Bride\, UMass\, Moscow Art Theatre\, Oslo. Selected workshops: Clubbed Thumb\, New Georges\, Playwrights Horizons\, Public Theatre\, Target Margin. Recipient of an OBie award for Lifetime Achievement and Proclamation from the NY State Assembly for steadfast leadership\, two prestigious MAP Fund awards\, a nytheatre.com Person of the Decade for outstanding contribution\, a Leader to Watch by Art Table\, and a BAX10 Award. She is the Founding Artistic Director Emeritus of HERE and co-founded/co-curated 12 editions of PROTOTYPE festival.  \nThis Community Program is a part of BAC’s Annual Fall Multidisciplinary Residency. As part of a residency at BAC\, we ask each artist to build and facilitate a Community Program. Community Programs are a unique opportunity for both artists-in-residence and our local community to gather\, engage\, and be in conversation with one another through art. Community Programs are free engagements open to the public and/or in collaboration with a local community partners.  \nBAC’s 2026 Fall Multidisciplinary Residency is made possible with support from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor’s office and the New York State Legislature\, Westchester County Board of Legislators\, ArtsWestchester and Westchester County Government. 
URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/ecologyofus/
LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Residencies,Art & Action,Community Program,Fall Multidisciplinary 2026,Storytelling,Talk
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