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SUMMARY:Call for Artists! 2026 Fall Multidisciplinary Residency Applications Open
DESCRIPTION:Please read all guidelines and application instructions carefully\, incomplete applications or submissions that exceed outlined content limits will not be considered. Please only apply to this residency if you can stay in residence from date start to date end. \nApply Here!  \nBethany Arts Community (BAC) offers residencies to emerging and established artists for the development of both new works and works-in-progress. BAC welcomes artists working across any discipline and medium\, including visual artists\, sculptors\, writers\, playwrights\, choreographers\, musicians\, composers\, performance artists\, filmmakers\, and more to our Fall Multidisciplinary Residency. Any and all artistic mediums are encouraged to apply. Enjoy an environment where artists from different disciplines and walks of life can work in community and near each other\, creating opportunities for generative collaboration and cross-pollination. \nResidents will be surrounded by uninhibited creativity during their time at BAC\, in the form of other Multidisciplinary Residents\, local studio artists\, BAC staff and board members\, those presenting programs on campus\, and more! \nA unique component of residencies at BAC is Community Programming. As part of a residency\, we ask each artist to develop and facilitate a Community Program related to their residency plan. This part of the residency is an opportunity for artists to engage with the local community in Ossining and Westchester County\, and for the local community to engage with artists through their work. \nThe Fall Multidisciplinary Residency runs for one\, two-week session of 12 artists from September 22 – October 6\, 2026. Artists are provided room & board\, a private studio conducive to artists’ medium and/or project\, 3 basic meals a day*\, and a $225 stipend per week upon completion of the residency. Artist is responsible for transportation to and from BAC and any supplies or materials needed for their practice. We ask that you only apply if you can stay for the entire length of this residency and are 21 years or older. \n*Please note for the 3 meals a day included during the residency\, Bethany Arts Community is only able to accommodate for vegan\, plant-based\, vegetarian\, dairy-free\, and/or gluten-free diets. Please contact submit@bethanyarts.org with any questions or if you have any further allergies/dietary needs not listed. \nRegarding Artist Teams/Groups/Collaborations: Artist team applications will only be considered for groups up to 3 members. \nApplications Open: February 5\, 2026\nApplication Deadline: May 6\, 2026 at 11:59 PM EST\nLetters of Recommendation Deadline: May 13\, 2026 at 11:59 PM EST \nAs letters of recommendation (LORs) requests are sent out at the time of application submission\, we give applicants another week to ensure that their LORs are in. The person you request your LOR from will receive an email from Submittable\, prompting them to upload your letter of recommendation. Please ensure your LOR is submitted by this deadline to be considered for this residency.  \nThere is one letter of recommendation and one reference (not the same person who wrote the LOR) are required to be considered. \nYour LOR and your reference should come from someone who can speak to your artistry\, character\, and integrity. This recommender should be a non-familial related person. \nNotifications: June 26\, 2026 \nWe will be hosting four office-hour style Q&A sessions for this residency application on\nThursday\, February 26\, 2026 4:30-5:30PM EST\nThursday\, March 26\, 2026 1-2PM EST\nThursday\, April 16\, 2026 3-4PM EST\nThursday\, April 23\, 2026 7-8PM EST \nIf you’re interested in attending any of these sessions\, please email submit@bethanyarts.org for the Zoom link with your name and the session you would like to attend. Attending these sessions will not impact the selection process for residency. It is recommended prior to attending these sessions\, the artist opens a Submittable account and reads through the application– some questions may be answered! Bring questions pertaining to the application\, work guidelines\, or residency stay to these office-hour style Q&A sessions! \nTo check out our grounds\, other residency programs\, and more visit our website at www.bethanyarts.org. \nIf you have concerns about accommodations for your artistic practice\, please email: submit@bethanyarts.org \nIf you have issues using the submission form\, please contact Submittable. \nBethany Arts Community residency programs are made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature\, Westchester County Board of Legislators\, The New York Community Trust Westchester\, ArtsWestchester\, and the Westchester County Government.
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LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States
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SUMMARY:Open House 2026
DESCRIPTION:BAC’s 3rd Annual Open House\nSaturday\, April 4\, 2026 11AM-3PM\nFree and open to all ages\, join us! \nVisit Bethany Arts Community during our third annual Open House! At Open House\, guests will experience where creativity thrives\, community blossoms\, and artistic exploration knows no bounds. \nJoin us on April 4th and discover the magic of Bethany Arts Community. No reservations are required for Open House. Come on by! \nALL DAY\nOpen Studios\, KMAA Art Exhibit\, Mosaic Open Studio\, Hands-On Visual Art Activities & Crafts for all ages\, Poetry Activities celebrating Poetry Month\, Building & Campus Tours\, & Much More! \nSCHEDULE\n11AM Open House Begins!\n12-1PM Poetic sing-a-long for kids w. Composer/Lyricist Joel Weber Knopf\n1-2PM Work-In-Progress Showing of Doomscrollers: A Body of Dangerous Ideas: Part 3 w. Raja Feather Kelly & the feath3r theory\n2:30-3PM Off With Her Head Open Rehearsal w. River’s Edge Theatre Co.\n3PM Open House Ends
URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/openhouse2026/
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SUMMARY:Work-In-Progress Showing of Doomscrollers: A Body of Dangerous Ideas: Part 3 with Raja Feather Kelly & the feath3r theory
DESCRIPTION:Work-In-Progress Showing of Doomscrollers: A Body of Dangerous Ideas: Part 3\nwith Raja Feather Kelly & the feath3r theory \n@ BAC Open House 2026\nDate & Time: Saturday\, April 4\, 2026 1-2PM \nDoomscrollers: A Body of Dangerous Ideas: Part 3 is a danced-theater investigation of danger as both threat and threshold: how it lives in the body\, how in search for connection intimacy itself can be perilous\, and how media shapes our sympathies for violence and collapse. Inspired by Claire Bishop’s Disordered Attention and Daniel Sherrell’s Warmth\, the work asks what it means to live at the hinge between digital saturation and planetary crisis\, between the infinite scroll and the finite planet. In this space\, the body becomes a site of translation\, distortion\, and possibility. This performance will not offer escape or easy answers; instead\, it asks you to sit inside the uncertainty and risk of our moment\, to witness danger not as spectacle but as a condition we share. \nAbout the feath3r theory\nthe feath3r theory (TF3T) is a New York City based dance-theatre-media company that produces the work of Artistic Director and Choreographer Raja Feather Kelly. As a collaboration of dancers\, actors\, filmmakers\, musicians\, photographers\, and designers\, our mission is to broaden the space for unheard voices and repressed histories\, to bring into the theatre those sometimes left out\, and to use theatre to provoke much-needed public conversations. the feath3r theory does this by challenging its audience and its creators to collectively interrogate – and celebrate – its shared relationship to human empathy and personal ethics as expressed in and distorted by popular media. By unabashedly appropriating the structures\, themes\, and aesthetics of reality television\, celebrity culture\, social media and the internet\, the work of TF3T synthesizes dance\, visual media\, and narrative theatre into virtuosic and expansive\, productions in which artists and audience alike experience their shared humanity. \nMain image courtesy of the feath3r theory
URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/feath3r2026/
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SUMMARY:OFF WITH HER HEAD - River's Edge Theatre Co.
DESCRIPTION:OFF WITH HER HEAD\nRiver’s Edge Theatre Co.\nApril 9 – 12\, 2026\nAdapted by Meghan Covington\nDirected by Jessica Irons\nChoreographed by Megan Roe\nMusic by Jon Hatch \nOff With Her Head is a wordless\, movement-driven spectacle inspired by Lewis Carol’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. In this surreal reimagining\, our female heroine Alice battles shifting rooms\, impossible rules\, unrealistic expectations\, and a Red Queen – part idol\, part omen – who embodies every system that silences voices that should be heard. Bold\, strange\, and visually electric\, the piece transforms the fight to claim space—and self—into a hypnotic\, physical rebellion. Curious humans ages 7 to 107 are invited down the rabbit hole. \n4/9 Thursday 7:30PM\n4/10 Friday 7:30PM\n4/11 Saturday 4:30PM and 7:30PM\n4/12 Sunday 2PM and 4:30PM \nPurchase Tickets Here!   \nLearn more about River’s Edge Theatre Co. here!  \nHave ticketing questions? Contact riversedgetheatreco@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Poetry Jam Session + Workshop  with James K. Zimmerman  
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Jam Session + Workshop\nwith James K. Zimmerman \nFriday April 17\, 6-7pm (before Open Mic) \nAges 16+\nRegistration encouraged. Walk-ins Welcome. \nJam out with fellow writers in community before Open Mic! Join poet and writer James K. Zimmerman for a pre-Open Mic poetry workshop to loosen your creative process\, free your assumptions\, and expand your perspectives as you write. This workshop is for anyone who is curious to play with creativity in a supportive environment. All levels welcome\, from beginners to seasoned writers.   \nBring a poem to work on\, a journal/notebook\, and your favorite writing utensil.   \nFree and open to all 16+. We hope to see you there!\nRegistration encouraged. Walk-ins Welcome.  \nPerforming at Open Mic on April 17?\nWe’re doing it a little different this month. Performer sign-up occurs between 7-7:30PM. Performers will submit their name “into the hat” and we’ll draw 13 names right before 7:30PM. Each performer will have up to 5 minutes each on the mic.  \nJames K. Zimmerman\nA frequent Pushcart Prize nominee\, James K. Zimmerman’s poetry appears in Chicago Quarterly Review\, Folio\, Lumina\, Nimrod\, Pleiades\, Rattle\, Reed\, Salmagundi\, and many other journals and anthologies\, and has won many awards\, including the Edwin Markham\, E.E. Cummings\, and Katherine Bryce Niles Awards. His poetry is also featured on websites such as The Poetry Foundation and American Life in Poetry. Author of five books of poetry – most recently “The Further Adventures of Zen Patriarch Dōgen\,” “Uncertainty\,” and “Unbroken Circle\, Unending Thread” – he values his neurodivergence as an essential wellspring of his creative process. He can be contacted at https://jameskzimmerman.net. 
URL:https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/poetryjam041726/
LOCATION:Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Rd.\, Ossining\, NY\, 10562\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music,Open Mic,Performance,Poetry,Program,Reading,Storytelling
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SUMMARY:Open Mic with Special Guest Host Iain Haley Pollock @ BAC!
DESCRIPTION:Open Mic with Special Guest Host Iain Haley Pollock @ BAC!\nDate & Time: Friday\, April 17\, 2026 7:30-9:30 PM\nLocation: Bethany Arts Community\, 40 Somerstown Road\, Ossining\, NY 10562\nFor Ages 16+\nTickets: Pay-What-You-Can $10 – $20\nCheck-out our Pre-Open Mic Poetry Jam & Workshop with James K. Zimmerman! \nJoin Hudson Valley Books for Humanity and Bethany Arts Community for our monthly Poetry/Spoken Word/Music Open Mic. Come on by to BAC this month and share your latest poetry/spoken word/music projects with a supportive audience.   \nThis special open mic at BAC will be celebrating Poetry Month! While we’re celebrating poetry month at this open mic\, ALL performers are welcome– whether it be music\, storytelling\, and/or poetry. \nBring your talent\, your works in progress\, and your positive energy to our stage. This event is open to teens and adults near and far.   \nPerforming at Open Mic on April 17? We’re doing it a little different this month. Performer sign-up occurs between 7-7:30PM. Performers will submit their name “into the hat” and we’ll draw 13 names right before 7:30PM. Each performer will have up to 5 minutes each on the mic. Performers are encouraged to make a suggested donation between $5-$20. \nOUR COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS\nTo help nurture a space of respect\, validation\, and welcoming:  \n\n We’re here to share space\, build community\, and support each other.\n Performers: respect the 5-minute time limit and be mindful of your timekeeper.\n If you like something\, make some noise! Snap your fingers\, stomp your feet\, clap\, whatever feels right to you.\n We encourage you to get to know your seat neighbors. Connect and build community. \n\nOpen Mics take place the 2nd Friday of every month.   \nIain Haley Pollock\nIain Haley Pollock is the author of three poetry collections\, most recently All the Possible Bodies\, published by Alice James Books in 2025.  Individual poems have appeared in a variety of publications\, including American Poetry Review\, The Kenyon Review\, The New York Times Magazine\, and The Progressive. Organizations including the Cave Canem Foundation\, the NAACP\, the New York Foundation for the Arts\, and the Poetry Society of America have recognized Pollock’s work with awards and grants.  He directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Manhattanville University and lives with his family in Ossining\, NY.  \nCo-hosted by Hudson Valley Books for Humanity\, a welcoming space to build community through books and art.  \nFind Hudson Valley Books for Humanity on social media @hudsonvalleybooksforhumanity\, on their website hvbooksforhumanity.com\, or visit them at 67 Central Avenue\, Ossining\, NY 10562. 
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