Apr 1, 2020 | Press Release
A message from our Founder, David Lyons…
Greetings and salutations to the Bethany Arts Community! As we are all aware, the world and society is in a transition period. Bethany has been closed and will remain closed to the public through the month of April 2020. We will monitor and re-evaluate the situation through the coming weeks. Hopefully daily life will return to resemble something of what was in the near future. Until then, continuing with one of the founding ideas that “change is constant and always” and should be embraced, we will be offering a variety of opportunities for the entire Community to stay informed and connected.
Share your creative space!
1) Take a photo of your creative space while under the COVID-19 watch
2) Tag us at #BACTOGETHER on Instagram
Like and follow us on Instagram to see your creative space featured @bethanyartsorg
“NINTH STREET WOMEN SERIES”
with Dr. Jill Kiefer
We will be offering an art history course, “Ninth Street Women Series”, through virtual means starting April 25th…stay tuned for details!
(s)mother
curated by Anna Adler
We expect to present our first virtual exhibition, (s)mother, curated by Anna Adler starting May 8th with a virtual opening reception. The exhibit will be on display through the month of May.
Please stay tuned for the many necessary and exciting changes that will be coming to Bethany in the future. Please support the arts however you can and whenever you can. I think it’s during stressful times that coming together and working as a community is the cement of our foundation as a society. It is that cement that makes us stronger for the next challenge, the next change that will come. Please stay safe and healthy, look out for one another. As a community, we are strong.
Come on, gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you
Is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’
= Bob Dylan
Sep 19, 2019 | Music, Press Release, Visual Art
The 1st annual Artoberfest is coming to Bethany Arts Community on October 5, 2019.
Join us for art, music, crafts, food and family fun! Featuring visual artists, live musicians, food, live and interactive demonstrations, the festival will be a great experience for all ages!
ARToberfest will illuminate arts spanning a variety of styles and mediums and celebrate the unique culture of the Hudson Valley region.
A great experience for all ages! People Free.
Sep 10, 2019 | Dance, Press Release, Residencies
Flyaway Productions is embarking on a new partnership with Bethany Arts Community in Ossining, NY and will be in residence at BAC September 16th – 22nd, 2019. During this residency, the dancers will be preparing for the East Coast premiere of The Wait Room, an outdoor dance program created by Flyaway Productions of San Francisco to honor the lives of women whose loved ones are incarcerated. They will use the facilities at Bethany Arts Community to immerse themselves in the Master Dance Class and create performce art that the community can experience and engage with through open rehearsals, community dialogues and public events.
Bethany Arts Community’s residency programs are made possible by ArtsWestchester with support from Westchester County Government.
Sep 10, 2018 | Fundraiser, Press Release, Visual Art
Join Bethany Arts Community for an evening of cocktails, food, performance, exhibit, silent auction and more!
This year we celebrate the many successes of Bethany’s first year of providing meaningful arts programming and creating community through the arts. We celebrate our support for artists who have found Bethany a nurturing and inspiring environment where they can grow and further the creative artistic process. Your support helps advance our mission to continue to create a space and environment where the many forms of art can be learned, produced and flourish.
Save the Date! November 16, 2018 | Time: 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Cost: $125
Jun 18, 2018 | Press Release, Residencies
Dear Diary LOL
Antigravity Performance Project is embarking on a new partnership with Bethany Arts Community in Ossining, NY and will be in residence at BAC July 8 – July 13, 2018. During this four-week residency, the company will be developing new work. Dear Diary LOL is an ensemble-driven comedic theatre work born verbatim from the real-life, tween-teen diaries of the show’s actual creators.
Antigravity Performance Project at Bethany Arts Community
Dear Diary LOL explodes its source diaries with moments of direct address, music, dance, and physical comedy, colliding the style of melodrama with the inherent humor found in the earnestness of young girlhood musings (with all the benefits of hindsight). Antigravity’s devising ensemble invites you to cringe, laugh, and cry at their most earnest desires, deepest fears, secret shames, and terrible poetry written as coming-of-age girls in the late 90s/early 2000s.
May 10, 2018 | Dance, In the News, Press Release
Patch article by Lanning Taliaferro on May 10, 2018
BAC is pleased to announce a four week residency, in May, with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, a world-class dance-theater company.
OSSINING, NY: Bethany Arts Community is a new space and environment based at 40 Somerstown Road whose founders hope the many forms of art can be learned, produced and flourish.
“We couldn’t be more thrilled to launch our artist residency program with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane company,” David Lyons, founding executive director, said in a press release. “From the beginning, we wanted to provide a space that attracts and nurtures this caliber of international talent while also making these artists and their work accessible to our regional community.”
Until June 1, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company will be creating a new work and expanding existing work, in residence at BAC. They will use the opportunity to immerse themselves in the creative process, spending valuable time together and with the BAC community through open rehearsals, community dialogues and public events. The nature of a residency outside of the city, even if just a few short train stops away, allows the artists to truly leave mundane activities that can sometimes get in the way of process and focus on engaging in the art form and their colleagues.
Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Company is beginning a new work, currently titled The Deep Blue Sea, which they will continue to work on at BAC. Drawing inspiration from Melville’s evocative description of Pip, the young black “cabin boy”, floating alone in the sea, The Deep Blue Sea explores the relationship of solidarity as it pertains to, or contrasts to group identity. The work will begin with a solo figure that will be performed by Mr. Jones or a company member, evolving over time into an ensemble of ten (the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company), that further expands into a community of one hundred people. The Deep Blue Sea will be a meditation on the nature of community building in a confusing era.
Additional programming for the community will be offered during the residency, including being able to observe the entire Company in action during their month-long residency at Bethany and even participate in a developing new work.
There are many exciting activities happening at BAC, including an afterschool program which is currently in progress, a second large sculpture to be installed in the garden, readings from Westchester Collaborative Theatre, a summer camp from Theatre O called The Camp of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and many upcoming residencies to be announced in the near future, BAC officials promised.
Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company at Bethany Arts Community
Upcoming Events:
May 12, 19, 26 1p – 4p FREE Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Company Community Dance Project: Join the creative process with the BTJ/AZ Company and volunteer to participate in the company’s latest work, The Deep Blue Sea. Participants will be asked to move, think and create with the nine members of the company with Bill T Jones and Associate Artist Director Janet Wong. Sign up for any of these dates here. www.bethanyarts.org/calendar/btjcommunitydance
May 19 7p – 10p Fundraiser with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company Performance: The evening’s festivities will include music, a selection of gourmet foods and beverages, and the latest art exhibition in the galleries – an exploration of motion and movement called (Not) Staying Still. The highlight of the evening will be a performance by the world famous Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company accompanied by some commentary from Bill himself. www.bethanyarts.org/calendar/fundraiser
May 24 7p – 9p Meet the makers: Bill T. Jones and Janet Wong: An intimate setting for an evening of conversation with choreographer, dancer, writer Bill T. Jones, the founder and artistic director of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and their Associate Artistic Director Janet Wong. Hear from the two of the biggest creative forces in contemporary dance and culture. www.bethanyarts.org/calendar/btjartisttalk
May 30 7p – 9p Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company Performance: At the conclusion of the dance company’s residency at Bethany, a rare opportunity in Westchester to see a performance by the world-renowned Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Company. www.bethanyarts.org/calendar/btjperformance
May 31 7p – 9p An Evening of Works in Process Studio Showing: Many of the talented dancers within the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, who have spent time at BAC in residence are also working on their own independent projects. Here’s another rare opportunity to see a diverse group of dance professionals sharing the pieces in various stages of development–a sampling of the different works and hear from the creative talents behind them. https://bethanyarts.org/calendar/worksinprocess/
PHOTO: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company dancers at work./ via BAC
