Posted By rvlladmin on May 24, 2013
Saturday, May 25, 2013
3-6pm – Note New Time
Carey Center for Global Good/Guggenheim Pavilion
Tickets are $25 – available at the door & include one drink, music and appetizers.
Please bring an appetizer or dessert to share.
Raffle Items include:
Art, Wine, Golf, Diamond Ring etc.
Posted By rvlladmin on May 3, 2013
We would like to thank everyone who attended the sold out viewing of The Cold Lands. Special thanks to Tom, Silas and the Carey Center for a wonderful evening the event was a huge success for the Library.
Tom would like to be able to keep all the attendees of the Carey Center screening up to date about future screenings, events, and releases of The Cold Lands. The film will have its theatrical run in 2014, but before that Tom is planning a special fall ‘talking tour’ where he presents The Cold Lands as well as the REM piece It Happened Today, and gives a small presentation about the collaborative process (highlighting his interaction with Rensselaerville). The tour will most likely cover both coasts and be one-night only events in art-houses as well as colleges, museums, highs schools, and community centers.
To receive updates on the progress of the tour and other events with The Cold Lands, Tom invites you to vista their website and click SUBSCRIBE;
If you have friends or family around the country who have a connection to Rensselaerville, let them know when the tour is in their area. In addition, the website will offer free downloads of storyboards, press, production stills and clips.
After the tour, the plan is for The Cold Lands to have a proper theatrical run, which means locally it would probably be at The Spectrum in Albany. After that they’ll be a regular and deluxe DVD, online streaming with additional materials like soundtrack, video featurettes and a possible book.
Saturday, May 18th at 7 pm.
Carey Center for Global Good / Guggenheim Pavilion
63 Huyck Rd, Rensselaerville
6:30 pm cash beverages with complementary hors d’oeuvres
Tickets: $20 Suggested Donation for Adults and $5 for children under 16. Tickets are available at the Library.
797-3949
Your donation includes a raffle ticket to win one of several special prizes, including a rare movie poster of The Cold Lands autographed by the actors and filmmakers.
The Cold Lands is an unrated independent film that was filmed in and around Rensselaerville. It features scenes containing casual drug use, adult language, and two brief shots of non-sexual male nudity. Parental Discretion is Advised.
All proceeds go to support the Library.
Posted By rvlladmin on April 11, 2013
Saturday, April 13th Weekend Movie – Looper 7pm @ Conkling Hall. Rated: R, Length: 1:59Movie Info: In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented – but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a “looper” – a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good… until the day the mob decides to “close the loop,” sending back Joe’s future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination. –(Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/looper/)
Posted By rvlladmin on April 11, 2013
9am-Noon Wet Felted Flowers Spring is on it’s way. Get into the spirit by making your own felted flowers. Join felt artist Sharon Costello for a 3 hour class that will teach you how to create beautiful flowers using ancient wet felting techniques. Wool fibers, soapy water and controlled agitation is all that is needed to transform fluffy sheep’s wool into a three-dimensional felt flower. All materials are provided. Great fun for ages 10 to 100! Registration Required
1-4pm Felted Bunnies. Learn to sculpt animals with nothing more than a specially designed felting needle and loose carded wool fibers. Felt Artist Sharon Costello will lead a three hour workshop to introduce needle felting to the novice. No special skills are needed to a charming 6″ bunny and unlike wet felting no soap and water is required. All materials are provided…great fun for all ages 10 and up! Registration Required.
Registration Required.
Posted By rvlladmin on March 31, 2013
Sunday, April 7th Cantata & Poetry and Prose Open Mic at Conkling Hall, 3pm. “Cantata for Two Voices and Horn” - a performance piece (30 mins) by Albany Poet Sharon Stenson that combines poetry, jazz music, and a selection of jazz narratives. This will be followed by: An Open Mic for Poetry and Prose – This year’s Open Mic will be emceed by Marilyn Oliva (neighbor and Festival of Writers planner) and will feature local writers including Bill Logan, Joanna Bull, Charlie Burgess, and Maryann Ronconi among others. All are invited to bring either an original prose piece (approx.5 mins.) or 2-3 original poems to read aloud, or just come and listen!
Sunday, April 21st Favorite Poem Project at ConklingHall 3-5pm. “Rensselaerville’s 8th Annual Favorite Poem Project” – Dig through your books or memories and bring a poem to read aloud or just come to listen This event is part of a national endeavor, during which communities across the country come together when residents read and share “favorite poems.” Most bring poems selected from books or journals or memories. Some choose favorites from childhood or school, or read an original poem. Others select from classic or contemporary well-known and less-known poets. This year’s readers will include: Katherine Dieckmann, Joanna Bull, Charlie Burgess, Jan Bishop, and Maryann Ronconi, and (hopefully) many of you. Our popular emcee from previous events, actor/author/reverend Claire North from Manchester, Vt., will be returning.
Refreshments will be served at both events. Free Will Donations.
Located at 1459 County Route 351, Rensselaerville, NY 12147.
Dating back to 1798, this was one of the first libraries in Albany County.
