Weekly Recommendations: Flash Sketch Mob Reveal, Readings at River Hook, Silent Film with Live Music by the Alexanders, Music on the Hudson, Demme Pays Tribute to Dawson, Summer of Soul Sunday in Nyack

Flash Sketch Mob Reveal and Hopper’s Birthday Concert with Night Hawk

Busy Weekend at the Edward Hopper Museum and Study Center

Two weekends of outdoor art-making, walking tours and workshops, and bike rides from the Whitney Museum conclude Sunday at 3:00 p.m. in the garden with the Flash Sketch Mob art reveal. Thanks to everyone who participated, and see you next year!

After the reveal, buy tickets here to celebrate Edward Hopper’s birthday with Night Hawk, a Hopper-inspired indie band currently touring the Northeast this summer.

The band’s name “Night Hawk” is an allusion to Edward Hopper’s painting Nighthawks (1942) and they sing the stories of Edward Hopper’s paintings and more.

Night Hawk is a Bowdoin-based band led by Colter Adams and Peyton Semjen whose music often blurs the line between indie rock and performance art. Featuring a rotating cast of intrepid players from the New England underground, the project revolves around the question: What do Edward Hopper’s paintings look like?

The band members (all recent graduates of Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine)) are reprising a concert, presented this spring at the Bowdoin Museum of Art, on the Garden Stage of the Edward Hopper House Museum.

Poems of Place at River Hook

Join All Ways Writing Collective and Friends of River Hook Preserve for this free outdoor reading featuring nine Hudson Valley poets reading on the theme of place, with conversations interspersed with the poems read.

Place poems contain the psychological and geographical maps we make of the worlds we know, think we know, and remember. Although there are many types of such poems, they generally fall into a few broad categories: poems of the known—home, the familiar; poems of travel and travelers; and poems of the displaced or displaced.

It is recommended to bring a garden chair.

Silent film screening with live music by Hervé and Skyler Alexandre

Silent-era comedy and fantasy with live musical accompaniment by Hervé and Skyler Alexandre. Presented by Garner Arts Center and Rivertown Film on Saturday, July 20 at 8:30 p.m. Outdoors at the Garner Arts Center, 55 W Railroad Ave, Garnerville, NY

After a stunning performance accompanying silent classics last summer, Hervé and Skyler Alexandre return to the Garner Arts Center to accompany classic comedy and fantasy from the early days of experimentation and discovery in cinema.

The goat by Buster Keaton
Dream of a Rarebit Demon by Edwin S. Porter
KoKo’s Control of Earth by Dave Fleischer
AND MORE

Tickets are on sale here. Rivertown Film members receive a discount.

Music on the Hudson

Tuesday, July 23, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Dead Meat (Grateful Dead cover band)

All performances are taking place on the Upper Lawn of Memorial Park due to the restoration of the lawn on the lower level

There is no parking inside the Memorial Park and parts of Piermont Avenue will be closed to traffic/parking due to the show taking place on the upper level. There is a large parking lot in the marina that provides access to the park via the footbridge or by walking to the park via Piermont Avenue.

Brooklyn Demme Screens Mountain Lion to Benefit Ashley Dawson

On Friday, July 26, Rockland County filmmaker Brooklyn Demme will share his first feature-length fiction film at Rockland Community College’s Cultural Arts Theatre. Mountain Lion: The Healing Film of Saint Francis is an intense drama about personal relationships, mental health and family dynamics, using magical realism to express mindfulness in intimate relationships and seriousness in prayer. It was filmed entirely in Rockland County.

The Sandhill Band of Lenape & Cherokee Indians, Rivertown Film, TurtleGang Edutainment and Truth 2 Power are hosting a free screening to promote and benefit That Kid, the upcoming feature film debut from Truth 2 Power co-founder and Mountain Lion producer Ashley Dawson.

Registration is required to reserve seats, and all donations made at registration or screening will go towards the production of This child. REGISTER HERE. If you do not receive a confirmation email, your registration was not successful. The names of all registrants will be listed at the door. You do not need to bring a printed copy or show your receipt on your phone.

Nyack Soul Summer

An exhilarating evening of film, music, song, dance and history as we celebrate and reclaim once-forgotten stories of community pride, power and art on the site of a once-forgotten neighborhood.

6:30 p.m., Sunday, August 18 (rain date August 25) “My house used to be here” Hezekiah Easter Square Veterans Park.

A multimedia exhibition by Kris Burns featuring archival images of the neighborhood that once surrounded Hezekiah Easter Square. QR codes on each image will link to video and audio excerpts from the documentary “What Happened to Jackson Avenue: A Story of Urban Renewal” by Hakia Alem and Rudi Gohl.

7:30 p.m. Sunday, August 18 (rain date August 25)
Let us sing together for the soul of the community
Municipal land behind Hezekiah Easter Square Veterans Park

Former Nyack Village Clerk Mary White and the nonprofit mentoring program Diamonds & Pearls Inc. bring a DJ and the sounds of soul to the gathering on the municipal field behind Hezekiah Easter Plaza. Sing along, dance along and get ready for a screening of “Summer of Soul.”

8:30 p.m./8:45 p.m. Sunday, August 18 (rain date August 25) Artopee Way Drive-in – “Summer of Soul” Artopee Way Municipal Parking Lot – South of Main Street

The Artopee Way City Parking Lot will be transformed into a pop-up drive-in theater as we screen “Summer of Soul” on a 6-story building across the street from the parking lot. This free screening of the epic Oscar-winning concert film celebrates the music and art of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. You can tune in to a radio station to hear the film from your car or bring lawn chairs/blankets and watch from a designated area and listen to the sound from surrounding speakers.

6:30 in the morning, Wednesday August 21Nyack Library, Screening of “What Happened to Jackson” Street

A free screening of a Nyack neighborhood that no longer exists, told by those who lived there. Discussion with Bill Batson

This program is made possible by funds from Arts Alive, a grant program of Arts Westchester, with support from the Governor’s Office, the New York State Legislature, the New York State Council on the Arts, and support from the Village of Nyack.

Summer of Soul Sunday is presented by Rivertown Film. Other sponsors include: The Village of Nyack, Wright Bros., Nyack NAACP, Nyack Center and Angel Nyack