This Friends of the Claverack Free Library event will include a wonderful new addition this year: The fabulous little handmade books by local artist Lucy Swope. 12-5 p.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. These delightful small gems will make unique and cheery gifts for all ages. Swope will be present to sign books and answer questions about the many processes she uses to make her books and prints. There will also be cards, tags, and small gifts by local artists as usual. Up to 50% of all sales benefit the library.

Come to the Claverack Free Library Book Group for discussion and refreshments. Second Friday of each month. Book this month: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Kath Bloom and Aisha Burns perform. Kath Bloom comes from a place where country, blues and folk converge.

Tradition had it that a group of ordinary citizens in the small Austrian village of Oberufer would come together each year at Christmas time to perform this play for the town. It is a nativity play, told largely from the point of view of three bumbling shepherds who are visited by the angel Gabriel and who make their way to Bethlehem in search of the newborn Jesus child. This year, the Camphill Hudson Community has come together to put on this play for their friends and neighbors in the city of Hudson.

An evening of sacred seasonal jazz.

Nick Panken fronts the New York band Spirit Family Reunion. His recent solo work presents material old, new and borrowed in a more contemplative setting, furnished simply with electric guitar and harmonica. He recently completed his first solo tour in the U.K. and Ireland along with Ian Felice. https://spiritfamilyreunion.bandcamp.com/
Lord Youth is the songwriting project of Micah Blaichman of Queens, NY. Blaichman began studying the violin at age three but quickly lost all of his musical education upon becoming introduced to punk rock at age 12. Later he moved to Berlin, making a living busking ancient blues and country songs in bars and cafes, playing four-string banjo in hot jazz bands, and touring throughout the US and Europe with the psychedelic ragtime group Tik Tok Laboratories. His music has been described as old wave, folk noir, lo-fi stoner americana, and bedroom garage. Mostly it is the bizarre formalism of the American folk tradition set to mangled mid-60s song structures played through cheap 1980s pre-digital equipment. https://lordyouth.bandcamp.com/
There should be a live webstream at http://wgxc.org. Click on "Listen Now" at top of the page, and scroll down to find the live webstream.

The City of Hudson Senior Center and Hudson Area Library will host, Watercolor with your Grandperson with two sessions: 1-2:15 p.m. and 2:30-3:45 p.m. with watercolorist and teacher Gretchen Kelly. It is open to grandparents, parents, children, and grandchildren. Youth and adult participants paint a picture or card in watercolors with a holiday theme using pine cones, wreaths, candles, menorah, Christmas trees, holly, gift boxes and much more. All materials will be provided. This event is free and wheelchair accessible. Registration is required. To register email programs@hudsonarealibrary.org, call 518.828.1792 x101 or visit the main desk in the library.

Ancram Opera House's storytelling series Real People, Real Stories returns with the theme "The Kindness of Strangers." This show will feature local residents telling true stories from their own lives about random acts of kindness, Good Samaritans, and the goodnesses of humanity through actions large and small.

Presented in partnership with Operation Unite NY, celebrate African-American culture and unity with friends and family with an afternoon of arts and crafts for children, dancing, drumming, a candle-lighting ceremony, and the sharing of Nguzo Saba, the seven principles of Kwanzaa.

Tradition had it that a group of ordinary citizens in the small Austrian village of Oberufer would come together each year at Christmas time to perform this play for the town. It is a nativity play, told largely from the point of view of three bumbling shepherds who are visited by the angel Gabriel and who make their way to Bethlehem in search of the newborn Jesus child. This year, the Camphill Hudson Community has come together to put on this play for their friends and neighbors in the city of Hudson.

“Speed Sisters” screening with potluck at 6 p.m., and film at 7 p.m. The Speed Sisters are the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank, these five women have sped their way into the heart of the male-dominated Palestinian street car-racing scene. Refreshments will be served and a moderated discussion will follow. For more information call 518-766-2992.

High Time perform early-era Grateful Dead songs.

Bebel Gilberto performs.

This story hour, with Pamela Badila, provides families with the opportunity to explore stories that formed the traditions and ethics of specific cultures. Sundays through June 28, 2019.

A combination of mezzo-soprano, viola, and piano with Teresa Buchholz, Marka Gustavsson, and Erika Switzer performing works from Brahms, Loeffler, and Peter Everwine’s poetry.

"Milford Graves Full Mantis," film about the jazz legend.

Katie Mullins, Will Stratton, and Alexander Turnquist perform. Mullins is a former opera singer, now playing folks songs. Will Stratton is a songwriter and guitarist living in Beacon, New York. And Alexander Turnquist plays guitar, and lives in Hudson.

This Rip Van Winkle Amateur Radio Society meetings are held on the third Monday of the month.

The public is encouraged to attend this public meeting. Anyone recording audio of the meeting is urged to send it to info@wgxc.org, where we can post it for all to share. WGXC suggests calling ahead to confirm time and location. The Town Board meets the third Monday of every month.

The public is encouraged to attend this public meeting. Anyone recording audio of the meeting is urged to send it to info@wgxc.org, where we can post it for all to share. WGXC suggests calling ahead to confirm time and location.

The Catskill Town Board meets on the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. Board Committee meetings usually held on the third Wednesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. The public is encouraged to attend.

WGXC is partnering with the town of Catskill to present live audio streams of public meetings. During meetings, the live stream will be accessible by clicking the play arrow below. Additionally, listeners with iPhones or iPads may now use the Wave Farm Radio App to listen to the Catskill Town Board meetings, WGXC 90.7-FM, or other Wave Farm and partner streams. View the Wave Farm Radio App in the App Store at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wave-farm-radio/id1284966744?ls=1&mt=8

Audio archives from past meetings will be available following the meeting as possible. More information at http://www.townofcatskillny.gov/.