Residents of the Hudson City School District are invited to learn about the development of the 2021-22 school budget proposal during a 30-minute community budget workshop on Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from 6-6:30 p.m. The workshop will take place at 6 p.m. in Room 22-C at Hudson Senior High School across from the library (215 Harry Howard Ave, Hudson). It will be followed by a Board of Education meeting at 6:30 p.m. Attendees should enter through the doors in the north parking lot (by the electronic sign). Signs for the meeting will be posted. Masks/face coverings and temperature checks required. A public vote on the 2021-22 school budget proposal is scheduled to occur on Tuesday, May 18, 2021. Visit http://www.hudsoncsd.org/budget for details.

Forest Invader Event - Asiatic Bittersweet at Lake Myosotis Location: Lake Myosotis on Pond Hill Road in Rensselaerville, NY. ​ Saturday, April 17th from 10:00 AM-12:00 PM If you've visited the Huyck Preserve's Lake Myosotis at the beach or boat launch, you likely noticed vines covering the trees and shrubs along the road and driveway. Those vines are Asiatic bittersweet, an invasive species that can climb, girdle, and shade out native trees. Please join Stewardship Coordinator Garrett Chisholm in helping to maintain the beauty of Lake Myosotis by helping us tackle this forest invader. Need more motivation? The event will include a contest to see who can find and cut the thickest vine! Guest bittersweet guru, George Robinson, Ph.D., will be the judge, and the winner will receive a $15 gift card to Kuhar Family Farm http://kuharfamilyfarm.weebly.com/! Tools will be provided, but bring your own favorite hand saw and/or loppers and work gloves if you have them. Water, sturdy shoes and long pants/sleeves are required. Masks and social distancing are required. No bathrooms or other indoor amenities will be available; please plan accordingly. Registration is required, and the event will be limited to 18 people to maintain social distancing protocols.

Led by Wave Farm's 2020/2021 Radio Artist Fellow, Jess Speer, this workshop takes its focus from the 1992 radio artwork Redefining Democracy in America, Part 6: Leap of Faith by artist Jacki Apple, produced in collaboration with writer, poet, and performer Keith Antar Mason. Both were based in Los Angeles at the time, the radio work was made in the wake of the L.A. uprisings set off by the verdict in the Rodney King trial. Apple, a white woman raised in Manhattan, and Mason, a Black man raised in St. Louis, had a conversation about growing up on opposite sides of the American racial divide in the mid-20th century and placing the current events of that time in a larger historical and personal context. Almost 30 years later, the piece is as relevant now as it was then.

In the workshop, the group will listen to the piece closely and have a discussion about both its content, context, and form. Jacki Apple will visit the class to talk about making the piece, and answer questions. Participants will then either partner to work in small groups or work singly to create a radio art piece that responds to our experiences of history in our lifetimes, whether through music, poetry, interviews, radio play, or more abstract sound productions.

The Details

Contact info@wavefarm.org to register or ask questions.

Every Tuesday Night Cameron Melville and Ryder Cooley host a Virtual Open Mic Night featuring music, poetry, comedy, interviews, performance art and more! This will be streaming live on the Club Helsinki Open Mic Facebook Page as well as http://www.clubhelsinki.live, Twitch, and Vimeo. If you are a musician, poet, comedian or a spoken word artist and would like to have your video played on the show, submissions must be in by noon on Mondays. You can submit a video here: https://form.jotform.com/200984296822059

The Spark of Hudson is pleased to present a virtual panel around food insecurity, access, and mutual aid featuring regionally based food experts. This program is presented as part of The Spark of Hudson’s programming that aims to tackle conversations around the climate crisis. The discussion brings together farmers, producers, policy advocates, chefs, food based nonprofits and mutual aid workers to discuss how we can build more resilient supply chains to feed the food insecure in the town of Hudson, New York. Featuring representatives of Sky High Farm, Hudson Community Free Fridge, City of Hudson Youth Center, Columbia County Sanctuary Movement, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, and La Morada Mutual Aid Kitchen amongst others. This program will be streamed live on YouTube.

On the “heels” of their April 12-18 residency at Bridge Street Theatre, unconventional competitive ballroom dancers Abdiel Jacobsen (a former principal with the Martha Graham Dance Company) and Kristine Bendul (a Broadway performer and choreographer) will appear online in a free video excerpt of the new work-in-progress developed during their stay in Catskill. Filmmaker Brian Thomas will be shooting footage at the theatre for inclusion in a feature-length documentary he’s creating about the pair called “FollowLeadLOVE”, and will provide a short ‘teaser’ which will premiere on the Bridge Street Theatre YouTube channel at 7:00pm Friday April 23, and will be available for a short time thereafter. You’ll find links posted on BST’s website (BridgeStreetTheatre.org), Twitter account (bridgestreettheatre), and Facebook page on the afternoon of the premiere.

Join the spring awakening. Come by kayak, foot or car to the beach and join in our clean waters celebration with songsters, poets, writers, and crafters. Bring the kids! At Esopus Beach Park, at the foot of Partition Street, next to the Rte 9W Bridge across the Esopus Creek. Rain date: April 25, 3-5 p.m.

Here is a way to support local musicians while enjoy an evening of live virtual music, at home. Join Club Helsinki Hudson for another episode of Wish You Were Hear, featuring jazz pianist Chuck Lamb, hosted by the Dust Bowl Faeries duet. The Dust Bowl Faeries dark carnival duet are teaming up with pianist Chuck Lamb for a full moon concert of jazzy lunar madness. Dust Bowl Faeries will enchant and amuse you with dark cabaret songs on accordion, guitar and musical saw. Chuck Lamb is a pianist and composer who has been performing with the Brubeck Brothers Quartet for over 14 years. On April 24 he will perform a rare solo set on the Helsinki grand piano. The Wish You Were Hear series broadcasts LIVE from Club Helsinki Hudson. The show streams from a private youtube link, which will be emailed to guests when they register for tickets.

The reopening of the Clothing Barn at the North Chatham United Methodist Church, after a one-year pandemic hiatus in 2020. Regular hours will remain the same as last year — 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., every Saturday. Masks and social distancing are required.

Please click here for the current opportunity, with an application deadline of June 30, 2022

Engagement Period: September 2021 - May 2022
Stipend: $15,000
Location: Remote (w/ three visits to Wave Farm in Acra, NY) *
Application Deadline: June 30, 2021
Notification: July 2021

Wave Farm is delighted to announce a third year of the Radio Artist Fellowship, a nine-month, part-time engagement for a radio scholar and artist living and working in the United States. The Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow will work closely with Wave Farm’s Executive Director, Galen Joseph-Hunter, and Artistic Director, Tom Roe. The Fellowship will also include communication with Mentors: Anna Friz, Joan Schuman, Neil Verma, and Gregory Whitehead.

A definition of Radio Art: Radio artists explore broadcast radio space through a richly polyphonous mix of practices, including poetic resuscitations of conventional radio drama, documentary, interview and news formats; found and field sound compositions reframed by broadcast; performative inhabitations/embodiments of radio’s inherent qualities, such as entropy, anonymity and interference; playful celebrations/subversions of the complex relationship between senders and receivers, and the potential feedback loops between hosts and layers of audience, from in-studio to listeners at home to callers-in; use of radio space to bridge widely dispersed voices (be they living or dead), subjects, environments and communities, or to migrate through them in ways that would not be possible in real time and space; electroacoustic compositions with sounds primarily derived from gathering, generating and remixing radiophonic sources.

The Fellowship will combine remote work with three on-site visits to Wave Farm’s research library and radio studios.* Located in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley, Wave Farm is a nonprofit arts organization driven by experimentation with broadcast media and the airwaves. A pioneer of the Transmission Arts genre, Wave Farm programs provide access to transmission technologies and support artists and organizations that engage with media as an art form. Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears is a full-power, creative community radio station in New York’s Upper Hudson Valley. The WGXC program schedule features original content by over one-hundred volunteer programmers, and commits significant daytime listening hours to radio art and experimental sound.

*Details of the Wave Farm visit schedule will be determined in collaboration with the selected artist, with consideration given to any ongoing travel restrictions related to COVID-19.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Part 1: Radio Art Archive Work (September 2021 - January 2022)

The first five months of the fellowship, are focused on additions to the Wave Farm Radio Art Archive. (See wavefarm.org/radio/archive) The archive is an online resource and a broadcast series on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. It aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks made by artists around the world, created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or pirate transmission. From September to January, the fellow will identify a minimum of one new work each week, preparing audio with introductions and back announcements for broadcast, as well as written work descriptions, and artist biographies. Where possible the fellow will also record an interview with the artist about their selected work. Each week the Fellow’s newest addition to the Archive will be broadcast on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. These works and interviews will also be integrated into Wave Farm’s nationally syndicated “The Radio Art Hour.”

Part 2: Community  Engagement (February - March 2022)

The fellow will design and lead two workshops (or listening sessions) with WGXC programmers and interested members of the public. A successful model in 2020/2021 was constructed around the fellow identifying a single radio artwork and included three parts: 1) group listening and discussion 2) conversation with the artist behind the work  3) Participants creating their own radio artworks in response.

Part 3: Radio Art Creation (April - May 2022)

The Fellow will create their own original radio artwork(s) for broadcast, including a contribution to the Radia network, of which Wave Farm is a member (See radia.fm).

Fellowship Benchmarks:

• Weekly Meetings: with Wave Farm staff.
• Monthly Check-ins with Mentors for feedback on archive additions and the Fellow’s original radio artworks.
• Culminating Public Program: a live radio broadcast featuring the Fellowship artist and mentors in conversation reflecting on works created and archive selections.

To Apply:
Please send the following to info@wavefarm.org with the subject "Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellowship" by June 30, 2021:

1. Letter of Interest: a one-page statement introducing your work as a radio scholar and artist demonstrating your personal interest in radio broadcast as a creative medium.
2. Radio Art Archive Sample: Please prepare one example of a work you would add to the online archive and broadcast series (this should be a work by another artist, not your work). Please include:
   (Please note that Wave Farm may broadcast these submissions in the future.)
   1. A one- or two-paragraph description of the radio artwork.
   2. A mp3 (192 kbps, constant bitrate, 44.1kHz) audio file prepared for radio broadcast presentation that includes brief introductory remarks in your voice (identify yourself in the intro as well), the radio artwork itself, and a back announcement at the end telling radio listeners what they have just heard.
   3. A one- or two-paragraph biography of the artist you have selected.
3. Your Own Radio Art Work Samples: Please provide links to two work samples of your own radio work.
4. Resume / C.V.

Eligibility: The Radio Artist Fellowship program opportunity is open to individual radio artists and scholars whose primary residence is in the United States. (Note: applications from collaborative teams are not eligible.) The Fellowship stipend will appear as “Other Income” on 1099s issued in conjunction with tax years 2021 and 2022. Women and people of color are encouraged to apply.

Wave Farm’s Radio Artist Fellowship is made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Greene County Legislature through the County Initiative Program, administered in Greene County by CREATE (aka the Greene County Council on the Arts.)

https://wavefarm.org/radio/archive/fellowship

An enormous thank you to the over 220 people who secured tickets to come celebrate WGXC's 10th Anniversary at the Greenville Drive-in (arriving vehicles pictured above courtesy Alon Koppel Photography.) The dramatic weather wasn't enough to keep most of you away, and the night was an extraordinary vaccinated emergence from the solitude of the last 14 months, as well as a wonderful celebration of WGXC's multiplicity of sounds and participants. Thank you!

We are working to post all the documentation asap, but in the interim please CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS including those from the Love Shack photo booth. Do you have images you'd like to share? Contact info@wavefarm.org and we'll send you an upload link. Thank you!

Let's celebrate WGXC's 10th Anniversary together at the Greenville Drive-in! We're planning this event to scale as needed in terms of where we are with physical gathering. Either way, we think it will be an epic exploration of the number 10! Wear your most festive attire and bring your favorite radio for the LoveShack photo and recording booth. Most importantly come ready to celebrate.

Schedule:

• 7:30 p.m.: Arrival
• 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Get your portrait taken by Bryan Zimmerman, record Station IDs and sweet nothings at the LoveShack with your concierges Donna and Honey of the Donna and Honey's Love Motel: A radio romance and rock and roll show, and interior by Becca Van K!
• 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.: Get Your Concessions! (Cocktails at the bar, Snack Bar goodies available too.)
• 9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.: Program

1. LunarMoss (formerly of LunarMoss), a micro-meditation on time's most agreeable measurement: the decade; conveyed thru sound as catalyst and contingent summation of collective memory.
2. Jess Speer, Jess Speer will perform live with 10 sound sources, all celebrating WGXC, Wave Farm, and radio, with a special community-brewed Radio Witch full moon spell for the continued success of WGXC.
3. Jeff Economy (Snackpoint Charlie) and Alanna Medlock (There There), 10 Movements through Undiscovered Countries
4. Jen Kutler (Wave Farmacy) and Quintan Ana Wikswo, a work of 10 texts, 10 videos, and 10 variated sensor response.
5. Mayuko Fujino (Your Voice Touches My String), 10 tracks of single-stringed instruments, one string at a time
6. Anna Friz, 10-band Radio: Variations with one- and two- way radio, from deep inside the dial. Are there (still) little people who live inside your radio?
7. DJ Var (Friday Night Vibes Session), 10 years of happiness
8. Stephin Merritt (of the Magnetic Fields), 10 songs in 10 minutes
9. Rancho Thatchmo, Ruminations.
10. Brian Dewan, WGXC filmstrip (2014/2021)

About the Performances

Southern Comfort: Ten Shots, Jen Kutler and Quintan Ana Wikswo

Southern Comfort: Ten Shots is a live audio-visual performance premiere based on the collaborative radio sound piece by Jen Kutler and Quintan Ana Wikswo. Revisioning the 1980s underground culture of alt-video and liminal queerness in the Mexican borderlands, this work forms a survivalist collision of analogue and digital, AIDS and Covid, and the shadowlands of bio-emotive, empathic response to speaking the unspoken, Southern Comfort modifies cultural detritus of power, gender, race, queerness, and intimacy to yield a ferocity of possibility in the junkyards of America.

Wikswo’s texts, videos, and voice performance Southern Comfort (supported by Creative Capital, Yaddo, and published in Gulf Coast) invokes her own rich, evolving and intergenerational legacy of obscured drag, ballroom, trans-, mixed-race, and queer US/Mexico border experience in its complexity of solidarity and joy in the onslaught of bigotry, violence, hate crimes, and vigilante death squads. Kutler’s hand-engineered biological sensor devices are worn on her body and document into custom sonification software her physiological responses to the spoken narrative, generating sounds and synthetic voices that draw from granular synthesis, sine waves, cassette tape loops and stringed instruments. The physiological sensor data also manipulates Wikswo’s archival video content through an RGB color 'wobbulator' (the first of its kind) which is derived from Nam Jun Paik's black and white Raster Manipulation Unit from the 1960s. This will be the first public performance with this device, consisting of a vintage RGB projector with nine additional deflection coils which collectively handle over 1,000 watts of audio range signal translating it to raster manipulations of individual colors

In celebration of WGXC's ten year history, Southern Comfort is a work of ten texts, ten videos, and ten variated sensor response, with ten shots of Southern Comfort poured out in recognition of the lives of queer BIPOC killed by a nation’s psychopathic predation of its artistic and cultural visionaries. These “shots” also honor Wave Farm’s legendary heritage within the vanguard of broadcasting, amplifying, activating, and advocating for what we absolutely must continue to hear within ourselves and our communities: the transmissions of self-expression that bring the fringe to focus.

Thank you to our 10th Anniversary Year Sponsors!

Image Note: Greenville Drive-in Photograph © Beth Schneck Photography