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

Garcia Peoples rock band performs outdoors at the beer garden.

A collection of eight "Pop-Up" radio stations will communicate with each other and the world using four different amateur radio technologies, which encourages STEAM learning via practical applications. The event's goal is to make 2,000 contacts around the world and locally using amateur radio in only four hours while raising awareness and raise funds for Bannerman's Island. Members of the public are invited to visit at any one of our safely organized and information rich stations found at family friendly parks and historic locations.

Learn lots more at https://hudsonriverradiorelay.com/for-radio-amateurs.html

Flash Film Fest is a new festival featuring short films by artists. The festival will have a live as well as online presence, including shorts of all types, with special attention given to experimental approaches.

Live at the Greenville Drive-in 6 p.m., August 12; online at flashfilm.org from August 13 to 19. To submit a film: flashfilmfest.org/submissions.

The Village of Philmont Board of Trustees meets on the second Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Village Hall. Board meetings are open to the public. To comment or ask questions in person sign up in advance by contacting the Village clerk by email (clerk@philmont.org) or phone (518-672-7032) before 3 p.m. on the first Friday of the month. The Village Hall can be reached via a wheelchair-accessible ramp to the right of the Village Office at 124 Main Street and from an entrance to the second floor on Maple Avenue to the left of the Fire Station doors. Meetings are limited to physical distancing regulations and capacity, and masks are required.

From afar, tune in the Village of Philmont meetings live using the player below.

Access audio archives of past meetings here.

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 12:00 Noon on Mondays. You can submit a video here: https://form.jotform.com/200984296822059

Vocalist Pamela Pentony, John Esposito on piano, Rich Syracuse on bass, and Peter O'Brien on drums, play jazz on the beach in Saugerties. Bring blankets, snacks, and your favorite alchohol-free beverages (Note that alcohol and dogs are prohibited at the beach). At Saugerties Village Beach, 47 S. Partition St., Saugerties, NY.

An evening of outdoor readings by Hudson Valley poets Ken Holland and Raphael Kosek, who was the recent Dutchess County poet laureate. This is the first of three readings at Dewey Hall.

"Sisters with Transistors" maps a new history of electronic music through the visionary women whose radical experimentations with machines redefined the boundaries of music, including Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Pauline Oliveros, Delia Derbyshire, Maryanne Amacher, Eliane Radigue, Suzanne Ciani, and Laurie Spiegel.

Toolshed Exchange is a tool lending library that will provide Hudson-area residents access to a variety of tools and trainings. The opening event, on Sunday, June 20 from 1–3 p.m., features a ribbon-cutting ceremony with Mayor Kamal Johnson, tool demonstrations, live music by Brasskill, refreshments provided by Hudson Brewing Company, and a membership sign-up table! Toolshed Exchange is located in the green trailer on the south side of the Basilica Hudson campus (located at 110 South Front Street, Hudson, New York).

Six hours of jazz at the Henry Hudson Riverfront Park in Hudson, NY. Spend Father's Day with the Don Byron Quartet featuring Don Byron (tenor sax and clarinet); Aruan Ortiz (piano); Brad Jones (bass); and, Phelroan Aklaff (drums). The Matthew Shipp Trio, featuring Matthew Shipp (piano); William Parker (bass); and Matt Manneri (violin). Plus special guest artist Alan Palmer will do a short workshop and play with his trio. The jazz event will begin at 3 p.m.; Juneteenth-related activities will start at 10 a.m. Note: this event was originally scheduled to take place Sat., Jun. 19, but has been moved to Sun. Jun. 20, due to weather concerns. Open to the public. Information at www.mtjazz.com.

WGXC's Back to the Studio Pledge Drive, will run from Jun.. 21 through Jun. 28, 2021. Help us to celebrate creative community radio, as we continue to build a base of monthly sustaining donors. Growing a community of sustaining supporters is vital to the station’s longevity.

To make a recurring donation, or to make a one-time gift, visit: wgxc.org/donate or call 518-697-7400 and pledge your support of Creative Community Radio for Open Ears.