Past Events 2021
*SOLD OUT* Intro to Wild Mushrooms
Within the ecological community, there is a growing understanding of the utterly vital roles fungi play in healthy ecosystems. And yet within our society at large, there remains more fear than knowledge about these amazing organisms. The goal of this course is to give wild mushroom novices a safe and immersive introduction to fungi that can serve as a solid base for future exploration, whether that be learning to forage or grow mushrooms, or incorporating fungal knowledge into other practices like gardening, herbalism, or art.
The half-day class will be broken into three sections, with a brief overview leading into a foray through the forest to find and collect mushrooms, followed by hands-on mushroom identification including learning to take a spore print. We'll close our session with a B.Y.O. picnic lunch together on beautiful White Feather Farm.
This class is aimed at adult-level learners but is open to older kids accompanied by an adult. There are no prerequisites for knowledge, but participants should come with sensible shoes for off-trail exploration, a water bottle, and a collection bag (a canvas tote or even a paper grocery bag is fine), and lunch to picnic with if desired. Please address specific questions about accessibility to Chris at chicorynaturalist@gmail.com.
Sunnday, October 17th
9am-2pm
$25 Suggested Donation
Chris Baker is a certified mushroom forager, full-time parent, and founder of Chicory Naturalist, offering workshops, resources, and an online shop for budding naturalists of all ages. She has an M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a diverse range of professional experience in the culinary, arts, and agricultural fields. Baker is a passionate lifelong learner, and a strong believer that knowledge is meaningful only to the extent it is shared. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her partner and toddler, who is a constant source of inspiration to engage deeply and daily with the natural world.
Birds and Botany
Join garden geek Kris and bird nerd Nathaniel for a walk of the farm as we take a look at the last wildflowers of the season while keeping our eyes and ears open for birds during this season of fall migration. We will walk along the field edges and through the forest and wetlands that make up the majority of the farm's property. Botanical highlights include Goldenrods, Asters, and more; birds have wings and are a bit harder to predict, but we can hope for colorful local characters such as flickers and kingfishers, as well as world travelers such as warblers and kinglets. Bring binoculars if you have them.
We encourage folks to wear waterproof shoes this time of year!
Suggested Donation is a sliding scale of $10-$20.
For the past 25 years, Kris has been overseeing greenhouses, gardens and indoor plant collections for both businesses and estates throughout the Hudson Valley. She spends her free time learning about plants, where-ever they may be growing, by exploring in the woods, fields, on mountain trails, stream sides, road sides, overgrown lots, and even cracks in a sidewalk!
Nathaniel Young works as a member of the farm crew at White Feather. He's glad to have this opportunity to draw on his background in ornithology as well as environmental education in his work here on the farm.
Cattail Basketry For Beginners!
Join us on Sunday, October 10th for Cattail Basketry for Beginners!
This class introduces students to a fantastic beginner basketry technique, twining using a readily available wild-growing plant material, cattail leaves. Students will learn how to harvest, dry, and prepare cattail leaves for weaving. They will then learn to weave a small basket on a mold and leave with a completed cattail basket.
CLASS ITINERARY (3 hr class)
Introduce finished woven cattail projects, ice breaker & introduction - 10 minutes, while people arrive
Walk by cattail patch, demonstrate harvest, show leaves in different states of preparation: fresh, dried, mellowed - 10 minutes
Demonstrate fixing spokes to mold, followed by weaving time - 20 minutes
Demonstrate twining - 10 minutes
Open studio work with hands-on demos and instruction - 1 hrs
Snack/stretch break (optional) - 10 minutes
Demonstrate creating a wrapped border - 45 minutes
Q&A - remaining time
SKILLS INTRODUCED
Harvesting, drying, & preparing cattails for weaving
Introduction to twining
Weaving a twined basket on a mold
Finishing a basket with a wrapped border
Sunday, October 10th
1am-4pm
$20 Suggested Donation
Meet the Instructor:
Renee is a Catskills-based chef and designer who specializes in working with wild plants and fungi. She rediscovered her childhood love for basketry when she was unhappy with the sourdough bread baskets she could buy and decided to make them herself instead. She works in many media, builds cob ovens, bakes bread and pastries, and obsesses over finding and eating wild mushrooms. You can see more of her work on Instagram @renee_makes_things.
Harvest Finale Concert
SoundWaves at White Feather Farm in Saugerties, NY An eclectic series of musical discovery
Soundwaves at White Feather Farm is a series of extraordinary music from around the world - and around the corner. The series aims to promote artistic and cultural expressions that transcend traditional boundaries and strengthen and build community in the Hudson Valley through genre-defying music for curious listeners.
Sat Oct 9, 6 pm doors; 7 pm concert
Los Cumpleaños | Eva Salina & Peter Stan
Attendees must show a vaccination card or negative covid test within 72 hours masks are required!
Los Cumpleaños mix tropical rhythms and experimental sounds with the energy of a downtown punk rock band washed in a sea of cutting-edge psychedelic new wave synths and wild retro organ sounds to create an energetic, danceable, one-of-a-kind musical experience. Cumpleaños features virtuoso percussionist/vocalist Nestor Gomez from Barranquilla, Colombia; Lautaro Burgos from Chaco, Argentina on drums; Eric Lane on keyboards and Alex Asher on trombone from the USA. The members of Los Cumpleaños have played with a who’s who of notable artists.
Eva Salina is a groundbreaking interpreter of Balkan Romani songs. Raised in the US Balkan Diaspora, Eva's mentors are some of the greatest living Balkan musicians. Her rich, supple voice moves effortlessly through the intricate and demanding expression of Romani songs, intertwining vintage pop songs with her singular interpretations. A passionate activist for dialogue and mutual understanding, and an advocate for women in traditional and traditionally-based music, Eva is committed to a life of collaboration and evolving musical traditions. Her duo partner Peter “Perica” Stan is a Serbian/Romanian Roma accordionist known for his playful innovation and soulful, intuitive improvisations. Eva & Peter draw on a long musical friendship, creating dynamic, intimate performances where mournful contemplation nestles gently amongst songs of riotous joy.
Note that tickets for this event are marked $0 to reserve and we will ask for a suggested donation of $30 at the door.
Doors open at 6, show at 7, hang out with us after the show!
Limited seating available. Wine and beer available. Please consider carpooling as parking is limited.
Attendees must show a vaccination card or negative covid test within 72 hours masks are required!
Produced by Isabel Soffer/Live Sounds + Olivier Conan/Barbès for White Feather farm
Chat with Eliza Hittman — Moderated by Thelma Adams — With Food and Beverages Following
CHAT WITH ELIZA HITTMAN @ White Feather Farm
Eliza Hittman is an award-winning filmmaker known for her films It Felt Like Love, Beach Rats, and Never Rarely Sometimes Always.
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi is an American documentary filmmaker known for her films Free Solo, Meru, and The Rescue.
Moderator Thelma Adams is a prominent American film critic and an outspoken voice in the Hollywood community.
Use Code: WhiteFeatherFifty for 50% off community discount!
Food and beverages served after each panel, catering provided by Raspberry Fields Farm.
Come for the conversations, stay for the food.
Please wear sensible footwear, fit for a farm.
Sponsored by White Feather Farm.
Filmmaking Utopia / An Alternative Hollywood — With Food and Beverages Following
FILMMAKING UTOPIA / AN ALTERNATE HOLLYWOOD @ White Feather Farm
As the state of the film industry shifts underneath our feet, this panel of industry experts will explore if and how we can move towards a more utopian model of film culture. If we dream big yet practical, could we achieve a resurgence of a “Woodstock” type alternative thinking, acting & execution?
Panelists
John Sloss is an Entertainment lawyer, film producer, talent manager, sales agent, and founder of Cinetic Media, whose credits include The Velvet Underground, Green Book, Boyhood, I’m Not There, Before Sunset, Far from Heaven, among others
Roger Ross Williams is an Oscar and Emmy Award-winning director, producer and writer, and the first African American director to win an Academy Award ®, with his film Music By Prudence.
Marian Koltai-Levine, President of Film, Content and Marketing at Rogers & Cowan PMK is a strategic marketing communication professional with over 25 years of experience in film, experiential immersive content and marketing. As president, she spearheads marketing and publicity campaigns on a diverse slate of film, television, and content. Marian is passionate about new voices and the global artistic community.
Use Code: WhiteFeatherFifty for 50% off community discount!
Food and beverages served after each panel, catering provided by Raspberry Fields Farm.
Come for the conversations, stay for the food.
Please wear sensible footwear, fit for a farm.
Sponsored by White Feather Farm.
Panel for HERE. IS. BETTER. — Moderated by Paul Rieckhoff — With Food and Beverages Following
HERE. IS. BETTER. — MODERATED BY PAUL RIECKHOFF
Mental Health Panel Inspired by the film HERE. IS. BETTER., this cutting-edge discussion will focus on mental health at this critical moment in history when suicide is a leading cause of death in both the veteran and civilian communities. Moderated by Paul Rieckhoff, with panelists Dr. Kathleen Chard and Jason Kander. Dr. Chard will discuss how the world is tackling PTSD and the role of the VA in this fight, and Jason will share his personal story of recovery from PTSD. The panel may also include other members of the HERE. IS. BETTER. filmmaking team, other veterans from the film, and/or first responders from the local community who have recovered from trauma.
Panelists:
Paul Rieckhoff, activist and veterans’ advocate, is founder and president of Righteous Media, host of the podcast Independent Americans, and a frequent contributor on CNN and MSNBC. After serving in Iraq, he rose to prominence as the hard-hitting and respected Founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), the highly-regarded, non-partisan powerhouse advocacy organization for a new generation of veterans.
Dr. Kathleen M. Chard, PhD, is Associate Chief of Staff for Research at the Cincinnati Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati. As the VA Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) Implementation Director, Dr. Chard oversees the dissemination of CPT to VA clinicians across the United States. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Traumatic Stress and a board member of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Dr. Chard has worked with frontline workers, in addition to military veterans. She is featured in the film HERE. IS. BETTER.
Army veteran Jason Kander, is host of the podcast Majority 54 and President of National Expansion for Veterans Community Project. When he returned home from Afghanistan, where he served as a military intelligence officer, Kander became a rising figure in the national political scene — serving in the Missouri House of Representatives from 2009-2013, before becoming the first millennial to hold a state-wide office in the country as Missouri’s 39th Secretary of State. In 2016, he lost the election for a Missouri senate seat by a slim margin before deciding to campaign for mayor of Kansas City as a potential stepping stone for a presidential run. On October 2, 2018 — 12 years after stepping foot in Afghanistan — Kander decided to walk away from politics and the public life, announcing to his thousands of social media followers that he would go seek help at the Kansas City VA. In HERE. IS. BETTER., Jason shares his journey through treatment for the first time.
Additional panelists TBD
Use Code: WhiteFeatherFifty for 50% off community discount!
Food and beverages served after each panel, catering provided by Raspberry Fields Farm.
Come for the conversations, stay for the food.
Please wear sensible footwear, fit for a farm.
Sponsored by White Feather Farm.
EYEWITNESS STORYTELLING w/ After Antarctica Subject and Crew — Moderated by Peter DeMenocal — With Food and Beverages Following
Eyewitness Storytelling: A journey across both poles with After Antarctica subject Will Steger and the film crew, moderated by Peter B. de Menocal
After Antarctica follows polar explorer Will Steger's life journey as an eyewitness to the greatest changes in the polar regions of our planet. Join Steger, filmmakers Tasha Van Zandt and Sebastian Zeck, and executive producer Sarah Pillsbury as they discuss the importance and impact of eyewitness stories about climate and our environment. Moderated by world renowned climate scientist Peter B. De Menocal.
Panelists:
Polar Explorer Will Steger has been a formidable voice calling for understanding and the preservation of the Arctic. Throughout over fifty years of exploration, he is the leading eyewitness to the most dramatic transformation of the world’s most hostile landscapes. In 1995, Steger joined the ranks of Amelia Earhart, Robert Peary, and Jacques-Yves Cousteau in receiving the National Geographic Society’s John Oliver La Gorce Medal. He was the National Geographic Society's first Explorer-in-Residence, and in 2007, he received the prestigious National Geographic Adventure Lifetime Achievement Award. Having testified before the U.S. Congress on polar and environmental issues, he has become a recognized authority on polar environmental concerns. Steger continues to venture on groundbreaking expeditions, and founded and runs Climate Generation, a Minnesota-based nonprofit that empowers individuals to engage in climate change solutions. He is the author of Over the Top of the World, Crossing Antarctica, North to the Pole, and Saving the Earth.
Tasha Van Zandt is a globally focused director, cinematographer and Emmy-nominated producer who has traveled on assignment around the globe and to all seven continents. Her work has been commissioned by TIME Magazine, The Guardian, PBS, Netflix, HBO, and VICE. Her film One Thousand Stories, created in collaboration with renowned artist JR, has screened in festivals and museums around the world. She is a 2019 Film Independent Documentary Lab Fellow, a 2019 Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Lab Fellow, a 2020 SFFILM Sloan Stories Of Science Fellow, a 2020 Film Independent Fast Track fellow and a 2020 SFFILM FilmHouse Resident.
Sebastian Zeck is a documentary filmmaker and producer. With a career beginning in social and environmental justice, he seeks to blend the craft of filmmaking and storytelling to effect social change. He recently edited the film The Chronicles of New York in collaboration with the artist JR. He has worked on projects for Netflix, HBO, and TIME Magazine. Sebastian is a 2019 Film Independent Documentary Lab Fellow, a 2020 Film Independent Fast Track Fellow and a 2020 SFFILM FilmHouse Resident.
Sarah Pillsbury is the producer and executive producer of many award-winning films and television series, including Desperately Seeking Susan, River’s Edge, And the Band Played On, Quid Pro Quo, and more. After Antarctica, which she executive-produced, is her most recent film.
Peter B. de Menocal is the eleventh president and director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. A marine geologist and paleoclimatologist, de Menocal’s research uses deep-sea ocean sediments as archives of how and why Earth’s ocean and climate have changed in the past in order to predict how they may change in the future. Prior to assuming leadership of WHOI, de Menocal was the Thomas Alva Edison/Con Edison Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. He served as Columbia’s Dean of Science for the Faculty of Arts & Sciences and founded Columbia’s Center for Climate & Life, a climate solutions research accelerator.
Use Code: WhiteFeatherFifty for 50% off community discount!
Food and beverages served after each panel, catering provided by Raspberry Fields Farm.
Come for the conversations, stay for the food.
Please wear sensible footwear, fit for a farm.
Sponsored by White Feather Farm.
* SOLD OUT* Chat with Matt Dillon & Jonathan Gray — With Food and Beverages Following
Matt Dillon‘s successful film career spans over three decades and has showcased his wide range of dramatic and comedic talents, including his arresting performance co-starring as a racist cop in Crash, and his hilarious role as an obsessed private investigator in There’s Something About Mary. Dillon made his feature film directorial debut with City of Ghosts, and directed and executive-produced El Gran Fellove.
Jonathan Gray is a partner at the entertainment law firm Gray Schwartz LLP, and highly regarded in the independent film community as an attorney, producer and advisor to filmmakers, producers, financiers, and distributors. He has acted as production counsel on countless noted documentaries and seminal independent narratives. Gray has produced over 70 films, including El Gran Fellove.
Food and beverages served after each panel, catering provided by Raspberry Fields Farm.
Come for the conversations, stay for the food.
Please wear sensible footwear, fit for a farm.
Sponsored by White Feather Farm.
Chat with Tim Blake Nelson — Moderated by Greg Gattine — With Food and Beverages Following
Tim Blake Nelson, who stars in Old Henry, is a celebrated actor, writer, director, and producer, appearing in 100 films and TV shows since 1989, including The Incredible Hulk, Meet the Fockers, Minority Report, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, in which he played the title role. Join in a lively chat about his career and life.
Moderator Greg Gattine is the Programming Director and morning host at Radio Woodstock.
Use Code: WhiteFeatherFifty for 50% off community discount!
Food and beverages served after each panel, catering provided by Raspberry Fields Farm.
Come for the conversations, stay for the food.
Please wear sensible footwear, fit for a farm.
Sponsored by White Feather Farm.
Chat with Kelsey Grammer — Moderated by Thelma Adams — With Food and Beverages Following
Join six-time Emmy Award-winner, Kelsey Grammer, known for his starring roles in the long-running shows Cheers and Frasier, as he talks about his diverse career, from a Shakespearean actor to his endearing role as Dr. Frasier Crane, and beyond. Currently starring in The Space Between, his talent as a musician won’t come as a surprise to longtime fans.
Moderator Thelma Adams is a prominent American film critic and an outspoken voice in the Hollywood community.
Use Code: WhiteFeatherFifty for 50% off community discount!
Food and beverages served after each panel, catering provided by Raspberry Fields Farm.
Come for the conversations, stay for the food.
Please wear sensible footwear, fit for a farm.
Sponsored by White Feather Farm.
A Special Musical Performance
A SPECIAL MUSICAL PERFORMANCE celebrating the World Premiere of the film HERE. IS. BETTER.
This special evening will feature a live performance by hit songwriter Kara DioGuardi whose work includes Kelly Clarkson’s “Walk Away,” P!nk’s “Sober,” Christina Aguilera’s “Ain’t No Other Man,” and Celine Dion’s “Taking Chances.” The former American Idol judge will perform select hits from her catalog sharing the process behind her writing and finishing the evening with the title song for the Woodstock Film Festival world premiere, HERE. IS. BETTER.
DioGuardi co-wrote the song with Jeremiah Fraites of the Grammy-nominated band The Lumineers who will make a special video appearance. She will also share the stage with Ian Wolff and local composer and music producer David Baron who co-wrote the HERE. IS. BETTER. score with Fraites.
Kara DioGuardi’s collaborations with P!nk, Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, Celine Dion, Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, and more have garnered 11 Grammy nominations and 23 BMI Awards. Her songwriting catalog includes 150 songs from RIAA Platinum albums and 50 charting singles, cumulatively surpassing one billion streams. DioGuardi co-founded Arthouse Entertainment two decades ago. Arthouse’s past and present copyrights include hits from Bruno Mars, Eminem, Carrie Underwood, Halsey, Florida Georgia Line, and many more. Her true passion is developing talent, something she did as a judge on two seasons of American Idol and still does today as Berklee College of Music’s Herb Alpert Visiting Scholar.
Jeremiah Fraites is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of the Grammy Award-nominated and Billboard Music Award-nominated band The Lumineers. Their 2012 self-titled debut album, which featured the hit single “Ho Hey,” is certified triple-platinum. The band’s second album, Cleopatra, was #1 on the Billboard Top 200 and is certified platinum. They’ve had 18 #1 hits on AAA, Alternative, and other radio charts. The Lumineers’ most recent album, III, debuted #2 on the Billboard album chart and had two #1 radio singles, “Gloria” and “Life in The City,” and the band’s film III, made its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.
David Baron is a record producer, film composer, musician, arranger, and engineer who is a longtime resident of Woodstock. The artists he has worked with include: The Lumineers, Shania Twain, Jade Bird, Shawn Mendes, Vance Joy, Meghan Trainor, Lenny Kravitz, Jeremiah Fraites, Josin, Matt Maeson, and Lana Del Rey. He blends retro and modern, orchestrated and raw. He releases his own music on UK-based Here and Now Recordings, and was involved with recordings of Leonard Bernstein, Ray Charles, Journey, and even Bob Hope Specials.
Your $30 ticket provides entry to the musical performance, plus an open bar.
6:00 pm Doors/Open Bar
7:30 pm Concert
SPONSORED BY WHITE FEATHER FARM.
*SOLD OUT* Introduction to Wild Mushrooms
Within the ecological community, there is a growing understanding of the utterly vital roles fungi play in healthy ecosystems. And yet within our society at large, there remains more fear than knowledge about these amazing organisms. The goal of this course is to give wild mushroom novices a safe and immersive introduction to fungi that can serve as a solid base for future exploration, whether that be learning to forage or grow mushrooms, or incorporating fungal knowledge into other practices like gardening, herbalism, or art.
The half-day class will be broken into three sections, with a brief overview leading into a foray through the forest to find and collect mushrooms, followed by hands-on mushroom identification including learning to take a spore print. We'll close our session with a B.Y.O. picnic lunch together on beautiful White Feather Farm.
This class is aimed at adult-level learners but is open to older kids accompanied by an adult. There are no prerequisites for knowledge, but participants should come with sensible shoes for off-trail exploration, a water bottle, and a collection bag (a canvas tote or even a paper grocery bag is fine), and lunch to picnic with if desired. Please address specific questions about accessibility to Chris at chicorynaturalist@gmail.com.
Saturday, September 25th
9am-2pm
$25 Suggested Donation
Chris Baker is a certified mushroom forager, full-time parent, and founder of Chicory Naturalist, offering workshops, resources, and an online shop for budding naturalists of all ages. She has an M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a diverse range of professional experience in the culinary, arts, and agricultural fields. Baker is a passionate lifelong learner, and a strong believer that knowledge is meaningful only to the extent it is shared. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her partner and toddler, who is a constant source of inspiration to engage deeply and daily with the natural world.
SoundWaves at White Feather Farm: Miramar
SoundWaves at White Feather Farm in Saugerties, NY An eclectic series of musical discovery
Soundwaves at White Feather Farm is a series of extraordinary music from around the world - and around the corner. The series aims to promote artistic and cultural expressions that transcend traditional boundaries and strengthen and build community in the Hudson Valley through genre-defying music for curious listeners.
Miramar draws its inspiration from the golden age of romantic music, primarily that of the Latin American genre known as the bolero which was made popular by Mexican, Cuban, and Puerto Rican combos of the 1950s. Also referred to as "trio music," the term bolero became synonymous with various slow to medium grooved Latin American dance rhythms. As the popularity of the bolero thrived, it also expanded and fused with other musical styles to create sub-genres of bolero-rock, jazz, and disco. Miramar simply further expands the tradition through their own interpretations and exploration through new compositions with hopes to enrich a new audience that may be previously unaware of the genre.
Note that tickets for this event are marked $0 to reserve and we will ask for a suggested donation of $30 at the door.
Doors open at 7, show at 8, hang out with us after the show!
Limited seating available. Wine and beer available. Please consider carpooling as parking is limited.
Ticket buyers must show a vaccination card or negative covid test within 72 hours masks are required!
Produced by Isabel Soffer/Live Sounds + Olivier Conan/Barbès for White Feather farm
Thursdays: August 5, 19, 26, Sept 2, 23, Oct 9 (harvest festival)
SoundWaves at White Feather Farm: The Musical World of Sxip Shirey
SoundWaves at White Feather Farm in Saugerties, NY
An eclectic series of musical discovery
Soundwaves at White Feather Farm is a series of extraordinary music from around the world - and around the corner. The series aims to promote artistic and cultural expressions that transcend traditional boundaries and strengthen and build community in the Hudson Valley through genre-defying music for curious listeners.
Sxip Shirey tests the edge of music using his vast imagination to create playful and mischievous songs using familiar objects, mutant instruments, and reconfigured sounds. He has acoustic beauty. “Sxip Shirey's imagination for sounds, sound combinations, and textural color -- ranging from experimental and far-out electronically enriched nuggets to slow and heavy gypsy folk songs to eccentric Wurlitzer organ pieces to the odd country folk song -- makes him one of the most curious combinations of composer-sound designer-performer meets storyteller-curator.” — CD Baby
Note that tickets for this event are marked $0 to reserve and we will ask for a suggested donation of $30 at the door.
Doors open at 7, show at 8, hang out with us after the show!
Limited seating available. Wine and beer available. Please consider carpooling as parking is limited.
Ticket buyers must show a vaccination card or negative covid test within 72 hours masks are required!
Produced by Isabel Soffer/Live Sounds + Olivier Conan/Barbès for White Feather farm
Thursdays: August 5, 19, 26, Sept 2, 23, Oct 9 (harvest festival)
SoundWaves at White Feather Farm: Stéphane Wrembel: Django l'impressioniste
SoundWaves at White Feather Farm in Saugerties, NY An eclectic series of musical discovery
Soundwaves at White Feather Farm is a series of extraordinary music from around the world - and around the corner. The series aims to promote artistic and cultural expressions that transcend traditional boundaries and strengthen and build community in the Hudson Valley through genre-defying music for curious listeners.
Wrembel may be the foremost interpreter of Django Reinhardt’s music in North America. Whether sticking to the French master’s arrangements, or taking the music into new territory, Wrembel has always treated Django like a classical composer rather the cliché paragon of swing and speed the master guitarist has often been portrayed as. In addition to Wrembel’s work as a film composer and performer (he wrote the theme song to Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris and scored Allen’s last movie) Wrembel has delved into the study of Django’s “Improvisations” - the solo pieces that Django recorded throughout his life and were in fact precisely scripted and more akin to classical preludes than jazz improv. Wrembel painstakingly transcribed and memorized the entire cycle, highlighting the influence of Ravel and Debussy on the music, as well as the original compositional approach. Wrembel released the album “Django L’impressionniste” back in October 2019 - a stunning work, which he premiered at the prestigious Lyon Opera house, in France.
“A revelation.” Rolling Stone Magazine
Note that tickets for this event are marked $0 to reserve and we will ask for a suggested donation of $30 at the door.
Doors open at 7, show at 8, hang out with us after the show!
Limited seating available. Wine and beer available. Please consider carpooling as parking is limited.
Ticket buyers must show a vaccination card or negative covid test within 72 hours masks are required!
Produced by Isabel Soffer/Live Sounds + Olivier Conan/Barbès for White Feather farm
Thursdays: August 5, 19, 26, Sept 2, 23, Oct 9 (harvest festival)
*SOLD OUT *Introduction to Wild Mushrooms
Within the ecological community, there is a growing understanding of the utterly vital roles fungi play in healthy ecosystems. And yet within our society at large, there remains more fear than knowledge about these amazing organisms. The goal of this course is to give wild mushroom novices a safe and immersive introduction to fungi that can serve as a solid base for future exploration, whether that be learning to forage or grow mushrooms, or incorporating fungal knowledge into other practices like gardening, herbalism, or art.
The half-day class will be broken into three sections, with a brief overview leading into a foray through the forest to find and collect mushrooms, followed by hands-on mushroom identification. We'll close our session with a B.Y.O. picnic lunch together on beautiful White Feather Farm.
This class is aimed at adult-level learners but is open to older kids accompanied by an adult. There are no prerequisites for knowledge, but participants should come with sensible shoes for off-trail exploration, a water bottle, and a collection bag (a canvas tote or even a paper grocery bag is fine), and lunch to picnic with if desired. Please address specific questions about accessibility to Chris at chicorynaturalist@gmail.com.
Saturday, August 28th
9am-2pm
$25 Suggested Donation
*SOLD OUT*
Chris Baker is a certified mushroom forager, full-time parent, and founder of Chicory Naturalist, offering workshops, resources, and an online shop for budding naturalists of all ages. She has an M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a diverse range of professional experience in the culinary, arts, and agricultural fields. Baker is a passionate lifelong learner, and a strong believer that knowledge is meaningful only to the extent it is shared. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her partner and toddler, who is a constant source of inspiration to engage deeply and daily with the natural world.
SoundWaves at White Feather Farm: Martha Redbone
SoundWaves at White Feather Farm in Saugerties, NY An eclectic series of musical discovery
Soundwaves at White Feather Farm is a series of extraordinary music from around the world - and around the corner. The series aims to promote artistic and cultural expressions that transcend traditional boundaries and strengthen and build community in the Hudson Valley through genre-defying music for curious listeners.
Martha Redbone is a Cherokee-Choctaw and African-American singer-songwriter, composer and educator known for her unique gumbo of folk, blues, and gospel fused with elements of traditional Native American music from her childhood in Harlan County, Kentucky, and infused with the eclectic grit of pre-gentrified Brooklyn.
“Americana's next superstar”- Village Voice
Note that tickets for this event are marked $0 to reserve and we will ask for a suggested donation of $30 at the door.
Doors open at 7, show at 8, hang out with us after the show!
Limited seating available. Wine and beer available. Please consider carpooling as parking is limited.
Ticket buyers must show a vaccination card or negative covid test within 72 hours masks are required!
Produced by Isabel Soffer/Live Sounds + Olivier Conan/Barbès for White Feather farm
Thursdays: August 5, 19, 26, Sept 2, 23, Oct 9 (harvest festival)
August Plant Identification and Preservation Walk
Calling all nature novices! It's summer wildflower season!!! Merge your enthusiasm for science and nature through the fascinating and abstract world of plants. Join Kris Garnier, your passionate plant guide and herbarium artist, for the second of a series of monthly wildflower walks, followed by a mini-plant lab as we build our first year’s collection of White Feather Farm herbarium specimens!
On our walk, we will explore the native, naturalized, and invasive plants growing on the beautifully diverse farm property and learn plant identification basics. After our stroll, we will study the intricacy and beauty of our focus plants under microscopes and loupes. Our diverse botanical library will also be available for more detailed information on our collected plants.
The walk is approximately an hour and a half followed by the open-ended mini-plant lab.
Suggested materials: bring a shoulder bag or backpack with your favorite plant ID book (not required), notebook or sketchbook, pen or pencil, insect/tick repellant, water, brimmed hat, sun protection, sensible shoes, and a passion for plants! Cameras are definitely welcome!
*Suggested Donation $25*
Meet your guide, Kris Garnier!
For the past 25 years, Kris has been overseeing greenhouses, gardens and indoor plant collections for both businesses and estates throughout the Hudson Valley. She spends her free time learning about plants, where-ever they may be growing, by exploring in the woods, fields, on mountain trails, stream sides, road sides, overgrown lots, and even cracks in a sidewalk! Her goal is to offer her enthusiasm about plants to get people on their lifelong path of passion for the natural world around us! Kris has earned a certification in botany through The New York Botanical Garden and is a New York State Licensed Guide, her artwork is sold privately.
SoundWaves at White Feather Farm: Mandingo Ambassadors: 70s African Funk
SoundWaves at White Feather Farm in Saugerties, NY. An eclectic series of musical discovery
Soundwaves at White Feather Farm is a series of extraordinary music from around the world - and around the corner. The series aims to promote artistic and cultural expressions that transcend traditional boundaries and strengthen and build community in the Hudson Valley through genre-defying music for curious listeners.
The Mandingo Ambassadors was founded by griot-guitarist Mamady Kouyaté in 2005. A veteran of the great orchestras of the golden age of Guinean dance bands in West Africa, Mamady is a living library of musical science inherited from his ancestors and from a half century of experience as an arranger, band leader, accompanist and soloist. Representing a musical tradition that stretches back hundreds of years, Mamady plays with a melodic virtuosity that pulls in listeners.
Dazzling vocal and guitar patterns over a rhythm section that is like a perfect system. -- NY TIMES
Note that tickets for this event are marked $0 to reserve and we will ask for a suggested donation of $30 at the door.
Doors open at 7, show at 8, hang out with us after the show!
Limited seating available. Wine and beer available. Please consider carpooling as parking is limited.
Ticket buyers must show a vaccination card or negative covid test within 72 hours masks are required!
Produced by Isabel Soffer/Live Sounds + Olivier Conan/Barbès for White Feather farm
Thursdays: August 5, 19, 26, Sept 2, 23, Oct 9 (harvest festival)
Intro to Foraging Medicinal and Edible Plants
Curious about native plants, foraging, and utilizing them in everyday life? Join our very own plant lover, Bryana Shevlin for a foraging walk Wednesday, August 18th!
Bryana will lead the group through an exploration of the White Feather Farm property, focusing on identifying edible and/or medicinal plants along the way. The plant walk will include plant identification, potential uses, sustainable harvesting techniques, how to spot differences between invasive and native species, and how that applies to sustainable harvesting practices. Bryana’s approach to plant identification and education is based in an intentional practice of forming relationships with the plants.
Native plants that might be encountered and discussed:
Blue Vervain — a medicinal plant that Bryana likes to harvest and tincture to use as a nerve-calming sleep aid.
Cattails — a food source and material to weave/build with.
Grapevines — you guessed it, edible grapes and leaves!
This walk is aimed at adult-level learners but open to older children accompanied by an adult. Please come prepared with sensible shoes for all-terrain walking, a water bottle, insect/tick repellent, and a notebook and pen.
Suggested Donation $15 at the door.
Introduction to Wild Mushrooms
Within the ecological community, there is a growing understanding of the utterly vital roles fungi play in healthy ecosystems. And yet within our society at large, there remains more fear than knowledge about these amazing organisms. The goal of this course is to give wild mushroom novices a safe and immersive introduction to fungi that can serve as a solid base for future exploration, whether that be learning to forage or grow mushrooms, or incorporating fungal knowledge into other practices like gardening, herbalism, or art.
The half-day class will be broken into three sections, with a brief lecture leading into a foray through the forest to find and collect mushrooms, followed by hands-on mushroom identification. We'll close our session with a B.Y.O. picnic lunch together on beautiful White Feather Farm.
This class is aimed at adult-level learners but is open to older kids accompanied by an adult. There are no prerequisites for knowledge, but participants should come with sensible shoes for off-trail exploration, a water bottle, and a collection bag (a canvas tote or even a paper grocery bag is fine), and lunch to picnic with if desired. Please address specific questions about accessibility to Chris at chicorynaturalist@gmail.com.
Saturday, July 31st
9am-2pm
$25 per person
Limited Space Available!
Chris Baker is a certified mushroom forager, full-time parent, and founder of Chicory Naturalist, offering workshops, resources, and an online shop for budding naturalists of all ages. She has an M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a diverse range of professional experience in the culinary, arts, and agricultural fields. Baker is a passionate lifelong learner, and a strong believer that knowledge is meaningful only to the extent it is shared. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her partner and toddler, who is a constant source of inspiration to engage deeply and daily with the natural world.
*POSTPONED* Two Big Bodies
*THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED NEW EVENT DATE TBA*
A one-night showing of two works in progress, featuring music and storytelling by Chris Wells and Laural Meade
Silver Sun Foundation and The Secret City present: TWO BIG BODIES a one-night showing of two cabaret works in progress hosted by White Feather Farm. Both pieces feature music, singing, storytelling, and solo performance. LAURAL MEADE is developing a piece of music theater based on the life and work of Sophie Tucker, one of the greatest entertainers of the first half of the twentieth century AKA The Last of the Red Hot Mamas. She'll be accompanied by Peter Truffa on piano. CHRIS WELLS is a storyteller, writer, and performer who works in the cabaret form. He's developing a new piece of music theater featuring songs by himself and his longtime collaborator, Jeremy Bass, who will be playing guitar for this everning.
This presentation is part of The Secret City Art Revival, a weekend of performance, art, and community in Woodstock, NY. The artists have been generously supported by a residency from Silver Sun Residency and with funding from White Feather Farm.
The theme of this month's revival is REBIRTH.
Tickets are sliding scale of $5-$20
Additional Secret City programs for the weekend:
Saturday, July 31st, 11am. Woodstock Processional--join us for a community processional through the streets of Woodstock. Banners, flags, costumes, the Rock Academy drumline. All are welcome! FREE.
Sunday, August 1st, 3pm. MUSIC PARTY! The Secret City Band, The Secret City Singers and YOU--part singalong, part dance part, part music show. FREE.
Stockade Works DEIA Salon Series Session 2: Empowered
The film, TV and media landscape continues to evolve with a necessary focus on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility. But what is the real driver behind this shift, what exactly does it entail, and how can we empower ourselves to thoughtfully cultivate and normalize diversity and inclusivity? Join Stockade Works and industry leaders in thoughtful and action-oriented conversations to learn more about the changes that are in motion, and our roles in facilitating progress.
This free, online, three-part dialogue, presented in partnership with White Feather Farm, has been curated so that each session builds on the previous, ensuring participants walk away informed, empowered and inspired to step into their roles as change agents. Even if you missed Session 1, we hope you'll consider joining us for sessions 2 and 3!
Session 2 - Empowered: Tuesday, July 20 | 5pm-6pm EST -
REGISTER TODAY
The industry is changing. What will be your role in facilitating this change? This Salon will help identify individual and collective roles in facilitating an inclusive industry, where diversity and representation are normalized in media, film, and the arts.
July Wild Flower Walk
Calling all nature novices! It's summer wildflower season!!! Merge your enthusiasm for science and nature through the fascinating and abstract world of plants. Join Kris Garnier, your passionate plant guide and herbarium artist, for the second of a series of monthly wildflower walks, followed by a mini-plant lab as we build our first year’s collection of White Feather Farm herbarium specimens!
Our session will start with a demonstration of plant pressing, learn plant collecting ethics and the importance of building a herbarium. On our walk, we will explore the native, naturalized, and invasive plants growing on the beautifully diverse White Feather Farm property and learn plant identification basics. After our stroll, we will study the intricacy and beauty of our focus plants under microscopes and loupes. Our diverse botanical library will also be available for more detailed information on our collected plants.
The walk is approximately an hour-long followed by the open-ended mini-plant lab.
Bryana Shevlin, our staff forager and wildcrafter, will join Kris this session!
Suggested materials: bring a shoulder bag or backpack with your favorite plant ID book (not required), notebook or sketchbook, pen or pencil, insect/tick repellant, water, brimmed hat, sun protection, sensible shoes, and a passion for plants! Cameras are definitely welcome!
*Suggested Donation $25*
Stockade Works DEIA Salon Series - Session 1: Informed
A salon series designed to spark conversation and inspire action in line with the evolution of the film, TV and media industries.
*Re-Scheduled* Plant Identification/Preservation Walk
*POSTPONED!*
Calling all plant-fanatics, weed watchers, and nature novices!!!! It's wildflower season!!! Merge your enthusiasm for science and nature through the fascinating and abstract world of plants.
Join Kris Garnier, your passionate plant guide and herbarium artist, accompanied by our knowledgeable, nature-loving WFF staff members, for wildflower walks, followed by a mini-plant lab as we build our first years collection of White Feather Farm herbarium specimens, culminating in a plant preservation workshop/project in late October.
On our walk, we will discover the native, naturalized, and invasive plants growing on the beautifully diverse White Feather Farm property and learn ID basics. After our stroll, we will explore a variety of information on our focus plants using our diverse botanical library, loops, and microscopes. Our session will conclude with a demonstration of the steps of plant pressing so participants will learn the steps and materials needed for their own herbarium specimens and floral keepsakes. The walk is approximately an hour-long followed by the open-ended mini-plant lab.
Suggested materials: bring a shoulder bag or backpack with your favorite plant ID book (not required), notebook or sketchbook, pen or pencil, insect/tick repellant, water, brimmed hat, sun protection, sensible shoes, and a passion for plants! Cameras are definitely welcome!
HVMC Work in Progress Showing
Roving Work in Progress Showing/ Dance Party
Suggested Donation $5-$15
Join Hudson Valley Movement Collective on Saturday at White Feather Arts for a Roving Work in Progress showing with a Dance Party to follow. See their latest work, created in residence at White Feather Arts, and *safely* re-engage with your physical body through movement. Dance with us!
RSVP: hvmovementcollective@gmail.com
White Feather Arts
2571 Rt 212
Woodstock NY 12498
HVMC Movement Workshop
Movement Workshop
Pay What You Can $0-$15
Join Hudson Valley Movement Collective for a workshop at White Feather Arts. Meet some of their members and learn about their current practice within the Hudson Valley. Be led through some of their somatic practices and learn to tap into your body as an art form. *no dance experience necessary, all ages and abilities welcome!*
RSVP to: hvmovementcollective@gmail.com
White Feather Arts
2571 Rt 212
Woodstock NY 12498
White Feather Farm Foundation @ Opus 40
Join us at Opus 40 on Saturday 5/15. We will be popping up a table, selling our delicious maple syrup, and more! Stop by our table to learn more about our foundation, farm, and upcoming events.
This is Opus 40’s annual spring ritual, modified to accommodate our rigorous Covid protocols. Entrance for timed slots to visit Opus 40 is free all day. Please know that each slot is two hours long and we will ask folks to leave at the end of their allotted time in order to keep attendance at our maximum. This event is free for all residents of the Hudson Valley.
Food and drink on-site!
Accordion Music from Matthew Fass at 11:15 and 1:15
Performers from Bindlestiff Circus at 1:45 & 3:30
Tarot Reader and Vendors
Discounts on Guided Tours all day long
Plantling & Seed Sale!
This year, due to attendance limits there will not be a live band or face painting but we will have plenty of on-site fun.