The Dressing Room Diaries with Hilarie Burton Morgan Rhinebeck’s biggest celebrity (Paul Rudd doesn’t count as he’s hardly ever there) appears live for an intimate discussion of her career. Attendees will get a backstage tour and chance for one-on-one meet-and-greet and selfie with Hilarie Burton Morgan in her dressing room before the talk and Q&A. The event is a fundraiser for the Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck.
Close Up: The Sweet East w/dir. Sean Price Williams In this sprawling celebration (or indictment… you be the judge!) of American counterculture, teenage Lillian is separated from her schoolmates only to find herself on a trip that encounters the woods, the radicals, the cities, and the avant-garde who all have opinions on how to get her back home (or not). Think Alice in Wonderland meets Beau Is Afraid, but with cameos from Jacob Elordi, playwright Jeremy O’Harris, Butthole Surfers’ Gibby Haynes, and many other artists with a gift for American commentary.
Common Ground: Human Rights It’s been 75 years since the United Nations approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an effort led by Eleanor Roosevelt in the belief that world peace can only be achieved through the honoring the human rights of every individual. Amy Bracewell, Superintendent of Roosevelt, Vanderbilt, and Van Buren National Historic Sites, and William Harris, Director of the FDR Presidential Library talk about this great accomplishment from Val-Kill, the home of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Local Author Wendy Chin-Tanner in Conversation with Jamia Wilson A transcendent debut novel about family, love, and belonging, set against the backdrops of New York City and a historical leprosarium in 1950s Louisiana, Wendy Chin-Tanner's debut novel King of the Armadillos follows one young man’s quest to not only survive, but live a full and vibrant life.