The Environmental Sustainability Committee is announcing a Fall Clothing Drive.
Please begin to look through your closets and select clothing, accessories, and shoes, all in wearable condition, clean and free of perfume, for our semi-annual collection to benefit the National Foundation of the Blind.
You will find detailed instructions in your cubbies in the near future.
A pickup is scheduled on Thursday, September 29.
Questions? Contact Ursula Hahn.
A new exhibit will open in the Art Room on Tuesday, September 13 entitled Polish Poster Art 1960-1990: Combat on Paper.
While Poland was part of the USSR, Polish graphic artists created works characterized by audacity, irony, wit, and innovative lettering.
Although political/social protest is the dominant theme, posters also focus on contemporary culture, such as opera and theater. The works on view are from a 1996 exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art, with now-Kendal-resident Mary Lou Alpert on the curatorial team. After moving to KoH with her husband Ira, Mary Lou joined the Art Committee and curated this show, which will be open to visitors until October 18, whenever no classes or meetings are held.
Opening Reception in the Art Room on C Level (adjacent to Robert Fulton Bridge) on Tuesday, September 13, 4:00 pm-5:30 pm.
Our fall season opens on September 10 with Igor Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress.
The principal roles are sung by Greg Fedderly (Tom Rakewell), Barbara Hendricks (Anne Trulove), Håkan Hagegård (Nick Shadow), and countertenor Brian Awasa (Baba the Turk).
This is a delightful adaptation filmed in Sweden. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Swedish Radio Orchestra.
Join us at 1:00 pm in the Gathering Room
A new trip has been announced for September 29 to Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, NY.
Opened in 2017, Magazzino Italian Art is an art space devoted to Post-War Italian art. Besides galleries it houses a library and archive of “Arte Povera” (“poor art”) and serves as a resource for scholars and students.
The first building, a former farmers’ warehouse (magazzino in Italian), and a new building, opened in 2018, are surrounded by five acres of beautifully landscaped grounds.
The current special exhibit consists of works by Piero Gilardi, a contemporary artist from Turin, Italy who creates art with an environmental ecological message. His “Tappeto-Natura” (“nature carpets”) are iconoclastic sculptures made of polyurethane painted with synthetic pigments glued onto thick contoured foam beds. His sculptures include sea urchins, fruits, vegetables, and animals.
Gilardi is a member of the Arte Povera group who use everyday materials. “Concept rather than beauty; attitude more than form” is the idea behind this unique art.
We will have a docent-guided tour and after- hour museum visit, plus lunch in Cold Spring.
On Sunday, September 11, at 3:00 pm, tenor Cris Groenendaal and pianist Sue Anderson return to Kendal for another delightful “Broadway Cabaret” in the Gathering Room.
After originating the role of Andre in the Broadway production of the Phantom of the Opera, Cris played the Phantom with major companies in the US and Canada and has many other Broadway credits to his name.
As a conductor and musical director, Sue has worked with the Broadway and national touring companies of numerous Broadway shows.
A reception will follow in the PDR.
The FITNESS CENTER AND POOL will be closed on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 5.
The TUESDAY MORNING CLUB will not meet on August 30. The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 6.
The GIVE AND TAKE THE TABLE will appear on Thursday, September 1, and stay in place for its normal seven days.
A trip to Kykuit on Saturday, Sept. 24 is planned by the Trips Committee. Kykuit, the Rockefeller Estate in Sleepy Hollow, was home to four generations of the family, beginning with John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), the founder of Standard Oil.
This historic site of the National Trust has been maintained for over 100 years. It was a home, rather than a museum, but the family’s wealth and love of art created an extraordinary showplace. Explore the main floor of the house, the Inner Garden, and West Terrace during a 1-1/2 hour “Selected Highlights” docent tour. Preceded by brunch in Tarrytown.
In 1922, the Westchester County Board of Supervisors appointed a commission to acquire land for a parks system, laying the foundation of the Westchester County Department of Parks, Recreation, and Conservation, the first in America.
The Mohansic Golf Course in Yorktown Heights, which cost $1, was the Commission’s first purchase. Today, the county is blessed with an 18,000- acre network of open space and nature.
On August 29 at KoH, in celebration of its 100th anniversary, Westchester Parks Commission chair, Henry Neale, will discuss the development of this unique system which includes more than 50 facilities ranging from golf courses, pools, beaches, and parks to railways and nature centers that offer county residents abundant opportunities for recreation.
As we all know, our small Kendal community is part of bigger ones: Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown. And now the Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Community Food Pantry needs volunteers.
The pantry began as an initiative of the Kids’ Club of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow in December of 2009 as a way to address the issue of hunger within our communities. That one-time distribution of food has become a monthly event serving an average of 500 families each month.
And now they need help! If you would like to pitch in, please click here to sign up... and don't forget to check out the new 10591 Community Calendar, featuring lots of fun events in town. You can find it by clicking here.
Kendal continues to celebrate the birthdays of Residents on a month-by-month basis.
The next will be on August 24, from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm, in the Gathering Room. Drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served!
All are invited.
Any questions? Contact Barbara Wallach.
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