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Join us this Tuesday at Fort Awesome @10pm on 2/28 in a conversation featuring film by Anthony Cruz. Black and Brown people all share their definitions on their hair, and explain their hair journey while elaborating on their discriminatory struggles they have experienced. Hosted by: Latine Unidos Additional Information can be found at: https://purchase.campuslabs.com/engage/event/8966769

We are pleased to offer tours of the museum and of the historic church, Monday to Friday, at the following times: 10 AM, 12 Noon, 2 PM and 4 PM.  These are reservation tours, of 45-minute duration. In the museum, the current feature exhibition is, "A Special Role: St. Paul's Church and World War II".  Other displays explore the American Revolution and the Lenape, the original inhabitants of the St. Paul's area.  In the church, visitors observe and learn about the significance of original appearance of 1787, and also gain an appreciation of the use of the edifice as a military field hospital during the Revolutionary War. Other features include the 1830 Erben, one of America's oldest working pipe organs.  Brief recitals are avilable upon request.  Please use the  https://www.recreation.gov website for advance reservations, and please arrive ten minutes before your scheduled tour time.     In addition, self-guided tours of the grounds and historic cemetery, weather and conditions permitting, are available Tuesday to Saturday, 10 AM - 4 PM.  Reservation are not required for the self guided tours of the grounds. Before visiting us, we recommend viewing our Site Orientation Video, which is available through our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/200515059970055/videos/577209182966992   

Spring is here and there is a lot to do on the farm. While many hands make light work, little hands are the best. This program introduces young children to the idea of community service through simple projects on the farm. Registration is required at muscootfarm.org. There’s a maximum of 10 children and 10 caregivers. Also: June 13, 20.

Embark on a challenging journey teeming with friends and foes revealing the unusual relationship between caterpillars, butterflies and their natural surroundings. Adventure through the leaves, learn how to move like a caterpillar, discover an ant that reaps the reward of an unusual friendship, then transform into a butterfly and take flight! Together, families will explore this interactive experience and learn the surprising challenges butterflies face every day. Become a caterpillar and find your way through a secret, wild world. As you navigate the terrain filled with challenges around every twist and turn, take on puzzles, games and exciting interactivities. The brave can even take to the air and soar down the butterfly zip slide. Admission: $12.50. Visit LasdonPark.org for more details and to buy tickets. Tickets are available now through May 7. Tickets are sold online with scheduled viewing times. Amazing Butterflies will be open rain or shine.

Did you miss Job Fair Prep Day? No problem!  Join us for this virtual workshop.  You will leave this workshop with: Tips on preparing for the fair. Strategies for conveying your strengths, goals, and skills to employers you meet at the fair. Suggestions to enhance your resume and what you share with employers Tips for making the most of your time at the Job & Internship Fair

Free, Open Play, Mahjongg Nights Please Note: There will be no instruction and you must bring your own current Mahjongg card.  You may come with your own group of 4 or be matched up with other single players.  Please bring a Mahjongg set if you have one.   Please contact Karen Pennington for more information: penningtonkaren@icloud.com

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Organization: FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS, COUNCIL ON THE ARTS Event Locator: 2023-AAHJFM Dr. George Sprengelmeyer comes to Iona University's Romita Auditorium to present a recital of solo guitar music. Dr. Sprengelmeyer will perform a wide ranging repertoire, including pieces by legendary Irish composer Turlough O'Carolan, Francisco Tárrega, and Jimi Hendrix. This event is free and open to the public. 

Join us this Tuesday at Fort Awesome @10pm on 2/28 in a conversation featuring film by Anthony Cruz. Black and Brown people all share their definitions on their hair, and explain their hair journey while elaborating on their discriminatory struggles they have experienced. Hosted by: Latine Unidos Additional Information can be found at: https://purchase.campuslabs.com/engage/event/8966769

The Mall Walking Club meets every Tuesday and Friday. It’s a great way to enjoy the benefits of walking no matter what the weather is outdoors. One loop is about a half-mile (or 1 000 steps). To join sign up at the horse fountain on Retail Level 2 (between Crate & Barrel and Urban Outfitters) on Tuesday and Friday mornings during the program. Admission is free. Parking is free* for all registered members of the Mall Walk program from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Tuesdays and from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Fridays. *All participants are required to sign a waiver even if they have already participated. For more information call (914) 231-4645.

We are pleased to offer tours of the museum and of the historic church, Monday to Friday, at the following times: 10 AM, 12 Noon, 2 PM and 4 PM.  These are reservation tours, of 45-minute duration. In the museum, the current feature exhibition is, "A Special Role: St. Paul's Church and World War II".  Other displays explore the American Revolution and the Lenape, the original inhabitants of the St. Paul's area.  In the church, visitors observe and learn about the significance of original appearance of 1787, and also gain an appreciation of the use of the edifice as a military field hospital during the Revolutionary War. Other features include the 1830 Erben, one of America's oldest working pipe organs.  Brief recitals are avilable upon request.  Please use the  https://www.recreation.gov website for advance reservations, and please arrive ten minutes before your scheduled tour time.     In addition, self-guided tours of the grounds and historic cemetery, weather and conditions permitting, are available Tuesday to Saturday, 10 AM - 4 PM.  Reservation are not required for the self guided tours of the grounds. Before visiting us, we recommend viewing our Site Orientation Video, which is available through our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/200515059970055/videos/577209182966992   

This event is for ages 2 through 5. Children and their caregivers learn farm skills such as making bread, butter, candles and soap. The cost is $20 per child and caregiver. There’s a maximum of five children and five caregivers. Also: June 14, 21 and 28.

Come paint with the Outdoors Club and the Psychology Club in the Native Plant Garden! Paint and other materials will be provided. Hosted by: Outdoors Club, Psychology Club Additional Information can be found at: https://purchase.campuslabs.com/engage/event/8946361

Share your vision for the Purchase College library–and a cup of tea– with us during our Idea Sharing Social. Suggest an activity or social event for Finals Countdown. Give us your feedback on library spaces. Vote on your favorite suggestions. And enjoy refreshing teas and delicious goodies provided by Purchase librarians and staff. The event will be held in 2012 Lounge, located on the first floor of the library. Individuals requiring accommodations for equal access to this event should contact lib.director@purchase.edu a minimum of 5 business days prior to the event. Feel free to connect and share your photos with us on Instagram and Twitter using the hashtag #PurchaseLibraryTeaChat and/or tagging @SUNYPurchaseLib.

What makes us want to buy something? Could you convince people to buy something? Join Mar-Li Pitcher for a 4 part program where you will create billboards, commercials (yes, actual commercials!), and other features of an AD campaign!  This program is a 4 part series: March 7, 14, 21, 28. Please register for all sessions. For grades 3-6. *Please register for each child attending. Image URL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.evanced.info/Customer/mountpleasantlibrary/DOWNLOAD_(1)_861AB5AE.PNG

Swipe into D Hall and sign up to perform some of your favorite songs by your favorite female rappers!

Are you Game??  Bring a friend, meet a friend!  Drop by and play board games provided by the Library, or bring your own to share.  Families are welcome. A selection of games will be available, including: Monopoly, Backgammon, Trouble, Life, Blokus, Sorry, Q-Bitz, Checkers, Scrabble, Puzzles, Cards Image URL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.evanced.info/Customer/mountpleasantlibrary/F08EDD9D49FB43E88E9A58F93BDE2266THUMBNAIL_2D335180.JPG

Purchase College, SUNY Men's Tennis at Yeshiva University https://www.purchasecollegeathletics.com/calendar.aspx?sport_id=8

About The Harmony Show Created during the early days of the pandemic as a web-based mode of artistic production foregrounding intellectual inquiry and community-building, The Harmony Show explores issues of personhood, desire, race, queerness, disability, and community in two modalities. The first format is a seminar in which an invited scholar presents on their work and discusses it with the program's co-hosts. The second is a cooking show, where a discussion about the same types of issues unfolds as the guest and hosts prepare a meal designed by a recipe developer who specializes in food's healing properties. As a program designed for an online environment, filming in-gallery with a live audience presents new opportunities for considering public engagement and imagining the community created by the show's dissemination. More about The Harmony Show at the Neuberger Museum of Art (.pdf) The five-day performance schedule includes: Wednesday March 29 3:00-4:30pm Cooking Show withXiomara SebastiánCastron Niculescu 5:00-6:00pm Artist Talk with Amber Hawk Swanson Thursday, March 30 1:00-2:30pm Seminar Episode with Leslie Bow Friday, March 31 2:30-4:00pm Seminar Episode with Shaka McGlotten Saturday, April 1 2:30-4:00pm Cooking Show with Shaka McGlotten Sunday, April 2 2:30-4:00pm Seminar Episode with Jillian Hernandez A note about the performance schedule The artworks in Hard Return require performers to exert themselves for long periods of time. If you arrive and find they are not present, it means they are taking a short break and will be back soon. In the meantime, feel free to enter the gallery and look around or explore the other exhibitions on view. Thanks for your patience and understanding. Over the course of nine weeks from February through May, Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment will transform the Neuberger Museum of Art into a site of collaboration, investigation, and performance art. Nine artists have been commissioned to create diverse, participatory, durational week-long projects that experiment with a sense of being alive in this moment while probing the influence of history on the present, proposing different ways of shaping and understanding community. Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment is organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, and co-curated by Purchase College faculty members Kate Gilmore, a renowned performance artist, and Jonah Westerman, an art historian who specializes in performance art. Generous financial support for this exhibition has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art, and the Purchase College Foundation. Additional support of the student participation in Hard Return has been provided by Ivan Bart & Grant Greenberg and Ava & Paul Zukowsky.

Out of an abundance of caution and in light of COVID-19 we have implemented new  safety guidelines  for our public shredder events in order to ensure the health and safety of residents and staff.Residents can bring up to 4 file-size (10”x12”x15”) boxes of confidential papers per household to Mount Kisco from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. for shredding.  Please remove all large binder clips and covers.  Papers from businesses institutions or commercial enterprises are not acceptable and will be rejected as will any junk mail or newspapers.First come first servedService at the events works on a first-come-first-served basis as the Mobile Shredder unit can reach its maximum capacity before closing time.  In extreme weather events may be cancelled or terminated early.  Important information  It is important to be aware of what you place the paper to be shredded no matches lighters or anything combustible. Staff at the events will be checking the material prior to being shredded.  Please call the county's Recycling Helpline at (914) 813-5425 to check on a cancellation or early closure.Kinds of documents to shredRemember it's best to shred documents you're no longer using that contain personal identifying information such as name address phone number credit card number or social security number. Such documents should be shredded before they are thrown out for recycling. Some examples are:expired credit card statements and receiptsold tax returns or any other personal documents containing you name address or other identifying information.pre-approved credit card applicationslicensesAs this service is gaining in popularity residents should be prepared to wait as lines are sometimes long. However the wait doesn't have to be that long. Come prepared. This means you've removed all metal clips fasteners binders folders and hard covers and placed the papers loosely in a box. Hard covers – cardboard or plastic covers on items such as ledger books marble composition books and hard-cover books – cannot be shredded and will be turned away. Residents must rip pages out from hard cover books for shredding and throw the covers in their regular household trash. Up to four boxes of papers are allowed for shredding.For more information about identity theft call the Dept. of Consumer Protection (914) 995-2155. For questions about recycling call (914) 813-5425 the Recycling Helpline.For more information about the mobile shredder visit the  Westchester County Department of Environmental Protection Mobile Shredder page.

We are pleased to offer tours of the museum and of the historic church, Monday to Friday, at the following times: 10 AM, 12 Noon, 2 PM and 4 PM.  These are reservation tours, of 45-minute duration. In the museum, the current feature exhibition is, "A Special Role: St. Paul's Church and World War II".  Other displays explore the American Revolution and the Lenape, the original inhabitants of the St. Paul's area.  In the church, visitors observe and learn about the significance of original appearance of 1787, and also gain an appreciation of the use of the edifice as a military field hospital during the Revolutionary War. Other features include the 1830 Erben, one of America's oldest working pipe organs.  Brief recitals are avilable upon request.  Please use the  https://www.recreation.gov website for advance reservations, and please arrive ten minutes before your scheduled tour time.     In addition, self-guided tours of the grounds and historic cemetery, weather and conditions permitting, are available Tuesday to Saturday, 10 AM - 4 PM.  Reservation are not required for the self guided tours of the grounds. Before visiting us, we recommend viewing our Site Orientation Video, which is available through our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/200515059970055/videos/577209182966992   

[" Whether you are applying for the first time or renewing your passport, join us at ourPassport Dayevent where staff from the Connecticut Passport Agency will be on campus to conveniently help you apply and submit your passport application. All members of the Purchase community and the public are welcome! Not only will the application process be made convenient, you can also be able to have your passport photo taken on the spot. Documents required for first time passport book or card Completed Passport Application FormDS-11 Original Birth Certificate or Naturalization Certificate (plus one photocopy) One recent Passport Photo – 2x2 Valid Photo Identification – (Driver's License, State Identification Card, Employee ID or Military ID) (plus one photocopy) Passport fees (see below) Documents required for renewing a passport book or card Completed Passport Application FromDS-82 Your most recent passport One recent Passport Photo – 2x2 Passport fees (see below) Fees for PassportBook Application for First-Time OR Renewal (MUST be paid in check/money order, NO CREDIT CARD, NO CASH) $130 for adults (age 16 & older) $100 for minors (under age 16) Fees for PassportCard Application for First-Time OR Renewal (MUST be paid in check/money order, NO CREDIT CARD, NO CASH) $30 for adults (age 16 & older) $15 for minors (under age 16) Other on-site fees (Cash, check, money order or credit card) Processing Fee $35 Passport Photo $15 See thePassport Fee tablefor additional information on optional fees Make sure toreview the U.S. Department of State's 'U.S. Passport' pageto learn about the supporting documents you need to collect prior to submitting your application, to calculate the application fee, and to review payment methods. Sponsored by theOffice for Global Education. "]

Job & Internship Fair March 29, 2023 | 11:30 AM–2:30 PM The Performing Arts Center Purchase College students and alumni will have an opportunity to meet with employer representatives who have internship, part-time, summer, and full-time job opportunities. Get your photo taken at the LinkedIn Photo Booth Dress in smart, neat attire and bring copies of your resume Bring your More Card if you're a current student Tips for the preparing for the fair and fair day! What you will leave the fair with:   New employer contacts from a wide variety of employers Follow up instructions from employers on applying and interviewing for opportunities Deeper knowledge of participating employers and their opportunities Being closer to being hired for a job or internship We thank the Westchester Parks Foundation our Premier Sponsor of the Job & Internship Fair. Co-sponsored by the Psychology Club Students and Alumni View who is currently attending and RSVP for the Fair! (Employers will register up until fair week.) Select "Attend as a Student" and log into Purchase JobScore to view and search details (positions, type of opportunities, etc.) for each participant. RSVP by selecting "Attend" on the top right of the fair page. Once you select "Attend" you can select a resume or add a new one that will be shared with employers. You should also bring copies of your resume to the fair. <strong></strong> Employer Reps: Learn more here

-Learn about different health fields- -Get involved with medicine as an undergrad- -Advice on applications to graduate & medical schools- -Networking opportunity-​

Show your school spirit and join your Student Affairs colleagues as we cheer on and support the Purchase Softball team on Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at 3pm at the Softball field. They are taking on Hunter College. You will have time to mingle with others within Student Affairs. There will be refreshments provided by Dennis Craig. Spread the word! Please make sure to RSVP.

Lets spend the afternoon making domino runs! We will learn about different patterns and then use our creativity to design runs using spirals, rolling reactions, steps and more!  Join local resident, Francesca Varga, for a fun afternoon of building! For grades K-2. *Please register for each child attending. Image URL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.evanced.info/Customer/mountpleasantlibrary/ISTOCKPHOTO861194530612X612_DE424969.JPG

As a performance artist, Amber Hawk Swanson's work has explored care, animacy, and desire in the context of queerness and disability. Her complementary scholarly interests focus on investigations of enabling objects and actions; technologized, roboticized, and transpeciated bodies and selves; animacy and animal intimacy; and worldmaking in the online forums and livestream channels that have served as the primary platforms of her work. Hawk Swanson's practice has embodied these concerns through a material and conceptual engagement with captive marine mammals, silicone Dolls, and networks of care among the community of silicone Doll-loving men known as iDollators. Recently, she has begun exploring sites of belonging and protection that simultaneously function as spaces of violent exclusion, and, along with her collaborators, Synthetiks advocate Davecat and his robotocized silicone spouse Sidore, she examines how sexual racism functions in the Doll community. Hawk Swanson has created performances for non-art venues such as a Doll community meet-up, an anonymous Doll community member's garage, and a carousel horse carving school. She has also created livestreamed and recorded performances in residency studios at Watermill, Yaddo, MacDowell, Skowhegan, Bemis, LMCC, and Sharpe-Walentas. Scholarly writing on Hawk Swanson's work has been published in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies (2012, 2015), Theatre Drama Review (2012), and Art and Architecture in the Americas (2016). Her collaborations and performances are also featured in Amber Jamilla Musser's Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (New York University Press, 2018) and Cris Beam's I Feel You: The Surprising Power of Extreme Empathy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018). Hawk Swanson has collaborated with artist Xandra Ibarra (2013), artist Jordan Lord (2015), filmmaker Renato Velarde (2011–18), Synthetiks advocate Davecat (2007–present), and the iDollator community (2005–present). Amber Hawk Swanson received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was a recipient of a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Artist Community Engagement Grant and a Franklin Furnace Fund Grant. She teaches in the sculpture department of Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI) and recently taught in the sculpture departments of Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA), Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD), and Purchase College, SUNY (Purchase, NY). Hawk Swanson was live on air as an Assistant Host/Producer on Chicago Public Radio's Vocalo (2007–08), and was a registered carousel operator in the state of New York (2014–18).

Come hear from our dynamic panelist about how to prepare for life after Purchase. You will also get to put your networking abilities to the test. You will have the opportunity to mingle and get all your individual questions answered by the panelist. Panelist include: Cathie Chester (Counseling and Behavior Health Services)  Amanda Walker (VP for Institutional Advancement/Executive Director, Purchase College Foundation and Charitable Entities) Alumni Association Executive Board Member  Real Estate Agent  Representative from First Time Homebuyers Program  Holistic Financial Advisor  This event is for senior students only. 

Professor Dellheim investigates how a small number of Jews involved in the 20th century European art world exerted enormous influence on high culture, despite the fact they were outsiders on the margins of society. They became the "Old Masters' new masters and the modernists' champions."

[" Professor Dellheim investigates how a small number of Jews involved in the 20th century European art world exerted enormous influence on high culture, despite the fact they were outsiders on the margins of society. They became the \"Old Master's new masters and the modernists' champions.\" Professor Dellheim will investigate what this reveals about Jews, art, and modernity. &", "#160; This lecture is made possible by supporters of the Jewish Studies Program, Purchase College, SUNY, and a grant from the NEH. "]

The Wednesday, March 1st session will be led by Prof. Joel Neville Anderson discussing Supermarket Woman (Juzo Itami, 1996) available via Criterion Channel.  Please note that acquiring individual Criterion or Netflix subscriptions and/or the willingness to rent individual films from streaming services such as Apple or Amazon Prime, etc. is a requirement of participation.

Ryan Kuo lives and works in New York City. His works are process-based and diagrammatic and often invoke a person or people arguing. This is not to state an argument about a thing, but to be caught in a state of argument. He has used videogame engines, chatbots, web and graphic design, productivity software, and writing to produce circuitous and unresolved movements in which objects are lost and found in white escape routes. His recent and upcoming projects include a memory engine presented as a self-playing biographical RPG, a hateful little thing whose body fills up white space out of both resentment and necessity; a computer terminal that enforces the Ninth Amendment of the Bill of Rights; an experimental comic book about farming automation, in collaboration with Most Ancient; and an artist's book about aspirational workflows, File: A User's Manual, modeled after software guides for power users.

About The Harmony Show Created during the early days of the pandemic as a web-based mode of artistic production foregrounding intellectual inquiry and community-building, The Harmony Show explores issues of personhood, desire, race, queerness, disability, and community in two modalities. The first format is a seminar in which an invited scholar presents on their work and discusses it with the program's co-hosts. The second is a cooking show, where a discussion about the same types of issues unfolds as the guest and hosts prepare a meal designed by a recipe developer who specializes in food's healing properties. As a program designed for an online environment, filming in-gallery with a live audience presents new opportunities for considering public engagement and imagining the community created by the show's dissemination. More about The Harmony Show at the Neuberger Museum of Art (.pdf) The five-day performance schedule includes: Wednesday March 29 3:00-4:30pm Cooking Show withXiomara SebastiánCastron Niculescu 5:00-6:00pm Artist Talk with Amber Hawk Swanson Thursday, March 30 1:00-2:30pm Seminar Episode with Leslie Bow Friday, March 31 2:30-4:00pm Seminar Episode with Shaka McGlotten Saturday, April 1 2:30-4:00pm Cooking Show with Shaka McGlotten Sunday, April 2 2:30-4:00pm Seminar Episode with Jillian Hernandez A note about the performance schedule The artworks in Hard Return require performers to exert themselves for long periods of time. If you arrive and find they are not present, it means they are taking a short break and will be back soon. In the meantime, feel free to enter the gallery and look around or explore the other exhibitions on view. Thanks for your patience and understanding. Over the course of nine weeks from February through May, Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment will transform the Neuberger Museum of Art into a site of collaboration, investigation, and performance art. Nine artists have been commissioned to create diverse, participatory, durational week-long projects that experiment with a sense of being alive in this moment while probing the influence of history on the present, proposing different ways of shaping and understanding community. Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment is organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, and co-curated by Purchase College faculty members Kate Gilmore, a renowned performance artist, and Jonah Westerman, an art historian who specializes in performance art. Generous financial support for this exhibition has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art, and the Purchase College Foundation. Additional support of the student participation in Hard Return has been provided by Ivan Bart & Grant Greenberg and Ava & Paul Zukowsky.

Out of an abundance of caution and in light of COVID-19 we have implemented new  safety guidelines  for our public shredder events in order to ensure the health and safety of residents and staff.Residents can bring up to 4 file-size (10”x12”x15”) boxes of confidential papers per household to Dobbs Ferry from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. for shredding.  Please remove all large binder clips and covers.  Papers from businesses institutions or commercial enterprises are not acceptable and will be rejected as will any junk mail or newspapers.First come first servedService at the events works on a first-come-first-served basis as the Mobile Shredder unit can reach its maximum capacity before closing time.  In extreme weather events may be cancelled or terminated early.  Important information  It is important to be aware of what you place the paper to be shredded no matches lighters or anything combustible. Staff at the events will be checking the material prior to being shredded.  Please call the county's Recycling Helpline at (914) 813-5425 to check on a cancellation or early closure.Kinds of documents to shredRemember it's best to shred documents you're no longer using that contain personal identifying information such as name address phone number credit card number or social security number. Such documents should be shredded before they are thrown out for recycling. Some examples are:expired credit card statements and receiptsold tax returns or any other personal documents containing you name address or other identifying information.pre-approved credit card applicationslicensesAs this service is gaining in popularity residents should be prepared to wait as lines are sometimes long. However the wait doesn't have to be that long. Come prepared. This means you've removed all metal clips fasteners binders folders and hard covers and placed the papers loosely in a box. Hard covers – cardboard or plastic covers on items such as ledger books marble composition books and hard-cover books – cannot be shredded and will be turned away. Residents must rip pages out from hard cover books for shredding and throw the covers in their regular household trash. Up to four boxes of papers are allowed for shredding.For more information about identity theft call the Dept. of Consumer Protection (914) 995-2155. For questions about recycling call (914) 813-5425 the Recycling Helpline.For more information about the mobile shredder visit the  Westchester County Department of Environmental Protection Mobile Shredder page.

We are pleased to offer tours of the museum and of the historic church, Monday to Friday, at the following times: 10 AM, 12 Noon, 2 PM and 4 PM.  These are reservation tours, of 45-minute duration. In the museum, the current feature exhibition is, "A Special Role: St. Paul's Church and World War II".  Other displays explore the American Revolution and the Lenape, the original inhabitants of the St. Paul's area.  In the church, visitors observe and learn about the significance of original appearance of 1787, and also gain an appreciation of the use of the edifice as a military field hospital during the Revolutionary War. Other features include the 1830 Erben, one of America's oldest working pipe organs.  Brief recitals are avilable upon request.  Please use the  https://www.recreation.gov website for advance reservations, and please arrive ten minutes before your scheduled tour time.     In addition, self-guided tours of the grounds and historic cemetery, weather and conditions permitting, are available Tuesday to Saturday, 10 AM - 4 PM.  Reservation are not required for the self guided tours of the grounds. Before visiting us, we recommend viewing our Site Orientation Video, which is available through our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/200515059970055/videos/577209182966992   

For this tax season AARP Tax-Aide will again be working in coordination with the Mount Pleasant Library to provide tax preparation services.  We will be operating  in an Appointment Only manner again this year. In order to participate, this year’s taxpayers will first have to pick up an instruction & information packet from the library.  These will include forms and instructions on what taxpayers must do first and how they will set up their appointments.  These packets will be available at the Mount Pleasant Main Library Reference desk, and the Branch Library, starting Tuesday January 24th.  In person appointments will begin Thursday February 2nd. If you have any questions please call the MPL Tax-Aide contact line at 914-340-3578

Embark on a challenging journey teeming with friends and foes revealing the unusual relationship between caterpillars, butterflies and their natural surroundings. Adventure through the leaves, learn how to move like a caterpillar, discover an ant that reaps the reward of an unusual friendship, then transform into a butterfly and take flight! Together, families will explore this interactive experience and learn the surprising challenges butterflies face every day. Become a caterpillar and find your way through a secret, wild world. As you navigate the terrain filled with challenges around every twist and turn, take on puzzles, games and exciting interactivities. The brave can even take to the air and soar down the butterfly zip slide. Admission: $12.50. Visit LasdonPark.org for more details and to buy tickets. Tickets are available now through May 7. Tickets are sold online with scheduled viewing times. Amazing Butterflies will be open rain or shine.

Purchase College, SUNY Men's Tennis vs Western Connecticut State University https://www.purchasecollegeathletics.com/calendar.aspx?sport_id=8

Register in advance for these lectures.  After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing a Zoom link and the meeting ID and password. A Purchase College login is required to register. Activate your Purchase account. A Purchase Zoom account is required to join the meeting.Activate your Purchase Zoom account – login with your Purchase College username and password and an account will be created. Go to the join tab (at the top) and enter the meeting ID you receive after registering. CTS can assist via Zoom Chat or by dialing (646) 876-9923; Meeting ID: 914 251 6465. Exploring the Female Voice Lecture 4 is a continuation of Lecture 3. It provides more in- depth discussion of Sufism and its evolution over the centuries with its merger with Islam. Dr. Abbas, thorough video performances at the Sufi shrines in Pakistan and India traces the elitist forms of Sufi repertoire in Persian and Arabic. Such performances were confined only to those initiated in the esoteric practices of Sufi ritual. ISama of spiritual context, as it is called, was confined to only male musicians and male audiences with no female performers or audiences. Dr. Abbas then takes her audience to the marketplace of other Sufi shrines where both women and men are performers and audiences. And, it is here that the majority of illiterate audiences learn to recite Sufi poetry from sheer memory. They are groomed in the oral culture through text and music. The remaining lectures are as follows: Thursday, April 13 at 5 p.m. "Beyond the Stars": Sufi Music in Exile An international performance Thursday, April 27 at 5 p.m. "The Last Letter" and "The Wedding Guest" Episodes from a memoir Professor Abbas is the author of Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws: from Islamic Empires to the Taliban (University of Texas Press, 2013) and The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual: Devotional Practices of Pakistan and India, (University of Texas Press, 2002 ;Oxford University Press, 2003). Her research is on Islamic law and women's rituals in Islamic societies. Difficulties activating your credentials or having other technical issues? CTS Video Chat Tech Support through Zoom. You may also dial 1 646 876-9923 Meeting ID: 914 251 6465

Lydia Conklin is the author of the story collection Rainbow Rainbow, named a best book of the year by NPR, a Debutiful Best Book of the Year, and a Publishers Weekly Best Summer Read. They have received a Stegner Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, three Pushcart Prizes, a Creative Writing Fulbright in Poland, and fellowships from Emory, MacDowell, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and Djerassi, among other awards. Their fiction has appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, and The Paris Review. They have drawn comics for The New Yorker,The Believer, Lenny Letter, and elsewhere. Previously the Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Fiction at the University of Michigan, they currently serve as an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Vanderbilt University.

Lydia Conklin is the author of the story collection Rainbow Rainbow, named a best book of the year by NPR, a Debutiful Best Book of the Year, and a Publishers Weekly Best Summer Read. They have received a Stegner Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, three Pushcart Prizes, a Creative Writing Fulbright in Poland, and fellowships from Emory, MacDowell, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and Djerassi, among other awards. Their fiction has appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, and The Paris Review. They have drawn comics for The New Yorker,The Believer, Lenny Letter, and elsewhere. Previously the Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Fiction at the University of Michigan, they currently serve as an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Vanderbilt University.

["Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and observed as a month of fasting, prayer, and reflection. For Muslims, the goal of this month is to reflect on what they are grateful for and to take the time to appreciate the things they take for granted.&", "#160; We are inviting all Purchase students to take part in our first annual sundown feast to celebrate the month of Ramadan and offer you some time to reflect on what you're grateful for.  Expect good music, good vibes, and GOOD food (duh)! Hosted by: American-Muslim Club Additional Information can be found at: https://purchase.campuslabs.com/engage/event/8960072"]

Do you have a talent you would like to share? Come out to the Library for our Open Mic with a poem, some music, short story, comedy, dance, or any other talent.  Or please come just to listen.  There will be a 6 minute maximum for each participant. Please register and specify what you will be sharing.  Registration is NOT necessary for spectators. Amp and mic provided. Image URL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.evanced.info/Customer/mountpleasantlibrary/DOWNLOAD_(1)_9693F6B2.JPG

The Purchase Opera Jacque Trussel, Director Hugh Murphy, Conductor Die Zauberflöte, K.620 Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder To Attend in Person Prior to attending please check the Purchase College Covid-19 policy and the Performing Arts Center Health and Safety Protocols for the most up to date information.  Individuals requiring accommodations for equal access to this event should contact The Performing Arts Center Box Office by email center@purchase.edu or phone 914-251-6200, a minimum of 5 business days prior to the event.

About The Harmony Show Created during the early days of the pandemic as a web-based mode of artistic production foregrounding intellectual inquiry and community-building, The Harmony Show explores issues of personhood, desire, race, queerness, disability, and community in two modalities. The first format is a seminar in which an invited scholar presents on their work and discusses it with the program's co-hosts. The second is a cooking show, where a discussion about the same types of issues unfolds as the guest and hosts prepare a meal designed by a recipe developer who specializes in food's healing properties. As a program designed for an online environment, filming in-gallery with a live audience presents new opportunities for considering public engagement and imagining the community created by the show's dissemination. More about The Harmony Show at the Neuberger Museum of Art (.pdf) The five-day performance schedule includes: Wednesday March 29 3:00-4:30pm Cooking Show withXiomara SebastiánCastron Niculescu 5:00-6:00pm Artist Talk with Amber Hawk Swanson Thursday, March 30 1:00-2:30pm Seminar Episode with Leslie Bow Friday, March 31 2:30-4:00pm Seminar Episode with Shaka McGlotten Saturday, April 1 2:30-4:00pm Cooking Show with Shaka McGlotten Sunday, April 2 2:30-4:00pm Seminar Episode with Jillian Hernandez A note about the performance schedule The artworks in Hard Return require performers to exert themselves for long periods of time. If you arrive and find they are not present, it means they are taking a short break and will be back soon. In the meantime, feel free to enter the gallery and look around or explore the other exhibitions on view. Thanks for your patience and understanding. Over the course of nine weeks from February through May, Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment will transform the Neuberger Museum of Art into a site of collaboration, investigation, and performance art. Nine artists have been commissioned to create diverse, participatory, durational week-long projects that experiment with a sense of being alive in this moment while probing the influence of history on the present, proposing different ways of shaping and understanding community. Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment is organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, and co-curated by Purchase College faculty members Kate Gilmore, a renowned performance artist, and Jonah Westerman, an art historian who specializes in performance art. Generous financial support for this exhibition has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art, and the Purchase College Foundation. Additional support of the student participation in Hard Return has been provided by Ivan Bart & Grant Greenberg and Ava & Paul Zukowsky.

The Mall Walking Club meets every Tuesday and Friday. It’s a great way to enjoy the benefits of walking no matter what the weather is outdoors. One loop is about a half-mile (or 1 000 steps). To join sign up at the horse fountain on Retail Level 2 (between Crate & Barrel and Urban Outfitters) on Tuesday and Friday mornings during the program. Admission is free. Parking is free* for all registered members of the Mall Walk program from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Tuesdays and from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Fridays. *All participants are required to sign a waiver even if they have already participated. For more information call (914) 231-4645.

We are pleased to offer tours of the museum and of the historic church, Monday to Friday, at the following times: 10 AM, 12 Noon, 2 PM and 4 PM.  These are reservation tours, of 45-minute duration. In the museum, the current feature exhibition is, "A Special Role: St. Paul's Church and World War II".  Other displays explore the American Revolution and the Lenape, the original inhabitants of the St. Paul's area.  In the church, visitors observe and learn about the significance of original appearance of 1787, and also gain an appreciation of the use of the edifice as a military field hospital during the Revolutionary War. Other features include the 1830 Erben, one of America's oldest working pipe organs.  Brief recitals are avilable upon request.  Please use the  https://www.recreation.gov website for advance reservations, and please arrive ten minutes before your scheduled tour time.     In addition, self-guided tours of the grounds and historic cemetery, weather and conditions permitting, are available Tuesday to Saturday, 10 AM - 4 PM.  Reservation are not required for the self guided tours of the grounds. Before visiting us, we recommend viewing our Site Orientation Video, which is available through our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/200515059970055/videos/577209182966992   

Come with your child to make a new animal friend every week! Your child will pet and learn about an animal friend for 45 minutes, followed by 45 minutes of self-directed play. We will provide coloring books and animal crackers. This is not a drop off program. All children must be accompanied by a guardian. Register here: https://westmorelandsanctuary.org/mommy-and-me/

Embark on a challenging journey teeming with friends and foes revealing the unusual relationship between caterpillars, butterflies and their natural surroundings. Adventure through the leaves, learn how to move like a caterpillar, discover an ant that reaps the reward of an unusual friendship, then transform into a butterfly and take flight! Together, families will explore this interactive experience and learn the surprising challenges butterflies face every day. Become a caterpillar and find your way through a secret, wild world. As you navigate the terrain filled with challenges around every twist and turn, take on puzzles, games and exciting interactivities. The brave can even take to the air and soar down the butterfly zip slide. Admission: $12.50. Visit LasdonPark.org for more details and to buy tickets. Tickets are available now through May 7. Tickets are sold online with scheduled viewing times. Amazing Butterflies will be open rain or shine.

Come with your child to make a new animal friend every week! Your child will pet and learn about an animal friend for 45 minutes, followed by 45 minutes of self-directed play. We will provide coloring books and animal crackers. This is not a drop off program. All children must be accompanied by a guardian. Register here: https://westmorelandsanctuary.org/mommy-and-me/

To Attend In Person: Please refer to the campus website for the most up to date Covid-19 policy. Individuals requiring accommodations for equal access to this event should contact the Conservatory of Music a minimum of 5 business days prior to the event.

Do you like chess? Come learn the fundamentals of good chess play through the study of strategy and tactics! This will be facilitated through guided instruction and supervised play by our chess instructor, John Gallagher. For children in grades 1-4. *Please register for each child attending. Image URL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.evanced.info/Customer/mountpleasantlibrary/CHESSBOARDANDPIECES_AE27708B.PNG

The homes of Muscoot Farm's animals are all decked out for the holidays and  open for seasonal viewing. Purchase tickets here:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/holiday-lights-on-the-farm-tickets-465877601447 Also: Dec. 3 9 10 16 17.

After her mother goes missing, a young woman tries to find her from home, using tools available to her online.

3/3    Activities Night: vision boards, scrap booking, coloring, and microscope exploration 3/10  Sex Ed 202-Beyond the Basics: In collaboration with Planned Parenthood 3/31  Movie Night 4/7    TBD 4/14  TBD

Organization: STUDENT LIFE Event Locator: 2022-AAGRRX The Iona Players return with a production of “Cabaret” for their spring musical, taking the stage on March 31 and April 1, 2023. This production is sure to excite and dare viewers to examine human nature and the culture surrounding them.   OVERVIEW Cabaret is a musical that takes place in the Kit Kat Klub, a cabaret in Berlin amidst the backdrop of the Nazi Party’s steady rise to power. The play contains antisemitism and Nazi imagery.   Set against the tumult and sheer chaos of Germany’s 1929 Berlin, the alluring emcee invites all to engage in willful ignorance and revel in the lustful delights inside the legendary Kit Kat Club. “Here…life is beautiful.” With hedonistic abandon, these riveting characters live life as a carnival of debauchery and despair. Winning Tony Awards for Best Musical for the 1966 Broadway premiere and for Best Revival of a Musical in 1998, this provocative and challenging style of storytelling packs a potent punch on the dangers of mass indifference in the face of injustice and atrocities and asks audiences to either act now or say “so what?”   DETAILS Murphy Auditorium, Iona University March 31 @ 7 p.m., and April 1 @ 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. TICKETS – General Admission: $10 Iona University Students, Faculty, and Staff are able to access one (1) complimentary ticket for one of the shows additional tickets will be available at the door for 45 minutes before showtime.   AUDIENCE STATEMENT OF EMPOWERMENT The Iona Players recognize that art can provoke; therefore, during the course of this performance, patrons are empowered to leave if themes or situations make them uncomfortable. AUDIENCE ADVISORY This production contains sexually explicit themes/content, violence, and depictions of anti-Semitism; viewer discretion is advised.   RATED PG-13

The Purchase Opera Jacque Trussel, Director Hugh Murphy, Conductor Die Zauberflöte, K.620 Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder To Attend in Person Prior to attending please check the Purchase College Covid-19 policy and the Performing Arts Center Health and Safety Protocols for the most up to date information. Individuals requiring accommodations for equal access to this event should contact The Performing Arts Center Box Office by email center@purchase.edu or phone 914-251-6200, a minimum of 5 business days prior to the event.

COVID-19 policies are constantly evolving, so please check our page regarding COVID-19 updates and plans for current guidelines and requirements.

Arc Stages to present Peter and the Starcatcher March 24 - April 1. This tale is a coming-of-age adventure story about how a nameless orphan -- inspired by a remarkable and ambitious girl -- became the strange and celebrated hero that is the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. Performances will be held at Arc Stages, located at 147 Wheeler Avenue in Pleasantville, NY. To purchase tickets, please visit www.arcstages.org or call 914-747-6206.

Link to the calendar with original event: https://www.mtplcsd.org:443/calendar?groupId=dgINO0MbiEWFVJ0px1BsrsqMuwUqkr0c0HhKPWdvJxk1

About The Harmony Show Created during the early days of the pandemic as a web-based mode of artistic production foregrounding intellectual inquiry and community-building, The Harmony Show explores issues of personhood, desire, race, queerness, disability, and community in two modalities. The first format is a seminar in which an invited scholar presents on their work and discusses it with the program's co-hosts. The second is a cooking show, where a discussion about the same types of issues unfolds as the guest and hosts prepare a meal designed by a recipe developer who specializes in food's healing properties. As a program designed for an online environment, filming in-gallery with a live audience presents new opportunities for considering public engagement and imagining the community created by the show's dissemination. More about The Harmony Show at the Neuberger Museum of Art (.pdf) The five-day performance schedule includes: Wednesday March 29 3:00-4:30pm Cooking Show withXiomara SebastiánCastron Niculescu 5:00-6:00pm Artist Talk with Amber Hawk Swanson Thursday, March 30 1:00-2:30pm Seminar Episode with Leslie Bow Friday, March 31 2:30-4:00pm Seminar Episode with Shaka McGlotten Saturday, April 1 2:30-4:00pm Cooking Show with Shaka McGlotten Sunday, April 2 2:30-4:00pm Seminar Episode with Jillian Hernandez A note about the performance schedule The artworks in Hard Return require performers to exert themselves for long periods of time. If you arrive and find they are not present, it means they are taking a short break and will be back soon. In the meantime, feel free to enter the gallery and look around or explore the other exhibitions on view. Thanks for your patience and understanding. Over the course of nine weeks from February through May, Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment will transform the Neuberger Museum of Art into a site of collaboration, investigation, and performance art. Nine artists have been commissioned to create diverse, participatory, durational week-long projects that experiment with a sense of being alive in this moment while probing the influence of history on the present, proposing different ways of shaping and understanding community. Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment is organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, and co-curated by Purchase College faculty members Kate Gilmore, a renowned performance artist, and Jonah Westerman, an art historian who specializes in performance art. Generous financial support for this exhibition has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art, and the Purchase College Foundation. Additional support of the student participation in Hard Return has been provided by Ivan Bart & Grant Greenberg and Ava & Paul Zukowsky.

Join the village historian and the park naturalist to stretch your legs and learn about the nature and history of Croton Point. Meet at the entrance to the RV Park.For ages 6 and up of moderate difficulty wear sturdy shoes. Also: April 15.

Stretch your legs and learn about history and nature at Croton Point Park. Meet at entrance to RV Park. Ages 6 and up, moderate difficulty, wear sturdy shoes.

Out of an abundance of caution and in light of COVID-19 we have implemented new  safety guidelines  for our public shredder events in order to ensure the health and safety of residents and staff.Residents can bring up to 4 file-size (10”x12”x15”) boxes of confidential papers per household to Montrose from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. for shredding.  Please remove all large binder clips and covers.  Papers from businesses institutions or commercial enterprises are not acceptable and will be rejected as will any junk mail or newspapers.First come first servedService at the events works on a first-come-first-served basis as the Mobile Shredder unit can reach its maximum capacity before closing time.  In extreme weather events may be cancelled or terminated early.  Important information  It is important to be aware of what you place the paper to be shredded no matches lighters or anything combustible. Staff at the events will be checking the material prior to being shredded.  Please call the county's Recycling Helpline at (914) 813-5425 to check on a cancellation or early closure.Kinds of documents to shredRemember it's best to shred documents you're no longer using that contain personal identifying information such as name address phone number credit card number or social security number. Such documents should be shredded before they are thrown out for recycling. Some examples are:expired credit card statements and receiptsold tax returns or any other personal documents containing you name address or other identifying information.pre-approved credit card applicationslicensesAs this service is gaining in popularity residents should be prepared to wait as lines are sometimes long. However the wait doesn't have to be that long. Come prepared. This means you've removed all metal clips fasteners binders folders and hard covers and placed the papers loosely in a box. Hard covers – cardboard or plastic covers on items such as ledger books marble composition books and hard-cover books – cannot be shredded and will be turned away. Residents must rip pages out from hard cover books for shredding and throw the covers in their regular household trash. Up to four boxes of papers are allowed for shredding.For more information about identity theft call the Dept. of Consumer Protection (914) 995-2155. For questions about recycling call (914) 813-5425 the Recycling Helpline.For more information about the mobile shredder visit the  Westchester County Department of Environmental Protection Mobile Shredder page.

Join us and find out if the early birds are actually catching the worms! Meet by the nature center. Led by Chris Mignone of Central Westchester Audubon. 

Come join the Outdoors Club for our big hike at Bear Mountain! Transportation to and from the hike will be provided. Hosted by: Outdoors Club Additional Information can be found at: https://purchase.campuslabs.com/engage/event/8946358

Embark on a challenging journey teeming with friends and foes revealing the unusual relationship between caterpillars, butterflies and their natural surroundings. Adventure through the leaves, learn how to move like a caterpillar, discover an ant that reaps the reward of an unusual friendship, then transform into a butterfly and take flight! Together, families will explore this interactive experience and learn the surprising challenges butterflies face every day. Become a caterpillar and find your way through a secret, wild world. As you navigate the terrain filled with challenges around every twist and turn, take on puzzles, games and exciting interactivities. The brave can even take to the air and soar down the butterfly zip slide. Admission: $12.50. Visit LasdonPark.org for more details and to buy tickets. Tickets are available now through May 7. Tickets are sold online with scheduled viewing times. Amazing Butterflies will be open rain or shine.

Purchase College, SUNY Men's Tennis vs Farmingdale State College https://www.purchasecollegeathletics.com/calendar.aspx?sport_id=8

Due to ongoing capital projects Croton Point Park Beach will be open only on Saturdays and Sundays and on Sept. 5. Admission is free parking fees apply no admittance after 6 p.m.

Join Professor Anthony Domestico and other Literature faculty as they travel to Princeton University to see the exhibit of Toni Morrison's manuscripts. The exhibit includes her day to day planners that were from around the time she taught at Purchase College. 

Find out how the flora and fauna of the park awaken from their winter slumber and react to the changing of the seasons. 

Have you ever wondered how to use the iNaturalist app? Learn about all the features and get hands-on experience identifying our plants! All ages. Indoor/outdoor program.

Learn how trees, birds, animals instinctively cope and coexist during the Springtime.

Water water all around…. Why is it so important? Learn about and test for water quality and explore the journey of a droplet. 

Organization: STUDENT LIFE Event Locator: 2022-AAGRRX The Iona Players return with a production of “Cabaret” for their spring musical, taking the stage on March 31 and April 1, 2023. This production is sure to excite and dare viewers to examine human nature and the culture surrounding them.   OVERVIEW Cabaret is a musical that takes place in the Kit Kat Klub, a cabaret in Berlin amidst the backdrop of the Nazi Party’s steady rise to power. The play contains antisemitism and Nazi imagery.   Set against the tumult and sheer chaos of Germany’s 1929 Berlin, the alluring emcee invites all to engage in willful ignorance and revel in the lustful delights inside the legendary Kit Kat Club. “Here…life is beautiful.” With hedonistic abandon, these riveting characters live life as a carnival of debauchery and despair. Winning Tony Awards for Best Musical for the 1966 Broadway premiere and for Best Revival of a Musical in 1998, this provocative and challenging style of storytelling packs a potent punch on the dangers of mass indifference in the face of injustice and atrocities and asks audiences to either act now or say “so what?”   DETAILS Murphy Auditorium, Iona University March 31 @ 7 p.m., and April 1 @ 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. TICKETS – General Admission: $10 Iona University Students, Faculty, and Staff are able to access one (1) complimentary ticket for one of the shows additional tickets will be available at the door for 45 minutes before showtime.   AUDIENCE STATEMENT OF EMPOWERMENT The Iona Players recognize that art can provoke; therefore, during the course of this performance, patrons are empowered to leave if themes or situations make them uncomfortable. AUDIENCE ADVISORY This production contains sexually explicit themes/content, violence, and depictions of anti-Semitism; viewer discretion is advised.   RATED PG-13

The homes of Muscoot Farm's animals are all decked out for the holidays and  open for seasonal viewing. Purchase tickets here:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/holiday-lights-on-the-farm-tickets-465877601447 Also: Dec. 3 9 10 16 17.

Organization: STUDENT LIFE Event Locator: 2022-AAGRRX The Iona Players return with a production of “Cabaret” for their spring musical, taking the stage on March 31 and April 1, 2023. This production is sure to excite and dare viewers to examine human nature and the culture surrounding them.   OVERVIEW Cabaret is a musical that takes place in the Kit Kat Klub, a cabaret in Berlin amidst the backdrop of the Nazi Party’s steady rise to power. The play contains antisemitism and Nazi imagery.   Set against the tumult and sheer chaos of Germany’s 1929 Berlin, the alluring emcee invites all to engage in willful ignorance and revel in the lustful delights inside the legendary Kit Kat Club. “Here…life is beautiful.” With hedonistic abandon, these riveting characters live life as a carnival of debauchery and despair. Winning Tony Awards for Best Musical for the 1966 Broadway premiere and for Best Revival of a Musical in 1998, this provocative and challenging style of storytelling packs a potent punch on the dangers of mass indifference in the face of injustice and atrocities and asks audiences to either act now or say “so what?”   DETAILS Murphy Auditorium, Iona University March 31 @ 7 p.m., and April 1 @ 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. TICKETS – General Admission: $10 Iona University Students, Faculty, and Staff are able to access one (1) complimentary ticket for one of the shows additional tickets will be available at the door for 45 minutes before showtime.   AUDIENCE STATEMENT OF EMPOWERMENT The Iona Players recognize that art can provoke; therefore, during the course of this performance, patrons are empowered to leave if themes or situations make them uncomfortable. AUDIENCE ADVISORY This production contains sexually explicit themes/content, violence, and depictions of anti-Semitism; viewer discretion is advised.   RATED PG-13

The Purchase Opera Jacque Trussel, Director Hugh Murphy, Conductor Die Zauberflöte, K.620 Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder To Attend in Person Prior to attending please check the Purchase College Covid-19 policy and the Performing Arts Center Health and Safety Protocols for the most up to date information. Individuals requiring accommodations for equal access to this event should contact The Performing Arts Center Box Office by email center@purchase.edu or phone 914-251-6200, a minimum of 5 business days prior to the event.

COVID-19 policies are constantly evolving, so please check our page regarding COVID-19 updates and plans for current guidelines and requirements.

Arc Stages to present Peter and the Starcatcher March 24 - April 1. This tale is a coming-of-age adventure story about how a nameless orphan -- inspired by a remarkable and ambitious girl -- became the strange and celebrated hero that is the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. Performances will be held at Arc Stages, located at 147 Wheeler Avenue in Pleasantville, NY. To purchase tickets, please visit www.arcstages.org or call 914-747-6206.

About The Harmony Show Created during the early days of the pandemic as a web-based mode of artistic production foregrounding intellectual inquiry and community-building, The Harmony Show explores issues of personhood, desire, race, queerness, disability, and community in two modalities. The first format is a seminar in which an invited scholar presents on their work and discusses it with the program's co-hosts. The second is a cooking show, where a discussion about the same types of issues unfolds as the guest and hosts prepare a meal designed by a recipe developer who specializes in food's healing properties. As a program designed for an online environment, filming in-gallery with a live audience presents new opportunities for considering public engagement and imagining the community created by the show's dissemination. More about The Harmony Show at the Neuberger Museum of Art (.pdf) The five-day performance schedule includes: Wednesday March 29 3:00-4:30pm Cooking Show withXiomara SebastiánCastron Niculescu 5:00-6:00pm Artist Talk with Amber Hawk Swanson Thursday, March 30 1:00-2:30pm Seminar Episode with Leslie Bow Friday, March 31 2:30-4:00pm Seminar Episode with Shaka McGlotten Saturday, April 1 2:30-4:00pm Cooking Show with Shaka McGlotten Sunday, April 2 2:30-4:00pm Seminar Episode with Jillian Hernandez A note about the performance schedule The artworks in Hard Return require performers to exert themselves for long periods of time. If you arrive and find they are not present, it means they are taking a short break and will be back soon. In the meantime, feel free to enter the gallery and look around or explore the other exhibitions on view. Thanks for your patience and understanding. Over the course of nine weeks from February through May, Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment will transform the Neuberger Museum of Art into a site of collaboration, investigation, and performance art. Nine artists have been commissioned to create diverse, participatory, durational week-long projects that experiment with a sense of being alive in this moment while probing the influence of history on the present, proposing different ways of shaping and understanding community. Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment is organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, and co-curated by Purchase College faculty members Kate Gilmore, a renowned performance artist, and Jonah Westerman, an art historian who specializes in performance art. Generous financial support for this exhibition has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art, and the Purchase College Foundation. Additional support of the student participation in Hard Return has been provided by Ivan Bart & Grant Greenberg and Ava & Paul Zukowsky.

Muscoot's weekly farmers market supports farmers and sustainable efforts in our area featuring more than 20 local vendors each week every Sunday until November 19.

Bike jog ride walk or skate the parkway from the Westchester County Center in White Plains to Scarsdale Road in Yonkers. Bicycle Sundays have been a beloved Westchester tradition since 1974. More than 60 000 participants each year bike walk and jog a 13.1-mile loop of the Bronx River Parkway from White Plains to Yonkers.Unauthorized motor vehicles including electric bikes and scooters are not permitted  on the Bronx River Parkway and the Bronx River Pathway.Also: July 17 24 31 Sept. 11 18 and 25 Oct. 2.

Embark on a challenging journey teeming with friends and foes revealing the unusual relationship between caterpillars, butterflies and their natural surroundings. Adventure through the leaves, learn how to move like a caterpillar, discover an ant that reaps the reward of an unusual friendship, then transform into a butterfly and take flight! Together, families will explore this interactive experience and learn the surprising challenges butterflies face every day. Become a caterpillar and find your way through a secret, wild world. As you navigate the terrain filled with challenges around every twist and turn, take on puzzles, games and exciting interactivities. The brave can even take to the air and soar down the butterfly zip slide. Admission: $12.50. Visit LasdonPark.org for more details and to buy tickets. Tickets are available now through May 7. Tickets are sold online with scheduled viewing times. Amazing Butterflies will be open rain or shine.

Join our Nature Center Staff to learn essential survival skills and proper shelter-building techniques. Also: May 21.

Due to ongoing capital projects Croton Point Park Beach will be open only on Saturdays and Sundays and on Sept. 5. Admission is free parking fees apply no admittance after 6 p.m.

The Purchase Opera Jacque Trussel, Director Hugh Murphy, Conductor Die Zauberflöte, K.620 Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder To Attend in Person Prior to attending please check the Purchase College Covid-19 policy and the Performing Arts Center Health and Safety Protocols for the most up to date information. Individuals requiring accommodations for equal access to this event should contact The Performing Arts Center Box Office by email center@purchase.edu or phone 914-251-6200, a minimum of 5 business days prior to the event.

Learn Mahjongg with Regina Klenosky.  All materials will be provided. This is a 6 week course.  Please sign up to reserve your space. Sponsored by the Mount Pleasant Public Library.

Canasta players are invited to join our friendly and inclusive group, in person, at the Library.   The Library will provide one Canasta set.  Please bring your own cards and tray if you have them! Please contact Cindy Goldman at (914) 261-4353 or cgoldman1001@gmail.com for more information. Image URL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.evanced.info/Customer/mountpleasantlibrary/EN_CANASTA_NATURLICHEKARTEN_640X640_V2_B79F971C.JPG

Learn Mahjongg with Regina Klenosky.  All materials will be provided. This is a 6 week course.  Please sign up to reserve your space. Sponsored by the Mount Pleasant Public Library.

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All students must see their advisor to receive the PIN for registration. Be sure to clear any holds you might have prior to registration!

Come to the farm for an early-morning bird walk with Anne Swaim of Saw Mill River Audubon. Wear sturdy shoes and bring binoculars. The walk leaves from the parking lot. While this guided walk is free registration is required   www.sawmillriveraudubon.org. Also: May 13 and May 20.

We are pleased to offer tours of the museum and of the historic church, Monday to Friday, at the following times: 10 AM, 12 Noon, 2 PM and 4 PM.  These are reservation tours, of 45-minute duration. In the museum, the current feature exhibition is, "A Special Role: St. Paul's Church and World War II".  Other displays explore the American Revolution and the Lenape, the original inhabitants of the St. Paul's area.  In the church, visitors observe and learn about the significance of original appearance of 1787, and also gain an appreciation of the use of the edifice as a military field hospital during the Revolutionary War. Other features include the 1830 Erben, one of America's oldest working pipe organs.  Brief recitals are avilable upon request.  Please use the  https://www.recreation.gov website for advance reservations, and please arrive ten minutes before your scheduled tour time.     In addition, self-guided tours of the grounds and historic cemetery, weather and conditions permitting, are available Tuesday to Saturday, 10 AM - 4 PM.  Reservation are not required for the self guided tours of the grounds. Before visiting us, we recommend viewing our Site Orientation Video, which is available through our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/200515059970055/videos/577209182966992   

Spring is here and there is a lot to do on the farm. While many hands make light work, little hands are the best. This program introduces young children to the idea of community service through simple projects on the farm. Registration is required at muscootfarm.org. There’s a maximum of 10 children and 10 caregivers. Also: June 13, 20.

Embark on a challenging journey teeming with friends and foes revealing the unusual relationship between caterpillars, butterflies and their natural surroundings. Adventure through the leaves, learn how to move like a caterpillar, discover an ant that reaps the reward of an unusual friendship, then transform into a butterfly and take flight! Together, families will explore this interactive experience and learn the surprising challenges butterflies face every day. Become a caterpillar and find your way through a secret, wild world. As you navigate the terrain filled with challenges around every twist and turn, take on puzzles, games and exciting interactivities. The brave can even take to the air and soar down the butterfly zip slide. Admission: $12.50. Visit LasdonPark.org for more details and to buy tickets. Tickets are available now through May 7. Tickets are sold online with scheduled viewing times. Amazing Butterflies will be open rain or shine.

Purchase College, SUNY Men's Tennis at Lehman College https://www.purchasecollegeathletics.com/calendar.aspx?sport_id=8

Susan Choi is the author of five novels, including American Woman (2004), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; My Education (2014), which won a Lammy Award; and, most recently, Trust Exercise, winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction and named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Time, and the Los Angeles Times, among many other publications. In 2010, Choi was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award. She studied literature at Yale and writing at Cornell, and worked for several years as a fact-checker for The New Yorker. She teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Brooklyn.

Susan Choi is the author of five novels, including American Woman (2004), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; My Education (2014), which won a Lammy Award; and, most recently, Trust Exercise, winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction and named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Time, and the Los Angeles Times, among many other publications. In 2010, Choi was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W. G. Sebald Award. She studied literature at Yale and writing at Cornell, and worked for several years as a fact-checker for The New Yorker. She teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Brooklyn.

Free, Open Play, Mahjongg Nights Please Note: There will be no instruction and you must bring your own current Mahjongg card.  You may come with your own group of 4 or be matched up with other single players.  Please bring a Mahjongg set if you have one.   Please contact Karen Pennington for more information: penningtonkaren@icloud.com

All students must see their advisor to receive the PIN for registration. Be sure to clear any holds you might have prior to registration!

The Mall Walking Club meets every Tuesday and Friday. It’s a great way to enjoy the benefits of walking no matter what the weather is outdoors. One loop is about a half-mile (or 1 000 steps). To join sign up at the horse fountain on Retail Level 2 (between Crate & Barrel and Urban Outfitters) on Tuesday and Friday mornings during the program. Admission is free. Parking is free* for all registered members of the Mall Walk program from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Tuesdays and from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Fridays. *All participants are required to sign a waiver even if they have already participated. For more information call (914) 231-4645.

Looking for something to do with your 3-5 year old? Bring them to the farm for a fun morning of stories crafts animal and nature activities and more! Please meet at Muscoot’s Activity Building $10 for a child and caregiver.

We are pleased to offer tours of the museum and of the historic church, Monday to Friday, at the following times: 10 AM, 12 Noon, 2 PM and 4 PM.  These are reservation tours, of 45-minute duration. In the museum, the current feature exhibition is, "A Special Role: St. Paul's Church and World War II".  Other displays explore the American Revolution and the Lenape, the original inhabitants of the St. Paul's area.  In the church, visitors observe and learn about the significance of original appearance of 1787, and also gain an appreciation of the use of the edifice as a military field hospital during the Revolutionary War. Other features include the 1830 Erben, one of America's oldest working pipe organs.  Brief recitals are avilable upon request.  Please use the  https://www.recreation.gov website for advance reservations, and please arrive ten minutes before your scheduled tour time.     In addition, self-guided tours of the grounds and historic cemetery, weather and conditions permitting, are available Tuesday to Saturday, 10 AM - 4 PM.  Reservation are not required for the self guided tours of the grounds. Before visiting us, we recommend viewing our Site Orientation Video, which is available through our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/200515059970055/videos/577209182966992   

This event is for ages 2 through 5. Children and their caregivers learn farm skills such as making bread, butter, candles and soap. The cost is $20 per child and caregiver. There’s a maximum of five children and five caregivers. Also: June 14, 21 and 28.

Embark on a challenging journey teeming with friends and foes revealing the unusual relationship between caterpillars, butterflies and their natural surroundings. Adventure through the leaves, learn how to move like a caterpillar, discover an ant that reaps the reward of an unusual friendship, then transform into a butterfly and take flight! Together, families will explore this interactive experience and learn the surprising challenges butterflies face every day. Become a caterpillar and find your way through a secret, wild world. As you navigate the terrain filled with challenges around every twist and turn, take on puzzles, games and exciting interactivities. The brave can even take to the air and soar down the butterfly zip slide. Admission: $12.50. Visit LasdonPark.org for more details and to buy tickets. Tickets are available now through May 7. Tickets are sold online with scheduled viewing times. Amazing Butterflies will be open rain or shine.

Musical Munchkins will present an interactive music program for children ages 2-5.  Activities will include drumming, dancing, singing and joyfully expressing ourselves with great songs and fun, seasonal themes! *Please register for each child attending.  Image URL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.evanced.info/Customer/mountpleasantlibrary/MMLOGO_LARGE_352A6849.PNG

[" The Equity & Inclusion Multi-School Hiring Event focuses on bringing together students and employers who are interested in creating work environments that value and promote workforce equality and inclusion. That would include a variety of things including but not limited to gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, religion, immigration status, nationality, socioeconomic status, and disability. What you will leave the hiring event with: New employer contacts from a variety of employers who value and promote workforce equality and inclusion Follow up instructions from employers on applying and interviewing for opportunities Deeper knowledge of participating employers and their opportunities Being closer to being hired for a job or internship This multi-school event is co-hosted by BMCC, Fairfield, Hofstra, NYU, Purchase College SUNY, Seton Hall, and St. John's View the 50 employers who are participating!&", "#160; Employers include: AmeriCorps VISTA, Community Health Care Association of New York State, Council on Foreign Relations, GBH - WGBH, GroupM, Hachette Book Group USA, Hackensack Meridian Health, Maryland Public Television, NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services, Penguin Random House, Sony Music Entertainment, and many more! To Register: Register on Handshake (with your @purchase.edu email address). Then go to the event page You need to sign up for time slots with employers to meet with them during the virtual fair.   Student registration via Handshake will open March 13th.   Handshake Student Sign-up for Non-Partner Schools "]

What makes us want to buy something? Could you convince people to buy something? Join Mar-Li Pitcher for a 4 part program where you will create billboards, commercials (yes, actual commercials!), and other features of an AD campaign!  This program is a 4 part series: March 7, 14, 21, 28. Please register for all sessions. For grades 3-6. *Please register for each child attending. Image URL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.evanced.info/Customer/mountpleasantlibrary/DOWNLOAD_(1)_5786C90E.PNG

Join us to have a discussion on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion rights in the workplace with Lisa Miles-Boyce, Purchase College Chief Diversity Officer/Title IX and Affirmative Action Officer.  Hosted by the Career Development Center and Multicultural Center.  Arletha Miles-Boyce (Lisa) (she/her/hers) joined Purchase College as the Chief Diversity Officer and Title IX and Affirmative Action Officer in June 2022. Lisa is a seasoned Diversity Professional and Equity Compliance Officer. Lisa holds a Juris Doctor from New York Law School, a Master's in Divinity from Union Theological Seminary, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Herbert H. Lehman College.

From night clubs on Miami Beach to American Ballet Theater, from performing in Broadway musicals to an invited guest artist all over the world, from becoming the Artistic Director of Milwaukee Ballet to Professor of Classical Ballet at Purchase College, his life as a performer is self-described as a "great 43-year adventure". Lecture 2 – American Ballet Theatre: 1961-1970; Tuesday, April 4, 2023 (Rescheduled from March 14, 2023) Lecture 3 – American Ballet Theatre: 1971-1979; Tuesday, April 18, 2023 Register for this Event Now Lecture 4 – Life After the American Ballet Theatre; Tuesday, May 9, 2023 Register for this Event Now All lectures will be at 4:30 p.m. in the ADM 1001 (Buffer Room). There will be time allotted for Q&A.

Are you Game??  Bring a friend, meet a friend!  Drop by and play board games provided by the Library, or bring your own to share.  Families are welcome. A selection of games will be available, including: Monopoly, Backgammon, Trouble, Life, Blokus, Sorry, Q-Bitz, Checkers, Scrabble, Puzzles, Cards Image URL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.evanced.info/Customer/mountpleasantlibrary/F08EDD9D49FB43E88E9A58F93BDE2266THUMBNAIL_2D335180.JPG

About the performance The video, dance, and dialogic elements in this work stem from Coates' research into the long human history of cosmic dances across time and multiple geographies. Exploring attempts to reckon the cosmos in human scale and through the orchestration of human movement and collaboration, the work will feature Purchase College students. Coates will also offer movement workshops related to the themes of the piece to museum visitors. A note about the performance schedule The artworks in Hard Return require performers to exert themselves for long periods of time. If you arrive and find they are not present, it means they are taking a short break and will be back soon. In the meantime, feel free to enter the gallery and look around or explore the other exhibitions on view. Thanks for your patience and understanding. Over the course of nine weeks from February through May, Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment will transform the Neuberger Museum of Art into a site of collaboration, investigation, and performance art. Nine artists have been commissioned to create diverse, participatory, durational week-long projects that experiment with a sense of being alive in this moment while probing the influence of history on the present, proposing different ways of shaping and understanding community. Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment is organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, and co-curated by Purchase College faculty members Kate Gilmore, a renowned performance artist, and Jonah Westerman, an art historian who specializes in performance art. Generous financial support for this exhibition has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art, and the Purchase College Foundation. Additional support of the student participation in Hard Return has been provided by Ivan Bart & Grant Greenberg and Ava & Paul Zukowsky.

All students must see their advisor to receive the PIN for registration. Be sure to clear any holds you might have prior to registration!

We are pleased to offer tours of the museum and of the historic church, Monday to Friday, at the following times: 10 AM, 12 Noon, 2 PM and 4 PM.  These are reservation tours, of 45-minute duration. In the museum, the current feature exhibition is, "A Special Role: St. Paul's Church and World War II".  Other displays explore the American Revolution and the Lenape, the original inhabitants of the St. Paul's area.  In the church, visitors observe and learn about the significance of original appearance of 1787, and also gain an appreciation of the use of the edifice as a military field hospital during the Revolutionary War. Other features include the 1830 Erben, one of America's oldest working pipe organs.  Brief recitals are avilable upon request.  Please use the  https://www.recreation.gov website for advance reservations, and please arrive ten minutes before your scheduled tour time.     In addition, self-guided tours of the grounds and historic cemetery, weather and conditions permitting, are available Tuesday to Saturday, 10 AM - 4 PM.  Reservation are not required for the self guided tours of the grounds. Before visiting us, we recommend viewing our Site Orientation Video, which is available through our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/200515059970055/videos/577209182966992   

Embark on a challenging journey teeming with friends and foes revealing the unusual relationship between caterpillars, butterflies and their natural surroundings. Adventure through the leaves, learn how to move like a caterpillar, discover an ant that reaps the reward of an unusual friendship, then transform into a butterfly and take flight! Together, families will explore this interactive experience and learn the surprising challenges butterflies face every day. Become a caterpillar and find your way through a secret, wild world. As you navigate the terrain filled with challenges around every twist and turn, take on puzzles, games and exciting interactivities. The brave can even take to the air and soar down the butterfly zip slide. Admission: $12.50. Visit LasdonPark.org for more details and to buy tickets. Tickets are available now through May 7. Tickets are sold online with scheduled viewing times. Amazing Butterflies will be open rain or shine.

Once a month, a Mobile Pantry from Feeding Westchester will visit campus. The new Mobile Food Pantry will bring fresh protein, dairy, produce, and grains directly to campus to assist all members of the campus community. An estimated 4,000–5,000 pounds of food will be available at the Mobile Food Pantry!

Come to the Great Lawn to solar draw with us! We will provide the sunprint/cyanotype paper, just bring yourselves (and leaves/flowers to fade on the papers if you'd like!) Hosted by: Outdoors Club Additional Information can be found at: https://purchase.campuslabs.com/engage/event/8946356

Takuji Hamanaka is an artist and printmaker living in Brooklyn, New York. He was an apprentice in traditional woodcut printmaking in Tokyo, Japan. His work has been exhibited at Kristen Lorello Gallery, NY; Owen James Gallery, NY; the International Print Center, New York; Whitman College, Washington; National Academy of Fine Arts, India; and the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburg, Scotland, among others. Takuji Hamanaka received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, NY; The Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant, NY; New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship; Rauschenberg Emergency Grant; KALA Art Institute Fellowship, CA, and has been a resident at the MacDowell Colony, NH; Open Studio Residency, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, ME; and Open studios, Museum of Arts and Design, NY. He is represented by Kristen Lorello Gallery, NY.

[" Nishikawa will present the following program (total runtime 59 min.) in three parts and enter into discussion with students about his moving image process: Sketch Film #1 - #5 (2005-07, Super 8, 2.5 min. each, silent) Market Street (2005, 16mm, 5 min., silent) Lumphini 2552 (2009, 35mm, 2 min., sound) Clear Blue Sky (2006, digital video, 4 min., sound) 16-18-4 (2008, 35mm, 2.5 min., silent) 45 7 Broadway (2013, 16mm, 5 min., sound) sound of a million insects, light of a million stars (2014, 35mm, 2 min., sound) Shibuya - Tokyo (2010, 16mm, 10 min., sound) Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon (2016, 16mm, 10 min., sound) Amusement Ride (2019, 16mm, 6 min., sound) Nishikawa's films have been screened at numerous film festivals and art venues, including Berlinale, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, London Film Festival, Media City Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Singapore International Film Festival, and Toronto International Film Festival. In 2010, he presented a series of 8mm and 16mm films at MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, and his film installation, Building 945, received the 2008 Grant Award from the Museum of Contemporary Cinema in Spain. He served as a juror for the 2010 Ann Arbor Film Festival, the 2012 Big Muddy Film Festival, and the 2013 dresdner schmalfilmtage. He is one of the co-founders of KLEX: Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film and Video Festival and Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image. He lives in Japan/USA, currently teaching in Cinema Department at Binghamton University.   "]

About the performance The video, dance, and dialogic elements in this work stem from Coates' research into the long human history of cosmic dances across time and multiple geographies. Exploring attempts to reckon the cosmos in human scale and through the orchestration of human movement and collaboration, the work will feature Purchase College students. Coates will also offer movement workshops related to the themes of the piece to museum visitors. A note about the performance schedule The artworks in Hard Return require performers to exert themselves for long periods of time. If you arrive and find they are not present, it means they are taking a short break and will be back soon. In the meantime, feel free to enter the gallery and look around or explore the other exhibitions on view. Thanks for your patience and understanding. Over the course of nine weeks from February through May, Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment will transform the Neuberger Museum of Art into a site of collaboration, investigation, and performance art. Nine artists have been commissioned to create diverse, participatory, durational week-long projects that experiment with a sense of being alive in this moment while probing the influence of history on the present, proposing different ways of shaping and understanding community. Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment is organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, and co-curated by Purchase College faculty members Kate Gilmore, a renowned performance artist, and Jonah Westerman, an art historian who specializes in performance art. Generous financial support for this exhibition has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art, and the Purchase College Foundation. Additional support of the student participation in Hard Return has been provided by Ivan Bart & Grant Greenberg and Ava & Paul Zukowsky.

All students must see their advisor to receive the PIN for registration. Be sure to clear any holds you might have prior to registration!

For this tax season AARP Tax-Aide will again be working in coordination with the Mount Pleasant Library to provide tax preparation services.  We will be operating  in an Appointment Only manner again this year. In order to participate, this year’s taxpayers will first have to pick up an instruction & information packet from the library.  These will include forms and instructions on what taxpayers must do first and how they will set up their appointments.  These packets will be available at the Mount Pleasant Main Library Reference desk, and the Branch Library, starting Tuesday January 24th.  In person appointments will begin Thursday February 2nd. If you have any questions please call the MPL Tax-Aide contact line at 914-340-3578

We are pleased to offer tours of the museum and of the historic church, Monday to Friday, at the following times: 10 AM, 12 Noon, 2 PM and 4 PM.  These are reservation tours, of 45-minute duration. In the museum, the current feature exhibition is, "A Special Role: St. Paul's Church and World War II".  Other displays explore the American Revolution and the Lenape, the original inhabitants of the St. Paul's area.  In the church, visitors observe and learn about the significance of original appearance of 1787, and also gain an appreciation of the use of the edifice as a military field hospital during the Revolutionary War. Other features include the 1830 Erben, one of America's oldest working pipe organs.  Brief recitals are avilable upon request.  Please use the  https://www.recreation.gov website for advance reservations, and please arrive ten minutes before your scheduled tour time.     In addition, self-guided tours of the grounds and historic cemetery, weather and conditions permitting, are available Tuesday to Saturday, 10 AM - 4 PM.  Reservation are not required for the self guided tours of the grounds. Before visiting us, we recommend viewing our Site Orientation Video, which is available through our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/200515059970055/videos/577209182966992   

Embark on a challenging journey teeming with friends and foes revealing the unusual relationship between caterpillars, butterflies and their natural surroundings. Adventure through the leaves, learn how to move like a caterpillar, discover an ant that reaps the reward of an unusual friendship, then transform into a butterfly and take flight! Together, families will explore this interactive experience and learn the surprising challenges butterflies face every day. Become a caterpillar and find your way through a secret, wild world. As you navigate the terrain filled with challenges around every twist and turn, take on puzzles, games and exciting interactivities. The brave can even take to the air and soar down the butterfly zip slide. Admission: $12.50. Visit LasdonPark.org for more details and to buy tickets. Tickets are available now through May 7. Tickets are sold online with scheduled viewing times. Amazing Butterflies will be open rain or shine.

Would you like to learn a new and useful skill? Join Daphne to learn the basics of a hobby and make a beginner project to take home. This month we will be learning to weave. All materials provided. For grades 4-8. Image URL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.evanced.info/Customer/mountpleasantlibrary/COLORFUL_CRAFT_WORKSHOP_IDEAS_INSTAGRAM_POST_86780788.JPG

This virtual class will present the proper techniques for hand pruning shrubs and small ornamental trees.  Learn how to prune for maximum flower and fruit production.  Choosing tools will be discussed.   Register here Presented by Master Gardener Speakers Bureau of the Cornell Cooperative Extension.