Day Trippin': Fall Foliage in Sleepy Hollow

These are some shots of the stunning foliage out in Sleepy Hollow over Halloween. You just can't see leaves this pretty in New York City. Sleepy Hollow makes for a great day trip, if you're looking to venture out of the city.

Let the light of your face shine upon us, O Lord.
Psalms 4:6

TGC Adventures to Storm King

Storm King is awesome. It's like this vast lawn of art. Trinity Grace is going there and inviting you along:

We are having a church trip up to the Storm King art center on September 19, leaving the city 9:30am and returning late afternoon. This is a great trip especially for families with kids.

Email Christy [christy @ trinitygracechurch.com] for more information or to RSVP.

[image via Storm King]

Have you been before? What do you think of it?

Church in the Park

Gallery Church is meeting in Central Park on Sunday morning at 10:30. Bring a picnic brunch.

Thoughts by the Pond

It would be nice to ponder life while looking out over the pond in Central Park.

[image from Liebmarlene Vintage via Darling Dexter]

What's on your mind today?

Gallery Church Goes Organic

Tired of the Prodigal Son sermon? The Gallery Church is offering a fresh sermon series called Organic: A study of the organic images in sacred scripture.

Each Sunday an artist from the church community "will be interpreting and illustrating each of these biblical themes through their art." Among the artists involved ar Joe Garrad, Rachel Chester Kelsey Foster, and Neil Brown.

The series started back in April, and so far has covered:

alive
4.12.09
seed
4.19.09
water
4.26.09
fruit
5.3.09

You can catch up as you commute to work by listening to the podcasts. Next up:

tree
5.10.09
soil
5.17.09
wind
5.24.09
pure
5.31.09

The Gallery meets on Sunday mornings at 10:30 at PS 9 (corner of 83rd and Columbus) and on Sunday evenings at 6:00 at The Salt Art Space (1160 Broadway at 26rd).

How do you think organic is linked to the message of Christianity?

[image via Gallery Church]

The Kite Runner

This more or less sounds breathtaking:::

SOCRATES
SCULPTURE PARK and
The Noguchi Museum
present....

KITE FLIGHT: PAPER PLAY
Seventh Annual Kite Making Workshop
Sunday, April 26, 2009 / 11AM - 2PM (rain or shine)
FREE EVENT: The workshop is free and all materials are provided.

Socrates Sculpture Park and The Noguchi Museum are proud to present the seventh annual kite making workshop and flying event. This free hands-on workshop will take place at Socrates Sculpture Park and welcomes children of all ages to participate. Using recycled paper, children and their families can draw inspiration from the Park's fantastic view of the Manhattan skyline to build and decorate a kite, and then fly it in the Park.

Advance registration is not required, but space is limited, so come early! The workshop will be held - rain or shine - in the education area at Socrates Sculpture Park. The workshop is free and all materials and supplies will be provided.

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Founded by Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) in 1985 and occupying a renovated 1927 industrial building, The Noguchi Museum helped pioneer the transformation of Long Island City into an arts destination. The Museum exhibits a comprehensive selection of the artist's works in all mediums, displayed in a series of indoor galleries and an internationally celebrated outdoor sculpture garden. Together, this installation and the Museum's special exhibitions expand the context for Noguchi's work and illuminate his influential legacy of innovation. From 11 am - 6 pm, Kite Flight attendees can cross the street to view two special exhibitions: From Plaster to Stone and What is Sculpture?, as well as artworks from the Museum's collection.

Socrates Sculpture Park was an abandoned riverside landfill and illegal dumpsite until 1986 when a coalition of artists and community members, under the leadership of sculptor Mark di Suvero, transformed it into an open studio and exhibition space for artists and a neighborhood park for local residents. Today, it is an internationally renowned outdoor museum and artist residency program that also serves as a vital New York City park offering a wide variety of free public programs. The Park's existence is based on the belief that reclamation, revitalization and creative expression are essential to the survival, humanity and improvement of our urban environment.

Kite Flight: Paper Play participants will get an early glimpse of Socrates Sculpture Park's spring exhibition, State Fair. The show, officially opening in the Park on Sunday, May 10, 2009, centers around American rural life and uses the platform of the state fair as a means to examine topics such as animal husbandry, specialized horticulture, small scale farming, culinary arts, and the pageantry within these fields that occurs at fairgrounds across the country. The show will also incorporate work that references traditional craft, and the myriad of amusements, rides, competitions and entertainment that are presented as part of state fairs.

How high does your kite fly?

Top 5 Things to Do January 13, 2009

1. Enjoy Brahms on the cheap: Attend ChamberFest 2009, put on by students from Juilliard, at Paul Hall (155 65th Street) at 8 pm

2. Attend FOS' cocktail kick off

3. Live variously through Michael Pearson as he tells about his Semester at Sea during his reading from the Mark Twain-titled Innocents Abroad Too at Barnes & Noble (82nd & Broadway) at 7 pm

4. Dance at the Slavic Soul Party at Barbes (376 9th St. by the corner of 6th Ave., in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn) at 9 pm. $10

5. Geologist Sidney Horenstein uncovers the building stones and fossils in the walls (both interior and exterior) of the Museum of Natural History at 6:30 pm ($30)

Top 5 Things to Do This Weekend, January 9 - 11, 2009

1. Be inspired the melodic beauty of A Hawk and a Hacksaw at Mercury Lounge in Manhattan on Saturday at 8 pm ($13) or at Union Hall in Brooklyn on Sunday at 9 pm ($12 advance, $14 at the door)

2. Never mind the hawks, get yourself to the Dyckman Fields entrance of Inwood Hill Park by 8 am on Saturday and you might see an eagle

3. While you're at the park, mulch your Christmas tree

4. Can't get enough of The Hold Steady's mustachioed keyboardist? Get your fill first on Friday at 8 pm at Webster Hall ($20), where Franz Nicolay's playing as part of the World/Inferno Friendship Society, and then on Sunday at 10 pm at (le) poisson rouge ($10), where he plays as himself

5. Who shot Alexander Hamilton?



On Sunday, the Morris-Jumel Mansion and the U.S. Parks Service will throw a birthday bash for Alexander Hamilton. There will be costumed interpreters, which makes me think of a certain Chuck Palahniuk book-turned-movie

Top 5 Things to Do January 8, 2009

1. Everyone you know full of contradictions? Attend the opening reception for Contradictions in Black and White at Hasted Hunt (529 West 20th St., 3rd Fl.)

2. Discover the hidden branch that tells time in Central Park. Meet at 1:00 in front of the statue of Samuel F. B. Morse (inside the Park at Fifth Avenue and 72nd Street)

3. If you have Peter Pan Syndrome, you might as well join all the kiddies that'll be at the Swedish Cottage in Central Park for the marionette production of Peter Pan and Adventures in Neverland

4. Hey there, karaoke stud, head on over to the Barnes & Noble at 106 Court Street in Brooklyn at 7:00 pm for a free reading of Don't Stop Believin' by author Brian Raftery, who, by the by, calls Night Ranger's "Sister Christian" his favorite karaoke song

5. Itching for a behind-the-scenes look into the Museum of Natural History's Conservation Lab? (Yeah, me too.) The Museum is offering three half-hour sessions, the first at 6:30, for $35 apiece.

Top 5 Things to Do January 7, 2009

1. Quit clowning around and experience the Big Apple Circus' "Circus of the Sense" at 11:00 am at Lincoln Center, Damrosch Park (Broadway & West 63rd St.)

2. Discover Central Park's history in a free walking tour. Meet. at 11:00 am outside the Dairy Gift Shop, mid-Park at 65th Street.

3. Experience Stochastic Brooklyn at 8:00 pm at Barbes (376 9th St. @ 6th Ave., in Park Slope) for $10

4. Evaluate the status of those New Year's Resolutions you made

5. Breathe a sigh of relief that what's probably the first full week you've had since Christmas is finally over