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October 2019
GBCC Member Meeting
Join us in helping to plan business and community events. Discuss ongoings and upcoming events. If you are not a member, you are welcome to come and learn more about who we are and what we're involved with.
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Plein Air Tusten Settlement Church Cemetery
Paranormal is the name we give to "experiences that are outside the norm and beyond scientific explanation." That’s also a great definition for art! So we’re combing the two for a plein air community painting event at the Tusten Settlement Church Cemetery. Paranormal specialist Rich Justus will be on hand to document and inform us all on the paranormal activity our drawing and painting stirs up. To register for this event, e-mail us at barryvilleareaarts@gmail.com Pictured: "Water-Ghost" by Alfred Kubin (1905)…
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Historical Walking Tour of River Road
What connects Barryville and the Boston Tea Party? Learn the answer to this and more fascinating local tidbits as Sullivan County Historian and Town of Highland Co-Historian lead a tour of Barryville's historic River Road. Great for parents, teachers, scouts and scout leaders ~ and history students of all ages! Gather at the River Road cul-de-sac for a brief unveiling ceremony of the new interpretive signs erected by the Town of Highland in partnership with the Greater Barryville Chamber…
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Exhibit of Plein Air Tusten Settlement Church Cemetery
Artwork created at our community art event at the Tusten Settlement Church Cemetery will be on display, and Paranormal specialist Rich Justus will make a brief presentation the paranormal activity stirred up by the artists. Complimentary refreshments. RSVP to barryvilleareaarts@gmail.com
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Indigenous
Indigenous communities, peoples, and nations are the ones that flourished in any particular area before an invasion or colonization. One tribe from our neck of the woods—what anthropologists call the Northeastern Woodlands—is the Lenape. And like other native Americans, the Lenape still carry an identity distinct from the culture that currently predominates in the Delaware River Valley. “Indigenous” is a celebration of indigenous people of the Northeast. It includes two presentations and a display of artifacts, as well as classic prints…
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Join us in helping to plan business and community events. Discus ongoings and upcoming events. If you are not a member, you are welcome to come and learn more about who we are and what we're involved with.
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Poetry Reading & Open Mic
Mark Blackford, Sullivan County's first poet laureate, will give a reading of his work, and discuss what it means to be the poet laureate of our county. Open invite for others to share their own poetry, after Blackford's reading.
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GBCC Member Meeting
Join us in helping to plan business and community events. Discus ongoings and upcoming events. If you are not a member, you are welcome to come and learn more about who we are and what we're involved with.
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Artists’ Market Holiday Party
Everyone is invited to share in a free holiday celebration that includes refreshments, art, music, and HOT CHOCOLATE! The Barryville Area Arts Association is celebrating all holiday traditions with two themed displays of classic art, and we've got a display of work by our most talented local artisans. “Creation Stories from Around the World” is an exhibit of ten framed prints featuring artistic representations of ten different creation stories, associated with modern, obscure, and extinct religions. Another display, “The Story…
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Barryville Tree Lighting
Join us for our 15th Annual Tree Lighting. Share in the good cheer with goodies and hot chocolate. Bring your cameras to take photos with Mr. & Mrs. Claus. Carol to be sung by all. Old-fashion fun for kids of all ages, friends and family! FREE Event for All. In the cul-de-sac at the intersections of Route 97 & 55.
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