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LIVING IN WESTCHESTER AND THE HUDSON VALLEY | RELOCATION & MOVING GUIDE
ARTS & CULTURE
Countless Ways to Spend Your Days — And Nights
Whether you’re seeking an arts fix, a great spot for live music, or just a fun place to spend time with friends and family, you have plenty of diverse cultural options in the Hudson Valley.
Museums
In Peekskill, you’ll find Hudson Valley MOCA, which presents challenging contemporary art exhibitions and programs. In Purchase, the Neuberger Museum of Art has more than 6,000 works of ar t, including an impor tant collection of African ar t, and Clay Ar t Center in Port Chester is a nationally recognized non-profit ceramic ar ts center. See the work of revered 20th century photographer Gordon Parks at The Gordon Parks Foundation in Pleasantville.
Overlooking the Hudson River and Palisades, the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers boasts many Hudson River School artists in its collection, as well as a state-of-the-art planetarium. The Katonah Museum of Ar t in Katonah has wonderful offerings for kids as well as exhibitions that explore ideas about ar t, culture, and society. Also great for kids is the Westchester Children’s Museum at Rye Playland in Rye, an interactive discovery and play space/ ar t gallery. The Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum in Poughkeepsie is another favorite arts space for the little ones.
At the 500-acre Storm King Ar t Center in New Windsor, visitors can
view more than 100 unique sculptures, while Vassar College in Poughkeepsie boasts the Frances Lehman Loeb Ar t Center with more than 21,000 works from antiquity to the 21st century.
Theaters
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah is a prime destination for live performances of multiple genres. Nationally acclaimed performers take their bows at other local venues, too, including Tarrytown Music Hall, White Plains Performing Ar ts Center, The Capitol Theatre in Por t Chester, the Paramount Hudson Valley Theater in Peekskill, and West Point’s 4,000-capacity Eisenhower Hall Theatre. The Performing Ar ts Center at Purchase College is home to a wide variety of performing arts acts year-round. Chappaqua Performing Arts Center is a new addition to the region’s enter tainment scene, while the recently refurbished Bedford Playhouse offers various ar t, culture, and film programming.
A classical evening awaits in Newburgh with the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra. In Middletown, the historic Paramount Theatre offers both live performances and movie screenings,
while the oldest continuously operating theater in the state, Bardavon, offers a variety of programming.
Cinema
Expect top independent, documentary, and foreign films to play at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville. The Picture House Regional Film Center, with locations in Pelham and Bronxville, is an art house cinema, specializing in documentaries, classics, family films, and curated series. At The Alamo Drafthouse in Yonkers, food made from scratch and craft beverages elevate your indie movie-viewing experience. Dinner and a movie (drinks too!) is also available at the new LOOK Dine-In Cinema in Dobbs Ferry. In Miller ton, check out The Moviehouse, which has three theaters and a screening room and is located in a classically designed building with a signature clock tower. The 55-seat Downing Film Center in Newburgh strives to present quality films and cinematic programming from around the world to benefit the Hudson Valley’s diverse communities. And in Rhinebeck, Upstate Films is an independent theater with a mission to showcase documentaries and social realities.
CELEBRATE DIVERSITY!
A local region with a decidedly global feel, the Hudson Valley is a welcoming place for all cultures. Every summer, thousands of Westchester residents gather at the colorful and lively Cultural Heritage Celebrations at Kensico Dam Plaza in Valhalla to enjoy the music, food, and traditions of cultures ranging from African American to Asian, Hispanic, Albanian, Polish, Muslim, and more. The annual Yorktown Feast of San Gennaro offers a chance for everyone to feel Italian and sample food that nonna would approve of. Feel the peace and beauty of Japan year-round at the Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden to understand how Eastern and Western cultures come together. To celebrate Pride month, The Loft LGBTQ+ Community Center hosts a variety of events each June.
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