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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 art, including an important collection of African art, and Clay Art Center in Port Chester is a nationally recognized non-profit ceramic arts center. 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 Art in Katonah has exhibitions that explore ideas about art, culture, and society.
Great for kids is the Westchester Children’s Museum at Rye Playland in Rye, an interactive discovery and play space/ art gallery. The Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum in Poughkeepsie is another favorite arts space for the little ones.
At the 500-acre Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, visitors can view more than 100 unique sculptures, while Vassar College in Poughkeepsie boasts the Frances Lehman Loeb Art 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, including classical, jazz, and opera. Nationally acclaimed performers take their bows at other local venues, too, including Tarrytown Music Hall, White Plains Performing Arts Center, The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, the Paramount Hudson Valley Theater in Peekskill, and
West Point’s 4,000-capacity Eisenhower Hall Theatre. The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College is home to a wide variety of performing arts acts year-round. Chappaqua Performing Arts Center, on the former Reader’s Digest campus, is a new addition to the region’s entertainment scene, while the recently refurbished Bedford Playhouse offers various art, culture, and film programming.
A classical evening awaits in Newburgh, with a powerful performance by the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra. In Middletown, the historic Paramount Theatre is a spot for both live performances and movie screenings, while the oldest continuously operating theater in the state, Bardavon, in Poughkeepsie, offers affordable arts education programs, music, dance, theater, and classic films.
Cinema
Expect top independent, documentary, and foreign films to play at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville. The Picture House Regional Film Center in Pelham is a refurbished 1920s art house cinema, and movies at The Alamo Drafthouse, in
Yonkers, and at brand-new Look Dine-In Cinemas in Dobbs Ferry, come with elevated meals and craft beers or other beverages.
In Millerton, check out The Moviehouse, one of the largest independent cinemas in the Hudson Valley, which has three theaters and a screening room. The 55-seat Downing Film Center in Newburgh strives to present quality films and cinematic programming from around the world, and in Rhinebeck, Upstate Films showcases 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 that showcase Westchester’s commitment to, and celebration of, the Queer community.
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The Capitol Theatre, Port Chester
© PHOTO BY SCOTT HARRIS/COURTESY OF THE CAPITOL THEATRE