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Halloween Dance & Costume Party!
Friday October 30th 7pm
All Dances Taught!
All Ages and Experience Welcome!
Costume Pageant! with Prizes!
Handmade costumes encouraged!
All costumes must be "G Rated" and appropriate for all ages.
Please bring Snacks to share!
Bring a Jack-O-Lantern along!
Heart Spring Gardens has moved to Mettabee! Please check our mailings and website for news about their offerings and progress, as well as their website for more information!
Here is a brief introduction:
Jean-David Derreumaux has over 45 years of experience in biodynamic agriculture, medicinal plant cultivation, and landscape design. He has designed and managed gardens in Camphill Village Copake, the Center for Discovery, and Churchtown Dairy. Jean-David, together with his wife Karen, lived and worked in the Le Beal Camphill Community in France and Camphill Village Copake for over 25 years.
Ben Davis has 28 years of experience in biodynamic agriculture, as well as senior-level management in operations, development, and nonprofit management. Ben, together with his wife, Valeska, and family, has lived and worked in Botton Village in the United Kingdom and at Triform Camphill Community in Hudson, NY.
… is to create gardens of healing that welcome all who enter to connect with the goodness of plants. Through the truthfulness expressed in their forms, colors, scents and energies, plants have the ability to enliven, nourish and heal. With sensitively designed landscapes, biodynamic practice, and a workshop where they are carefully transformed into remedies, we strengthen the healing light that may grow between people and plants.
…lies the intention to open the world of plants to those seeking counsel from nature. The increasing abstraction of our time calls for balance through connection to Life. There is no doubt that a garden with a multitude of carefully tended plants - each a silent counselor- can offer space for this connection to occur. Simply being near plants allows a magical transfer of peace and contentment to permeate one’s soul…This is a text block.
MONTHLY GARDEN WALKS: LAST SATURDAY MORNING OF THE MONTH
Come visit the plants and ask your questions about gardening and biodynamics. All ages welcome. Bring a picnic! October 31st 10am-12pm Mettabee Greenhouse.
Followed by:
MONTHLY VOLUNTEER WORK AFTERNOONS
Come help make Heart Spring!
October 31st
1:30pm-4pm
Mettabee Greenhouse
(Note: In the event of heavy rain, the walk will be postponed to the following Saturday at the same time. Check our website for updates.)
The upright bass and the acoustic guitar: Two instruments most-often tasked with supporting roles. In the hands of Nate Sabat and Morgan Harris, however, these instruments come to life in ways most haven’t heard or considered before. As American folk music — and the longstanding tradition of the solo performer — moves deeper into the 21st century, musicians like Sabat and Harris are carrying it forward in fresh and exciting ways.
November 20th, 7:30 pm
$20 at the door
Nate Sabat Bio:
Nate Sabat (he/him) is an award-winning bassist, singer-songwriter and arranger based in Brooklyn, NY. Nate has written and arranged music for NPR's Radiolab, the Young People's Chorus of New York City and the Heifetz International Music Institute. Additionally, a number of his songs are in rotation on Sirius XM’s Bluegrass Junction channel. He has performed on stages throughout Europe, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the United States, at festivals and venues including Celtic Connections, Savannah Music Festival, The Caverns and Carnegie Hall. In April 2024 Nate released Bass Fiddler, the debut full-length project under his own name, produced by the legendary Bruce Molsky.
With upright bass as his sole tool for accompaniment, Nate crafts wildly intricate arrangements, each one inextricably tied to its song. His playing — while rooted in American folk music — goes far beyond any preconceived notions of the instrument's role within the genre. With a relaxed, vocal sound and equal fluency with pizzicato and the bow, Nate takes full advantage of the never-ending variety of sounds and textures the bass has to offer. GRAMMY-winning cellist Eugene Friesen says, "Nate has so much going for him: The ability to propel any groove with chops and subtlety, a sweet bow sound that can vocalize any melody, fiercely great intonation, and, most importantly, a musical intelligence and intuition that operates with a constant smile.”
Morgan Harris Bio:
Morgan Harris (she/her) is a Portland, OR-based guitarist specializing in traditional North American stringband (or ‘old time’) music. In contrast to the purely accompanying role the guitar often occupies in this space, Morgan’s distinctive playing technique allows the guitar to shine as an old time melody instrument, creating a rhythmic drive and a multi-layered resonance that is unique in the world of flatpicked guitar. On Morgan’s latest record Alone Will Tell (released Nov 1st, 2024), she performs a collection of traditional tunes and songs with just her guitar and voice, drawn from historic source recordings of driving fiddle breakdowns, hypnotic banjo pieces and austere mountain ballads. This is the music she has continually found herself drawn to in quiet, solitary moments, and it has been shaped by long familiarity and patient questioning. Morgan’s first release as an out trans musician, Alone Will Tell is a meditation on the transformative potential of looking inward.
Sister Listen Listen Sister
Arias, Duets, and Folksongs on Female Friendship
7pm December 12th
Soprano Lily Arbisser and local composer-soprano Marisa Michelson sing a concert of classical music and folk song, with a bit of musical theater sprinkled in, thematically driven by the intensity and complexities of female friendship. Through jealousy, heartbreak, and loving care, Lily and Marisa share Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Antonio Cifra, Vincenzo Bellini, and so much more.
Lily is an active performer of opera and classical music, and Marisa is an award-winning composer and singer across genres. The duo met each other while studying on the Libero Canto TM path, a holistic, process-oriented approach to vocal pedagogy with the main goal of liberating people who wish to sing from physical, emotional, or mental constraints so that they can make music through singing with ease, grace, vitality, and joy. Both are now teachers on this path, and Marisa has created the School of Vocal De-Armoring which applies the transformative practices and principles of the Libero Canto Approach not only to singing, speaking and sounding, but also to domains of healing, somatic de-armoring, self-growth, and spirituality.
Friends for over a decade, this is Lily and Marisa’s first concert together. They look forward to sharing their singing with Mettabee audiences, and are thrilled to be joined by local gifted pianist, Gili Melamed-Levi.
Soprano Lily Arbisser’s recent seasons’ highlights include a solo recital debut at the Sembrich in Bolton’s Landing, joining Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute as a vocal fellow, being recognized as a semifinalist in the Kurt Weill Foundation’s Lotte Lenya Competition, and winning first prize in the National Federation of Music Clubs’ Young Artist Competition. She is regularly heard as a soloist in the Hudson Valley area, often with Ars Choralis of Woodstock, New York. Lily has a deep affinity for art songs, performing beloved pieces from the traditional canon alongside lesser-known works. She frequently tours with French pianist Dimitri Malignan and his “Missing Voices” project, which seeks to shed light on the classical music of Jewish composers persecuted in the Holocaust. Lily and Dimitri join forces for a European tour in Spring 2027, with concerts in France and the Netherlands. Later this winter she is also looking forward to debuting with the Musicians of Ma’alwyck with concerts in the New York Capital Region. When not singing, Lily can be found outdoors cultivating her passion for ecological restoration and native plants. www.lilyarbisser.com
Marisa Michelson is a singer, improviser, and award-winning composer of music-theatre, musicals, oratorio, and choral works, who has lived in Ancram for almost six years. She performed at Mettabee once before with her a cappella Hungarian vocal quartet, Agrol Agra.
Marisa’s compositions have appeared nationally and internationally, including off-Broadway, in Rockefeller Park in NYC, Salt Lake City, Harvard, The Kitchen, and at Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic. She was was the founding director of the psychedelic singing ensemble Constellation Chor | an immersion in voice, movement, and spirit active in New York City and internationally for seven years. Constellation Chor’s album, Constellation Chor at Modern Accord Depot can be heard wherever music is streamed. Marisa is also an active somatic voice and embodiment practitioner with many students on Broadway and pursuing other careers in the healing arts. She teaches in Ancram and in New York City. www.marisamichelson.com
Pianist Gili Melamed-Lev is an engaging, multi-faceted artist known for her vision, innovative programing, and unique artistry. She is also the co-founder and artistic director of Jazz and Classics for Change, which offers jazz and classical programming to diverse audiences in the Hudson Valley (NY) and the Berkshires (MA).
Remaining true to her mission to connect and to heal through music in our ever-changing world, Ms. Melamed-Lev, strives to bring audiences together through the poetic and life affirming experience of music and the belief that it enriches our lives, sparks ideas, serves as a refuge, and provides us with an infinite source of beauty.
Ms. Gili Melamed-Lev, has performed throughout the US, Europe and Canada, in collaboration with prominent musicians such as Eugene Drucker, Kenneth Cooper, Krista Bennion-Feeney, Jenia Pikovsky, Joel Pitchon, Joana Genova, William Frampton, Dima Ratush, Ariel Rudiakov, David Cerutti, Roberta Cooper, Ashley Bathgate, Serafim Smigelskiy, Ronald Feldman, Inbal Segev, Linor Katz, Peter Weitzner, John Feeney, Paul Green, Gili Sharett, Judith Mendenhall, Eugenia Zukerman, Lior Eitan, Omri Rave, Michael Slatkin, Uzi Shalev, Amanda Boyd-Grout and Lucille Beer to name a few.
From 2012-2020, she was the founder and artistic director of The Concerts at Camphill Ghent. As a soloist, chamber musician, and collaborative artist, she is a member of the Lev-Evans duo with pianist Mark Evans as well as an educator having coached, performed, and given master classes at Williams College, Bard College, and her private studio. She has garnered rave reviews for her collaboration with Australian actor, John McManus, during their extended tour of The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico and has additionally partnered with the Actors’ Ensemble and Walking the Dog Theater.
Born in Jerusalem, Melamed-Lev was a scholarship student at The Juilliard School, Montclair State College, and the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem.
Enjoy skeletal wisdom and great stories about the astonishing architecture within us. You will get a firmer grip on some of today's hard realities, and the ever renewing marrow and life structures that feed your soul and spirit. All are welcome 12 and older.
Arrive early
To register email nancy@healingstory.com
$15-boundless
Nancy Mellon has pioneered therapeutic storytelling for many years, presenting workshops and courses world wide. Her award winning book Body Eloquence: The Power of Myth and Story to Awaken the Body’ s Energies is about human physiology and storytelling as a healing art.
Her books Healing Storytelling and Storytelling with Children are also treasured in many countries. See her website:
www.healingstory.com
Crossing the Veil and Coming Back to Life
A Theater Piece on Near Death Experiences
Presenting an ensemble theater piece based on the true stories of people who have reported near death experiences. The stories follow a travel journey narrative starting with the “moment of death” when the characters have been declared clinically dead or experienced a medical crisis that brought them to the edge of death. This leads to a crossing of the veil between life and death and profound experiences and visions of life in the post-mortem realms. The journey concludes with a return to physical life and the challenges of sharing the experience with others and integrating it into their lives. These remarkable and powerful stories have brought to audiences a sense of the beauty, wonder and hope about what the continuity of consciousness and life after death may be like.
The piece was conceived by Robert Cornett and directed by Ted Pugh. It has been performed by an ensemble theater group, based in the Hudson Valley, New York, to audiences across the northeast over the past three years.
For information about the performance contact Robert Cornett
See our website for information about the play and reviews: https://www.crossingtheveil.net/
Ensemble: Eddie Allen, Robert Cornett, Berenika Lehrman, Rosibel Mejia, Laurie Portocarrero, Vincent Roppolo
Musicians: Madison Shulkin and Lyla Rivers
Suggested donation: $20 - $40 - no one turned away for lack of funds
Growing Medicinal Herbs for Hummingbirds and People
Join Deb Soule, herbalist, biodynamic herb grower and co-author of the book Notes from the Hummingbird Corridor (2025) for an inspiring conversation about including medicinal herbs and flowers in gardens and farms for attracting Ruby-throated Hummingbirds. Deb has been closely observing Ruby-throats for over 35 years on Avena Botanicals farm in mid-coast Maine. Some of the medicinal herbs she will present that attract Ruby-throats include Solomon’s Seal root, Marshmallow, Dandelion, Red Bee balm, Comfrey, Catnip and Figwort along with a few favorite flowers of the hummingbirds.
For many years Deb has pondered the vast migratory networks and long distances Ruby-throated Hummingbirds travel annually to the north country in spring, and their ecological and spiritual significance to the landscapes and communities they travel through, and summer and winter in. Deb will weave in stories from her trip along the eastern coastal migratory pathway all the way to the Gulf of Mexico where thousands of hummingbirds gather in fall to make their epic 500 mile crossing alone. She will also talk about the Schoolhouse Learning Center in Burlington, VT who received a grant to write and pilot a year-long hummingbird study with pre-K students. This curriculum will be available for free for schools throughout the Northeast starting in 2027, and has the potential to expand to higher grades and encourage public libraries, parks, community farms and faith-based communities to create healing sanctuary gardens for pollinators and people along these migratory corridors.
We'll be having a sweat lodge ceremony on Saturday 10/3 at Mettabee Farm.
Fire starts at 1pm, arriving by 11am to help prepare for the ceremony.
All are welcome!
Please RSVP to join and for more info.
Grandmothersacredlodge@gmail.com
845-443-6650
Concert at 7:30 pm
Adult $25 - $35 Sliding Scale
Children $10 - $30 Sliding Scale
No one is turned away for lack of funds! Higher ticket prices reflect higher costs all around and the need to support the musicians.
GENTICORUM
With multiple Canadian Folk Music Awards, as well as Juno and ADISQ nominations, GENTICORUM have earned a reputation as a leading voice in the evolution of Québécois traditional music.
For over twenty years, the trio has earned a place of privilege on world, traditional, folk and Celtic music stages. Known for their unbridled energy, their musicianship and their magnetic stage presence, the trio has won over audiences at such prestigious events as Celtic Connections in Scotland, the Tønder Folk Festival in Denmark, the National Folk Festival in Australia, the Independent Music Festival in Alexandria, Egypt, the Rain Forest Festival in Malaysia, as well as countless venues across North America.
Pascal Gemme (fiddle) and Yann Falquet (guitar), the group’s two founding members, are both recognized individually as major contributors to the trad music scene in Québec. Since 2015, they have been joined by accomplished multi-instrumentalist and composer Nicholas Williams (flute, accordion). Weaving intricate fiddle, flute and accordion lines, gorgeous vocal harmonies, subtle guitar textures and exhilarating foot percussion, the pleasure that these three musicians have creating and playing together is palpable, both in the studio and on the concert stage.
A Tribute to Wendell Berry
1934 -2026
Sunday, September 20th at 3pm
Join us for a festive celebration of farmer, writer, poet, and environmental activist Wendell Berry, with readings from his body of work by members of our community, and exploring the themes of our connection with the elementals of the Earth, the creatures that represent those forces within ourselves, and Wendell’s ability to use the word as a powerful expression of our relationship with God and the spiritual world.
For more information, please contact Patrick Doyle at cometdoyle@gmail.com
Heart Spring Gardens has moved to Mettabee! Please check our mailings and website for news about their offerings and progress, as well as their website for more information!
Here is a brief introduction:
Jean-David Derreumaux has over 45 years of experience in biodynamic agriculture, medicinal plant cultivation, and landscape design. He has designed and managed gardens in Camphill Village Copake, the Center for Discovery, and Churchtown Dairy. Jean-David, together with his wife Karen, lived and worked in the Le Beal Camphill Community in France and Camphill Village Copake for over 25 years.
Ben Davis has 28 years of experience in biodynamic agriculture, as well as senior-level management in operations, development, and nonprofit management. Ben, together with his wife, Valeska, and family, has lived and worked in Botton Village in the United Kingdom and at Triform Camphill Community in Hudson, NY.
… is to create gardens of healing that welcome all who enter to connect with the goodness of plants. Through the truthfulness expressed in their forms, colors, scents and energies, plants have the ability to enliven, nourish and heal. With sensitively designed landscapes, biodynamic practice, and a workshop where they are carefully transformed into remedies, we strengthen the healing light that may grow between people and plants.
…lies the intention to open the world of plants to those seeking counsel from nature. The increasing abstraction of our time calls for balance through connection to Life. There is no doubt that a garden with a multitude of carefully tended plants - each a silent counselor- can offer space for this connection to occur. Simply being near plants allows a magical transfer of peace and contentment to permeate one’s soul…This is a text block.
MONTHLY GARDEN WALKS: LAST SATURDAY MORNING OF THE MONTH
Come visit the plants and ask your questions about gardening and biodynamics. All ages welcome. Bring a picnic! September 19th, October 31st 10am-12pm Mettabee Greenhouse.
Followed by:
MONTHLY VOLUNTEER WORK AFTERNOONS
Come help make Heart Spring!
September 19th, October 31st
1:30pm-4pm
Mettabee Greenhouse
On September 26th, Heart Spring Gardens will have a presentation at Arthur’s Point Farm in Philmont:
(Note: In the event of heavy rain, the walk will be postponed to the following Saturday at the same time. Check our website for updates.)
Friday September 18, 7pm,
The ReMemberers are a multidisciplinary trio weaving ritual storytelling, global song, and multi-instrumental virtuosity into an experience that feels part theater, part concert, part ceremony. Violet Southard's numinous voice, Alex Harvey's resonant strings, and John deKadt's percussive tale-telling create an atmosphere where ancient myths breathe again — told, sung, and drummed into presence. Each gathering begins with an inherited wisdom tale and unfolds as a journey inward. Musical traditions from across the planet converge in this awakening of ancient folklore. The ReMemberers, in partnership with their audience, rekindle one of humanity's oldest customs: coming together to listen, imagine, and be transformed.
About This year's story THE FIREBIRD
A Russian folktale dating back ten generations is revived this season in a fresh retelling. In a forest gone silent, a young Huntsman finds a single golden feather blazing on the path before him — a feather shed from the burning breast of the Firebird, the most extraordinary creature in all the world. Against the counsel of his talking horse, he takes it. And from that one moment of ambition, everything unravels. Task by task, a tyrannical ruler — the ego made sovereign — escalates his demands on the obedient Huntsman who stumbles deeper into complicity with the authoritarian regime. The Huntsman makes one compromise after another, each one more absurd than than the last, until he can no longer remember where his own will has ended and the authoritarian’s began.
All the while the caged Firebird watches from the courtyard with eyes full of impossible light. Something is calling to him from the far horizon of his heart. Courage won't be enough to answer that call. Neither will serenity. Only a willingness to be completely undone. This is a thousand-year-old Russian folktale. It is also a story about right now
The ReMemberers tell it whole — no screen, no set, no fourth wall to break because none was built. Sound rhythm, voice and a room full of people co-witnessing an old story that knows their names. We call it hearth-centered; the oldest technology of gathering there is. That it lands this year in a deconsecrated church on Wurts Street is not an accident so much as a homecoming: the building was made for exactly this kind of night, whatever name it went by then.
THE REMEMBERERS ARE
John de Kadt — world percussion, storyteller. Has performed and recorded with Krishna Das and collaborated with Mickey Hart and a long storytelling membership under the Robert Bly; his music has had 130M+ streams on spotify.
Violet Southard — Ceremonial voice and song holder - a renowned sound healer who works at wellness centers nationally.
Alex Harvey — Strings - Filmmaker (WALDEN: Life in the Woods, I Am a Seagull, The Last Ecstatic Days); former music & arts programmer, Race Brook Lodge; producer of Kingston's Down County Jump; host of the monthly Songs of the Sea sing at Tempo.
Sept18 Advance Tickets Here: https://www.viewcy.com/event/the_firebird_retold
SITE: https://www.rememberers.org/
Low Lily Concert
Sliding Scale $20-30
family discounts at the door
LOW LILY
Folk/Bluegrass/American Roots
With a vocal and instrumental blend that has been dubbed “outstanding” and “meticulous”, the members of Low Lily (Liz Simmons, Flynn Cohen, and newest member Lily Sexton) come together to create a signature sound that has captivated audiences throughout the US, UK, and Canada.
Low Lily is the colloquial name for the Trout Lily, a wildflower that grows in the northeast and in regions further afield. Like its namesake, Low Lily the band has been blooming across the musical landscape since 2015- throughout the northeast and beyond. Liz Simmons (guitar, banjo & vocals), Flynn Cohen (guitar, mandolin & vocals), and Lily Sexton (fiddle & vocals) blend their considerable individual talents into a stylistic bouquet of energetic fiddle music, introspective folk, bluegrass, and Americana.
Low Lily’s recordings have received noteworthy attention with two #1 songs on international folk radio, two Independent Music Award wins. Their original song Hope Lingers On (written by former band member Lissa Schneckenburger), has been sung by choirs around the world as an anthem for peace and justice.
Winners of Best Bluegrass Song and Vox Pop Fan Favorite, Independent Music Awards 2019
Americana Band of the Year, New England Music Awards nominee, 2022
Roots Band of the Year, New England Music Awards nominee, 2025
"[Low Lily has] an incredible knack for putting a little pop twist on a traditional Folk/Americana sound... it’s a blend that works beautifully." ~PopMatters
"Low Lily brandishes their formidable individual Folk foundations within a collective sound that’s as smart with sense of pop phrasing and flair as it is roots-savvy.” ~Roots Music Report
www.lowlily.com
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6:45 pm - 7:15 pm
Dancing will take place outside, weather permitting.
The American Traveling Morrice team of dancers locates somewhere new every year to dance in art and performance spaces, schools, camps, retirement homes, co-ops, and sometimes simply on village greens for a week every Summer. This year we will be camping in Hillsdale, NY from August 9 through the 15th. Each day we travel to four or five different locations (arranged well in advance) and perform several dances for the public's enjoyment for about thirty minutes each time, sometimes interspersed with a song that has a chorus for the public to join in!
Natalie & Brittany Haas
Sliding Scale $20-30
family discounts at the door
“I think I've listened to and loved every recording Natalie and Brittany Haas have made down through the years, but I have been waiting for this recording of just the two of them. Chops, verve, taste and musicality... phew. I love every note. I continue to be in awe of Natalie and Brittany–stars of their or any generation. "Haas" is a stunningly gorgeous album from two of my absolute favorite musicians.” - Liz Carroll“
Anyone who has experienced Brittany or Nataile Haas' music knows that they are each among the most exciting, moving musicians in the Acoustic String Music Universe. Thus, the prospect of both of them together brings an almost unbearably joyful fulfillment of just about every musical desire: a Major Event in our Musical History. And those who don't know – I'm giving you my absolute best advice here – Buy this recording now! Get it! Don't even wait three minutes. Make sure your floor is clean because you'll be feeling around down there for your jaw while your feet and legs are off dancing around the room on their own.” - Darol Anger
NATALIE & BRITTANY HAAS
Sisters Natalie (cello) and Brittany (fiddle) Haas began their musical lives together, filling their childhood home with Bach suites and old-time tunes alike. It was on their own, however-following divergent paths through disparate musical traditions, countries, and cultures-that they both arrived as virtuosi and composers at the highest levels of contemporary string music. Fans of acoustic music can hardly mention one without referencing the other's work. With HAAS, these singular musicians finally record together - in duo form - for the first time. It is a collaboration a lifetime in the making, and a music encompassing travels through time and through the world From Nashville to Norway, the Celtic Isles to California, Natalie and Brittany have absorbed, adapted, and made their own world of music. The result? HAAS.
One-Week Camp: June 29 – July 3 | 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM | Ages 6–10
Two-Week Camp: July 27 – August 7 | 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Ages 8–14
One-Week Camp Campers learn the basic skills of balance board, rolling globe, unicycle, tight wire, stilts, acrobatics, juggling, and clowning. Each day begins with a group game and a fun, full-body circus warm-up, followed by introductions/techniques for each skill. Campers then rotate in groups through a series of circus learning “stations” to practice skills. After lunch, juggling and “circus skills choice time” round out each afternoon. This week is a good introduction for first-time campers and also for returning campers working to advance skills mastery and try combinations of skills.
Two-Week Camp We turn our skills into collective acts for a "showcase" open to the community at the end of our two weeks. This changes the camp day activity and focuses our afternoons on theme building, choreography, and simple set, prop, or costume creations. This camp is open to campers who have done week one or have participated previously and have some basic skills.
One-Week Camp: $450
Two-Week Camp: $850
To register, please print and complete the 2 attached forms:
Registration and emergency contact form
Release/waiver form
Send forms and payment to: Laura Geilen 35 NY State Route 71 Hillsdale, NY 12529
Payment ensures your child’s place. Places fill quickly, so don't hesitate! Checks in the full amount or a deposit of $150 per child will hold a place. All balances are due on the first day of camp (I'm happiest to receive any balances in cash). No child will be permitted to participate without payments and all completed forms.
Payment Plans: If you require a payment plan, please contact me ASAP to make special arrangements.
Refund Policy: If camp is cancelled, you will receive a full reimbursement. If you need to withdraw your child, you will be refunded (minus a $50 processing fee) provided I receive notice by June 1. After June 1, there can be no refunds.
Scholarships: Please consider donating to our camp scholarship fund to help families who otherwise would be unable to attend. Contact Laura for more information.
Hours Please note the different start times for the earlier and later camps:
June (One-Week): 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM
August (Two-Week): 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Attire Campers should wear comfortable clothing with shirts that cover the torso (either tight-fitting or tucked in for going upside down). A pair of properly fitting sneakers is a must. Athletic summer sandals with covered toes (like Keen or Teva) are also okay. No flip-flops or rubber rain boots! These can be worn to camp but must be exchanged at the door for circus sneakers.
Please bring a bathing suit, towel, AND an extra set of clothes every day; children may play in the stream or sprinkler during lunch. Please provide a sun hat and sunblock. Long hair should be tied back. Please leave jewelry, watches, toys, and electronic gadgets at home.
Nourishment Circus skills use LOTS of energy! Have your child eat a hearty breakfast, a snack on the way to camp, and bring a large, nutrient-rich lunch. No sweets, please. Water is available all day, but a personal, well-chilled water bottle is a welcomed extra.
Laura Geilen 518-929-5392
Village Harmony Teen World Music Ensemble
Led by Sinead O'Mahoney, Carl Linich, Hannah Levy, Ethan Sudan
Friday, July 17th, 7 PM
Featuring songs from South Africa, Georgia, and the Balkans, American shape-note music, and contemporary compositions
Admission is by donation
Come early for good seating, although no one will be turned away!
Potluck at 5:30 PM
Please RSVP: welcome@mettabeefarm.com
One-Week Camp: June 29 – July 3 | 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM | Ages 6–10
Two-Week Camp: July 27 – August 7 | 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM | Ages 8–14
One-Week Camp Campers learn the basic skills of balance board, rolling globe, unicycle, tight wire, stilts, acrobatics, juggling, and clowning. Each day begins with a group game and a fun, full-body circus warm-up, followed by introductions/techniques for each skill. Campers then rotate in groups through a series of circus learning “stations” to practice skills. After lunch, juggling and “circus skills choice time” round out each afternoon. This week is a good introduction for first-time campers and also for returning campers working to advance skills mastery and try combinations of skills.
Two-Week Camp We turn our skills into collective acts for a "showcase" open to the community at the end of our two weeks. This changes the camp day activity and focuses our afternoons on theme building, choreography, and simple set, prop, or costume creations. This camp is open to campers who have done week one or have participated previously and have some basic skills.
One-Week Camp: $450
Two-Week Camp: $850
To register, please print and complete the 2 attached forms:
Registration and emergency contact form
Release/waiver form
Send forms and payment to: Laura Geilen 35 NY State Route 71 Hillsdale, NY 12529
Payment ensures your child’s place. Places fill quickly, so don't hesitate! Checks in the full amount or a deposit of $150 per child will hold a place. All balances are due on the first day of camp (I'm happiest to receive any balances in cash). No child will be permitted to participate without payments and all completed forms.
Payment Plans: If you require a payment plan, please contact me ASAP to make special arrangements.
Refund Policy: If camp is cancelled, you will receive a full reimbursement. If you need to withdraw your child, you will be refunded (minus a $50 processing fee) provided I receive notice by June 1. After June 1, there can be no refunds.
Scholarships: Please consider donating to our camp scholarship fund to help families who otherwise would be unable to attend. Contact Laura for more information.
Hours Please note the different start times for the earlier and later camps:
June (One-Week): 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM
August (Two-Week): 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Attire Campers should wear comfortable clothing with shirts that cover the torso (either tight-fitting or tucked in for going upside down). A pair of properly fitting sneakers is a must. Athletic summer sandals with covered toes (like Keen or Teva) are also okay. No flip-flops or rubber rain boots! These can be worn to camp but must be exchanged at the door for circus sneakers.
Please bring a bathing suit, towel, AND an extra set of clothes every day; children may play in the stream or sprinkler during lunch. Please provide a sun hat and sunblock. Long hair should be tied back. Please leave jewelry, watches, toys, and electronic gadgets at home.
Nourishment Circus skills use LOTS of energy! Have your child eat a hearty breakfast, a snack on the way to camp, and bring a large, nutrient-rich lunch. No sweets, please. Water is available all day, but a personal, well-chilled water bottle is a welcomed extra.
Laura Geilen 518-929-5392
We will be having a Solstice Sweat Lodge Ceremony
this Saturday 6/20 at 4pm at Mettabee Farm.
All are welcome
Please RSVP if you haven't already and are planning to come!
Arriving by 3pm would be ideal for helping prepare the lodge and settling in.
Starlight/lantern light potluck meal to follow under the gazebo!
Please bring something simple to share and your own bowl/plate/utensils.
* Note that this will be our last lodge until early Autumn, as I'll be on an artist residency sabbatical through the summer.
Columbia County Contra Dance & Waltz
1st Saturday of the Month
April 4th 2026
Family Dance 6-7 PM
Waltzing 7:00- 7:30 PM,
Contra Dance 7:30 -10:30 PM
Dance Admission:
Adults: $15- 20
Students: $10
Children age 7-14: $7
Children under 7: Free
All Welcome!
All Dances Taught
For More Info Contact
Aldo Lavaggi
lavaggi.aldo@gmail.com
Plant Give-Away Saturday June 6th 10:00am - 12:00pm
Heart Spring Gardens has moved to Mettabee! Please check our mailings and website for news about their offerings and progress, as well as their website for more information! Do not miss their first community offering - a plant giveaway on Saturday, June 6th.
Here is a brief introduction:
Jean-David Derreumaux has over 45 years of experience in biodynamic agriculture, medicinal plant cultivation, and landscape design. He has designed and managed gardens in Camphill Village Copake, the Center for Discovery, and Churchtown Dairy. Jean-David, together with his wife Karen, lived and worked in the Le Beal Camphill Community in France and Camphill Village Copake for over 25 years.
Ben Davis has 28 years of experience in biodynamic agriculture, as well as senior-level management in operations, development, and nonprofit management. Ben, together with his wife, Valeska, and family, has lived and worked in Botton Village in the United Kingdom and at Triform Camphill Community in Hudson, NY.
… is to create gardens of healing that welcome all who enter to connect with the goodness of plants. Through the truthfulness expressed in their forms, colors, scents and energies, plants have the ability to enliven, nourish and heal. With sensitively designed landscapes, biodynamic practice, and a workshop where they are carefully transformed into remedies, we strengthen the healing light that may grow between people and plants.
…lies the intention to open the world of plants to those seeking counsel from nature. The increasing abstraction of our time calls for balance through connection to Life. There is no doubt that a garden with a multitude of carefully tended plants - each a silent counselor- can offer space for this connection to occur. Simply being near plants allows a magical transfer of peace and contentment to permeate one’s soul…This is a text block.
JUNE 6TH: PLANT GIFTING DAY AND GARDEN WALK
There will be a small selection of extra plants that we would like to give as gifts to your home garden 10am-12pm Mettabee Greenhouse
MONTHLY GARDEN WALKS: LAST SATURDAY MORNING OF THE MONTH
Come visit the plants and ask your questions about gardening and biodynamics. All ages welcome. Bring a picnic! June 27th, July 25th, August 29th, September 26th, October 31st 10am-12pm Mettabee Greenhouse.
Followed by:
MONTHLY VOLUNTEER WORK AFTERNOONS
There will be a small selection of extra plants that we would like to give as gifts to your home garden 10am-12pm Mettabee Greenhouse
Come help make Heart Spring!
June 27th, July 25th, August 29th, September 26th,October 31st
1:30pm-4pm
Mettabee Greenhouse
(Note: In the event of heavy rain, the walk will be postponed to the following Saturday at the same time. Check our website for updates.)
Wednesday and Thursday June 3 and 4 at 11:30am and 6:30pm
"The Sword the Stone and the Anvil" - 5th, 6th, 7th Grades
All are Welcome!
Wednesday and Thursday June 3 and 4 at 11:30am and 6:30pm
"The Sword the Stone and the Anvil" - 5th, 6th, 7th Grades
All are Welcome!
Wednesday and Thursday June 3 and 4 at 11:30am and 6:30pm
"The Sword the Stone and the Anvil" - 5th, 6th, 7th Grades
All are Welcome!
Wednesday and Thursday June 3 and 4 at 11:30am and 6:30pm
"The Sword the Stone and the Anvil" - 5th, 6th, 7th Grades
All are Welcome!
Monday and Tuesday June 1 and 2 at 11:30am
Phoenix Lower Grades Class Plays
"Rainbow Crow" - 1st/2nd Grade
"Oldest of the Old Wisest of the Wise" - 3rd/4th Grade
Monday and Tuesday June 1 and 2 at 11:30am
Phoenix Lower Grades Class Plays
"Rainbow Crow" - 1st/2nd Grade
"Oldest of the Old Wisest of the Wise" - 3rd/4th Grade
Saturday, May 30th at 7:30pm At Mettabee Farm & Arts
CALLED BY JON GREENE
WITH MUSIC BY CLARA STICKNEY & ALEX CUMMINGS
SUGGESTED $15 PER DANCER/$40 PER FAMILY aneveningofadvancedcontra@gmail.com
Traditional Sweat Lodge
Time: The ceremony begins at 3:00 PM, with an arrival time of 2:30 PM to allow participants to settle in and help prepare.
RSVP if you plan to attend.
Potluck: There will be a community potluck meal after the ceremony. Bring something simple to share.
Kinobe & Friends in Concert
Traditional Music & Information sharing about Uganda
A Fundraiser for the World Bridge Foundation
7:30pm
Tickets
$20 - $40 Suggested
Kid & Family Discounts at the door!
Musician and Educator - www.chinobay.com
Curator & Producer: Dance of Hope - www.danceofhope.com
Founder: World Bridge Foundation - www.worldbridgefoundation.org
Email: me@chinobay.com
CANCELED!! African Music & Dance Immersion for Kids.
Saturday May 16th
Noon - 5:30pm
with Pizza Dinner 5:30-7:30pm
CANCELED!!! Will Re-Schedule in the Fall! Write for more info!
Ages 9 - 16 Suggested (Younger kids with a parent could be OK and older kids who are interested can come too!)
$50 - $150 Suggested for the Day
Please add $15 for pizza and ice-cream
Pack a snack and a water bottle and wear comfortable clothing
Rooted in the rich cultural and musical traditions of Uganda, Chinobay is a musician, cultural ambassador, and educator who has opened hearts across the globe and performed as a featured artist at top tier festivals and venues.
As a child growing up in his homeland of Uganda, Chinobay lived in a small home near the Kanyange king's palace. Constant immersion in the traditional music coming from the palace left an indelible mark on him. He embraced the folk tunes he learned from these musical elders, crafting early works that paid homage to the music of his own tribe, the Baganda people.
As he grew musically, he revitalized these classic folk songs, and along the way he mastered a broad array of traditional instruments. Today, he is a seasoned songwriter, a dedicated educator, and a bridge-builder between cultures. His original compositions breathe life into the diverse stories of humanity, showcasing Africa in its full spectrum of richness — transcending its portrayal merely as a backdrop for adversity.
Chinobay’s journey is not just a musical odyssey, it is also a testament to the power of art to transform lives and bring about positive change. From teaching music and dance to formerly homeless children in Kampala, to supporting internally displaced youth from Northern Uganda, he is having immeasurable impact on the lives of vulnerable children.
Celebrate Spring!
Community May Pole Dance & Snack Pot-Luck
Sunday May 3
3 PM,
May Pole Dance at 3:30, followed by an early dinner potluck.
All Ages Welcome!!
Please Dress in white and wear flowers!
Bring food and drinks to share.
Bring your own dishes if possible.
info@mettabeefarm.com
Columbia County Contra Dance & Waltz
1st Saturday of the Month
April 4th 2026
Family Dance 6-7 PM
Waltzing 7:00- 7:30 PM,
Contra Dance 7:30 -10:30 PM
Dance Admission:
Adults: $15- 20
Students: $10
Children age 7-14: $7
Children under 7: Free
All Welcome!
All Dances Taught
For More Info Contact
Aldo Lavaggi
lavaggi.aldo@gmail.com
Friday May 1st @ 4pm
Mettabee Farm, Harlemville NY
Phone: (845) 443-6650
Email: grandmothersacredlodge@gmail.com
Next Sweat Lodge May 17
