September Programs
Sunday, September 12, 9:30am (9:00am Kids' Run)
Barry Hopkins Run at Olana
$10 registration, $9/members of The Olana Partnership or Onteora Runner's Club
*Vehicle use fee applies
This 3.8 mile course traverses primarily unpaved carriage drives
in the designed landscape of Hudson River School artist Frederic Church. Just don't let the fantastic views slow you down!
Unique awards in the usual age groups. First 75 entrants are guaranteed a t-shirt. Children's Run is free (awards, no t-shirts).
Call 518-828-0135 for information. Download the registration form here: Barry Hopkins Run
Thursday, September 16, 4:00pm Company and Community Warm-up 4:30-6pm Open Rehearsal
Attached to the Rest of the World by UpRiver/Downtown Dance Company (URDDC)
Wagon House Education Center/Farm Complex
All Ages
Free
All bodies welcome to warm-up with the dancers. Awaken the body and mind
for an exploration of your inner landscape. Then travel around the Farm Complex with the company and sense your connection to the outer landscape.
Watch the rehearsal of the company's upcoming site-specific performance with greater body awareness.
Saturday, September 18, 11:30am
Family Tour at Olana
Visitor Center
Families
Admission is $9/adult; $8/students and seniors, free for children under 12 or members of The Olana Partnership
*Vehicle use fee applies
Explore the house, its paintings and treasures from a child's
perspective. Take the family tour and then stop by the Wagon House Education Center for Art in the Barn, or
borrow a backpack full of activities to do on the grounds - a family day at Olana couldn't be more perfect!
Tours are geared for families with 6-12 year-olds, but all ages are welcome. Children must be accompanied by
an adult. Reservations are required by 4pm the preceding Friday. Call (518) 828-0135 for information.
Sunday, September 19, 1-3pm
Unplanned Views at Olana: A Tour of the Geological Landscape
Visitor Center
Adults
Free
*Vehicle use fee applies
Join Hartwick College geology professor Robert Titus in this exploration of the forces that shaped the
19th century artist's landscape. Frederic Church spent decades designing a series of planned views at his
Olana estate. These are landmarks in landscape architecture. Geologist Robert Titus will take Ramble
participants to a number of these sites, but his goal is not to see the views that Church saw. Instead
he will take his group back in time to see the forces that created our landscape. Ramblers will see it
as it was during the Ice Age or back 380 million years ago when this was tropical lowland much like today's
Bangladesh. Titus is well known to readers of Kaatskill Life magazine and the Columbia County Independent for
his popular geology columns. Space is limited. Call (518) 828-0135 to register.
Sunday, September 19, 3-5pm
Landscape Gardens on the Hudson, A History:
The Romantic Age, the Great Estates and the Birth of American Landscape Architecture
Olana's East Lawn
All ages
Free
*Vehicle use fee applies
Join landscape architect and scholar Robert M. Toole - in celebration of his new book
"Landscape Gardens on the Hudson: A History" - for a book-signing,
reception and guided walk. The walk will illuminate Olana's extraordinary designed landscape,
which is highlighted in the book. The eventwill take place in conjunction with the launch of a month-long
celebration of historic landscape gardens throughout the Hudson Valley, sponsored by the Hudson River Valley
National Heritage Area.For more information on the Historic Landscape Garden Month,
see www.hudsonrivervalley.com.
Thursday, September 23, 9am
First Day of Autumn Hike
Visitor Center
All Ages
Free
Explore carriage drives and sweeping views as you learn a little more about the Olana landscape.
Families welcome! Pre-registration required by 4PM the Wednesday preceding. Dress for the weather. Free.
Call (518) 828-0135 for information.
Thursday, September 23, 4pm Company and Community Warm-up 4:30-6pm Open Rehearsal
Attached to the Rest of the World by UpRiver/Downtown Dance Company (URDDC)
Wagon House Education Center/Farm Complex
All Ages
Free
All bodies welcome to warm-up with the dancers. Awaken the body and mind
for an exploration of your inner landscape. Then travel around the Farm Complex with the company and sense your connection to the outer landscape.
Watch the rehearsal of the company's upcoming site-specific performance with greater body awareness.
Saturday, September 25
Smithsonian Museum Day
Museum Day is a nationwide event where participating museums and cultural institutions
across the country offer free admission to anyone presenting a Museum Day Ticket. Tickets are available at
www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday.
Saturday, September 25, 6pm
Attached to the Rest of the World by UpRiver/Downtown Dance Company (URDDC)
Wagon House Education Center/Farm Complex
All Ages
Free
What is our relationship to the land? The subject for a new work by URDDC explores the divide between connection
to and exploitation of this earth. Reverence, boundary, protector, ownership, control, and conservation roil
underneath the surface of this lush, provocative new dance work. Created on site at Olana, six core dancers
weave together a community of elements that include a men and boys movement choir, crows, bicyclists, live music,
and spinning parasols. Rain date: Sunday, September 26, 6pm.
Sunday, September 26, 10am-1pm
"En Plein Air" Creative Writing Workshop
Wagon House Education Center/Farm Complex
Families
$10/adult; $5/member of The Olana Partnership
*Vehicle use fee applies
Local writer/poet Kathe Izzo will lead creative exercises 'en plein air' (out-of-doors) in the landscape to encourage using
nature and your surroundings in your writing. For those interested in reflection, memoir writing/poetry and learning new ways
to beat writer's block - this is for you. Space is limited; register by the preceding Saturday: (518) 828-1872 x 109.
Sunday, September 26, 2-4pm
Patterns in Nature
Wagon House Education Center/Farm Complex
Ages 6-10 and caregivers
Free
*Vehicle use fee applies
See how science, art, and math cross paths. Children will create rubbings, drawings, collages, and poetry.
Space is limited; register by the preceding Saturday: (518) 828-1872 x 109.
*Vehicle use fee: On weekends and holiday Mondays, April through October 31,
there is a $5 entry fee per vehicle from 10am-5pm; (Vehicle entry fee is waived for current members of The Olana Partnership) This fee can be
credited toward a house tour as long as house tour tickets are available.