All Events

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild hosts a variety of special events throughout the year. These events are held at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts in the village of Woodstock as well as the Byrdcliffe Theater, the Byrdcliffe Barn, and other venues throughout the historic arts colony.

Workshop

Sunday, January 19, 2025 

10 am – 12:30 pm

Animation for Teens

Ages 12-17. The 12 Principles of Animation will be explored through claymation.  Each participant will work on creating a bouncing clay ball at first, and then explore the hands-on medium with these new animation fundamentals in mind.

Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY

Workshop

Thursday, January 23 and 30, 2025 

6 pm – 8:30 pm

Animation for Creatives

A two-part workshop

First we’ll learn and practice the 12 Principles of Animation through claymation. Then on night two, each participant will work on their own section of a collaborative class “anijam” (like an animated anthology) incorporating their personal art practices and/or interests with the fundamentals we learned on night one.

Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY

Exhibition / Opening Reception

January 18 – February 23, 2025

Opening receptions:

Saturday, January 18, from 2:00 – 4:00 pm at Kleinert/James followed by a reception at CPW Saturday, January 18,  from 5:00 – 8:00 pm

My Sister, My Self: The Photographs of Colleen Kenyon and Kathleen Kenyon

Curated by Tom Wolf and Laurie Dahlberg

presented in collaboration with the Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW)

Curated by art historians Tom Wolf and Laurie Dahlberg, My Sister, My Self, features photographs by identical twin artists Colleen Kenyon and Kathleen Kenyon. The exhibition also features photographs by other identical twin women artists including Frances McLaughlin-Gill and Kathryn McLaughlin Abbe, and Ellen Kahn and Lynda Kahn.

Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY

Concert

Friday, February 14

8 pm

A Valentine’s Date with Trio Garrison, Johnston & Schulich

Gather your date and spend
Valentine’s evening with a
 spirited jazz trio whose improvisational explorations draw from jazz, classical, funk, Latin, world-beat, electronica and beyond.

Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY

Meditation

Saturday, March 15

2 – 4 pm

Linda Montano: Laugh / Cry with the Chakras

This workshop will consist of group sound, movement, and performative interactions based on Linda Mary Montano’s 14 YEARS OF LIVING ART, a Chakra Endurance. 

Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY