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Last Updated: 10/6/15
UPCOMING & ANNUAL EVENTS, PARADES & FESTIVALS
3rd Annual Pink Kiss Breast Cancer Awareness Event
October 10th, 2015
6pm-9pm
Location: Lorraine Tyne, 161 Main Street
Shop, drink and pose on the red carpet of Pink Kiss, a collaborative fundraising event from designer Sarah Graby and the jewelry store Lorraine Tyne. Sarah Graby features her collection of head scarves called "Sparkle My Head Scarves" to celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness month. Complimentary cocktails, glam styling sessions and giveaways await you. This year marks our 3rd year the event is raising money for the
Hudson Valley's "Miles Of Hope" Organization.
Free, yet donate!
City of Beacon Pumpkin Carving Contest
Saturday, October 10, 2015
10 am
Location: Pavilion at Beacon Memorial Park
Kids
15 and younger can compete for Top Carver in two age divisions (13 to
15, and 12 and under). Parents should supervise children at all times!
Supplies will be provided, but are limited. Sign up ahead of time at
City Hall. Organizers insist, no professionals, please.
New York State Sheep & Wool Festival
October 17th - 18th, 2015
Location: Dutchess County Fairgrounds | Rhinebeck, NY 12572
A lovely sheep and wool festival happening at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds. Learn about and enjoy the animals, find wool fashions like mittens, gloves and sweaters, and shop the market.
Beacon Sloop Club Pumpkin Festival
October 18th, 2015
12pm-5pm
Location: Pete and Toshi Seeger Riverfront Park
The Beacon Sloop Club holds or participates in several festivals and events
each year to raise funds for the clubs activities and bring awareness to many environmental and social issues.
City of Beacon Hocus Pocus Parade
Sunday, October 25, 2015
12:30 pm
Location: Main Street, Beacon
Costumed
kids start lining up at Peace Park (South Avenue/9D and Main Street) at
12:30 for a parade down Main Street at 1. Trick-or-treating at
businesses follows the stroll. Don't forget to check in at the Beacon
Flea, too! They'll have some treats for the little goblins.
Information >
Pumpkins in the Park
Jack O'Lantern Lighting
Carving: Tuesday, October 27 to Friday, October 30, 2015, 3 pm to 6 pm
Lighting: Friday, October 30, 2015, 6 pm to 8 pm
Location: Long Dock Park, Beacon waterfront
On
afternoons Tuesday to Friday, visit Long Dock Park to put your carving
skills to use on pumpkins provided by Scenic Hudson. Stick around Friday
evening, when the jack o'lanterns will be set aglow and displayed
throughout the park.
Information >
Santa Spottings on Main Street
Location: Main Street Shops
Santa comes to coffee shops and restaurants around Beacon. Where will you visit him?
LOTTERY, SEASON PASSES & SIGNUPS
Scenic Hudson Kayak Storage
March 30 - April 17, 2015
Beacon's New Pool at the Settlement Camp
Registration Starts March 1st, 2015
Season Starts June 29th, 2015
EVENTS THAT ALREADY HAPPENED
These events have passed. Look for them next year!
We move them to the bottom of this Guide to get ready for next year!
City of Beacon's "Easter After Easter" Egg Hunt
Saturday April 25th, 2015
According
to the City, Easter is coming later. "Same great fun and better
weather! Join us for our a little bit later than Easter Egg Hunt and
Spring Fling at Memorial Park."
Saturday April 25th, 2015 (rain or shine)
The
9th Annual Beacon Barks! parade being held on Saturday, April 25, 2015,
on Main Street in Beacon. Beacon Barks! is the street festival for
people who love animals, live music, great food, and having fun in the
heart of Beacon. Festivities begin at 10:00 am and conclude at 3:00 pm.
Show appreciation for animal shelters, rescue and welfare
organizations. It’s free, fun, family-friendly! Bring your four-legged
family members, too! Local shops and restaurants open their doors to
participants (both canine and otherwise) for tasty snacks & treats.
A variety of service providers (such as groomers, vets and many others)
offer information and advice on caring for your best friend. Usually
held the 3rd week in April of every year.
Ree-Play Sale
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
May 1, 2 3, 2015
9am - 1pm
Location: The University Settlement Camp Theater
724 Wolcott Avenue (Rt. 9D across from Craig House)
The Ree-Play Sale is
one of Beacon's most well known, well attended annual sales for baby
and kids gear in the region. Donations pour in from families from all
over, and the pickings begin on May 1st for three short days. Those who
volunteer to sort the gently used items for sale do get pre-shopping
privileges. For sale are gently used baby’s, children’s, and maternity
clothing, toys, furniture,
outdoor play equipment, bicycles, strollers and other baby-gear, etc.
The Ree-Play Sale the primary fundraiser for its parent organization,
Wee Play Community Project,
an advocate for the City of Beacon’s playgrounds, which promotes
excellence in children’s and youth programming, and builds an organized
coalition of community parents.
Information >
Stony Kill Plant Sale: Vegetable and Herb Plant Sale and Spring Celebration
May 2nd, 2015
11am to 3pm
Location: 79 Farmstead Lane, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590
Get
ready for the spring season with vegetables and herbs that were grown
in Stony Kill's greenhouse. Live music – food – children’s activities
– information – demonstrations – gift shop – tours of the farm animals
in the barn – tours of the Verplanck Tenant Farmhouse – and much more!
Information >
Obercreek Plant Sale
May 2nd, 2015 10am to 4pm (also on May 9 and 10)
May 3rd, 2015, 1pm to 5pm
Location: 59 Marlorville Road Wappingers Falls, NY 12590
The
Obercreek Farm Standis selling their Certified Organic vegetable and
herb plants for your home garden! They are growing over 60 varieties,
traditional and heirloom; check out the line-up below:
Information >
Common Ground Farm Seedling Sale
May 9th, 2015
10am to 3pm
Location: 142 Main Street, Common Greens Garden @ Tito Santana Taqueria
Find
Common Ground Farm at the Common Greens Garden at Tito Santana Taqueria
on Second Saturday in Beacon for their annual seedling sale, just in
time for Mother's Day! Seedlings will include: flowers, tomatoes,
cucumbers, melons, kale, greens, herbs and more! All grown by hand &
with love in organic potting soil at Common Ground Farm.
Beacon Open Studios
Location: Shops, Studios and Residences
Beacon
Open Studios is a community supported project by artists, volunteers,
individuals, and local business. Studio spaces are created around the
community where you can drop in during daytime hours. As you walk around
town, you will see the big red circle dot that identifies a studio
space in a shop or home.
Information >
HEfeSTUS Iron Pour
May 23th, 2015
2pm to 10pm
Location: Hanna Lane (near the Tallix Complex, where parking is available)
Woa. This is an event you don't see very often, so you're going to want to go. It is live casting of hot metal during a day of food from local eateries and live music. Hefestus Iron pour began in 2013 with the idea of bringing together art, history and community. This year’s all-day festival will include sculpture casting workshops, musical entertainment, local food and several thousand pounds of molten iron. Local artist and students will be casting iron sculpture from an outdoor furnace in a spectacle of metal and fire that is not to be missed. Casting is the process in which metal is melted in a furnace and poured from a container or ladle into a mold of ceramic shell or bonded sand. During Hefestus 2014, over 50 iron castings were poured into molds designed and carved by attendees.
Information >
Beacon Riverfest In The Parks Series (Free)
May 25th, 2015
4pm to 6pm
Location: Memorial Park
Bring a picnic and make sure you're wearing your dance shoes as the first of four free summer concerts kicks off this Memorial Day Weekend. The band is "The Big Takeover" and you've enjoyed their reggae style before in Beacon.
Location: Catalyst Gallery 137 Main Street
FOR
GOODNESS BAKE (FGB) is an annual pop-up bake sale held in Beacon, New
York. Founded in 2013 by friends and Beaconites Kristen Cronin and Tara
Tornello, FGB is dedicated to raising funds and awareness for worthy
causes within the Hudson Valley. Each FGB bake sale is held for one day
only. Scores of the Valley's best professional and amateur bakers donate
baked goods for the sale. Past beneficiaries have been the Children's
Organ Transplant Association and the Kids R Kids Feeding Program. Once
the last doughnut, cookie, or muffin has been sold, FGB closes up shop,
hands over 100% of the proceeds to the beneficiary, and vanishes. Like
superheroes, but with aprons instead of tights.
Information >
Beacon's City-Wide Yard Sale
Saturday, June 13th, 2015
Location:All Over Beacon!
Participating
in the yard sale can happen one of two ways - you can register your
address as an official yard sale and get on the map (try calling the
City of Beacon at (845) 838-5000, or just put stuff out on your yard and
tag it. People will surly be driving by and will stop.
Information >
Location: Pete and Toshi Seeger Riverfront Park
Strawberry
shortcakes, music, vendors. what more do you need in the summer? The
Beacon Sloop Club holds or participates in several festivals and events
each year to raise funds for the clubs activities and bring awareness to
many environmental and social issues.
Cider Week
June 12th - 21st, 2015
Cider-lovers
rejoice, there is a Cider Week for you! Circulate around all of the
events during this week, and increase your knowledge and appreciation of
cider pressed in this region. Cider is another old beverage renewed in
our day. It was made, stored, and consumed all over the U.S from early
times. But eventually, Temperance politics and Prohibition ended legal
sales. Apple growers had to replace their cider orchards with “Apple Pie
orchards”. Bitter, sour, weird apples that could make great cider lost
all value in the States. But real cider is not brewed. There’s no grain,
no cooking, and no fast route to high quality. Serious cider is all
apple juice, pressed from superior cider varieties. It represents the
land that grew that fruit. It takes time and patience. Great beer can be
made in weeks; great cider, not. The most complex cider is tannic, like
red wine. Its gold color means people tend to chill it. But serious
cider from the right fruit deserves to be tasted at about 60F. Also,
cider tannins offer antioxidant effects, but with far less alcohol than
red wine. Founded by Glynwood, Cider Week was created to revive New
York's orchard heritage. The website serves to connect cider makers from
New York’s Hudson Valley to buyers from top restaurants, bars, and
retail shops across the Hudson Valley region, New York City, and beyond.
Through growing awareness of craft cider, Cider Week helps to bring
profitability to local orchards while reviving heirloom apple varieties.
Beacon Riverfest In The Parks Series (Free)
Tuesday, June 16th, 2015
6pm to 8pm
Location: Green Street Park (on the other side of Fishkill Creek, this is a park located in the base of a sloping hill)
Bring a picnic and make sure you're wearing your dance shoes! The bands are "Bad Mother Factory" and "Knock Yourself Out."
Local Cider Market & Tasting at Historic Huguenot Street House
June 20th, 2015
Noon - 4pm
Location: Historic Huguenot Street House, 88 Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY 12561
This
cider event in New Paltz is included in this Guide because of the
historical value and richness you will get out of attending it. As part
of both
New York State’s Path Through History Weekend and
Hudson Valley Cider Week,
Historic Huguenot Street
will host a local cider market and tasting on Saturday, June 20. The
market will feature 9 Hudson Valley cider makers, including: Hudson
Valley Farmhouse Cider (produced at Breezy Hill Orchard and Stone Ridge
Orchard), Warwick Valley Winery & Distillery (maker of Doc’s® Draft
Ciders, Warwick), Glorie Farm Winery (Marlboro), The Standard Cider
Company (owned by Brotherhood Winery, Washingtonville), Aaron Burr
Cidery (Wurtsboro), Orchard Hill Cider Mill (located at Soons Orchard,
New Hampton), Kettleborough Cider House (New Paltz), Pitchfork Hard
Cider (Poughkeepsie), and Angry Orchard (opening a new facility in
Walden). As part of the market, Historic Huguenot Street and
Kettleborough Cider House
will be introducing a historic crab apple hard cider, brewed by
Kettleborough in collaboration with HHS. The cider’s use of crab apples
is true to how the early founders of New Paltz would have brewed their
own cider, which was a popular colonial drink.
Beacon Riverfest Music & Food Festival
Sunday, June 28th, 2015
Noon to 8pm
Location: Riverfront Park (on the other side of the train station)
An
entire day of live music and food! A large lineup of bands are playing
on 3 stages in Riverfront Park. Kids under 10 get in free, and tickets
are available for purchase for adults. Enjoy music, food and crafts. The
bands include Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, Tracy Bonham, Sidewalk
Chalk, Schwervon, Decora, Gato Loco, Jenny Dee & The Deelinquents,
What Moon Things, Breakfast In Fur, Shana Falana, M Shanghai String
Band, and Simi Stone.
4th Of July Fireworks, Memorial Park
Saturday July 4th, 2015
NOTE: There is no parade on Main Street.
11am Reading of the Declaration of Independence
A reading of the Declaration of Independence will take place, on Saturday, at 11:00am at City Hall.
3pm till dark
Location: Memorial Park, Beacon
Presented
once again by a collaborative community effort by the City of Beacon,
Beacon-Fishkill Kwanis Club, The Costellos and I Am Beacon. Bring the
whole family to enjoy! Fireworks begin at dusk.
Beacon Riverfest In The Parks Series (Free)
Saturday July 11th, 2015
6pm to 8pm
Location: The Beacon Pool - POOL PARTY! (at the Settlement Camp, 724 Wolcott)
Bring a picnic and make sure you're wearing your dance shoes! The band is "PONTOON."
Beacon Riverfest In The Parks Series (Free)
Thursday July 16th, 2015
6pm to 8pm
Location: South Avenue Park
Bring a picnic and make sure you're wearing your dance shoes! The band is "Jeremy Baum Trio."
Beacon Riverfest In The Parks Series (Free)
Thursday July 23rd, 2015
6pm to 8pm
Location: Long Dock Park (near the train station, but far to the left near paths for Dennings Point)
Bring a picnic and make sure you're wearing your dance shoes! The band is "The Stacks."
Beacon Jazz Fest
Saturday July 25th, 2015
12noon - 6pm
Location: The Pete and Toshi Seeger Riverfront Park
Celebrating Music, Hudson Valley Distilleries, artisan crafts & culture of the Hudson Valley, the Inaugural
Beacon Jazz Festival
will take place on Saturday, July 25 from noon to 6 PM at The Pete and
Toshi Seeger Riverfront Park in Beacon, NY. Presented by Six String
Productions, the festival will offer a wealth of musical talent, many
with long associations with Beacon and the surrounding region, in
addition to great Jazz this event will also double as a Hudson Valley
distillery tasting event. Local craft breweries, cideries and wineries
will be represented along with local artisan chefs providing food to
complement the event. Musical artists you can expect to hear include Sun
of Goldfinger, Karl Berger/Ingrid Sertso Quintet, International Brass
& Membrane Corps, Mike Dopazo & The HV All-Stars. The Beacon DJ
Grady Salter will also be spinning classic jazz selections all day
between acts.
In
addition, Hudson Valley distilleries, Wineries, and Cideries, include
Dennings Point Distillery, Hudson Valley Distillery, Albany
Distillery, Dutch Spirits, Taconic Distillery, Tuthilltown, Harvest
Spirits, Brotherhood winery, Naked Flock cidery , Bad Seed Cidery will
be offering free tastings of their renowned spirits, cider and wine
throughout the festival. Other local business providing food and drink
at the Beacon Jazz Festival include More Good, Tito Santana, Beacon
Bread, The Hop Express, plus many more.
More Information >
Firefly Feast
Saturday, August 1st, 2015
Location: 4 Hanna Lane
The second annual Firefly Feast will have local food, drinks, and music all to benefit Common Ground Farm (kids 12 and under are free!).
More Information and Buy Tickets>
The Butterfly Festival
11am - 3pm (Rain or Shine!)
Location: 79 Farmstead Lane, Wappingers Falls, NY
Visit the Verplanck Memorial Perennial Garden and learn all about butterflies! Visit the butterfly tent and have a one on one experience with these wonderful creatures! Food – gift shop – children’s activities - information – demonstrations – and much more! (Free)
Information >
The Beacon Sloop Club Annual Corn Festival
12noon - 5pm (Rain or Shine!)
Location: Pete and Toshi Seeger Riverfront Park
The
Beacon Sloop Club holds or participates in several festivals and events
each year to raise funds for the clubs activities and bring awareness
to many environmental and social issues. This free festival features
fresh picked, ready‐to‐eat local‐grown Hudson Valley sweet corn on the
cob, hot chili, watermelon, cold drinks, and other summer treats. Music
throughout the afternoon and many free kids activities! (Free)
Information >
The Hairdressers Disco Ball
Sunday, August 23rd, 2015
Location: Mid-Hudson Civic Center
For
2015, the Hairdresser’s Disco Ball and Charity Hair Show goes to the
Oscars! Get ready for a blockbuster red-carpet-worthy runway show
featuring over-the-top, highly creative hair styles and costumes
inspired by Academy Award-winning movies and Hollywood stars. The big
show raises funds for HVCS’ HIV/AIDS programs and services and takes
place on Sunday, August 23, 2015 at 7:00 pm at the Mid-Hudson Civic
Center in downtown Poughkeepsie. You may see your favorite stylist from
Beacon participating!
Tickets and Information >
Facebook page for fabulous photos >
Dutchess County Fair
August 25th - 30th, 2015
Location: Dutchess County Fairgrounds | Rhinebeck, NY 12572
Only
one of the best fairs around! Folks from far and wide come to ride the
Farris wheel and other rides. A fun date night or night out with the
family.
September 12th 2015
9am Registration, 10:30am Walk Begins
Location: Long Dock Park, Beacon NY
Benefiting
Hope and Heroes,
who funds the life-saving work on childhood cancer and blood disorders
at Columbia University Medical Center. Presented by Jessica Salomon, a
mother of a Sickle Cell Disease survivor, and Event Coordinator to bring
awareness to the community one step at a time.
Hudson Valley Hoptember Harvestfest
September 12th 2015
Location: 1167 Noxon Road | Lagrangeville, NY 12540
"Celebrating
Everything Hoppy!" The event will feature 30 plus local brewers, music
by "Buckeye Rooster, and our Hop smoked BBQ by the award winning "Bacon
Brothers" as well as many other Hop Infused Delights
Hudson River Craft Beer Festival
September 19th 2015
Location: Riverfront Park
This four-hour event will showcase over 200 releases from some of America’s best craft breweries. Attendees will sample beers in an atmosphere filled with live music, delicious food available for purchase, and great vendors.
Beacon Independent Film Festival
Opening Night Friday, 7:30pm
Location: Beacon's University Settlement Camp on Wolcott Avenue (aka 9D)
The Beacon Independent Film Festival (BIFF) showcases creative films in a unique venue, nestled among the trees at the foot of Mount Beacon, NY.
