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URL:https://kingstonhappenings.org/events/2026-annual-festival-at-kaatsbaa
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SUMMARY:2026 Annual Festival at Kaatsbaan
DESCRIPTION:Kaatsbaan's Annual Festival Returns with 3 weekends of live mus
 ic\, dance\, and theater performances\, visual art exhibitions\, all-ages 
 activities\, and more!\n\nAugust 29: The festival opener is an all-day cel
 ebration filled with live music and geared towards all ages.\n11:00 AM - 1
 2:30 PM: Community Free Activities including:\n- Bike Maintenance Workshop
  with Laura Curry\n- Wampum Belt Artmaking with Vickie Ramirez\, Ty Defoe\
 , and Jeanette Harrison\n- Lacrosse Stick Handling Clinic with Bard Colleg
 e Women’s Lacrosse team.\n1:00 PM: Calpulli Danza Mexicana - "Native Mex
 ico: Dances of the First Peoples"\n3:00 PM: Ballez - "Travesty Doll Play (
 after Coppelia)"\n5:00 PM: Anna Sperber - "Bow Echo"\n7:00 PM: Valerie Jun
 e\n** Food trucks on site all day including Samosa Shack\, Yeah Dawg Vegan
 \, and VanRoy's Caribbean Grill!\n&nbsp\;\nSeptember 5: Labor Day weekend 
 programming centers on storytelling by individual playwrights\, and a musi
 cal double-bill closes out the day!\n1:00 PM: Playwrights' Platform: Progr
 am 1\nRachel Jendrzejewski (through collaborators Terry Hempfling and Laur
 en Lewis)\, Vickie Ramirez\, Ty Defoe\, Jeanette Harrison\, Rose Jarboe\n3
 :00 PM: Playwrights' Platform: Program 2\nSylvan Oswald\, Lori Goldston\, 
 Chloe Alexandra Thompson\, Jim Fletcher\, Lucy Sexton\, and Adrienne Trusc
 ott.\n7:00 PM: The Bearded Ladies Cabaret sing-along and concert/dance par
 ty by CRICKETS (JD Samson\, Roddy Bottum\, and Michael O’Neill)\n\nSepte
 mber 6: Free art walk with 2026 Exhibition Curator Hillary Greene. Free fo
 r all with an RSVP!\n&nbsp\;\nSeptember 11: Artist talk with festival chor
 eographers Courtney “Balenciaga” Washington (MasterZ at Work)\, and Ro
 nald K. Brown and Arcell Cabuag (EVIDENCE)\, facilitated by choreographer 
 Souleymane Badolo (Assistant Professor of Dance\, Bard College) around the
 ir artistic lineages\, dance influences\, and daily inspirations. Free and
  open for everyone to enjoy.\n&nbsp\;\nSeptember 12: The festival closes w
 ith a high-energy summer send-off. Large- ensemble dance performances by E
 VIDENCE and MasterZ at Work open the day and Sadonna and the Slutinos give
  a farewell evening concert.\n1:00 PM: Ronald K. Brown / EVIDENCE Dance Co
 mpany - "A Light Shines Through" and "Torch"\n2:30 PM: Courtney Balenciaga
  Washington and MasterZ at Work - "24/7 Diner" and "ALL INCLUSIVE"\n6:00 P
 M: SADONNA: The World Drowned Tour\n&nbsp\;\nThe 2026 Annual Festival also
  marks the return of Kaatsbaan’s outdoor Mountain Stage with its expansi
 ve views of the Catskill Mountains and immersion in the natural beauty of 
 the Hudson Valley. Most performances are an hour or less\, are all ages\, 
 and the festival schedule permits an easeful and day-long schedule of art 
 and nature alongside Tivoli’s walkable downtown amenities. Tickets are o
 ffered on an incentive-based\, affordable structure. Individual tickets an
 d all-day passes available now at https://kaatsbaan.org/performances-festi
 vals.
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CATEGORIES:@Featured,@Newsletter,@Weekly
 Pick,Art,Comedy,Community,Dance,Educational classes and lectures,Festivals
 and major community events,For kids,For seniors,Music,Nightlife and
 entertainment,Theater
LOCATION:Kaatsbaan Cultural Park\, 120 Broadway\, Tivoli\, NY\, United Stat
 es
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