Festival Supporters

High Falls Motel, Rt 213, High Falls, NY 12440. 845-687-2095. Just a 5-minute drive from Rosendale.

Miriam's Well, dedicated to offering transformational experiences that initiate and sustain conscious spiritual evolution toward peaceful coexistence. Based in Saugerties, NY, Miriam's Well has hosted a diverse collection of presenters including James Hillman, Angeles Arrien, Huston Smith, David Whyte.

No_Space Gallery -- these multi-talented folks curate shows, design websites, shoot photos, and more. Across Main St. from the Rosendale Cafe.

Rosendale Cafe, great vegetarian food and an amazing line-up of performing artists

Rosendale Chamber of Commerce--For more info about everything that's going on in town and its mining history.

Sky Lake Lodge, a Shambhala contemplative center for meditation, arts and community. The 18-bed lodge is available for conferences and group retreats, as well as Bed & Breakfast weekends.

Williams Lake Resort--Since 1929. Just 5 minutes from the heart of Rosendale, on the shores of a beautiful lake. Offering special festival rates: just mention "Rosendale Video Festival."

Other Rosendale Festivals

LoveFest--February 10, 2007

Women's Studio Workshop Chili Bowl Festival--February 24, 2007

Rosendale Street Festival--July

Jazz in the Valley--August

Rosendale Homegrown Folk Festival--September

9th Annual Rosendale International Pickle Festival--November 19, 2006

Frozendale Festival--December 9, 2006

Fifth Saturday Art Show--December 30, 2006

Exploring Art, Spirituality & Religion

Center for Religion and Media (NYU) -- one of ten Centers of Excellence funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, as part of an effort to stimulate innovative research and teaching in the interdisciplinary study of religion.

Steve Gorn, bamboo flute virtuoso. Steve Gorn is creating a new idiom, a music that combines the essence of classical Indian tradition with a contemporary world music sensibility.

Deborah Hay. The Deborah Hay Dance Company's mission is to foster a discerning appreciation for the human body within the cultural construct of contemporary society, through dance as experienced by audience, student, and/or performer. Central to this mission is the role of humor in recognizing the wildly cogent dancer we are capable of exercising into action.

David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir, universal sacred music

Meditation Resources

Shambhala -- an international network of community-based and retreat centers promoting meditation & enlightened society.

The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society -- a 501-c(3) non-profit organization which works to integrate contemplative awareness and contemporary life, to help create a more just, compassionate, and reflective society.

Nearby Arts & Media Resources

Alternative Videos of Woodstock--the source for alternative video in Ulster County

The Chronogram, "A Mid-Hudson Magazine of Events and Ideas."

Time and Space Limited, Hudson, NY

Upstate Films, Rhinebeck, NY

Woodstock Film Festival, Woodstock, NY

Movement Arts

Feldenkrais Method -- way of learning about movement, posture and breathing in order to develop our full human potential. Named after its originator, Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984), an engineer and physicist as well as a Judo teacher.

Pop Culture & Spirituality

the worst horse--describes itself as "pop- and sub-culture for Dharma people, Dharma for pop- and sub-culture people." Some intriguing links and thoughts.


Listen With Your Eyes is partially funded by:

The Presentation Funds program of The Experimental Television Center, which is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.

The Dutchess County Arts Council, administrator of public funds through NYSCA's Decentralization Program.