Category: Happenings on the Hill

How to “wrap up” a year that has meant so many things to so many people without reducing their stories and concerns? How to wrap up a year like 2017 with a sense of joy and optimism when so many around us are so vulnerable?Perhaps we can begin by telling you what meant the most…

Earlier this month, we hosted a community workshop at The Hudson Area Library to offer residents and students an opportunity to explore the history of and issues raised by The Mother of Us All in conjunction with its sold out run at Hudson Hall at the Historical Hudson Opera House. The workshop, Looking at the Issues, was…

On October 6th, 2017, the Millay Colony for the Arts held its annual fundraising cocktail party at the home of Board Vice President Whitney Lawson. Poet/Advising Artists Council member Mark Wunderlich and alumna novelist Alexandria Marzano Lesnevich) read new work and discussed the impact of artists retreats on their lives and their work.The event raised…

I came to the Millay Colony having fallen out of a book. I wish I were the sort of poet who could make great use of time in small slivers—six minutes here, ten there, that slim shaving of time on the bus or in the waiting room or stolen while eating lunch at my desk—but…

The Millay Colony for the Arts, in partnership with Hudson Hall at the Historic Hudson Opera House, will co-produce “The Mother of Us All”, Virgil Thomson’s opera on the life of Susan B. Anthony, with libretto by Gertrude Stein. Directed by R.B. Schlather with dramaturge Joan Retallack, this will premiere during Hudson Hall’s 2017 season this…