BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Spillian - ECPv6.17.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://spillian.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Spillian REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250222T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250223T110000 DTSTAMP:20250204T183206Z CREATED:20240922T035406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250204T183206Z UID:12411-1740229200-1740308400@spillian.com SUMMARY:The Winter Wonder Games | February 22 DESCRIPTION:The Winter Wonder Games:\nA Frosted Festival for Misfits\nWith Legendary Outdoor Guide Will Soter\nSaturday\, February 22\, 2025\nCome and join in on a most excellent winter fest\, led by our friend the magical Will Soter\, who knows the Catskills with a rich and delightful intimacy. We’ll compete with fire and fire water\, play in the snow\, explore Spillian’s forests\, feast on a dinner worthy of the forest king\, and wind up the evening with bonfires and s’mores in Spillian’s meadow. \nSpace is limited\, so make your reservations early! \nReserve Now!\n  \n\nThe Winter Wonder Games\n1 to 4 PM: Savor the delights of frost and fire (and a little mostly-friendly competition) on Spillian’s mountain for the afternoon. Some our planned events: \n\nWill’s Winter Fire Challenge: A relay race to build the best fire and make hot chocolate over open flame in our Meadow.  Winners can spike yours! \nA Foraging Wander: Explore the trails with Will\, seeking signs of winter activities and foraging for pine for simple syrup (more on that later). Depending on snow cover\, we’ll either hike in boots or snow shoes.\nSlip Sliding Away: If the snow gods bless us well\, sled Spillian’s As You Wish hill and avoid the pond for special points!\nSnow Sweets: Make your own maple syrup candies in the ice\, featuring the famous flavored maple syrups from our friends at Tree Juice.\n\nThe bonfire will be blazing and we’ll have hot drinks (straight and laced) available at the Bar Pavilion in the Meadow to keep blood in your toes. \nThe Spillian Permission Slip\nWe only have two basic rules at Spillian: 1) there is no inherent dignity and 2) there are no calories. As such\, you’re invited  to unfold as far into a snow day as you like\, whatever that means to you. Feel like hanging by the inside fire\, sipping Spillian’s new herbal Cat’s Love Tea or nursing a whiskey? Or hiding under the covers in your room and reading the book you’ve been yearning to get to? We’ll give you your very own permission slip so you can formally grant yourself the freedom to do exactly what you’d like for the afternoon. \n5 – 7 PM: The Winter Cocktail Contest\nLearn to make pine simple syrup from the pine foraged this afternoon\, and channel your inner mixologist at the winter cocktail contest. We’ll have an array of ingredients awaiting you\, from local spirits to mixers and garnishes and a smoker. Here’s your chance to mix the next great Spillian cocktail\, with naming rights! \n7 PM: A Forest Feast from Chef Christian Van Etten\nFlavors for both vegivores and carnivores! \nSalad Course\nGreens\, Strawberries\, Orange Segments\, Goat Cheese\, Candied Pecans\, Ginger Dressing \nFor Carnivores\nBraised Short Ribs with Wild Cherry Demi Glaze \nCreamy Mascarpone Polenta \nMarinated Zucchini with Scallion Shoots \nRoasted Brussel Sprouts  \nFor Vegivores\nSpicy Roasted Sichuan Ginger Portabella Mushrooms Filled with Confit Tomato Jam\nCreamy Mascarpone Polenta \nMarinated Zucchini with Scallion Shoots \nRoasted Brussel Sprouts  \nDessert\nPumpkin Cheesecake  \nIced Tea\, Lemonade\, Cucumber Water\, Coffee\, Tea\nTry our caffeine free house-made Cats Love Tea with peppermint\, rose petals\, elderberries and more! \n  \n9 PM: Meadow Bonfire and S’Mores\nDiscover a Midwinter Night’s Dream in Spillian’s Meadow\, all lit up with lights against the pines and snow\, a boisterous bonfire\, and s’mores. Because they’re necessary. \n\nPricing\nThe Cocktail Contest\, Dinner & Bonfire: $95 per person\nJoin us for the cocktail contest\, supper\, and night bonfire. Cocktails and contest begin at 5 PM\, dinner at 7 PM. Price includes dinner\, cocktail contest makings and your invented drink\, and the bonfire. Additional cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included. \nThe Winter Wonder Games\, Cocktail Contest\, Dinner & Bonfire: $125 per person\nJoin us for the Winter Wonder Games\, cocktail contest\, supper\, and evening bonfire. Games begin at 1 PM. Price includes all activities and supplies for the games\, dinner\, cocktail contest makings and your invented drink\, and the bonfire. Cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included. \nThe Full Winter Wonder: All of the Offerings Plus an Overnight Stay: $395 per couple\nSOLD OUT!\nSorry\, but all of our rooms are now sold out. But\, you’ve got some great other options! Please reach out to our friends and neighbors at: \n\nShadowcrest\nRiver Run Bed and Breakfast\nThe Arts Inn\nBelleayre Lodge\nThe Gateway at Pine Hill\nAlpine Four Seasons Lodge at Belleayre\n\n\nAbout Will Soter\nWill Soter is a NYSDEC Licensed Guide; he started his professional guiding caterer in 2011 when he cofounded Upstate Adventure Guides\, a Catskills based adventure company. Recently Will has start a concierge adventure travel company offering custom tailored adventures. Will calls upon his knowledge and connections in the industry to provide a wide array of options that span North America and Europe. Will enjoys sharing his love\, and knowledge of the outdoors. He holds certifications in CPR\, Wilderness First Responder.  He is also trained as Leave No Trace Master Educator\, and a Water Safety Instructor.  \nWill is currently involved in several industry organizations working on efforts such as NYSOGA’s effort to update the current Guide licensing requirements and  licensing exam. He is also participating in a collaborative effort to evaluate the viability of trail expansions\, and the possible construction of new trails in New York.  \nWill previously worked as the Director of the Catskill Conservation Corps\, leading crews that built lean-tos\, and trail structures.  He has served on the Board of Directors for the Catskill Mountain Club\, and served as President of the New York Outdoor Guide Association (NYSOGA). He was employed by the NY/NJ Trail Conference\, managing Catskill Trail Maintainers\, and the Catskill Conservation Corp\, which provided recruitment\, and training services for various volunteer stewardship organizations in the Catskill region.  \nThrough all of his work\, Will strives to help others find a deep\, and meaningful connection to the world outdoors and works to open opportunities for others to learn the skills to enjoy safe and memorable adventures in the outdoors. \n(And he is a complete delight!) \n\n  \nReserve Now!\n  \n\nBe the first to know about upcoming events!\n\n\n \n \n Join the Spillian Email List\n \n "*" indicates required fields \n \n Name*\n \n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n Email*\n \n What kind of Spillian adventure are you dreaming?If you'd like to tell us a little bit about yourself\, or what you're most intrigued by at Spillian\, please do! We'd love to hear from you. And stay tuned for our next email! Thanks so much for joining us.\n Submit \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Δ\n \n \n  URL:https://spillian.com/event/the-winter-wonder-games-february-22/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Adventure,Dinner,Imaginarium,Outdoors,Revel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/winterwondergameswebsite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250125T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250126T110000 DTSTAMP:20241228T140543Z CREATED:20240920T174728Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241228T140543Z UID:12366-1737810000-1737889200@spillian.com SUMMARY:The Hallowed Haggis: A Robert Burns Celebration | January 25 DESCRIPTION:The Hallowed Haggis:\nA Robert Burns Celebration\nSaturday\, January 25\, 2025\nWe all know January–the time of the year when holiday delights have faded into the snow and the dark cold nights of winter threaten despair… We have an antidote: The Hallowed Haggis: A Robert Burns Celebration. \nCome push against the darkness\, and join us for our fifth annual seriously silly celebration of the words and song of the Ploughman Poet\, Robert Burns. Indulge your whimsy\, and join in the revelry as we enjoy the smoky taste of great whiskey\, the play of candlelight against silver\, the wail of the bagpipes\, the Spillian Haggis Games\, and a great feast of the Hallowed Haggis… Hilarity will ensue. \nWhat the hell is Haggis\, you ask?  Its liver\, tongue and other unmentionable bits together with Scottish oats\, onions\, stock and herbs all cooked together into “the great chieftain o’ the pudding race.” Put away your mocking thoughts\, and know that this is one delicious bit of pie.  And\, in deference to those who think it is truly terrifying\, we will offer haggis to taste alongside Chef Christian’s superb takes on much more accessible Scots carnivorous and vegetarian fare…. \nJoin us as we push back winter’s dark cloak with games\, verse\, drinks and superb food\, all invoking – and evoking – your inner Highlander. \nThree ways to play: \n\nCome for the evening: Robert Burns Supper & Festivities\nCome for the day: Haggis Games\, Robert Burns Supper & Festivities \nStay the night: The Full Haggis – The Haggis Games\, Supper\, Festivities and Overnight Stay\n\n\nPlease join us! Space is limited\, so advanced reservations are required. \nReserve Now!\n  \n\nThe Haggis Games\n\n1 to 4 PM: The Spillian Haggis Games\, a superbly silly array of activities and competitions to get your inner Highlander primed for the Robert Burns Feast and contests. We’re still putting final touches on this year’s game plan\, but here are some of the ridiculousness we’re considering…\n\nA Scots Dialect Lesson: Och\, aye… Land in the language of Burns and explore your talent for accents and/or a touch of moxie. Click here for a list of Robert Burns poems you can practice on.\nAn Ode to an Ode: A guided chance to release your inner poet and create an ode to that which you love\, to share at the dinner table with your fellow celebrants and competitors. Fear not! Even if your inner poet is shy; sublime or absurd\, we’ll help you get to full-on poet status for the evening.\nTo the Toasts!: How to hold the heart and soul of what you’re honoring as you make a toast that will ring in the memories of all who join us.\nRad Plaid Pads: Invent your own plaid as you weave your own hot pad holder. (Crafts for grownups!)\nThe Spillian Auld Lang Syne Orchestra Rehearsal: Kazoos await those who are brave enough to become a member of the band. Only the smallest modicum of musical talent required…bravado counts. (And those of you who actually play instruments\, feel free to bring yours and help guide the mayhem.)\nThe Bar will open at 1 PM if you need some liquid courage\, and we’ll have some Spillian-made snacks on hand for noshing in the afternoon.\n\n\n\n\nThe Robert Burns Feast & Festivities\nA family style feast around our extraordinary mahogany dining table\, all dressed for the occasion. This table is a true place of convivium\, where tales are topped\, ideas are birthed\, and friendships created. We will toast\, dine\, share stories\, poetry\, the music of the pipes\, announce the winners of the Haggis Games. We will have both carnivore and vegetarian menu choices\, just let us know which would prefer when you buy your tickets. Chef Christian’s menu: \nSalad (V)\nBeetroot and Coriander Leaf Salad with Sunflower Kernels\, Roasted Fennel\nwith a  Citrus Vinaigrette \nA Tasting for the Brave\nThe Mighty Haggis: Great Chieftain o’ the Puddin’ Race\n\nVegivore Entrée (V)\nVegetarian Hotchpotch-Hairst Bree Jackfruit\, Pea\, and Turnip Pot Pie\nwith Savory House-Made Flaky Puff Pastry\nRoasted Carrots\, Tatties\, And Mushrooms with Balsamic Cider Reduction Drizzle\nLeek and Barley Risotto \nCarnivore Entrée\nBraised Lamb Shank with Whiskey Maple Bacon Marmalade\nRoasted Carrots\, Tatties\, And Mushrooms with Balsamic Cider Reduction Drizzle\nLeek and Barley Risotto \nDessert (+V)\nraspberry whiskey cranachan with scottish shortbread\nboth dairy and vegan versions \ncoffee | spillian cat’s love tea |  lemonade | cucumber water \n  \nThe Schedule \n\n5 PM: Cocktail hour featuring the Spillian Highland\, with local Catskills whiskey\, a whisper of the heather on the hills\, and a curl of smoke. And some Spillian snacks…\n7 PM: A full-flown Robert Burns Supper\, with a feast from Spillian’s chef Christian Van Etten around our grand table\, featuring traditional and vegan haggis along with his creative takes on the evocative flavors of Scotland; and all of the glorious pageantry of a traditional Burns Supper\, featuring poetry\, speechifying\, and the magic of John “Johnny Piper” McGovern on bagpipes.\nAfter Dinner: The final round of Haggis Games contests\, including the memorable Bonniest Knees Contest for our kilt-wearers (bribes will be encouraged)\, awards\, and rousing last chorus of Auld Lang Syne with the Spillian Auld Lang Syne Orchestra. Don’t have your kilt? No worries…we’ve got a flock of them thanks to Johnny Piper\, and are happy to lend you one for the day.and are happy to lend you one for the day.\n\n\nPricing\nAdvance reservations required.\nThe Robert Burns Supper & Festivities: $70 per person\nJoin us for the cocktail hour\, supper\, and festivities. Cocktails begin at 5 PM\, dinner at 7 PM. Includes dinner\, and the evening’s entertainment. Cash bar\, tax and gratuities not included. \nSaturday Haggis Games\, Robert Burns Supper & Festivities: $80 per person\nJoin us for the Haggis Games\, cocktail hour\, supper\, and festivities. Games begin at 1 PM. Includes afternoon games\, dinner\, and the evening’s entertainment. Cash bar\, tax and gratuities not included. \nThe Full Hallowed Haggis: $365 per couple\nMake it a getaway! The Full Hallowed Haggis includes The Haggis Games\, cocktail hour\, supper\, the evening’s entertainment\, an overnight stay with a breakfast featuring our house-made bagels and turnovers on Sunday morning\, and sales tax.  Cash bar and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! Check in at noon on Saturday\, check out at 11 AM on Sunday. \n\nAbout Johnny Piper\n \nBy day an attorney\, and at all other moments\, wild man Johnny Piper\, John McGovern is atalented traditional bagpipe player\, playing both with  Ulster County Sheriff’s Office Honor Guard & Alternative Ulster\, a punk/Celtic fusion band that raises every roof in a 20 mile radius. Johnny will be joining us in full kit and as much sobriety as the occasion invites\, providing a memorable bagpipe soundtrack to our evening’s entertainments. \n\nReserve Now!\n\nBe the first to know about upcoming events!\n\n\n\n \n \n Join the Spillian Email List\n \n "*" indicates required fields \n \n Name*\n \n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n Email*\n \n What kind of Spillian adventure are you dreaming?If you'd like to tell us a little bit about yourself\, or what you're most intrigued by at Spillian\, please do! We'd love to hear from you. And stay tuned for our next email! Thanks so much for joining us.\n Submit \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Δ URL:https://spillian.com/event/the-hallowed-haggis-a-robert-burns-celebration-january-25/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Adventure,Dinner,Imaginarium,Mythic Catskills,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/hallowedhaggiswebsite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250118T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250118T230000 DTSTAMP:20250118T203915Z CREATED:20240923T193007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250118T203915Z UID:12441-1737219600-1737241200@spillian.com SUMMARY:Songwriters Changing the World | January 18 DESCRIPTION:Songwriters Changing the World:\nCarsie Blanton & Friends\nSaturday\, January 18\, 2025\nIn July\, we had the delight of having the extraordinary artist Carsie Blanton perform in the Spillian meadow\, singing songs of hope and protest. This winter\, we are honored to support Carsie as she spreads her inspirational fire with fellow songwriters\, donating the use of the mansion as she leads a private and free workshop for her colleagues on the intersections between songwriting and activism for several days in January. \nTheir last night here\, join Carsie and an intimate group of songwriters for dinner and an in-house concert as they share fresh work and new ideas from their Spillian songwriting retreat. Expect songs in-progress\, insights into the creative process\, new collaborations\, and thoughtful conversation over dinner. \nPlease join us for this very special evening. Space is limited\, so advanced reservations are required. \nReservations Closed! Hope to see you at the next Imaginarium event.  \n  \n\nSongwriters Changing the the World\nThe Schedule \n\n5 PM: Cocktails in Spillian’s tavern\, featuring a new drink we’re inventing in Carsie’s honor: The Down and Dirty Hot Carsie Martini\, and a chance to settle in by the fire.\n6 PM: A chef’s dinner with evening artists and guests around our grand table; a true place of convivium\, where tales are topped\, ideas are birthed\, and friendships created. With flavors for both vegivores and carnivores.\n7 PM: A concert and conversation with Carsie and fellow singer/songwriters.\n\nThe Menu\nSalad\nGreens with Butternut Squash\, Pomegranate\, Candied Pecans\, Apples & Feta with a Cider Vinaigrette  \nVegivore\nSpicey Caulflower Sabzi with Cashews | Braised Fennel with Ginger | Savory Risotto | Moroccan Roasted Carrots with Black Lentils and Lime Crema  \nCarnivore\nDuck Confit with Cider Reduction| Braised Fennel with Ginger | Savory Risotto | Moroccan Roasted Carrots with Black Lentils and Lime Crema  \nDessert\nBaklava with Maple Ice Cream \nIced Tea\, Lemonade\, Cucumber Water\, Coffee\, Tea \nPricing\nDinner and concert: $55 per person\nIncludes dinner and the evening’s entertainment. Cash bar\, tax and gratuities additional. \n\nAbout Carsie Blanton\nPhoto Credit Bobby Bonsey \nCarsie Blanton is a songwriter with hooks\, chutzpah\, and revolutionary optimism. “It is possible to face the world as it is – rapidly heating\, ruled by grifters\, ravaged by profitable wars – and still have hope\,” she says of her 2024 release\, After the Revolution. “Not the narrow\, grasping hope you might hang on an election or a billionaire\, but a patient\, zoomed-out hope.” Of After the Revolution\, NPR’s Fresh Air says “”Protest music tends to be strident or self-righteous or just bluntly angry. But Blanton\, a folk singer with a rock attitude\, knows how to construct songs with real melodies and storylines that don’t obscure her messages.” \nWith her unique mix of humor\, craft\, and social critique\, Blanton has amassed a small menagerie of viral hits such as  Rich People\, Shit List\, and Fishin’ With You and a dedicated fan base. In addition to fifteen years on the road with her band\, Blanton volunteers as a political organizer\, and was recently published in The Nation. You can support her on Patreon. \n  \n\nBe the first to know about upcoming events!\n\n \n \n Join the Spillian Email List\n \n "*" indicates required fields \n \n Name*\n \n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n Email*\n \n What kind of Spillian adventure are you dreaming?If you'd like to tell us a little bit about yourself\, or what you're most intrigued by at Spillian\, please do! We'd love to hear from you. And stay tuned for our next email! Thanks so much for joining us.\n Submit \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Δ URL:https://spillian.com/event/songwriters-changing-the-world-january-18/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Adventure,Dinner,Imaginarium,Mythic Catskills,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/carsiewebsite-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250104T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250105T110000 DTSTAMP:20241228T175749Z CREATED:20240923T140624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241228T175749Z UID:12435-1735995600-1736074800@spillian.com SUMMARY:Twelfth Night: A Feast of Fools | January 4 DESCRIPTION:Twelfth Night: A Feast of Fools\nThe Lord of Misrule\, Shakespeare\, and Merriment to End the Holiday Season\nSaturday\, January 4\, 2025\nJoin us for a last blast of celebration in honor of the end of the twelve days of Christmas! \nLong before New Year’s Eve became a thing\, Twelfth Night once echoed with a splendid upside-down revelry that challenged any strait-laced ideas of power\, identity\, and what constitutes good behavior. We will join together and co-create an evening worth of such illustrious (or\, more accurately\, irreverent) lineage. We will laugh January into submission in a Renaissance-inspired romp. And yes\, you can most absolutely come dressed as a fool! \n\nJoin us for the day/evening for Afternoon Revels. A Reveling Feast & Pig Roast & Festivities or…\nStay the night: The Full Revel – Afternoon Revels\, Cocktails\, Feast & Festivities and an Overnight Stay\n\nAdvance Reservations Required. \nReserve Now!\n\n\nThe Schedule\n1 to 4 PM: Afternoon Revels. We will play together as we prepare for the evening. There will be frolicking\, capering\, and gamboling… \n\nFoolish Revels: Learn about the rich and revolutionary history of Twelfth Night celebrations so we can revel deeply together.\nThe Spillian Reveler’s Shakespeare Company: All the world’s a stage\, and now’s your chance to become a player in our stage reading of a brilliantly fast and furious short version of Shakespeare’s iconic comedy\, Twelfth Night! We will gather in the afternoon to bring some semblance of order to chaos and prepare to trod the boards and chew all available scenery in the evening. The perfect way to do theater! No memorizing of lines and anything goes…\nThe Bar will of course be open to invite your inner jester to come and play. And there will be Spillian snacks\, so the jester doesn’t get completely out of line. Yet.\n\n5 PM: Cocktails and the Crowning of the Lord of Misrule\nIn addition to our regular bar offerings\, we’ll be evoking Renaissance renaissance flavors of the season:  hippocras\, a spiced wine flavored like cinnamon and ginger; a house-infused version of mulberry gin; and  aqua vitae – the water of life – brandy. And we’ll present the King’s Cake\, complete with a bean inside to crown our Lord of Misrule for the evening. \n6 PM: A Twelfth Night Feast from Chef Christian Van Etten\nChef Christian has gone full out with flavors for carnivores and vegivores…and he’s roasting a pig! \nSalad Course\nRed Currant\, Pear\, Arugula\, Dilled-Almond Salad with Local Maple Vinaigrette \nFor the Carnivores\nA Pig Roast\, Bedecked with Bay and Rosemary\nRainbow Carrots and Roasted Fall Root Vegetables\nButternut Sage Risotto alla Milanese \nFor the Vegivores\nOur Famous Mushroom Wellington with Plum Reduction\nRainbow Carrots and Roasted Fall Root Vegetables\nButternut Sage Risotto alla Milanese \nDessert\nHouse Made Pumpkin Tiramisu \n  \n7 PM: Twelfth Night\, by William Shakespeare & the Spillian Revelers Shakespeare Company\nWe will speak the speeches trippingly as we split the ears of the groundlings\, and our sides with laughing at our foolish selves as we bring the adventures of Viola\, Sebastian\, Sir Toby Belch\, and all of their loves and tormenters to life. Adapted and directed by Cat Yudain and Ian Potter\, theater artists from NYC and marriers at Spillian last summer! \n\n\nCat Yudain\nCat is thrilled to be back at Spillian with Ian! Cat is a NYC-based Actor\, Model\, and Fight Director. Some stage credits include RIPT Theater Company’s 4-Actor Hamlet\, Psittacus Productions and Lincoln Center’s Romeo and Juliet\, and Masterfool and FoxWolf’s site-specific A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth. Cat works as a camera operator and creative consultant for REMstatic production company\, and recently worked with Scrappack Productions on their films Just One More Thing (Director) and Sight (Stunt Coordinator). Other credits include Edinburgh Fringe\, The International Tennessee Williams Festival\, Rochester Fringe\, Connecticut Repertory Theatre\, etc. Cat is the Artistic Director of RAWHIDE Theatre Company\, founder of Foxhole Films\, member of draMAStic dance works\,\nand has worked as a project and devising consultant. Cat is currently releasing a novel about the House of Mercy on Substack with her writing partner Makayla McIntosh at substack.com/catyudaintea.\n\nIan Potter\nIan is ecstatic to return to the magical location of Spilian after getting married here this past August! A working artist living in NYC\, Ian spends most of his time painting large scale\, photorealistic\, murals on the sides of buildings all over NYC for Colossal Media Group. In his glimpses of free time he is also deeply involved in the NYC Theatre and Film scene with such past productions as:The Soldier in Fortnight at Tripler\, King Arthur in the staged reading of The Cursed Beast\, First Seargent/Seyton in the staged reading (Soon to be Feature Film) of Macbeth\, Mordant in The Three Musketeers\, Constantine in The Aurora Project among many more. Ian looks forward to bringing his prior Shakespearean Training to Spillian’s revel this January to help create a fun and foppish journey through the tale of Twelfth Night! Ian would like to thank Leigh\, Mark and the Spillian staff for continuing our creative relationship beyond our beautiful wedding. As always\, he would like to thank his beautiful wife and co-director Cat for the most important partnership in life.\n\n\nPricing\nThe Afternoon Revels\, Feast & Evening Festivities: $75 per person\nJoin us for the crowning\, cocktails\, dinner\, and the evening festivities. Afternoon revels begin at 1 PM\, Cocktails begin at 5 PM\, dinner at 7 PM. Additional cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included. Please join us for the afternoon revels\, staging our magnificently nonsensical short of Twelfth Night! \nThe Full Twelfth Night Revel: All of the Offerings Plus an Overnight Stay:$365 per couple\nMake it a getaway! The Full Twelfth Night Revel includes all activities and supplies for the afternoon\, dinner and the evening festivities. plus an overnight stay for two with a breakfast featuring our house-made bagels and turnovers on Sunday morning.  Cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! Check in at Noon on Saturday\, check out at 11 AM on Sunday. \nReserve Now!\n  \n\nBe the first to know about upcoming events!\n\n\n\n \n \n Join the Spillian Email List\n \n "*" indicates required fields \n \n Name*\n \n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n Email*\n \n What kind of Spillian adventure are you dreaming?If you'd like to tell us a little bit about yourself\, or what you're most intrigued by at Spillian\, please do! We'd love to hear from you. And stay tuned for our next email! Thanks so much for joining us.\n Submit \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Δ URL:https://spillian.com/event/twelfth-night-a-feast-of-fools-january-4/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Adventure,Dinner,Imaginarium,Outdoors,Revel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/twelfthnightwebsite2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241221T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241222T110000 DTSTAMP:20241216T004110Z CREATED:20240922T183935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241216T004110Z UID:12422-1734786000-1734865200@spillian.com SUMMARY:A Catskills Solstice Yule | December 21 DESCRIPTION:A Catskills Solstice Yule\nSaturday\, December 21\, 2024\nThe word solstice means “sun stands still.” In the spirit of what can imaginally open in a momentary pause\, we invite you to join us for an evening evoking the half-forgotten memories of how ancestors celebrated the sense of promise of the returning light on the year’s darkest day. Join us to remember and revel in the season. \nThree ways to play: \n\nCome for the evening: A Yule Feast & Festivities\nCome for the day: Bringing in the Yule\, The Yule Feast & Festivities \nStay the night: The Full Yule – Bringing in the Yule\, The Yule Feast & Festivities and Overnight Stay\n\n\nPlease join us! Space is limited\, so advance reservations are required. \nReserve Now!\n\nBringing In the Yule\n\n1 to 4 PM: Our plan for yuletide ritual and celebration for the afternoon …\n\nMaking the Yule Log: We’ll head out into the woods to find and adorn a yule log to burn in the evening.\nPomanders: Oranges were a sign of the sun on winter solstice\, and we’ll arm you with oranges and cloves to make your own pomander to take home with you.\nMedieval Gingerbread: More candy than bread\, and a little like the coolest edible play-dough you’ve ever seen\, we’ll make sculpted gingerbread shapes using a recipe straight from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.\nThe Orchard Wassail: We’ll have traditional wassail on hand\, and with drums and noise makers will wander out to encourage the apple trees at Spillian to thrive and bring us glorious fruit in the coming year.\nThe Bar will open at 1 PM if you need some liquid courage\, and we’ll have some Spillian-made snacks on hand for noshing in the afternoon.\n\n\n\n\nThe Yule Feast & Festivities\nA traditional yule feast echoing medieval merriment around our extraordinary mahogany dining table\, all dressed for the occasion. This table is a true place of convivium\, where tales are topped\, ideas are birthed\, and friendships created. We will have both carnivore and vegivore menu choices\, just let us know which would prefer when you buy your tickets. \nChef Christian’s Menu \nGeno’s House-Made Baguettes \nSalad and Soup\nArugula\, Fennel and Blueberry Salad with Citrus dressing\nCreamy Pumpkin Soup with Roasted Chestnuts and Crème Fresh (V) \nFor the Carnivores\nMincemeat Stuffed Game Hen with Chasseur Sauce\nRoasted Brussel Sprouts and Honeycrisp Apples and Fried Sage \nFor the Vegivores\nMushroom Wellington With Apple Cider Balsamic Reduction \nRoasted Brussel Sprouts and Honeycrisp Apples and Fried Sage \nDessert\nFlaming Traditional Figgy Pudding  \nIced Tea\, Lemonade\, Cucumber Water\, Coffee\, Tea \n  \nThe Schedule \n\n5 PM: Cocktail hour featuring wassail and other bar treats.\n6 PM: We’ll light the Yule Log with ceremony and ritual in the Great Room fire place.\n7 PM: The Yule Feast topped by a flaming figgy pudding.\nAfter Dinner: Feel free to gather around the fire to dream with the Yule Log.\n\n\nPricing\nAdvance reservations required.\nA Yule Feast & Festivities: $80 per person\nJoin us for the cocktail hour\, supper\, and festivities. Cocktails begin at 5 PM\, dinner at 7 PM. Includes dinner\, and the evening’s entertainment. Cash bar\, tax and gratuities not included. \nBringing in the Yule\, A Yule Feast & Festivities: $95 per person\nJoin us for an afternoon of seasonal revelry to bring in the yule\, cocktail hour\, supper\, and festivities. Games begin at 1 PM. Includes afternoon activities\, dinner\, and the evening’s entertainment. Cash bar\, tax and gratuities not included. \nThe Full Yule: $395 per couple SOLD OUT \nSorry\, but all of our rooms are now sold out. But\, you’ve got some great other options if you’d like to come for the weekend! Please reach out to our friends and neighbors at: \n\nShadowcrest\nRiver Run Bed and Breakfast\nThe Arts Inn\nBelleayre Lodge\nThe Gateway at Pine Hill\nAlpine Four Seasons Lodge at Belleayre\n\nReserve Now!\n\nBe the first to know about upcoming events!\n\n\n\n \n \n Join the Spillian Email List\n \n "*" indicates required fields \n \n Name*\n \n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n Email*\n \n What kind of Spillian adventure are you dreaming?If you'd like to tell us a little bit about yourself\, or what you're most intrigued by at Spillian\, please do! We'd love to hear from you. And stay tuned for our next email! Thanks so much for joining us.\n Submit \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Δ URL:https://spillian.com/event/a-catskills-solstice-yule-december-21/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Adventure,Dinner,Imaginarium,Mythic Catskills,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/yulewebsite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241130T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241201T110000 DTSTAMP:20241024T163650Z CREATED:20240921T153449Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241024T163650Z UID:12373-1732971600-1733050800@spillian.com SUMMARY:The Willows: A Haunted Journey | November 30 DESCRIPTION:The Willows: A Haunted Journey\nSaturday\, November 30\, 2024\nJoin us for a little bit of haunting as the winter settles in\, and the season of ghost stories is in full tilt before the light begins to return in December. The barrier between natural and supernatural dissolves in this theatrical conjuring of Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows recited in candlelight by Victoria Finney\, adapted and directed by Alex Harvey.  \n \nThree ways to play: \n\nA Haunted Evening: Come for the evening for a cocktail hour\, a river-inspired chef’s dinner and performance of The Willows\nA Supernatural Saturday: Come for the day and evening: an afternoon of exploring writing and reading the eerie magic of supernatural \, dinner and performance\nThe Full Haunting: The afternoon’s explorations\, dinner\, performance\, an overnight stay\, breakfast and a chance to share your eerie journaling on Sunday morning.\n\n\nPlease join us! Space is limited\, so advanced reservations are required. \nReserve Now!\n\nA Supernatural Saturday\n\n1 to 4 PM: Join writer and director (and Spillian League of Reveler’s founding member!) Alex Harvey for a spirited exploration of the roots of supernatural story-telling. The bar will open at 1 PM if you need some liquid inspiration\, and we’ll have some Spillian-made snacks on hand for noshing in the afternoon.\n\n\nA Haunted Evening\nAn intimate family style chef’s feast around our extraordinary mahogany dining table\, inspired by the flavors and rhythms of the willow-clad river. We will have both carnivore and vegetarian menu choices\, just let us know which would prefer when you buy your tickets. \nChef Christian’s River Feast Menu \nSalad (V)\nSpinach\, Roasted Red Beets\, Navel Orange Segments\, Candied Pecans & Citrus Vinaigrette \nCarnivore Entrée\nPan Fried Local Beaverkill Trout With Cranberry Chutney\nRoasted Broccolini with Housemade Preserved Meyer Lemon\nThyme Roasted Butternut Squash\, Tartarian Cherry Quinoa and Brown Rice Medley  \nVegivore Entrée (V)\nLeek Risotto Stuffed Roasted Baby Eggplant\, Romesco Sauce and Balsamic Reduction Drizzle\nRoasted Broccolini with Housemade Preserved Meyer Lemon\nThyme Roasted Butternut Squash\, Tartarian Cherry Quinoa and Brown Rice Medley  \nDessert (V)\n“Maple Leaf’ Ginger Spice Cakes\, with House-Made Maple Ice Cream\nand Blueberry Coolis “River Pebbles” \nThe Schedule \n\n5 PM: Cocktail hour featuring the Catskills Trout Tale: a celebration of Catskill waters with local vodka and maple syrup\, and mint; and the The Willow Mist: smoky house-made root beer & willow bitters and local bourbon.\n6 PM: A river dinner feast from Spillian’s chef Christian Van Etten around our grand table\, featuring both veggie and meat lovers choices\, featuring local Beaverkill trout.\ntraditional and vegan haggis along with his creative takes on the evocative flavors of\n7:30 PM: A candlelight performance of The Willows.\nAfterwards: sharing ghost stories around the Spillian fireplace.\n\n\nPricing\nAdvance reservations required.\nA Haunted Evening: $80 per person\nJoin us for the cocktail hour\, supper\, and performance. Cocktails begin at 5 PM\, dinner at 6 PM\, and performance at 7:30 PM. Includes dinner\, light munchies\, and the evening’s entertainment. Cash bar\, tax and gratuities not included. \nA Supernatural Saturday: $95 per person\nJoin us for day and evening! The afternoon begins at 1 PM. Includes afternoon reading and writing explorations\, light munchies\, dinner\, and the evening’s entertainment. Cash bar\, tax and gratuities not included. \nThe Full Haunting: $395 per couple\nMake it a getaway! The Full Haunting includes all of Saturday’s offerings plus an overnight stay with a breakfast featuring our house-made bagels and turnovers on Sunday morning\, and a chance to share your writings over the weekend after breakfast. Cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! Check in at noon on Saturday\, check out at 11 AM on Sunday. \n\nAbout The Willows\nSummon to mind those moments when nature turns on you. Can you recall the feeling?  That threat in your surroundings that predates your most distant ancestors? Where every creek and crack in the natural world that cradles you gradually and begins to grow more ominous? That unutterable sense that mother nature doesn’t care about you – and maybe you are just her next meal!  \nJoin celebrated British actress and voiceover artist Victoria Finney for her candle-lit atmospheric reading of Algernon Blackwood’s 1909 supernatural psychedelic horror story\, The Willows. A sensory immersion\, this storytelling performance saturates audience members in an eerie odyssey to otherworldly realms guided only by the simple elements of sound\, light and spoken word. The piece is adapted and directed by Alex Harvey.  \nBorn in 1869\, Algernon Blackwood was the first pioneer of Supernatural Fiction and is renowned for his masterful atmospheric settings in his paranormal tales\, which submerge readers in the experience of the story itself. A member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn—a secret society devoted to the study of the occult and esoteric knowledge—Blackwood had an outsized and often underappreciated influence on the horror genre. The Willows creates a narrative bridge that connects gothic horror of the 19th century to psychological horror of the modern age. Blackwood’s ability to evoke dread from natural settings and his use of the unseen to generate fear lays the groundwork for modern horror’s exploration of existential dread. Blackwood was a major influence on H.P. Lovecraft\, who praised The Willows as “the finest supernatural tale in English literature.” \nSet on a flooding sandbar in the Danube as it crosses from Austria into Hungary\, the narrative of The Willows lures us into the disorienting inward journey of two campers on a summer canoe trip. Amidst the ceaseless and whispering dance of miles and miles of willow bushes along the river’s ancient banks\, these two adventurers are ensnared by forces that they dont understand. They are pulled\, as if by the hands of unseen specters\, into a realm where reality warps and the fabric of the known world frays into the inexplicable. Further and further they fall into the grasp of wild nature’s whim and closer to the edge of sanity. In its crescendo\, this odyssey leaves a haunting reminder of the fragile barrier that separates our mundane existence from the unfathomable mysteries that lie beyond. \n\nAbout Victoria Finney\nVictoria Finney performed all over the UK & Europe for many years with theatre companies including The English Shakespeare Company and Shared Experience\, appearing in several TV drama series and as a storyteller and Radio Rep actor for the BBC. Eventually Vicky moved to New York with her family.  Here she has been part of the Lake Lucille Chekhov project\, including the film “I am a Seagull”\, and has performed at The Lincoln Center and off Broadway. She co-founded Off The Page Arts-In-Education company\, taking experiential residencies into public schools all over the city. She co-adapted/directed All American Boys (now published and available from Playscripts) and has also co-adapted White Rose by Kip Wilson supported by The New Victory Theatre\, NYC and The Alliance Theatre\, Atlanta. She is currently featured as the narrator and storyteller on two popular children’s podcasts and plays a bunch of instruments and sings with Brooklyn based band\, The Retro Fits. \n  \nAbout Alex Harvey\nAlex Harvey is a filmmaker\, editor\, producer\, writer\, theater director\, musician\, end-of-life doula and currently the Arts Programmer at Race Brook Lodge in Sheffield\, MA. Alex created\, produced\, and directed the feature narrative film\, Walden: Life in the Woods starring Academy Award nominee Demián Bichir. The film played at a variety of domestic and international festivals including Whistler Film Festival\, Oaxaca Film Festival\, Denver International Film Festival\, River Run International Film Festival\, NCTE Houston\, FilmFort Idaho. Walden: Life in the Woods was picked up by Virgil Films and released on all Amazon Prime in October of 2019. Alex’s pandemic themed sci-fi feature\, space//space premiered in 2023 at the famed Anthology Film Archives in New York City. Alex also wrote and directed The Unsilent Picture\, a black and white silent film starring the world famous clown\, Bill Irwin.  The Unsilent Picture screened in an immersive spiegel tent accompanied by a live orchestral score and live foley sound performance as a centerpiece of the Horseman’s Hollow Festival in both 2018 and 2019. Alex was a co-director and producer for I Am A Seagull\, the documentary-narrative hybrid film made by the art collective Lake Lucille Chekhov Project. I Am A Seagull is the first feature film to have played at the Public Theatre’s Under the Radar Festival in New York. It has subsequently toured to the Spoleto Festival in Italy and The Noorderzon Festival in the Netherlands and the Kontakt Festival in Poland. In 2014\, Harvey was apprentice director under master director Allen Coulter on the fourth season of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. He has created various video art projects including one short film immersion called SONNET23 which was presented in 2015 at the Festival Cine Futuro in Salvador\, Brazil. He has also created content for Action Group Network\, producing multi-lingual ICE preparedness shorts for imperiled immigrant communities throughout the tri-state area. He is currently editing a Ukraine war doc with acclaimed director Noaz Desche. He lives in Great Barrington\, Massachusetts with his wife and two kids. \nReserve Now!\n  \n\nBe the first to know about upcoming events!\n\n\n\n \n \n Join the Spillian Email List\n \n "*" indicates required fields \n \n Name*\n \n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n Email*\n \n What kind of Spillian adventure are you dreaming?If you'd like to tell us a little bit about yourself\, or what you're most intrigued by at Spillian\, please do! We'd love to hear from you. And stay tuned for our next email! Thanks so much for joining us.\n Submit \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Δ URL:https://spillian.com/event/the-willows-a-haunted-journey/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Adventure,Dinner,Imaginarium,Mythic Catskills,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/thewillowswebsite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240224T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240225T110000 DTSTAMP:20240224T181003Z CREATED:20231023T215244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240224T181003Z UID:12006-1708783200-1708858800@spillian.com SUMMARY:Winter Horrors: with Werewolves Within Director Josh Ruben & Friends | February 24 DESCRIPTION:Winter Horrors:\nWith Werewolves Within Director Josh Ruben and Friends\nSaturday\, February 24\, 2024\nSOLD OUT! \nEmbrace the true horrors of winter on a weekend dedicated to scaring you silly. We’ll start the afternoon with a virtual escape room game\, savor werewolf-inspired feasting and drink\, and top the evening off with a genius of scares and laughter mash-ups. The acclaimed horror-comedy movie Werewolves Within was filmed on location at Spillian\, and director\, writer\, comedian\, and all-around camp horror genius Josh Ruben will be joining us along with friends to introduce his work on screen and his new illustrated novel\, Darla. See the movie that stars (at least in our minds) Spillian and learn where the bodies are hidden… \nRight before the world shut down in a crazy global pandemic\, Spillian was visited for three months by the creative team who made Werewolves Within. Spillian both served as the primary location for the Beaverfield Inn and the production headquarters for the three-month shoot. \nJosh and the irrepressible Jean-Michel of the Hudson valley’s Mecca for comic books\, Megabrain Comics will savor the connections between fear and laughter\,  introduce a showing of Werewolves Within from within the house where the horrors happened (along with a tour of spots that might look a bit familiar to you)\, a bunch of fascinating conversation on movie making and what Josh is up to creatively these days\, and a food station feast that honors horror films. Chef Christian is rubbing his hands together in anticipation… \n  \n\nAbout Josh Ruben\nJosh Ruben is a native of Woodstock\, NY best known for his feature films SCARE ME\, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival\, and WEREWOLVES WITHIN\, which premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. In 2021\, WEREWOLVES won a Midseason Hollywood Critics Association Award for “Best Indie.” Both films were filmed in the Hudson Valley. \nWEREWOLVES WITHIN landed in over 30 “Best of” features\, including many “Top Films of the Year” and “Top Horror Movies of the Year” lists in 2021\, alongside major studio horror releases such as A QUIET PLACE 2 and the Palm d’Or winning TITANE. Most notably\, Entertainment Weekly highlighted the “fabulous\, hilarious performances of its deep-bench cast\,” and Forbes gave the film its #1 pick for Best Horror\, adding “it’s hands down one of the most fun films of the year.” Recently\, Vulture listed WEREWOLVES WITHIN as the #1 Best Rated Video Game Movie out of a list of 50 films. \nIn addition to producing\, directing\, and writing\, Josh is also a performer best known for his performances in Travis Stevens’ horror film\, A WOUNDED FAWN which received rave reviews after its 2023 TriBeCa Film Festival premiere\, and the improvised comedy series MAKE SOME NOISE on Dropout TV. \n\nThe Schedule \n\n5:00 PM Cocktails (themed of course…) and a werewolf-worthy foraged feast of small bites to fill your beast belly.\n7:00 PM Josh and Jean and pals will kick the evening off\, and talk movie production and introduce Josh’s brilliant horror/comedy comic\, Darla\, exploring the disturbing underbelly of Americana through politics\, health\, psychosis and murder. (Yum!)\n7:30 PM Popcorn and drink in hands\, we’ll watch Werewolves Within together. See if you can guess where each scene was shot!\n8:45 PM Answer any question of Josh and Jean and be assured of a brilliant and most often sidesplittingly funny answer…\n\nWant to show up in costume? We’ll have a fitting reward for those who bring the essence of their own interior monster. \n\nPricing\nWinter Horrors $35/person\nJoin us for the evening’s play. Includes all activities and food. Cash bar\, tax and gratuities extra. Advance Reservations Required. \nStay the Night SOLD OUT\nWinter Horrors & and an Overnight Stay at Spillian $325/couple\nMake it a getaway! Includes the evening’s entertainment and dining and an overnight stay with a light breakfast featuring our house-made bagels and turnovers on Sunday morning.  Cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid rooms! Check in at 1 PM on Saturday\, check out by 11 AM on Sunday. URL:https://spillian.com/event/winter-horrors-werewolves-within-with-director-josh-ruben-friends/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Adventure,Dinner,Imaginarium,Outdoors,Revel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/werewolves-within-film-still-1.jpg.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240127T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240128T110000 DTSTAMP:20240112T164423Z CREATED:20231023T201250Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T164423Z UID:11966-1706360400-1706439600@spillian.com SUMMARY:The Winter Wonder Games | January 27 DESCRIPTION:The Winter Wonder Games:\nA Frosted Festival for Misfits\nWith Legendary Outdoor Guide Will Soter\nSaturday\, January 27\, 2024\nCome and join in on a most excellent winter fest\, led by our friend the magical Will Soter\, who knows the Catskills with a rich and delightful intimacy. We’ll compete with fire and fire water\, play in the snow\, explore Spillian’s forests\, feast on a dinner worthy of the forest king\, and wind up the evening with bonfires and s’mores in Spillian’s meadow. \nSpace is limited\, so make your reservations early! \nReserve Now!\n\nThe Winter Wonder Games\n1 to 4 PM: Savor the delights of frost and fire (and a little mostly-friendly competition) on Spillian’s mountain for the afternoon.  \n\nWill’s Winter Fire Challenge: A relay race to build the best fire and make hot chocolate over open flame in our Meadow.  Winners can spike yours! \nA Foraging Wander: Explore the trails with Will\, seeking signs of winter activities and foraging for pine for simple syrup (more on that later). Depending on snow cover\, we’ll either hike in boots or snow shoes.\nSlip Sliding Away: If the snow gods bless us well\, sled Spillian’s As You Wish hill and avoid the pond for special points!\nSnow Sweets: Make your own maple syrup candies in the ice\, featuring the famous flavored maple syrups from our friends at Tree Juice.\nIce Bowling in the Bocce Court: This promises to be an olympic-worthy event.\n\nThe bonfire will be blazing and we’ll have hot drinks (straight and laced) available at the Bar Pavilion in the Meadow to keep blood in your toes. \nThe Spillian Permission Slip\nWe only have two basic rules at Spillian: 1) there is no inherent dignity and 2) there are no calories. As such\, you’re invited  to unfold as far into a snow day as you like\, whatever that means to you. Feel like hanging by the inside fire\, sipping Spillian’s new herbal Cat’s Love Tea or nursing a whiskey? Or hiding under the covers in your room and reading the book you’ve been yearning to get to? We’ll give you your very own permission slip so you can formally grant yourself the freedom to do exactly what you’d like for the afternoon. \n5 – 7 PM: The Winter Cocktail Contest\nLearn to make pine simple syrup from the pine foraged this afternoon\, and channel your inner mixologist at the winter cocktail contest. We’ll have an array of ingredients awaiting you\, from local spirits to mixers and garnishes and a smoker. Here’s your chance to mix the next great Spillian cocktail\, with naming rights! \n7 PM: A Forest Feast from Chef Christian Van Etten \nSalad\nWhole slice sage-thyme roasted roasted butternut squash with burrata and vegan gluten free romesco\, accompanied by a lightly tossed lemon  pepper vinaigrette arugula salad\ntossed with balsamic glazed pine nuts (VG no burrata) \nVegivore (VG)\nvegan sausage with a sun dried tomato\, cherry pepper\, rehydrated cherry and slow roasted garlic puree\, served with lemon pepper broccolini\, and  a brown rice and quinoa\, and roasted sweet potato pilaf  \nCarnivore\npan-seared duck breast\, red currant thyme and brandy sauce\,  glazed parsnips\, rutabaga  and a creamy marscapone polenta \nDessert\nApples on apples: honey-crisp Apple cobbler\, with apple cider reduction\, garnished with a candied apple chip\, house made vanilla bean ice-cream\nor\nMini apple tarte tatin\, oat milk vanilla bean cream sauce\, vegan vanilla ice cream\, \ngarnished with a candied apple chip (VG)\n  \n9 PM: Meadow Bonfire and S’Mores\nDiscover a Midwinter Night’s Dream in Spillian’s Meadow\, all lit up with lights against the pines and snow\, a boisterous bonfire\, and s’mores. Because they’re necessary. \n\nPricing\nThe Cocktail Contest\, Dinner & Bonfire: $95 per person\nJoin us for the cocktail contest\, supper\, and night bonfire. Cocktails and contest begin at 5 PM\, dinner at 7 PM. Price includes dinner\, cocktail contest makings and the bonfire. Additional cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included. \nThe Winter Wonder Games\, Cocktail Contest\, Dinner & Bonfire: $125 per person\nJoin us for the Winter Wonder Games\, cocktail contest\, supper\, and evening bonfire. Games begin at 1 PM. Price includes all activities and supplies for the games\, dinner\, cocktail contest makings and the bonfire.Cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included. \nThe Full Winter Wonder Games: All of the Offerings Plus an Overnight Stay: $395 per couple\nMake it a getaway! The Full Winter Wonder Games includes Price includes all activities and supplies for the games\, dinner\, cocktail contest makings for a drink and the bonfire. plus an overnight stay for two with a light breakfast featuring our house-made bagels and turnovers on Sunday morning.  Cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! Check in at Noon on Saturday\, check out at 11 AM on Sunday. \nReserve Now!\n\nAbout Will Soter\nWill Soter is a NYSDEC Licensed Guide; he started his professional guiding caterer in 2011 when he cofounded Upstate Adventure Guides\, a Catskills based adventure company. Recently Will has start a concierge adventure travel company offering custom tailored adventures. Will calls upon his knowledge and connections in the industry to provide a wide array of options that span North America and Europe. Will enjoys sharing his love\, and knowledge of the outdoors. He holds certifications in CPR\, Wilderness First Responder.  He is also trained as Leave No Trace Master Educator\, and a Water Safety Instructor.  \nWill is currently involved in several industry organizations working on efforts such as NYSOGA’s effort to update the current Guide licensing requirements and  licensing exam. He is also participating in a collaborative effort to evaluate the viability of trail expansions\, and the possible construction of new trails in New York.  \nWill previously worked as the Director of the Catskill Conservation Corps\, leading crews that built lean-tos\, and trail structures.  He has served on the Board of Directors for the Catskill Mountain Club\, and served as President of the New York Outdoor Guide Association (NYSOGA). He was employed by the NY/NJ Trail Conference\, managing Catskill Trail Maintainers\, and the Catskill Conservation Corp\, which provided recruitment\, and training services for various volunteer stewardship organizations in the Catskill region.  \nThrough all of his work\, Will strives to help others find a deep\, and meaningful connection to the world outdoors and works to open opportunities for others to learn the skills to enjoy safe and memorable adventures in the outdoors. \n(And he is a complete delight!) URL:https://spillian.com/event/the-winter-wonder-games-january-27/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Adventure,Dinner,Imaginarium,Outdoors,Revel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/winterwonderpathonlyweb-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240120T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240121T110000 DTSTAMP:20240112T162026Z CREATED:20231023T200535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T162026Z UID:11973-1705755600-1705834800@spillian.com SUMMARY:The Hallowed Haggis: A Robert Burns Celebration | January 20 DESCRIPTION:The Hallowed Haggis:\nA Robert Burns Celebration\nJanuary 20\, 2024\nWe all know January–the time of the year when holiday delights have faded into the snow and the dark cold nights of winter threaten despair… We have an antidote: The Hallowed Haggis: A Robert Burns Celebration. \nCome push against the darkness\, and join us for a seriously silly celebration of the words and song of the Ploughman Poet\, Robert Burns. Indulge your whimsy\, and join in the revelry as we enjoy the smoky taste of great whiskey\, the play of candlelight against silver\, the wail of the bagpipes\, the Spillian Haggis Games\, and a great feast of the Hallowed Haggis… Hilarity will ensue. \nWhat the hell is Haggis\, you ask?  Its liver\, tongue and other unmentionable bits together with Scottish oats\, onions\, stock and herbs all cooked together into “the great chieftain o’ the pudding race.” Put away your mocking thoughts\, and know that this is one delicious bit of pie.  And\, in deference to those who think it is truly terrifying\, we will offer haggis to taste alongside Chef Christian’s superb takes on much more accessible Scots carnivorous and vegetarian fare…\n \nOur co-founder Leigh Melander and our great friends and colleagues\, theatre artist Robert Smythe and textile artist Susan Smythe\, will be co-directing the delights of the weekend and spurring you on to great Haggis heights. And John “Johnny Piper” McGovern will be evoking the highlands and bringing us into line with his bagpipes throughout the evening. \nJoin us as we push back winter’s dark cloak with games\, verse\, drinks and superb food\, all invoking – and evoking – your inner Highlander. \nThree ways to play: \n\nCome for the evening: Saturday Robert Burns Supper & Festivities\nCome for the day: Saturday Haggis Games\, Robert Burns Supper & Festivities \nStay the night: The Full Haggis – The Haggis Games\, Supper\, Festivities and Overnight Stay\n\n\nPlease join us! Space is limited\, so advanced reservations are required.\n \nReserve Now!\n\nThe Haggis Games\n\n1 to 4 PM: The Spillian Haggis Games\, a superbly silly array of activities and competitions to get your inner Highlander primed for the Robert Burns Feast and contests. We’re still putting final touches on this year’s game plan\, but here are some of the ridiculousness we’re considering…\n\nA Scots Dialect Lesson: Och\, aye… Land in the language of Burns and explore your talent for accents and/or a touch of moxie. Click here for a list of Robert Burns poems you can practice on.\nAn Ode to an Ode: A guided chance to release your inner poet and create an ode to that which you love\, to share at the dinner table with your fellow celebrants and competitors. Fear not! Even if your inner poet is shy; sublime or absurd\, we’ll help you get to full-on poet status for the evening.\nTo the Toasts!: How to hold the heart and soul of what you’re honoring as you make a toast that will ring in the memories of all who join us.\nRad Plaid Pads: Invent your own plaid as you weave your own hot pad holder. (Crafts for grownups!)\nThe Spillian Auld Lang Syne Orchestra Rehearsal: Kazoos await those who are brave enough to become a member of the band. Only the smallest modicum of musical talent required…bravado counts. (And those of you who actually play instruments\, feel free to bring yours and help guide the mayhem.)\nThe Bar will open at 1 PM if you need some liquid courage\, and we’ll have some Spillian-made snacks on hand for noshing in the afternoon.\n\n\n\n\nThe Robert Burns Feast & Festivities\nA family style feast around our extraordinary mahogany dining table\, all dressed for the occasion. This table is a true place of convivium\, where tales are topped\, ideas are birthed\, and friendships created. We will toast\, dine\, share stories\, poetry\, the music of the pipes\, announce the winners of the Haggis Games. We will have both carnivore and vegetarian menu choices\, just let us know which would prefer when you buy your tickets. \nThe Menu\n\nSalad (V)\ncharred fennel\, cranberries\, candied pecans\, cucumbers \nover arugula with a house made lemon vinaigrette \nFirst Course (V)\nroasted tartan veggies\nparsnips\, carrots\, rutabaga\, and potatoes with smoked salt\, local honey and thyme \nand a tasting for the brave:\nthe mighty haggis: great chieftain o’ the puddin’ race\n\nVegivore Entrée (V)\nour famous vegetarian mushroom wellington\nserved with an apple cider reduction and braised leeks \nCarnivore Entrée\nwhiskey marmalade braised lamb shanks with a smokey bacon au jus\nserved over a leek and barley risotto  \nDessert (+V)\nraspberry whiskey cranachan with scottish shortbread\nboth dairy and vegan versions \ncoffee | spillian cat’s love tea | spillian sweet winter orange tea | lemonade | cucumber water \nThe Schedule \n\n5 PM: Cocktail hour featuring the Spillian Highland\, with local Catskills whiskey\, a whisper of the heather on the hills\, and a curl of smoke. And some Spillian snacks…\n7 PM: A full-flown Robert Burns Supper\, with a feast from Spillian’s chef Christian Van Etten around our grand table\, featuring traditional and vegan haggis along with his creative takes on the evocative flavors of Scotland; and all of the glorious pageantry of a traditional Burns Supper\, featuring poetry\, speechifying\, and the magic of John “Johnny Piper” McGovern on bagpipes.\nAfter Dinner: The final round of Haggis Games contests\, including the memorable Bonniest Knees Contest for our kilt-wearers (bribes will be encouraged)\, awards\, and rousing last chorus of Auld Lang Syne with the Spillian Auld Lang Syne Orchestra. Don’t have your kilt? No worries…we’ve got a flock of them thanks to Johnny Piper\, and are happy to lend you one for the day.\n\n\nPricing\nAdvance reservations required.\nThe Robert Burns Supper & Festivities: $80 per person\nJoin us for the cocktail hour\, supper\, and festivities. Cocktails begin at 5 PM\, dinner at 7 PM. Includes dinner\, and the evening’s entertainment. Cash bar\, tax and gratuities not included. \nSaturday Haggis Games\, Robert Burns Supper & Festivities: $95 per person\nJoin us for the Haggis Games\, cocktail hour\, supper\, and festivities. Games begin at 1 PM. Includes afternoon games\, dinner\, and the evening’s entertainment. Cash bar\, tax and gratuities not included. \nThe Full Hallowed Haggis: $365 per couple\nMake it a getaway! The Full Hallowed Haggis includes The Haggis Games\, cocktail hour\, supper\, the evening’s entertainment\, an overnight stay with a light breakfast featuring our house-made bagels and turnovers on Sunday morning\, and sales tax..  Cash bar and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! Check in at noon on Saturday\, check out at 11 AM on Sunday. \nReserve Now!\n\nAbout Johnny Piper\nBy day an attorney\, and at all other moments\, wild man Johnny Piper\, John McGovern is a talented traditional bagpipe player\, playing both with  Ulster County Sheriff’s Office Honor Guard & Alternative Ulster\, a punk/Celtic fusion band that raises every roof in a 20 mile radius. Johnny will be joining us in full kit and as much sobriety as the occasion invites\, providing a memorable bagpipe soundtrack to our evening’s entertainments. \n  \n  \nAbout Leigh Melander\, PhD\nLeigh has a doctorate in cultural mythology and psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and wrote her dissertation on frivolity as an entry into imagination. She has an eclectic background in the arts as well as consulting in strategic planning\, outreach and marketing\, and event planning for over 20 years. She has performed\, and taught and facilitated explorations of imagination and creativity internationally\, working with individuals and groups to help them find their way to bringing their wild ideas to life. \nHer undergraduate degree is in performance\, literature\, and history from Penn State\, and she studied writing by invitation with Nobel Poet Laureate Derek Walcott at Boston University. She has has appeared in various media outlets\, including the History Channel\, as a mythology expert\, and has published articles in Spring Journal\, The Routledge International Handbook of Jungian Film Studies\, The Mythology CD-ROM. She hosted two weekly radio shows on an NPR affiliate for several years: Myth America (now available as a podcast)\, an exploration into how myth shapes our sense of identity; and The Reveling Radio Hour\, an irreverent mashup of her take on the old Fleischmanns Yeast Radio Hour variety shows\, self-help podcasts\, and Being John Malkovich. She served for four years as the Vice President of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and the editor of their MythBlast series. She is a presenter and coach in creativity and imagination\, and her first book\, Psyche’s Choice: The Frivolous Revolution is available on Amazon Kindle. \n\nJoin our Spillian Imaginarium email list and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming events: URL:https://spillian.com/event/the-hallowed-haggis-a-robert-burns-celebration-january-20-2024/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Adventure,Dinner,Imaginarium,Mythic Catskills,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/hallowedhaggisimage.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230121T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230122T110000 DTSTAMP:20230119T155351Z CREATED:20221209T145544Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230119T155351Z UID:11737-1674306000-1674385200@spillian.com SUMMARY:The Hallowed Haggis: A Robert Burns Celebration January 21\, 2023 DESCRIPTION:The Hallowed Haggis:\nA Robert Burns Celebration\nJanuary 21\, 2023\nWe all know January–the time of the year when holiday delights have faded into the snow and the dark cold nights of winter threaten despair… We have an antidote: The Hallowed Haggis: A Robert Burns Celebration. \nCome push against the darkness\, and join us for a seriously silly celebration of the words and song of the Ploughman Poet\, Robert Burns. Indulge your whimsy\, and join in the revelry as we enjoy the smoky taste of great whiskey\, the play of candlelight against silver\, the wail of the bagpipes\, the Spillian Haggis Games\, and a great feast of the Hallowed Haggis… Hilarity will ensue. \nWhat the hell is Haggis\, you ask?  It’s liver\, tongue and other unmentionable bits together with Scottish oats\, onions\, stock and herbs all cooked together into “the great chieftain o’ the pudding race.” Put away your mocking thoughts\, and know that this is one delicious bit of pie.  And\, for those who dare not\, we’re also concocting a vegan version o’ the great and powerful Haggis.\n \nOur co-founder Leigh Melander and our great friends and colleagues\, theatre artist Robert Smythe and textile artist Susan Smythe\, will be co-directing the delights of the weekend and spurring you on to great Haggis heights. And John “Johnny Piper” McGovern will be evoking the highlands and bringing us into line with his bagpipes throughout the evening. \nJoin us as we push back winter’s dark cloak with games\, verse\, drinks and superb food\, all invoking – and evoking – your inner Highlander. \nThree ways to play: \n\nCome for the evening: The Hallowed Haggis Feast \nCome for the day: The Haggis Games and Feast Saturday \nStay the night: The Full Haggis – The Haggis Games\, Feast\, and Overnight Stay\n\n\nThe Hallowed Haggis at Spillian. It’s Mythic. Local. Real. \nReserve Now! \n  \n\nThe Haggis Games\n\n1 to 4 PM: The Spillian Haggis Games\, a superbly silly array of activities and competitions to get your inner Highlander primed for the Robert Burns Feast and contests. Learn\, compete\, laugh…including choices like:\n\nA Scots Dialect Lesson: Och\, aye… Land in the language of Burns and explore your talent for accents and/or a touch of moxie. Click here for a list of Robert Burns poems you can practice on.\nAn Ode to an Ode: A guided chance to release your inner poet and create an ode to that which you love\, to share at the dinner table with your fellow celebrants and competitors. Fear not! Even if your inner poet is shy; sublime or absurd\, we’ll help you get to full-on poet status for the evening.\nTo the Toasts!: How to hold the heart and soul of what you’re honoring as you make a toast that will ring in the memories of all who join us.\nRad Plaid Pads: Invent your own plaid as you weave your own hot pad holder. (Crafts for grownups!)\nThe Spillian Auld Lang Syne Orchestra Rehearsal: Penny whistles\, slide whistles\, kalimbas and kazoos await those who are brave enough to become a member of the band. Only the smallest modicum of musical talent required…bravado counts. (And those of you who actually play instruments\, feel free to bring yours and help guide the mayhem.)\nThe Bar will open at one if you need some liquid courage\, and we’ll have some Spillian-made snacks on hand for noshing.\n\n\n\n\nThe Saturday Robert Burns Feast\nA family style feast around our extraordinary mahogany dining table\, all dressed for the occasion. This table is a true place of convivium\, where tales are topped\, ideas are birthed\, and friendships created. We will toast\, dine\, share stories\, poetry\, the music of the pipes\, announce the winners of the Haggis Games. \nThe Menu\n(Except for the traditional haggis\, all other dishes can be vegan: you can choose when you register!)\nGreen Salad with Roasted Beets\, Chestnuts\, and Charred Cabbage (V)\nThe Mighty Haggis: Great Chieftan o’ the Puddin’ Race\nVegan Haggis in Savoy Cabbage with Cinnamon and Nutmeg\nNeeps and Tatties: Glazed Rutabaga and Potatoes with Chive Whiskey Sauce\nCarmelized Braised Leeks\nCurrant Bannocks\nGingerbread with crystallized ginger and spiced maple whiskey sauce\nCoffee\, Tea\, Iced Tea\, Water\, Lemonade \nThe Schedule \n\n5 PM: Cocktail hour featuring the Spillian Highland\, with local Catskills whiskey\, a whisper of the heather on the hills\, and a curl of smoke. And some Spillian snacks…\n7 PM: A full-flown Robert Burns Supper\, with a feast from Spillian’s chef Christian Van Etten around our grand table\, featuring traditional and vegan haggis along with his creative takes on the evocative flavors of Scotland; and all of the glorious pageantry of a traditional Burns Supper\, featuring poetry\, speechifying\, and the magic of John “Johnny Piper” McGovern on bagpipes.\nAfter Dinner: The final round of Haggis Games contests\, including the memorable Bonniest Knees Contest for our kilt-wearers (bribes will be accepted)\, awards\, and rousing last chorus of Auld Lang Syne with the Spillian Tin Whistle Auld Lang Syne Orchestra. Click here for kilt maker who rents kilts in Highland NY!\n\n\nPricing\nSaturday Robert Burns Supper & Festivities: $75 per person\nJoin us for the cocktail hour\, supper\, and festivities. Cocktails begin at 5 PM\, dinner at 7 PM. Includes dinner and the evening’s entertainment. Cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included. \nSaturday Haggis Games\, Robert Burns Supper & Festivities: $95 per person\nJoin us for the Haggis Games\, cocktail hour\, supper\, and festivities. Games begin at 1 PM. Includes afternoon games\, dinner and the evening’s entertainment. Cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included. Advance reservations required. \nThe Full Hallowed Haggis: $355 per couple\nMake it a getaway! The Full Hallowed Haggis includes The Haggis Games\, cocktail hour\, supper\, the evening’s entertainment\, and an overnight stay with a light breakfast featuring our house-made bagels and turnovers on Sunday morning.  Cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! Check in at noon on Saturday\, check out at 11 AM on Sunday. \nReserve Now! \n  \n\nAbout Robert Smythe\nRobert is an acclaimed theater artist and the founder of Mum Puppettheatre\, the only regional theater in the United States dedicated to puppetry\, serving as its Artistic Director for 23 years. During that time he wrote\, directed and performed over 20 original productions using puppets\, masks and human actors\, winning numerous awards and honors\, including four Barrymore Awards for himself and 13 for the company. He also led Mum on international tours on four continents. \n\nRobert is the recipient of Guggenheim\, Pew\, NEA and six Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowships\, and six Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theater in areas ranging from education to choreography. According to Philadelphia City Paper\, Smythe’s work with Mum “sparked the theater renaissance that continues to this day.” He was the first artist to receive a commission from the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts in 2008\, and the resulting collaboration between him and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia\, Stravinsky’s “l’Histoire du Soldat\,” won the 2011 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Collaboration. \nHe is the founder of the Playwriting Program for the International Puppetry Conference at the Tony-winning O’Neill Theater Center. His work on motor contagion was been published in Acta Psychologica; his ground-breaking application of narrative theory to puppetry\, “Reading a Puppet Show: Understanding the Three-Dimensional Narrative\,” was published in The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance. Robert received his MFA in Playwrighting from Temple University\, where he was a University Fellow. Philadelphia Magazine named him “Best Professor” in their annual “Best of Philadelphia” issue in 2010. He is now the Culinary Lead Baker for Swarthmore College\, where he makes hundreds of desserts every day. He also is currently directing and acting at the acclaimed Hedgerow Theatre in Philadelphia\, teaches playwrighting in workshops internationally\, and works as a voiceover specialist in national advertising. \nAbout Susan Smythe\n\n \nSusan is delighted to be working again at Spillian.  Long-time Philadelphia costume designer and two-time Barrymore nominee for her work at Mum Puppettheatre\, she has also had a long association with InterAct Theatre\, with Uncanny Valley\, Gideon’s Knot\, The How and the Why\, Two Jews Walk into a War\, Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes\, Other projects: L’Histoire du Soldat for the innaugural PIFA at the Kimmel Center\, other companies: The Berserker Residents\, Tribe of Fools\, Drexel University\,and Swarthmore College Theater and Dance. Susan also designs and sells housewares and accessories at Crooked Dog Designs. \n\n  \nAbout Johnny Piper\nBy day an attorney\, and at all other moments\, wild man Johnny Piper\, John McGovern is a talented traditional bagpipe player\, playing both with  Ulster County Sheriff’s Office Honor Guard & Alternative Ulster\, a punk/Celtic fusion band that raises every roof in a 20 mile radius. Johnny will be joining us in full kit and as much sobriety as the occasion invites\, providing a memorable bagpipe soundtrack to our evening’s entertainments. \n  \n  \nAbout Leigh Melander\, PhD\nLeigh has a doctorate in cultural mythology and psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and wrote her dissertation on frivolity as an entry into imagination. She has an eclectic background in the arts as well as consulting in strategic planning\, outreach and marketing\, and event planning for over 20 years. She has performed\, and taught and facilitated explorations of imagination and creativity internationally\, working with individuals and groups to help them find their way to bringing their wild ideas to life. \nHer undergraduate degree is in performance\, literature\, and history from Penn State\, and she studied writing by invitation with Nobel Poet Laureate Derek Walcott at Boston University. She has has appeared in various media outlets\, including the History Channel\, as a mythology expert\, and has published articles in Spring Journal\, The Routledge International Handbook of Jungian Film Studies\, The Mythology CD-ROM. She hosted two weekly radio shows on an NPR affiliate for several years: Myth America (now available as a podcast)\, an exploration into how myth shapes our sense of identity; and The Reveling Radio Hour\, an irreverent mashup of her take on the old Fleischmanns Yeast Radio Hour variety shows\, self-help podcasts\, and Being John Malkovich. She served for four years as the Vice President of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and the editor of their MythBlast series. She is a presenter and coach in creativity and imagination\, and her first book\, Psyche’s Choice: The Frivolous Revolution is available on Amazon Kindle. \n\nJoin our Spillian Imaginarium email list and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming events: URL:https://spillian.com/event/the-hallowed-haggis-a-robert-burns-celebration-january-2023/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Adventure,Dinner,Imaginarium,Mythic Catskills,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/hallowedhaggisimage.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Spillian":MAILTO:sam@spillian.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191122T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191124T120000 DTSTAMP:20191121T161627Z CREATED:20180924T220602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191121T161627Z UID:10614-1574445600-1574596800@spillian.com SUMMARY:Forage Your Feast | A Mythic Catskills Adventure DESCRIPTION:Forage Your Feast | A Mythic Catskills Adventure\nNovember 22-24\, 2019\nIn this era of illusion\, many of us are yearning for realness. For authenticity. \nCome to the source and taste some as the Catskills brings in the fall harvest\, on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday\, for your very own farm to table celebration. (This is as far from cranberries in a can as it gets…) \nSpillian is proud to partner with Table to Farm Tours to invite you to come and taste – literally and metaphorically – the terroir of the Catskills and bring it back to your table for your holiday feast. \nJoin with us as we introduce you to an extraordinary group of farmers who love this land\, in all of its beauty and its harshness\, and produce food that tastes of all that the Catskills awaken in us. You’ll wander with the inspiring team from Table to Farm Tours to a hand-selected array of Catskills farms\, offering the bounty of late fall on a custom designed private tour. Bring the flavors of the Catskills directly home to your celebrations; food tastes different when you not only know where it comes from\, but also when you’ve met the folks who have brought it into being. \nForage Your Feast at Spillian. It’s Mythic. Local. Real. \nReserve Now! \n\nMythic Catskills Adventures\nSpillian’s Mythic Catskills Adventures are an intersection with the essence of the Catskills: the forests\, the mountains\, the people\, the deep stories that make this place so compelling. \nEach gathering celebrates a facet of this gem-like place: its food\, its fish and streams\, its ringing summer\, its snow-spangled winters\, its flowing creative life force. \nCome for a weekend of grand adventure. Feast. Explore. Hear the great stories and share your own.  Revel in the mythic possibility of the Catskills and find where it sings in your life – and then bring that song back home with you. \n\nForage Your Feast Schedule\nFriday\nAn evening of Catskills Flavors \n• A robust farm-to-table charcuterie\, including local meats and cheeses\, spring greens\, hummus\, relishes\, chutneys\, and more from our neighboring farmers and food producers\, along with red onion & leek tarts and salad.\n• A tasting of Catskills ciders: fresh and hard\, and an exploration into the extraordinary history of the apple in the Catskills.\n• Tales\, real and mythic\, about farmed and wild food in the Catskills\, around the fireplace. \nSaturday\nForaging Your Feast on the Farms \n• Begin your day with a Catskills breakfast featuring eggs from Spillian Farm’s ridiculous chickens.\n• A custom Catskills farm tour with Table to Farm Tours\, tasting and gathering the foods that speak to your soul and taste buds to inspire your holiday cooking. You’ll be wandering to Barber’s Farm\, Sap Bush Hollow Farm\, Scrumpy Ewe Cider\, Buck Hill Farm\, and Harpersfield Cheese. Looking for the perfect turkey for Thanksgiving? You can pre-order it from Sap Bush Hollow. We’ll email you instructions when you register! (Please note you need to register for the tour in addition to the weekend if you’d like to go.)\n• A lunch at one of our local farm-to-table cafés.\n• A cocktail hour and mixology contest featuring Catskills spirits.\n• A six-course local feast from Spillian’s chef Christian Van Etten\, featuring flavors from the farms you visited during the day.\n• Storytelling of the history and legends of the Catskills and its food\,  and how it lands our yearning for a sense of place. \nSunday\nForaging Wild Woods Flavors \n• A Spillian breakfast.\n• A gentle guided moving meditation inviting you to savor a sense of place in the Catskills.\n• Foraging on Spillian’s property and a cooking lesson with Chef Christian.\n• A gathering to sample your culinary masterpiece. \n\nThe Saturday Feast\nA family style feast around our extraordinary mahogany dining table\, all dressed for the season. This table is a true place of convivium\, where tales are topped\, ideas are birthed\, and friendships created. Chef Christian Van Etten’s menu for the evening: \n\n• Warm Frizee salad with Fennel\, Apple\, and Goat Cheese\n\n\n• House Made Butternut Squash Tortolloni with Pine sauce and Pesto\n\n\n• Roasted Venison with Roasted Beet\, Carmelized Onion Chutney\n\n\n• Three Sisters Bowl with Hominy\, Beans\, and Squash\n\n\n• Roast Quail stuffed with Sausage\, Apple & Chestnut over a Bed of Pureed Roasted Rutabagas\n\n\n• Maple Frozen Custard with Candied Bacon served over Cornbread Fingers\n\n\nPricing\nJoin us for the full weekend\, or on Saturday for the tour and dinner\, or simply for the evening on Saturday! \nForage Your Feast Weekend For One: $425 until November 10! $525 after that.\nPer person\, single room occupancy. Weekend fee includes all sessions at Spillian\, all meals; tastings; mixology contest\, foraging session\, moving meditation; cooking class; and lodging at Spillian. Guided Table to Farm tour with Saturday lunch is an additional $105 per person; please register for this on the registration page if you’d like to join us. Evening cash bar\, tax\, on-farm purchases\, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! Check in Friday any time after 3 PM. \nForage Your Feast Weekend For Two: $595 until November 10! $695 after that.\nFor the couple\, double room occupancy. Weekend fee includes all sessions including  all meals; tasting; moving meditation; cooking class; and lodging at Spillian. Guided Table to Farm tour with Saturday lunch is an additional $105 per person; please register for this on the registration page if you’d like to join us. Evening cash bar\, tax\, on-farm purchases\, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! Check in Friday any time after 3 PM. \nSaturday Table to Farm Tour: $105\nPer person. A custom Catskills farm tour with Table to Farm Tours\, tasting and gathering the foods that speak to your soul and taste buds to inspire your holiday cooking. You’ll be wandering to Barber’s Farm\, Sap Bush Hollow Farm\, Scrumpy Ewe Cider\, Buck Hill Farm\, and Harpersfield Cheese. Lunch included. On-farm purchases\, tax\, and gratuities not included. \nSaturday Evening Feast & Festivities: $65 per person\nJoin us for a Catskills spirits mixology contest\, and a feast fit for kings. Cocktails begin at 5 PM\, dinner at 7 PM. Includes your mixology masterpiece cocktail and dinner. Cash bar\, tax and gratuities not included. Reservations required. \nWhat to Bring With You\nWe’re fairly casual here in the mountains! If you’re going on the farm tour\, a pair of boots is a grand idea\, as mountain farms can be muddy. If you’re up for a moving meditation class\, please bring something you can easily move in. November in the mountains is beautiful but can be chilly\, so make sure you bring layers with you! Other than that…a camera if you’d like\, and a willingness for adventure. \nReserve Now! \n  \n\nAbout Table to Farm Tours\nOur goal is to connect the dots for you\, curating tours to a variety of local producers from creameries to tea blenders\, veggie farms to hard cideries\, creating an experience you’ll remember long after you’ve visited the Catskills. Hop in our comfortable van and we’ll take you on full day tour or come along for an evening of amazing libations and excellent farm-to-table food. You’ll have opportunities to meet individual farmers and makers\, hear their stories\, learn about their philosophies\, tour their site\, and taste some amazing food and drink. Learn more here. \n\nHave You Joined Our Mythic Catskills Adventure email list? Join now and be the first to know about upcoming events and special early pricing! \n\n  URL:https://spillian.com/event/forage-your-feast-a-mythic-catskills-weekend-november-2019/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Adventure,Dinner,Imaginarium,Music,Mythic Catskills,Outdoors ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/highlandrainbow.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Spillian":MAILTO:sam@spillian.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190510T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190512T120000 DTSTAMP:20190429T161847Z CREATED:20190201T174005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T161847Z UID:10586-1557511200-1557662400@spillian.com SUMMARY:Find Your Wild Spirits | A Mythic Catskills Weekend DESCRIPTION:Find Your Wild Spirits | A Mythic Catskills Weekend\nMay 10-12\, 2019\nSpring rises with a thrumming energy in all of us…revel in the month of May as wildness unfurls in the Catskills with a celebration of the waters of life. \nSpillian is delighted to partner with Table to Farm Tours to invite you to come and taste – literally and metaphorically – the terroir of the Catskills ciders\, beers\, and spirits and bring some wild spirit to your spring. \nJoin with us as we introduce you to an extraordinary group of makers who bring the soil\, water\, and grains and fruits of the Catskills to life as ciders\, beers\, and spirits. You’ll wander with the inspiring team from Table to Farm Tours on a private tasting tour to several of the finest craft brewers and distillers in the country\, and learn how they make their magic in bottles and kegs. \nOr you can stick closer to home for the day\, and forage the grounds for edible mixers\, unfurl in a moving meditation class\, or simply relax. \nDiscover some of Spillian’s favorite mixed drink magic\, try your hand at mixology\, and compete for a chance for your creation to be included in Spillian’s featured drink collection\, and celebrate with new friends…and\, of course\, feast. The food. Oh\, the food… \nFind Your Wild Spirits at Spillian. It’s Mythic. Local. Real. \nJoin us for the full weekend; for the Saturday tasting tour\, mixology contest and feast; or the mixology contest and feast. \nREGISTRATION NOW CLOSED! Thanks so much\, and please join us for another weekend! \n\nMythic Catskills Weekends\nSpillian’s Mythic Catskills Weekends are an intersection with the essence of the Catskills: the forests\, the mountains\, the people\, the deep stories that make this place so compelling. \nEach weekend celebrates a facet of this gem-like place: its food\, its fish and streams\, its ringing spring and summer\, its snow-spangled winters\, its flowing creative life force. \nCome for a weekend of grand adventure. Feast. Explore. Hear the great stories and share your own.  Revel in the mythic possibility of the Catskills and find where it sings in your life – and then bring that song back home with you. \n\nFind Your Wild Spirits | What’s Included\nFriday\nMixing It Up \n\nA robust farm-to-table charcuterie\, including local meats\, cheeses\, spring greens\, house made hummus\, relishes\, chutneys\, tarts\, and more from our neighboring farmers and food producers.\nA mixology class\, teaching you to make three Spillian favorite featured cocktails: The Spillian Trout Tail\, birthed at our Catskills Trout Tales events with Union Grove Distillery vodka and Tree Juice maple syrup; The Spillian Campfire\, with Prohibition Distillery gin\, pine simple syrup\, and smoke; and the Spillian Wallflower\, a drink invented by our amazing guest Marin Gardner at the first celebration of spirits at Spillian\,  an invocation of Catskills fields and forests\, and the extraordinary antique frescos that adorn the walls here. Learn how they’re made\, try a taste\, and then we’ll open the bar!\nTales\, real and mythic\, about the history and lore of booze in the Catskills in front of the blazing fire.\n\nSaturday\nFinding Your Wild Spirits Tour \n\n9 AM: A Catskills breakfast featuring eggs from Spillian Farm’s ridiculous chickens.\n10 AM: For those who want to discover how it’s all made. A custom Catskills local libations tour to amazing distilleries\, cideries\, and breweries tour with Table to Farm Tours\, with flight tastings at each\, and a chance to buy the flavors you adore to spark your spring. Our itinerary includes several award-winning Catskills spots:  Wayside Cider and Tap Room\, Roscoe Beer Company\, Catskill Brewery\, and Prohibition Distillery\, and lunch at one of our local breweries.\n10 AM – 4 PM: For those who’d like to do their making in other ways\, a day of relaxation and discovery:\n• explore local shops for special finds\, from antiques to hand-crafted art on a self-guided tour.\n• simply explore the back of your eyelids in Spillian’s great room or epic porch.\n• 1 PM: lunch for those who choose to stay close.\n• 2 PM: A hike on the Spillian 33 acre wooded estate and forage early spring herbs for dinner and cocktails.\n• 3 PM: Reground yourself with a moving meditation with Spillian co-founder Leigh Melander\, going deep into metaphors of the wild mountains\, streams\, and forests.\n5 PM: A Happy Hour of Mixology Contest: with ingredients awaiting you. Here’s your chance to mix the next great Spillian cocktail\, with naming rights! Get your inner mixologist working! The competition is fierce!\n7 PM: A family-style feast from Spillian’s chef Christian Van Etten\, featuring flavors from Catskills the woods as they come alive. Menu below!\nStorytelling of the history and legends of the Catskills and its colorful history with beers\, ciders\, and spirits.\n\nSunday\nThe Morning After  \n\nA Spillian breakfast.\nA class with Chef Christian on how to make the perfect post-celebratory\, comfort food anti-hangover dish\, maybe even a little hair of the dog. We’ll send the recipe home with you!\nA gathering around Spillian’s feasting table to down your the delicacies.\n\n\nThe Saturday Spirits Feast\nA family style feast around our extraordinary mahogany dining table\, all dressed for the season. This table is a true place of convivium\, where tales are topped\, ideas are birthed\, and friendships created. Here’s the menu our Chef Christian Van Etten is presenting: \n• Asparagus Salad with Two Stones Farm Goat Cheese\, Frizzled Ramps\, and and Awestruck Cider Vinaigrette\n• Highland Farm Venison with Blue Sky Blueberry Wine Reduction\n• Japanese Knotweed and Honey Glazed Roast Chicken with Shallots\n• Farro Pilaf with Wild Mushrooms\, Onions\, Walnuts\, and Garlic Mustard Pesto\n• Prohibition Bourbon Glazed Roasted Brussel Sprouts\n• House Made Vanilla Ice Cream with Union Grove Catskills Maple Spirit Chocolate Drizzle \n\nPricing\nWeekend fee includes all sessions including all meals (dinner Friday\, breakfast\, lunch at Spillian\, and the feast on Saturday\, breakfast and lunch of your cooking class creation on Sunday); Spillian mixology class and tasting; foraging wander on the grounds; moving meditation class; mixology contest; and cooking class. The Table to Farm Tours Local Libations Tour is an additional $145 per person. Cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! \nFind Your Wild Spirits Weekend For One: $495\nPer person\, single room occupancy. Check in any time after 3 PM on Friday. \nFind Your Wild Spirits For Two: $595 until April 30. After that\, $695.\nFor the couple\, double room occupancy. Check in any time after 3 PM on Friday. \nSaturday Wild Spirits Table to Farm Local Libations Tour: $145 per person\nA fully guided tour to four local craft libations makers\, led by Table to Farm Tours. All transportation\, custom tastings\, and lunch included. Please be ready at 9:45 for a 10 AM departure. \nSaturday Wild Spirits Mixology Contest\, Feast & Festivities: $65 per person\nJust want to join us for the evening? Come find your wild spirits at the mixology contest\, feast and festivities. Cocktail hour begins at 5 PM\, dinner at 7 PM. \nWhat to Bring With You\nWe’re fairly casual here in the mountains! If you’re going hiking\, make sure you bring comfortable clothes and decent hiking boots. If you’re up for the moving meditation class\, please bring something you can easily move in. Being in the mountains can bring cooler temperatures\, so make sure you bring layers with you! Other than that…a camera if you’d like\, maybe a journal\, and a willingness for adventure. \n\nAbout Table To Farm Tours\nOur goal is to connect the dots for you\, curating tours to a variety of local producers from creameries to tea blenders\, veggie farms to hard cideries\, creating an experience you’ll remember long after you’ve visited the Catskills. Hop in our comfortable van and we’ll take you on full day tour or come along for an evening of amazing libations and excellent farm-to-table food. You’ll have opportunities to meet individual farmers and makers\, hear their stories\, learn about their philosophies\, tour their site\, and taste some amazing food and drink. Learn more here. \nAbout Leigh Melander\nSpillian co-founder Leigh Melander has a doctorate in cultural mythology and psychology\, and an extensive background in the performing and creative arts. She’s studied\, performed\, and taught movement classes around the US and in Greece\, Mexico\, and Romania. Leigh’s moving meditation sessions are an engaging way to explore how our bodies understand place and story through yoga\, pilates\, and guided imagery. Leigh served for five years on the Board of Directors of the Joseph Campbell Foundation\, has been published in both scholarly and popular publications on myth and story\, and hosted a weekly radio show\, Myth America\, for three years. She guides the programming at Spillian\, and offers workshops on imagination\, creativity\, and story here and around the US. \n  URL:https://spillian.com/event/find-your-wild-spirits-a-mythic-catskills-weekend/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Adventure,Dinner,Imaginarium,Music,Mythic Catskills,Revel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/wildspiritsLR.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190329T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190331T120000 DTSTAMP:20190317T140846Z CREATED:20180924T220602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190317T140846Z UID:10420-1553882400-1554033600@spillian.com SUMMARY:The Sap Also Rises | A Mythic Catskills Weekend DESCRIPTION:The Sap Also Rises | A Mythic Catskills Weekend\nMarch 29-31\, 2019\n\nSavor a mythic weekend celebrating the slow sweet rise of Catskills maple sap and the coming of spring. The Vernal Equinox has just arrived\, and spring\, however light of touch\, is beginning to unfurl in the mountains.\n\n\n \n\n\nJoin our wonderful partners Table to Farm Tours and Spillian for a grand weekend exploring the sap bush and sap houses of the Catskill maple syrup world\, and the hope of a Catskills spring.\n\n\n\nAnd\, of course\, maple-inspired feasting and merriment will infuse the weekend. \nThe Sap Also Rises at Spillian. It’s Mythic. Local. Real. \n\n\nREGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT! Thanks so much for your interest! Please join us at one of our other Mythic Catskills Weekends coming up! You can learn more about them here. We’d love to see you!  \n\nMythic Catskills Weekends\nSpillian’s Mythic Catskills Weekends are an intersection with the essence of the Catskills: the forests\, the mountains\, the people\, the deep stories that make this place so compelling. \nEach weekend celebrates a facet of this gem-like place: its food\, its fish and streams\, its ringing summer\, its snow-spangled winters\, its flowing creative life force. \nCome for a weekend of grand adventure. Feast. Explore. Hear the great stories and share your own.  Revel in the mythic possibility of the Catskills and find where it sings in your life – and then bring that song back home with you. \n\nThe Sap Also Rises: A Mythic Catskills Weekend | What’s Included\nFriday \n\n6 PM: A robust farm-to-table charcuterie\, including local meats\, cheeses\, spring greens\, house-made hummus\, relishes\, chutneys\, tarts\, and more from our neighboring farmers and food producers.\n6:30 PM A maple syrup tasting\, featuring the syrups of our friends and neighbors\, Tree Juice Maple Syrup.\nTales\, real and mythic\, about the history of syruping in the Catskills in front of the blazing fire.\n\nSaturday \n\n9 AM: A classic Spillian Catskills breakfast featuring eggs from Spillian Farm’s ridiculous chickens.\n10 AM: A moving meditation with Spillian co-founder Leigh Melander\, going deep into images of the mountains and metaphors of rising spring.\n11 AM: A curated wander with Table to Farm Tours\, visiting Catskills maple syrup producers Roxbury Mountain Maple and Hubbell Family Farm\, award-winning cheese makers Two Stones Farm\, and Union Grove Distillery to taste their Catskill Maple Spirits\, with lunch at Kimchee Harvest Kitchen\, an innovative local farm-to-table café.\n5 PM: Cocktails featuring maple flavors\, and live mountain music from the delightful Godforsaken String Band.\n7 PM: A sap-rising feast around Spillian’s feasting table from our chef Christian Van Etten.\n9 PM: A chance to share stories of your adventures around the fire.\n\nSunday \n\n9 AM: A Spillian Catskills breakfast.\n10 AM: Making maple syrup candy with Spillian chef Christian Van Etten in the snow (or crushed ice if the snows have disappeared!).\n11 AM: A farewell toast with Spillian’s own maple cordial.\n\n\nThe Saturday Sap Also Rises Feast\nA family style feast around our extraordinary mahogany dining table\, all dressed for the season. This table is a true place of convivium\, where tales are topped\, ideas are birthed\, and friendships created. Here’s what chef Christian Van Etten is thinking for the menu… \n• Asparagus Salad with Two Stones Farm Goat Cheese\, Frizzled Ramps\, and a Tree Juice Maple and Awestruck Cider Vinaigrette\n• Highland Farm Venison with Blue Sky Blueberry Wine Reduction\n• Maple and Mustard Glazed Roast Chicken with Apples and Shallots\n• Farro with Wild Mushrooms and Garlic Mustard Pesto\n• Maple Glazed Roasted Brussel Sprouts\n• House Made Maple Walnut Ice Cream with Union Grove Catskills Spirit Chocolate Drizzle \n\nPricing\nSaturday Feast & Festivities: $65 per person\n(Join us for the feast and tales around the fire. Cash bar cocktails with live music begin at 5 PM\, dinner at 7 PM. Cocktails\, tax and gratuities not included.) \nSaturday Syrup Tour\, Feast & Festivities: $175 per person\n(Join us for the syrup wander with lunch\, cash bar cocktails\, dinner\, and tales around the fire. Please be at Spillian by 10:45 for a 11 AM departure. Cocktails\, tax and gratuities not included.) \nFull Sap Also Rises Weekend For One: $595\nPer person\, single room occupancy. Full weekend fee includes all sessions including guided farm tour\, all meals; syrup tasting; moving meditation; cooking class; and lodging at Spillian. Evening cash bar\, purchases on farms\, tax\, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! \nFull Sap Also Rises Weekend For a Couple: $895\nFor the couple\, double room occupancy. Full weekend fee includes all sessions including guided farm tour\, all meals; syrup tasting; moving meditation; cooking class; and lodging at Spillian. Evening cash bar\, purchases on farms\, tax\, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! \n  \n\nAbout Table to Farm Tours\nOur goal is to connect the dots for you\, curating tours to a variety of local producers from creameries to tea blenders\, veggie farms to hard cideries\, creating an experience you’ll remember long after you’ve visited the Catskills. Hop in our comfortable van and we’ll take you on full day tour or come along for an evening of amazing libations and excellent farm-to-table food. You’ll have opportunities to meet individual farmers and makers\, hear their stories\, learn about their philosophies\, tour their site\, and taste some amazing food and drink. Learn more here. \n  \nAbout Tree Juice Maple Syrup\n SpillianGroupPacket2020-1Tree Juice Maple Syrup™ is made at Lazy Crazy Acres Farm. Nestled in the Drybrook Valley of the Catskills Mountains of New York\, the Fairbairn family have owned and operated this 100+ acre farm since the 1930’s. In 2012\, Jake Fairbairn and Ryan Annetts resurrected the family’s sugar shack\, which had been unused for eight years\, and began making Tree Juice Maple Syrup™. Around 5000 maple trees on the farm’s rolling hills are tapped each year. Miles of tubing gravity feed the sap to the sugar house where a wood fire evaporator turns the sap into sweet stuff\, with a wild and wonderful variety of flavors. Learn more here. \n  \nAbout Leigh Melander\, PhD\nSpillian co-founder Leigh Melander has a doctorate in cultural mythology and psychology\, and an extensive background in the performing and creative arts. She’s studied\, performed\, and taught movement classes around the US and in Greece\, Mexico\, and Romania. Leigh’s moving meditation sessions are an engaging way to explore how our bodies understand place and story through yoga\, pilates\, and guided imagery. Leigh served for five years on the Board of Directors of the Joseph Campbell Foundation\, has been published in both scholarly and popular publications on myth and story\, and hosted a weekly radio show\, Myth America\, for three years. She guides the programming at Spillian\, and offers workshops on imagination\, creativity\, and story here and around the US. \n  \nAbout The Godforsaken String Band\nFrom one of the Catskills’ most favorite local bands…The Godforsaken String Band offers simple\, eloquent\, joyous back-in-time playing of authentic Old Time and Appalachian Tunes. This foursome brings a fiddle\, clawhammer banjo\, rhythms and vocals…and instruments to spare! Make a joyful mountain noise. Learn more here. \n  \n  \nAbout Tree Juice Maple Syrup\nTree Juice Maple Syrup™ is made at Lazy Crazy Acres Farm. Nestled in the Drybrook Valley of the Catskills Mountains of New York\, the Fairbairn family have owned and operated this 100+ acre farm since the 1930’s. In 2012\, Jake Fairbairn and Ryan Annetts resurrected the family’s sugar shack\, which had been unused for eight years\, and began making Tree Juice Maple Syrup™. Around 5000 maple trees on the farm’s rolling hills are tapped each year. Miles of tubing gravity feed the sap to the sugar house where a wood fire evaporator turns the sap into sweet stuff\, with an amazing array of special flavors. Learn more here. URL:https://spillian.com/event/the-sap-also-rises-a-mythic-catskills-weekend/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Adventure,Dinner,Imaginarium,Mythic Catskills,Outdoors ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/sapalsorises-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Spillian":MAILTO:sam@spillian.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190125T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190127T120000 DTSTAMP:20190117T212210Z CREATED:20180924T220602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190117T212210Z UID:10387-1548439200-1548590400@spillian.com SUMMARY:The Hallowed Haggis | A Mythic Catskills Weekend DESCRIPTION:The Hallowed Haggis | A Mythic Catskills Weekend\nJanuary 25 – 27\, 2019\nWe all know January–the time of the year when holiday delights have faded into the snow and the dark cold nights of winter threaten despair… \nCome push against the darkness\, and join us for a seriously silly celebration of the words and song of the Ploughman Poet\, Robert Burns. Indulge your whimsey\, and join in the revelry as we enjoy the smoky taste of great whiskey\, the play of candlelight against silver\, the wail of the bagpipes and a feast\, a great feast of the Hallowed Haggis… Hilarity will ensue. \nWhat the hell is Haggis\, you ask?  It’s liver\, tongue and other unmentionable bits together with Scottish oats\, onions\, stock and herbs all cooked together into “the great chieftain o’ the pudding race.” Put away your mocking thoughts\, and know that this is one delicious bit of pie.  And\, for those who dare not\, we’re also concocting a vegetarian version o’ the great and powerful Haggis.  \nWear a kilt\, yourself\,  and get a special deal on the weekend.  Bring on the kilts!  \nJoin us as we push back winter’s dark cloak with games\, verse\, drinks and superb food\, all invoking – and evoking – your inner Highlander. \nAnd as with all Mythic Catskills weekends\, you can join us for the entire weekend\, or for Saturday’s festivities and dinner\, or simply for the evening’s delights. \nThe Hallowed Haggis at Spillian. It’s Mythic. Local. Real. \n[btnsx id=”10415″] \n\nMythic Catskills Weekends\nSpillian’s Mythic Catskills Weekends are an intersection with the essence of the Catskills: the forests\, the mountains\, the people\, the deep stories that make this place so compelling. \nEach weekend celebrates a facet of this gem-like place: its food\, its fish and streams\, its ringing summer\, its snow-spangled winters\, its flowing creative life force. \nCome for a weekend of grand adventure. Feast. Explore. Hear the great stories and share your own.  Revel in the mythic possibility of the Catskills and find where it sings in your life – and then bring that song back home with you. \n\nThe Hallowed Haggis: A Mythic Catskills Weekend | What’s Included\nFriday\nThe Highland Catskills \n\n6 PM: A highland charcuterie\nThe story of whisky (and whiskey) and a tasting.\nTales\, real and mythic\, about the history and lore of the Scotch-Irish in the Catskills in front of the blazing fire.\n\nSaturday\nThe Haggis Games and Robert Burns Supper \n\n9 AM: A Catskills breakfast featuring eggs from Spillian Farm’s ridiculous chickens.\n10 AM: A moving meditation with Spillian co-founder Leigh Melander\, going deep into images of the mountains and metaphors from the poetry of Robert Burns for those who’d like to stretch their minds and muscles a bit.\nNoon: Lunch\, featuring cock-a-leekie soup\, salad\, and bannocks.\n1 to 5 PM: Introducing the Spillian Haggis Games\, a superbly silly array of activities and competitions to get your inner Highlander primed for the Robert Burns Dinner. Learn\, compete\, laugh…including:\n\nA Burns-inspired poetry writing session with our friend\, wildman and  The Poetry Society of New York Poetry co-founder Nicholas Adamski (what do you want to write a paean to?…we’ll vote on the winning poem after dinner).\nAn instant musical ensemble – we’ve got harps and tin whistles and tambourines. Bring your instrument if you’ve got one! We’ll raise the rafters. Want to solo? We’ll add that in to the evening’s festivities as well.\nA Scottish accent lesson from our friend acclaimed actor\, director\, and playwright Robert Smythe\,(who is leading a playwrighting workshop with us this summer!) For those with a talent for accents and/or a touch of moxie\, we welcome your best efforts in our supper celebration. Click here for a list of Robert Burns poems you can practice on!\nA chance to hone your favorite story of Scotland\, poetry\, or any Highland-worthy exploit with our friend\, inspired educator and co-creator of storied worlds with her company Guard Up!\, Meghan Gardner\, so you can share it with fellow revelers.\nA bonniest knees contest for those brave enough to don a kilt (and bribery is welcome\, of course).\n\n\n5 PM: Cocktail hour featuring the Spillian Highland\, with local Catskills whiskey\, a whisper of the heather on the hills\, and a curl of smoke.\n6 PM: A full-flown Robert Burns Supper\, with family-style multiple course feast from Spillian’s chef Christian Van Etten around our feasting table\, featuring traditional and vegetarian haggis\, and his creative takes on the evocative flavors of Scotland; and all of the glorious pageantry of a traditional Burns Supper\, featuring acclaimed bag piper Kevin Grace\, poetry\, speechifying\, and awards for the winners of the Haggis Games. Featuring Robert Smythe as our official leader of the Address to the Haggis.\n\nSunday\nRumbling the Rumbledethump \n\n9 AM: A Spillian breakfast.\n10 AM: A cooking class with Chef Christian\, learning to make traditional Scottish Rumbledethump (a seriously fine comfort food)\, finishing with a tasting of your masterpiece around our table.\n12 PM Farewell to the Highlands – we send you back out into the real world\, filled with wit and wisdom. Or at least lunch.\n\n\nThe Saturday Robert Burns Feast\nA family style feast around our extraordinary mahogany dining table\, all dressed for the occasion. This table is a true place of convivium\, where tales are topped\, ideas are birthed\, and friendships created. We will toast\, dine\, share stories\, poetry\, the music of the pipes\, and announce the winners of the Haggis Games.  Chef Christian Van Etten’s seven-course planned menu: \n\nAmuse Bouche: Cullen Skink Risotto\, A Creamy Taste of House-Smoked Salmon from Hookline Fish Company\nGreen Salad with Roasted Beets\, Chestnuts\, and Leeks\nThe Mighty Haggis: Great Chieftan o’ the Puddin’ Race\nVegetarian Haggis in Savoy Cabbage with Cinnamon and Nutmeg\nRoasted Hubbell Family Farm Highland Beef\nNeeps and Tatties: Glazed Rutabaga and Potatoes with Chive Whiskey Sauce\nRaspberry Cranachan: Toasted Oats\, Raspberries\, Whipped Cream and a Dash of Whiskey\n\n\nPricing\nFull weekend fee includes all sessions including the moving meditaiton\, games\, four meals\, one featured cocktail per evening\, cooking class\, and lodging at Spillian. Evening cash bar\, tax and gratuities additional. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! \nSaturday Haggis Games\, Robert Burns Supper & Festivities: $65 per person\nJoin us for the Haggis Games\, cocktail hour\, supper\, and festivities. Begins at 1 PM. \nSaturday Robert Burns Supper & Festivities: $55 per person\nJoin us for the cocktail hour\, supper\, and festivities. Cocktail hour begins at 5 PM\, dinner at 6 PM. \nFull The Hallowed Haggis Weekend For One: $425\nPer person\, single room occupancy. Check in any time after 3 PM on Friday. \nFull The Hallowed Haggis Weekend For a Couple: $745\nFor the couple\, double room occupancy. Check in any time after 3 PM on Friday. \nWearing a kilt? Get 10% off! Use coupon code: KILT when you register.\nNote: Click here for kilt maker who rents kilts in Highland NY \n[btnsx id=”10415″] URL:https://spillian.com/event/the-hallowed-haggis-a-mythic-catskills-weekend-2019/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Adventure,Dinner,Imaginarium,Music,Mythic Catskills ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/hallowedhaggisimage.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Spillian":MAILTO:sam@spillian.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190104T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190106T120000 DTSTAMP:20190103T161514Z CREATED:20180924T220602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190103T161514Z UID:10297-1546624800-1546776000@spillian.com SUMMARY:Of Fire and Ice | A Mythic Catskills Weekend DESCRIPTION:Of Fire and Ice | A Mythic Catskills Weekend\nJanuary 4 – 6\, 2019\nA mythic winter adventure\, celebrating the extraordinary dance between the frosted Catskills and the flames of a blazing hearth. Come to the mountains\, where wood smoke cuts across the sharp air of January and the forests are made of deep dreams… \nSpillian is delighted to partner with Upstate Adventure Guides to invite you to come and explore the glories of the Catskills mountains in the winter\, and the evocative intersections between fire and ice in feasting\, stories\, and imagination. This is the perfect adventure for those who’ve been curious about wandering into the mountains in the winter but not quite sure where to start\, with a carefully curated moderate hike to one of the Catskills’ most magical places\, the Balsam Lake Fire Tower; a fire building challenge; an imagination and body expanding movement class; as well as a chance to roast chestnuts\, savor the new Spillian Cocktail\, the Catskill Fire Tower\, and feast throughout the weekend! \nWe’re thrilled to say that part of the proceeds for this weekend will support the work of our great friend and ally\, Ann Roberti and the Catskill Mountain Club as they resurrect an historic fire tower on Bramley Mountain. \nOf Fire and Ice at Spillian. It’s Mythic. Local. Real. \n[btnsx id=”10351″] \n  \n \n\nMythic Catskills Weekends\nSpillian’s Mythic Catskills Weekends are an intersection with the essence of the Catskills: the forests\, the mountains\, the people\, the deep stories that make this place so compelling. \nEach weekend celebrates a facet of this gem-like place: its food\, its fish and streams\, its ringing summer\, its snow-spangled winters\, its flowing creative life force. \nCome for a weekend of grand adventure. Feast. Explore. Hear the great stories and share your own.  Revel in the mythic possibility of the Catskills and find where it sings in your life – and then bring that song back home with you. \n\nOf Fire And Ice: A Mythic Catskills Weekend | What’s Included\nFriday\nMelting into Winter \n\n6 PM Fondue!!! The perfect marriage between fire\, food\, and theater. Cheese fondue with local cheeses and veggies\, and a to-die-for spiced chocolate fondue. And we’ll be featuring a couple of special Spillian cocktails at the bar\, including the Old Fashioned Campfire…smoked\, of course.\nFire wishing in the new year…we’ll be sharing our wildest imaginings and sending them out into the universe on flying wish paper.\nTales\, real and mythic\, about the history and lore of winter in the Catskills in front of the blazing fire.\n\nSaturday\nOf Fire and Ice Mountain Adventure & Feast \n\n9 AM A Catskills breakfast featuring eggs from Spillian Farm’s ridiculous chickens.\n10 AM A guided adventure with Will Soter\, co-founder of Upstate Adventure Guides\, up to the historic Balsam Fire Tower. A moderate hike\, six miles round trip\, on a Catskills trail to an iconic fire tower with with enormous views and a deep connection to the stewardship of the Catskills. On the way back down\, Will will lead the group in harvesting some wild tinder to make a bonfire back at Spillian for a fire challenge.\nA light lunch with hot soup and other munchies on the trail.\n4 PM or so A chance to laze by the fire or on the porch for a bit before dinner\, watching the sky change down the valley.\n4:30 PM or so: A fire building challenge! Learn to make fire in the woods at Spillian’s bonfire\, and then roast chestnuts. Have you ever had a chestnut roasted over an open fire? No words…\n6 PM: Happy hour\, Spillian style! Come and help us create a brand new cocktail invented for this gathering\, in celebration of the storied fire towers of the Catskills. We’re thinking the Spillian Fire Tower will feature Union Grove Distillery‘s brand new Fir Gin and a breath of a divine smokey hot sauce with peppers roasted over an open fire from Burnett Farms…but would love your vote!\n7 PM: A family-style multiple course feast from Spillian’s chef Christian Van Etten\, menu coming soon\, but smoke and flame and ice will be involved…\nStorytelling of the history and legends of the Catskills and its colorful history with beers\, ciders\, and spirits.\n\nSunday\nBringing Fire and Ice to the World   \n\n9 AM some light breakfast treats including local yogurt and house made granola to fuel you after your adventure on Saturday and prep you for…\n9:30 AM A yoga-based moving meditation practice to stretch out those winter-wanderer joints and muscles and go deep into the metaphors of place\, fire\, and ice with Spillian co-founder Leigh Melander\, PhD. Geared to be engaging for experienced yoga lovers and first time experimenters!\n11 AM A gathering around Spillian’s feasting table for a hearty mountain brunch before you head back to bring your frost and flame to the world.\n\n\nThe Saturday Of Fire & Ice Feast\nA family style feast around our extraordinary mahogany dining table\, all dressed for the season. This table is a true place of convivium\, where tales are topped\, ideas are birthed\, and friendships created. From Spillian’s Chef Christian Van Etten\, a seven course celebration of fire\, ice\, and the flavors of the mountains. \n• Amuse Bouche – Tay Tea Catskills Harvest Frozen Lollipop \n• Mixed Greens With Fire Honey Candied Walnuts\, Frizzled Leeks\, and award-winning Two Stones Farm cheese\, with a Honey Vinaigrette \n• Roasted Highland Farm Loin of Venison with a Rose Hip Brandy Reduction \n• House-Smoked Beaverkill Hatchery Trout with Horseradish Cream\, Dill\, and Cucumber \n• Potatoes Catskill\, a Layered Twice-Baked Potato Mountain \n• Flambéed Turnips and Rutabagas \n• Smoked Mountain Berry Ice Cream Made at the Feasting Table \n\nPricing\nFull weekend fee includes all sessions including guided hike\, meals; one featured cocktail per evening; and lodging at Spillian.. Evening cash bar\, tax and gratuities\, and winter hiking gear not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! \nFull Fire and Ice Weekend For One: $495\nPer person\, single room occupancy. Check in any time after 3 PM on Friday. \nFull Find Your Holiday Spirits For a Couple: $795\nFor the couple\, double room occupancy. Check in any time after 3 PM on Friday. \nSaturday Hike\, Feast & Festivities: $145 per person\n(Join us for the farm wander\, dinner\, and tales around the fire. Please be at Spillian by 9:45 for a 10 AM departure.) \nSaturday Feast & Festivities: $65 per person\n(Join us for the fire challenge\, chestnuts\, Fire Tower cocktail\, feast and festivities. Fire building challenge & chestnut roasting begins at 4:30\, cocktail hour begins at 6 PM\, dinner at 7 PM.) \nIf you’re joining us on the hike and don’t have micro spikes or snowshoes\, we can provide a rental for you for $25/person. Depending on the weather\, you’ll definitely need one or the other! \n[btnsx id=”10351″]\n \n\nAbout Will Soter | Upstate Adventure Guides\nWill Soter is an experienced NYS licensed guide and co-founder of Upstate Adventure Guides\, one of the leading guide services in the Catskills. Will is the Vice President of the New York State Outdoor Guide Association\, serves on the board of the Catskill Mountain Club\, is the founder of the Catskill Adventure Tourism Summit\, and hosts the Great Outdoors radio show on WIOX radio. He is a Leave No Trace Master Educator\, is CPR/Wilderness First Aid Certified\, and has remarkable knowledge of the Catskill mountains trails\, flora\, fauna\, and history. And he’s one of our favorite people in the world. Learn more about Upstate Adventure Guides here. \n  \nAbout Leigh Melander\nSpillian co-founder Leigh Melander has a doctorate in cultural mythology and psychology\, and an extensive background in the performing and creative arts. She’s studied\, performed\, and taught movement classes around the US and in Greece\, Mexico\, and Romania. Leigh’s moving meditation sessions are an engaging way to explore how our bodies understand place and story through yoga\, pilates\, and guided imagery. Leigh served for five years on the Board of Directors of the Joseph Campbell Foundation\, has been published in both scholarly and popular publications on myth and story\, and hosted a weekly radio show\, Myth America\, for three years. She guides the programming at Spillian\, and offers workshops on imagination\, creativity\, and story here and around the US. URL:https://spillian.com/event/of-fire-and-ice-a-mythic-catskills-weekend/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Adventure,Dinner,Imaginarium,Mythic Catskills,Outdoors ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Of-Fire-and-Ice-Final-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Spillian":MAILTO:sam@spillian.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181207T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181209T120000 DTSTAMP:20181205T015740Z CREATED:20180924T220602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181205T015740Z UID:10252-1544194800-1544356800@spillian.com SUMMARY:Find Your Holiday Spirits | A Mythic Catskills Weekend DESCRIPTION:Find Your Holiday Spirits | A Mythic Catskills Weekend\nDecember 7 – 9\, 2018\nMaybe you adore the holidays… Maybe you look at them with a dry cynicism… And maybe you yearn for holiday celebrations that echo with a half-forgotten warmth and cheer. We’ve got you covered! From wry to rye\, we’ll help you find your holiday spirits. \nSpillian is delighted to partner with Table to Farm Tours to invite you to come and taste – literally and metaphorically – the terroir of the Catskills ciders\, beers\, and spirits and bring some back to your hearth for your celebrating this holiday season. \nJoin with us as we introduce you to an extraordinary group of makers who bring the soil\, water\, and grains and fruits of the Catskills to life as ciders\, beers\, and spirits. You’ll wander with the inspiring team from Table to Farm Tours on a private tasting tour to several of the finest craft brewers and distillers in the country\, and learn how they make their magic in bottles and kegs. \nAnd discover some of Spillian’s favorite mixed drink magic\, try your hand at mixology\, and celebrate with some special musical guests…and\, of course\, feast. The food. Oh\, the food… \nFind Your Holiday Spirits at Spillian. It’s Mythic. Local. Real. \nJoin us for the full weekend; for the Saturday tasting tour\, mixology contest and feast; or the mixology contest and feast. \n[btnsx id=”10260″] \n\nMythic Catskills Weekends\nSpillian’s Mythic Catskills Weekends are an intersection with the essence of the Catskills: the forests\, the mountains\, the people\, the deep stories that make this place so compelling. \nEach weekend celebrates a facet of this gem-like place: its food\, its fish and streams\, its ringing summer\, its snow-spangled winters\, its flowing creative life force. \nCome for a weekend of grand adventure. Feast. Explore. Hear the great stories and share your own.  Revel in the mythic possibility of the Catskills and find where it sings in your life – and then bring that song back home with you. \n\nFind Your Holiday Spirits | What’s Included\nFriday\nMixing It Up \n\nA robust farm-to-table charcuterie\, including local meats\,  cheeses\, spring greens\, house made hummus\, relishes\, chutneys\, and more from our neighboring farmers and food producers.\nA mixology class\, teaching you to make three Spillian favorite featured cocktails: The Spillian Trout Tail\, birthed at our Catskills Trout Tales events with Union Grove Distillery vodka and Tree Juice maple syrup; The Spillian Campfire\, with Prohibition Distillery gin\, pine simple syrup\, and smoke; and Spillian’s take on wassail\, featuring locally pressed cider.\nTales\, real and mythic\, about the history and lore of booze in the Catskills in front of the blazing fire.\n\nSaturday\nFinding Your Holiday Spirits Tour \n\nA Catskills breakfast featuring eggs from Spillian Farm’s ridiculous chickens.\nA custom Catskills distillery/cidery/brewery tour with Table to Farm Tours\, with flight tastings at each\, and a chance to buy the flavors you adore to spark your holiday celebrations. Our itinerary includes several award-winning Catskills spots:  Wayside Cider and Tap Room\, Roscoe Beer Company\, Catskill Brewery\, and Prohibition Distillery.\nA lunch at one of our local breweries.\nA chance to laze by the fire or on the porch for a bit before dinner\, watching the sky change down the valley.\n6 PM: A Happy Hour of Mixology Contest: with ingredients awaiting you\, featuring the amazing spirits from Union Grove Distillery\, including a very special chance to try their brand new\, small batch Fir Gin. Here’s your chance to mix the next great Spillian cocktail\, with naming rights! Get your inner mixologist working! The competition will be fierce…\n7 PM: A family-style  feast from Spillian’s chef Christian Van Etten\, featuring flavors from the farms you visited during the day. Menu coming soon\, but smoke and flame will be involved…\nA special guest appearance by Lady Parts\, a superb a cappella quartet to stamp out your inner Scrooge and make you all woogly with holiday spirit\nStorytelling of the history and legends of the Catskills and its colorful history with beers\, ciders\, and spirits.\n\nSunday\nThe Morning After  \n\nA Spillian breakfast.\nA class with Chef Christian on how to make the perfect post-celebratory\, comfort food anti-hangover over dish based on a generation’s old family recipe for chicken with home made noodles\, and maybe even a little hair of the dog. We’ll send the recipe home with you!\nA gathering around Spillian’s feasting table to down your the delicacies.\n\n\nThe Saturday Spirits Feast Menu\nA family style feast around our extraordinary mahogany dining table\, all dressed for the season. This table is a true place of convivium\, where tales are topped\, ideas are birthed\, and friendships created. Chef Christian Van Etten will be offering: \n\nSalad: with fried goat cheese and leeks\, grapes\, and hazlenuts\, over mixed greens with a local hard cider dressing\nPorchetta: a sumptious rolled pork loin and belly roast with herbs finished with Averna liqueur\nSliced duck breast and duck confit with a brandy and current sauce\nRoasted golden beets\, brussel sprouts with swiss chard and Drambuie balsamic glaze\nRum flambéed sweet potato and apple tian\nFarro with wild mushrooms and kale\, onions\, cooked in IPA\nPrune Armagnac Ice Cream with Dark Gingerbread\n\n\nPricing\nFull weekend fee includes all sessions including guided farm tour\, meals; Catskills ciders\, beers and spirits tasting; and lodging at Spillian.. Evening cash bar\, purchases on farms\, tax\, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! \nFull Find Your Holiday Spirits Weekend For One: $595\nPer person\, single room occupancy. Check in any time after 3 PM on Friday. \nFull Find Your Holiday Spirits For a Couple: $895\nFor the couple\, double room occupancy. Check in any time after 3 PM on Friday. \nSaturday Tour\, Feast & Festivities: $185 per person\n(Join us for the farm wander\, dinner\, and tales around the fire. Please be at Spillian by 9:45 for a 10 AM departure.) \nSaturday Feast & Festivities: $65 per person\n(Join us for the mixology contest\, feast and festivities. Cocktail hour begins at 6 PM\, dinner at 7 PM.) \n  \n[btnsx id=”10260″]\n\nAbout Table To Farm Tours\nOur goal is to connect the dots for you\, curating tours to a variety of local producers from creameries to tea blenders\, veggie farms to hard cideries\, creating an experience you’ll remember long after you’ve visited the Catskills. Hop in our comfortable van and we’ll take you on full day tour or come along for an evening of amazing libations and excellent farm-to-table food. You’ll have opportunities to meet individual farmers and makers\, hear their stories\, learn about their philosophies\, tour their site\, and taste some amazing food and drink. Learn more here. \n  \nAbout Lady Parts\nAn impressive collage of stunning voices unite to present Lady Parts.  Each individual ‘Part’ brings rich and varied experience that spans the globe and includes some of the worlds greatest performance venues.  Our individual repertoire covers nearly every imaginable genre from early music to opera to big band to pop/rock to new music. The result? Together we ‘Parts’ form a ravishing result to create a kaleidoscope of vocal color and imagination that captivates and engages. Catch us soon\, a vocal sound experience to savor! Learn more here. URL:https://spillian.com/event/find-your-holiday-spirits-a-mythic-catskills-weekend/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Adventure,Dinner,Imaginarium,Mythic Catskills,Outdoors ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/holidayspiritsmedium-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Spillian":MAILTO:sam@spillian.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181102T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181104T120000 DTSTAMP:20181030T215040Z CREATED:20180924T220602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181030T215040Z UID:10190-1541170800-1541332800@spillian.com SUMMARY:Forage Your Feast | A Mythic Catskills Weekend DESCRIPTION:Forage Your Feast | A Mythic Catskills Weekend\nNovember 2-4\, 2018\nIn this era of illusion\, many of us are yearning for realness. For authenticity. \nCome to the source and taste some…and bring some home for the holidays. \nSpillian is proud to partner with Table to Farm Tours to invite you to come and taste – literally and metaphorically – the terroir of the Catskills and bring it back to your table for your feasting this holiday season. \nJoin with us as we introduce you to an extraordinary group of farmers who love this land\, in all of its beauty and its harshness\, and produce food that tastes of all that the Catskills awaken in us. You’ll wander with the inspiring team from Table to Farm Tours to a hand-selected array of Catskills farms\, offering the bounty of late fall on a custom designed private tour. You can bring the flavors of the Catskills directly home to your celebrations. Food tastes different when you not only know where it comes from\, but also when you’ve met the folks who have brought it into being. \n[btnsx id=”10213″] \n  \nMythic Catskills Weekends\nSpillian’s Mythic Catskills Weekends are an intersection with the essence of the Catskills: the forests\, the mountains\, the people\, the deep stories that make this place so compelling. \nEach weekend celebrates a facet of this gem-like place: its food\, its fish and streams\, its ringing summer\, its snow-spangled winters\, its flowing creative life force. \nCome for a weekend of grand adventure. Feast. Explore. Hear the great stories and share your own.  Revel in the mythic possibility of the Catskills and find where it sings in your life – and then bring that song back home with you. \n  \n\nForage Your Feast | What’s Included\nFriday\nAn evening of Catskills Flavors \n\nA robust farm-to-table charcuterie\, including local meats\, dairy and vegan cheeses\, spring greens\, hummus\, relishes\, chutneys\, and more from our neighboring farmers and food producers.\nA flight of the Catskills finest ciders\, beers\, and spirits such as Awestruck Ciders\, Wayside Ciders\, Catskill Brewery\, Roscoe Brewery\, and Union Grove Distillery\, and Delaware Phoenix Distillery.\n\n\nTales\, real and mythic\, about farmed and wild food in the Catskills in front of the blazing fire.\n\nSaturday\nForaging Your Feast on the Farms \n\nBegin your day with a gentle guided moving meditation inviting you to savor a sense of place in the Catskills.\nA Catskills breakfast featuring eggs from Spillian Farm’s ridiculous chickens.\nA custom Catskills farm tour with Table to Farm Tours\, tasting and gathering the foods that speak to your soul and taste buds to inspire your holiday cooking.\nA lunch at one of our local farm-to-table restaurants.\nCatskills mulled hard cider cocktails on the porch\, and a chance to laze by the fire or on the porch for a bit before dinner\, watching the sky change down the valley.\nA five-course Autumn feast from Spillian’s chef Christian Van Etten\, featuring flavors from the farms you visited during the day.\nStorytelling of the history and legends of the Catskills and its food\,  and how it lands our yearning for a sense of place.\n\nSunday\nForaging Wild Woods Flavors \n\nA Spillian breakfast.\nForaging in the pines on Spillian’s property\, pine tea and a lesson with Christian on how to to make his butternut squash tortollini with brown butter & pine syrup sauce\nA gathering on Spillian’s porch for a farewell toast.\n\n  \nSaturday Feast Menu!\nWe decided that we needed six courses… \nCourse One\nAutumn Green Salad\nwith pickled red onion\, julienned apple & beet leather\, and goat cheese \nCourse Two\nHouse Made Butternut Squash Tortellini\nwith brown butter and pine sauce\, garnished with garlic mustard pesto \nCourse Three\nCoq au Cidre\na Catskills take on coq au vin with hard cider\, a splash of Courvoisier and mushrooms\, and parsnips\, served wild rice pilaf \nCourse Four\nRoasted Baby Eggplant\nwith mushroom risotto\, topped with peppernade\, balsamic reduction\, garnished with microgreens \nCourse Five\nBraised Short Ribs\nSlow cooked with orange\, all spice\, and wild thyme\, served with rutabagas poached in champagne\, baby carrots\, and potatoes confit \nCourse Six\nHouse made apple tart\, celeriac ice cream and black walnut praline \nWe are proud to share produce\, meats\, cheeses\, condiments\, and drink from:\nLa Basse Cour\, Sap Bush Hollow Farm\, Barber’s Farm\, Burnett Farms\, Two Stones Farm\, Harpersfield Cheese\, Dirty Girl Goat Dairy & Microcreamery\, Hubbell Family Farm\, Tree Juice Maple Syrup\, Catskill Brewery\, Awestruck Ciders\, Scrumpy Ewe Cider\, Wayside Cider\, Union Grove Distillery\, Prohibition Distillery\, Buck Hill Farm\, Bebert’s Moroccan Condiments\, and Spillian Farm. \n  \n\nPricing\nFull weekend fee includes all sessions including guided farm tour\, meals; Catskills ciders\, beers and spirits tasting; and lodging at Spillian.. Evening cash bar\, purchases on farms\, tax\, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! \nFull Forage Your Feast Weekend For One: $595\nPer person\, single room occupancy. \nFull Forage Your Feast Weekend For a Couple: $895\nFor the couple\, double room occupancy. \nSaturday Forage\, Feast & Festivities: $165 per person\n(Join us for the farm wander\, dinner\, and tales around the fire. Please be at Spillian by 9:45 for a 10 AM departure.) \nSaturday Feast & Festivities: $55 per person\n(Join us for the feast and tales around the fire. Cash bar cocktail hour begins at 6 PM\, dinner at 7 PM.) \n  \n[btnsx id=”10213″] URL:https://spillian.com/event/forage-your-feast-a-mythic-catskills-weekend/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Adventure,Dinner,Imaginarium,Mythic Catskills,Outdoors ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/forageyourfeastfeet-scaled.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Spillian":MAILTO:sam@spillian.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180420T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180422T170000 DTSTAMP:20180420T181727Z CREATED:20180314T125136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180420T181727Z UID:9481-1524243600-1524416400@spillian.com SUMMARY:A Mythic Catskills Weekend DESCRIPTION:A Mythic Catskills Weekend \nA superb opportunity to dive deep into the streams and forests of the Catskills\, its evocative stories\, and its extraordinary cuisine\, with lodging at the historic Spillian estate.\nSOLD OUT!\nFeaturing:\nFriday\nAn evening of Catskills flavors.\n\nA robust farm-to-table charcuterie\, including local meats\, dairy and vegan cheeses\, spring greens\, hummus\, relishes\, chutneys\, and more from Burnett Farms\, Two Stones Farm\, Harpersfield Dairy\, Cheezehound\,  Catskill Chef’s Collective\, Peekamoose\, Bebert’s Condiments\, Dirty Girl Farm\, Bread Alone\, Lucky Dog Farm\, From the Ground Farm\, and more.\nA flight of the Catskills finest ciders\, beers\, and spirits\, including Awestruck Ciders\, Wayside Ciders\, Catskill Brewery\, Roscoe Brewery\, and Union Grove Distillery\, and Delaware Phoenix Distillery\nAn introduction to some of the evocative lore of the Catskills\, its landscape and the people who have called it home for thousands of years in front of the blazing fire\n\nSaturday\nA Day of Exploration and Story\n\nBegin your day with a gentle guided moving meditation inviting you to savor a sense of place in the Catskills\nA Catskills Breakfast: Spillian’s own farm-fresh eggs\, local buttermilk pancakes\, locally cured bacon\, bagels made that morning down the road\, fresh berries\, housemade granola\, fresh yogurt\, and Tree Juice maple syrup\nA wander with Will Soter\, co-founder of Upstate Adventure Guides\, up the path along Emery Creek\, one of the most spectacular creeks in the region\, with waterfalls\, moss covered banks\, and Hemlock Groves\, and discussion of the history\, flora\, and fauna along the way\nA lunch in the woods from Spillian’s chefs\nForaging for early spring herbs and wildflowers to spice up your dinner\, including ramps or garlic mustard if they’re up!\nA chance to laze by the fire or on the porch for a bit before dinner\, watching the sky change down the valley\nA trout feast\, featuring local trout\, your foraged sauce or garnish\, roasted late winter vegetables\, local greens\, and Spillian’s famous white pine and bee pollen chocolate bark\nStorytelling of myths and legends of the Catskills and our yearning for wildness\n\nSunday\nDiscover the poetics of angling\n\nA Spillian ‘Savory and Sweet’ breakfast featuring a breakfast salad made with farm-to-table greens\, bacon\, eggs\, and more\, along with a spectacular bread pudding with berries\, fresh fruit\, house made granola\, yogurt\, and local breads\nA wander into the magic of angling on the Esopus with Catskill Mountain Angler\, Mark Loete to try your hand at fly fishing\nA gathering back at Spillian for a farewell Catskills Cider Mimosa toast\n\n\nPricing\nFee includes all sessions including guided hiking\, foraging\, and fly fishing; all chef-made meals; Catskills ciders\, beers and spirits tasting; and lodging at Spillian for one person. Evening cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! \nFor One: $795\nPer person\, single room occupancy. \nFor a Couple: $1270.00\nFor the couple\, double room occupancy. \n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis weekend is a part of Catskills Trout Tales\, an innovative regional campaign celebrating the streams\, forests\, and wildlife of the Catskill mountains.\n\n  \n\nAbout Catskill Mountain Angler\nFrom Mark Loete: In 2002\, I moved my home and photography business from New York City to the Catskill Mountains in the mistaken belief that trout are more amenable to being caught by a local. I now make my home in Chichester\, NY\, on the banks of the Stony Clove Creek\, an aggressive double-haul from the historic Esopus Creek. \nLiving\, working\, and fly fishing in the “Cradle of American Fly Fishing” has sharpened my game\, taught me a bit of humility\, and given me an intimate knowledge of the region’s legendary rivers — Esopus\, Schoharie and the East and West Branches of the Delaware — and their tributaries. Exploring the rich fly fishing history and traditions of the Catskills — where it all began in America\, after all — has added another layer of enjoyment to the sport I love. \nI’ve heard it said that if you can find a way to make money doing something you love\, you’ll never have to work another day in your life. Sharing the excitement of fly fishing with others — young or old\, new or experienced — and maybe helping another individual catch the bug is my reward. That’s why I started Catskill Mountain Angler. \nLearn more here. \n  \nAbout Upstate Adventure Guides\nUpstate Adventure Guides have emerged as a preeminent licensed guide service in the Catskills and beyond. Co-founder Will Soter is the Vice President of the New York State Outdoor Guide Association\, hosts a weekly radio show on exploring the Catskills\, and is a regular contributor to various regional publications on the delights and challenges of hiking. \nUpstate Adventure Guides offers a range of options from interpretive nature walks\, to multi-day backpacking trips. We have programs for all ages\, and can custom tailor an experience for you\, or your group. \nLearn more here. \n  \nAbout Leigh Melander\, PhD\nAlong with being Spillian’s co-founder\, Leigh is a cultural mythologist\, presenter\, coach\, and creative artist. She offers workshops and organizational consulting on imagination and story nationally and at Spillian. She hosts a popular radio show (podcast coming soon!) called Myth America\, has appeared on national media as a mythology expert\, and is the Vice President of the Joseph Campbell Foundation. Her doctorate is in mythology and psychology\, and her first book\, Just That Side of Crazy\, is due out in early 2019. \nOur thanks to Esopus Creel for the gorgeous image for this event! URL:https://spillian.com/event/mythic-catskills-weekend/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Adventure,B&B Weekend,Imaginarium,Outdoors ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/CTTMythicCatskills2-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Spillian":MAILTO:sam@spillian.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171001T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171004T120000 DTSTAMP:20170913T193657Z CREATED:20170707T022205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170913T193657Z UID:8653-1506870000-1507118400@spillian.com SUMMARY:Our Story: HumanNature\, A Regenerative Retreat with David Abram & Friends DESCRIPTION:Our Story: HumanNature\nA Regenerative Retreat with David Abram & Friends\nOctober 1-4\, 2017\nSpillian: A Place to Revel\nCatskill Mountains\, NY\n\n\nJoin us for an extraordinary several days with internationally acclaimed writer\, ecologist and philosopher David Abram and colleagues working in regeneration and story.\n•• a gathering\nco-hosted by 7group and Spillian\, a world-class center for imaginal work and play in the Catskills mountains of New York.\n•• a celebration\nof the launch of a new era for 7Group\, as we deepen our commitment to regenerism.\n•• a birth\nof a new partnership between 7group and Spillian\, offering life-changing learning experiences.\n•• an opportunity\nto re-connect and re-member how we can live into a world that is more than human.\n•• for\ninspired dreamers\, questioners and questers about how humans can be more imaginal in and of the world\, and those working the intersections between natural and built environments. If you are seeking to understand the deeper connections between the natural world and the work – both vocation and avocation – that you do\, this is for you.\n\nDetails\n• From Sunday evening to Wednesday midday\, October 1 through 4\, 2017 at Spillian: A Place to Revel\n• Evocative\, challenging ideas\, experiences\, and conversations.\n• Camping onsite or lodging in a superb 19thC mountain estate with 33 forested acres to explore.\n• A newly imagined Catskills cuisine: innovative\, fresh and utterly local \nPricing\nWorkshop Registration: $579 SPECIAL EARLY REGISTRATION PRICING ONLY $499 UNTIL SEPTEMBER 15\, 2017! We’ve extended this special pricing for you for another five days!\nFee includes all sessions\, meals\, materials\, and 8% New York sales tax\, and a place to pitch your tent if you wish to camp. Evening cash bar\, camping gear/in-house lodging\, and gratuities not included. Note: This fee is for the workshop. We are offering free camping on site with your own gear. If you’d like to stay indoors in the mansion\, please choose one of the rooms on the registration form. \nPrimitive Camping Onsite: Free\n Lodging in Spillian Mansion: $275-$335 We have one room still available – The Scheherazade Room. If you’d like to stay with us\, please choose that room on the registration form.  \n  \n \n  \n[btnsx id=”8666″] \n\n  \n\n\n partners\ndavid abram\nDavid is a philosopher\, naturalist\, story teller\, author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology\, and The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World. He is helping to revolutionize our sense of what it means to be human in and of nature\, rather than being forever separate from a sentient world. \n\n  \n7group\n7group has been a leading sustainability consulting group for over 20 years. This event marks 7group’s launch into its newest iteration of developing the capacity of projects and organizationsto affect how humans regenerate life through building. \n\n\n  \n\nspillian: a place to revel\nSpillian is a portal for imagining…a retreat for imagining\, grounded deeply both in a sense of place and of play\, in history and possibility on an extraordinary historic mountain estate. \nOur Story: HumanNature is an Essence Project from 7group and Spillian. \n\n\n  \n  URL:https://spillian.com/event/story-humannature-regenerative-retreat-david-abram-friends/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Adventure,Imaginarium,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/spillianinmist.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Spillian":MAILTO:sam@spillian.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161216T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161217T170000 DTSTAMP:20170625T163449Z CREATED:20161215T164358Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170625T163449Z UID:7681-1481875200-1481994000@spillian.com SUMMARY:Private Rental - Spillian Snow Lodge DESCRIPTION:A Snow Lodge\nSpillian makes the perfect snow lodge for friends and family! It’s a fantasy place to return to after spending the day downhill skiing\, cross-country skiing\, snowboarding\, or snowshoeing in the Catskills. Spillian is about five minutes away from Belleayre Mountain Ski Center\, about ten minutes from Plattekill Mountain\, and about a half an hour from Hunter Mountain and Windham Mountain. \nLooking for a special adventure in the mountains cross country skiing or show shoeing on trails? Just ask. We can hook you up with the best guides in the Catskills for extraordinary winter mountain experiences. \nWinter is a Special Kind of Magic\nWinter is a special kind of magic here in the Catskills – still\, deep\, heartbreakingly beautiful. Here’s a little taste of a poem entitled How Is It That the Snow from Robert Haight\, published by The Poetry Foundation that we think begins to capture how its stillness opens up the world: \nHow is it that the snow\namplifies the silence\,\nslathers the black bark on limbs\,\nheaps along the brush rows? \nRead the entire poem here… \nSpillian awaits when you return from that snow-covered magic\, with silver service glowing in the firelight\, games and books and blankets and an extraordinary front porch to wrap yourself in. We can provide exquisite catered meals and a variety of slightly sybaritic services if you wish. Just ask! Call us at 800-811-3351 to learn more. URL:https://spillian.com/event/private-rental-spillian-snow-lodge/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Adventure,Outdoors,Private Rentals ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Escape-Image-Copy-LR.png ORGANIZER;CN="Spillian":MAILTO:sam@spillian.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161002T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161005T120000 DTSTAMP:20160709T155011Z CREATED:20160709T155011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160709T155011Z UID:7126-1475420400-1475668800@spillian.com SUMMARY:Paddle Extravaganza DESCRIPTION:A Paddle Extravaganza at Spilli1n! \nCo-produced by Upstate Adventure Guides and Adirondack Exposure\, this will be a week filled with the delights of exploring Catskills streams and reservoirs. \nStay tuned for more information but be sure to save the date if you’d like to dip your paddles into magic waters. All of the wonders of the outdoors with the sybaritic comfort of Spillian to return to every evening… \n  URL:https://spillian.com/event/paddle-extravaganza-2/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Adventure,Outdoors,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/restingpaddlingcropLR.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160923T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160925T170000 DTSTAMP:20160314T032711Z CREATED:20160314T030710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160314T032711Z UID:6702-1474617600-1474822800@spillian.com SUMMARY:Private Rental - Spillian Murder Mystery! DESCRIPTION:A Spillian Murder Mystery!\nFriends of Dutch Schultz will gather for a weekend at his country estate to celebrate the delights of the speakeasy and search for his buried treasure…but secrets\, duplicity\, and even murder awaits. \nThe era of the flapper and the mobster comes sparkling to life at Spillian\, with feasting\, dancing to the live music of 5\,000 Jazz Assassins\, and a gripping mystery to solve. \n\nYearning to make or solve your own mystery? \n\n\n \n\n\nFrom Holmes to Poirot and all points in between\, we’re serious mystery hounds…\n\n\n \n\n\nWe create private mystery weekends completely customized for you and your fellow sleuths. Call us at 800-811-3351 and let’s invent a magnificent mystery for you and your crew. URL:https://spillian.com/event/private-rental-spillian-murder-mystery/ CATEGORIES:Adventure,Dinner,Private Rentals ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/dutchshultzmurdermystery1LR.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160619T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160624T170000 DTSTAMP:20160314T022235Z CREATED:20160314T022235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160314T022235Z UID:6697-1466323200-1466787600@spillian.com SUMMARY:Paddle Extravaganza DESCRIPTION:The first-ever Paddle Extravaganza at Spilli1n! \nCo-produced by Upstate Adventure Guides and Adirondack Exposure\, this will be a week filled with the delights of exploring Catskills streams and reservoirs. \nStay tuned for more information but be sure to save the date if you’d like to dip your paddles into magic waters. All of the wonders of the outdoors with the sybaritic comfort of Spillian to return to every evening… \n  URL:https://spillian.com/event/paddle-extravaganza/ LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States CATEGORIES:Adventure,Outdoors,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/restingpaddlingcropLR.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160122T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160124T150000 DTSTAMP:20160118T122532Z CREATED:20160118T122442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160118T122532Z UID:6443-1453474800-1453647600@spillian.com SUMMARY:Winter Playdate Weekend DESCRIPTION:Get out here into the magic of the Catskills and make a playdate with winter!\n\nIn an exclusive offer\, you can spend a weekend in the Catskills playing in the freshly fallen snow…and stay in a historic\, magical Catskills lodge… \nWe are delighted to host Upstate Adventure Guides and Destination Back Country Adventures for one of their grand adventures in the Catskills. These are two of the finest\, most creative licensed guide services\, in the region and this is the first of a series of outdoor adventures we’ll be offering with them. \nSki…snowshoe…ice skate…snowball fights…fireplaces…fine feasts… \nCome and stay on Friday night and be ready to explore the mountains after a superb breakfast on Saturday!\nOr join the group on Saturday for a most excellent adventure. \nOn Saturday\, we’ll offer activities for all ages throughout the day on the grounds of Spillian and in the nearby state forest preserve. Snowball fights\, ice skating\, cross-country skiing\, and more chaos and fun will ensue. \nAfter a day in the snow\, we’ll retreat to the lodge for a gourmet dinner prepared by the executive\nSpillian chef team and spend the evening in our luxurious rooms. \nOn Sunday\, after a classic mountain breakfast\, the group will head over to the Blackhead Range for Dave’s annual Blackhead Mountain birthday hike. \nThose looking for a less strenuous hike can take the pleasant path along the frozen Batvia Kill. In either case\,\nwe’ll enjoy a big campfire lunch with cake before heading back to NYC. \nJust available Saturday? That’s cool\, too! \nContact Dave at info@destinationbackcountryadventures.com or 718.208.9878 for more info or to book your playdate with winter! URL:https://spillian.com/event/winter-playdate-weekend/ CATEGORIES:Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://spillian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/snowboyz.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR