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SUMMARY:Reveler's Rubato: Steal A Night Away at Spillian | December 17
DESCRIPTION:Reveler’s Rubato:\nSteal a Night Away at Spillian\nSaturday\, December 17\, 2022\nIn a musical score\, tempo rubato invites musicians into expressive freedom as they play. In Italian\, tempo rubato literally means “stolen time.” We invite you to steal away this December for a bit of Spillian- style R&R Spillian style…a little Respite and Revelry…and find a little freedom. \nJoin us for Saturday evening feasting and merriment\, or stay with us for a quick weekend overnight escape. \nReserve Now!\nThe Dinner: A Reveler’s Rubato Feast\nMake an evening of it! Cocktails and dinner at Spillian’s grand table on Saturday evening\, with a chance to be a taste-tester for some new retail food offerings we’re developing. And\, of course\, a resplendent dinner from Chef Christian. Linger afterwards and enjoy the fire. And perhaps play a holiday tune or two on our antique Steinway… \n\n5 PM Saturday: Cocktail Hour. Actually hour and a half\, but who’s counting? Featuring a special Spillian holiday cocktail and official taste-testing of new Spillian products.\n6:30 PM Saturday: Feasting and Frolicking. A prix fixe dinner to delight both veggie and meat lovers. Here’s the menu\, a wonderful fresh take on holiday eats:\n\nChristmas Tamales\nfor our meat lovers\nshort rib and plantain duck fat tamales topped with blueberry mole and charred scallions;\nserved with a charred eloté corn salad \nfor our veggie lovers\ntamales two ways: sweet potato and pinto bean; fire roasted green chili and vegan mozzarella\, served with pico de gallo; served with a vegan charred eloté corn salad \nMeat Lovers Entrée\npan seared skirt steak with sesame chimicurri; Geno’s baguette crosanti grilled with citrus butter & meyer lemon gremolata; grilled wasabi potatoes; leek soubis; roasted pepper\, tomato and zucchini trio \nVegan Entrée\nspicy sabzi cauliflower with cashews; roasted sweet potato; charred citrus-marinated fennel; pickled carrots and picked shiitake mushrooms over leek risotto; with sesame lime ponzu sauce \nDessert\npumpkin ginger cheese cake\, topped with dulce de leche and a pear crisp\nor for our vegans\, tiramisu with a pear crisp and raspberry pearls \ntea | coffee | lemonade | iced tea | cucumber water \n  \nPRICE: $75 per person\nIncludes tasting and dinner. Cash bar\, tax and gratuities extra.\nDinner seating is limited and advance registration is required. \n\nThe Full Rubato: An Overnight at Spillian for Two\nSteal away for a mini-escape! Take advantage of our special early check-in and spend the day as you wish – staring into the fire\, tackling a jigsaw puzzle\, wandering the woods\, checking out small town holiday festivities\, or simply taking a nap. Then gather with fellow revelers for cocktails and feast. Stay overnight in one of our eight enchanted bedrooms\, and grab a quick breakfast in the morning as you head off into Sunday’s adventures. \n\n10 AM Saturday: Check In. You’re welcome any time after 10 AM. We’ll have coffee\, tea\, and lemonade on hand. Ask us for directions to one of the great lunch spots in Fleischmanns!\n5 PM Saturday: Cocktail Hour. Wander down to the tavern to have a drink and meet your fellow revelers for the evening. And opine on new food product ideas we’re creating.\n6:30 PM Saturday: Feasting and Frolicking.\nYour Call Saturday: Bedtime. Sugarplum visions or ghosts from holidays past\, if you so conjure them. Or dreamless sleep in the quiet of a Catskills December night.\n9 AM Sunday: A Quick Breakfast Nosh. With fresh coffee\, tea\, juice\, fruit and our house-made apple turnovers.\n11 AM Sunday: Check out and journey into your Sunday.\n\nPRICE: $325 per couple\nIncludes double occupancy overnight room rental; and tasting\, dinner\, and light breakfast for two. Cash bar\, tax and gratuities extra.  \n  \nReserve Now! \n  \n\nPS: Can’t make it this weekend?\nNever fear\, you have two more chances on December 3 and December 10!\nYou can find them here. \n\n 
URL:https://spillian.com/event/revelers-rubato-steal-a-night-away-at-spillian-december-17/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reveler's Rubato: Steal A Night Away at Spillian | December 10
DESCRIPTION:Reveler’s Rubato:\nSteal a Night Away at Spillian\nSaturday\, December 10\, 2022\nIn a musical score\, tempo rubato invites musicians into expressive freedom as they play. In Italian\, tempo rubato literally means “stolen time.” We invite you to steal away this December for a bit of Spillian- style R&R Spillian style…a little Respite and Revelry…and find a little freedom. \nJoin us for Saturday evening feasting and merriment\, or stay with us for a quick weekend overnight escape. \nReserve Now!\nThe Dinner: A Reveler’s Rubato Feast\nMake an evening of it! Cocktails and dinner at Spillian’s grand table on Saturday evening\, with a chance to be a taste-tester for some new retail food offerings we’re developing. And\, of course\, a resplendent dinner from Chef Christian. Linger afterwards and enjoy the fire. And perhaps play a holiday tune or two on our antique Steinway… \n\n5 PM Saturday: Cocktail Hour. Actually hour and a half\, but who’s counting? Featuring a special Spillian holiday cocktail and official taste-testing of new Spillian products.\n6:30 PM Saturday: Feasting and Frolicking. A prix fixe dinner to delight both veggie and meat lovers. The menu:\n\nWinter Salad & Soup\nspinach and arugula salad\, in a raspberry citrus vinaigrette\, with roasted golden beets\, candied pecans\, pomegranates\, and honey goat cheese\, served alongside a light butternut squash soup topped with crème fresh and chives.\nfor our vegan guests\, we’ll hold the goat cheese and crème fresh \nMeat Lovers Entrée\nduo of pork: apple cider & lemongrass brined pork tenderloin medallions; cider-braised pork belly; creamy polenta; served with prosecco poached rutabaga and charred balsamic brussel sprouts garnished with an apple chip and orange zest gremolata \nVegan Entrée\nfire roasted balsamic glazed eggplant stuffed with wild leek and thyme risotto with romesco sauce; served with rutabaga purée and confit tomatoes with fried basil and a crispy tomato skin garnish \nDessert\nraspberry bomboloni with mango pearls and crème anglaise\nfor our vegan guests: lemon olive oil cake with mango pearls and raspberry coulis \ntea | coffee | lemonade | iced tea | cucumber water \nPRICE: $75 per person\nIncludes tasting and dinner. Cash bar\, tax and gratuities extra.\nDinner seating is limited and advance registration is required. \n\nThe Full Rubato: An Overnight at Spillian for Two\nSteal away for a mini-escape! Take advantage of our special early check-in and spend the day as you wish – staring into the fire\, tackling a jigsaw puzzle\, wandering the woods\, checking out small town holiday festivities\, or simply taking a nap. Then gather with fellow revelers for cocktails and feast. Stay overnight in one of our eight enchanted bedrooms\, and grab a quick breakfast in the morning as you head off into Sunday’s adventures. \n\n10 AM Saturday: Check In. You’re welcome any time after 10 AM. We’ll have coffee\, tea\, and lemonade on hand. Ask us for directions to one of the great lunch spots in Fleischmanns!\n5 PM Saturday: Cocktail Hour. Wander down to the tavern to have a drink and meet your fellow revelers for the evening. And opine on new food product ideas we’re creating.\n6:30 PM Saturday: Feasting and Frolicking.\nYour Call Saturday: Bedtime. Sugarplum visions or ghosts from holidays past\, if you so conjure them. Or dreamless sleep in the quiet of a Catskills December night.\n9 AM Sunday: A Quick Breakfast Nosh. With fresh coffee\, tea\, juice\, fruit and our house-made apple turnovers.\n11 AM Sunday: Check out and journey into your Sunday.\n\nPRICE: $325 per couple\nIncludes double occupancy overnight room rental; and tasting\, dinner\, and light breakfast for two. Cash bar\, tax and gratuities extra.  \n  \nReserve Now! \n  \n\nPS: Can’t make it this weekend?\nNever fear\, you have two more chances on December 3 and December 17!\nYou can find them here. \n\n 
URL:https://spillian.com/event/revelers-rubato-steal-a-night-away-at-spillian-december-10/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reveler's Rubato: Steal A Night Away at Spillian | December 3
DESCRIPTION:Reveler’s Rubato:\nSteal a Night Away at Spillian\nSaturday\, December 3\, 2022\nIn a musical score\, tempo rubato invites musicians into expressive freedom as they play. In Italian\, tempo rubato literally means “stolen time.” We invite you to steal away this December for a bit of Spillian- style R&R Spillian style…a little Respite and Revelry…and find a little freedom. \nJoin us for Saturday evening feasting and merriment\, or stay with us for a quick weekend overnight escape. \nReserve Now!\nThe Dinner: A Reveler’s Rubato Feast\nMake an evening of it! Cocktails and dinner at Spillian’s grand table on Saturday evening\, with a chance to be a taste-tester for some new retail food offerings we’re developing. And\, of course\, a resplendent dinner from Chef Christian. Linger afterwards and enjoy the fire. And perhaps play a holiday tune or two on our antique Steinway… \n\n5 PM Saturday: Cocktail Hour. Actually hour and a half\, but who’s counting? Featuring a special Spillian holiday cocktail and official taste-testing of new Spillian products.\n6:30 PM Saturday: Feasting and Frolicking. A prix fixe dinner to delight both veggie and meat lovers.\n\nWinter Salad\na trio of romaine\, bib lettuce and arugula delicately tossed in citrus vinaigrette\nwith roasted with roasted butternut squash\, beets and charred cauliflower\nbedecked with candied pecans and cranberry garnish \nMeat Lovers Entree\nconfit duck leg with house-made honey-pumpkin marscapone cappelletti\nand maple brandy brown butter\, glazed baby carrots and wild mushrooms \nVegan Entree\nroasted quinoa stuffed acorn squash glazed with apple cider balsamic reduction\,\nparsnip puree\, glazed baby carrots and wild mushrooms \nDessert\nblueberry cobbler with  house-made honey ice cream\, spun sugar+mint garnish\nor our vegan choice: blueberry crisp\, lemon sorbet\, spun sugar+mint garnish \ntea | coffee | lemonade | iced tea | cucumber water \nPRICE: $75 per person\nIncludes tasting and dinner. Cash bar\, tax and gratuities extra.\nDinner seating is limited and advance registration is required. \n\nThe Full Rubato: An Overnight at Spillian for Two\nSteal away for a mini-escape! Take advantage of our special early check-in and spend the day as you wish – staring into the fire\, tackling a jigsaw puzzle\, wandering the woods\, checking out small town holiday festivities\, or simply taking a nap. Then gather with fellow revelers for cocktails and feast. Stay overnight in one of our eight enchanted bedrooms\, and grab a quick breakfast in the morning as you head off into Sunday’s adventures. \n\n10 AM Saturday: Check In. You’re welcome any time after 10 AM. We’ll have coffee\, tea\, and lemonade on hand. Ask us for directions to one of the great lunch spots in Fleischmanns!\n5 PM Saturday: Cocktail Hour. Wander down to the tavern to have a drink and meet your fellow revelers for the evening. And opine on new food product ideas we’re creating.\n6:30 PM Saturday: Feasting and Frolicking.\nYour Call Saturday: Bedtime. Sugarplum visions or ghosts from holidays past\, if you so conjure them. Or dreamless sleep in the quiet of a Catskills December night.\n9 AM Sunday: A Quick Breakfast Nosh. With fresh coffee\, tea\, juice\, fruit and our house-made apple turnovers.\n11 AM Sunday: Check out and journey into your Sunday.\n\nPRICE: $325 per couple\nIncludes double occupancy overnight room rental; and tasting\, dinner\, and light breakfast for two. Cash bar\, tax and gratuities extra.  \n  \nReserve Now! \n  \n\nPS: Can’t make it this weekend?\nNever fear\, you have two more chances on December 10 and December 17! \n\n 
URL:https://spillian.com/event/revelers-rubato-steal-a-night-away-at-spillian-december-3/
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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
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SUMMARY:SpillianFest 2019 | Let's Make Some Noise
DESCRIPTION:SpillianFest 2019:             \nLet’s Make Some Noise\nSaturday\, July 13 • 4 to 10 PM\nFeaturing\nThe Dylan Doyle Band\nLara Hope & the ArkTones\n• Advance tickets: $10/adult • $5 child (13 & under) until Midnight Friday July 12.\n• Door tickets: $15/adult • $5 child (13 & under)\n• Dinner a la carte\n• Cash bar  \nA hundred and thirty years ago\, the Fleischmanns Yeast family built a place of magic in the Catskills.\nFive years ago\, that place got rebirthed as Spillian. And the reveling began again.\nFour years ago\, SpillianFest was born. And the reveling got serious.\nThis year\, it’s time to make some noise. \nFeaturing two extraordinary bands from these hills and rivers: \n• The wipe-your-soul-clean driving blues and rock of guitar phenom The Dylan Doyle Band.\n• The you-ain’t-seen-sass-if-you-ain’t-seen-this rockabilly of Lara Hope and the Arktones. \nSpillian’s magical meadow. Dancing. Eats and drinks to feed your soul. A Bonfire. And\, of course\, s’mores. And a fiercely fabulous way to join us in celebrating the emerging artists of these mountains. \nLet’s sing to the stars. Let’s make some noise. \nADVANCE TICKETS SALES ARE NOW CLOSED.\nTICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR\, STARTING AT 4 PM.\n\nThe Magic\nSpillianFest 2019 Catskills Picnic\n• The much praised and nearly world-famous Spillian Fried Chicken\n• The Spillian Veggie BBQ Jackfruit Taco (vegan)\n• Beer & Onion Grilled Brats with house made sauerkraut\n• Catskills smoked local street corn on the cob (vegetarian)\n• House made Potato Salad (vegetarian)\n• House made Tangy Slaw (vegan)\n• Spillian Maple Caramel Corn (vegetarian)\n• Marshmallows for the bonfire (sinful) \nSpillianFest 2019 Cash Bar\n• Local beer from Catskills Brewery:  Ball Lightning Pilsner and Floodwatch IPA\n• Beringer wines: Pinot Grigio\, Chardonnay\, Pinot Noir\, and Cabernet Sauvignon\n• And of course\, Catskills Hurricanes \nSpillianFest 2019 Schedule\n• 4 PM Doors and bar open\n• 4:30-6:30 PM SpillianFest Picnic (Or until we run out of food!)\n• 5-7 PM Dylan Doyle Band\n• 7 PM Lighting the Bonfire\n• 7-9 PM Lara Hope & the Arktones\n• 9-10 PM Lara & Dylan Jam Session \nPlease…no outside food or drink\, no drugs\, and no dogs. Thank you! \n\nSpillian’s Meadow\nThree years ago our first SpillianFest introduced the public to “The Meadow\, ” our gorgeous outdoor stage built into the old stone foundation of one of the original Spillian buildings. It was a revelry attended by more than 500 guests. Since then our magical meadow has hosted weddings\, workshops\, and gatherings. We’ve added a pretty spiff rustic pavilion for the bar\, made from trees on the property\, the bonfire pit\, and lighting to shape the woods around us. \n\nThe Music\nLara Hope & The Arktones\n \nFresh off from touring with the Brian Setzer Orchestra! Winner of the 2017 Ameripolitan Music Award for Best Female Rockabilly Artist\, and named the “Best Up-And-Coming Band” by Hudson Valley Magazine\, Lara Hope and the Ark-Tones are New York’s premier “Roots Rock n’ Roll & Rockabilly Twang” outfit. They released their 2nd full length album\, “Love You to Life”\, in August 2017\, and have been hitting the road hard\, spreading the gospel of American music wherever they go. Describing their sound\, Hope explained to Rockabilly Online “I would say we are a new take on an old sound. It’s been described as ‘pan-americana’ which means we use many areas of early rock and roots music as a creative launchpad. Where it goes from there is anyone’s guess\, because while we appreciate old music\, we don’t want to write songs that have already been written.” \nThey’ve built a great network of venues in the US by touring heavily\, and like many American bands\, they have gained supportive fans and excellent press overseas as well. They recently completed their first European tour\, successfully spending the month of April 2018 in Belgium and Holland. Hope was featured on the cover of UK Rock n’ Roll magazine in March 2015\, and New York’s Ulster Magazine in March 2016. The band has had the privilidge of playing with many of their musical heroes including Joan Jett\, Tiger Army\, Gary US Bonds\, Dale Watson\, Big Sandy\, Wayne Hancock\, and America\, among others\, and has performed at at a variety of national festivals including Viva Las Vegas\, Ink n Iron\, and The Nashville Boogie. They spent the summer of 2018 on tour in support of The Reverend Horton Heat and The Blasters\, and Nov/Dec on the road Brian Setzer Orchestra Christmas Rocks Tour. \nMore on Lara Hope & The Arktones… \n  \nThe Dylan Doyle Band\n \n\nBack for his fourth year headlining SpillianFest! Southern born\, Northern raised \, Dylan Doyle has been steeped in everything from Bob Dylan\, Wes Montgomery\, and Bill Withers to John Prine\, Jimi Hendrix\, and The Band.  From this comes a unique musical interpretation that lies somewhere within the delta of Roots\, Rock\, and Jazz\, giving him a style that defies classification. \nTouring nationally since age 15\, Dylan became a seasoned professional at a very young age.  He has played with such notable musicians Rob Stoner (Bob Dylan\, Don Mclean)\, John Platania (Van Morrison\, Natalie Merchant)\, Ben Cauley (Otis Redding) and Bill Payne (Little Feat).  Stoner called Dylan one of the most prodigious players he has known with abundant natural talent.  John Platania has referred to Dylan as “The Future.”  Ben Cauley\, after playing with Dylan in Memphis said\, “Dylan Doyle sounds like a young Jimi Hendrix.”  In the words of Bill Payne upon sharing the stage\, “Music is a conversation.  Dylan spoke beautifully and was listening to the musicians around him.  His play was imaginative and original.” Attesting to Dylan’s versatility\, Dylan has played the King Biscuit Blues Festival three consecutive years as well headlining the Grateful Garcia Gathering\, the largest Grateful Dead festival in the Midwest. Dylan consistently packs houses around Europe and the United States. \n\nMore on the Dylan Doyle Band…\n 
URL:https://spillian.com/event/spillianfest-2019-lets-make-some-noise/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dinner,Imaginarium,Music
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SUMMARY:SpillianFest 2020 | High Wind Advisory
DESCRIPTION:SpillianFest 2020:\nHigh Wind Advisory\n\nSaturday\, July 11 • 4 to 10 PM\nFeaturing\nJohnny Piper\nBrasskill\nThe Dylan Doyle Band\n• Advance tickets: $10/adult • $5 child (13 & under) until Midnight Friday July 12.\n• Door tickets: $15/adult • $5 child (13 & under)\n• Dinner a la carte\n• Cash bar  \nBlow\, baby\, blow!  We got pipes. We got horns. We got guitars and tubas and dancing and rock AND roll. Yeah. All that. And all sprung from the Catskills. \nAll in Spillian’s magical meadow. Dancing. Eats and drinks. A Bonfire. And\, of course\, marshmallows. And a fiercely fabulous way to join us in celebrating the emerging artists of these mountains. \nLet’s get wind blown. \nTIX ON SALE ON MARCH 10\, 2020! \n\nThe Magic\nSpillianFest 2019 Catskills Picnic\n• The much praised and nearly world-famous Spillian Fried Chicken\n• The Spillian Veggie BBQ Jackfruit Taco (vegan)\n• Beer & Onion Grilled Brats with house made sauerkraut\n• Catskills smoked local street corn on the cob (vegetarian)\n• House made Potato Salad (vegetarian)\n• House made Slaw (vegan)\n• Spillian Maple Caramel Corn (vegetarian)\n• Marshmallows for the bonfire (sustenance) \nSpillianFest 2019 Cash Bar\n• Local beers from Catskills breweries\n• Beringer wines: Pinot Grigio\, Chardonnay\, Pinot Noir\, and Cabernet Sauvignon\n• And of course\, Catskills Hurricanes \nSpillianFest 2019 Schedule\n• 4 PM Doors and bar open\n• 4:30-6:30 PM SpillianFest Picnic (Or until we run out of food!)\n• Music all day and into the night\n• 7 PM Lighting the Bonfire\n• 10 PM The End \nPlease…no outside food or drink\, no drugs\, and no dogs. Thank you! \n\nSpillian’s Meadow\nThree years ago our first SpillianFest introduced the public to “The Meadow\, ” our gorgeous outdoor stage built into the old stone foundation of one of the original Spillian buildings. It was a revelry attended by more than 500 guests. Since then our magical meadow has hosted weddings\, workshops\, and gatherings. We’ve added a pretty spiff rustic pavilion for the bar\, made from trees on the property\, the bonfire pit\, and lighting to shape the woods around us. \n\nThe Music\nJohnny Piper\n\nEclectic and powerful\, John “Johnny Piper” McGovern is not only the founder of internationally acclaimed Bagpipe Punk Rock band\, Alternative Ulster\, he’s also the bagpiper for the Ulster County\, NY Sheriff’s Office Honor Guard. THE authority when it comes to Celtic Punk\, Paddy Rock Podcasts\, has declared Alternative Ulster as one of the Top 5 Bands for the Next Decade (2020-2030). John has performed solo for countless funerals and weddings\, but is also always ready to get the party started with jigs\, reels and rock & roll. In John’s hands\, the bagpipes will get your feet dancing as well as your tears flowing. An ancient Scottish proverb speaks to the raw power of the ancient instrument – “12 Highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion”. No other musical implement inspires such courage in battle\, joy in celebration or anguish in mourning. Johnny’s mighty drones shall rock your bones! \n  \nBrasskill\nBrasskill is the Hudson Valley’s party brass band. Based in Hudson\, NY and founded in the Spring of 2018\, Brasskill brings funky decibels to parties\, festivals\, parades and other merry gatherings in the Hudson Valley and surrounding areas. Brasskill’s music ranges from New Orleans second line tunes to punk and pop covers as well as Latin grooves — and is guaranteed to get your party out on the dance floor.\nMore on Brasskill… \n\nThe Dylan Doyle Band\n \n\nBack for his fifth year headlining SpillianFest! Southern born\, Northern raised \, Dylan Doyle has been steeped in everything from Bob Dylan\, Wes Montgomery\, and Bill Withers to John Prine\, Jimi Hendrix\, and The Band.  From this comes a unique musical interpretation that lies somewhere within the delta of Roots\, Rock\, and Jazz\, giving him a style that defies classification. \nTouring nationally since age 15\, Dylan became a seasoned professional at a very young age.  He has played with such notable musicians Rob Stoner (Bob Dylan\, Don Mclean)\, John Platania (Van Morrison\, Natalie Merchant)\, Ben Cauley (Otis Redding) and Bill Payne (Little Feat).  Stoner called Dylan one of the most prodigious players he has known with abundant natural talent.  John Platania has referred to Dylan as “The Future.”  Ben Cauley\, after playing with Dylan in Memphis said\, “Dylan Doyle sounds like a young Jimi Hendrix.”  In the words of Bill Payne upon sharing the stage\, “Music is a conversation.  Dylan spoke beautifully and was listening to the musicians around him.  His play was imaginative and original.” Attesting to Dylan’s versatility\, Dylan has played the King Biscuit Blues Festival three consecutive years as well headlining the Grateful Garcia Gathering\, the largest Grateful Dead festival in the Midwest. Dylan consistently packs houses around Europe and the United States. \n\nMore on the Dylan Doyle Band…\n 
URL:https://spillian.com/event/spillianfest-2020high-wind-advisory/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Leavening: A Mythic Catskills Weekend
DESCRIPTION:The Leavening: A Mythic Catskills Weekend\nJune 7-9\, 2019\n\nAn extraordinary history. An extraordinary vision of the future. And yeast. All in one rollicking\, evocative\, flavorful weekend. \nLeavening: a substance used in dough to make it rise. And\, even more to Spillian’s point\, an element that permeates and transforms something for the better. \n\n\nJoin us as we evoke the exquisite era of Spillian’s founders\, the  Fleischmann family\, and their wide-flung community of artists\, leaders\, makers\, and imaginers in a celebration of community\, culture\, food\, and the 150th birthday of Fleichmann’s Yeast®. \nWe are thrilled to be a part of the weekend’s Fleischmanns Founder’s Day Celebrations\, sponsored by AB Mauri\, owners of Fleichmann’s Yeast®\, and Fleischmanns First\, an extraordinary local community organization. \nTake your place  in the creative energy that has been emerging from the Catskills for over a century as we throw a birthday bash for a company that changed how America ate\, and a family who changed how we imagine ourselves. Let us be leaveners together\, and imagine how we will help the world rise. \nWith music\, conversation\, dreaming\, the inspiration of history and community\, and food\, glorious food. A feast of flavors inspired by the Fleischmanns Vienna Bakery in New York City in the era that they spent summers here. And baking. With yeast. Of course. \nThe Leavening. It’s mythic. Local. Real. \nRegister Now! \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 Leavening: A Mythic Catskills Weekend | What’s Included\nFriday \n\n5 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; as well as our house-made carmelized onion\, leek\, and goat cheese tarts; trout rollmops; and our famous house chocolate bark.\n6:00 PM Cash bar cocktail hour featuring Union Grove Distillery’s special label Vly Creek vodka made with Fleischmanns Yeast®. (Open to the public. Reservations required if you’re not staying with us. See below.)\n7 PM: Founders’ Day Panel discussing the area’s history\, the Fleischmann family\, and local connections to baseball. (Free admission and open to the public. Reservations required if you’re not staying with us. Click here to register!)\n8 PM: Special VIP Concert and Reception for Spillian guests\, press\, and invited guests from the community and the baking world\, with a tasting array of historic Fleischmann’s Yeast® breads and baked goods from their early cookbooks\, cheese from local farms\, Spillian Spiked Root Beer Cocktails (inspired by an historic Fleischmanns Yeast® root beer recipe)\, with a very special performance by Justin Kolb\, pianist\, and Executive Secretary of the American Liszt Society on our 1914 Steinway grand piano. We’ve asked Justin to join us in celebration of the Fleischmann family’s close friendship with Anton Seidl\, and their support of his work leading the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic\, as he was also an accomplished performer of Liszt and often spent his time in the mountains playing the piano.\n\nSaturday \n\n9 AM: A classic Spillian Catskills breakfast featuring eggs from Spillian Farm’s ridiculous chickens and house-made cocoa bread from an historic Fleischmanns Yeast® recipe.\n10 AM: Moving Meditation with Spillian co-founder Leigh Melander\, Ph.D. A bit of yoga\, a bit of breathing and imagery work going deep into metaphors of the wild mountains\, streams\, and forests\, and the generative energy of creativity.\n11 AM to 4 PM: Wander down the hill to celebrate Fleischmanns Founders’ Day! A parade\, an old-fashioned mountain league baseball game\, bake off contest\, 19th Century kids games\, live music\, food vendors\, and more!\n5 PM: Cocktail hour featuring the Spillian Trout Tail cocktail (with vodka from Union Grove Distillery and maple syrup from Tree Juice Maple Syrup\, and the Fleischmanns Sparkling Martini\, with special Fleischmanns Yeast® Union Grove Distillery vodka and local hard cider. With jazz from the ineffable Eric Rosen and friends.\n7 PM: The Leavening Feast around Spillian’s grand table\, celebrating the creative energies that have been drawn to this part of the Catskills for over a hundred years\, accompanied a six course dinner with a menu drawn from a 1906 menu at the Fleischmanns Vienna Bakery in the city. Bring your best ideas of how to change the world. We will leaven together.\n\nSunday \n\n9 AM: A Spillian Catskills breakfast.\n10 AM: A cooking class with Chef Christian: learn to make Fleischmanns Yeast® cocoa bread so you can make it at home to fulfill what we’re quite sure will be your new addiction.\nNoon: A farewell toast before you wander back to reality\, filled with energy to raise your piece of the world.\n\n\nThe Leavening Feast\nA chance to break bread with fellow revolutionaries\, revelers\, and risers. A family style feast around our extraordinary mahogany dining table. This table is a true place of convivium\, where tales are topped\, ideas are birthed\, and friendships created. \n\nPricing\nFriday Fleischmanns Founders’ Day Cocktail Hour &  Panel Discussion: Free Admission\nJoin us for a rousing exploration of the Fleischmanns family and their extraordinary reach into the world\, through their work as trailblazing producers of yeast and other food and drink products\, their role in American baseball history\, and as creative and philanthropic visionaries. Cocktails begin at 6 PM\, panel at 7 PM. Cash bar\, tax and gratuities not included. Our guests are automatically invited to this event.\nNOTE: If you are not staying with us for the weekend\, we’re delighted to have you join us for this! We’ll be asking for reservations for the cocktail hour and panel discussion so we have a sense of how many people will be joining us. Click here to register! \n\nSaturday Leavening Cocktail Hour & Feast: $45 per person\nA chance to savor the brilliance of ideas about how we can make the world rise together! An informal salon over a seven course meal inspired by the Fleischmann family’s offerings at their café in New York City\, where artists and musicians gathered daily to work ideas\, in the place where they welcomed a generation of leaders in culture\, commerce\, and community to rest and create. Please bring your best wonderful wild ideas about how we can together change the world. Cocktails begin at 5 PM\, panel at 7 PM. Cash bar\, tax and gratuities not included. \n\nThe Leavening Weekend For One: $395\nPer person\, single room occupancy. Weekend 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); VIP concert and reception on Friday; moving meditation; cooking class; and lodging at Spillian. Evening cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! \nThe Leavening Weekend For Two: $595 \nFor the couple\, double room occupancy. Weekend 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); VIP concert and reception on Friday; moving meditation; cooking class; and lodging at Spillian. Evening cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! \nRegister Now!
URL:https://spillian.com/event/the-leavening-a-mythic-catskills-weekend/
LOCATION:50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, NY\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dinner,Imaginarium,Mythic Catskills,Revel
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SUMMARY:Fleischmanns Founders' Day Eve | Cocktails & Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Fleischmanns Founders’ Day Eve | Cocktails & Conversation\nFriday\, June 7\n6 PM: Cash Bar Cocktail Hour\n7 PM Panel Discussion: The Fleischmann Family’s Influence on Industry\, Culture and Baseball\nFree Admission | Open to the Public\nReservations Required\nJoin us for a very special evening to kick off the Fleischmanns Founders’ Day celebrations with AB Mauri  and Fleischmanns First! \nTry a cocktail made with a special limited run of Vly Creek Vodka made with Fleischmanns Yeast® by local award-winning craft distillery Union Grove Distillery (as well as a host of other local spirits\, beers\, and ciders) during the cocktail hour. And then settle in for a spirited panel conversation\, The Fleischmann Family’s Influence on Industry\, Culture and Baseball\, about the Fleischmann family’s influence on the development of 19th and 20th century industry\, their impacts on a growing and changing American culture\, and their indelible marks on America’s favorite pastime. \nFeatured presenters include: \n• John Thorn\, Official Historian of Major League Baseball\n• Rick Oleshak\, Vice President of marketing for AB Mauri North America\n• John Duda\, Trustee of the Fleischmanns Museum of Memories\n• Leigh Melander\, PhD\, Cultural Mythologist and Co-Founder of Spillian \nAdmission is free to the cocktail hour and panel. Cash bar. Registration\, while it won’t cost you\, is required\, so we have a sense of how many guests to prepare for!\nReserve Now!\n\nAbout Fleischmanns Founders’ Day\n \nSponsored by AB Mauri and Fleischmanns First. The village of Fleischmanns will serve as Founders’ Day host for its namesake brand\, celebrating a bygone era in American history with activities from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on June 8 that include: \n• A parade featuring firetrucks\, area Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops and local marching bands starting at 11 AM\n• An 1890s-period baseball game featuring the Mountain Athletic Club Vintage Base Ball squad\n• A baking competition judged by celebrated baker Dan Leader from Bread Alone Bakery in nearby Lake Katrine\, New York\, and author of the forthcoming book titled Living Bread\n• Live musical acts and nostalgic games and activities for the entire family\n• Local craft beer and barbecue vendors\n• Display of Fleischmann’s @ 150 Still The One – a book recently published for the 150th anniversary of Fleischmann’s Yeast \n\nAbout the Panel Presenters\nJohn Thorn\nJohn is the Official Historian of Major League Baseball. Apart from his creation\, with Pete Palmer\, of Total Baseball\, he is often visible on TV and the web as a sports authority and commentator. He was also a major on-screen presence in and chief consultant to Ken Burns’s PBS film\,Baseball\, and reprised that role with Florentine Films for Jackie Robinson (PBS\, 2016). Thorn co-wrote The Hidden Game of Baseball\, which established alternative statistics later recognized and adopted as official by Major League Baseball\, notably OPS. \nHis many baseball books over the past four decades also include Treasures of the Baseball Hall of Fame\, The Game for All America\, and Our Game\, a history of the game which also supplies the title for his twice-weekly blog (htpp://ourgamemlblogs.com). In 2011 Simon & Schuster published his major work\, Baseball in the Garden of Eden: A Secret History of the Early Game. Thorn not only knows his baseball; he also knows Fleischmanns\, having enjoyed his summers at a local bungalow colony in the mid-1950s. \nRick Oleshak\n \nRick is currently vice president of marketing for AB Mauri North America\, leading brand marketing strategy and development process for the company.  Rick joined AB Mauri in January 2014 after spending more than 13 years with Anheuser-Busch InBev in both marketing and public relations. At Anheuser-Busch\, Oleshak was the director of the Stella Artois\, Hoegaarden and Leffe brand teams in the United States. He led and championed the brand creative development process\, advertising\, packaging and communications for the Belgian beer lineup and several other prominent brands including Michelob ULTRA\, Landshark\, Rolling Rock\, Grolsch and O’Doul’s. \nPreviously\, Oleshak served as manager of communications for NASCAR in Daytona Beach\, Florida. There he was responsible for coordinating national and local communications efforts for more than 32 racing events annually\, including the high-profile Daytona 500.  Oleshak also spent more than three years with the NBA’s Orlando Magic during the team’s playoff runs with all-star players Shaquille O’Neal and Penny Hardaway as well as six-month internship with the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball organization. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Telecommunication (broadcast journalism) from the University of Florida and a Master of Sports Administration from Ohio University.  Oleshak is active in Ladue Chapel Presbyterian Church\, Mighty Oakes Heart Foundation and YMCA athletics. \nJohn Duda\nJohn has been a Trustee of the Greater Fleischmanns Museum of Memories for many years\, and is active in numerous historical groups in the Catskills.  (And beyond.) He often presents history programs\, and has written columns as well as book chapters on local history. \nJohn has done research on the Fleischmann family and their time here\, and created several displays for the Museum on this topic.  He’s one of the organizers of Headwaters History Days\, a multi-venue event highlighting the rich history of our region. \nLeigh Melander\, PhD\nLeigh has a doctorate in cultural mythology and psychology and a background in the arts\, marketing and strategic planning\, and strengthening communities. She and her husband founded Spillian: A Place to Revel\, a regenerative center for imagination and creativity on the historic Fleischmann family estate in Fleischmanns\, NY. She is a presenter and coach in innovation\, and her first book\, Just This Side of Crazy: Dreaming Your Wild Idea to Life is due out in 2019. \nShe has published in a number of juried academic publications\, including The Routledge International Handbook of Jungian Film Studies\, and Spring Journal and Books; and hosted Myth America\, a two year weekly public radio program on how myth and metaphor shape contemporary culture. She was featured on the History Channel as a mythologist and served for five years as the Vice President of the Joseph Campbell Foundation. She has done extensive research on the innovative work and community building of the Fleischmann family and their connections as she has been preparing a National Register of Historic Places nomination for the property. \n\nAbout Spillian and the Fleischmann Family\nSpillian is a center dedicated to imagination and possibility on the site of the original Fleischmann family summer estate in the mountains\, and is proud to host the Fleischmanns Founders’ Day opening celebrations. In addition to Friday’s events\, we’re offering an weekend of programming to compliment the festivities this weekend\, including lodging for the weekend and a special Saturday night feast: The Leavening | A Mythic Catskills Weekend. \nSpillian’s mansion is the sole remaining house built by the Fleischmanns during their thirty-plus years here. We love this description of this amazing property from 1895: \n“Some years ago several members of the Fleischmann family\, in search of rural quiet and picturesque scenery\, visited this retired neighborhood\, and\, charmed with its pure air\, high altitudes\, and care-banishing influences\, resolved that their first visit should by no means be their last. Accordingly\, about 1882\, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Fleischmann and Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Bleier came to the locality\, and purchased a part of the old farm then owned by John M. Blish\, building pleasant summer cottages\, well adapted to the requirements of health and pleasure seekers. They were soon joined by others\, among them Charles Fleischmann\, Carl Edelheim\, Mrs. Max Fleischmann\, Anton Seidl\, Louis Josephthal\, and Carl Hermann. Bernard Ullman and Henry Mierlander added to the architectural beauties of the place by establishing spacious and picturesque homes on the mountain side\, Mr. Charles Fleischmann building three more large and tasteful dwellings. \nThe grounds surrounding these attractive residences are exquisitely laid out\, teeming with flowers and shrubbery\, and broken here and there with convenient walks and well-graded carriage drives. A large deer park\, in which ramble at will some choice specimens of their kind\, adds greatly to the interest of the landscape. Swimming Pond\, supplied with pure mountain spring water\, is a convenience that has not been forgotten; neither have commodious stables and carriage houses. Another most interesting and luxurious feature of this realm of pleasance is a fine riding-school in a magnificently equipped hall\, with a commodious gallery\, in which the friends of the riders can sit and watch their graceful evolutions. There are costly paintings on the walls\, which are elsewhere tastefully draped with rich bunting; and four large chandeliers provide brilliant illumination for evening pleasures. A portable floor has also been provided for dancing\, and an orchestra of skilled musicians from New York is kept in good practice throughout the season. The railroad station\, a tasteful structure\, erected by the liberality of the Fleischmanns\, invites the attention of the passing traveller. The surrounding grounds attest the work of an artist in landscape gardening. \nThis charming spot\, whose natural beauties have been so enhanced by a boundless liberality\, directed by cultivated taste\, is yet but in embryo. The plans for the future are well calculated to dwarf the achievements of the past; and in the choice and secluded settlement of “Fleischmanns\,” nestling in the shadow of the romantic Catskills\, redolent of health\, innocent gaiety\, and cultured ease\, we may view a place where sordid cares are excluded and the rude turmoil of life’s battle stilled\, its faint echoes only touching the chord of remembrance\, as the reverberations of the swift express\, with its varied freight of human interests\, hopes\, and passions\, break softly on the air and lose themselves in the rural solitudes.” \nBiographical Review – 1895\nThe Leading Citizens of Delaware County\, NY\nThis volume contains Biographical Sketches of The Leading Citizens of Delaware County New York\nBiography is the home aspect of history\nBoston\nBiographical Review Publishing Company 1895
URL:https://spillian.com/event/fleischmanns-founders-day-eve-cocktails-and-conversation/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium
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SUMMARY:Creating Life: A Playwrighting Immersive
DESCRIPTION:Creating Life: A Playwrighting Immersive\nJune 2 to 7\, 2019\nFacilitated by Robert Smythe\, MFA\nLooking to bring a play that’s been burbling in your unconscious to life or shape one that you’ve been stuck with? Join Guggenheim Fellow and acclaimed teacher and playwright Robert Smythe for a workshop that will unlock the secrets of making plays in high summer in the Catskills. This intimate intensive is perfect both for new and emerging writers as well as seasoned pro’s. \nCreating Life: A Playwrighting Immersive will focus you on knowing what exactly you are trying to say to an audience\, instead of how you are saying it. We’ll take the general themes and concepts that first led you to conceive of writing a play — or acting in one — and make them specific. \n  \n[btnsx id=”11047″] \n\nDetails\nWe’ll work on getting the story out of your head and into a form that can be understood and interpreted by the other artists you will eventually direct\, perform beside or inspire. By the time you finish the first five-minute exercise\, you’ll be surprised at what you have inside you. You’ll learn how to use tension and rhythm\, and how to reveal states of mind through personal moments. You’ll write scenes and monologues. And love it. \nYou’ll discover that\, in addition or even instead of all the other things you thought you were\, you are a writer of plays. Not because someone told you that you are\, but because you know you are. \nIn each session\, you’ll spend time writing and then you’ll share what you’ve written with the rest of us. After you get feedback\, you’ll have free time to continue writing as you savor Spillian’s magical creative space\, and then we will join together again to further work what’s emerged. \nAs we move through the course\, we’ll explore how to write for the stage: not just how to write words for actors to speak\, but how to make things happen: how to create excitement and surprises\, and interest and emotion\, so that when people act out your play\, or see it in a performance\, they’ll understand exactly what you mean. \n_________________________________________ \nCreating Life: A Playwrighting Immersive\n Sunday evening\, June 2\, at 6:30 PM to Friday June 7\, at 11 AM\n• Attendees are welcome to arrive any time Sunday afternoon after 3 PM to check in.\n• Please bring comfortable clothes that you can move in.\n• An intimate workshop with only eight participants\, so you are sure lots of personal attention on your work. \nWorkshop and Lodging Fee: $685 until May 30\, 2019. $785 after that date.\nIncludes all chef-crafted meals\, sessions\, materials\, and lodging in one of Spillian’s delightful rooms!  You can learn more about them here and make your choice on the registration page.\n[btnsx id=”11047″] \n_________________________________________\nAbout Robert Smythe\, MFA\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. \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. In spring\, 2019\, he was hailed for a “tour de force” performance as Ahab in an innovative production of Moby Dick at Philadelphia’s renowned Hedgerow Theater. \n 
URL:https://spillian.com/event/creating-life-a-playwrighting-immersive-2019/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Workshop,Writing
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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
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SUMMARY:Wild Ramp Festival & Market | Roscoe Beer Company
DESCRIPTION:Wild Ramp Festival & Market: Roscoe Beer Company\nSaturday\, May 4\, 11 am to 7 PM\nWe are thrilled to join Roscoe Beer Company at their Third Annual Wild Ramp Festival\, a true agricultural and culinary experience. Enjoy a day of family fun while shopping the large farmers market\, listening to live music\, taking part in the many games and activities and of course some great CRAFT BEER! There will also be an educational tent dedicated to local agriculture and information about ramps\, plus some sampling stations for you to truly see why ramps are so popular! Then stick around for the after party 4-7! \n\nUpgrade to the VIP experience and purchase tickets to the Farm to Table Tent\, featuring some amazing local chefs. As a VIP you will get to enjoy several ramp inspired dishes perfectly paired with one of our beers\, plus a VIP goody bag to take with you. There will be two sessions\, each lasting an hour and 15 minutes. \nAs a part of the VIP offerings\, our Chef Christian Van Etten will be offering a Catskills/Asian fusion set of flavors: \nSteamed Bun Bao: Choose Your Favorite\n• Steamed Bun with Cripsy Tempura Fried Trout/Apple & Red Cabbage Slaw/ Pickled Radish/ Ramp-Serrano Aoili\n• Steamed Bun with Braised Pork in Gochujang Sauce/ Pickled Trio of Ramps\, Carrots & Enoki Mushroom \nBuy Tix Now!
URL:https://spillian.com/event/wild-ramp-festival-market-roscoe-beer-company/
LOCATION:Roscoe Beer Company\, 145 Rockland Road\, Roscoe\, NY\, 12776\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dinner,Imaginarium,Spillian on the Road
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190329T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190331T120000
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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
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SUMMARY:Murder on the Mountain | A Mythic Catskills Weekend
DESCRIPTION:Murder on the Mountain | A Mythic Catskills Weekend\nMarch 1-3\, 2019\nAn original murderous adventure steeped in the gin-spiked glamor of the 20’s. \nA mystery created at Spillian with characters drawn from literature and history\, inspired by the lore of 20’s icons (and gangsters!) wanders to the Catskills mountains for entertainment and\, well\, a bit of nefarious activity. \nWe’re thrilled to offer you a chance to dive into this mystery as part of our partnership with friend and  filmmaker Alex Harvey as he shapes an upcoming full length independent feature film set at Spillian with this mystery at its heart. Come and be a part of a murder…and the birth of a film! \nWhen you arrive… \nYou all have received your invitations for Jack Goodwin and Violet DeWitt’s famous – or infamous – birthday house party in their Catskills mansion. It’s going to be a party that was far more than (most of you) planned for… A mystery who-dunnit in high style. \nAs F. Scott himself said\, “Never miss a party…good for the nerves–like celery.” \nThis year\, you have been invited for the weekend up to their Catskills cottage (really a rustically luxurious estate) for an informal dinner and dancing\, with good gin flowing out of the reach and eyes of the New York police. Or the Feds. \nTo entertain their guests\, the Goodwins have secured the services of a famous Russian Gypsy medium\, Madame Plavatski\, for the evening on Saturday to tell fortunes to those guests who wish to see into their future and remember their past. \nYou may know some of the guests\, you won’t know all of them. And you may not trust any of them. You may well have secrets you want to keep to yourself and there’s a darn good chance that you’re not alone. \nBut come\, enjoy some hot jazz\, get just a bit splifficated\, and remember\, if anything goes wrong\, keep your friends close and your enemies closer… \nJoin us for the full weekend or for Saturday’s dinner and mystery! \n[btnsx id=”10580″] \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\nMurder on the Mountain: 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 tasting of the extraordinary spirits of our friends at the aptly-named Prohibition Distillery led by their distiller & master taster\, Robert Mack.\n9 PM: Cash bar\, and tales\, real and mythic\, about the history of the bootleggers and gangsters of the ’20’s in the Catskills\, including the mystery of Dutch Schultz’ lost treasure\, led by our wonderful guide\, Spillian Fellow Will Soter of Upstate Adventure Guides.\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 to 5 PM: Explore the Catskills on your own\, the back of your eyelids by the fire at Spillian\, or prep for the murderous mystery. We’ll have 20’s films running in the background\, board games at the ready\, books\, and a whole list of the very best slang from the era for you to practice\, so you know your onions for the evening! And some lunch for those who’d like to settle in.\n\nGet gussied up in 20’s style with a hair and makeup session with the magic-fingered stylist Karen Neblung.\nChoose one of our ‘take yourself on an adventure’ itineraries:\n\na trip to the Devil’s Tombstone…maybe the landing place of Dutch Shultz’ treasure\nantiquing in the area to get yourself in the historic mood\na wander to two of the area’s nearby craft distilleries and breweries to remove any lingering doubt about whether you can jump into character that evening\na stroll in Spillian’s woods to discover the remnants of our very own still from another era\n\n\n\n\n5 PM: Cocktails featuring gin rickey’s Spillian style\, with live music from the 20’s from singer Andy Cahill and pianist Adam Ippolito. You’ll arrive in costume and in character\, and introduce yourself to your fellow guests…and the murderous games begin!\n7 PM: Dinner and a mystery. A 1920’s-inspired feast from Spillian’s chef around the grand feasting table with a bit of murder on the side…\n\nSunday \n\n9 AM: A classic Spillian Catskills breakfast featuring eggs from Spillian Farm’s ridiculous chickens.\n10 AM: Cooking class with Spillian’s chef Christian Van Etten. Learn to make Fleischmann’s Yeast’s own cocoa bread recipe\, from their 1920 recipe book!\n11 AM: Farewell feast of your culinary masterpiece\n\n\nSaturday Night Dinner\nFrom our chef Christian Van Etten\, a seven course feast celebrating the cuisine of the 1920’s… \n• Harlequin Salad\n• Cream of Asparagus Soup\n• A Duo of Duck: Leg Confit and Roasted Duck Leg & Pan Seared Duck Breast à l’Orange\n• Duchess Potatoes\n• Catskills Bourbon-Glazed Ham\n• Snap Peas with Mint\n• Gatsby’s Lemon Cake \n\nPricing and Registration\nMurder on the Mountain For a Couple: $695\nFor the couple\, double room occupancy. Full weekend fee includes all sessions including all meals\, Prohibition Tasting\, moving meditation; cooking class; and lodging at Spillian. Evening cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! \nMurder on the Mountain For a Single: $395\nFor one person\, single room occupancy. Full weekend fee includes all sessions including all meals\, Prohibition Tasting\, moving meditation; cooking class; and lodging at Spillian. Evening cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! \nMurder on the Mountain Dinner & Mystery: $65\nJoin us on Saturday for just the dinner and mystery! Per person\, Evening cash bar\, tax\, and gratuities not included. \nOptional Primping Hair and Makeup Session with stylist Karen Neblung\nFor weekend guests.\nHair: $50\nHair and Makeup: $65\nWe’ll set appointments for you upon your arrival for the weekend. \nWe’ll ask you a couple of questions on the registration form to match you with the best character for you! Once we’ve had a chance to match characters to guests\, you’ll receive an invitation to Jack and Violet’s party\, and a description of your character with costuming and prop suggestions. When you arrive\, you’ll receive information about any secrets you might hold\, might know about others\, and clues about what to do and watch for during the soiree. \n[btnsx id=”10580″] \n\nAbout Stylist Karen Neblung\nPhoto by Joe Damone. \nKaren’s husband\, four cats and she relocated to Roxbury\, NY from rural NJ in 1997. Growing up 30 minutes to NYC fueled her interest in art\, music and anything a little off center\, and her college years were consumed with escaping into museums and attending free performances by creators of dance\, art and film in the lofts in Greenwich village. She studied Theatre and Education  but spent most of her time in the dance studio. Moving through many careers in creative fields\, she was seeking a new adventure\, and a friend suggested Karen enter her field and become a hair stylist. She apprenticed in NJ with a European influence in techniques. Upon her arrival in the Catskills\, she discovered both salon clients and destination weddings (she’s one of the hottest stylists in the region!). Karen continues her ongoing education in NYC and travels New York state styling hair and makeup. She says\, “People are my fuel and opportunity to style individuals from all over the world makes life in the country rich.” Learn more here… \n  \nAbout Singer Andy Cahill\n Andy Cahill began her career performing in the cabarets and clubs of Chicago\, and when she moved to New York\, she attracted a loyal following. Andy sang in many of the top nightspots in Manhattan including The Duplex\, Reno Sweeney\, and The Ballroom. Though she was on track to become a significant name in cabaret\, Andy realized it was more important at that point\, to concentrate on her family and took a “day gig.” For the next 15 years\, she was a Talent Coordinator\, first\, for a top corporate production company\, and then – her own company\, Cahill Artists.  Andy focused on corporate entertainment and booked great artists including Ray Charles\, Lena Horne\, Reba McIntyre and Barbara Cook. This experience taught Andy how to listen to great singers – and was instrumental in her development as an artist. Andy is singing again with a much more in-depth understanding of both the music and the lyrics. Her repertoire has expanded\, and\, because of the years in the music business along with amazing musicians who whom Andy is privileged to be working\, the range of music is endless. Music is back to being the expression of joy it was at the beginning. \n  \nAbout Pianist Adam Ippolito\n \nAdam Ippolito’s career as a pianist spans over 40 years. He recorded and played with John Lennon\, Kool & The Gang\, Chuck Berry\, Cissy & Whitney Houston\, James Moody and many others. In addition\, Adam played for The Joffrey Ballet and Broadway shows including “Dancin’” and “Grease.” He was a member of the rock bands Elephants Memory and Pig Iron\, both of which had recording contracts with Apple and Columbia Records. Adam was a member of John Lennon’s band for two years over which time he recorded many song and albums along with appearing several times in both videos and on television; and was the keyboardist for the famed One to One John Lennon\, Yoko Ono concert at Madison Square Garden. The Elephants Memory album for Apple Records was produced by John Lennon. From the 70s to the 90s\, Adam was a studio musician recording with John Lennon\, Chuck Berry\, Kool & The Gang and many other artists of different genres. Love/Zager Productions who handled The Spinners\, Cissy Houston\, and Ronnie Dyson along with several other great R&B artists engaged Adam as both a songwriter and a producer. In recent years\, Adam has participated in the Fest for Beatles Fans and performed at The Iridium\, The Cutting Room and Joe’s Pub in NYC.. Currently\, he is performing in the Catskills as a sole and in collaboration with the jazz song stylist\, Andy Cahill. His CD is available on iTunes\, YouTube\, and other digital venues. \nAbout Prohibition Distillery\nLocated in the historic town of Roscoe\, New York\, Prohibition Distillery was inspired by the history of the United States\, the peoples will\, and the art of libations itself. Their flagship product\, Bootlegger 21 NY Vodka\, has won six international medals\, including the only Gold medal at the NYISC; The Fifty Best American Vodka Competition; and Prohibition was recently named to a list of the Top 5 global craft vodkas by Travel and Leisure Magazine. Bootlegger 21 Gin has been awarded the Gold medal at the IWSC for Contemporary Gin.
URL:https://spillian.com/event/murder-on-the-mountain-a-mythic-catskills-weekend/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dinner,Imaginarium,Music,Mythic Catskills
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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
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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.
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CATEGORIES:Adventure,Dinner,Imaginarium,Mythic Catskills,Outdoors
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SUMMARY:A Reveler's Feast: Pop Up Dinner
DESCRIPTION:A Reveler’s Feast\nThursday\, December 27 at 6 PM.\nThe incomparable Chef Mike Riley of picnic! is coming to play with Spillian’s marvelous Chef Christian Van Etten in the kitchen for a very special pop up dinner on Thursday\, December 27. These two have cooked together for years and are planning an extravaganza! Come and discover the brilliance of our very own culinary Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (we’re letting them decide which is which) as they make magic in the kitchen. This one’s going to be special! \nMike and Christian are crossing the culinary streams in what promises to be a genuinely memorable seven course meal around Spillian’s feasting table. \n  \n[btnsx id=”10368″] \n\nA Reveler’s Feast Menu\nA Seven Course Robust Tasting Dinner\n\nTo start\, an Amuse Bouche: A Duo of Quail Eggs: Crab “Scotch Egg” and Deviled Egg with Avocado\, Wasabi\, Tobiko\nPetite Greens Salad Melange\, Pickled Radish\, Clementine\, and Walnuts with Citrus Herb Vinaigrette\nWild Mushroom and Dirty Girl Farm‘s Goat Cheese Agnolotti\, Rutabaga Emulsion\, Honey Glazed Winter Root Vegetables\nSeared Jumbo Diver Scallops\, Ramp Kimchi\, Edamame\, Radicchio Asian slaw\nDuck Confit Tamales\, Blueberry “Mole” Featuring Local Blueberry Sky Wine\, Scallion\, Capers\n“Stuffed Cabbage”- Hubbell Family Farm Berkshire Pork Wrapped with Savoy Cabbage\, Golden Raisin Puree\, Truffled Spinach and Rice Fritter\, Pignoli\nBanoffee Cheese Cake\, Digestive Biscuit Crust\, Banana Dipped in Dark Chocolate\, Dolce de Leche\nCoffee and tea\n\nOur bar will be featuring an array of local beer\, cider\, and spirits\, and two special Spillian cocktails: \n\nThe Trout Tail: Union Grove Distillery‘s gold-award winning apple- based Vly Creek Vodka\, Tree Juice Maple Syrup\, Mint\, and Selzer\nThe Old Fashioned Campfire: Union Grove Distillery‘s Dry Brook Whisky\, House Made Pine Simple Syrup\, Luxardo Marachino Cherry and a Twist of Clementine…Smoked!\n\n\nFeasting at Spillian\nThe grand table\, with its three chandeliers overhead\, has been the place of some truly unforgettable feasts. It is the heart of Spillian and our goal to bring community together to celebrate and conjure up how we can change the world. We gather and break bread together\, sharing stories (some true\, some wildly imagined)\, savor company of both old and new\, as well as extraordinary flavors coming from our kitchen. It is a convivium in its truest sense: a feast of tastes\, ideas\, and camaraderie. We hope that you will join us! \n\nThe Chefs\nChef Mike Riley \nHaving been born and raised in the Borscht Belt\, at one time the perpetual Mecca of New York summer vacations and hotels\, you can definitely say that hospitality is in Chef Mike Riley’s blood. The son of a professional baker\, Mike has been around restaurants his whole life\, and was practically raised in professional kitchens. \nAfter cooking professionally for about a decade\, Chef Riley decides to pursue his passion further and completed the acclaimed culinary school at SUNY Delhi\, in his beloved Catskills.  A truly eclectic culinarian\, he has worked his way through everything from pizzerias\, to County Clubs to developing a modern food program for an educational not for profit.\n\n\nCurrently Mike hangs his toque at picnic!\, where he is the Chef/Owner Operator. He focuses on feeding the masses anything from sandwiches to signature comfort food dishes. Refining comfort food while adding fun twists is his favorite pastime\, and keeps picnic! a perennial favorite with locals and tourists alike\, in the buzzy little retreat town of Margaretville. \nChef Christian Van Etten \n\nBorn in Kingston\, raised in the Catskills\, Christian was drawn to the creative making of cooking early\, and attended SUNY Delhi’s award-winning culinary program. He has cooked professionally in a variety of settings in New York (several with Mike – they are the dynamic duo!) and Florida\, including serving as Head Chef at one of Disney World’s fine dining restaurants. \nChristian joined the Spillian crew in summer\, 2018\, and has re-invented the kitchen as a place of unerringly creative cuisine\, reflecting local flavors and Spillian’s creed to ‘imagine past what you think is possible.’ He builds innovative menus in partnership with our clients\, enjoys teaching cooking classes with workshop guests\, and is developing content for a Spillian Kitchen YouTube short class series with tips on how to bring some of the tricks of the Spillian’s kitchen to your table. He is an ice cream whisperer. \n\nJoin us!\nA Reveler’s Feast\nThursday\, December 27\n6 PM Tavern Opens\n7 PM Feasting \nPrice: $60 per person.\nNot including tax\, gratuities\, and cash bar.\nSeating is limited and tickets must be purchased in advance.\nThank you! We’re looking forward to feasting with you. \n  \n[btnsx id=”10368″] \n 
URL:https://spillian.com/event/a-revelers-feast-pop-up-dinner/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dinner,Imaginarium
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:Your Hero's Journey® Redux: A Mythological ToolBox® 2018 PlayShop
DESCRIPTION:Your Hero’s Journey® Redux: A Mythological ToolBox® 2018 PlayShop\nSunday Evening\, July 22 to Friday afternoon\, July 27\nFacilitated by Robert Walter\, President of the Joseph Campbell Foundation\n  \nRobert Walter\, President\, Joseph Campbell Foundation \nDo you dare to re-imagine yourself? Are you hungering for a quest? Want to get rocked right out of your socks and change your life? \nJoin JCF President Bob Walter for Your Hero’s Journey® Redux: A Mythological ToolBox® PlayShop this July. \nFive days of inspired\, inspiring\, creative\, chaotic\, joyful\, and challenging play at the extraordinary historic Catskills creative retreat center\, Spillian: A Place to Revel. \nTogether we will recall our dreams\, rekindle visions\, and discover the myths we are living by through drawing\, dance\, story-making\, song\, masks\, medicine bags\, silliness and deep imagining of our own hero’s journeys. \nThe Mythological ToolBox® uses the deep wisdom of myth to poke a proverbial finger in the mix that is the way you look at yourself\, your goals and the life you want to dream into being. Join us in this magical\, mythical summertime ritual of rebirth. It can change everything. \nA Little Background \nThe birth of the Mythological ToolBox® emerges from an annual gathering on Joseph Campbell’s birthday. As he celebrated\, he would explore Carl Jung’s wondering\, “What myth am I living by?”— and when he realized that he didn’t know\, writing “I took it upon myself to get to know ‘my’ myth\, and I regarded this as the task of tasks.” He concluded\, “That’s what a birthday is for.”  Since 1988\, after his death\, friends and newcomers to Campbell’s work have been gathering to celebrate life and explore ‘their’ myths. Eventually these festivities were dubbed “A Mythological ToolBox” to acknowledge that familiarity with Campbell is not needed to retool the myths that shape one’s life — though a sense of humor certainly helps. \nIn what is emerging as a rich tradition at Spillian\, we are delighted to offer the fifth Mythological ToolBox® PlayShop at Spillian in 2018. This is an intimate\, luxurious adventure into Campbell’s ideas and your own mythologies\, with a small group and fine food in an exquisite place. \nThe workshop is facilitated by our good friend and colleague Robert Walter\, Joseph Campbell’s editor for a decade\, president of the Joseph Campbell Foundation\, and a poet/playwright with several decades of experience as group leader\, teacher\, publisher\, and theatrical producer/director/designer. \nJoseph Campbell\, 1904-1987 \nOur mix of individual\, small-group\, and collective activities will provide opportunities for both reflection and expression. Who were you? What mise-en-scènes inspire your biographical saga? What treasures have you banished to the basement or secreted in the attic? Who are you? What’s displayed in your home or dangling from your rearview mirror? Who do you aspire to be? What face do you envision in the mirror? What remains on your bucket list? If you dare to revision yourself\, then join our summertime rituals of rebirth. Please bring a meaningful but expendable totem and an unsung story or evocative song. \nRecommended reading: Myths to Live By\, The Hero with a Thousand Faces\, and The Power of Myth. \nThe Hero’s Journey® and Mythological ToolBox® are Registered Trademarks of the Joseph Campbell Foundation. \n_________________________________________ \nYour Hero’s Journey® Redux: Mythological ToolBox® 2018 Playshop Workshop Schedule\nThis workshop is five days long\,beginning on Sunday evening\, July 22\, at 7 PM and concluding Friday\, July 27\, after lunch.\n• Hero’s Journey® Redux attendees are welcome to arrive any time Sunday afternoon after 3 PM.\n• Please bring comfortable clothes and shoes.\n• Morning yoga or meditation class on the porch or in the meadow.\n• Commuters welcome for the workshop registration fee. Lodging is available onsite. \nWorkshop Fee: $820. 20% Off if you book by June 30\, 2018. Only $655!\nIncludes all programming\, materials and meals.\nSpillian offers eight delightful rooms. You can learn more about them here and make your choice on the registration page.\nNOTE: All of Spillian’s rooms are now reserved. Visit our friends at River Run Bed and Breakfast to make a reservation there! It’s just down the street and we offer shuttle service. \n  \n[btnsx id=”8986″]
URL:https://spillian.com/event/mythological-toolbox-2018/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Workshop
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SUMMARY:SpillianFest 2018
DESCRIPTION:SpillianFest 2018:\nMusic from the Hollows\nSaturday\, July 14 • 4 to 10 PM\nFeaturing\nBill Duke & the Hyzer Hillbillies\nYard Sale\nDylan Doyle Band\n• Advance tickets: $15/adult • $7.50 child\n• Door tickets: $20/adult • $7.50 child \n• Dinner a la carte from $3 to $5 each item\n• Cash bar\n \nTICKETS NOW AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR. \n  \n\n\n\nThe Magic\nThey say that sometimes on a summer’s evening\, when the wind is just right\, you can hear music drifting out of the Catskills hollows… It can break your heart and can make it whole again. And it can set your feet to dancing as if they’ve got their own will. This year\, you can find your way to Spillian’s hidden meadow and find that music for yourself.\n\n\n \n\n\nSongs of toil\, of love\, of hard-won joys\, thrumming with the life of this land and of the people who have made it home. Three bands\, forged from these mountain’s rocks and dirt\, from sunshine\, snows\, and blooming hawthorns.\n\n• The high lonesome tenor of Bill Duke and the Hyzer Hillbillies.\n• The twanging wit of the mountain men of Yard Sale.\n• The wipe-your-soul-clean driving blues of guitar-phenom Dylan Doyle and his band. \n\nCome for the music of the Catskills. Come for the music of us.\n\nSpillianFest 2018 Catskills Picnic\n• The much praised and nearly world-famous Spillian Trout Taco\n• The Spillian Veggie Taco (all that and with chipotle cauliflower instead of trout!) (vegan)\n• Beer & Onion Grilled Brats with sauerkraut\n• Catskills smoked local street corn on the cob (vegan)\n• House made tangy slaw (vegan)\n• Spillian Maple Caramel Corn (vegetarian)\n• Marshmallows for the bonfire (sinful) \nSpillianFest 2018 Cash Bar\n• Local beer from Catskills Brewery:  Ball Lightning Pilsner and Floodwatch IPA\n• Beringer wines: Pinot Grigio\, Chardonnay\, Pinot Noir\, and Cabernet Sauvignon\n• And of course\, Catskills Hurricanes \nSpillianFest 2018 Schedule\n• 4 PM Doors and bar open\n• 4-6 PM Bill Duke and the Hyzer Hillbillies\n• 4:30-6:30 PM SpillianFest Picnic (Until we run out of food!)\n• 6-8 PM Yard Sale\n• 7 PM Lighting the Bonfire\n• 8-10 PM Dylan Doyle Band\n• 9-10 PM Marshmallows for the bonfire \nPlease…no outside food or drink\, no drugs\, and no dogs. Thank you! \nSpillian’s Meadow\nThree years ago our first SpillianFest introduced the public to “The Meadow\, ” our gorgeous outdoor stage built into the old stone foundation of one of the original Spillian buildings. It was a revelry attended by more than 500 guests. Since then our magical meadow has hosted weddings\, workshops\, and gatherings. This summer\, we’re thrilled to introduce a new rustic pavilion\, handcrafted from trees from the property. \n  \n\nThe Music\nAbout Bill Duke and the Hyzer Hillbillies\n\nA local favorite folk and bluegrass group\, led by Bill Duke and his high lonesome tenor. \nThe Hyzer Hillbillies caught their name rolling down Hyzer Hill in Delaware County\, and finesse a combination of covers and original songs including the hit single “Hickster Man” on guitar\, banjo\, harmonica\, various things to drum on\, and the occasional shovel. Hey\, it’s Delaware County! There are two rocks for every dirt…everybody needs a shovel… \n  \n  \n\nAbout Yard Sale\n \nRoots experimentalists in the tradition of the Band\, Neil Young\, Dr. Dog\, and The Avett Brothers\, Yard Sale’s fluent playing and roughhewn\, uncorrected vocal virtuosity often transcends folk\, approaching the sop \nhistication of casual chamber music\, but always in the service of sturdy\, eccentric and emotionally stirring songs. Like the best of today’s smart indie Americana artists (including some of their Team Love Records label mates)\, Yard Sales plays freely with American myth\, haunted spirits\, and weird old styles but does so in a way that is less studied\, less groomed\, and more stylistically inclusive than many of their steadfastly retro peers. Learn more!  \n  \nAbout Dylan Doyle\n \nSouthern born\, Northern raised \, Dylan Doyle has been steeped in everything from Bob Dylan\, Wes Montgomery\, and Bill Withers to John Prine\, Jimi Hendrix\, and The Band.  From this comes a unique musical interpretation that lies somewhere within the delta of Roots\, Rock\, and Jazz\, giving him a style that defies classification. Touring nationally since age 15\, Dylan became a seasoned professional at a very young age.  He has played with such notable musicians Rob Stoner (Bob Dylan\, Don Mclean)\, John Platania (Van Morrison\, Natalie Merchant)\, Ben Cauley (Otis Redding) and Bill Payne (Little Feat).  Stoner called Dylan one of the most prodigious players he has known with abundant natural talent.  John Platania has referred to Dylan as “The Future.”  Ben Cauley\, after playing with Dylan in Memphis said\, “Dylan Doyle sounds like a young Jimi Hendrix.”  In the words of Bill Payne upon sharing the stage\, “Music is a conversation.  Dylan spoke beautifully and was listening to the musicians around him.  His play was imaginative and original. Attesting to Dylan’s versatility\, Dylan has played the King Biscuit Blues Festival three consecutive years as well headlining the Grateful Garcia Gathering\, the largest Grateful Dead festival in the Midwest\, and consistently packs houses around Europe and the United States. \n  \n\n 
URL:https://spillian.com/event/spillianfest-2018/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Music
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SUMMARY:Creating Life: A Playwrighting Immersive
DESCRIPTION:Creating Life: A Playwrighting Immersive\nJune 3 to 8\, 2018\nFacilitated by Robert Smythe\, MFA\nLooking to bring a play that’s been burbling in your unconscious to life or shape one that you’ve been stuck with? Join Guggenheim Fellow and acclaimed teacher and playwright Robert Smythe for a workshop that will unlock the secrets of making plays in high summer in the Catskills. This intimate intensive is perfect both for new and emerging writers as well as seasoned pro’s. \nCreating Life: A Playwrighting Immersive will focus you on knowing what exactly you are trying to say to an audience\, instead of how you are saying it. We’ll take the general themes and concepts that first led you to conceive of writing a play — or acting in one — and make them specific. \n[btnsx id=”9146″] \nDetails\nWe’ll work on getting the story out of your head and into a form that can be understood and interpreted by the other artists you will eventually direct\, perform beside or inspire. By the time you finish the first five-minute exercise\, you’ll be surprised at what you have inside you. You’ll learn how to use tension and rhythm\, and how to reveal states of mind through personal moments. You’ll write scenes and monologues. And love it. \nYou’ll discover that\, in addition or even instead of all the other things you thought you were\, you are a writer of plays. Not because someone told you that you are\, but because you know you are. \nIn each session\, you’ll spend time writing and then you’ll share what you’ve written with the rest of us. After you get feedback\, you’ll have free time to continue writing as you savor Spillian’s magical creative space\, and then we will join together again to further work what’s emerged. \nAs we move through the course\, we’ll explore how to write for the stage: not just how to write words for actors to speak\, but how to make things happen: how to create excitement and surprises\, and interest and emotion\, so that when people act out your play\, or see it in a performance\, they’ll understand exactly what you mean. \n_________________________________________ \nCreating Life: A Playwrighting Immersive\n Sunday evening\, June 3\, at 6:30 PM to Friday June 8\, at 11 AM\n• Attendees are welcome to arrive any time Sunday afternoon after 3 PM to check in.\n• Please bring comfortable clothes that you can move in.\n• An intimate workshop with only eight participants\, so you are sure lots of personal attention on your work. \nWorkshop and Lodging Fee: $685 until May 25\, 2018. $785 after that date.\nIncludes all chef-crafted meals\, sessions\, materials\, and lodging in one of Spillian’s delightful rooms!  You can learn more about them here and make your choice on the registration page.\n_________________________________________\nAbout Robert Smythe\, MFA\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. \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. \n[btnsx id=”9146″]
URL:https://spillian.com/event/creating-life-playwrighting-immersive/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Workshop,Writing
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SUMMARY:Seeing Nature's Mind | Regenerating Place
DESCRIPTION:Seeing Nature’s Mind | Regenerating Place\nApril 27 – May 2\, 2018\n\n\n[btnsx id=”9106″]\nCelebrate May Day and the arrival of spring by embracing the land around us at Seeing Nature’s Mind | Regenerating Place.\nJoin us for an extraordinary several days exploring the power of patterns of nature in the Catskills\, learning to see nature and place as both inspiration and guide.\n\n\nTwo workshops offered together with our partners at 7group\, a renowned regenerative design and consulting firm. Featuring internationally recognized living systems specialist Joel Glanzberg and regenerative leader\, John Boecker.\nCome to both sessions (for a special price!) or join us for one\, and discover how the land around us can provide us the answers we seek\, in design\, in community\, and in life.\nThese workshops are a part of Catskills Trout Tales\, an innovative regional campaign celebrating the streams\, forests\, and wildlife of the Catskill mountains.\n\n  \nOur thanks to our sponsors from USGBC Central Pennsylvania\,  USBGC New York Upstate\, USGBC Long Island\, and the Good Work Institute.\n\n\n\nDetails\n• Join us for both workshops for a special price\, or register for one\n• Evocative\, challenging ideas\, experiences\, and conversations.\n• Lodging or primitive campaign on a superb 19thC mountain estate with 33 forested acres to explore.\n• A newly imagined Catskills cuisine: innovative\, fresh and local\n• CEU credits available through AIA and the US Green Building Council \n  \nSeeing with Nature’s Mind: Problem Evolving for a Living World\nWith Joel Glanzberg\n7 PM Friday\, April 27 at 7 PM to 11 AM Monday\, April 30\n“Most of our problems are caused by thinking differently than Nature works.”\n–Gregory Bateson \nPatterns are the language of life\, our original mother tongue. By triangulating the perspectives of traditional tracking (pattern reading)\, living systems thinking (pattern thinking) and regenerative design (pattern design)\, we can relearn to see with Nature’s mind and act as essential members of this living world with essential roles She is literally dying for us to play. \nBecause all living systems follow the same patterns\, learning to read them reveals where and how we can contribute to growing their health. We need to learn how to be open observers\, clearing the mirror of our minds to see behind the surface to the workings of the life of systems and how to find our place as active participants within them. \nThis workshop will be useful for designers\, artists\, and practitioners of all sorts\, as well as anyone interested in awareness and seeing the world in a different way. It is open to all levels of abilities. Though we will be using our bodies\, it will not be overly rigorous and appropriate for all physical abilities. Exercises exploring the patterns in our bodies\, our breath\, the landscape\, and our minds will take us from verbal and non-verbal dialog to movement\, as well as silent observation\, learning visceral ways to experience how living systems work\, and how to take our effective places within them. \n\n  \nRegenerating Place: Whole-Systems Design and Planning\n1 PM Monday April 30 to 5 PM Wednesday May 2\nWith John Boecker and Joel Glanzberg\nJoin us in learning together how to engage regenerative design and development in the places we shape\, using Spillian as a living lab. \nFor over two years\, John Boecker has been working with Spillian and its community to understand it as a place of regeneration for both people and the land itself. In this workshop\, we will dive deep into the master plan for the 33 acre estate\, learning how we can understand its unique identity as we imagine the future of its vision\, its historic buildings\, its landscape\, and its stakeholders. \nWorking in this way awakens a deep and caring sense of place that transforms how we see humans as partners in the ongoing evolution of living systems. Together we can improve the quality of life for all species as we co-create a vision for our built and natural landscapes and our communities by embracing the health of the whole\, not just the pieces. \nThe second in a series of Spillian/7Group regenerative planning workshops. For all those who are seeking a holistic way of understanding and implementing design for landscapes\, the built environment\, and communities. \n  \n\n\nPricing\nBoth Workshops Registration: $675 until April 20. $825 after that date.\nSeeing with Nature’s Mind: $395 until April 20. $485 after that date.\nRegenerating Place: $315 until April 20. $385 after that date. \nIf you’d like to bring a larger group of friends or colleagues\, please contact us for special  group pricing. \nFee includes chef-made meals\, materials\, and programming.\nEvening cash bar\, lodging\, and gratuities not included.\nNote: This fee is for the workshop. If you’d like to stay in the mansion\, please choose one of the rooms on the registration form. We are also offering primitive camping on site with your own gear. Commuters welcome. \nLearn more about the marvelous lodging in the Spillian mansion here.  \nLodging in Spillian Mansion Both Workshops: $465-$525\nLodging in Spillian Mansion Seeing Nature’s Mind: $285-$325\nLodging in Spillian Mansion Regenerating Place: $225-$275\nPrimitive Camping Onsite: $25 per person\nContinuing Education Certificate: Free! \n\n  \n\n\n Partners\nJoel Glanzberg\nJoel has been a builder\, farmer\, teacher\, writer\, storyteller\, naturalist\, and permaculturalist for over 30 years. His early work establishing the site and research behind Flowering Tree Permaculture and is featured in both Gaia’s Garden and Our Home“Our Home Book” as well as Brad Lancaster’s Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond Vol. 1\, and A People’s Ecology\, Greg Cajete ed.. Joel is a founding partner of Regenesis Collaborative\, which came together as an integration between permaculture and Living Systems Thinking technologies. Its founding was a response to the realization that so many of the blocks to implementing Living Systems Design work were not physical\, but in people’s understanding and thinking. Joel’s work with the Tracking Project provides another approach to understanding and working with patterns and the natural world\, as well as techniques for accessing the minds required. Learn more about Joel’s work on patterns and regenerative design at patternmind.org. \nJohn Boecker\nJohn is a founding partner in 7group\, an internationally recognized multi-disciplinary consulting firm focused on green and regenerative development. As an architect\, his practice has focused exclusively on green buildings and integrative design since 1996. He served on the LEED Steering Committee from 2002-2009\, and he Chaired the USGBC’s national LEED Curriculum Committee from 2002-2007. Along with his 7group partners and Bill Reed\, he co-authored The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building\, a seminal book published by Wiley in April\, 2009. He also co-hosted with Bill Reed the national Voice America radio program\, “Building Deeper Green: Reframing Sustainability.” As a highly sought keynote speaker\, John has lectured on the benefits of integrative design and regenerative development in 35 states and 14 countries. He has served as LEED Faculty since 2002\, and he was appointed a LEED Fellow in the inaugural class of 2011. \n7group\n\n7group has been a leading sustainability consulting group for over 20 years. These workshops mark 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\n  \nSpillian: A Place to Revel\n\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. \n\n  \nFrom Our Sponsors…\nUS Green Building Council Central Pennsylvania\nUSGBC Central Pennsylvania — through its members\, board and committees — focuses its work in three main areas: education\, advocacy and outreach. We represent 34 counties in the central part of the state\, including the state capital and a population of over 4.2 million people. Our efforts include regular educational and networking programs\, GreenCon\, numerous service projects\, and an annual awards program honoring innovative sustainable design. \n\n\nUS Green Building Council Upstate New York\nUSGBC New York Upstate members and Market Leadership Advisory Board are a diverse group\, and are passionate about green buildings and sustainable design. As a member of USGBC New York Upstate\, you’ll access a diverse\, dedicated community of professionals — who design\, construct\, manage\, finance\, insure\, maintain\, own\, and occupy buildings. Tap into their experience; share your own knowledge; and help us all transform the built environment! \nGood Work Institute\nFounded in mid-2015\, The Good Work Institute runs educational programs and enterprise support services that aim to assist these local community members and their organizations as they turn their aspirations for a better tomorrow into specific actions taken on behalf of the people and places of the Hudson Valley. Our mission to educate and connect a network of local community members and actively support their collaborative efforts to regenerate their places. \n  \n[btnsx id=”9106″]
URL:https://spillian.com/event/seeing-natures-mind-regenerating-place/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Outdoors,Regenerism,Workshop
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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
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SUMMARY:Breathing Fire: A Wild Power Workshop for Women
DESCRIPTION:Breathing Fire: A Wild Power Workshop for Women\nMarch 9 to 11\, 2018\nFacilitated by Leigh Melander\, Ph.D.\, Spillian Co-Founder\nAre you burning to change your life and the world? Join us for Breathing Fire: A Wild Power Workshop for Women. \nIn most cultures\, women have been traditionally defined by three roles: maiden\, mother\, and crone. Each is a powerful metaphor\, each has value\, but they all live within society’s expectations.  They are often as much about how the world sees women as they are how we see ourselves. \nThere is another metaphor\, one that acknowledges women’s power\, our wildness\, and how we often stand outside the constructs of society. \nAnd that is dragon. Filled with fire\, with possibility\, with fortune\, and with danger\, dragons refuse to be bound by rules. \nHow do we see and embrace this power in ourselves\, even when we aren’t sure we can? How can we learn to ride this fire enough so it doesn’t burn ourselves or the people around us? And at the same time\, how can we understand that its very nature resists being tamed? How can we navigate the risks of unleashing this fire in a world that is often terrified by it? \nExplore your own fair fierceness through story\, movement\, and imagination. \n[btnsx id=”9048″] \n_________________________________________ \nBreathing Fire: A Wild Power Workshop for Women\nFriday evening\, March 9\, at 7 PM to Sunday March 11\, at 11 AM\n• Attendees are welcome to arrive any time Friday afternoon after 3 PM.\n• Please bring comfortable clothes that you can move in.\n• Commuters welcome for the workshop registration fee. Lodging is available onsite. \nWorkshop Fee: $275 until March 7\, 2018. $345 after that date.\nIncludes all chef-made meals\, sessions\, and materials.\nLodging in Spillian Mansion: $225-$275\nSpillian offers eight delightful rooms. You can learn more about them here and make your choice on the registration page.\n_________________________________________\nAbout Leigh Melander\, Ph.D.\nLeigh 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 a doctorate in cultural mythology and psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and wrote her dissertation on frivolity as an entry into imagination. 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 hosts a weekly radio show on an NPR affiliate and podcast: Myth America\, an exploration into how myth shapes our sense of identity and serves as the Vice President of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and the editor of their MythBlast series.
URL:https://spillian.com/event/breathing-fire-a-wild-power-workshop-for-women/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Women,Workshop
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170723T150000
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SUMMARY:Your Hero's Journey® Redux: A Mythological ToolBox® 2017 PlayShop
DESCRIPTION:  \nYour Hero’s Journey® Redux: A Mythological ToolBox® 2017 PlayShop\nSunday Evening\, July 23 to Friday afternoon\, July 28\nFacilitated by Robert Walter\, President of the Joseph Campbell Foundation\nRobert Walter\, President\, Joseph Campbell Foundation \nDo you dare to re-imagine yourself? Are you hungering for a quest? Want to get rocked right out of your socks and change your life? \nJoin JCF President Bob Walter for Your Hero’s Journey® Redux: A Mythological ToolBox® PlayShop this July. \nFive days of inspired\, inspiring\, creative\, chaotic\, joyful\, and challenging play at the extraordinary historic Catskills creative retreat center\, Spillian: A Place to Revel. \nTogether we will recall our dreams\, rekindle visions\, and discover the myths we are living by through drawing\, dance\, story-making\, song\, masks\, medicine bags\, silliness and deep imagining of our own hero’s journeys. \nThe Mythological ToolBox® uses the deep wisdom of myth to poke a proverbial finger in the mix that is the way you look at yourself\, your goals and the life you want to dream into being. Join us in this magical\, mythical summertime ritual of rebirth. It can change everything. \nA Little Background \nThe birth of the Mythological ToolBox® emerges from an annual gathering on Joseph Campbell’s birthday. As he celebrated\, he would explore Carl Jung’s wondering\, “What myth am I living by?”— and when he realized that he didn’t know\, writing “I took it upon myself to get to know ‘my’ myth\, and I regarded this as the task of tasks.” He concluded\, “That’s what a birthday is for.”  Since 1988\, after his death\, friends and newcomers to Campbell’s work have been gathering to celebrate life and explore ‘their’ myths. Eventually these festivities were dubbed “A Mythological ToolBox” to acknowledge that familiarity with Campbell is not needed to retool the myths that shape one’s life — though a sense of humor certainly helps. \nIn what is emerging as a rich tradition at Spillian\, we are delighted to offer the fourth Mythological ToolBox® PlayShop at Spillian in 2017. This is an intimate\, luxurious adventure into Campbell’s ideas and your own mythologies\, with a small group and fine food in an exquisite place. \nThe workshop is facilitated by our good friend and colleague Robert Walter\, Joseph Campbell’s editor for a decade\, president of the Joseph Campbell Foundation\, and a poet/playwright with several decades of experience as group leader\, teacher\, publisher\, and theatrical producer/director/designer. Come and experience the Hero’s Journey® in creative\, chaotic\, joyful\, and challenging play. \nJoseph Campbell\, 1904-1987 \nOur mix of individual\, small-group\, and collective activities will provide opportunities for both reflection and expression. Who were you? What mise-en-scènes inspire your biographical saga? What treasures have you banished to the basement or secreted in the attic? Who are you? What’s displayed in your home or dangling from your rearview mirror? Who do you aspire to be? What face do you envision in the mirror? What remains on your bucket list? If you dare to revision yourself\, then join our summertime rituals of rebirth. Please bring a meaningful but expendable totem and an unsung story or evocative song. \nRecommended reading: Campbell\, Myths to Live By\, The Hero with a Thousand Faces\, and The Power of Myth. \nThe Hero’s Journey® and Mythological ToolBox® are Registered Trademarks of the Joseph Campbell Foundation. \n_________________________________________ \nYour Hero’s Journey® Redux: Mythological ToolBox® 2017 Playshop Workshop Schedule\nThis workshop is five days long\,beginning on Sunday evening\, July 23\, at 7 PM and concluding Friday\, July 28\, after lunch.\n• Hero’s Journey® Redux attendees are welcome to arrive any time Sunday afternoon after 3 PM.\n• Please bring comfortable clothes and shoes.\n• Morning yoga or meditation class on the porch or in the meadow.\n• We also can arrange an in-room massage for you at $100 for 60 minutes. Please make arrangements with us for this when you make your reservations. \nWorkshop Fee: $795 tax included.\nIncludes all programming\, materials and meals.\nWe just had a cancellation and we have the Klimt Room still available if you’d like to stay with us. Please choose this room on the registration form below. If you miss out on that\, you can contact River Run Bed & Breakfast for lodging. They’re just a couple of blocks from us and we can arrange a shuttle. \n[btnsx id=”8353″]\n 
URL:https://spillian.com/event/7929/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170715T130000
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SUMMARY:SpillianFest 2017
DESCRIPTION:SpillianFest 2017\nSpillianFest 2017. Remember the Perfect Summer \nSaturday\, July 15 • 1 to 9 PM\nMusic from Connie Mohar\, The Zydeco Revelators\, and Dylan Doyle & the Delta Gypsys\n• Door tickets: $20/adult • $7.50 child \n• Dinner a la carte from $3 to $5 each item\n• Cash bar\n\nSpillianFest is a glorious celebration of mountain magic\, world class food\, and seriously fine music from artists who catch Spillian’s magic and toss it back out to us. \nThis year\, a Spillian-style Catskills picnic to remember the perfect summer in the mountains\, made of sunburnt noses\, first loves\, and nights of a million fireflies. \nIn those perfect summers of the past\, friendships were stronger\, the food was tastier and the music….ah\, the music was the soundtrack to those days…burned into our heads with a connection that instantlly transports us back to more innocent times\, when a good lyric could pierce our souls and a great riff could thrill us like a kiss. \nOn July 15\, take a day\, come to Spillian and let’s see if we can’t remind you a little of that magic memory we each have in our head… \nCome and delight in the anthems of summer from…\n…the incomparable Connie Mohar as he wanders the crowd with his accordion\, playing your requests\n… the fabulous Zydeco Revelators as they bring their own Cajun magic to old favorites from the bayou and beyond\n…the one-and-only guitar phenom Dylan Doyle & the Delta Gypsys as they bring their superb roots rock & blues hearts to the songs of summer\, live broadcast from Spillian on WIOX Radio courtesy of our sponsoring partner\, Margaretville Telephone Company\, who are donating high speed internet access for the day to ensure a great broadcast. \nDance. Eat great eats\, and wash away your cares! \nSpillianFest 2017 Food\n• The much praised and nearly world-famous Spillian Trout Taco\n• The Spillian Veggie Taco (all that and no trout!)\n• Beer & Onion Grilled Brats with homemade sauerkraut\n• Catskills maple smoked corn on the cob\n• House made smoked mac ’n’ cheese\n• Spillian Angel Wings – our take on a powder sugar dusted fried dough that will satisfy the most demanding sweet tooth and echo the fairs of summer\n• Marshmallows for the bonfire \nSpillianFest 2017 Cash Bar\nFeaturing local beer from  Catskills Brewery:  Ball Lightning Pilsner and Floodwatch IPA\nFeaturing Beringer wines: Pinot Grigio\, Chardonnay\, Pinot Noir\, and Cabernet Sauvignon\nFeaturing Catskills Hurricanes\, with run \nSpillianFest 2017 Schedule\n1 PM: Doors and Bar Open. Instagram #spillianfest!\n1-3 PM Connie Mohar plays your favorite summer tunes on accordian\n2-6 PM SpillianFest Picnic Food Available (Until we run out!)\n3-5 PM The Zydeco Revelators bring their Cajun magic and get the party rocking\n5 PM Lighting the Bonfire\n6-8 PM Dylan Doyle and the Delta Gypsies\, Live Broadcast on WIOX Radio\, 91.3 FM\, streaming worldwide on wioxradio.org. High speed internet access graciously donated by Margaretville Telephone Company.\n8-9 PM Marshmallows for the bonfire and farewells until next year! \nPlease…no outside food or drink\, no drugs\, and no pets. Thank you! \nSpillian’s Meadow\nThree years ago our first SpillianFest introduced the public to “The Meadow\, ” our gorgeous outdoor stage built into the old stone foundation of one of the original Spillian buildings. It was a revelry attended by more than 500 guests. Since then our magical meadow has hosted weddings\, workshops\, and gatherings. This year at the meadow\, we unveil the new Spillian retro camp photo booth for the best Instagram selfies ever. \nINSTASTORM! #spillianfest #spillian #catskills \nTICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE GATE.\nGATE OPENS AT 1 PM SATURDAY\, JULY 15.\nADULTS $20 KIDS $7.50 (15 AND UNDER)\nSEE YOU THERE!\n  \nAnd We Have Rooms Available!\nA rare chance to stay at Spillian without claiming the entire facility for the weekend.\n$159/night for private bath\n$119/night for shared bath\nCall us at 800-811-3351 to make a room reservation in one of our magical guest rooms. Learn more about them here.  \n  \n\n\nAbout Dylan Doyle\n“Dylan Doyle is a great young musician with the soul of an old bluesman.” – John Platania\, Guitarist\, Van Morrison\n \nPhoto © James Rice Photography \n\nSouthern born and Northern bred\, eighteen year old Guitar Slinger Dylan Doyle embodies the best of both old and new music worlds. Steeped in the authentic sounds of blues and Americana — with influences as broad as the Mississippi river\, from Robert Johnson to John Lee Hooker\, from Buddy Guy to Bob Dylan\, The Band\, Bill Withers and Jimi Hendrix\, Dylan’s unique musical interpretation lies somewhere in the intersection of delta Blues\, Rock with just a taste of Funk that is uniquely his own. \nTouring since age 15\, Dylan has performed at the Grateful Garcia Gathering\, at the King Biscuit Blues Festival for the last 4 years\, and\, this year\, is planning his first European tour for early 2017. In short\, Dylan has been preparing all his life to take the stage for his first live CD\, and plant his flag where legendary artists have tread before. \n“There truly must be something in the water in Upstate New York. Dylan joined the group Minstrel (Connor Kennedy\, Lee Falco\, Will Bryant\, and Brandon Moss) and me last September at The Falcon in Marlboro\, NY. He sat in on Little Feat’s “Dixie Chicken” that evening. His playing was flawless and inventive. Live performance is not about only playing a song but being aware of the conversation and flow of those you’re playing with. He spoke beautifully and was listening to what was going on around him.” — Bill Payne\, Little Feat  \n  \nAbout The Zydeco Revelators \n \nZydeco Revelators deliver hot Louisiana-style dance music. Sweet Cajun accordion\, electric guitar and a powerhouse rhythm section\, and that cool metal rub-board vest\, touring the East Coast! Bring yer dancin’ shoes… Featuring Phil Passantino\, accordion/vocals\, Lou Selmi\, drums/vocs\, Keith Vukan\, bass/vocs\, Lawrence Ochs\, guitar/vocs\, and Arieh Bellehsen\, rub-board. \n  \n  \n  \nAbout Connie Mohar \n \nConnie is one of the gems of the Catskills. A Julliard-trained classical clarinetist and jazz sax man\, he has worked with the likes of Charles Mingus and Eddie Shaughnessy. That’s all lovely. But then there’s the accordion…Connie can play pretty much any tune you can dream up and shares it with virtuosity and a twinkle in his eye. He’ll be starting SpillianFest off right this year\, taking requests as he wanders the grounds! \n[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
URL:https://spillian.com/event/spillianfest-2017/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Music
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SUMMARY:Camp Spillian 2017: I Was A Dancer
DESCRIPTION:Camp Spillian 2017: I Was a Dancer\nJune 11- June 16\, 2017\nBy Invitation\nOn Camp Spillian 2017: I Was A Dancer… Each year\, Spillian is making a commitment in the second week of June to offer a special gathering to support creativity and community. At this point in its development\, this is a by-invitation event. The 2017 version is for former and current professional and semi-professional dancers that we know\, and Spillian is donating the facility (the mansion and grounds) so participants will only have to chip in to create meals together. In the future\, we may well opening this annual imaginal exploration up to applications\, but we are finding our way as we experiment with community who are already connected to our vision. \nThis year\, it’s Camp Spillian 2017: I Was a Dancer. \nThis will be a special week for friends old and new who have danced in our lifetimes. Many of us are midlife at this point; some have continued on in dance or other performing arts as a career\, as performers\, educators\, choreographers\, and directors. Others of us have left dance somewhere in our rear view mirror. But\, we believe that if you have been a dancer in your lifetime\, there is a connection to the power and beauty of dance that does not die. \nWe are going to explore that connection\, the yearnings\, the desires\, the joys\, and sorrows involved within the phrase\, “I was a dancer.” We will dance into this idea in conversation\, in movement\, in indoor and outdoor space\, culminating in a Thursday evening sharing in front of an audience of what we’ve discovered about ourselves. \nMORE DETAIL \nCamp Spillian 2017: I Was a Dancer is an event for current or former pro/semi-pro (i.e.\, serious) dancers who have a connection to Spillian. (My background is as a dancer predominantly in modern dance\, and that is what we’ll focus on this week.) \nWhat I’m interested in exploring is what it means to have been a dancer – and where are the spaces and openings that creates in our lives\, whether we are actively dancing now or not. Part of this is a deep yearning that I’ve been having to find a place for dance in my life again\, part of it a realization that I still think of myself as a dancer\, even though I’ve not been dancing in any real way for far too long. I’m fascinated by this\, and think it would be a deeply rewarding process to explore how dance gets into our bodies and our psyches with lasting impact. We will talk\, imagine\, and move. We can individually or as a group build some dances on ourselves\, and I am thinking that we will offer an informal performance on Thursday night\, the last night we are together\, for the community. We may also create a video from this week\, as I am hoping that it will capture some of the essence of Spillian’s work in the world in a special way. \nAlongside this question of what it means to have been/be a dancer\, I am interested in strengthening and reviving old creative relationships as well as building new ones. \nThis will be a workshop experience\, a gathering and creating of a clan – some who danced together years ago\, and some who are landed in the Catskills – to play creatively and lightly\, but with deep focus. As such\, it will only be open to participants until the public performance on Thursday evening. \nSpillian is donating the space for this week\, and participants will pool resources for food. We will have eight rooms available for out-of-town participants to stay onsite – nine beds plus a couple of rollaways. We can comfortably house 12 to 13 people without sharing beds. \nThis is an experiment in creative community building and our donation to that experiment. Spillian is planning to offer an annual version of this week\, an opportunity for cultural creatives to gain access to the site and its energy\, and we will be focusing on a new theme/community each year. The idea was birthed last year when we hosted a gathering of my husband/partner Mark’s clan of theater designers and technicians. It was a profound experience for them – and for us – and we felt that inviting people to come out of their daily lives\, particularly midlife\, to see how they are imagining themselves through memory and ideas about the future\, is something that deeply reflects Spillian’s mission about helping people to imagine past what they think is possible. \nEventually\, we may throw the doors open more widely and invite applications for this as a residency/workshop program\, but as we take these first initial steps\, we are excited to engage with our community and deepen its connections to our work\, our play\, and one another. \nIf you have questions\, please don’t hesitate to ask. \nThanks! \nLeigh Melander\nPartner/Founding Fomenter\, Spillian
URL:https://spillian.com/event/camp-spillian-2017-i-was-a-dancer/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium
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SUMMARY:Free Fire Cider! An Evening Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Free Fire Cider! An Evening Workshop\nJoin us for  Free Fire Cider! An Evening Workshop\, an evening of making one of the most powerful tonics for your immune system that you can create…and be a reveling revolutionary! \nFire Cider is a blend of roots and herbs mixed with apple cider vinegar and honey used for its health-enhancing properties. This particular formula and name was coined by herbalist Rosemary Gladstar in the 1970s. It has been reproduced\, adapted\, used and sold by thousands of herbalists over the past forty years. \nRecently\, a company trademarked the name fire cider\, in spite of the deep traditions of sharing in the herbalist and healing communities. Thursday\, Februayr 2 is FREE FIRE CIDER DAY across the world\, and is also Imbolc\, the celebration of the earliest moments of spring\, beginning deep in the soil. \nSpillian chef and Kitchen Witch Liza Belle Burke (from the Coven of Tree Huggin’) along with local Nurse Practitioner Denine Polen will lead us on an adventure of making our own Fire Cider. You’ll leave with a mason jar full of firey goodness and the glory of fighting to honor tradition over trademark. \nFree Fire Cider! An Evening Workshop\n7 PM\nThursday\, February 2\, 2017\n$5/person for supplies\nPLEASE RSVP Space and supplies are limited!\nCall 800-811-3351 or email us to reserve your space.
URL:https://spillian.com/event/free-fire-cider-evening-workshop/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Workshop
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SUMMARY:A Spillian New Years Eve Revel!
DESCRIPTION:A Spillian New Years Eve Revel!\nThe Spillian New Years Eve Revel 2016 will be a very special New Years Eve celebration\, with a full traditional English feast\, roaring hearths\, champagne\, a dash of Twelfth Night\, wassail\, saying farewell to this crazy year and ushering something new and magical\, creative toasts\, and an initiation\, for those who are interested\, into the League of Spillian Revelers. \nThe League of Spillian Revelers is a new group we’re forming who wants to be a part of Spillian’s extended family – who will think about ways that they can support Spillian’s mission and be in on special events\, like supper club dinners\, private musical events\, and more\, throughout the year. There will be secret decoder rings involved. Seriously. They’re arriving next week.\n \n\nThe evening will mostly be about celebrating the new year and meeting old and new friends\, with a dash of some silliness. You’re invited to come dressed to the nines – or dressed in a costume that either most defines who you are or what you’d most like to be. Your choice! \n\n  \n  \nA Spillian New Years Eve Revel 2016\nIn addition to feasting\, will include… \n\nA Spillian Toast Contest – bring your best toast and we’ll decide the winner. Fame will be yours\, plus a prize!\nThe Spillian Imaginal Treasure Hunt – it’s a secret! Learn more when you arrive.\nWishes for the New Year – bring your best wishes for how we might imagine the world a brighter\, more marvelous place\, and we’ll send them off into the wind together.\nTwelfth Night Cake – find one of the prizes in the cake and be crowned King or Queen of 12th Night\, supported by the Master of Revels and enjoying the mischief of the Lord of Misrule.\n\nSnapdragon – do you have the courage to grab the flaming raisin? An ancient bit of parlor magic that tastes divine.\n\nChestnuts. Roasting. Open fire. Seriously.\nLeague of Spillian Revelers Initiation – choose to join the League and become initiated (and the proud owner of a secret decoder ring to decode secret messages to special events and offers).\n\nThe Details \n\n7 PM – 1 PM (We’ll be doing some of the serious celebration early for those of you who like to celebrate New Year’s arrival somewhat earlier than midnight…and for the diehards\, we’ll be reveling on.)\n\n$50/person for the evening\, including dinner and champagne. Please let us know if you’re vegetarian or vegan so we can ensure we have treats for you to eat!\n\nA cash bar will be open as well\, featuring California wines as well as local spirits and beers.\n\nStay overnight! We still have a couple of rooms available; please let us know if you’d like to stay over after celebrating\nReservations required and advance purchase appreciated.\n\n  \n\nPurchase Your Tickets Online Now!\nJust look to the left on this page and look for the “Tickets” header. Choose how many tickets you’d like to order and click “Add to Cart.” Once you complete your order\, you’ll receive an email with your ticket information. Thank you! \nWe also have a couple of rooms still available if you’d like to stay overnight; please call us at 800-811-3351 for more information.
URL:https://spillian.com/event/spillian-new-years-eve-revel/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dinner,Imaginarium,Revel
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