Best (Mostly Local) November Events for Grown Ups

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Best (Mostly Local) November Events for Grown Ups: Here’s the best of the best what to do’s for November, Carefully curated for townies, culture-vultures, road warriors and do-gooders.

November

Local! Outrageous Ornament: Extreme Jewelry in the 21st Century, Katonah Museum of Art, Sun, 10/21-Sun, 1/27, 2019: This new exhibit at KMA presents provocative work by internationally renowned artists that expand the boundaries, and our understanding, of personal adornment. Pictured here, Yellow Giraffe by Robert Baines, ca 2012, sterling silver, powdercoat, electroplate and paint. (134 Jay St., Rt. 22, Katonah; www.katonahmuseum.org)

Local! Westmoreland Sanctuary Fall Fundraiser, Fri, 11/2: 7pm: Bend an elbow to support the Westmoreland Sanctuary at Westmoreland’s 200-year old church that serves as their nature museum. Westmoreland Sanctuary’s core conservation focus is restoring native plants to our community and forest. These habitat restoration efforts are used in their teachings to nearly 10,000 school children each year. (260, Chestnut Ridge Rd., Mt. Kisco; www.westmorelandsantuary.org)

Local! First Congregational Church of Chappaqua Tag Sale, Fri, 11/2: 10am-7pm, Sat, 11/3: 9am-2pm & Sun, 11/4: 12-2pm: The Church’s annual fall tag sale fundraiser offers new and gently used merchandise from Chappaqua households and local merchants. The Church accepts donations for the Tag Sale from Sun, 10/28- Wed, 10/31. (210 Orchard Ridge Rd., Chappaqua, fccbarnsale@gmail.com; http://www.fcc-chappaqua.org)

Editor’s Choice! NW Dance Project, Performing Arts Center, Fri, 11/2: 8pm: PAC’s 2018-19 dance series kicks off with a performance from dancer and choreographer Sarah Slipper’s NW Dance Project who has premiered over 190 original contemporary dance works. Dance International Magazine called them “a laboratory, factory and repository for risk-taking new works from the next generation of choreographers from Europe and North America.” (735 Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase; www.artscenter.org)

Local! Senescence, Axial Theatre Pleasantville, Fri-Sun, 11/2-18: check times: The Axial Theatre celebrates its 20th season with a new play from Axial founder Howard Meyer. The play tells the tale of three childhood friends from the toxic oil refinery town of Linden, NJ. Meyer’s most recent work, Paint Made Flesh, just completed a run at The Cell in Manhattan; it was a semi-finalist at the 2015 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. (St. John’s Episcopal Church, 8 Sunnyside Ave., Pleasantville; www.axialtheatre.org)

Local! German Pastry Alert! Ars-Antiqua Chamber Orchestra, Sebastian in Thuringer Wald: Young Bach at the Wellspring of Genius, Ars-Antiqua Chamber Orchestra, Chappaqua, Sat, 11/3: 8pm: Heather Johnson (Mezzo-soprano) joins Mark Kramer and his Ars Antiqua Chamber Orchestra in this rare opportunity to hear Bach in an entirely adventurous and new context. Kramer’s orchestra performs on period instruments and Black Forest Cake and German pastries from Susan Lawrence Gourmet Foods follows the recital. (St. Mary the Virgin Church, 191 S. Greeley Ave., Chappaqua: www.ars-antiqua.org)

Local! Northern Westchester Hospital Annual Benefit, Sat, 11/3: 6:30pm: Enjoy cocktails, dinner & dancing at this annual fundraiser. This event will honor Community Honoree Ellen and Kamran Hakim and Nancy Karch and Physician Honorees Adina Keller, MD and Jeff Keller, MD. (Location TBA; www.nwhconnect.org)

Closest Big Time Crafts Fair! CraftWestport – Sat-Sun, 11/3-4: 10am-5pm, 6pm on Sat: CraftWesport (from ArtRider, producers of Crafts at Lyndhurst) is the longest running indoor crafts festival in CT. It features 175 vendors displaying a variety of media: clay, glass, painting, drawing, printmaking, mixed media, furniture, metal jewelry, wearable art and specialty foods. (70 North Ave., Westport; www.artrider.com)

Local! Sondheim Unplugged, Arc Stages Pleasantville: Sat, 11/3: 8pm: This Broadway World and Bistro Award-winning show from Feinstein’s 54 Below delves into the world of Broadway’s master composer. Accompanied by piano only, Broadway stars Jacob Hoffman (Geva’s Hair), Brian Charles Rooney (The Threepenny Opera), Marta Sanders (Best Little Whorehouse in Texas), Lucia Spina (Kinky Boots) and special guests Sally Mayes (Tony nominee, Gypsy) and Sarah Rice (Sweeney Todd) sing from A Little Night Music, Company, Into the Woods, Follies, Passion, Dick Tracy and more. (147 Wheeler Ave., Pleasantville; www.arcstages.org)

Closest Canoe Trip on the Bronx River! Fall Forest Weekend, New York Botanical Garden, Sat-Sun, 11/3-4 & 11/10-11: See the best fall foliage with a guided hike through the Thain Family Forest at New York Botanical Garden. There will be Shakespeare in the forest from Hamlet Isn’t Dead, birds of prey demonstrations, fiddle music from the Blue Ridge mountains and canoe rides on the Bronx River. (2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx www.nybg.org)

Local! Bedford Chamber Concerts, Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Wed, 11/7: 8pm: Dr. Anthony Newman’s Bedford Chamber Concerts perform Beethoven’s The Ghost, Mozart’s Sonata in D for piano 4 hands, Haydn’s Harpsichord Concerto in D major and Highlights from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker. Dr. Newman was described by Time magazine as “The High Priest of the Harpsichord”. Wynton Marsalis called him “The High Priest of Bach.” Just $40 to see this world renowned musician. (St. Matthews Episcopal Church, 382 Cantitoe St., Bedford; www.bedfordchamberconcerts.org)

Local! Lo-Hud Comedy, Robert Klein, Schoolhouse Theater, Fri, 11/9: 8pm: See Robert Klein in the intimate 99 seat Schoolhouse Theater. Klein, a comedy legend is ranked No. 27 on Rolling Stone’s Top Comedians of All Time. Klein was tapped for the first one-hour HBO Comedy Special in 1975. It still ranks as Rolling Stone’s NO. 10 comedy special HBO Special or movie of all-time. (3 Owens Rd., N. Salem;www.schoolhousetheater.org)

Local! Raven Rocks 10K Run, Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, Cross River, Sun, 11/11: 9am: The Raven Rocks 10k Run starts in the meadow, same spot as the Leatherman’s Loop, at Ward Pound Ridge Reservation in Cross River. The 10k course climbs up to the two highest points in the park (Raven Rocks Overlook and the Fire Tower Summit) before heading back for a downhill and flat finish. The race supports the Reservation’s Trailside Museum in it’s efforts to bring back the Blue Trail tower to its former spot in the park. (Reservation Rd., Cross River; www.ravensrockrun.org)

Local! Omer Quartet, Caramoor, Sun, 11/11: 3pm: Caramoor’s 2018-19 Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-In-Residence performs works by Haydn, Debussy, Beethoven and Chris Rogerson in their first concert in the Rosen House. Omer was a top prize winner at the 2017 Young Concert Artist International Auditions and the Premio Paolo Borciani Competition in Italy. (149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah: www.caramoor.org)

Local! Dmitri Levkovich, Studies in Virtuosity, South Salem, Sun, 11/11: 4pm: Pianist Dmitri Levkovich returns to South Salem to open the Sanctuary Series 2018-19 season. The program includes Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, Beethoven’s Pathetique (only the hits) Liszt-Horowitz’s Hungarian Rhapsody No.2,Anthony Newman’s Poco Adagio and Twelve Etudes from Frederic Chopin. Levkovich has performed on the world’s biggest stages including Carnegie Hall and Beijing’s National Center. (S. Salem Presbyterian Church, 111 Spring St., S. Salem; www.thesanctuaryseries.org)

Local! Dar Williams, Chappaqua Performing Arts Center, Sat, 11/17: 8pm: Folk rock singer, Dar Williams returns to her native Chappaqua for a hometown reunion concert at ChappPac. Hendrick Hertzberg of The New Yorker called Williams “one ov America’s very best singer-songwriters.” A frequent festival performer, Williams has toured with Mary Chapin Carpenter, Joan Baez, Ani DiFranco and Shawn Colvin. In 1998 she joined Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky to tour for their album Cry, Cry, Cry, an album of folk covers. (480 Bedford Rock Rd., Chappaqua; www.chappaquapac.org)

Local! Chappaqua Craft & Gift Fair, Bell Middle School – Sat, 11/17: 10am-4pm: 33rd annual craft fair featuring over 85 vendors presenting handcrafted jewelry, designer clothing, handbags and accessories, original artwork, tableware, furniture, bath & beauty products, children’s gifts, floral designs, gourmet foods and more. This event produced by the Bell Middle School PTA benefits the Bell Middle School. (50 Senter St., Chappaqua; www.chappaquacraftfair.com)

Editor’s Choice! Bar Car Nights at The Holiday Train Show, New York Botanical Garden’s Train Show: Sat, 11/17 & Fri-Sat, 11/23-12/8, 12/21-29: Get at after dark viewing of NYBG’s spectacular holiday train show at these adults only nights. There’s fire pits, ice sculpting and music outside; signature cocktails and food. Plus NYBG’s Holiday Train Show in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory features more than a dozen large scale model train sets zipping across a quarter mile of track and a landscape of 140 scaled replicas of iconic New York City buildings made of bark, twigs, fruit, seeds and pine cones. (2900 Southern Blvd. Bronx; www.nybg.org)

Local! Westchester Oratorio Society, Mostly Bach, S. Salem; Sat, 11/17: 7:30pm: The Westchester Oratorio Society’s, conducted by WOS Artistic Director Benjamin Niemczyk, fall concert features three Cantatas and a Motet by JS Bach and Brahms’s Geistliches Lied. Niemczyk has performed with Anthony Newman, Hélène Grimaud and Ennio Morricone at Radio City Music Hall (S. Salem Presbyterian Church, 111 Spring St., S. Salem; www.westchesteroratorio.org)

Local! 4th Annual Chappaqua Cares Empty Bowls, Crabtree’s Kittle House, Sun, 11/18: 5-8pm: This event from Chappaqua Cares is a benefit to help raise awareness and funds to combat hunger. Each year they auction off bowls created by local students and celebrities. In past year’s they have auctioned off hand-painted bowls from Hillary Clinton, Bette Midler, Warren Haynes of Govt Mule and others. (11 Kittle Rd, Chappaqua;www.chappaquacares.org)

Closest Balloon Parade! UBS Parade Spectacular, Downtown Stamford, Sun, 11/18: 12pm: Skip the Macy’s Day Parade and stay local with one of the largest helium balloon parades in the country. When we were there we saw the Pink Panther, Popeye, Underdog (our fave), Nemo, Mighty Mouse, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Miss Piggy, Spiderman and Kermit the Frog. Plus marching bands, floats and street food. Or check out the Giant Balloon Inflation Party with live entertainment, holiday characters and Santa on Sat, 11/17: 3-6pm at Hoyt and Summer St. (Stamford Downtown)

Local! Hedgehog, Bedford Playhouse Live, Sun, 11/18: 12pm: A concert reading of a new drama by Frank Petrilli. The play is set in 1943, while the Wermacht wages war on three fronts, a pampered film crew is on-location at a luxurious Baltic Sea resort charged by the Nazi regime with completing a motion picture to rival Casablanca, as their headstrong director declares his own war-of-wills with the powers-that-be in Berlin. (633 Old Post Rd, Bedford; www.befordplayhouse.org)

Local! Bedford Turkey Trot, Sat, 11/24: 9am: Billed as “the hardest 5K in New York”, the Turkey Trot raises funds for Bedford Community Table. The course begins on Court Road at the Bedford Village Elementary School. The halfway point is at the top of Indian Hill Road – not for the faint of heart – and finishes at Bedford Village Memorial Park. There is also a 2-mile walk. Pre-registration required. 7am for sign-in. Walkers start at 8am, runners at 8:20 am. (Bedford Village Elementary School, Court St., Bedford; www.bedfordturkeytrot.org)

Local! The 1940’s Radio Hour, Arc Stages Pleasantville: Fri-Sun: 11/30-12/2: Arc’s Community Stage presents this holiday play with music by Walton Jones portraying the final holiday broadcast of the Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade on a New York radio station in December 1942 from the Hotel Astor’s Algonquin Room. The play in it’s radio show format music, dancing and radio commercials from the era including 40’s hits “Strike Up the Band” and “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” (147 Wheeler Ave., Pleasantville; www.arcstages.org)

Local! The Foreigner, The Armonk Players, Fri, 11/30-Sun, 12/8: check times: Pia Haas directs this comic romp from Larry Shue. The Foreigner is set in a fishing lodge in rural Georgia and tells the story of a pathologically shy British man named Charlie who pretends that he can’t speak English in order to avoid making conversation with strangers – specifically the other guests at a fishing lodge in rural Georgia. When the other guests begin to air their secrets around things go uproariously awry for the “bad guys”, and the “good guys” emerge triumphant. (Whippoorwill Hall, North Castle Public Library, 19 Whippoorwill Rd., East, Armonk; www.armonkplayers.org)

December

Local! What Fresh Hell Live! ChappPac: Sat, 12/1: 8pm: Comedians Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson bring their hit parenting podcast What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood to a live audience. Ables and Wilson combine their twenty-year friendship, their comic sensibilities and their usually completely opposite approaches to parenting, for a ‘Mom’s Night Out’ full of games, laughs, and maybe even a little parenting advice. (480 Bedford Road, Chappaqua; www.chappaquapac.org)

Editors Choice! Ceclie McLorin Salvant and Sullivan Fortner, Caramoor, Sat, 12/1: 8pm:Jazz vocalist and Grammy-winner Cécile McLorin Salvant and pianist Sullivan Fortner return to Caramoor for this special Benefit Concert. NPR Music hailed this jazz voice/piano duo for their “distinct chemistry between two rising stars of their instruments: pianist Sullivan Fortner and singer Cécile McLorin Salvant.” — NPR Music (149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah: www.caramoor.org)

Local! Always at The Carlyle, “Bemelmans in Bedford”, Bedford Playhouse, Thurs,12/6: 6:30-9:30pm: A special evening of live entertainment, a “Bemelmans in Bedford” cocktail party and a screening of Always at the Carlyle with a Q&A with Director Matthew Miele. Celebrities from George Clooney to Angelica Huston dish on the storied scene at the upper east side’s Carlyle Hotel in this documentary. (633 Old Post Rd, Bedford; www.befordplayhouse.org)

Local! Four Seasons Alert! Bedford Chamber Concerts, Vivaldi, Wed, 12/12: 8pm: Dr. Anthony Newman’s Bedford Chamber Concerts perform Vivaldi’s Double Concerto, Triple Concerto and The Four Seasons. Dr. Newman was described by Time magazine as “The High Priest of the Harpsichord”. Wynton Marsalis called him “The High Priest of Bach.” Just $40 to see this world-renowned musician. (St. Matthews Episcopal Church, 382 Cantitoe St., Bedford; www.bedfordchamberconcerts.org)