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Painting & Drawing (ages 6-9)
$185.00Painting & Drawing (ages 6-9)Lauren Ferraro $185Learn MoreStudents are introduced to a variety of art materials and techniques suited to their age and experience. Principles of color, line, form and composition will be taught, as well as the use of charcoal, tempera, watercolor paints and mixed media. Creativity will be emphasized in a relaxed informal atmosphere. Materials included.
Registration for this class begins Fri. August 7 at 10:00am.
F49 8 sessions starting Mon., Sep. 14 4:30-5:30pm - New
The Burning of New York
$0.00The Burning of New York
The Burning of New York is a two-act drama based on the true story of The Great Conspiracy of 1741. Over several days in the spring of that year, a series of mysterious fires swept through lower Manhattan, creating panic throughout the City. After a brief trial in Westchester County, dozens were found guilty of an alleged slave revolt, resulting in a mass lynching of 30 individuals on Wall Street.A play reading by Shades Repertory Theater, written and directed by Samuel Harps. In partnership with The Gordon Center for Black Culture and Arts.Friday, October 2 at 7:30pm
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Creativity Talk: How to Activate Your Courage to Create the Future You Want to Experience Now
$0.00Learn MoreCreativity Talk: How to Activate Your Courage to Create
the Future You Want to Experience Now
with Naomi VladeckThursday, September 24: 7:00-8:30pm
Free of charge, registration required.In this playful, relatable interactive talk, Naomi will help us explore the forces that keep us stuck and introduce three tiny practices to stimulate our courage to create from the future that wants to emerge.
Based on Naomi’s award-winning book, Braving Creativity, Artists Who Turn the Scary, Thrilling, Messy Path of Change into Courageous Transformation.
Come willing to engage in conversation, connect with other artists in the room, and deepen your exploration of what’s calling you forward!
Designed for artists ready to create what’s next. www.creativitymatterscoaching.com
Naomi Vladeck is a speaker, transformational life coach for artists, and the award-winning author of Braving Creativity, Artists Who Turn the Scary, Thrilling, Messy Path of Change into Courageous Transformation. She is a certified creativity & life coach with a Master's in Performance Studies from NYU. As a lifelong non-profit professional and founder, Naomi has spent over 25 years championing independent artists. Her coaching practice, Creativity Matters Coaching, provides individual coaching, group programs, speaking and thought partnership to nonprofit leaders ready to activate their courage to create the future they want to experience. - New
Unwelcome Guests - Immersive Dance
$25.00Unwelcome Guests
An Immersive Dance Performance by Emotions Physical Theatre
Saturday, June 13, 2026 at 7:00pm
Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 7:00pm
Tickets: $25 adults/$20 students and seniorsIn Unwelcome Guests, choreographer Shawn Rawls cracks open the emotional core of growing up as the dark-skinned stepchild in a light-skinned family. Using contemporary dance, physical theatre, and storytelling grounded in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Rawls explores the parts of ourselves we've been told to silence.
Each dancer embodies a "part" of the same person—The Protector, The Exile, The Performer—revealing what it means to survive, to split, and to heal.
Rooted in the psychology of double consciousness and Afro-surrealism, this show is raw, intimate, and urgent. It's not just a performance—it's a reckoning.
This events is in partnership with The Gordon Center for Black Culture and Arts.
What is Emotions Physical Theatre?
Emotions Physical Theatre (EPT) presents a multifaceted approach to live performances, integrating diverse artistic disciplines such as music, visual arts, dance, and theater to construct a unified narrative-driven milieu. Drawing from one of three primary foundations—circus, contemporary dance (or dance theater), and noh—the genre embodies a synthesis of movement, emotion, and narrative exploration. At EPT, our framework predominantly aligns with dance theater. A defining characteristic of physical theatre is its active engagement with the audience, often achieved through techniques like breaking the fourth wall, immersive experiences, interactive elements, or collaborative ventures, thereby fostering an immersive and indelible theatrical encounter.
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Solidifying Our Legacy: A Community Poetry Reading
$0.00Solidifying Our Legacy:
A Community Poetry Reading
February 21st 7:30-9:00pm
(By Suggested Donation)In Celebration of African-American History Month, 2026, Rockland Center for the Arts, The Gordon Center for Black Culture and Arts, and Shades Repertory Theater will bring together some of Rockland County’s most distinguished community leaders and actors to read poems and prose by our most historically notable Black literary artists of the past century. Included in the evening will be poems by the first published Black Poet Phyllis Wheatley (1773) to Amanda Gorman (2017). With literary works by WEB DuBois, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Bennett, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker among others.
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Veronica Agard Barbara Cepeda Reverend
Everett NewtonBarbara Williams Sekou Carradine L’Tanya Watkins Freeman Liscomb Michelle Fuller Willie Trotman -
OWN YOUR ARTISTRY
$0.00OWN YOUR ARTISTRYSaturday, January 24, 11:00am–12:30pmFree of charge, reservations are required.How to turn creative fuel into empowered choices toward sustainable growthLearn MoreIn this 90-minute interactive masterclass, Naomi introduces the first module of her OWN. MAKE. TAKE. framework — a process designed to help artists embody the confidence they need to elevate their visibility, generate aligned opportunities and ask for what you're worth.
Through a series of reflective prompts, you’ll:
- Identify inner obstacles that keep you from making choices that you long to make.
- Reconnect with the aliveness that fuels your desire to take your work to the next level.
- Empower yourself with language that reflects what you value and why it matters that you stand for what matters most to you now.
You’ll leave with a renewed sense of clarity and confidence to brave next steps toward a sustainable creative life.
This masterclass is for artists who are craving more visibility, bigger opportunities, and greater confidence in putting your work into the world at another level.
Naomi Vladeck is a speaker, life and creativity coach and award-winning author.
She has 25+ years of experience as an artist champion, non-profit founder and executive, and solopreneur, specializing in delivering practices and strategies to artists that ignite their courage to make choices that feel alive.Her award-winning book Braving Creativity offers a framework for navigating change as a creative pathway to discover exciting new ideas and possibilities.
Naomi delivers keynotes, workshops, and summits that spark courage, clarity, and connection.
She shows audiences how to experience fear as an invitation to make choices that feel alive.
You can learn more about Naomi at www.creativitymatterscoaching.com
Speaker | Author | Transformational Coach for Women Creators
Join my Author Community ( https://www.creativitymatterscoaching.com/bookrelease )
Follow me on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/naomi-vladeck/)
Follow me on Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/creativitymatterscoaching/ )Registration is required.
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Calling All Talented Teen Musicians! 2-3 songs or 10 minutes per performance. Free to the General Public.
$0.00Teen Open Mic Night
Saturday, February 7 - 7:00pm
Calling All Talented Teen Musicians!
2-3 songs or 10 minutes per performance.
Free to the General Public.
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2 Weeks of Camp 2026
$0.00Sibling discount:
$40 discount per child in the same family per two week session. Checkbox below.
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Autumn Art Party
$100.00Autumn Art PartyLearn MoreA RoCA FundraiserSaturday, September 26, 2026, 6:30–9:00pmTickets: $100 per person
(students, seniors & members $75)Includes hors d’oeuvres, wine & beerFestive attireJoin us for an exciting evening of art & music with a special performance by Jeremy Wall, founding member of Spyro Gyra and pianist/Grammy nominated composer. The event will feature a silent auction of contemporary art and distinctive experiences.Honoring Peter Artin, Samuel Harps & Marlene Krumm-SandersProceeds from the event benefit RoCA’s acclaimed exhibitions, studio classes and cultural programs.About Our Honorees
Peter Artin
Born in 1961 at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. His father was a jazz musician, photographer and English professor, and his mother is an artist of many disciplines. He grew up in the areas surrounding Philadelphia, Knoxville, Tennessee, and Rockland County, New York. He attended The Cooper Union and The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, where he got his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with concentrations in Video, Sculpture, and Dance. He has been an art handler for the last 25 years, installing shows at RoCA as well as other Rockland and NYC institutions and private residences. He has worked with many artists, helping them realize their projects, including 10 years at the Residency Program at the Vytlacil Campus of the Art Students League of New York. Peter has 2 sons and a stepson, a daughter-in-law, and 2 granddaughters.
Samuel Harps
Playwright/Artistic Director Samuel interned at New York’s New Dramatist, studying with playwrights August Wilson and Charles Oyamo Gordon. He was later accepted as a member of the prestigious Negro Ensemble Company. Samuel’s first major production, Don’t Explain, was staged at the Nuyorican Poet’s Café in New York. The explosive drama received rave reviews and seven AUDELCO Awards, including best play and playwright. Samuel also received the Arts Council of Rockland County Executive Award for Literary Artist.
Marlene Krumm-Sanders
Marlene has been a ceramic artist for over twenty years. She achieved her BFA from Parsons School of Design / The New School in NYC and studied in Paris, France. She worked as a commercial illustrator for several years before switching to clay in 2003. Predominantly a self-taught ceramic artist, Marlene set up her own ceramic studio in Piermont NY, where she lives and works. She developed her own language of abstract forms that play with space, light, and surface texture. Continual exploration and experimentation have been her focus as a sculptural ceramic artist, producing contemporary clay sculptures that have a home in many venues throughout the Hudson Valley. Marlene has exhibited in LA, NYC, Boston and has been featured at Intersect Chicago.
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Album Release Party: "Sold For Parts" by Used Karmas
$0.00Album Release Party:
Sold For Parts by Used Karmas
Saturday, June 21 at 7:00pm
Tickets: $20 suggested tax-deductible donation
Rockland Center for the Arts (RoCA) will be hosting an album release party for the Rockland-based indie band, USED KARMAS, on Saturday, June 21, 2025, at 7:00pm.
The event will be a fundraiser for RoCA and a $20 donation is suggested to help RoCA continue its 75-year-old mission to be an essential arts destination in Rockland County.
USED KARMAS is a collaboration between James Farkas (guitars and vocals), Jeffrey Yager (drums and vocals), Steve Weissberg (guitars and vocals), and Gary Graifman (bass, guitar, keyboards and vocals) who record and perform original songs driven by an eclectic mix of influences, from rock, blues, and alt-pop, but with a distinctive sound. USED KARMAS’ new album, SOLD FOR PARTS, is now out on CD and streamers. This is USED KARMAS' second album.
RoCA hopes to see all local music fans at the release party. Aside from great music and a worthy cause to support a snack and drink will be included with your $20 donation. So, come and meet us there!
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