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Kingston Community Block Party this Sunday

by Frances Marion Platt
February 15, 2017
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 A girl in tiger face paint enjoys a hot dog at the Reher Center’s Kingston Community Block Party last year. (photo by Andrea Barrist Stern)
A girl in tiger face paint enjoys a hot dog at the Reher Center’s Kingston Community Block Party last year. (photo by Andrea Barrist Stern)

Though a relatively new addition to the rich cultural cauldron of Kingston’s Rondout Historic District, the Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History is making its presence felt by sponsoring a series of informal public celebrations that emphasize the city’s multiethnic roots. Billed as “the only event of its type between New York City and Albany,” the family-friendly Kingston Community Block Party will have its second annual outing this Sunday, June 8 from 12 noon to 4 p.m. at T. R. Gallo West Strand Park on the Rondout waterfront.

The Block Party will feature live ethnic music, dance and comedy, along with multicultural handicrafts, children’s activities, food and drinks. “All-American” street-fair fare like hamburgers and hot dogs will be available along with the more exotic noshes, with kosher options as well.

The live entertainment will include such diverse offerings as the African drumming of Amadou Diallo, Klezmer and Balkan music from Caprice Rouge, Latin guitar stylings from Eduardo Parra, German music and dance by Germania Almrausch Schuhplattler Verein and the Kingston Maennerchor and Damenchor, more ethnic dance from the Hellenic Youth Dance Troupe, Kerhonkson Ukrainian Dancers and Irish Set Dancers, bagpipe music by Richmond Johnston and a performance by the Native American troupe Spirit of Thunderheart.

Children’s activities will include arts and crafts, face-painting, games, singing and storytelling. Festival attendees will also have an opportunity to take a “diversity pledge,” honoring the dignity of all people, regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, heritage and other human and societal differences. Children and adults who take the pledge will receive a free silicone wristband that says “Celebrate Diversity.”

Festival seating is informal, so please bring blankets or folding chairs, says Reher Center chairman Geoff Miller. “That day we will all come together to celebrate the many distinct cultural traditions in our community in one place, at one time.”

Admission is free. In the event of rain, the Block Party will be held indoors at the Andy Murphy Midtown Neighborhood Center, on Broadway at the corner of Hoffman Street in Midtown Kingston. For more information, call (845) 338-8131 or visit www.rehercenter.org or the ReherBakery page on Facebook.

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Frances Marion Platt

Frances Marion Platt has been a feature writer (and copyeditor) for Ulster Publishing since 1994, under both her own name and the nom de plume Zhemyna Jurate. Her reporting beats include Gardiner and Rosendale, the arts and a bit of local history. In 2011 she took up Syd M’s mantle as film reviewer for Alm@nac Weekly, and she hopes to return to doing more of that as HV1 recovers from the shock of COVID-19. A Queens native, Platt moved to New Paltz in 1971 to earn a BA in English and minor in Linguistics at SUNY. Her first writing/editing gig was with the Ulster County Artist magazine. In the 1980s she was assistant editor of The Independent Film and Video Monthly for five years, attended Heartwood Owner/Builder School, designed and built a timberframe house in Gardiner. Her son Evan Pallor was born in 1995. Alternating with her journalism career, she spent many years doing development work – mainly grantwriting – for a variety of not-for-profit organizations, including six years at Scenic Hudson. She currently lives in Kingston.

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