Events | Hudson Winterwalk

Saturday December 7 marked the 17^th Winterwalk; this annual event, produced and organized by the Hudson Opera House, presented several public arts events. All the events were free and engaged the local community along Warren Street\ —\one on the main antique centers in the USA. Winterwalk events run from 5-8pm on the first Saturday of December and include several street art performances, from mines to fire eaters; icons of the Christmas celebration, such as reindeer and alpacas, also make an appearance in the street. The evening ends with firework on the Hudson river background.

Aerial silks with Robin Lynch at the Hudson Opera House

 Memories from the 2007 Winterwalk

Events | Hudson, Winterwalk

Winter has arrived, so is the annual Winterwalk in Hudson (NY).

The town becomes a gigantic art installation with horses, puppets and dancers in the windows of the many original antiques stores. The crowds brave the usually bitterly cold weather until the end of the event, celebrated with fireworks with the Hudson river in the background.

Places | Hudson, Winterwalk

Another winter and another winter celebration in Hudson, one of my favorite places in this side of the planet. Winterwalk, the annual winter celebration organized by the Hudson Opera House, populates Warren Street with mimes, acrobats on stilts, surreal windows and grand finale with fireworks.

Although I usually experience Winterwalk as a spectator, in 2007 I greatly enjoyed it as a participant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBHOow2Iyzk

This winter the tone of the celebration was not as festive and energetic as in the past years ---the weather combined with the economy? But yet Winterwalk is always a wonderful way to win the winter blues before the holidays consumistic madness, in a small city where diversity is very much part of the community.