Cultural Organizations Directory
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Performing Arts
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Actors Conservatory Theatre
Category: Performing Arts
The Actors Conservatory Theatre is a non-profit company located at 20 Buckingham Road in Yonkers (just off Lockwood Avenue). Founded in 1975, ACT stages comedies, musicals and dramas each season. Professional directors, choreographers, musical directors, lighting, sound and scenic designers and stage managers create the critically acclaimed productions each season. ACT awards college scholarships, trains young ...
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Antonia Arts, Inc
Category: Performing Arts, Schools
Antonia Arts and The Antonia Arts Academy, is a not for profit organization offers, events/ workshops, and classes for the creative and performing arts. Open mic events and staged readings offer an opportunity for the artists to try out their new works. Antonia Arts welcomes new voices, new works, and new audiences.
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Artemis Chamber Ensemble
Category: Performing Arts, Music
Since its inception, the Artemis Chamber Ensemble has established a reputation in Westchester’s performing arts community for its talented musicians, unique flexible structure, creative programming, and dedication to outreach. The ensemble can form a chamber orchestra, string quartet, woodwind quintet, brass quintet, and myriad of other combinations, which allows for infinite program options. Artemi Chamber ...
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Axial Theatre
Category: Performing Arts
Axial Theatre’s mission is to create and produce professional relevant, original plays in collaboration and to cultivate theatre artists through year round educational programming. We are committed to involving our audiences in the process of play development and accomplish this by presenting new works in the form of staged readings, workshop performances, and fully mounted ...
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Bendheim Performing Arts Center (JCC of Mid Westchester)
Category: Performing Arts, Music, Film
The Bendheim Performing Arts Center with its luxurious theatrical setting and remarkably affordable tickets, presents quality entertainment followed by lively discourse and intimate receptions with celebrities. With a star-studded line-up, the Bendheim offers a wide array of events including stand-up comedy, film, play readings, music, dance, theatre and children’s programming. Located at the JCC, this ...
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Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
Category: Arts Centers, Historic Sites, Performing Arts, Music
Mission Statement ~ Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts–a unique Westchester County setting of Italianate architecture and gardens–enriches the lives of its audiences through innovative and diverse musical performances of the highest quality, mentors young professional musicians, and engages young children through interactive, educational experiences that deepen their relationship to and understanding of music. Description ...
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The Chappaqua Orchestra
Category: Performing Arts, Music
The Chappaqua Orchestra is dedicated to producing high quality music in Northern Westchester, promoting local musicianship, and creating music lovers in the next generation through its four full orchestral concerts and four chamber events annually.
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Charis Chamber Voices
Category: Performing Arts, Music
Charis is a unique vocal ensemble of 25-30 auditioned, amateur singers directed by well-known New York soprano Susanne Peck. Taking its name from the Greek word for grace, Chareis (“kah-ris) is known for fluid singing, exceptional musicianship, and warmth of sound. Based in Katonah, the group has attracted some of the finest amateur voices around ...
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Collegium Westchester
Category: Performing Arts, Music
Collegium Westchester presents 2 or 3 concerts per year of orchestral, choral, and chamber music from about 1700 to the present. The orchestra and chorus are made up of a balance of professional and accomplished amateur musicians from Westchester and surrounding areas. Concerts take place at a convenient location, allowing easy access from all over ...
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Concordia Conservatory of Music & Art
Category: Arts Centers, Performing Arts, Music
The Conservatory\’s mission is to inspire, instruct, and enrich lives through music and visual art; offering excellence in education, performance, and exhibition.
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Copland House
Category: Historic Sites, Performing Arts, Schools, Music
Copland House is a unique creative center for American music based at Aaron Copland’s restored, longtime home. A National Historic Landmark and an Official Project of the White House “Save America’s Treasures” program, Copland House is the only composer’s home in the United States devoted to nurturing and renewing America’s vibrant musical heritage through ...
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Croton Council on the Arts
Category: Arts Centers, Performing Arts, Music, Arts Councils, Literary Arts
Croton Council on the Arts is a non-profit group of Croton artists and residents supporting the arts in all their diverse forms. We sponsor and promote events featuring local and visiting artists and serve as a springboard for new artists and groups nurturing an appreciation of the arts and a better quality of life in ...
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Downtown Music at Grace
Category: Performing Arts, Music
Downtown Music at Grace was founded in 1988 by Timothy Lewis, Director of Music and Organist of Grace Church in heart of White Plains. Downtown Music delights audiences with its beautiful setting and professional weekday and weekend performances consisting of a wide spectrum of musical genres from classical to ethnic music. The mission of Downtown ...
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Eastchester Arts Council
Category: Arts Centers, Historic Sites, Museums, Performing Arts, Music, Arts Councils, Cultural Centers, Literary Arts, Galleries, Libraries
The Eastchester Arts Council presents classical music & Jazz concerts, Annual Summer Band Concerts, choral music, children’s and family programs, visual arts exhibitions, opera performances, informative lectures, book discussions, and various other cultural arts programs. The Eastchester Arts Council was founded in 1994 as a nonprofit organization with the mission to encourage, foster and promote ...
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Emelin Theatre
Category: Performing Arts, Music, Film
The Emelin offers a wide variety of programming, including film, theatre, family programming and many diverse music series such as bluegrass, cabaret, blues, rock, pop, folk, world music and more! Located in Mamaroneck, New York, and founded in 1972, the Emelin is the oldest continuously operating performing arts theater in Westchester County. Its mission is to ...
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Evolve Dance Inc.
Category: Performing Arts
Evolve Dance Inc. is a Westchester-based professional dance company formed in 2006 with the mission of contributing to the art form of dance as a medium for creative growth and exchange. Professional Development. We provide professionals with opportunities to explore the art form. Creative Outreach. Through concert performances and open house presentations, we strive to introduce ...
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Faculty Student Association of Westchester Community College
Category: Arts Centers, Performing Arts, Schools, Music
Smart Arts at Westchester Community College brings unique and intimate artistic performances by exciting, world-class performers in a stimulating college environment. It is first-rate, affordable, conveniently located with ample free parking and ticket discounts for children, students, and seniors. Multi-faceted cultural programming is provided for a broad and diverse experience, based on different performing arts ...
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Fine Arts Orchestral Society of Yonkers
Category: Performing Arts, Music
The Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Conductor James Sadewhite, presents four symphonic concerts annually. The concerts are held at Saunders Trade and Technical High School on Palmer Rd. in Yonkers on Sunday afternoons: three featuring well known soloists and one featuring winners of our annual Concerto Competition. Additional free concerts have been held ...
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First Unitarian Society of Westchester
Category: Performing Arts, Music
Common Ground Coffeehouse, a monthly music series held at the First Unitarian Society of Westchester, brings folk, jazz, popular song and other genres to an intimate venue in lower Westchester. Artists appearing have included Jen Chapin, Red Molly, Terrence Martin, The Kennedys, Bokandeye African-American Dance Theater, Electric Junkyard Gamelan, Gotham City Improv, and many more. ...
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Fort Hill Players, Inc.
Category: Performing Arts
Your ticket to great theater in White Plains. Four productions a year. Main stage performances at the Rochambeau School Theater in October and March. Up and coming actors and directors mount a variety of scenes for “From the Wings” studio productions in January. Theater “al fresco,” for the young at heart, in White Plains ...
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Friends of Music Concerts, Inc.
Category: Performing Arts, Music
In an annual six-concert season, Friends of Music Concerts presents both world renowned ensembles and distinguished younger artists who demonstrate the wide range and diversity of chamber music today. Concerts are on selected Saturday evenings in the beautiful new auditorium of Sleepy Hollow High School, Sleepy Hollow, NY, starting at 8 pm. Seats are general ...
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Friends of the Westchester Band
Category: Performing Arts, Music
The Westchester Band is a semi-professional and advocational performing concert band. It serves as an educational experience for our younger players. This season consists of seven concerts weekly in the summers. The Westchester Band is run under a non-profit organization “Friends of the Westchester Band”. Check out the 7 performances in Chase Park in Scarsdale Village ...
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Golden Apple Chorus
Category: Performing Arts, Music
A Westchester-based, women’s a-cappella singing group, performing the unique American art form of barbershop style 4-part harmony. We are a chapter of Sweet Adelines International and belong to Greater New York Region 15, with whom we compete annually. While establishing wonderful friendships through music, this diverse group of women singers are dedicated ...
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Greenville Community Theater
Category: Performing Arts
Greenville Community Theater is an educational and cultural organization devoted to the stimulation, encouragement and appreciation of theater arts. We produce major plays and workshops giving members the opportunity to participate in all aspects of the theater, both in front of and behind the curtain.
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Hamm & Clov Stage Company
Category: Performing Arts
Hamm & Clov Stage Company (named for two characters in Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame”) is a non-profit organization established in 1972 and incorporated in New York in 1973 for the development, production, and exchange of theatrical works by playwrights, musicians, dancers, and media artists from around the world. Hamm & Clov was a charter member and served ...
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Harrison Players
Category: Arts Centers, Performing Arts, Music, Arts Councils
We provide the community and surrounding area with two full scale productions per year. These include: Full length shows, Reviews, and Dinner Theater Experiences. Also, we do community events, such as participating in yearly Town Celebrations (It’s Great to Live in Harrison Day) and holding Bake Sales for the benefit of helping not only our ...
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Hoff-Barthelson Music School
Category: Performing Arts, Schools, Music
Open to everyone in the community, Hoff-Barthelson Music School serves as a center where students of all ages can develop a sustained interest in music. The School’s educational approach centers on quality individualized instruction in both jazz and classical music, and a performance program that affords numerous opportunities for students to perform as soloists and ...
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Hudson Chorale
Category: Performing Arts, Music
Hudson Chorale Brings a Powerful New Sound to Westchester – We are a new 90-voice chorus, beginning our second season on the concert stages of Westchester. Blending two of the County’s oldest choruses – the Choral Arts Society and Westchester Concert Singers – our newly formed ensemble, under the artistic direction of Michael Conley, marks ...
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Hudson Stage Company
Category: Performing Arts
Founded in 1999, Hudson Stage has become one of Westchester’s premiere professional theatres. Dedicated to discovering, developing, and producing bold and unique plays, the company provides a haven for the pioneering writer, and an oasis for the theatergoer looking for challenging entertainment. Quality writing (both new and rediscovered) exploring diverse themes, and featuring the finest ...
