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Opening reception begins at Lamb Center with a Tibetan prayer by Lin Lerner. A procession of dancers and musicians, including Julia Haines on accordion and Fre Atlas with Rosendale drummers, lead a blindfolded Linda Mary Montano as Mother Theresa through Newberry and art display by Stephen Whisler and Sabine Reckewell, to Emerge Gallery and 14 Stations of the Cross exhibition. Montano will remain blindfolded for the week. It will be removed the following week at Lamb Center. Lamb Center 41 Market St Saugerties, NY Newberry Artisan Market 236 Main St Saugerties, NY Emerge Gallery 228 Main St Saugerties, NY

Finding and Losing Ourselves Through Art Discussion with therapist Nina Schmidbaur, LCSW, and audience on art in your life. Participants are encouraged to bring artwork, materials available for creative art explorations. Washburn Studios 8 Washburn Terrace Saugerties, NY

Meditation with Linda Mary Montano whose blindfold will be removed after one week. Installation of Jennifer Zackin’s sculpture created while blindfolded. Chicken dances by Sharon Penz and Celeste Graves accompanied by accordionist Julia Haines. Lamb Center 41 Market St Saugerties, NY

“14 Stations of the Cross” artists discuss their work at Emerge Gallery. Visit http://bit.ly/2uaTLlO for a full list of participating artists. Linda Mary Montano met with fourteen artists who created new work inspired by their choice of one of the 14 Stations of the Cross, which continue to offer Montano guidance in her daily life. She has updated each Station to suggest contemporary issues such as bullying, feminism, gender, body dysmorphia, and working conditions, among other modern societal issues. The newly created work will be exhibited at Emerge Gallery, along with a new work made by Montano specifically for the exhibition. These works will transform Emerge Gallery into a healing space. PARTICIPATING ARTISTS AT EMERGE GALLERY • Carrie Dashow, visual artist (NY) • Joan Ffolliott, visual artist (Malden on Hudson, NY) • Josepha Gutelius, visual artist (Saugerties, NY) • Lynn Herring, visual artist (Kingston, NY) • Nina Isabelle, visual artist (Kingston, NY) • Veronica Lawlor, visual artist (Jackson Heights, NY) • Molly Mackaman, visual artist (Malden, NY) • Elin Menzies, visual artist (Saugerties, NY) • Denise Orzo, visual artist (NY) • Tracy Phillips, visual artist (Saugerties, NY) • Rebecca Ray H, visual artist (New York, NY) • Angela Gaffney Smith, visual artist (Saugerties, NY) • Bonnie Marie Smith, visual artist (Kingston, NY) • Jennifer Zackin, visual artist (NY) Emerge Gallery 228 Main St Saugerties, NY

“Art = Healing” artists discuss their work at Lamb Center. Visit http://bit.ly/2uaTLlO for a full list of participating artists. A call for art was issued looking for art celebrating the career of Linda Mary Montano, or the artists’ interpretation of Montano’s guiding principle, Art = Healing. Visual art will be exhibited at Lamb Center, with the library serving as a viewing room for performance, spoken word and film artists that will play on a loop. PARTICIPATING ARTISTS AT LAMB CENTER • Lucinda Abra, spoken word artist / visual artist (Catskill, NY) • Robin Adler, visual artist (Woodstock, NY) • Kim Alderman, visual artist (New Paltz, NY) • Pesya Altman, visual artist (New York, NY) • Timothy Anderson, performance artist (Chapel Hill, NC) • Olga Belsito, visual artist (Italy) • Ana Bergen, visual artist (Saugerties, NY) • Claudia Berlinski, visual artist (Cortland, OH) • Vian Borchert, visual artist (MD) • Celine Cardwell, visual artist (Hyde Park, NY) • Michael Doyle, visual artist (Saugerties, NY) • Patti Gibbons, visual artist (Kingston, NY) • Celeste Graves, performance artist (Saugerties, NY) • Josepha Gutelius, visual artist (Saugerties, NY) • Rebecca Ray H, visual artist (New York, NY) • Joan Harmon, visual artist (Haverstraw, NY) • Mikhail Horowitz, performance artist (Saugerties, NY) • Susan Kaplow, visual artist (New York, NY) • Laura Kopczak, visual artist (Catskill, NY) • Edith Korzan, visual artist (Highland, NY) • Jim Mackey, visual artist (Gettysburg, PA) • Kathleen MacKenzie, filmmaker (Tilson, NY) • Kate Masters, visual artist (Saugerties, NY) • Gilles Malkine, performance artist (Saugerties, NY) • Ann Morris, visual artist (Woodstock, NY) • Grey Ivor Morris, visual artist (Woodstock, NY) • Will Nixon, visual artist, performance artist (Kingston, NY) • Steve Parisi-Gentile, filmmaker (Saugerties, NY) • Eileen Power, visual artist (Woodstock, NY) • Joan Reinmuth, performance artist (Saugerties, NY) • Janet Roberts, visual artist (Maplewood, NJ) • Matt Rogerson, performance artist (Leicester, UK) • Jesse Sanchez, visual artist (Athens, NY) • Evelyn Saphier, visual artist (Hammond, NY) • Christina Tenaglia, visual artist (Saugereties, NY) • Linda Turner, visual artist (Brooklyn, NY) Lamb Center 41 Market St Saugerties, NY

3 PM: Meditation led by Montano 4:00: “Wounded Crow,” performance, Will Nixon 4:15 PM: “Xanadu” – performance Mikhail Horowitz with Celeste Graves and Gilles Malkine "A recent diagnosis of Parkinson's disease initially threatened to put the kibosh on my performing career, which I have sustained for more than 50 years. But embracing my dear friend and occasional collaborator Linda Montano's belief in art as healing, I decided to revive my performance work, in a way that is scaled down to meet my diminishing physical capabilities. Having memorized more than 100 great poems, I chose to dramatize, with the assistance of dancer Celeste Graves and Gilles Malkine, Samuel Coleridge's "Xanadu", which was written under the influence of laudanum. The dramatization does not require me to move about, as I am seated behind a small writing-desk receiving the poem from my Muse, whom I summon through the medium of the opiate; I simply recite the lines as the Muse acts them out. " – Mikhail Horowitz Lamb Center 41 Market St Saugerties, NY

Interactive screening of Montano’s latest film “What Could Go Wrong,” (edited by Tobe Carey and sound by Jim Barbaro) followed by conversation led by art history professor, Beth Wilson. About WHAT COULD  GO WRONG: “What Could Go Wrong” depicts fire trucks, ambulances, fire alarms with sonic distress that document every current disaster….floods, fires, war, food scarcity and police torture are  accompanied by Linda Montano singing 7 ballads. The sappy positivity of the songs and the VISION of MARY bring a suggestion that hope is possible. This video is a study in contrasts and when the audience is invited to auditorially interact with it, the message is ACTION BREEDS HEALING that maybe WHAT COULD GO RIGHT. Upstate Films Orpheum Theatre 156 Main Street Saugerties, NY

3 PM: Meditation led by Montano 4:00: “Wounded Crow,” performance, Will Nixon 4:15 PM: “Xanadu” – performance Mikhail Horowitz with Celeste Graves and Gilles Malkine "A recent diagnosis of Parkinson's disease initially threatened to put the kibosh on my performing career, which I have sustained for more than 50 years. But embracing my dear friend and occasional collaborator Linda Montano's belief in art as healing, I decided to revive my performance work, in a way that is scaled down to meet my diminishing physical capabilities. Having memorized more than 100 great poems, I chose to dramatize, with the assistance of dancer Celeste Graves and Gilles Malkine, Samuel Coleridge's "Xanadu", which was written under the influence of laudanum. The dramatization does not require me to move about, as I am seated behind a small writing-desk receiving the poem from my Muse, whom I summon through the medium of the opiate; I simply recite the lines as the Muse acts them out. " – Mikhail Horowitz Lamb Center 41 Market St Saugerties, NY

Closing reception. Paul McMahon and Montano as Bob Dylan sing. Grief healing with Adriana Magaña. Chicken dances by Nina Isabelle and Brian McCorkle. Lamb Center 41 Market St Saugerties, NY