Sleepy Hollow Arts Festival & Field Day /
Hudson Valley Writers' Center Literary Festival
at Kingsland Point Park, Sleepy Hollow (end of Palmer Avenue, at the Hudson River)

On Saturday, June 6 (River Day), a flotilla of historic ships will begin a journey from NYC to Albany, tracing the route of Henry Hudson, as part of New York's Quadricentennial Celebration. That afternoon between 5 and 6 pm, the boats and their escort will dock at the Tarrytown waterfront and anchor for the night.

In anticipation of their arrival, Kingsland Point Park in Sleepy Hollow will be the setting for The Sleepy Hollow Arts Festival & Field Day from 11 am to 4 pm, featuring The Hudson Valley Writers' Center Literary Festival. This celebration of community past and present will include the first Tarrytown vs. Sleepy Hollow Soccer Derby, award-winning kids' musician Zev Haber, a kids' soccer clinic run by OnTrack Sports and the Tarrytown AYSO, arts & crafts vendors, and field games such as tug-o-war, football throw, and balloon toss. The Junior League of Westchester-on-Hudson will be running a community poetry tent, inviting people to compose poetry inspired by the Hudson River. JP Doyle's and the Sunflour Cafe will be dishing up food, and Cousins Moran will be providing musical entertainment throughout the day.

At 1 pm, the winners of a "Haiku-on-the-Hudson" contest for grades 3 - 8, co-sponsored by the Junior League and the Writers' Center, will read their winning entries. The Writers' Center will also present author Hudson Talbott reading from his new book River of Dreams: The Story of the Hudson River, as well as bilingual readings by Alex Lima and Petronio Rafael Cevallos.

Hudson Talbott was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, the youngest of four children. From the time he could pick up a pencil, he has been interested in drawing and creative expression, and he considers himself extremely fortunate to have had family and teachers who encouraged his talents. After graduating from the Tyler School of Art in Rome, Hudson remained in Europe, first staying in Italy, and then living for two years in Amsterdam. He then worked in Hong Kong and traveled throughout southeast Asia for a year before moving to New York, where he has lived and worked since 1974. In his ten years as a freelance illustrator, his work was commissioned by such clients as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bloomingdale's, and New York Magazine. Hudson's first book for young readers, called How to Show Grown-ups the Museum, was commissioned by New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1985. Since then he has written and illustrated more than twelve books for the child in all of us. Hudson's interest in other cultures and his genuine appreciation for all types of people have contributed enormously to the development of his work as both artist and story-teller. Hudson has written and illustrated many books including River of Dreams, United Tweets of America: 50 State Birds, Their Stories, Their Glories, Show Way (Newbery Honor Book), Leonardo's Horse, and Safari Journal: The Adventures in Africa of Carey Monroe (Aspca Henry Bergh Children's Book Awards (Awards). He lives in New York City and Leeds, New York, in the Hudson Valley.

Alex Lima (Guayaquil, Ecuador. 1975). Alex moved to New York at the age of fifteen where he finished up high school in Brooklyn. He went on to major in Economics and Latin American Studies at SUNY Albany (1997). In 2002, Alex completed a Master's degree in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at St. John's University where he co-founded the bi-annual journal Entre rascacielos. Alex is currently completing his doctoral dissertation at the Graduate Center (CUNY) with a concentration in 18th century colonial poetry of the Americas. The author is also an editor of Hybrido magazine, a publication devoted to emerging artists and writers. Alex published his first book of poetry, Inverano, last year.

Alex Lima (Guayaquil, 1975). Desde los quince años reside en Nueva York donde culminó sus estudios secundarios para luego continuar con la carrera de economía en la Universidad de Albany (SUNY). Posteriormente obtuvo una maestría en literaturas hispánicas (2002) por la Universidad de St. John's donde contribuyó con la edición de la revista literaria Entre rascacielos. El autor también escribió una tesina sobre la oralidad y la cultura popular en la obra del escritor ecuatoriano Jorge Velasco Mackenzie. Actualmente, Alex Lima está culminando sus estudios doctorales en el Graduate Center de la Universidad de la Ciudad de Nueva York con un interés particular en la poesía colonial del siglo XVIII. El poeta también colabora con la edición de la revista Hybrido de crítica y creación literaria.

Petronio Rafael Cevallos (Ancón, Ecuador) is author of De otros héroes (novel, 1992), Santa Lorena de Bucay (comedy, 1994), Ideario (essay, 1996), Contracuentos (essay, 1996), La belladona (drama, 1997), En un país sin nombre (essay, 2000), Eyaculaciones (poetry, 2003), Serenata (novel, 2004), Un lugar bajo el Sol (essay, 2005), and Bárdica (poetry, 2006). He has lived in Brooklyn since 1990.

Petronio Rafael Cevallos, Ancón, Ecuador. Es autor de la novela De otros héroes (1992), Santa Lorena de Bucay (comedia, 1994), Ideario de Liderazgo Ecuatoriano en el Exterior (ensayo, 1996), Contracuentos (aforismos, ensayos y parábolas, 1996), La belladona (drama, 1997), En un país sin nombre (ensayo, 2000), Eyaculaciones (poesía, 2003), Serenata (novela, 2004), Un lugar bajo el Sol (ensayo, 2005), y Bárdica (poesía, 2006). Algunos de sus poemas han sido incluidos en la antología Entre rascacielos: Nueva York en nueve poetas (1999), y Entre rascacielos / Amid Skyscrapers: Doce poetas hispanos en Nueva York / Twelve Hispanic Poets in New York (antología de poesía bilingüe español / inglés, 2000)

For more information on Quadricentennial events in Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown, go to www.ttshquad.blogspot.com.

Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center are made possible, in part, by grants from the Bydale Foundation, the David G. Taft Foundation, the Orchard Foundation, the William Robinson Foundation, and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Basic Program Support Grant of Arts Westchester with funds from Westchester County Government.

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