Mapping The Sawkill Watershed
STREAM SENSORY WORKSHOP SERIES

The final arm of Mapping the Sawkill’s programming was a series of onsite sensory workshops that provided hands-on, multi-sensory experiences. Workshops throughout the year invited visitors and longtime residents alike to experience the Sawkill in new ways, through playing, listening, and shared observation. Participants used microscopes to examine macroinvertebrates present in the stream, painted with pigments gathered from the Creek, planted native trees and shrubs, and made acoustic field recordings. The series included guided stream tours that helped participants learn how to read and understand the Creek and its changing ecology. Together, these experiences offered different ways to slow down, pay attention, and connect with the Sawkill.

2026 SCHEDULE

MARCH 14 | HOW IS THE SAWKILL: An Interdisciplinary series of presentations on Woodstock's beloved waterway at the Mountain View Studio, Woodstock, NY
 

JUNE 20 | Summer Solstice: Celebrating the Second Chakra & Water with Linda Mary Montano at the The Mothership Gallery, Woodstock NY

 

JUNE 20 | Playing The Sawkill an Interactive Orchestra with Dreiky Caprice

at the Comeau Property, Woodstock, NY 12498

 

JUNE 23 | Summit to Stream: Building a Resilient Watershed Together with the Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program at the Woodstock Public Library

 

JULY 11 | Meditative Painting with the Sawkill with Coryn Nadeau in Bearsville NY

 

JULY 26 | Sawkill Walking Tour #1: Explore the Sawkill in the Bearsville Flats
with Beth Reichheld, Bearsville NY
 

AUGUST 1 | Macroinvertebrate Photography with Frank Beres at Zena Cornfield, Woodstock, NY
 

SEPTEMBER 12 | Citizen Science Microbial Cultivation Workshop with Adam Zaretsky
at The Mothership Gallery, Woodstock NY 12498
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SEPTEMBER 17 | Community Mapping Session at the Woodstock Land Conservancy Office, Woodstock, NY

SEPTEMBER 19 | Children Community Mapping Session in Bearsville NY​

OCTOBER 3 | Riparian Buffer planting along the Tannery with Andrew Faust and the NYSDEC Trees For Tribs at the Woodstock Municipal Parking Lot across the street from the COLONY.

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OCTOBER 17 | Histories Of The Sawkill Through Human Impacts at the Historical Society of Woodstock
 

NOVEMBER 1 | Sawkill Walking Tour #2: Explore little deep to big deep with Beth Reicheld at Little Deep, Woodstock, NY

NOVEMBER 8 | The Many Voices of a River: Listening and Field Recording the Sawkill River with Zaneta at the Comeau Property, Woodstock, NY