Peekskill’s Got Pride Color Run – Saturday, June 1 at 10:00am 

Join Run PB in showing love for our LGBTQ community and spend a morning drenched in local pride. Run PB in collaboration with Peekskill Pride for the Peekskill’s Got Pride Color Run on Saturday, June 1st for a 5K Fun Run dedicated to celebrating Pride Month—with a splash of color! “Getting rainbowed – or rainbowing someone else – on the color run is a fun, healthy and family-friendly way to show what a supportive community Peekskill is. It was a great experience last year and I’m looking forward to being part of it again” says Run PB member, Lauren Cormier. Color stations will be placed approximately at each 1 km mark. Participants are encouraged to wear white clothing so that the colors pop on your shirts as you get “rainbowed” along the way. 

This event is not just for runners, but walkers as well and people of all ages and abilities. Volunteers are still needed to help with run logistics, to throw color at the runners and walkers, and to spectators are needed to cheer runners on. Whether participants of the Color Run choose to run or walk, be a volunteer or be a spectator, “We look forward to bringing the community together to the beautiful Peekskill waterfront to kick off Pride month in such a colorful and inclusive way” says Heather Bishop, cofounder of Run PB. 

The run will kick off at 10:00 am sharp in front of the old Peekskill Brewery across from Homestyle Desserts on Water Street. It then makes a left on Hudson and then a quick right on Lower South Street. It continues down Lower South Street for a half a mile past Riverbend and then makes a right onto Louisa Street. The race then goes down Louisa Street towards Charles Point Park and then turns left on John Walsh Boulevard by the Holiday Inn Express. Runners and walkers will head south towards the White Plains Linen and the Factoria. The race then makes a right turn into the Factoria parking lot area where they will head towards River Outpost and hop on the RiverWalk path. The route continues along the RiverWalk all the way back to the Riverfront where the race will finish near the playground on the Riverfront Green. 

Participants will receive a beer or soft drink at the end of the run. Registration is still open and will be until the Color Run begins. The cost is $30 and participants and proceeds benefit the Peekskill Pride organization. Anyone can register for this family friendly event using this link. Participants can pick up their packet beginning at 9am at The Central and may also buy a Peekskill Pride Color Run T-Shirt if they have not completely sold out. Prizes will be awarded to the top three overall male, female and nonbinary finishers. The Color Run is sponsored by The Central, IronHealth, Dain’s Lumber and Copy Center & Services. 

Pride Flag Raising at City Hall – Saturday, June 7 at 6:30pm

Join Peekskill Pride and the entire City of Peekskill on Saturday, on June 7 at 6:30pm, for the Second Annual Peekskill Pride Flag Raising at City Hall.

The Honorable Judge Reginald Johnson will be the Peekskill Pride keynote speaker for the flag-raising. Judge Johnson is a dedicated community ally who tirelessly advocates for fundamental rights and complete equality. This past February, Judge Johnson was featured by the Peekskill Herald in “The people behind the bench” by Regina Clarkin and Jeffery Merchan.

I AM MY OWN WIFE – Various times throughout June at the Studio Theater in Exile Hudson Valley MOCA

I AM MY OWN WIFE by Doug Wright, directed by Mara Mills and starring Thomas Kramer,will be playing for the month of June at the Studio Theater in Exile at the Hudson Valley MOCA. I AM MY OWN WIFE is a play based on the life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf who survived Nazi and Communist Germany Stasi (secret police) as a transgender woman wearing a dress. The play is an intimate and thought-provoking theatrical experience exploring themes of identity, resilience, and self-acceptance. 

Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, lived through the Nazi and Communist occupations of Berlin. A lover and collector of objects, founded the Gründerzeit Museum in Mahldorf, located in the eastern suburb of Berlin, to house not only her beloved clocks, phonographs, and other castoffs of German industrial design, but also the Mulack-Ritze, a gay nightclub always under threat of destruction by the Stasi, the secret police of East Germany from 1950 to 1990. There she maintained a “safe-place” for gays, lesbians, and transvestites providing a haven for the gay community in East Berlin. 

Celebrated and vilified, Charlotte’s story is part of untold history. The play explores not just her life, but also the playwright’s investigation into her life, and his conflicting feelings about her complicated life.  

The play is presented as a series of interviews that Doug conducted with Charlotte in her home in Berlin, the Gründerzeit Museum, in the early 1990s. Charlotte tells the story of her life, and Doug tells the story of writing this play. Charlotte was born a boy in 1928 but always felt more comfortable as a girl. She collected furniture and things from abandoned homes, and eventually started the Museum to house them and share them with people. She moved the legendary gay bar Mulack-Ritze Cabaret into her basement until the Communists ultimately shut it down. The Museum was her life, and she received a commendation from the government because of her work. 

Tom Krammer, literally brings to life an amazing character at the Studio Theater in Exile. Doug Wright’s story, as playwright and character, is as important as Charlotte’s. From idol worship to disillusionment to understanding and love, the audience watches the playwright grow as a man and a creator. This one-person show is educational and entertaining, daring and beautiful and an important addition to history and theater.

I AM MY OWN WIFE has eight performances over the course of June with an opening reception set for June 8th at 7pm and the final performance June 23rd. Talkbacks with the Actor will be Sunday after the performance, and there will be an opening reception on June 8th. Admission is between $20-$30. For tickets CLICK HERE.

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