Step into a world of wonder, creativity, and celebration at Spillian this winter. From eerie candlelit tales to festive feasts and whimsical games, each event offers a chance to embrace the season's magic. Whether you're seeking literary thrills, bohemian romance, or a frosty outdoor adventure, Spillian's lineup promises unforgettable experiences. Join us in the Catskills for evenings filled with warmth, laughter, and memories to cherish. 🌲
The Willows: A Haunted Journey
Saturday, November 30
Advance Tickets Required
Step into the shadows of the Fleischmanns Yeast family’s historic mansion for an innovative candlelit performance of The Willows, a supernatural masterpiece by the acclaimed early horror writer Algernon Blackwood. Follow an ill-fated journey down the Danube River where two travelers encounter an eerie and otherworldly presence in the desolate wilderness.
Immersive and moody, The Willows: A Haunted Journey brings this classic story to life in an unforgettable experience that blurs the boundaries between reality and the supernatural. Be enveloped in the atmospheric glow of flickering candlelight, with a dramatic live reading transporting you to the haunting, willow-ringed riverbanks.
With a river-inspired feast crafted by our chef, featuring a curated menu and cocktails that evoke the spirit of the story's mysterious waters. Whether you're a lover of literature, a seeker of spine-tingling thrills, or simply looking for a unique evening of storytelling and culinary delight, this is an event not to be missed.
Join us for The Willows: A Haunted Journey—where the past whispers, and the unknown awaits.
A Haunted Evening: $80 per person Join us for the cocktail hour, supper, and performance. Cocktails begin at 5 PM, dinner at 6 PM, and performance at 7:30 PM. Includes dinner, light munchies, and the evening’s entertainment. Cash bar, tax and gratuities not included.
A Supernatural Saturday: $95 per person Join us for day and evening! The afternoon begins at 1 PM. Includes afternoon reading and writing explorations, light munchies, dinner, and the evening’s entertainment. Cash bar, tax and gratuities not included.
The Full Haunting: $395 per couple Make it a getaway! The Full Haunting includes all of Saturday’s offerings plus an overnight stay with a breakfast featuring our house-made bagels and turnovers on Sunday morning, and a chance to share your writings over the weekend after breakfast. Cash bar, tax, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! Check in at noon on Saturday, check out at 11 AM on Sunday.
A Catskills Solstice Yule
Saturday, December 21
Advance Tickets Required
The word solstice means “sun stands still.” In the spirit of what can imaginally open in a momentary pause, we invite you to join us for an evening evoking the half-forgotten memories of how ancestors celebrated the sense of promise of the returning light on the year’s darkest day. Join us to remember and revel in the season.
A Yule Feast & Festivities: $80 per person Join us for the cocktail hour, supper, and festivities. Cocktails begin at 5 PM, dinner at 7 PM. Includes dinner, and the evening’s entertainment. Cash bar, tax and gratuities not included.
Bringing in the Yule, A Yule Feast & Festivities: $95 per person Join us for an afternoon of seasonal revelry to bring in the yule, cocktail hour, supper, and festivities. Games begin at 1 PM. Includes afternoon activities, dinner, and the evening’s entertainment. Cash bar, tax and gratuities not included.
The Full Yule: $395 per couple Make it a getaway! The Full Yule includes the afternoon’s revels, cocktail hour, supper, the evening’s entertainment, an overnight stay with a breakfast featuring our house-made bagels and turnovers on Sunday morning, and sales tax. Cash bar and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! Check in at noon on Saturday, check out at 11 AM on Sunday.
Twelfth Night: A Feast of Fools
Saturday, January 4
Advance Tickets Required
Join us for a last blast of celebration in honor of the end of the twelve days of Christmas!
Long before New Year’s Eve became a thing, Twelfth Night once echoed with a splendid upside-down revelry that challenged any strait-laced ideas of power, identity, and what constitutes good behavior. We will join together and co-create an evening worth of such illustrious (or, more accurately, irreverent) lineage. We will laugh January into submission in a Renaissance-inspired romp. And yes, you can most absolutely come dressed as a fool!
The Lord of Misrule Crowning, Feast & Evening Festivities: $75 per person Join us for the crowning, cocktails, dinner, and the evening festivities. Cocktails begin at 5 PM, dinner at 7 PM. Additional cash bar, tax, and gratuities not included.
The Afternoon Revels, Lord of Misrule Crowning, Feast & Evening Festivities: $95 per person Join us for the afternoon activities, the crowning, cocktails, dinner, and the evening festivities. Games begin at 1 PM. Price includes all activities and supplies for the afternoon, dinner, and the evening’s entertainment. Cash bar, tax, and gratuities not included.
The Full Twelfth Night Revel: All of the Offerings Plus an Overnight Stay: $395 per couple Make it a getaway! The Full Twelfth Night Revel includes all activities and supplies for the afternoon, dinner and the evening festivities. plus an overnight stay for two with a breakfast featuring our house-made bagels and turnovers on Sunday morning. Cash bar, tax, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! Check in at Noon on Saturday, check out at 11 AM on Sunday.
Wild Ideas Creative Retreat
Friday, January 10 – Sunday, January 12
Advance Tickets Required
Your chance to escape to the magic creative energy of Spillian for a weekend to work on that wild idea that has been burning a hole in your brain. Join us for a gentle convivium and chance for solo time to imagine deeply.
Grab a corner, a table in the tavern, a seat by the fire, or a chair in your room and have lots of time and space to work and explore and bring your wild idea to life. Maybe it’s a book, or a set of poems, drawing, or a digital design…quiet projects that you can go deep into as everyone here goes deep into theirs.
We’ll provide sustenance throughout the weekend – a light dinner on Friday; breakfast, lunch and a bigger feast on Saturday; and breakfast on Sunday. And of course coffee, tea (including our own magical herbal offering, Cat’s Love Tea, with spearmint, rose petals, elderberries, sumac, and more), and adult libations will be at the ready.
Workshop Registration Fee:
$295 per person until December 25, 2024
$395 per person after that date.
Spillian is proud to underwrite some of the costs on this workshop, hoping to keep the experience accessible to as many creatives as possible.
• Includes four chef-made meals, snacks, and coffee and tea service. Cash bar, tax, and gratuities not included.• Attendees are welcome to arrive any time Friday afternoon after 3 PM. We’ll have food out at around 6 PM.• Commuters welcome for the workshop registration fee.
Spillian Lodging $235 per room
Songwriters Changing the World: Carsie Blanton & Friends
Saturday, January 18
Advance Tickets Required
Join Carsie and an intimate group of songwriters for dinner and an in-house concert as they share fresh work and new ideas from their Spillian songwriting retreat. Expect songs in-progress, insights into the creative process, new collaborations, and thoughtful conversation over dinner.
The Hallowed Haggis:A Robert Burns Celebration.
Saturday, January 25
Advance Tickets Required
We all know January–the time of the year when holiday delights have faded into the snow and the dark cold nights of winter threaten despair… We have an antidote: The Hallowed Haggis: A Robert Burns Celebration.
Come push against the darkness, and join us for our fifth annual seriously silly celebration of the words and song of the Ploughman Poet, Robert Burns. Indulge your whimsy, and join in the revelry as we enjoy the smoky taste of great whiskey, the play of candlelight against silver, the wail of the bagpipes, the Spillian Haggis Games, and a great feast of the Hallowed Haggis… Hilarity will ensue.
What the hell is Haggis, you ask? Its liver, tongue and other unmentionable bits together with Scottish oats, onions, stock and herbs all cooked together into “the great chieftain o’ the pudding race.” Put away your mocking thoughts, and know that this is one delicious bit of pie. And, in deference to those who think it is truly terrifying, we will offer haggis to taste alongside Chef Christian’s superb takes on much more accessible Scots carnivorous and vegetarian fare….
The Robert Burns Supper & Festivities: $80 per personJoin us for the cocktail hour, supper, and festivities. Cocktails begin at 5 PM, dinner at 7 PM. Includes dinner, and the evening’s entertainment. Cash bar, tax and gratuities not included.
Saturday Haggis Games, Robert Burns Supper & Festivities: $95 per personJoin us for the Haggis Games, cocktail hour, supper, and festivities. Games begin at 1 PM. Includes afternoon games, dinner, and the evening’s entertainment. Cash bar, tax and gratuities not included.
The Full Hallowed Haggis: $395 per coupleMake it a getaway! The Full Hallowed Haggis includes The Haggis Games, cocktail hour, supper, the evening’s entertainment, an overnight stay with a breakfast featuring our house-made bagels and turnovers on Sunday morning, and sales tax. Cash bar and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! Check in at noon on Saturday, check out at 11 AM on Sunday.
Wild Ideas Creative Retreat
Friday, February 7 – Saturday, February 9
Advance Tickets Required
Your chance to escape to the magic creative energy of Spillian for a weekend to work on that wild idea that has been burning a hole in your brain. Join us for a gentle convivium and chance for solo time to imagine deeply.
Grab a corner, a table in the tavern, a seat by the fire, or a chair in your room and have lots of time and space to work and explore and bring your wild idea to life. Maybe it’s a book, or a set of poems, drawing, or a digital design…quiet projects that you can go deep into as everyone here goes deep into theirs.
We’ll provide sustenance throughout the weekend – a light dinner on Friday; breakfast, lunch and a bigger feast on Saturday; and breakfast on Sunday. And of course coffee, tea (including our own magical herbal offering, Cat’s Love Tea, with spearmint, rose petals, elderberries, sumac, and more), and adult libations will be at the ready.
Workshop Registration Fee:
$295 per person until December 25, 2024
$395 per person after that date.
Spillian Lodging $235 per room
Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: A Bohemian Valentine
Saturday, February 15
Advance Tickets Required
Join us for the third annual Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: A Bohemian Valentine as the Green Fairy presides at a Bohemian celebration of love.
Come wanderers, vagabonds, and adventurers…and come as your favorite bohemian! Think Monmartre in Paris, think Plaff’s Beer Cellar in Manhattan, think the early days of the Bohemian Grove in Sonoma County… Artists, writers, and defiers of convention all.
There will be an array of glorious Parisian flavors throughout the evening (for both vegivores and carnivores). There will be dancing. There will be sparks and sparkles of romance. Wit and wonder. Along with really bad puns. And not a cherub in sight.
The Bohemian Ball $65/person Cash bar, tax and gratuities extra. Advance Reservations Required.
The Full BohemianThe Ball and an Overnight Stay at Spillian $365/couple Make it a getaway! Includes the evening’s entertainment and dining and an overnight stay with a breakfast featuring our house-made bagels and turnovers on Sunday morning. Cash bar, tax, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid rooms! Check in at 1 PM on Saturday, check out by 11 AM on Sunday.
The Winter Wonder Games:A Frosted Festival for Misfits
With Legendary Outdoor Guide Will Soter
Saturday, February 22,
Advance Tickets Required
Come and join in on a most excellent winter fest, led by our friend the magical Will Soter, who knows the Catskills with a rich and delightful intimacy. We’ll compete with fire and fire water, play in the snow, explore Spillian’s forests, feast on a dinner worthy of the forest king, and wind up the evening with bonfires and s’mores in Spillian’s meadow.
The Cocktail Contest, Dinner & Bonfire: $95 per personJoin us for the cocktail contest, supper, and night bonfire. Cocktails and contest begin at 5 PM, dinner at 7 PM. Price includes dinner, cocktail contest makings and your invented drink, and the bonfire. Additional cash bar, tax, and gratuities not included.
The Winter Wonder Games, Cocktail Contest, Dinner & Bonfire: $125 per personJoin us for the Winter Wonder Games, cocktail contest, supper, and evening bonfire. Games begin at 1 PM. Price includes all activities and supplies for the games, dinner, cocktail contest makings and your invented drink, and the bonfire. Cash bar, tax, and gratuities not included.
The Full Winter Wonder: All of the Offerings Plus an Overnight Stay: $395 per coupleMake it a getaway! The Full Winter Wonder Games includes Price includes all activities and supplies for the games, dinner, cocktail contest makings for a drink and the bonfire. plus an overnight stay for two with a light breakfast featuring our house-made bagels and turnovers on Sunday morning. Cash bar, tax, and gratuities not included. Click here to learn more about our splendid guest rooms! Check in at Noon on Saturday, check out at 11 AM on Sunday.
Join us this winter at Spillian, where every event is an invitation to dream, celebrate, and create unforgettable moments in the heart of the Catskills. 🌲
Spillian
50 Fleischmanns Heights Road
Fleischmanns, 12430
New York
