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Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective featured in book

The Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective is featured in a new book, Off Off Broadway – The Second Wave 1968 – 1980 by Christopher Olsen, published March 2011.

The playwrights all from Westbeth included Dolores Walker, Chryse (Christina) Maile, Gwen Gunn, Sally Ordway, Patricia Horan, Susan Yankowitz, and Helen Duberstein.

One of the first feminist theater groups to be reviewed in the NY TImes, the group was noted for its ability to balance the serious social message regarding the marginalization of women with a sense of the absurd and a commitment to good writing. – Off Off Broadway

Check it out on Amazon

whitney museum at westbeth

On Saturday May 21st, in celebration of the groundbreaking for the Whitney’s new Meatpacking District location, the Museum will also be hosting a Community Day. Community Day brings the Whitney’s unique programming to the neighborhood for the day, with activities and artist collaborations for families, teens, and adults. These programs will take place at various venues throughout the neighborhood, are free, and open to the public. Stop by the tent at Washington St. and Gansevoort St. for more information!

Chalk it Up!

11am – 4pm: Families are invited to take a chalk art break at the Westbeth Artist Housing’s courtyard space. Street artist Ellis Gallagher’s sidewalk creations will inspire families to add their own chalk masterpieces.
Chalk it Up!

Youth Insights Spring Exhibition

12pm – 6 pm
Westbeth Community Room
Whitney’s Youth Insights (YI) program provides opportunities for teens to work collaboratively, discuss art critically, think creatively, and make art inspired by this exchange. This exhibition presents works of art and writing created by YI teens in collaboration with Artists-in-Residence Angel Otero and Wardell Milan.

Youth Insights Spring Exhibition

Plaque for Bell Telephone Labs at Westbeth

On 19 May 2011, Westbeth Artists Housing will enter the Register of Historic Physics Sites as the original location of Bell Telephone Labs where in 1927 the first direct demonstration of de Broglie’s famous theorem on elementary particles was performed. Everyone is invited to attend the ceremony organised by the American Physical Society at the main entrance at 55 Bethune Street.

The plaque reads:
At this site, the original location of Bell Telephone Laboratories, C J Davisson and L H Germer in 1927 performed the first direct demonstration of the wave-like behavior of elementary particles, predicted by L de Broglie in 1923. The Davisson-Germer experiment provided crucial empirical evidence for the validity of the then rapidly evolving theory of quantum mechanics. In those years and subsequently many important scientific and technological discoveries were made at the same laboratory.

Historic Physics Site, Register of Historic Sites
Plaque installed by American Physical Society

Ilsa Gilbert – Premiere 22 May at 3 pm at St Marks in the Bowery

ILSA GILBERT, writer, and Mary Carol Warwick, composer premiere a musical setting of the poem ,A WOMAN IN COSTA RICA, presented as part of a new concert series, NEW LATIN AND HISPANIC CLASSICAL STYLES produced by Downtown Music Productions.

The premiere features Darcy Dunne, mezzo soprano, Rachel Golub, violin, Whitefield La Grange, viola, and Mimi Stern-Wolfe, piano.

St Marks on the Bowery 131 East 10th Street, near 2nd Ave.
22 May at 3 pm
Tickets $10 – $15. Students, seniors, unemployed $8
Info: dmpmimi@verizon.net

It is a diverse and beautiful concert with the Downtown Chamber & Opera Players and the participation of
Labyrinth Dance Theatre in Tanguedia of Astor Piazzolla, choreographed by Sasha Speivogel.

Also Alhambra, A Judeo -Spanish and Middle Eastern musical potpourri of the Sephardic Diaspora. 2

PEN Literary Safari – New Yorker, Paris Review and more!

Last night I watched a talented American actor read a talented Romanian writer’s story. Neither is famous in America but they should be.
New Yorker Magazine Book Bench Blog Review 29 April 2011

In the evening we are invited to a huge turn-of-the-century building, with something of the Phalanstère to it, entirely inhabited by artists. This is the Westbeth…
Paris Review blog of Amelie Nothomb

L Magazine