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WESTFEST Program A

PROGRAM A initially live-streamed on November 14, 2020

WESTFEST Program B

PROGRAM B initially live-streamed on November 15, 2020

Join us for the 10th year anniversary of WestFest – The immensely popular curated yearly dance event at Westbeth!
Watch cutting-edge performances by emerging and established dancers and choreographers in this live streamed event.

Click here for more information: WestFest Dance

When: Tuesday December 1, 2020 | 1:00PM – 7:00PM
Where: Westbeth Gallery
57 Bethune Street
New York, NY 10014

December 1 is World AIDS Day. “A Day Without Art” celebrates and honors the artists lost to AIDS.

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The Art of Community: a #Westbeth50 Oral History Conversation with Ralph Lee, George Cominskie, and Christina Maile

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The entire “THE ART OF COMMUNITY“evening has been posted to GVSGP channel. Hear the stories, see the images and understand why the Westbeth Artists Housing has survived and flourished for the past 50 years, and in the years to come.

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Join Explore Village Preservation on Monday Nov 9 at 6PM for an online night of recollection and celebration as we delve into the fifty-year history of Westbeth through the eyes of three long-time residents, artists, activists, and Village Preservationists.

Ralph Lee is a puppeteer known as the “father of the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.”

George Cominskie is the former president of the Westbeth Artist Residents Council and a tireless advocate for landmarks in the Far West Village. Both are also Village Awardees and subjects of recently-released Village Preservation Oral Histories.

Christina Maile is a former landscape architect, playwright, printmaker, co-founder of the Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective, and a member of the original 1970 cohort of Westbeth. This conversation will no doubt be lively, full of memories, art, anecdotes, and reflections on Westbeth at 50.

Register for this free event at: Explore Village Preservation

“Works Created During the Lockdown Period”

Click HERE for information about Susan’s piece which won a special curator’s award.

Juror: Paulina Pobocha, Curator , MOMA

Saturday,, November 7 – Sunday, December 20, 2020
Gallery Hours: Saturday and Sunday,12- 5PM.

Williamsburg Art and Historical Center – WAH
135 Broadway
Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY 11211
917-648-4290 or 917-974-6096

wahcenter.net (website)

It is a small installation work but covering entire wall setting.

One Artist’s Vision Frames Biden’s Message on Unity

The Biden campaign approached the artist Lorraine O’Grady in August. Ms. O’Grady had used empty, golden frames to capture the joys of community togetherness at the 1983 African-American Day Parade in Harlem, framing the people as art. The performance was preserved in photographs.

Inspired by the kind of unity Ms. O’Grady’s project conveyed, the Democratic candidate’s campaign sought to borrow her concept for a similar message, intended to ease a divided nation. This is how, two months before the election, with Ms. O’Grady’s blessing, the campaign created a two-minute film. It landed on the internet on Saturday, shortly after the networks projected a victory for Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Kamala Harris.

The Biden film opens with a rendition of “America the Beautiful” by Ray Charles as the camera pans countryside vistas and the Philadelphia skyline. Person after person is captured inside the shiny frames as Americans celebrate the diversity of a country that includes musicians and fishermen, hairdressers and surfers.

-Zachary Small Read complete article NY Times Nov 11, 2020

From the Biden-Harris film