Dates: January 11 – January 23, 2020
Opening: January 16, 6 PM, 2020 RSVP
Critical Theory Retrospective: January 12th, 2-5 PM, 2020 RSVP

Location: Westbeth Gallery, 55 Bethune St, between West and Washington Its. Enter at silver ramp.

Free and open to the public during select days and hours

The exhibition, created with volunteer efforts, will feature projects by our teachers and alums. Public programs to be announced. Mark your calendar!

The School for Poetic Computation is an artist-run school in New York that was founded in 2013. A small group of students and faculty work closely to explore the intersections of code, design, hardware and theory — focusing especially on artistic intervention. It’s a hybrid of a school, residency and research group.

Our motto is: more poetry, less demo.

Public programs, open hours and artist line up will be announced in early January 2020.

Co-organizers: Lauren Gardner, Tega Brain, Taeyoon Choi, Brian Solon and more
Co-curators: Nabil Hassein, Tiri Kananuruk, Sebastian Morales, Zach Lieberman, Zainab Aliyu, Dan Gorelick and more
Contributors: Nitcha Tothong, Kate Chanban, Roy Macdonlad, Alex Miller and more
Artists: To be announced

Location:
The School for Poetic Computation is located at 155 Bank Street, in the courtyard of the Westbeth Artists’ Community in Manhattan’s West Village, New York City.

Contact Us
Feel free to contact for any questions info@sfpc.io

Image credits: Lynne Yun, Photo by Minu Han

A heartwarming, hilarious and consistently surprising reinvention of the New York romantic comedy, which opens the door to a world of vibrant characters not commonly seen on film.

Tribeca Award winner for Best US Narrative Feature (2018 94 minutes)

Westbeth Movie Night is a monthly series of curated films on unusual or forgotten masterpieces of cinema which is open to the public and free.

Date: Friday January 24 at 7pm

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

ALL CLASSES ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND WESTBETH RESIDENTS

WORK IT
Westbeth Community Room
Mondays 10AM – 11AM
FREE

Basic exercise training including low impact warm up, muscle building with or without weights, and stretch class.

Janet Panetta Roth, a Westbeth resident since 1988, has owned three dance, yoga, massage and bodywork studios from 1973-2010. She is experienced in classical and contemporary dance forms, aerobics and body work disciplines. She was awarded the prestigious Martha Hill Dance Fund Mid -Career Achievement Award. She has been in the NYT several times including a feature article by Claudia La Rocco, and was the first teacher to have an interview as part of the Oral History Project at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Collection. She has taught internationally at Pina Bausch Tanztheater, and Anne Teresa DeKeermaeker’s school and company, as well as at local universities such as SUNY Purchase The New School, and Kingsboro Community College. It was at Kingboro in the 1980’s that she first offered adult exercise and stretch classes. She has a profound understanding of the aging physicality, its limits and its possibilities.

PILATES
Westbeth Community Room
Wednesdays 10AM – 11AM
$10 per class

Pilates is a series of controlled exercises that focus on the body’s core muscles: the abdominals, hips, and back muscles…those muscles that hold us upright, and keep us moving.

Marci Occhino, our Pilates instructor, studied Adult Fitness & Exercise Science at Montclair State University. She is certified in Pilates Mat, Yoga, and Barefoot Balance Classes. She has several years experience teaching at Crunch, New York Health and Racquet Club, and David Barton Gym. Marci believes that the strength, flexibility and muscle tone gained through her class is an excellent exercise choice for older adults to stay healthy.

You will need to bring a mat and optionally, a pilates ring.

YOGA
Westbeth Community Room
Fridays 10AM – 11AM
$10 per class

Series of yoga positions focusing on mind and body expansion.

Alicia Cruz, has been practicing yoga for 20 years, she was recently certified to teach by preeminent studio Laughing Lotus, an internationally renowned yoga studio regularly featured as one of NYC’s best. While specializing in Vinyasa Flow at NYSC and her private client sessions, Alicia is known to tailor her class to match the experience level of her students. She always infuses fun, heart, and balance into each of her classes.

You will need to bring a mat to class.

For more info on ALL classes:

Contact Janet Roth at
janettaone@gmail.com

The Westbeth Icon evening celebrates senior artists who continue to work in their field.

The newest Westbeth icon is Jack Davidson, New York actor. The evening, posted here, feature features an interview with Jack about his life and work, tributes by colleagues and family, and remarks by Jack himself.

Show Dates: January 15 – March 31, 2020

Where: Westbeth First Floor Exhibition Space
55 Bethune St
New York, NY

Open: 24/7

STILL MOMENTS is a series of photos shot on my travels here and abroad, including captures from Sydney, Australia, Uruguay, South America, Tuscany, Italy, Vietnam, Lancaster, PA and New York City.

I am an observer of life and teller of stories. My eyes wander, seeing all around me as my ears listen to the sounds and the voices. Born with an insatiable curiosity to learn and specifically to learn about others, I am drawn to traveling near and far. I see and capture moments in time – colors, shapes, feelings, moods, expressions, and relationships. My life is a journey and I share it through my art whether it is photography, film, art, poetry, prose or storytelling. I invite my audience, reader, viewer into my world to see what I see, to feel what I feel, and often finding their own personal connection and experience.

Gayle Kirschenbaum is a creator who expresses herself in many forms. She began life as a visual artist and started taking photos where she loved spending hours in her darkroom. She found herself shooting stories with her photographs and painting them in an impressionist way. Her desire to use words and sound led her to moving images. She became an Emmy award-winning filmmaker whose films and programs have premiered on Netflix, HBO, and Discovery. They include Look At Us Now, Mother!, A Dog’s Life: A Dogamentary, My Nose and Little Parents. Her last film led to an invitation to give a TEDx talk called No More Drama With Mama about forgiveness. She speaks and teaches on this topic. Gayle has found herself returning to her first love, photography. Her photographs were exhibited in Spain at the Barcelona Foto Biennale in October 2018, received an honorable mention under landscape for the Pollux Awards 2019, and have been in Westbeth group shows.

She has been featured widely in the media including New York Times, NBC Today Show, Jerusalem Post and Psychology Today. She is a member of Producers Guild of America (PGA) and a judge for the Emmys and PGA.

To learn more visit GayleKirschenbaum.com, LookAtUsNowMother.com,
KirschenbaumProductions.com.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glkirschenbaum/

If interested please email Gayle@GayleKirschenbaum.com