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

BALANCE AND STRENGTH TRAINING CLASS
Westbeth Community Room
Mondays 2PM – 3PM
Starts January 6, 2020.

FREE
Jennifer Gibson is certified through the reputable Integral Yoga Institute of New York City, which has served the West Village community and surrounding areas for over 50 years.

Jennifer has been a Yoga Instructor for the past 12 years, specializing in yoga for seniors since 2011.
She is thrilled to share the tools of yoga with seniors for balance and building strength. In Jennifer’s current work with seniors, what began as one class quickly grew into three different classes per week, each packed with 20-30 students. Participants range between the ages of early 60s to early 90s and have a wide variety of ability.

Jennifer is passionate about making the practice of yoga accessible to everyone. She loves how appreciative seniors are to learn yoga and how much they look forward to every class, and she is excited to bring the benefits of yoga to the Westbeth community.

Sponsored by Westbeth Artists Residents Council and New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson

SING TIME SESSIONS
Westbeth Community Room
Fridays 4:30PM – 6:00PM
Starts January 3, 2020

Live piano accompaniment, vocal warm-ups, rhythmic body movement, ear training and improvisation. No Experience Necessary!

Eve Zanni, jazz artist and Somatic Voice teacher, has taught voice for over 2 decades, directed choirs for the Metropolitan Opera Guild, and teaches Circle improvisation.

Contact:westbethmusicworks@gmail.com

FREE Sponsored by Westbeth Artists Residents Council and New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson

FELDENKRAIS
Westbeth Community Room
Thurdays 4PM – 5PM
Starts January 2, 2020

Doron Tadmor is a Feldenkrais Guild certified teacher

Class lasts 1 hour
$5 Donation per class

The Feldenkrais Method consists of verbally directed movement sequences presented primarily to groups. A lesson generally lasts from thirty to sixty minutes. Each lesson is usually organized around a particular function.

Feldenkrais’Awareness Through Movement lessons, people engage in precisely structured movement explorations that involve thinking, sensing, moving, and imagining. Many are based on developmental movements and ordinary functional activities. Some are based on more abstract explorations of joint, muscle, and postural relationships. The lessons consist of comfortable, easy movements that gradually evolve into movements of greater range and complexity.

Feldenkrais’ lessons attempt to make one aware of his/her habitual neuromuscular patterns and rigidities and to expand options for new ways of moving while increasing sensitivity and improving efficiency. There are hundreds of Awareness Through Movement lessons contained in the Feldenkrais Method that vary, for all levels of movement ability, from simple in structure and physical demand, to more difficult lessons.

A major goal of the Feldenkrais Method is to learn how one’s most basic functions are organized and improve. By experiencing the details of how one performs any action, the student has the opportunity to learn and grow.

Contact: Sandra Kingsbury westbethevents@gmail.com

Sponsored by Westbeth Beautfication Committee

YOU’RE NEVER TOO OLD TO PLAY
Westbeth Community Room
Thursdays 11Am – 2 PM
STARTS Jan 9, 2020
CLASS IS FILLED.

Sign up for waiting list.
Email: gaborworks@gmail.com
You must be 55 years old and up.

Nancy Gabor, director and acting teacher leads a 12 week continuous workshop concentrating on movement, improvisation, and storytelling. No experience necessary. Learn and grow in a safe, supportive environment.

Sponsored by the Westbeth Artists Residents Council, the creative Aging Workshop is a partnership between the Westbeth Artists Residents Council and Pier 55. Open to the public year round, Pier 55 will revitalize a part of Hudson River Park with almost 3 acres of new public park space featuring lush greenery and a diverse array of accessible arts, educational and community programming to people of all ages. It will be an iconic and welcoming open space for all New Yorkers. Opening in Hudson River Park near 13th St in Spring 2021.

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2020 Repertory Season

When: Sundays: January 19 and 26, 2020
Two Shows 11AM and 2:00PM

Where: Westbeth Community Room
155 Bank Street (b/w Washington and West Sts)
New York, NY
enter through courtyard

Mother Goose Tales – Classic Tales and Fables. Lots of fun for the very young. The Three Little Pigs, and more. This is interactive puppet theater in an intimate space for young children. With lots of participation, fun and games, and Mother Goose Rhymes. A hit for generations. With Jack, the Pied Piper and Mother Goose’s silly dog Toby. – And make a puppet to take home after the show!

“Very simple, and perfect as an introduction to theatre.” -New York Magazine
“Charming.” -The New York Times
“Warm, funny, direct and charming.” -Gannet Newspapers

PENNY JONES & Co. PUPPETS
Early Childhood Puppet Theatre

A VILLAGE GEM FOR 45 YEARS

PENNY JONES & CO. PUPPETS has been a mainstay of children’s theater in New York since the 1970’s. The company specializes in informal puppet shows for children aged three to eight, and puppet ballets with live music for audiences of adults, children or both. The company performs in collaboration with chamber ensembles and orchestras. The repertory includes adaptations of classical works as well as original stories and scores. In schools, the company has performed hundreds of times, and Penny has a wide variety of programs from puppet pageants with a cast and crew of 30 to 90 school children, to workshops for small classes, and Penny’s “One on One” – interweaving puppetry, storytelling, movement and arts.

The company has appeared on television, in the Henson International Puppet Festival at the Public Theatre, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, at BAM with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, at City Center, Avery Fisher Hall, and in museums including The Museum of the City of New York, The Children’s Museum of New York, the American Museum of Natural History, at Emelin, Wave Hill, the Washington Square Music Festival, at venues from Macy’s to Barnes & Noble, and with orchestras at Bargemusic, Casa de España, Greenwich House Music School, with the New Jersey Symphony, and many, many, more…