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BODY: Unseen /Reclaimed
Art in Odd Places Festival 2018

Art in Odd Places (AiOP) 2018 Festival Exhibition BODY: Unseen/Reclaimed

Curator: Katya Grokhovsky

Exhibition: October 5th –27th, 2018
Westbeth Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Sunday, 12–6 pm

Opening Reception: October 4th, 2018, 6–8 pm

Panel: October 18th 2018, 6-8pm
Closing Reception and Performances: October 27th, 6-8pm

Public Festival: October 11-14th, 2018: Along 14th street, Manhattan

Art in Odd Places (AiOP) 2018 BODY NYC is curated by Katya Grokhovsky, presenting projects by women, female identifying and non-binary artists, taking place along 14th Street, NY on October 11-14, 2018, accompanied by a coinciding group exhibition Art in Odd Places 2018 BODY : Unseen/Reclaimed at Westbeth Gallery on October 4 – 27,  2018.

The theme BODY explores agency, politics and status of the “other” in an urban environment, through various media including performance, installation, sculpture, photography, sound, video and text.

This year, forty five selected local, national and international participants challenge notions and societal constructs of gender, age and beauty, analyze contemporary ideas of self, death, sex, viscera and health, explore issues of otherness, body image, language, memory and belonging through staging of multimedia interdisciplinary projects, movement and participatory works, artifacts and ephemera, considering issues of exclusion, displacement and absence in the current discourse.

Art in Odd Places aims to stretch the boundaries of communication in the public realm by presenting artworks in all disciplines outside the confines of traditional public space regulations. AiOP reminds us that public spaces function as the epicenter for diverse social interactions and the unfettered exchange of ideas.

Artists: Elaine Angelopoulos | Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn | Kasie Campbell | Stacey Cann | Deborah Castillo | Donna Cleary and Kathie Halfin| DON’T MOVE: Kat Cope, Kelly Savage, Kate Frazer Rego | Dominique Duroseau | Catherine Feliz | Dakota Gearhart | Maryam Monalisa Gharavi | Nicole Goodwin | Claus Hedman | Martha Hipley | PEI-LING Ho | KINSFOLK : Holly and Jackie Timpener | Daniela Kostova | Luiza Kurzyna | Joanne Leah | LEGACY FATALE | LuLu LoLo | Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow | Nadja Verena Marcin | Giulia Mattera | Daniela Mekler | Esther Neff | Rose Nestler | Laura Nova | NO WAVE PERFORMANCE TASK FORCE : Amy Finkbeiner and Christen Clifford | Jody Oberfelder | Sierra Ortega | Verónica Peña  | Maya Pindyck | QUESTIONS COLLECTIVE | X senn-yuen rance  | Autumn Robinson and Lyra Monteiro (The Museum On Site)| Yali Romagoza | Clarivel Ruiz | Jody Servon | Meg Stein | Jaime Sunwoo | TANGA!: Rachel Chick, Andrew Prieto, Alfredo Travieso | THE DoMystics: Monique Blom and Arantxa Araujo | Denise Treizman and Adam Brazil | Grace Whiteside 

Performance Is Alive is the Proud Media Sponsor for Art In Odd Places 2018: BODY

http://www.artinoddplaces.org/

FRINGE FESTIVAL 2018 AT WESTBETH

WHEN: October 12 – October 28, 2018
WHERE: Westbeth venues

ABOUT

In 2017, The Present Theatre Company, Inc. (creators and producers of FringeNYC – The New York International Fringe Festival) announced a one-year hiatus from producing the event, in order to conduct The Blank Canvas Project – a year of re-imagining the festival and strategic planning for the future. In August, as a part of a twentieth anniversary celebration event presented by the FringeNYC Alumni Association, FringeNYC 20/20: A Vision for FringeNYC’s future was announced.

The NEW York International Fringe Festival returns in October of 2018 with both a FringeNYC and FringeBYOV segment, as well as other exciting programming and changes to be announced via this website.

FringeNYC has presented over 3000 performing groups representing every continent, prompting Switzerland’s national daily, The New Zurich Zeitung, to declare FringeNYC as “the premiere meeting ground for alternative artists.”
FringeNYC has also been the launching pad for numerous Off-Broadway and Broadway transfers, long-running downtown hits, and regional theater productions including Urinetown, Matt & Ben, Never Swim Alone, The Jammer, Debbie Does Dallas, Dog Sees God, Brandon Teena, Dixie’s Tupperware Party, 21 Dog Years, The Irish Curse, Jurassic Parq, The Fartiste, Silence! The Musical and 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche; movies including WTC View and Armless; and even a TV show (‘da Kink in My Hair).
FringeNYC alumni include Bradley Cooper, Melissa Rauch (Big Bang Theory), Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me, CNN’s Inside Man), Mindy Kaling, Tony Award winner Diane Paulus (Pippin), Alex Timbers (Rocky), Leigh Silverman (Violet), W. Kamau Bell (Totally Biased), Michael Urie (Ugly Betty), Naomi Grossman (American Horror Story) and Chris Lowell (Enlisted), among countless other success stories.

FringeNYC is a production of The Present Theatre Company, Inc., under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Elena K. Holy. Ms. Holy was selected as a “Person of the Decade” in nytheatre now’s Indie Theater Hall of Fame.
Contact Information

info@FringeNYC.org

OPEN HOUSE NY
OPEN STUDIOS


Where: Westbeth
When:
Saturday, October 13, 2018
12:00PM to 5:00PM
loop Tours every 30 minutes
Sunday, October 14, 2018
12:00PM to 5:00PM
loopTours every 30 minutes

FREE

Westbeth is the largest artist community in the US, if not the world. It was conceived in the 1960s as a partial solution to the acute need to provide affordable housing and studios for artists and their families. In so doing, it became one of the first examples of adaptive reuse of industrial buildings for artistic and residential use in the United States. Located in New York City in Manhattan’s Far West Village, it is a complex of 13 buildings which were formerly the site of Bell Laboratories (1868-1966), one of the world’s most important research centers. It was here that the first talking movie, the condenser microphone, the first TV broadcast, and the first binary computer were demonstrated.

With innovative funding from the J. M. Kaplan Foundation, and Roger Stevens of the National Endowment for the Arts, Westbeth became an ambitious renovation project designed to create 384 live-work spaces for artists of all disciplines and their families under the direction of developer Dixon Bain. Westbeth opened in 1970. It was added to the National Registrar of Historic Places on Dec 8, 2009. Subsequently, the New York State Historic Preservation Board nominated it to be on the State Registrar of Historic Places. In 2011 the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously designated Westbeth Artists Housing a New York City landmark.
Tour Info

Led by Westbeth residents, the guided tours will include highlights of The Bell Lab era of the building, the conversion to artists housing, and information on the artists of Westbeth. Additionally, visitors can go on a self-guided tour of over 20 artists’ studios in the complex.

#3 STORIES AROUND THE TABLE
Stories, true and almost true

When: Thursday October 18, 2018 at 7:30PM
Where: Westbeth Community Room

What: True and almost true stories from those who know. An innovative evening of stories and improvisation as 7 women sit around a table talk and read from their work.

With:

Dawn D’Arcy
Dawn is an actor, writer, bass player and thrilled to be a new grandma to Etta. She is in love with each of the women in this group and plans to marry them all in the very near future.

Joyce Aaron
Oboe winner for Acting in a play Acrobatics co written by Luna Tarlo. Original member of The Open Theater, directed by Joseph Chaikin. Premiered America Hurrah by Jean Claude Van Itallie in New York and at The Royal Court Theater in London. Lived and worked with Sam Shepard on many of his early plays.


Christina Maile
An artist and writer whose work reflects her West Indian and Dayak heritage, she has received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Studio Grant, a Miriam Chaikin Foundation Writing Award as well exhibiting in shows in various galleries and museums, including the Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the International Center for Print, NYC. She is also the co-founder playwright of the Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective.

Karen Ludwig
KAREN LUDWIG performs, directs and teaches in New York and L.A.
Her B’way credits include PRELUDE TO A KISS with Steve Guttenberg and John Randolph, BROADWAY BOUND with Joan Rivers, THE DEVILS with Anne Bancroft, THE BACCHAE with Irene Pappas and many plays at the Public Theater. She was a member of Andre Gregory’s Manhattan Project for two years and performed THE SEAGULL and Wallace Shawn’s OUR LATE NIGHT with the Company throughout the United States and Europe.
Her first film was Woody Allen’s MANHATTAN, (Meryl Streep’s lover) and her most recent is THAT AWKWARD MOMENT with Zach Efron. She teaches at The New School for Drama and the HB Studio in NYC.

Shami Chaikin
Obie-award winning actress, Shami Chaikin was a member of the legendary Open Theater under the direction of Joe Chaikin. She appeared in their seminal productions of The Serpent, Terminal, Mutation Show, and more. Her theatrical appearances also include working with with Andre Serban, and Elizabeth Swados and Meredith Monk at the New York Shakespeare Festival, among other venues. In film, she has acted under the direction of Michaelangelo Antonioni, James Ivory and Alan Parker, and has appeared in numerous TV shows, including Law and Order.

Nancy Gabor
Theater Director, Acting Teacher:
Open Theater, Director – ‘The War In Heaven,’ w/Joseph Chaikin,
Master Teacher – Princeton University, and the Amsterdam Theater School, Holland.
Director – On-site production ‘Lost and Found,’ by Paul Binnerts at Westbeth.
Offering FREE acting sessions for seniors at Westbeth
beginning October 11, 2018.

Joan Hall
Joan Hall who won the Miriam Chaikin Writing Foundation Award in 2018, is a pioneer in the field of collage and assemblage illustration. Her work has appeared on covers of Time magazine, and in The New York Times. Hall’s collages and assemblages have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City.

Joan Hall
Collage Workshop

When: Saturday October 6 10AM – 4PM with 1 hour lunch break

Where: Westbeth Community Room

FREE
SENIORS ONLY

Bring scissors, magazines with photos

Experiment with the playful and spontaneous art form of collage and give shape to the images you discover in your fantasies.

In this fun, hands-on workshop you will learn how to express yourself creatively with step by step instruction.

JOAN HALL Biography
Native New Yorker Joan Hall is a pioneer in the field of collage and assemblage illustration. Her work has appeared on covers of Time magazine, and in The New York Times.
Hall’s collages and assemblages have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. She was commissioned by the American Cultural Center to lecture, exhibit, and conduct workshops in France, India, and Brazil. Ms. Hall was awarded a US State Department Cultural Grant to go to Mexico and train teachers to teach recycling to children by creating art using found objects and scrap images from magazines.

A CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Art Exhibit

Six artists whose take on the phrase “Conflict of Interest” ranges from political, sociological, ecological, metaphorical to surreal. 
Each artist using their particular discipline, whether painting, photography, combination of both or sculpture, digital manipulation or installation, provoke us to question what is going on in the world right now and what kind of world are we leaving to future generations.

Participating Artists

Illtyd Barrett
ILLTYD BARRETT / BORN WELSH / RAISED COASTAL / PERSONALITY DEFECT / JOY RIDER / LONDON / DRUG TAKER / PUNK ROCKER / DYFED COLLEGE OF ART / CHELSEA SCHOOL OF ART/ EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY / FATHER / DAUGHTER / SCULPTURE TUTOR / ASSISTANT TO HERMAN DE VRIES / ASSISTANT TO ANDY GOLDSWORTHY /  POST GRAD /  NEW YORK / DEPT. OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS / PUBLIC ART FUND / DEPORTED / ILLEGAL / LEGAL / IMMIGRANT DESIGN / COCAINE / ILL / TRAVELLER / STEVE AND SAM / FAMILY /  GRANDDAUGHTER / BACK TO ART / GRANDSON / SUNKEN HUNDRED / DREAM COMES TRUE / DOMINIC ROCKS /
 NEW YORK WELSH / LOCATION,LOCATION, LOCATION / HOME TRUTHS / DIAGNOSIS /
 CLOSURE / FAILURE / HERE I AM AGAIN.

Mozart Dedeaux
“Conservationist /naturalist, Moz studied painting and sculpture at Loyola University in New Orleans, then worked in the music industry in NYC where he was a session player and recording artist with Capital Records. Currently he shows his work in galleries and universities and is the owner of Design DeDeaux, Organic Audio Recording in Gulfport MS, and Head Creative for Butch Oustalet Media.”

Aidan Grant
Let’s skip the nonsense of trying to navigate a narration of my life.  Let’s skip the lame attempt to validate being an artist. Let’s skip the tale of a determined creative from the old Emerald Isle.
The reality is my photo journalistic, magazine, analogue background became a defunct medium.
I’d traveled and schooled intensely, gained a legitimate understanding of exposure and saturation, just to be uninspired.
I found myself brooding behind a bar, often drunk and certainly disillusioned, seriously giving new meaning to exposure and saturation.  After years of ignoring my artistic will, I cracked.Luckily the cracks opened me up, acted as an aperture, and let the light back in. I could no longer ignore the picturesque images around me.
It was New York, the diversity, the people, music, art, culture, and mind bending humanity, all pleading with me to snap a shot.  And so I did. This time I photographed with a living experience so luminous, so drenched in the unexpected, and so riddled with human nature, that I saw things I hadn’t seen before.

The road down environmental portraiture is a road I want to be on. It has truly inspired me these last few years.  Course It’s also yielded many a photo of everyday city folk picking at a wedgie, priceless stuff.
I hope to take pictures here in NYC indefinitely, and yes I still sling beer with a brooding sneer.

Stephen Hall
Stephen Hall, born in Scotland, is an artist who takes a traditional approach to a modern subject. Now living in New York, his work is indicative of a surging talent which has been refined over many years. Each of his paintings is a composition of numerous layers, executed without any modern trickery such as digital assistance or an airbrush and the resulting lush density of color and variation of light owns the viewer’s attention.
Through his work, Stephen explores the relationships we have with not just each other, but times, places and surroundings – couple this with a desire to portray the underlying order in our increasingly chaotic lives and you end up with vivid, yet somewhat intoxicating imagery, finished with a slick style and intense precision. Over the past several years has become more interested in the threat posed by man on our environment and the wildlife living in it.
Stephen has not only been exhibiting worldwide since the early 80’s, but his work also resides in corporate and private collections and has been featured in movies, music videos and magazines. On top of this he has also illustrated book covers for A.A. Milne, J.G. Ballard and Russell Greenan amongst others.

Steve Joester
Steve Joester a British born photographer, began in the rock and roll world. He worked between the UK and the US, finally settling in NYC.

As a leading Rock & Roll photographer in the 70’s and 80’s, Joester had his iconic images of the greatest rock performers appear on album sleeves, posters, exhibitions and magazines worldwide. He made his mark shooting icons such as Mick Jagger, Bob Marley, Neil Young, Sting, and also documented Andy Warhol on film with Rob Halford of Judas Priest backstage at the Palladium in April, 1979.

Joester traveled to Cuba multiple times in the mid ’90’s, turning his lens on the streets of Old Havana, capturing the strange world of ‘the special period.’ Russia had pulled out, along with their funding, plunging the island into a desperate state. 

“The people of ‘La Habana Vieja’, materially, had nothing! But, creative spirit and time was in abundance and it was consumed at a languid yet intense pace”  

Joester’s work is in collections internationally.

Robert Ross
Robert is a builder, writer, actor, film maker, bon vivant, raconteur and man about town. He is pleased to be exhibiting as a fine artist for the first time. Proving once again that he is a jackass of all trades and master of none.

Dedication of GVSHP Historic Plaque at Westbeth

Join GVSHP to unveil an historic plaque marking the Westbeth Artist’s Housing complex in Greenwich Village. This unique complex of buildings served as the home of Bell Telephone Labs, where many technological innovations were developed or advanced, including radar, television and video telephones. The complex re-opened in 1970 as Westbeth, an early example of large-scale adaptive re-use of an industrial building.

Featured Speakers include:
Andrew Berman Executive Director of GVSHP
Patricia Jones Interim Executive Director of Westbeth
Nancy Gabor VP of Westbeth Artists Residents Council
Joan Davidson President Emeritus of J M Kaplan Fund
Domhnaill Hernon – Nokia Bell Labs

A Reception follows in the Westbeth Lobby

A Free Event

More info and registration at Grteenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

Let’s talk about
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Before vaccines, people became immune only by actually getting a disease and surviving it. Immunizations are an easier and less risky way to become immune.

Brought to you by Grove Drugs, the neighborhood pharmacy located on 8th Avenue near 12th Street.
Ilana Aminov BSPHarm RPH is the Speaker
Robert Embrey, Host

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Tune Up Your Vibes : the Therapeutic Power of Sound with Melissa Zollo

When: Tuesdays, Oct 16, 23, 30, 2018 at 4:00PM – 5:30PM
Where: Westbeth Community Room

TUNE UP YOUR VIBES!

• Tune into Your Inner Reserves of Life Energy for Harmony and Wellbeing!
• Restore and Revitalize Yourself Naturally —
• Open to a Truly Joyful Life with just a handful of easy-to-learn techniques that effectively work with the body’s own energy system. 

In this workshop you will learn how you can harness your own energy to serve you in a myriad of ways. Stop rowing upstream against your own energetic currents. Learn the easy rules and regs of energy and watch your life change!

Part 1: ENERGY BALANCING EXERCISES Many of us would love to have more energy and vitality in our daily lives, and energy balancing gives us easy-to-use tools for balancing the energy fields of the body to improve every aspect of our physical and emotional lives. You will learn: *ways to wake your energy up and get it moving in the right direction; *how other people’s energy can affect you; *how to boost resilience and vitality; *how to release stress, balance emotions and build new inner circuitry that powers a balanced version of yourself. These energy exercises combine movement, tapping, and self-massage to enhance overall health and well-being.

Part 2: SOUND BATH — A Sound Bath intentionally uses sound to invite restorative results. Participants relax on mats or sit in a chair and allow the waves of sound to wash over them. The experience is guided by therapeutic instruments. Emerge feeling balanced, energized, and deeply connected to your best self!

The energy balancing techniques and processes in this workshop are from Kinesiology, Touch for Health and Energy Medicine. They are not designed for treatment or diagnosis and do not replace competent professional healthcare. Should you have any contraindications please check with your doctor before attending.
Bring your own mat, water & if you chill easily bring a cover.
 Sponsored by WARC with a grant from NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson

WHAT IS SOUND HEALING?

Sound Healing is founded on the premise that all matter is vibrating at specific frequencies. Science has proven that sound, or vibration, has a strong impact upon substance. Sound healing is a gentle, effective, non-invasive way to ease pain, reduce stress and ultimately have more joy.

Clinical studies have shown that an integral approach to sound healing helps with 80% of health challenges.

Melissa Zollo is a graduate of the Sound Healing Academy in England and is a certified integral sound healer, vibrational sound practitioner, Touch for Health & Applied Kinesiology Energy Facilitator.

She is a certified restorative hypnotherapist with advanced certifications in hypnosis for cancer patients, imprint removal, weight loss, regression, painless childbirth and hoarding.

Ms. Zollo is the author of “Daily Appetizer’s to Make Life a Feast” and the audio programs: Discover the Power of Imagination & the Art of Intentional Creation, How to Release the Power Within and Attract Money and Secrets of the Law of Vibration.

For more information please visit www.melissazollo.com
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