Category Archives: Past Events

Bob Gruen and Elizbeth Gregory-Gruen featured in The Villager article: HOW THE WESTBETH WAS WON

photo; Bob Krasner for The Villager

BY BOB KRASNER | Bob Gruen still recalls the moment vividly — and, no, it didn’t involve an event from his storied career as a rock-’n’-roll photographer.

“When I got the call that there was an apartment for me in Westbeth,” he said, “it was the most exciting moment of my life.”

That was in 1970, when he grabbed one of the last four spaces available in the new affordable artists’ housing complex.

Gruen’s files include the iconic portrait of his friend John Lennon wearing a “New York City” T-shirt — with the sleeves torn off at Gruen’s suggestion to give him more edge — as well as shots of Elvis, the Sex Pistols, Elton John, the Rolling Stones, the Ramones, Johnny Thunders, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin and, well, the list goes on.

Read the entire Villager article HERE

WESTBETH OPENS WAITING LIST

Westbeth Artists Housing Lottery Application Process

WESTBETH ARTISTS HOUSING

RE-OPENING WAITING LIST

As of April 15, 2019, requests for applications for the waiting list at Westbeth is closed.

The deadline to submit a completed application is May 31st, 2019. Completed applications must be mailed by regular mail only, sent to the Post Office Box address indicated on the application, and postmarked by the application deadline date. Applications received after the deadline will not be processed.

Please carefully follow directions on how to complete and submit the application. If more than one application is received from the same household, all applications from that household will be dropped to the end of the list. The waiting list will be established by lottery.

It is illegal to discriminate against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin. This Equal Housing Opportunity is supervised by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

WESTFEST DANCE FESTIVAL 2019
Dance Inside/Out
April 25 – April 28, 2019

WESTFEST
DANCE INSIDE/OUT
April 25th – 28th

Westbeth Artists’ Residence
55 Bethune St / 155 Bank St New York, NY 10014
www.westfestdance.com

TIME OUT names WESTFEST one of the best dance concerts in NYC this month. Click HERE

WESTFEST is a cutting edge, curated dance festival presenting established and emerging movement artists in the historic Westbeth Artists’ Residence in West Village, NYC. The festival includes two distinct programs: WestFest Top Floor and All Over Westbeth.

WESTFEST TOP FLOOR
Join us April 25th – 28th, 8PM for WestFest – Top Floor at the Martha Graham Studio Theater as we present visionary NYC dance artists in a traditional theater setting.

Program A – Thursday, April 25th and Saturday, April 27th at 8PM – includes artists Carol Nolte/Dance Collective, danceTactics performance group / Keith A. Thompson, Amos Pinhasi, Claire Porter / PORTABLES, Choreographer My Lindblad Szlavik (SE/DK), Chloe London Dance, Benjamin Freedman, and Li Chiao-Ping/Li Chiao-Ping Dance.

Program B – Friday, April 26th and Sunday, April 28th at 8PM – includes artists BOiNK! Dance & Film, Jamal Jackson Dance Company, The Bang Group, LMnO3 (Deborah Lohse, Cori Marquis, and Donnell Oakley), HUMA, Ramona Sekulovic, Louise Benkelman & Tommy Seibold, and Abarukas.

Tickets: $20
Purchase Ticket Link: TBD
Time: 8 PM
Running Time: 1 hour
Location: 55 Bethune St, New York, NY 10014

ALL OVER WESTBETH
Our site-specific program, takes place on the weekend of April 27 & 28th. Join us for guided tours of Westbeth’s unique architectural history featuring original dance creations tailored to several of the community’s most iconic spaces.

Free tours begin every 15 minutes from 2-4 PM both days.

Performers include TruDee, BOiNK! Dance & Film, Sarah Esser, Kevin Clark – Soluq Dance Theater, Taylor Donofrio & Donofrio Dance Company, N E 1 4 Dance, Copy That Dance, Molly Mingey.

Tickets: FREE
Tours: Every 15 minutes from 2-4 PM
Running Time: 1 hour
More Info: www.westfestdance.com
Location: 155 Bank St, New York, NY 10014

CONTACT:
Carol Nolte – Founder / Artistic Director & Founder westfestdance@gmail.com
Lauren Hafner Sheehan & Dylan Baker / Producers westfestdance@gmail.com

Activities at the Martha Graham Studio Theater are made possible in part by generous support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
WestFest 2019 is made possible by a generous grant from NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson.
WestFest 2019 is produced under the auspices of the Westbeth Artists’ Residents Council. westbeth.org

Marilynn Grant Barr
THE FIRST SHOE COLLECTION
Is How We Walk Who We Are?

Marilynn Grant Barr’s The First Shoe Collection features life-sized ceramic shoes that merge utility, history, and creativity—begging the question “Is how we walk who we are?”

February 2- February 23, 2019.
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 2, 2019, 6-9pm.

Westbeth Gallery, 55 Bethune Street, NYC.
Gallery hours: Wednesday to Sunday 1-6 pm.

“Besides protection from the elements…” Barr writes, “Shoes continue to attract commoners and celebrities alike—you, me, ‘Carrie Bradshaw,’ Parineeti Chopra, Whoopi Goldberg, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Wendy Williams, and more to a sumptuous footwear feast to wear, collect, and display.”

“Every shoe has a story” Barr states. Inspired by a vintage, wooden shoe last liberated from a second-hand store, Barr made The First Shoe (a pink spiral design with cerulean lace and a chunky heel ceramic shoe) that harkened to “my love of carnival cotton candy.” Then dozens of sketches followed, which served as blueprints for a collection influenced by music, art, history, … and continues to grow.

Barr is a practicing artist based in Greensboro, NC. She is an alumna of the high school of Music & Art, NYC where she majored in art and the University of North Carolina where she earned her Bachelor and Masters degrees. Her works have been included in juried exhibits and she is a recipient of the North Carolina Arts Council’s Regional Artist Project Grant.

Barr works to provoke conversations of “iconic imagery that imprinted your style,” adding, “I hope to entertain and intrigue audiences; to initiate chatter about dying industries; answer questions about who we are, and discuss, though vintage is currently buried in the digital-divide, can it be, the new kid on the block? I wonder.”

The First Shoe Collection—Is how we walk who we are? I wonder by Marilynn Grant Barr.

GrowNYC and WARC present
a recycling event

Bring clean, reusable, portable items such as clothing, books, toys, electronics, household appliances.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO BRING SOMETHING TO TAKE SOMETHING.

Please DO NOT bring expired food, opened personal care items, ripped dirty clothing, fabric scraps, non working electronics, large furniture, or incomplete toys and books.

Westbeth Community Room
12:00PM – 3:00PM
155 Bank St b/w West and Washington Sts
enter through courtyard

GrowNY helps New Yorkers by providing essential services and taking action to make NYC a truly livable city, one where every person can flourish.