Biographies of the Poets

Shelley Seccombe (named for P. B. Shelley)
It gives me great pleasure to share this pursuit with other writers, including my brother and sister. I am grateful to Otis and the poets who share their Sunday evening readings with the Westbeth group. — Shelley Seccombe (named for P.B. Shelley)

John Silver
Grew up Cold Spring Harbor, L.I. Does covers, poems for Tamarind a coalition magazine. Hosted Tamarind Collation for 10 years. Moved to Westbeth,
Published in AND THEN, and other anthologies.
Hosted Westbeth readings. Curator of The Image and The Word Exhibition at the Westbeth Gallery. 2 Books of poetry (UNDERFIELD PRESS). Contributed covers and poems to White Rabbit and other anthological constructions. John Silver also paints.

Linda Marks
Linda Marks has been writing poetry in NYC for over 40 years and reading and publishing in small venues. She prides herself on writing accessible poetry.

Otis Kidwell Burger
I’m from an old New England family of abolitionist, preachers and some writers like Mary Otis Warren and Sydney Gay. Nature has always been important in my writing. I spent my childhood in the woods of Staten Island and later, many summers in the woods of New York and Connecticut.

$5.00 per class

Contact: Sandra Kingsbury westbethevents
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Sponsored by Westbeth Beautfication Committee

Doron Tadmor is a Feldenkrais Guild certified teacher

Class lasts 1 hour

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 how to:

attend to his/her whole self
eliminate unnecessary energy expenditure
mobilize his/her intentions into actions
learn and improve

The story of Hot Springs native Jack Coleman Cook is one of heroism and making the ultimate sacrifice for his fellow man. Hear from Navigator Edward Field, the man whose life was saved because of Sergeant Cook 73 years ago.

Dance Projects, Inc. presents Beth Soll & Company in “The Window: Visions and Ordinary Rituals”: A new dance choreographed by Westbeth resident, Beth Soll and danced Karesia Batan, Bridget Cronin, Kristen Hedberg, Michelle Micca, Emma Pressman, Beth Soll and Lea Torelli. Music by J.S. Bach and new music by Carolyn Lord and Dewey Emadoo. Also on the program: Beth Soll’s solo: “Dance for Ina,”

When: Saturday, May 5 at 8:30 pm and Sunday May 6 at 3 pm
What: Dance for Ina (2017) and The Window: Visions and Ordinary Rituals (premiere)
Where: Martha Graham Studio Theater at 55 Bethune Street in NYC. 11th floor.

Admission: General $18. Seniors (65+) $15. Children (ages 5-10) $5.

Reservations and/or tickets at brownpapertickets.com or at bethsbron@gmail.com or tickets at the door (cash only).

Information: bethsollandcompany.org, bethsbron@gmail.com, https://m.facebook.com/Dance- Projects-Inc-Beth-Soll-Co- 449503308531483/

Event:
This event will feature a premiere performance of the full-length dance, “The Window: Visions and Ordinary Rituals,” which will be performed by Soll’s company of seven dancers. In addition, Beth Soll will perform “Dance for Ina” (2017) to traditional jazz and the music of J.S. Bach.

“The Window: Visions and Ordinary Rituals,” with music by New York composers Carolyn Lord and Dewey Emadoo, was inspired by the current interest in meditation practices and by rituals in both everyday life and more official contexts. Within the dance, visions of peaceful meditative movement interludes are juxtaposed with unofficial and sometimes athletic, secular rituals.

When: Friday April 20
Where: Westbeth Community Room 155 Bank Street
When: 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Tickets: $20
Order tickets here: https://worldvoices.pen.org/session/literary-quest-westbeth-edition/

Experience the artist’s life in one of New York’s leading artist housing communities. The artist-residents of this cultural institution open their homes for intimate, salon-style readings and conversations with Festival authors, followed by cocktails in their legendary gallery.

With PEN Authors:
Nachoem M. Wijnberg (Amsterdam, 1961) is a Dutch poet and novelist. His poetry has received many awards, including the 2018 PC Hooft Prize, the most important career award in the Netherlands. His work has been translated into many languages, books in English include Advance Payment (Anvil Press/Carcanet, 2013), Divan of Ghalib (White Pine Press, 2016) and Of Great Importance (Punctum, 2018).He is also a professor at the University of Amsterdam Business School.

Rupert Thomson’s latest novel is Never Anyone But You slated to publish with Other Press this June. He is the author of nine highly acclaimed novels, including Katherine Carlyle; Secrecy; The Insult, which was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and selected by David Bowie as one of his 100 Must-Read Books of All Time. He lives in London.

Ashley Hay’s work has been praised for its “incandescent intelligence and a rare sensibility.” An award-winning essayist and science writer, her three novels–The Body in the Clouds, The Railwayman’s Wife, and A Hundred Small Lessons–have received or been shortlisted for literary awards in Australia and beyond.

Susan Kuklin is an author and photographer of nonfiction books for young adults, including Beyond Magenta, Transgender Teens Speak Out, No Choirboy: Murder, Violence and Teenagers on Death Row, and Dance, coauthored with Bill T. Jones. Her photographs have appeared in major newspapers and magazines, documentary films, and the permanent collection at the Museum of the City of New York.

Susan will be reading from a soon-to-be-published book, Here to Stay, Undocumented Young Adults.

Trifonia Melibea Obono is a journalist and a professor at the National University of Equatorial Guinea. She is pursuing her doctorate in gender studies and human rights from the University of Salamanca, Spain.

Sharon Bala’s debut novel, The Boat People, was published by McClelland & Stewart and Doubleday US in January 2018. The manuscript won the Percy Janes First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Fresh Fish Award. A three-time recipient of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Arts and Letters award, she has stories published in Hazlitt, Grain, The Dalhousie Review, and others.