Category Archives: Past Events

WESTBETH GALLERY: January 28- Karina Cavat

January 28 – February 12, 2012

SYMMETRY IN BEING casein on paper 22 x 85 inches

Karina Cavat’s first solo exhibition at the Westbeth Gallery opens Saturday, January 28, 2012 at the Westbeth Artists Housing in Lower Manhattan. The exhibition “ Psalms from a Painter” is from a series of works on wood and paper painted over a four year period and is based on the artist’s nomadic spiritual search and ongoing response to the feeling of a new world. Many of the formats that are shown are in triptych and vertical compositions and explore harmonious arrangements dedicated to the macro and micro dimensions found in Nature and the cosmos.

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westbeth gallery: Holiday group show 2011 – watercolors, paintings and fine art prints

OPENING Saturday Dec 18, from 5 pm – 7 pm

Christina Maile STATION 14 - MAINE from 26 VIEWS OF WESTBETH 2011

Holiday Group show features the work of established and emerging artists including Jon D’Orazio, Tamara Wyndham, William Kennon, Laurence Hoffman, Barnaby Ruhre, Jack Dowling, Francia, Claire Rosenfeld, Stephen Hall, and more.

December 18 2011 – January 1, 2012
Thursday – Sunday 1pm – 6 pm

JAZZ CABARET OPEN MIC Friday Dec 16 in Westbeth Community Room

COME SING AND SHARE YOUR WINTER DREAMS…..at the Jazz Open Mic hosted by Eve Zanni and the elegant piano stylings of Rom Ferri.

Bring your blues, ballads, bossas, boleros, swing songs…whatever warms your winter fancy….

Friday December 16th, 7-11pm

at the Westbeth Community Room

Singers: $10 per person. Come prepared with 2 or more songs. Listeners welcome!

Directions:

Westbeth Artists Community, in the Community Room
55 Bethune Street (corner of Washington)

Rom Ferri romferri@hotmail.com H: 212.989.3187 nJazz Pianist/Accompanist /Private Instruction: Piano, Ear Training, Composition, Analysis

WESTBETH HOME TO THE ARTS FILM SCREENING: Feb 16 at 6:30pm

Join filmmaker George Cominskie at a screening of Westbeth—Home to the Arts, a documentary selected for the 2011 Manhattan Film Festival. The film explores the unique history of the recently landmarked Westbeth Artists Residence in the Far West Village. Westbeth was created in 1970 as affordable housing for artists by the J.M. Kaplan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. This intimate film shows how Westbeth revitalized the arts in a changing Greenwich Village and demonstrates why every large city around the world should have its own Westbeth.

Thursday, February 16
6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Westbeth Community Room, 155 Bank Street
(between Washington & West Streets)
Free; reservations required.
RSVP to rsvp@gvshp.org or (212) 475-9585 ext. 35

FIRST FRIDAYS Presents 3SPIRIT Live Music Concert on June 1, 2012

WESTBETH COMMUNITY ROOM in Westbeth–ask at desk.
55 BETHUNE STREET at WASHINGTON ST
7-9:30 PM
$10 (suggested donation)

3SPIRIT (Val Hawk, Vicki Doney, and Nancy Reed) can be heard on a diverse array of recordings, from “Tony Caruso’s Final Broadcast,” a modern opera recently released on the Naxos label, to ABC’s “Schoolhouse Rock” with Bob Dorough for whom they sang backup in their first incarnation as “THE BOBETTES.”

This last year, 3SPIRIT was featured on Public Radio’s “Homegrown Music” and most recently appeared at the COTA Jazz Festival. Vicki Doney can be heard Monday nights at “The Garage” with the Howard Williams Orchestra. Nancy Reed is vocalist for “The Ellington Orchestra.” Val Hawk, when not writing or arranging for 3SPIRIT, is working on the completion of her long awaited jazz CD, “DREAM”.

VAL HAWK made her “Schoolhouse Rock” debut in 1994 playing guitar and singing the voice of Becky Sue in Money Rocks “Dollars and Sense.” As a member of jazz vocal group The Ritz she sang, played guitar, and contributed arrangements for “Almost Blue” (Denon). For the Japanese market, she can be heard on “Seventies Reminiscence” (Columbia Japan) and “A Long Vacation” which she also lyricized. Having studied at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and The Actor’s Institute and appearing Off Broadway before abandoning acting, Val has just made her return to the stage in the role of Grace in “Let the Phoenix Rise.”

More First Friday concerts are scheduled and culminate with the 6th ANNUAL WESTBETH MUSIC FESTIVAL September 21, 22, and 23, 2012.
FOR BIOS AND LINKS GO TO www.westbeth.org ARTISTSPERFORMING ARTISTS.
Located in the far West Village of New York City, Westbeth Artists’ Housing provides affordable living and working spaces for artists and their families. Opened in 1970 through funding provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the J.M. Kaplan Foundation, Westbeth continues to offer affordable artists’ housing and an array of cultural activities. Recently Westbeth was land marked under NYC Landmark laws, and it has been nominated to the State Registrar of Historic Places and to the National Registrar of Historic Places.