Category Archives: Past Events

SUMMER JAZZ CABARET – OPEN MIC – JUNE 25 from 7pm – 11pm

at WESTBETH COMMUNITY ROOM

Swing into Summer with the elegant piano stylings of Rom Ferri, who along with Eve Zanni and Louis Colon invite you to a SUMMER JAZZ OPEN MIC SESSION at the historic Westbeth Community
Room.

Singers come prepared with at least 2 songs.
Singers $10 per person.

LISTENERS WELCOME

Directions:

Westbeth Artists Community
55 Bethune Street (corner of Washington)
By Train: A, C, E (front of train) to 14th Street, then walk south (downtown) on 8th Avenue (Hudson Street) 5 short blocks to Bethune, turn right and walk another two blocks west.
OR
1, 2, 3 (front of train) to 14th Street, exit on 12th Street, walk west on 12th about 6 short blocks to Washington Street, turn left 1 block.
OR
By Bus: M11 goes to Hudson and Bethune (last stop), walk two blocks west.
14A bus on 14th Street to last stop at 12th and Hudson, then west on Bethune 2 blocks.

If anyone needs help, call Eve Zanni’s cellphone at 212.228.1141.

Westbeth Gallery Annex: the 9-11 Decade – 14 Artists Reflect

15 August – 17 September 2011

Westbeth Artists’ Housing is proud to present a new show memoralizing artists’ response in the decade after 9-11. Organized by Brenda Berkman, a retired NYC firefighter, with assistance from State Senator Tom Duane, and subsequent help from Karen Santry – gallery annex coordinator, the Westbeth Artists Residents Council, and Steve Neil, Executive Director, this show is a deep and complex response to the events of that day and the days that follow.

Westbeth Gallery Annex: Enter at the 155 Bank Street Courtyard up the ramp into the Inner Courtyard and turn right. Gallery open 10am – 6pm

Check out NY1 Report on show

WESTBETH GALLERY – Friends in Steel

Group Sculpture Show
21 May – 5 June 2011

Jonathan Bauch

Featuring the work of Jonathan Bauch, Roya Farassat,
JJ Veronis and Lee Whiting.

I feel that the work adds multiple
voices of steel sculpture to the show
– Jonathan Bauch

Opening: 21 May 5 – 8 pm.
Gallery open Thurs – Sun 1 – 6pm

whitney museum at westbeth

On Saturday May 21st, in celebration of the groundbreaking for the Whitney’s new Meatpacking District location, the Museum will also be hosting a Community Day. Community Day brings the Whitney’s unique programming to the neighborhood for the day, with activities and artist collaborations for families, teens, and adults. These programs will take place at various venues throughout the neighborhood, are free, and open to the public. Stop by the tent at Washington St. and Gansevoort St. for more information!

Chalk it Up!

11am – 4pm: Families are invited to take a chalk art break at the Westbeth Artist Housing’s courtyard space. Street artist Ellis Gallagher’s sidewalk creations will inspire families to add their own chalk masterpieces.
Chalk it Up!

Youth Insights Spring Exhibition

12pm – 6 pm
Westbeth Community Room
Whitney’s Youth Insights (YI) program provides opportunities for teens to work collaboratively, discuss art critically, think creatively, and make art inspired by this exchange. This exhibition presents works of art and writing created by YI teens in collaboration with Artists-in-Residence Angel Otero and Wardell Milan.

Youth Insights Spring Exhibition

Plaque for Bell Telephone Labs at Westbeth

On 19 May 2011, Westbeth Artists Housing will enter the Register of Historic Physics Sites as the original location of Bell Telephone Labs where in 1927 the first direct demonstration of de Broglie’s famous theorem on elementary particles was performed. Everyone is invited to attend the ceremony organised by the American Physical Society at the main entrance at 55 Bethune Street.

The plaque reads:
At this site, the original location of Bell Telephone Laboratories, C J Davisson and L H Germer in 1927 performed the first direct demonstration of the wave-like behavior of elementary particles, predicted by L de Broglie in 1923. The Davisson-Germer experiment provided crucial empirical evidence for the validity of the then rapidly evolving theory of quantum mechanics. In those years and subsequently many important scientific and technological discoveries were made at the same laboratory.

Historic Physics Site, Register of Historic Sites
Plaque installed by American Physical Society