The Westbeth Icon evening celebrates senior artists who continue to work in their field.

The newest Westbeth icon is Jack Davidson, New York actor. The evening, posted here, feature features an interview with Jack about his life and work, tributes by colleagues and family, and remarks by Jack himself.

Show Dates: January 15 – March 31, 2020

Where: Westbeth First Floor Exhibition Space
55 Bethune St
New York, NY

Open: 24/7

STILL MOMENTS is a series of photos shot on my travels here and abroad, including captures from Sydney, Australia, Uruguay, South America, Tuscany, Italy, Vietnam, Lancaster, PA and New York City.

I am an observer of life and teller of stories. My eyes wander, seeing all around me as my ears listen to the sounds and the voices. Born with an insatiable curiosity to learn and specifically to learn about others, I am drawn to traveling near and far. I see and capture moments in time – colors, shapes, feelings, moods, expressions, and relationships. My life is a journey and I share it through my art whether it is photography, film, art, poetry, prose or storytelling. I invite my audience, reader, viewer into my world to see what I see, to feel what I feel, and often finding their own personal connection and experience.

Gayle Kirschenbaum is a creator who expresses herself in many forms. She began life as a visual artist and started taking photos where she loved spending hours in her darkroom. She found herself shooting stories with her photographs and painting them in an impressionist way. Her desire to use words and sound led her to moving images. She became an Emmy award-winning filmmaker whose films and programs have premiered on Netflix, HBO, and Discovery. They include Look At Us Now, Mother!, A Dog’s Life: A Dogamentary, My Nose and Little Parents. Her last film led to an invitation to give a TEDx talk called No More Drama With Mama about forgiveness. She speaks and teaches on this topic. Gayle has found herself returning to her first love, photography. Her photographs were exhibited in Spain at the Barcelona Foto Biennale in October 2018, received an honorable mention under landscape for the Pollux Awards 2019, and have been in Westbeth group shows.

She has been featured widely in the media including New York Times, NBC Today Show, Jerusalem Post and Psychology Today. She is a member of Producers Guild of America (PGA) and a judge for the Emmys and PGA.

To learn more visit GayleKirschenbaum.com, LookAtUsNowMother.com,
KirschenbaumProductions.com.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glkirschenbaum/

If interested please email Gayle@GayleKirschenbaum.com

BALANCE AND STRENGTH TRAINING CLASS
Westbeth Community Room
Mondays 2PM – 3PM
Starts January 6, 2020.

FREE
Jennifer Gibson is certified through the reputable Integral Yoga Institute of New York City, which has served the West Village community and surrounding areas for over 50 years.

Jennifer has been a Yoga Instructor for the past 12 years, specializing in yoga for seniors since 2011.
She is thrilled to share the tools of yoga with seniors for balance and building strength. In Jennifer’s current work with seniors, what began as one class quickly grew into three different classes per week, each packed with 20-30 students. Participants range between the ages of early 60s to early 90s and have a wide variety of ability.

Jennifer is passionate about making the practice of yoga accessible to everyone. She loves how appreciative seniors are to learn yoga and how much they look forward to every class, and she is excited to bring the benefits of yoga to the Westbeth community.

Sponsored by Westbeth Artists Residents Council and New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson

SING TIME SESSIONS
Westbeth Community Room
Fridays 4:30PM – 6:00PM
Starts January 3, 2020

Live piano accompaniment, vocal warm-ups, rhythmic body movement, ear training and improvisation. No Experience Necessary!

Eve Zanni, jazz artist and Somatic Voice teacher, has taught voice for over 2 decades, directed choirs for the Metropolitan Opera Guild, and teaches Circle improvisation.

Contact:westbethmusicworks@gmail.com

FREE Sponsored by Westbeth Artists Residents Council and New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson

FELDENKRAIS
Westbeth Community Room
Thurdays 4PM – 5PM
Starts January 2, 2020

Doron Tadmor is a Feldenkrais Guild certified teacher

Class lasts 1 hour
$5 Donation per class

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 and grow.

Contact: Sandra Kingsbury westbethevents@gmail.com

Sponsored by Westbeth Beautfication Committee

YOU’RE NEVER TOO OLD TO PLAY
Westbeth Community Room
Thursdays 11Am – 2 PM
STARTS Jan 9, 2020
CLASS IS FILLED.

Sign up for waiting list.
Email: gaborworks@gmail.com
You must be 55 years old and up.

Nancy Gabor, director and acting teacher leads a 12 week continuous workshop concentrating on movement, improvisation, and storytelling. No experience necessary. Learn and grow in a safe, supportive environment.

Sponsored by the Westbeth Artists Residents Council, the creative Aging Workshop is a partnership between the Westbeth Artists Residents Council and Pier 55. Open to the public year round, Pier 55 will revitalize a part of Hudson River Park with almost 3 acres of new public park space featuring lush greenery and a diverse array of accessible arts, educational and community programming to people of all ages. It will be an iconic and welcoming open space for all New Yorkers. Opening in Hudson River Park near 13th St in Spring 2021.

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2020 Repertory Season

When: Sundays: January 19 and 26, 2020
Two Shows 11AM and 2:00PM

Where: Westbeth Community Room
155 Bank Street (b/w Washington and West Sts)
New York, NY
enter through courtyard

Mother Goose Tales – Classic Tales and Fables. Lots of fun for the very young. The Three Little Pigs, and more. This is interactive puppet theater in an intimate space for young children. With lots of participation, fun and games, and Mother Goose Rhymes. A hit for generations. With Jack, the Pied Piper and Mother Goose’s silly dog Toby. – And make a puppet to take home after the show!

“Very simple, and perfect as an introduction to theatre.” -New York Magazine
“Charming.” -The New York Times
“Warm, funny, direct and charming.” -Gannet Newspapers

PENNY JONES & Co. PUPPETS
Early Childhood Puppet Theatre

A VILLAGE GEM FOR 45 YEARS

PENNY JONES & CO. PUPPETS has been a mainstay of children’s theater in New York since the 1970’s. The company specializes in informal puppet shows for children aged three to eight, and puppet ballets with live music for audiences of adults, children or both. The company performs in collaboration with chamber ensembles and orchestras. The repertory includes adaptations of classical works as well as original stories and scores. In schools, the company has performed hundreds of times, and Penny has a wide variety of programs from puppet pageants with a cast and crew of 30 to 90 school children, to workshops for small classes, and Penny’s “One on One” – interweaving puppetry, storytelling, movement and arts.

The company has appeared on television, in the Henson International Puppet Festival at the Public Theatre, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, at BAM with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, at City Center, Avery Fisher Hall, and in museums including The Museum of the City of New York, The Children’s Museum of New York, the American Museum of Natural History, at Emelin, Wave Hill, the Washington Square Music Festival, at venues from Macy’s to Barnes & Noble, and with orchestras at Bargemusic, Casa de España, Greenwich House Music School, with the New Jersey Symphony, and many, many, more…