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Arlene Gottfried featured in article in Time.com

Arlene Gottfried Bathing Beauty

The Granit Hotel and Country Club in Kerhonkson, N.Y., where vacationers would come to kick back and relax as recently as the 1980s (but even more so during its heyday in the ’50s and ’60s.)

For many – mostly wealthy, elderly, white singles from Florida – this hotel in the popular hills of the Catskills was a summer haven where they could recover from the scorching sun of the South. A wide range of activities was available and mingling was encouraged while dancing by the pool, exercising in the park, even participating in costume contests.

Thankfully, the sharp, irreverent yet ever genuine eye of New York photographer Arlene Gottfried was there as well – on the edge of the pool, on the dance floor of the lounge – to quietly capture the frivolous extravaganza that lives in these never-seen-before photographs.

Read more here:
http://time.com/3944124/the-extravagant-summers-of-vacationers-in-the-catskills/

WESTFEST 2015 dance review – A sheer thrill!

WESTFEST NEWS ARTICLE 2015

WestFest’s “All Over Westbeth” takes advantage of the site-specific possibilities of the Westbeth Artists Community, an enormous complex in the far West Village. A former Bell Laboratory, the buildings were repurposed in the 60s to provide inexpensive housing for creators of all stripes. Curators Carol Nolte and Carol Mendes say, “WestFest itself was born from the idea of embracing the outstanding artist history at the Westbeth’s building.” In “All Over Westbeth,” residents lead tours through the sprawling compound for small groups to witness short spurts of dance unfolding in the most unexpected of places.

Read the full article by Erin Bomboy here: The Dance Enthusaist

Will Westbeth be the new St Vincent’s? Read the article by Catherine Revland published in WestView .

REVENUE RUNAROUND: A view of Westbeth’s prime commercial luxury space: sweet deal or a breach of fiduciary trust? Photo: Ramscale.

REVENUE RUNAROUND: A view of Westbeth’s prime commercial luxury space: sweet deal or a breach of fiduciary trust? Photo: Ramscale.

Westbeth Board Sues the Attorney General

From its inception in 1970 the revenue from artist residents has far exceeded that of the commercial tenants, and for decades the Westbeth Board of Directors’ excuse has been the undesirability of the neighborhood. Although this excuse is no longer valid, the current Board refuses to reveal information about the current commercial rent roll. In fact, Executive Director Steven Neil has told the Westbeth Artist Residents Council (WARC) they do not have the right to receive any details about Westbeth’s finances.

Read more here: http://westviewnews.org/2015/05/will-westbeth-be-the-next-st-vincents/

Carol Hebald publishes new chapbook of poems, Colloquy

CAROL HEBALD Postcard(FRONT&BACK)

In these poems Carol Hebald’s “Colloquy” with the too-soon-departed father glitters with a honed craft as she poignantly grapples with a universe of personal emblems and elemental memories, invoking the natural world and conflicted love. For example, as she reports in these evocative lines from “In Memoriam”:
I feel your absence
more than I miss your presence.
Where you went I never knew.
The key my memory left with you
is underneath the snow…
Oh my father, I call your name
but cannot speak your name.
—Hugh Seidman, author of: Somebody Stand Up and Sing (from New Issues Press 2005)

Carol Hebald’s new collection Colloquy is an extraordinary achievement. It’s a dialogue between a young woman and her father, who died when she was a young child. Their voices, his imagined from beyond the grave, merge on and off through this lyric meditation. Even though the poems are connected, each poem is self-contained and remarkable, and many individual poems contain the full drama of the whole. Whether in the first or third person, an intimacy is experienced throughout. “How passionately we spoke, how well!” she says to her father, and this is so true of the poetry on every page.
—Barry Wallenstein, author of DRASTIC DISLOCATIONS, New & Selected Poems (NYQ Books).

Rivers of soft rain and storms of hot blood run through Carol Hebald’s new and most impassioned collection of poems. COLLOQUY is a beautifully crafted work of yearning memory that explores the dark worlds of temptation, seduction, and abuse, and the final journey to forgiveness and light in the history of a daughter’s and father’s love.

—Martin Tucker, author of PLENTY OF EXITS, and Editor-Emeritus of CONFRONTATION Magazine.