Friday Sept 27, 2024 at 7pm
Westbeth Community Room
155 Bank St
enter through courtyard
New York NY

Jenny Tango’s (b. 1926, Brooklyn, NY) most recent show was 100 Women of Spirit – a group exhibition in 2024 dedicated to Joan MItchell at Salon Zurcher.
An active participant in the Feminist Art Movement of the 1970s, she was editor of the Women in the Arts Newsletter. She published an artist’s book, Women of Chelm, started a women’s comic book collective, Bloody Wymmin, and authored a pictorial history: The Jewish Community of Staten Island. She collaborated with sculptor Susan Grabel on Project Venus, presenting unabashed images of the aging woman’s body, from 1999-2001. Her work has been shown in New York City, Beijing, Shanghai, Italy and recently in The Difference We’ve Made: New Work by Women Artists of the 70s at Carter Burden Gallery.

Ken Wade moved into WestBeth Artist Housing on January 1, 1970 where the artist has lived and worked for 53 years. In Sept 2023 Wade had a solo Selective Retrospective with drawings, paintings, and sculptures dating from 1964 to the present qt Westbeth Gallery..
He began making art in the early 1960s while living on the Island state of Tasmania; 125 miles off the SE coast of Australia. His first American exhibition (1968) was at the Corcoran Museum, Washington DC.”Ken Wade has been singing songs and telling stories for many years. Featured on Austrailian national televesion and WBAI radio, he has performed in London, LA, and Belfast.In New York City, he sang songs and told stories at Dixon Place, EAT-NWS Festival, NYC Farmer’s Markers (& Upstate), Make Music NYC, the (old) Brecht Forum, Westbeth Music Festival, and the New York Public LIbrary.In 2014, he performed a two-act one-man show at the spectacular Barns Performance Space in N. Virgina.Ken is an active story teller at The Moth as well as Word, and other story telling venues in New York City, and has been a regularly invited performer at The Stage Left Theater, NYC.

Lilly Rivlin Award-winning filmmaker, writer and political activist Rivlin was born in Jerusalem and immigrated to the United States with her family in 1945. She did her graduate degree in Political Science at U of C, Berkeley. Before focusing on documentaries, she was a journalist, and foundation consultant on the Middle East and women.
Most recently Rivlin was selected as the 2013-14 recipient of the annual Miller Distinguished Jewish Woman Filmmaker Award.The ‘personal is political’ is expressed in the documentaries she produced, directed and wrote: her latest is ESTHER BRONER: A WEAVE OF WOMEN,( (2013) and before that the award winning film, GRACE PALEY: COLLECTED SHORTS, (2010); CAN YOU HEAR ME? ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN WOMEN FIGHT FOR PEACE (2006); GIMME A KISS (2000); MIRIAM’S DAUGHTERS NOW, aired on PBS and Israel TV (1986); THE TRIBE, CUNY TV (1983).