BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Westbeth - ECPv6.18.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://westbeth.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Westbeth REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261015T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261015T200000 DTSTAMP:20261006T013430Z CREATED:20260922T011416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261006T013430Z UID:10001082-1792090800-1792094400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Miriam Chaikin Tenth Annual Writing Award Evening\, DESCRIPTION:Thursday Oct 15\, 2026 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Rm\n155 Bank Street\nenter through courtyard and under scaffolding\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nMiriam Chaikin was an award winning poet and author She was particularly devoted to haiku and tanka. Her books received the Sydney Taylor Award and a National Jewish Book Award. Chaikin remained an active member of the Westbeth literary community until her death in 2015. \nWinners are awarded $500 by the Chaikin Foundation as well as public reading at Westbeth. Call for Submissions will be posted in January 2027. \nTHE WINNERS: \nPOETRY:\nREBECCA G BIBER is a collaborative pianist\, music teacher\, and Pushcart-nominated poet. Her\nwriting has appeared in literary magazines including Lilith\, The Lyric\, Cutleaf\, and OfTheBook\,\nas well as the anthologies Taking Liberties; Building Bridges; and The Bop Book. Biber is the\nwinner of the 2025 Barbara Stevens Poetry Book Prize. Her first book\, Technical Solace\, was\npublished in 2017 by Fifth Avenue Press. Her second book\, Escapement\, appears in 2026 from\nthe National Federation of State Poetry Societies. Rebecca has contributed her voice to the\nCoolidge-Wagner Anthology of Recorded Poetry. She holds BM and MM degrees from the\nUniversity of Michigan School of Music and an MFA in creative writing from Queens University\nof Charlotte. Her books are available for purchase at rebeccagbiberpoet.com. \nPROSE\nROBIN HIRSCH was born in London during the Blitz\, the son of German Jews who had\nfled Hitler. This complex history informs much of his work both as a writer and as a performer. He is the author of LAST DANCE AT THE HOTEL KEMPINSKI: Creating a Life in the Shadow of History\, which Jewish Book News called “one of the best books ever written on the long arm of the Holocaust.” It has a parallel life as MOSAIC: Fragments of a Jewish Life\, a seven-part solo performance cycle (doesn’t everybody have one?)\, with which he has toured both the US and Europe and which the Village Voice called “completely glorious.” He is also the author of FEG: Stupid Poems for Intelligent Children\, written with the collaboration and interference of his own children\, which the New York Times called “searingly smart and challenging . . . amazing.”\nHe is a former Oxford\, Fulbright and English Speaking Union Scholar\, a two- time NYFA Fellow and the recipient of numerous other awards\, but the titles of which he proudest were self-bestowed: Minister of Culture/Wine Czar/Dean of Faculty at the Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village\, which he founded in 1977 with two other artists and where over its more than 41-year history he presented work by thousands of artists in every conceivable genre (and quite a few inconceivable ones). On her tenth anniversary Mayor Koch of blessed memory proclaimed Cornelia “a culinary as well as a cultural landmark.” “Lutka” is from a collection of Robin’s café stories scheduled to be published(in England!) called The Whole World Passes Through: Stories from the Cornelia Street Café. \nTHE READERS: \nERICA FAE is a theatre-maker\, filmmaker\, actor and teacher. Her first feature\, “To Keep the Light”\, was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize (International Critics’ Prize/Mannheim)\, Best Director (Berlin Indp FF). It is available on Amazon Prime.\nHer play\, “Take What Is Yours”\, was named a Critics’ Pick in The New York Times and Backstage.\nAs an actor\, she’s worked with Martha Clarke on 3 productions\, has had recurring roles on HBO\, has worked with scads of downtown theatre artists. Erica has been on the acting culty at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale for 16 years\, She’s written for Filmmaker Magazine\, is writing a chapter for an upcoming book Grotowski-based training\, and was one of the founders of the assembly – a biennial conference in Grotowski-based training. Erica was also a speaker on a Sundance panel on filmmaking and social change\, and is in development on her second feature\, The Utopians. \nDAVID GREENSPAN: Winner of 8 Obie Awards\,is an acclaimed American actor\, playwright\, and director whose career has been a distinctive part of New York’s experimental and downtown theater for more than four decades. As an actor\, Greenspan has appeared on Broadway and Off-Broadway in works ranging from classical theater to contemporary experimental plays. His notable performances include “The Boys in the Band”\, “Some Men”\, “Goethe’s Faust”\, “The Royal Family”\, “The Patsy”\, “Strange Interlude”\, and” Four Saints in Three Acts”.\nGreenspan is also an accomplished playwright whose works include “She Stoops to Comedy”\, “Go Back to Where You Are”\, “The Myopia\, The Argument\, and Dead Mother\, or Shirley Not All in Vain”. A singular presence on the American stage\, Greenspan is particularly recognized for his solo performances\, in which he combines precise physicality\, an unmistakable voice\, wit\, and a highly stylized theatrical vocabulary.Greenspan continues to perform and create new work in New York. His recent projects include “I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan” and the Off-Broadway production “Prince F**t”. He has also recently appeared in Theaterlab’s revival of Tom Stoppard’s “The Invention of Love”. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/miriam-chaikin-tenth-annual-writing-award-evening/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:Featured Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/CHAIKIN-SQ-OCT-15-2026-.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261016T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261031T170000 DTSTAMP:20260914T173239Z CREATED:20260914T173039Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260914T173239Z UID:10001073-1792137600-1793466000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Vessels: Bodies\, Tales & Machines DESCRIPTION:Vessels: Bodies\, Tales & Machines\nJeanne Verdoux\, Fanny Allié and Nicolas Touron/Amy Lemaire \nExhibit runs from October 16-31\, 2026\nHours: Wednesday to Sunday\, 1 to 6 pm\nOpening reception: Friday October 16th\, from 6-9pm \nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune St\nNY\, NY 10014 \nWe live in a series of vessels – geographical\, corporeal\, mental\, societal – starting with the body\, the first place that contains us. A vessel offers multiple realities; the container\, its external envelope\, the content\, the concealed inside part\, and these invisible stories that are nested within it and which connect the inside to the outside. \nWorking across disciplines such as ceramic\, 3D printing\, painting\, textile and mixed media\, Jeanne Verdoux\, Nicolas Touron and Fanny Allié demonstrate their different interpretations and approaches to the idea of Vessel and what it means to them. \nJeanne Verdoux’s work explores loss\, grief\, and resilience through surrealistic interpretations of the feminine body\, balancing deep emotional weight with humor and visual poetry. Using clay and two-dimensional mediums—drawing and printmaking— she creates anthropomorphized forms and body parts turned into vessels. Faces\, limbs\, torsos\, and other bodily elements appear to merge\, repeat\, or resist a clear anatomical reading. Her sculptures fight with gravity to keep their balance but are anchored by their weight\, vibrant colors and tactile textures. \nThe characters in Fanny Allié’s work are layered receptacles made out of discarded materials\, inner lining turned inside out\, the interior brought up to the outside. She finds stories within the discarded remnants that she uses\, elevating them as icons of interpersonal connections and as relics of ephemerality\, memory\, passage and loss. These stories and their figures are born from personal and broadly collective experiences\, shared mythologies anchored in an urban environment. The human figures that inhabit her work constantly travel between these two interconnect-\ned spaces: the inside and the outside. Her porous and hybridized characters are a result of her relationship to the world\, a personal statement but they are also penetrated by “the outside”\, her environment\, city life\, encounters\, observed moments and gestures and what the world goes through on a daily basis. \nIn his 3D printed porcelain vessels\, Nicolas Touron navigates between the inside of 3D rendering programs and the output of 3D clay printer while exemplifying the back and forth games that digital technology can offer. Nicolas Tou-\nron is an oral storyteller\, enhancing and embellishing his partly open\, partly closed porcelain sculptures each time they are created\, inside his complex digital universe. The visual fables that emerge from them\, come in the form of complex structures 3D printed in porcelain onto which Borosilicate glass is then added\, in collaboration with glass artist Amy Lemaire. Using a series of complex 3D formatting tools\, the result is a maze-like meander in a digital and phantasmagoric universe. \nVessels: Bodies\, Tales & Machines is an exploration of the stories that emerge from these open\, partly closed\, digital\, flat\, layered\, porous and punctured receptacles for which inside and outside blur. Through the vessel\, the threeartists who came from the same place and immigrated to the same country expose their personal meander anreflection on their own place in the world. \nFrom left to right:\n“Rabbit Girl”\nCeramic and glass\, 17x7x8 in\, 2026\nJeanne Verdoux\n“Face in Hand” (detail)\nFound fabric\, collograph prints and\nacrylic paint\, 57.5in x 50.5in\, 2026\nFanny Allié\n“Nature 5”\n3D Printed Porcelain and borosilicate\,\n18x14x12 in\, 2023 URL:https://westbeth.org/event/vessels-bodies-tales-machines/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:Featured Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/VESSELS-Digital-Flyer150.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261016T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261017T180000 DTSTAMP:20261011T020947Z CREATED:20261008T195736Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261011T020947Z UID:10001096-1792155600-1792260000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Open House New York 2026 at Westbeth DESCRIPTION:Saturday October 16 and Sunday October 17\, 2026\n1pm – 6pm \nFREE\nWestbeth Courtyard\n155 Bank Street (between Washington and West Sts)\nNew York 10014 \nVIDEO INTERVIEWS BELOW OF WESTBETH ARTISTS IN THEIR STUDIOS FROM OHNY 2025\nKAREN SANTRY\nPAUL MURANYI\nVALÈRIE HALLLIER\nWILLIAM KENNON \n \nKAREN SANTRY \n\n \nPAUL MURANYI \n\n \nVALÈRIE HALLIER \n\n \nWILLIAM KENNON URL:https://westbeth.org/event/open-house-new-york-2026-at-westbeth/ LOCATION:Bank Street Courtyard at Westbeth CATEGORIES:Featured Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/2026-OUTDOOR_2_WEB.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261103T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261114T170000 DTSTAMP:20261006T230947Z CREATED:20261006T221725Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261006T230947Z UID:10001090-1793703600-1794675600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:2026 Westbeth Flea Market Returns Nov 3\, 2026 DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \n NOW IN ITS 42ND YEAR OF BARGAINS GALORE \nOpens Election Day Nov 3\, 2026 from 11am – 5pm \nThen the following weekend: Friday Nov 6\, Saturday Nov 7\, Sunday Nov 8\,2026. 11am – 5pm. \nBag Sale: Saturday Nov 12\, 2026 11 – 2pm \nWestbeth Basement\n55 Bethune Street\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nwestbethfleamarket@gmail.com \nSNEAK PREVIEW \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n2\n► URL:https://westbeth.org/event/2026-westbeth-flea-market-returns-nov-3-2026/ LOCATION:Westbeth Basement CATEGORIES:Featured Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Flea-for-email-Dewey-and-Bruno.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR