BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Westbeth - ECPv6.18.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Westbeth 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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20280312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20281105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260101T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20271230T173000 DTSTAMP:20260210T032443Z CREATED:20250905T210833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T032443Z UID:10000104-1767285000-1830187800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Sing Time Sessions with Eve Zanni DESCRIPTION:Free No experience necessary \nFridays 4:30pm – 5:30pm\nWestbeth Community Room\nEve Zanni is an original jazz voice\, warm and expressive with a sensual musicality…traversing the primal depths of great jazz standards and original compositions in a blend of her unique arrangements that embrace classic jazz\, Brasilian\, Afro-Cuban\, Celtic and Middle-eastern rhythms….all sung with passion and romantic soul. \nMore about Eve Zanni HERE \nContact \nEve Zanni 212 228 1141\nwestbethmusicworks@gmail.com URL:https://westbeth.org/event/singtime-sessions-with-eve-zanni/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:non-event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Sing-Time-poster-SQwo-startOriginal-Blue-SQUARE.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260714T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261027T150000 DTSTAMP:20260812T031029Z CREATED:20260714T143948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260812T031029Z UID:10001041-1784026800-1793113200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Farm to Senior Program $10 Fruit and Veggie Bag DESCRIPTION:Westbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\nenter through courtyard and under scaffolding\,\nNew York\, NY \nTuesdays only : Sign up between 2pm – 4pm. Pick up $10 Fruit and Veggie Bag the following Tuesday. \nMore Info at: district3@council.nyc.gov URL:https://westbeth.org/event/farm-to-senior-program-10-fruit-and-veggie-bags/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:community-home ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-11-at-7.49.44-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270309T170000 DTSTAMP:20260927T000214Z CREATED:20250912T030102Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260927T000214Z UID:10000644-1789027200-1804611600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Feldenkrais Class 2026 classes DESCRIPTION:I’m happy to let you know that we will begin our 2025-2026 season of Feldenkrais Classes with Doron Tadmor on Thursday\, September 18th. Class will be held at the same time and place – Thursdays at 4 p.m. in the Westbeth Community Room at 155 Bank St. We ask for a $5 donation and that you wear comfortable clothing. \nThere is a massive amount of construction work going on at Westbeth ; please don’t be daunted by the scaffolding and fences in the courtyard – the community room is still accessible. \nLooking forward to seeing you there.\nBest\,\nSandra Kingsbury\nFor The Westbeth Beautification Committee URL:https://westbeth.org/event/feldenkrais-class-returns-for-2025-2026-classes/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:non-event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Feldenkrais-poster-FINAL-SQUARE-SIZE-v2-e1677605342359.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Westbeth Beautification Committee":MAILTO:westbethfleamarket@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261228T170000 DTSTAMP:20261013T230801Z CREATED:20260915T021422Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261013T230801Z UID:10000959-1791214200-1798477200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:2026 Fall 2026 Westbeth Classes and Workshops Sing Time Sessions\, Feldenkrais\, West African Dance & Drum DESCRIPTION:Click Imsge to enlarge \nSINGTIME SESSIONS\nFree No experience necessary\nFridays 4:30pm – 5:30pm FREE\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St (enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014\nEve Zanni is an original jazz voice\, warm and expressive with a sensual musicality…traversing the primal depths of great jazz standards and original compositions in a blend of her unique arrangements that embrace classic jazz\, Brasilian\, Afro-Cuban\, Celtic and Middle-eastern rhythms….all sung with passion and romantic soul.\nMore about Eve Zanni HERE\nContact Eve Zanni 212 228 1141 westbethmusicworks@gmail.com \n \nClick image to enlarge\n FELDENKRAIS\nSept 17\, 2026 – May 2027\nThursdays at 4 p.m. in the Westbeth Community Room \n155 Bank St.\nenter through courtyard nd under scaffolding. \nWe ask for a $5 donation and that you wear comfortable clothing. Walk-ins welcome.Bring a mat. No experience required. \nDoron Tadmor is a Guild-certified Feldenkrais practitioner. \nThere is a massive amount of construction work going on at Westbeth ; please don’t be daunted by the scaffolding and fences in the courtyard – the community room is still accessible. \nContact: Sandra Kingsbury slkingsbury189@gmail.com\nSponsored by Westbeth Beautification Committe \n \n WEST AFRICAN DANCE & DRUM WORKSHOP with Vado Diomande \nOct 5\, 12\, 19 and ALL MONDAYS in November and December \, 2026\nMondays 3:30pm – 5:00pm\nWestbeth Community Room \nFREE\nClasses can be tailored to all ages / multi-age. His classes are exciting and accessible to all\, and give participants options to focus on drumming or on dancing or both! Vado brings all the drums / percussion instruments needed and retrieves them at the end of class. \nMore Info: https://westbeth.org/event/west-african-dance-and-drum-workshop-vado-diomande/ URL:https://westbeth.org/event/2026-westbeth-classes-and-workshops-sing-time-sessions-feldenkrais-meditation/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:community-home ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Westbeth-CLASSES-copy-3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261228T170000 DTSTAMP:20261006T234538Z CREATED:20260929T213001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261006T234538Z UID:10001087-1791214200-1798477200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:West African Dance and Drum Workshop with Vado Diomande DESCRIPTION:Click image to enlarge. \n \nWest African Dance & Drum Workshop at Westbeth Photo: Eve Zanni Oct 2026 \nWest African Dance & Drum Workshop at Westbeth Photo: Eve Zanni Oct 2026 \nWest African Dance & Drum Workshop at Westbeth Photo: Eve Zanni Oct 2026 \nWest African Dance & Drum Workshop at Westbeth Photo: Eve Zanni Oct 2026 \n October 5\, 12\, 19\, and ALL MONDAYS in November and December\, 2026 \n3:30pm – 5pm. FREE \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\nenter through courtyard and under scaffolding\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nWho: Vado Diomande is an incredible\, internationally known performer\, dancer\, stilt performer\, drummer\, vocalist and founder of Kochegna Ivory Coast Dance Company. Vado is a longtime esteemed teacher at Alvin Ailey and is in constant demand for programs in public and private schools\, concert venues and festivals. \nWhat: Classes can be tailored to all ages / multi-age. His classes are exciting and accessible to all\, and give participants options to focus on drumming or on dancing or both! Vado brings all the drums / percussion instruments needed and retrieves them at the end of class. \nEnd of session “semesters” feature live class performances with traditional Ivory Coast costumes provided! The exposure to true traditional African rhythms\, dance steps\, songs / language and culture by a Master of Ivory Coast music is a rare gift to all ages for the Westbeth community and our neighbors. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/west-african-dance-and-drum-workshop-with-vado-diomande/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:community-home ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/2026-FALL-SQ-WEST-AFTICAN-DANCE-DRUM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261223T151500 DTSTAMP:20261007T000532Z CREATED:20261007T000032Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261007T000532Z UID:10001092-1791380700-1798038900@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Movement Class DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/les-ballets-trockadero-de-monte-carolo-movement-class/ LOCATION:Westbeth OAC/Greenwich House CATEGORIES:community-home ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Trock-SQ-Class.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261013T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261013T210000 DTSTAMP:20261010T020340Z CREATED:20261006T231937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261010T020340Z UID:10001091-1791914400-1791925200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Fix-It Night at Westbeth Returns DESCRIPTION:Tuesday Oct 13\,\, 2026 6pm – 9pm\nWestbeth Community Room. 155 Bank St enter through courtyard and under scaffolding New York\, NY 10014 \nOne Fix per visit $5 suggested donation. Bring parts \nFIX-IT NIGHT PHOTOS  Photo Credit: Carole Braden.\nClick image to start slideshow URL:https://westbeth.org/event/fix-it-night-at-westbeth-returns/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:Com-room ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Fix-It-1-SQ-3-Oct-2026-copy.png END:VEVENT 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:20261013T193612Z CREATED:20261008T195736Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261013T193612Z 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:20261018T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261018T200000 DTSTAMP:20260919T175907Z CREATED:20260919T175412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260919T175907Z UID:10001080-1792350000-1792353600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Anne Valley-FoxThe Fight Across the RiverA Meditation on WarPoetry Reading DESCRIPTION:Sunday Oct 18\, 2026 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Rm\n155 Bank Street\nenter through courtyard and under scaffolding\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nVocal backup with Tom Ireland \nPraise for “The Fight Across the River”: \n“The Fight Across the River is a single\, relentless poem that cries out through inherited voices as history repeats itself. Anne Valley-Fox builds a choral work from historical records\, tracing the perpetuation of violence through language\, loyalty\, fear\, and succession. This work does not argue or console. It anatomizes\, leaving behind not a position but a responsibility: to see what persists\, and to notice where we are standing when we see it.”\n—Robert Saltzman\, author of The Ten Thousand Things \n“The Fight Across the River is a powerful\, painful way of learning history\, well worth reading even for those of us who think we have a handle on the horrors of war. It is especially poignant these days when we find ourselves on the wrong bank of the river\, when war is aimed inward\, at the heart of our own beliefs\, our own homes\, our own families\, by our own people.”\n—Lucy R. Lippard\, author of A Different War \n“From the malicious destruction of 3\,000 Navajo peach trees in Canyon de Chelly to the carnage of WWI and WWII\, the slaughters in Korea and Viet Nam\, the ruination of Gaza and many more calamities of hate\, Anne Valley-Fox’s magnificent poetic meditation on the ‘savage depravity’ of war unflinchingly confronts monstrous realities of human nature that most of us try never to even think about. The Fight Across the River is right up there with the great anti-war poems in American literature.”\n—V. B. Price\, author of Orpheus the Healer and Other Poems \nBio for Anne Valley-Fox \nAnne Valley-Fox was born in Paterson\, New Jersey\, a year after the first atomic explosion.\nShe was educated at UC Berkeley\, where she took poetry classes with Josephine Miles and James Tate\, and was thrilled to hear Denise Levertov read her poems. On the eve of publishing Telling Your Story (Doubleday\, 1973\, with Sam Keen)\, she took her nom de plume from a race horse. \nValley-Fox has lived in northern New Mexico at the foot of Sangre de Cristo Mountains for four decades. In addition to five volumes of oral histories culled from The New Mexico Writers’ Project\, her publications include The Household Muse (essays) with Tom Ireland (Tres Chicas Press\, 2020) and six collections of poetry\, most recently\, The Fight Across the River [a meditation on war] (Casa Urraca Press\, 2026). Valley-Fox is a recipient of a William Matthews Poetry Prize and a Mark Fischer Poetry Prize. \nFor more please see AnneValleyFox.com URL:https://westbeth.org/event/anne-valley-fox-the-fight-across-the-river-a-meditation-on-war-poetry-reading/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:Com-room ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/CLAIRE-ROSENFELD-SQ-NUCLEAR-.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261019T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261019T140000 DTSTAMP:20261013T204442Z CREATED:20261007T010104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261013T204442Z UID:10001095-1792411200-1792418400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Free Flu Shot at Westbeth DESCRIPTION:MON OCT 19\, 2026\nNoon – 2pm\nTHIS IS A RESCHEDULED DATE. \nWestbeth Community Room 155 Bank St (enter through courtyard and under scaffolding) New York 10014 \nFREE \nBRING YOUR GLASSES\, YOU MUST BE OVER 18 YEARS OF AGE URL:https://westbeth.org/event/free-flu-shot-at-westbeth/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:community-home ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/FLU-SHOT-SQ-OCT-2026-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261020T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261020T153000 DTSTAMP:20260922T233448Z CREATED:20260819T161705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T233448Z UID:10001057-1792504800-1792510200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:2027 Medicare: Enrollment\, Costs\, Programs and Choices DESCRIPTION:Tuesday Oct 20\, 2026 at 2:00pm – 3:30pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\nEnter through courtyard and under scaffolding\nNew York 10014 URL:https://westbeth.org/event/2027-medicare-enrollment-costs-programs-and-choices/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:Com-room ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2026-Medicare-Talk-SQ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261024T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261031T153000 DTSTAMP:20261007T003042Z CREATED:20260909T230935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261007T003042Z UID:10001089-1792850400-1793460600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Toby's Halloween Show The LIttle LItterbug WitchPenny Jones & Co Puppets DESCRIPTION:Saturdays Oct 24 and Oct 31 at 2pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nenter through courtyard and under scaffolding\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nEVENTBRITE Tickets: Toby’s Halloween Show\n\n\n\n