BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Westbeth - ECPv6.16.3//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:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250627T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250627T210000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250614T182715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250703T122527Z UID:10000800-1751050800-1751058000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Get to Know Your Neighbors Lucille Rhodes filmmaker and Bob Malenky folk musician DESCRIPTION:Click image to enlarge Friday June 27\, 2025\n7pm – 9pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nBob Malneky is deeply involved with blues and other forms of roots music. He participated in Sunday sessions in Washington Square Park in the early ’60’s and has learned from and played with many blues legends such as Muddy Waters and Lightnin’ Hopkins.\nIn 1974\, he recorded and toured with the legendary harmonica player Sonny Terry.\nBob taught World Folk Music at CCNY for many years and has remained active\, playing at clubs\, coffee houses and festivals in this country and abroad\, as well as performing at concerts here at Westbeth. \nLucille Rhodes is a photographer\, former filmmaker and professor. Her films have been screened at the New York Film Festival \, Berlin Film Festival\, PBS\, etc. She profited from her creative retreats at Yaddo and the MacDowell Art Colonies as well as Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute. She was one of the founding staff members of both the New York State Council on the Arts and the Kentucky Arts Council\,and for many years has been a judge of documentary films for the Guanajuato International Film Festival. \nThe Alice Neel film we will be seeing was selected to accompany Alice’s one woman show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2021\, and can be accessed from their film archive through YouTube. Lucille has been working on several photographic projects for a number of years including one\, on her great love\, the riders of the NYC subway system! URL:https://westbeth.org/event/get-to-know-your-neighbors-lucille-rhodes-filmmaker-and-bob-malenky-folk-musician/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/GET-TO-KNOW-YOUR_JUNE-WEB.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250618T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250731T170000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250618T211551Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250728T004002Z UID:10000801-1750233600-1753981200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:2025 Chaikin Award Read the prize-winning Prose of Elizabeth Hoban and Poetry of Joanne Durham DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/2025-chaikin-award-read-the-prize-winning-prose-of-elizabeth-hoban-and-poetry-of-joanne-durham/ CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Chaikin-Award-2-e1750281904202.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250617T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250617T200000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250512T225636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250614T182840Z UID:10000775-1750186800-1750190400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Arnold Hinton Book Event Photography DESCRIPTION:This event was cancelled because ordered books will not arrive in time for the launch. \nClick to enlarge Tues June 17\, 2025 at 7pm\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY \nArnold Hinton’s photography focuses on social justice and humanity\, drawing parallels between the racism and oppression experienced by Jews in concentration camps to the experience of African Americans. \nArnold recently visited concentration camps in Berlin and Vienna. “In America if you were Black\, you were a slave\, you picked cotton and sugar cane and that was it\,” said Arnold. “But to see how the Germans built these camps/houses with sinks and toilets and wash basins for people that you were going to annihilate– to me\, it made no logical sense.” Despite facing his own share of systemic barriers and societal prejudices\, his work conveys a sense of activism and empathy\, calling for a dialogue that bridges the past to the present. \nGrowing up\, Arnold found solace and inspiration in drawing\, a medium that allowed him to articulate his emotions. Influenced by Norman Rockwell’s depictions of American life\, particularly “The Problem We All Live With”\, Arnold found his passion in photography after taking a course at Pratt Institute and discovering storytelling through the lens of a camera. “Creativity is a natural talent. Being an artist is like the emperor who has no clothes on\, because when you create something and let it free\, the world will see it as whatever it is\, and they will give critiques\, good or bad\,” he said. Through his photography\, he continues to seek out the positive while offering his own perspective on history and identity.\nMore info URL:https://westbeth.org/event/arnold-hinton-photography-book-launch/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ARNOLD-HINTON-SQ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250616T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250616T190000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250531T191010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250617T170146Z UID:10000789-1750093200-1750100400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Dance at Westbeth and Within These Walls - Jazz at Westbeth: Opening Reception DESCRIPTION:Monday June 16\, 2025\n5pm – 7pm \nCelebrate with these extraordinary performers!\n \n\nExhibit Areas:\n55 Bethune St Lobby Gallery\nand\nThe Inner Courtyard Project Room \nFor more info: Within Thes Walls – Jazz at Westbeth exhibit\n\n \nDANCE AT WESTBETH\nWith its glorious eleventh floor dance studio\, Westbeth was famously the home of the Merce Cunningham DDance Company for some four decades. Then in 2023 the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance set up its headquarters and dance school here – which means that on any day of the week\, young dancers can be seen in the lobby waiting for the elevators to take them up to class. And on many evenings\, guests are arriving to attend dance concerts at the studio.\nIn this bustling environment\, we’ve always had many brilliant dancers living here; choreogrphers with their own companies. International dancers\, a star ot the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater\, a doyenne in the world of tap dance.\nSince 2011\, we’ve presented the the WestFest spring dance festival showcasing a wide variety of dance artists both in the Graham Studio and in a site-specific progdram for a weekend-long event.\nWith these bona fides\, we’re proud to mount this exhibit featuring dance at Westbeth. Of course we realize it does not represent the full complement of our wonderful dance artists\, some even declined to participate.\nFor the third exhibit of the Perfomring Arts at Westbeth\, our dancers are sharing some thoughts about a memorable performance and their life in dance.\nAll photos by David Plakke 2025 \nClick to enlarge image URL:https://westbeth.org/event/dance-at-westbeth-and-within-these-walls-jazz-at-wesstbeth-exhibits-opening-reception/ LOCATION:Westbeth Bethune Lobby and Project Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/DANCE-SQ-JAZZ-RECEPTION.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250614T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250615T170000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250609T011650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250616T164542Z UID:10000793-1749906000-1750006800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:I Building Open Studios with Ten Artists DESCRIPTION:Open Studio Artists \nKarin Batten\nKarin Batten is an International and national award winning multimedia artist. She lives and works in New York City at Westbeth Artist Housing community. June Kelly Gallery in NYC represents her with many solo shows\, last one in April 2020. She has a BFA from Central St.Martins College\, London\, MFA from Hunter College NYC.\nhttps://www.karinbatten.com/ \nElena Borstein\nElena Borstein’s urban landscapes are abstract conceptions that imply rather than describe.They are conceived digitally then painted with pastel or acrylic paint to crate luminous surfaces awash with light and color. The chaos and tumult of the urban landscape can be seen through\nreferences to many modern architects.\nhttp://www.elenaborstein.com/ \nRobert Bunkin\nRobert Bunkin is a figurative painter\, mostly concerned with portraiture as a formal and emotional investigation. At times he also works with sculpture and aspects of nature\, treating these as portraits.\nhttps://personaland.com/hut/artist/robert-bunkin \nValérie Hallier\nValérie Hallier early multimedia work received prizes at ACM Siggraph\, SCAN Arts Symposium (PA)\, Ars Electronica in the US and Anima Mundi in Brazil. Her art has been shown internationally. Residencies include LMCC Swing Space\, Pioneer Works\, NARS Foundation\, Trestle Art Space in Brooklyn\, Harvestworks\, West Harlem Art Fund\, 4Heads on Governors Island and ESKK Foundation in New Jersey. Hallier is the recipient of a Contemporary Art Foundation grant and a MAAF (NYSCA & WaveFarm) grant.\nhttps://www.valeriehallier.com\nInstagram: @mutliplemedia_artist \nJayne Holsinger\nJayne Holsinger’s paintings have been exhibited throughout the UnitedStates\, and internationally in New York\, Berlin\, Zurich\, Istanbul and most recently\, Kuala Lumpur at the United States Embassy. Among her honors she’s received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation\, New\nYork Foundation for the Arts (Lily Auchincloss Fellow)\, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation (emergency grant). Holsinger’s exhibitions have been\nreviewed by the New York Times (Barry Schwabsky)\, ArtCritical (David Cohen)\, and FlashArt Magazine (Amalia Piccinini).\nhttps://www.jayneholsinger.com/ \nDebra Jenks\nDebra Jenks is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working in drawing\, photography\, sculpture\, video\, artists’ books\, and ephemeral public projects. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Stux Gallery\, White Columns\, The New Museum\, The Bronx Museum\, The Print Center New York\, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery\, Hallwalls Center for Contemporary Art\, and in Nayland Blake’s project\, “Got An Art Problem\,” at the Whitney Museum. She has been the recipient of awards from The New York Foundation for the Arts\, Yaddo\, Blue Mountain Center\, Montalvo Arts Center and The Edward Albee Foundation.\ndebrajenks.com\nhttps://www.instagram.com/a.k.a._i.m.schur/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/debra_jenks/ \nWilliam Kennon\nWilliam Kennon is a representational painter and printmaker specializing in oil and aquatint. Recent subject matter focuses on realistic interiors of his immediate environment – primarily his studio. As an artist he is formally rigorous and endeavors to depict the interplay of light and shadow at various times of day and evening.\nhttps://westbeth.org/artist-page/william-kennon/ \nPaul Muranyi \nPaul Muranyi artist/ teacher will be presenting WW II dioramas and oil paintings of dramatic stormy weather!\nhttps://westbeth.org/artist-page/paul-muranyi/ \nKaren Santry\nProfessor Karen Santry will be debuting the final nineteen 8 foot tall oil painted Kabuki wooden cutouts as well as Fashion Drawings!\nhttps://www.karensantry.com/ \nLouisa Weber\nJohn Mendelsohn wrote in d’Art International Magazine this year:\n“Waber evokes a psychic realm to which the visual is an opened portal…. This work is part of a heritage that has many strands…with its faith in painterly physicality. …What makes these paintings and drawings original is how this particular artist grants us access\, through a kind of direct transmission\, to the drenched landscape of her inner world.”\nhttps://www.louisawaber.com/ URL:https://westbeth.org/event/i-building-open-studios/ LOCATION:The I Building at Westbeth CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/I-BLDG-SQ-openStudios_June14-15sq-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250612T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250803T170000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250609T015544Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250625T012504Z UID:10000794-1749715200-1754240400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Sheila Schwid: A Collectors VisionGroup Show DESCRIPTION:June 12 – August 3\, 2025\nOpening reception: Thursday June 12\, 2025 6pm – 9pm\n\n\nBank Art Gallery\n94 Broadway\nNewburgh\, New York \n\n\n\nClick to enlarge “Sheila Schwid began a new series of paintings in 2012 titled “Reflections on 14th Street” with paintings created from the photographs she took while riding the 14th Street crosstown bus. She intended only to focus on the busy New Yorkers going about their days\, but what she saw was multidimensional\, according to her artist statement: “There were reflections\, and reflections of reflections. There were strange shapes\, cutting off other strange shapes\, blank shapes of solid colors\, shapes of green leaves of trees I couldn’t see\, smoky colors\, smoky shapes. People’s heads would be interrupted with windows that looked into the sky or showed us far away traffic.”\n– Women Artists of Westbeth by Sara Braun.\nhttps://observer.com/2024/10/women-artists-westbeth-new-york-city/ URL:https://westbeth.org/event/sheila-schwid-collectors-visiongroup-show/ LOCATION:Bank Art Gallery\, Newburgh\, NY CATEGORIES:non-event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Sheila-Schwid-SQ-Collectors-Vision-Flyer-e1750814145458.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250611T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250630T170000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250612T000928Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250716T204713Z UID:10000799-1749628800-1751302800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Kate Walter on WestFest Dance Festival 2025 DESCRIPTION:“The 15 year success and beautiful growth of WestFest into a vibrant annual dance festival in the West Village is a wonderful testament to the arts at Westbeth”\n said Carol Nolte\, founder of the Festival \n “WestFest does an incredible job of creating an environment where artists feel safe to explore and be creative\,”\n said Ellie Kusner\, Performing Arts Chair\, Westbeth Artists Residents Council. \n “We’re not picking an already done piece to be presented as is; we are choosing an artist that will create something new inspired by the space itself”\n said Dylan Baker\, curator and producer of WestFest 2025 about the All Over Program \nWestFest 2025 Photo: Kate Walter Dancing All Over\n Story and Photos\n By Kate Walter \n The 15th annual WestFest Dance Festival took place from May 1-4 at Westbeth Artists Housing with four nights of performances at the Martha Graham Studio Theater on the top floor of Westbeth. But the super popular (free) highlight was two afternoons of site specific dance performances on Saturday and Sunday all over the Westbeth campus. www.westfestdance.com.\n Visitors enjoyed guided tours\, led by a Westbeth resident\, who moved each group from site to site: the community room\, the basement sculpture studio\, the flea market spaces\, the roof\, the hallway\, the stairwell\, the lobby. About 15 resident volunteers led the tours that stepped off on the half hour.\n Sponsored by the Westbeth Artists Residents Council (WARC)\, the long running WestFest was founded by choreographer Carol Nolte\, (artistic director/ curator.) Nolte works with two other curators who produce the festival\, along with the president of WARC. www.westbeth.org.. “The 15 year success and beautiful growth of WestFest into a vibrant annual dance festival in the West Village is a wonderful testament to the arts at Westbeth\,” said Nolte.\n …………………….\n I worked as a tour guide again this year. It was fun but can be stressful. We did a run through on Saturday morning\, although we just basically went to the sites. We didn’t see the full performances until we were actually guiding the tour.\nI was grateful we had nice weather\, unlike the year it poured both days.\n With about 30 eager people in my group\, we needed two elevators to get to the different locations. I flashed back to the time half my group got stuck on an elevator for ten minutes\, but luckily that did not happen this year. I wrangled my group up and down multiple elevators\, stairwells\, and hallways\, referring to the directions and notes on my clip board. I livened up my tour with stories about the weird lay-out of our hallways.\n I told my group that prior to the Martha Graham Dance Company occupying the studio on the top floor of Westbeth\, it had been home for many years to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. I recalled sharing the elevator with the famous choreographer\, who was in a wheelchair but still going to work.\n When we were in the basement\, I showed them the black line where the water rose during Sandy. (11 feet!) I mentioned how artists lost their work in the flooded basement. The underground hallway was lined with posters of Westbeth events. “I love drag bingo\,” I gushed as we passed the poster with drag queen Paige Turner in her big wig and pink and white dress.\n As we waited for the elevator\, I invited questions from my group.\n “How long have you lived in Westbeth?” 28 years this summer.\n “How long were you the waiting list?” 10 years.\n “How many people live in Westbeth?” That one stumped me but I indicated there were 384 apartments of various sizes.\n Visitors were impressed when I took them onto the roof with its great views and I thought how lucky I was to live here. I was happy and relieved when my tour ended safely back in the lobby and everyone clapped and thanked me. They had enjoyed the adventure and I had completed my assignment\, until next year! \nClick on image to start slide show\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 But as I led the tour\, I wondered about the curation of this aspect of the festival. How does it work? “Each year our team receives applications from choreographers and companies all over the city\, country and world\,” said Dylan Baker\, (producer/curator.). “Along with a selected guest curator that changes year to year\, our team reviews the applications with a focus on how the applicant might approach creating a new piece for our site specific festival\, All Over.”\n “We’re not picking an already done piece to be presented as is; we are choosing an artist that will create something new inspired by the space itself\,” explained Baker. “The curatorial meeting is always lively as we each have very different opinions\, so our discussions can last for hours. Many factors weigh in on who the final selection will be\, but in early January we announce the final eight choreographers who will be featured in the festival.”\n “WestFest does an incredible job of creating an environment where artists feel safe to explore and be creative\,” said Ellie Kusner\, Performing Arts Chair\, Westbeth Artists Residents Council. “Choreographers remark on how this helps them stretch their imagination and see the possibility in each space. One dancer confessed that the physical decay and overall grittiness of the sculpture studio was initially a bit off-putting\, but she quickly saw how much strange artistic potential the space held and embraced it all.”\n “Some of the audience have seen these tours for years\,” continued Kusner. “But others have never encountered anything like this. One guest had only seen dance in conventional\, proscenium style theaters and the All Over tour completely altered their understanding of dance and the infinite ways it could be shared.”\n “WestFest highlights so much of what makes our Westbeth community wonderful\,” she concluded.\n …………….. \nThe article originally appeared in the Village Star Revue.https://villagestar-revue.com/all-over-sends-dancers-all-over-westbeth-story-and-photos-by-kate-walter/ URL:https://westbeth.org/event/kate-walter-on-westfest-dance-festival-2025/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_SQ3798.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250607T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250607T203000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250501T214059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250609T004427Z UID:10000786-1749322800-1749328200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Movie Night: Jaws DESCRIPTION:Saturday June 7\, 2025 at 7pm \nClick image for info about the movie: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-movie-night-jaws/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Westbeth-movie-JAWS.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250604T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250622T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250515T222412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250625T012530Z UID:10000780-1749042000-1750615200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Rutgers in New York: Following the TraceMFA Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nJune 4–23\, 2025\nReception: Saturday June 7\, 6–8pm\nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune St\nNew York\, NY 10014 \n \nVideo of work featured in the show \n \nFrancisco echo Eraso\, Desde abajo\, 2025. Handmade ceramic roof tiles molded after the colonial roofing from abuelito Erlinto’s since-demolished house in Pasto\, Colombia\, and Juanita’s streetside roof tile finds in San Pedro de la Bendita\, Loja\, Ecuador\, bass shakers\, amplifier\, and wood cross\, 70 x 70 x 35 inches. Photo: María del Mar Hernández \nFeaturing work by Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo\, Ian Byers-Gamber\, Francisco echo Eraso\, Harley Hollenstein\, Quinn Isaacs\, Dan Lucal\, Saba N. Maheen\, John de Leon Martin\, Ariana Martinez\, Emily Drew Miller\, Pachi\, Rachel Mulvihill\, JaLeel Marques Porcha\, Alisa Sikelianos-Carter\, Natalie Romero\, Johnathan Allen Wilborn\, Feyaz Yusuff \n \nHow might we conceive of the role of the artist\, particularly in times of crisis? Can we\, in seriousness\, claim the aesthetic ought to not be troubled by the political? Is the aspiration or demand to remain untroubled by the weight of the work of art simply an irresponsible desire? \nFollowing the Trace\, the exhibition of seventeen artists newly emerging from the Rutgers MFA program\, attends to the ambivalences contained within these questions and their perpetually unresolved answers. Varying in form and affective orientation\, the artists individually and collectively contend with internal and external experience\, political events\, infrastructural critiques\, and natural phenomena as ethical-aesthetic reflections of the world around them. \nIf we understand aesthetic production—the painting\, the photograph\, the sculpture\, the performance\, the video—as amalgams and distillations of social-cultural and material forces\, then the work of art is a genealogy. Extending a multi-directional referential constellation into the past\, present\, and future\, the work of art becomes a projection: a communicative site through which artist and audience negotiate meaning\, history\, and desire.\nThe artist is equally excavator and creator: replying to the ghostly haunting\, recalling the reverberant echo\, formulating the fabulation. The back-and-forth undulation of the tide guides a multivalency of significance and interpretation\, revealing the dreamscapes and ways of being in the world that the work of art offers as existential possibility. \nCurated by Zoé Samudzi \nAbout the department: The Department of Art & Design at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts seeks to cultivate a diverse community that values visual literacy\, critical dialogue\, experimentation\, and the skills necessary for sustaining a creative life as artists and designers. Central to its vision is engaging in interdisciplinary research and embarking on collaborations within Rutgers and beyond\, leaving an imprint on the global arenas of contemporary art and design. Studio arts training is offered in design\, drawing\, media\, painting\, photography\, print\, and sculpture. The department offers five degree programs: a bachelor of arts\, a bachelor of fine arts in both visual arts and design\, and a master of fine arts in both visual arts and design\, as well as a minor in art. Mason Gross Galleries\, a 4\,200-square-foot space\, showcases up to 10 student exhibitions per year—all free and open to the public. \nwww.masongross.rutgers.edu\nmasongrossgalleries.rutgers.edu\nInstagram \nInquiries: Rich Siggillino\, Gallery Coordinator\, at res241 [at] mgsa.rutgers.edu URL:https://westbeth.org/event/rutgers-in-new-york-following-the-trace/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Rutgers-revised-SQ-Social-Post-1080by1080_Edits-4-1.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250603T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250603T200000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250521T014839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250609T004545Z UID:10000782-1748973600-1748980800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Leni Schwendinger Civic Solidarity DeathLAB - Death and the Night DESCRIPTION:June 3\, 2025 6pm – 8pm\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY \nFREE \nTo Register for Event: Civic Solidarity \nClick to enlarge DeathLAB is pleased to announce another New York Community Trust-sponsored Civic Solidarity event\, hosted at Westbeth Artists Housing in collaboration with Urban Lighting and nighttime designer Leni Schwedinger. \nThe event will bring together two approaches to encouraging community and equity through civic design\, each running through essential aspects of life that too often remain marginalized: death and the night. \nThis Civic Solidarity event consists of a 20-minute presentation by two of DeathLAB’s research fellows\, reviewing the lab’s philosophy\, research\, and urban proposals\, including new engagement with Green-Wood Cemetery. \nLeni Schwendinger’s talk\, “Are You Afraid of the Dark\, A Light Justice Approach” will walk us through nighttime design and lighting strategies she has developed over decades of practice that include community engagement. \nShare your thoughts\, hopes\, and questions about disposition and memorialization\, both personal and societal. \nLeni Schwendinger \, Westbeth resident\, is a multi-disciplinary designer focusing on lighting and community engagement. Her projects include lighting cities\, bridges\, parks\, and waterfronts. Her work is deeply rooted in community engagement through synthesizing communal approaches to outdoor illumination\, on-site lighting workshops\, and her NightSeeing™ program\, where she leads nighttime walks through urban spaces around the world. The walks raise awareness about the fear and poetics of the darkened hours to improve the nighttime environment\, especially for women and night-shifters. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/leni-schwendinger-presents-civic-solidarity/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Leni-Sq-Schwenwdinger.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250601T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250601T170000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250514T221414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250609T004615Z UID:10000776-1748786400-1748797200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Crossing Tones Presents: Celebrating Westbeth Jazz 1980 Guest Commentator: Billy Harper DESCRIPTION:Click image to enlarge\n\nSunday June 1\, 2025 12 – 5pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nLISTENING SEESION FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC \nHistoric recordings of Freddie Waits\, Patti Boiwn\, Chuck Israels\, Billy Harper\, Gil Evans\, Peter Warren\, Stanely Cowell\, and more! \nMore info CrossingTones.org \n‘WITHIN THESE WALLS; JAZZ AT WESTBETH\, While you are at Westbeth\, visit the exhibition at Bethune St Lobby. It features photos and bios of the jazz greats who lived here\, including all of the above and much more \, as well as the musicians who live here now. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/jazz-at-westbeth-1980-listening-sessing-with-billy-harper/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CROSSTONE-AQ-S-BILLY-HARPER.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250530T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250530T200000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250507T002128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250531T195410Z UID:10000768-1748631600-1748635200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Get to Know Your Neighbors: Jonathan Bauch and Pele Bach DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge Friday May 30\, 2025 at 7pm \nAbout Jonathan Bauch\nSculptor\nEvolving from an abstract painter to sculpture\, Bauch adroitly manipulates welding technology\, transforming hard steel into delicate organic forms reminiscent of the natural world. In taming the steel\, the industrial quality of the medium is tempered by the indelible mark of the human hand\, resulting in sculptures that seem to defy their material with their lacy and ethereal qualities.\nIn addition to exhibiting in both solo and group exhibitions in New York City and New England\, he has been the recipient of grants from the Joan Mitchell\, and Adolph and Esther Gottlieb foundations\, and has taught welding steel sculpture at the Educational Alliance. \nHe is the father of Pele who arew up at Westbeth. \nAbout Pele Bauch\nChoreographer / Dancer\nAn interdisciplinary choreographer who weaves dance\, theater\, and installation design into unique performances. As a Hapa Haole Kanaka Maoli (multi-racial Native Hawaiian) contemporary artist\, Bauch’s work also draws from oli and hula (Hawaiian chant and dance). She was selected for the 2025 Wehiwehi cohort of Kanaka Maoli artists working at the intersection of indigeneity and contemporary performance and the 2023 WAA Native Launchpad\, Bauch’s work has been presented at numerous New York venues. She has received residencies from The Joyce Theater Foundation; Dance Theater Workshop; Chocolate Factory; and 92Y Harkness Dance Center. Funders include the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Brooklyn Arts Council; and Harkness Foundation for Dance. \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY URL:https://westbeth.org/event/get-to-know-your-neighbors-jonathan-bauch-and-pele-bach/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Get-to-Know-your-Neigh-Bauches_-MAY-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250521T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250621T163000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250515T012107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250611T234931Z UID:10000778-1747839600-1750523400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Robert Bunkin The Greenwich House Portraits: An unveiling DESCRIPTION:“All of my work is concerned with the particular: a portrait\, a tree trunk\, and\na sculpture are all part of this on-going investigation into the specifics of appearances.” URL:https://westbeth.org/event/robert-bunkin-the-greenwich-house-portraits/ LOCATION:Greenwich House Center on the Square CATEGORIES:non-event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Robert-Bunkin-SQ-Portraitsunveiling-1-e1749682548825.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250630T190000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250515T010029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250801T183114Z UID:10000777-1747677600-1751310000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Pilates with Ellie Kusner No experience necessary DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/pilates-with-ellie-kusner/ LOCATION:Martha Graham Studio CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-14-at-8.41.43-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250517T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250517T140000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250330T232145Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250521T012506Z UID:10000750-1747479600-1747490400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Flea Market The 41st Year of Bargains Galore DESCRIPTION:$10 BAG N BOX SALE Fill it up! NO ART OR JEWELRY. Includes\, clothes\, books\, notions\, housewares\, kids\, sport. Furniture separate SAT MAY 17\, 2025 11am – 2pm YOU MUST BUY A BAG BEFORE ENTERING. CASH OR CHECK ONLY.\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\nClick to enlarge \n Mother’s Day Weekend\nMay 9\, 10\, 11\, 2025. 11am – 5pm \n$10 Bag Sale May 17\, 2025 \nWestbeth Basement\n55 Bethune Street\nNew York\, NY \nCash and Check Only \nThe Westbeth Flea Market was founded in 1984 by the Westbeth Beautification Committee. Its mission remains the same today:\nTo enhance the physical appearance of Westbeth and to fund projects that improve the quality of life for its residents. We value the opportunity to recycle things that may otherwise end up in landfills and to make in-kind vdonations to arious community organizations that help people in need.\nAs we are a community of artists we also emphasize the funding of projects that support the artistic endeavors of our residents and strengthen Westbeth’s ties to the larger community. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-flea-market-the-41st-year-ofbargains-galore/ LOCATION:Westbeth Basement CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/FLEA-MARKET-SQ-MAY-2025-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250516T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250516T203000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250506T225610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250521T012328Z UID:10000766-1747422000-1747427400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Movie Night: Being John Malcovich DESCRIPTION:Friday May 16\, 2025 at 7pm\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY \nFree \nClick Image for more info about the film URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-movie-night-being-john-malcovich/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/John-MakG.-SQ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250513T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250513T210000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250506T235207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250515T222537Z UID:10000767-1747159200-1747170000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Fix-it Night: New Hope for Broken Objects DESCRIPTION:Tuesday May 13\, 2025 6pm – 9pm\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY \nBring a lamp gone dark\, too-hot toaster\, wobbly chair\, vacuum sans vavoom or anything needing an expert on the case! \nClock\, watch and shoe guru David Rafael will change batteries (BYOBattery) and evaluate your old soles. \nPlease email;westbethconservation@gmail.com to book a slot. \nOne item per visitor\, please. Suggested donation $5. \nRepair reduces waste\, slows climate change and saves you money.\n Tuesday May 13\, 2025 6pm – 9pm URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-fix-it-night-at-westbeth-2/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/fixt-i-night-maile-photo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250512 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250801 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250512T211600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250626T220441Z UID:10000773-1747008000-1754006399@westbeth.org SUMMARY:David Greenspan Film of Icon Evening May 4\, 2025 DESCRIPTION:Click on 4 arrow icon below for full screen. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/david-greenspan-westbeth-icon/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-12-at-3.42.18-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250510T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250511T170000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250430T205641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250511T195443Z UID:10000765-1746903600-1746982800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Jenny Tango Women of Chelm book brought to life with puppets\, dance and music DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge Saturday May 10 at 7pm and Sunday May 11 at 2 pm \nReal-life mother-daughter duo\, Suzanne Bernstein and Miryam Coppersmith bring the eccentric women of Jenny Tango’s 1991 artist’s book\, Women of Chelm to life through theater\, dance\, music and puppets! \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\nenter through courtyard\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nTickets:\nGeneral Admission $18\nStudent/Senio $10 \nAbout Jenny Tango\n“If art is autobiography\, then it seems that I have truly been an artist since childhood. The funny pages of newspapers and the movies that I saw Saturday mornings at the local theater were my first teachers of visual media. I discovered painting in Music and Art High School and the Bauhaus in Cooper Union and Brooklyn College. After I got my BFA\, I spent two years painting abstractly\, but I found it too limiting. One discovered an individual visual idea that was a sort of signature and repeated it endlessly. The probing\, discovering\, and ascertaining of an aspect of reality that figuration offered seemed more challenging.\nWhen the 1970s ushered in the Feminist Art Movement\, I discovered that what I was already doing had a name. . \nhttps://westbeth.org/artist-page/jenny-tango-painter/ URL:https://westbeth.org/event/jenny-tango-women-of-chelm-brought-to-life/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/WoC-Flyer-outside_20250413_133339_0000.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250509 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250526 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250426T003533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250527T014820Z UID:10000760-1746748800-1748217599@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Whitney Museum ISP Annual Exhibitions and Symposium DESCRIPTION:More Photos\nClick image to start slide show\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\nClick to enlarge \nThe Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP) marks the culmination of the 2024–25 academic year with two capstone exhibitions: the ISP Curatorial Studies Exhibition at Ramscale Penthouse\, May 9–18\, the ISP Studio Exhibition at Westbeth Gallery\, May 9–25\, and a symposium at the Whitney on Sunday\, May 18. \nThese presentations showcase the work of the 2024–25 ISP cohort across three areas of concentration: Curatorial Studies Program\, Studio Program\, and Critical Studies Program. \n \nThe ISP Curatorial Studies Exhibition at Ramscale Penthouse\, May 9–18\, \nThe Curatorial Studies Program presents a grammar of attention\, an exhibition that aims to\ndraw attention to what artists Gordon Matta-Clark and\, almost four decades later\, David\nHammons carried out on the Hudson River in New York. Situated in a space that offers a\nsingular view of Hammons’s Day’s End (2014-21) on the piers\, this exhibition acknowledges the\ncontiguous gestures as an invitation to attend to places\, infrastructures\, and social relations.\nInvoking the spirit of Hammons and Matta-Clark\, a grammar of attention gathers artistic\npractices that attune themselves to the material realities that mark our worlds. The exhibition\nunfolds as a resonant chamber through a program of performances\, installations\, and\nworkshops. a grammar of attention is both an invitation and an offering: to bear and build\nwitness to that which is fraught\, incomplete\, unauthorized\, unsettled\, yet tethered to our present.\n \nThe featured artists include Zalika Azim; Fadl Fakhouri\, Noel Maghathe\, and Fargo Tbakhi; the black.gaze in collaboration with Cierra Michele Peters and Rai Terry; Haitham Haddad; Fatemeh Kazemi; Arnold J. Kemp; Christian Nyampeta; Luvuyo Equiano Nyawose; Rafael Sánchez; and Asia Stewart. \n a grammar of attention is curated by the 2024–25 Helena Rubinstein Curatorial\nFellows\, Bea Ortega Botas\, Kennedy Hollins Jones\, Tamara Khasanova\, and Ntshadi\nMofokeng. The exhibition will be on view May 9–18 at Ramscale Penthouse\, located at 463\nWest St Penthouse\, New York\, NY 10014. An opening reception for a grammar of attention will\nbe held at Ramscale Penthouse on Friday\, May 9\, from 6–8 pm. \nISP Studio Exhibition at Westbeth Gallery\, May 9–25\,\nThe Studio Program exhibition\, Prototype\, presents new work by the 2024–25 Elaine G.\nWeitzen Studio Program Fellows Nooshin Askari\, Paige K. Bradley\, Dahlia Bloomstone\, Cheeny\nCelebrado-Royer\, Rhea Dillon\, Niloufar Emamifar\, Valentina Jager\, Ash Moniz\, Daniel Melo\nMorales\, Iulia Nistor\, Pegah Pasalar\, Chantal Peñalosa Fong\, Alex Schmidt\, Julia Taszycka\, and\nmisra walker.\nCurated by Juana Berrío\, the exhibition will be on view May 9–25 at Westbeth\nGallery\, a nonprofit fine arts gallery located at 55 Bethune St\, New York\, New York 10014. An\nopening reception for Prototype will be held at Westbeth Gallery on Friday\, May 9\, from 6–8\npm.  \nSymposium at the Whitney on Sunday\, May 18. \nThe 2024–25 Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellows will present their current research at\nthe annual ISP Critical Studies Symposium on Sunday\, May 18\, from 2–5:30 pm in the\nMuseum’s third-floor theater. Genevieve Lipinsky de Orlov\, Stephen Woo\, Sahar Khraibani\, Iulia\nNistor\, Stella Liantonio\, Joann Evans\, and Adrienne Jacobson Oliver will share short papers that\naddress critical topics in contemporary culture. The fellows will be joined in conversation by art\nhistorian Irene V. Small\, Associate Professor at Princeton University\, and artist and philosopher\nDenise Ferreira da Silva\, Professor at New York University. The symposium will be livestreamed\nwith live captioning and ASL interpretation will be provided. The event is free and registration is\nrequired. Following the symposium\, the ISP will host a closing reception beginning at 6:00 pm at\nRamscale Penthouse. While the reception is free and open to the public\, advance registration is\nrequired. \nThe Independent Study Program symposium\, exhibitions\, and opening events are free and\nopen to the public. The ISP Curatorial Studies Program and Studio Program exhibitions are\nopen Wednesday–Sunday\, 1–6 pm; closed Monday and Tuesday. For full details and additional\ninformation about the ISP\, please visit whitney.org/isp.  \nPRESS CONTACT  \nFor press materials and image requests\, please visit whitney.org/press or contact:\nAshley Reese\, Director of Communications\nWhitney Museum of American Art\n(212) 671-1846\nAshley_Reese@whitney.org\nWhitney Press Office\nwhitney.org/press\n(212) 570-3633\npressoffice@whitney.org   \nPROGRAM SUPPORT\nGenerous support for the Independent Study Program is provided by Joanne Leonhardt\nCassullo\, the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation\, the Helena Rubinstein Foundation\, and Diane\nand Robert Moss.\nSignificant support is provided by The Capital Group Charitable Foundation\, Margaret Morgan\nand Wesley Phoa\, Gloria H. Spivak\, and the Whitney Contemporaries through their annual Art\nParty benefit.  \nABOUT THE ISP\nThe Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program (ISP) is an experimental study community\ndedicated to fostering critical thinking\, cross-disciplinary scholarship and writing\, and multimedia\nartistic practices. The ISP cultivates a rigorous intellectual environment where participants are\nencouraged to engage deeply with contemporary issues through extended conversation and\ncollaboration. Through seminars\, reading groups\, workshops\, screenings\, performances\, poetry\nreadings\, studio visits\, and an array of collaborative endeavors\, the program nurtures and\nchallenges the creative processes of artists\, curators\, and scholars who are committed to\ninnovative\, sustainable\, and activist practices.\nEach year fifteen individuals are selected to participate in the Studio Program\, four in the\nCuratorial Program\, and six in the Critical Studies Program\, for a total cohort of twenty-five.\nCuratorial and critical studies participants are designated as Helena Rubinstein Fellows in\nrecognition of the substantial support provided to the program by the Helena Rubinstein\nFoundation and Studio participants are Weitzen Family Fellows in acknowledgment of the one-\ntime relocation stipend generously provided by the Weitzen family.  \nABOUT THE WHITNEY\nThe Whitney Museum of American Art\, founded in 1930 by the artist and philanthropist Gertrude\nVanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942)\, houses the foremost collection of American art from the\ntwentieth and twenty-first centuries. Mrs. Whitney\, an early and ardent supporter of modern\nAmerican art\, nurtured groundbreaking artists when audiences were still largely preoccupied\nwith the Old Masters. From her vision arose the Whitney Museum of American Art\, which has\nbeen championing the most innovative art of the United States for ninety years. The core of the\nWhitney’s mission is to collect\, preserve\, interpret\, and exhibit American art of our time and\nserve a wide variety of audiences in celebration of the complexity and diversity of art and culture\nin the United States. Through this mission and a steadfast commitment to artists\, the Whitney\nhas long been a powerful force in support of modern and contemporary art and continues to\nhelp define what is innovative and influential in American art today.\nWhitney Museum Land Acknowledgment\nThe Whitney is located in Lenapehoking\, the ancestral homeland of the Lenape. The name\nManhattan comes from their word Mannahatta\, meaning “island of many hills.” The Museum’s\ncurrent site is close to land that was a Lenape fishing and planting site called Sapponckanikan\n(“tobacco field”). The Whitney acknowledges the displacement of this region’s original\ninhabitants and the Lenape diaspora that exists today.  \nAs a museum of American art in a city with vital and diverse communities of Indigenous people\,\nthe Whitney recognizes the historical exclusion of Indigenous artists from its collection and\nprogram. The Museum is committed to addressing these erasures and honoring the\nperspectives of Indigenous artists and communities as we work for a more equitable future. To\nread more about the Museum’s Land Acknowledgement\, visit the Museum’s website.  \nImage credit:\nDahlia Bloomstone\, R-SHARK WOKE UP!\, 2024\, courtesy of the artist URL:https://westbeth.org/event/whitney-museum-2025-independent-study-curatoral-program-exhibitions/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery\, Westbeth 13th Floor\, Whitney Museum\, CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Whitney-show-SQ-25_ISP_Poster_Letter_FINAL_0424-copy-e1752713778555.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250508T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250508T200000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250417T201417Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250511T191612Z UID:10000757-1746730800-1746734400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Miriam Chaikin 9th Annual Writing Awards; Reading by the winners DESCRIPTION:. Thursday May 8\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nWinner in Prose: Elizabeth Hoban\nProud mom to three adult sons\, she is a semi-retired nurse practitioner\, who enjoys spending her free time with family\, friends and four-legged critters. Reading and writing are her oxygen. Elizabeth is the author of numerous\nshort stories. Her book publications include: The Final Mission: A Boy\, a Pilot\, and a World at War; The Cheech Room; and The Secrets That Save Us. She is also the author of numerous columns and magazine articles in professional journals. When people ask her why she writes\, her\ntypical response is\, “I don’t know how to stop.” \nWinner in Poetry: Joanne Durham\nJoanne Durham is the author of To Drink from a Wider Bowl\, winner of\nthe Sinclair Poetry Prize (Evening Street Press\, 2022) and the chapbook\, On Shifting Shoals\n(Kelsay Books\, 2023). She has won Third Wednesday’s Annual Poetry Prize\, the Mary Ruffin\nPoole Prize\, and Prime Number Magazine’s Summer Challenge\, as well as being a finalist in\nmany other contests. She is an Eric Hoffer and three-time Pushcart nominee; her poems appear in\nPoetry South\, Poetry East\, River Heron Review\, Vox Populi\, Whale Road Review\, and many\nother journals and anthologies. Joanne is a retired educator who currently teaches poetry\nworkshops online and in person. She lives on the North Carolina coast\, with the ocean as her\nbackyard\, muse\, and source of sanity in troubled times. Visit her at www.joannedurham.com. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/miriam-chaikin-9th-annual-writing-awards-reading-by-the-winners/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-17-at-10.01.57-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250506T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250701T130000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250430T195510Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250609T175136Z UID:10000764-1746532800-1751374800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Vija Vetra ClassYoga\, Falun Gong and Indian Dance hand movements DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/vija-vetra-classyoga-falun-gong-and-indian-dance-hand-movements/ LOCATION:Westbeth Older Adult Center/Greenwich House CATEGORIES:non-event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-30-at-2.57.11-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T210000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250417T194220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250506T201003Z UID:10000756-1746392400-1746392400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Icon: David Greenspan actor and playwright DESCRIPTION:Sunday May 4\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestberth Community Room\n155 Bank Streety\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NYT 100124 \nWestbeth Artists Residents COunceil (WARC) designed the Icons project to honor Westbeth artists who have continued to work in the arts and a are an inspiration to others. \nSix-time Obie recipient David Greenspan (The Patsy\, Strange Interlude\, Four Saints in Three Acts\, On Set With Theda Bara)\, Drama Desk nominee Mona Pirnot (I Love You So Much I Could Die) and two-time Obie recipient Ken Rus Schmoll (Middletown\, The Internationalist\, Telephone\, Map of Virtue). \nDavid Greenspan has appeared in his plays Dead Mother\, She Stoops to Comedy\, Go Back to Where You Are\, I’m Looking for Helen Twelvetrees\, The Memory Motel and his solo plays The Argument and The Myopia\, performed solo renditions of three American plays from the 1920’s: Barry Conners’ comedy The Patsy\, Eugene O’Neill’s six-hour\, nine-act drama Strange Interlude\, Gertrude Stein’s experimental Four Saints in Three Acts and solo renditions of Stein’s lectures Plays\, Composition As Explanation and What Are Masterpieces and acted in many contemporary plays\, notably Terrence McNally’s Some Men\, Joey Merlo’s solo play On Set With Theda Bara and revivals of Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band and Goethe’s Faust. Honors include Guggenheim\, Lortel and Fox fellowships\, Alpert\, Lambda Literary\, Helen Merrill Playwriting awards\, a RUTHIE and six OBIES. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-icon-david-greenspan/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Green-sq--e1744918911847.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250502T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250502T200000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250418T192044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250506T201142Z UID:10000758-1746212400-1746216000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:FIRST FRIDAY MUSIC: THE BARRYTONES DESCRIPTION:Click Image to enlarge \nFriday May 2\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nThe BarryTones. We are a dance band playing danceable rockabilly\, blues\, rock and country music. We play a mix of originals and classic favorites. The BarryTones include Westbeth’s own Barry Temkin on guitar\, Michael Moss on sax\, Bill Dotts on bass and Craig Howe on drums\, along with Natasha Gollin on vocals\, Violizzy on fiddle\, Jim Meigs on blues harp. \nBring your dancing shoes!\nFREE URL:https://westbeth.org/event/first-friday-music-the-barrytones/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/The-BarryTones-Instagram-Post.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250501T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250501T130000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250411T175103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250501T205344Z UID:10000755-1746090000-1746104400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Working Class Artists in America Forum Christina Maile participant DESCRIPTION:Thursday May 1\, 2025\n9am – 1pm \n\nFrederick Loewe Theater\nHunter College\n930 Lexington Ave\nNew York\, NY 10065\n\n\n\nA groundbreaking forum on working class artists in America\, with participants including Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Adly Guirgis\, Olivier-winning playwright James Graham\, NY State Senator Jabari Brisport\, Creatives Rebuild NY Director Sarah Calderón\, and MSNBC senior economic and business correspondent Ali Velshi\, Amy Goodman Democracy Now host \, Christina Maile of Westbeth and many more. \nThe forum will explore barriers faced by artists from working class backgrounds\, addressing their critical lack of represetnation in the arts and proposing solutions towards a more econimically inclusive culture that reflects the full breadth of the American experience in the twenty-first century. \nWe invite you to the forum\, which we believe will be the first of its kind. \nReserve here: https://workingclassartists.splashthat.com \nClick Image to enlarge URL:https://westbeth.org/event/working-class-artists-in-america-forum-christina-maile-participant/ LOCATION:Frederick Loewe Theater at Hunter College\, NYC CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-11-at-12.44.08-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250501 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250505 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250326T000747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250506T200937Z UID:10000743-1746057600-1746403199@westbeth.org SUMMARY:WESTFEST 2025; The annual dance festival of cutting edge movement artists DESCRIPTION:WestFest is a cutting edge\, curated festival presenting emerging and established movement artists in the historic Westbeth Artists Residence in the West Vullage\, NYC\nThe annual festival includes two programs: Top floor and All Over \nTickets and Guided Tour Info: https://www.westfestdance.com/about \n \n \nALL OVER: Featuring Beatriz Castro\, Chloe Sonnet Brown\, Fabio Tavares\, Gesture Theater\, June Seo (Project.A.Artgroup) Madelyn Sher\, Stephanie Saywell\, Yang Sun & Poets \nMay 3 & 4 | 1- 3pm. FREE \nGuided Site Specific Tours every 30 minutes starting at 1pm\nMeet at Westbeth Courtyard 155 Bank Street between West and Washington Sts \n \n \nTOP FLOOR Program A featuring : Carol Nolte\, Celeste Goldes\, Company of Collaborative Artists (CoCA)\, Dianne Cano\, Dylan Richmond\, Dual Rivet\, Louise Benkelman & Tommy Seibold\, JRamirwz & Artists\nProgram B featuring : Assaf Salhov\, Faustine Lavie Dance Project\, Miho Ryu\, Jamal Jackson Dance Company\, Rylan Joenk\, The Bang Group\, The Dynamit-Experience\, Virginie Mècene. \nProgram A: Thursday May 1 at 7pm and May 3 4pm & 7pm.\nProgram B Friday May 2 at 7pm Sun May 4. 4pm & 7pm.\nMartha Graham Studio Theater 55 Bethune St\, New York\, NY\nSliding Scale tickets starting st $20 \nAll proceeds go towards supporting the work of the non-profit Westbeth Aritsts Residents Council whose mission is to be a resouce and generator of artistic endeavor in the literary\, visual and performing arts. \nMore Information about Westfest at https://www.westfestdance.com/about URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westfest-2025p-the-annual-dance-festival-of-cuttin-edge-movement-artists/ LOCATION:All Over Westbeth & Martha Graham Studio Theater CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Westfgest-sq.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T200000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250427T225909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250430T210235Z UID:10000762-1745953200-1745956800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Movie Night: Barbie DESCRIPTION:Tues April 29\, 2025 at 7pm. \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nNew York\, NY \nClick image for more info on film URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-movie-night-barbie/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/BARBIE-cSQ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250412T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250412T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250316T235942Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250417T195509Z UID:10000741-1744464600-1744480800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:West Village Community Blood Drive at Westbeth DESCRIPTION:Saturday April 12\, 2025\n 1:30pm – 6pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\nNew York\, NY URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-blood-drive-2/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Blood-SQ-Drive-April-12-2025-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250410T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250413T200000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250327T142353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250427T202230Z UID:10000748-1744311600-1744574400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:John Jasperse Projects presents TIDES DESCRIPTION:April 10-13\, 2025\nThursday & Friday at 7 p.m.\nSaturday & Sunday at 2 p.m. \nEllen Stewart Theater\nLa MaMa as part of the La MaMa Moves! 2025 Festival\n66 East 4th Street 2nd Floor\nNew York\, NY \nTickets https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1231480 \nClick to enlarge \nJohn Jasperse– quite possibly the most important American contemporary dance\nchoreographer of his generation…”\n– Rosalyn Sulcas\, The New York Times \nJohn Jasperse Projects will premiere Tides\, a new\, evening-length work that is built around a collection of real-life\, intergenerational mentor/protégé relationships that exist within the team of collaborators. This celebration of the arc of life in dance and the generosity of the act of transmission is at the heart of the work. \nThe work features a cast of collaborating performers ranging from veteran luminaries in the downtown scene: Vicky Shick\, Jodi Melnick\, and Cynthia Koppe\, to younger\, emerging dance artists – Jace Weyant and Maria Fleischman. The commissioned score is created by Jasperse’s longtime collaborator Hahn Rowe\, with lighting by Ben Demarest\, and visual and costume design by Jasperse. \nJohn Jasperse Projects is supported by grants from the Cultural Development Fund of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs\, the New York State Council On the Arts\, the James E. Robison Foundation\, and individual contributions. Commissioning of Tides was supported by funds from The O’Donnell-Greene Music and Dance Foundation. \nNOTE: While there is a matinee on April 12 at 2 p.m.\, there is no evening performance on Saturday\, April 12 in observance of the first night of Passover. \nMore information about John Jasperse Projects at http://johnjasperse.org URL:https://westbeth.org/event/john-jasperse-projects-presents-tides/ LOCATION:Ellen Stewart Theater La Mama\, NYC CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-2025-03-27-at-10.06.32-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250408T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250408T203000 DTSTAMP:20260609T041357 CREATED:20250405T151332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250410T224648Z UID:10000751-1744138800-1744144200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Movie Night: Clash by Night DESCRIPTION:Tuesday April 8\, 2025\nat 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Babk St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY \nDlick image for more info about the film \nClick to enlarge URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-movie-night-11/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Westbeth-MOVIE-SQ-CLASH-BY-NIGHT-.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR