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:20250521T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250621T163000 DTSTAMP:20260609T050217 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:20260609T050217 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:20260609T050217 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:20260609T050217 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:20260609T050217 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:20260609T050217 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:20260609T050217 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:20260609T050217 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:20260609T050217 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:20260609T050217 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:20260609T050217 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:20260609T050217 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:20260609T050217 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:20260609T050217 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:20260609T050217 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:20260609T050217 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:20260609T050217 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:20260609T050217 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250405T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250420T180000 DTSTAMP:20260609T050217 CREATED:20250223T150749Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250425T234905Z UID:10000732-1743858000-1745172000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:MANIFEST IMAGES: Printmakers ShowJebah Baum\, Daniel Berlin\, Cathy Cone\, Dale Emmart\, Gwen Fabricant\, Jonathan Fabricant\, Christina Maile\, Claire Rosenfeld DESCRIPTION:ENCAUSTIC PRINTMAKING – EXPLANATION BY CLAIRE ROSENFELD\n\n \nLITHOGRAPHY DEMO WITH JEBAH BAUM\n\n \nPHOTOGRAPHS by ELLA BAUM OF APRIL 5\, 2025 OPENING OF MANIFEST IMAGES PLUS AN INSTALLATION VIDEO.\n\n\nCYANOTYPE DEMO WITH CHRISTINA MAILE\n\nscript src=”https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js”> \nApril 5 – April 20\, 2025\nOpening Reception Saturday April 5\, 6-8 pm \nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune Street\, New York\, NY 10014\nGallery Hours: Wed-Sun\, 1- 6pm \nFeatured Artists: Jebah Baum\, Daniel Berlin\, Cathy Cone\, Dale Emmart\, Gwen Fabricant\,\nJonathan Fabricant\, Christina Maile\, Claire Rosenfeld \n____________________________________________________________________________\nIn printmaking there is always an intermediate step\, a gestational period during which an image is filtered through a process and intervened uponThe act of making prints is to repeatedly bear witness and experience the coinciding. manifestations of intention and imagination.The images printmakers create are declarations of arrival! With each new impression they announce themselves and reflect the various methods by which they are made. \nManifest Images is a group show with works by eight mid-career artists for whom printmaking is a vital part of their studio practice. This exhibition celebrates the breadth of printmaking media and some of the myriad ways that artists harness them to produce their work.The artists in this exhibit are unified in their efforts to expand the field of contemporary printmaking through personal experimentation and creative exploration.Printmaking\, like photography\, quickly evolved from its egalitarian origins as a method of reproduction and fine artists have enthusiastically embraced it for its unique expressive possibilities.\nSeveral artists in this exhibition use printmaking techniques to create monoprints in oil or encaustics\, or include collaged\, digitally printed elements within their painted surfaces.Some exploit the raw physicality of applying inks to paper under pressure via lithographic\, wood or linoleum matrices\, while others extract the finest detail from sensitized gravure plates to produce images with extraordinary tonal range. \nClick images to enlarge \nDaniel Berlinmonoprint \n Daniel Berlin My monotypes are executed in several passes through the press\, building up layers as I go. When I’m working on these prints\, I try to check-in and do a little sweeping out of preconceptions. A buoyant beginner’s mind emerges and a freshness that emphasizes direct experience. In this exhibit I am presenting several groupings of monotypes\, starting with those printed at Bud Shark’s Lithography in Colorado to those made recently at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale\, NY. \n \n  \nCathy Conephotogravure \nCathy Cone My practice of making and developing the printed image is activated by its materiality. I’m interested in the various states of inked matrices and their combinations and intersections in the pursuit of form. Photography guides me to a deeper understanding as I celebrate the possibility of transformation through the exploration of the printing plate\, digital file\, or negative\, leading towards a new situation. \n  \nJonathan Fabricantrelief print \nJonathan Fabricant In my prints I utilize grids\, geometric shapes\, patterns\, directional movement\, color\, and figure ground relationships. I work with the static matrix of the carved block\, pushing against repetition to create a series of unique images. I am drawn to relief printing because it has an inherent imprecision and funkiness which gives my geometric shapes character and room to breathe. \n  \nJebah Baum “Landscape” lithograph \nJebah Baum My lithographs are hand printed from multiple polyester plates with oil based inks on an American French Tool etching press. The plates are relatively inexpensive\, which allows me the freedom to work directly in a painterly manner. I begin with sketches and develop ideas in reaction to the unfolding visual narratives that emerge before me. My images are thus spontaneous\, gestural and expressive. Their horizontality evokes themes of landscape and a quality of restrained expansiveness. \n  \nChristina Maile “Grandmother’s Gods”cyanotype \nChristina Maile Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that creates blue tinted images by drawing with light and shadow. In preparing for this exhibit I realized that it might be capable of perfectly manifesting the non-visible and imaginary world into which recent experience had thrust me. I also feel strongly about the external world and will contrast these more personal images with giclee collages of war and desolation. \n  \nGwen Fabricant “Fern”inkjet print and collage \nGwen FabricantIn the works for this exhibition\, I have juxtaposed a mechanical form of reproduction with an intensely handmade one. Physical organic material is collaged over laser-printed images of plants I placed on a scanner and photographed. These are very different processes\, but both are ways of exploring the physical reality of our earthly nature and its visual expression. \nDale Emmart relief print artist book \nDale Emmart My works in this exhibition are relief prints made with a straightforward reduction technique\, generating pages for the scroll\, accordion\, and larger stab binding book forms. Unlike the fine craft of printmaking with accurate registration of color plates and controlled crisp edges\, the prints in these works are blunt\, hand-rubbed\, overlapped\, and more gestural than graphic. Closer to drawing\, the mishaps and unexpected artifacts of ink residue on intended figure-ground relationships construct these prints and book objects. \nClaire Rosenfeld ink and encaustic monotype collage \nClaire Rosenfeld I work in both ink and encaustic monotypes\, sometimes painting into the prints\, or collaging parts of them with drawings or watercolor images. By exploring nature in transition and the relationship of figures\, still\, moving and gesturing within the landscape\, I attempt to evoke a sense of mystery in familiar settings. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/manifest-images-printmakers-showjebah-baum-daniel-berlin-cathy-cone-dale-emmart-gwen-fabricant-jonathan-fabricant-christina-maile-claire-rosenfeld/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MANIFEST-SQ-IMAGES-WITH-CATHY-CONE.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250404T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250404T203000 DTSTAMP:20260609T050217 CREATED:20250326T011838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250405T145943Z UID:10000746-1743793200-1743798600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:FIRST FRIDAY LIVE MUSIC WITH THEO BLECKMANN QUARTET DESCRIPTION:Friday April 4\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nFREE \nVocalist Theo Bleckmann’s ethereal and instrumental approach to the voice is both ancient and modern. Layering his voice thru live looping evokes both Gregorian chants and Ambient sound clouds. He will be performing his own compositions and arrangements\, with and without worlds\, and those of his co-musicians. \nTheo Bleckmann: Voice\nTimo Vollbrecht: saxophone\nLuke Marantz: piano\nJason Burger: drums \nTheo Bleckmann is a multi GRAMMY® nominated vocalist\, composer and ECM recording artist who has recorded over 17 albums and collaborated with artists such as Ambrose Akinmusire\, Sheila Jordan\, Kneebody\, Ben Monder\, John Hollenbeck\, Phil Kline\, David Lang\, Ulysses Owens\, Bang on a Can All-Stars\, and\, most prominently\, with Meredith Monk since 1994. Bleckmann has been interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air and appeared on the David Letterman show with Laurie Anderson.\nMore info Westbeth Artist Page \nFor upcoming First Friday Events check out Westbeth Musicworks 2025 Calendar URL:https://westbeth.org/event/first-friday-with-theo-bleckmann-quartet/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Theo-Blackman-Quartet-SQInstagram-Post-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250328T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250328T200000 DTSTAMP:20260609T050217 CREATED:20250316T233609Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250330T223438Z UID:10000740-1743188400-1743192000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Get to Know Your Neighbors: Elena Borstein\, SuZen\, and In Memoriam - Lucienne Weinberger DESCRIPTION:March 28\, 2025 at 7pm\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(Enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nA monthly event showcasing Westbeth artists \nElena Borstein painter: “My new paintings are entitled”Resist” They grew out of a series which paid homage to Mexican architect\, Luis Barragan. That series I called “Color of Architecture” In recent work I react to migrants being imprisoned on our southern border\, separated from their children\, and now vulnerable to the corona virus.” Westbeth Artist Page \nSuZen photographer\, multimedia Her photography has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally and in numerous public and private collections. Recipient of numerous grants\, NYSCA funded a 40’ x 23’ painted mural of her photograph\, “Flowing Light\,” on 42nd Street across from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Times Square. Retrospective at Westbeth Gallery \nLucienne Weinberger explored the emotional connections in people with the use of color and free-form shapes. Over the years\, her work developed with two prominent directions: figurative imagery where iconic figures are brought to life with a dreamlike narrative\, including works on canvas and paper\, and fired clay sculptures using acrylic paints and collage mounted canvas. Westbeth In Memoriam URL:https://westbeth.org/event/get-to-know-your-neighbors-elena-borstein-suzen-and-in-memoriam-lucienne-weinberger/ CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Get-SQ-to-Know-Your-Neig.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T170000 DTSTAMP:20260609T050217 CREATED:20250326T005932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250427T230217Z UID:10000745-1742889600-1742922000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Anna Shapiro Writer Profiles in Art Interview DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/anna-shapiro-writer-and-vsual-artist-profiles-in-art-interview/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-2025-04-11-at-10.42.08-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T170000 DTSTAMP:20260609T050217 CREATED:20250326T004357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250410T224622Z UID:10000744-1742889600-1742922000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Lorraine O Grady Film of Westbeth Icon evening DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/lorraine-o-grady-film-of-westbeth-icon-evening/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/LORRAINE-O-GRADY-copy.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T170000 DTSTAMP:20260609T050217 CREATED:20250307T001733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250326T005027Z UID:10000738-1742484600-1742490000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Spirit of Spring Arts Festival featuring Sing-a-long with City Councilmember Eric Bottcher DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/spirit-of-spring-arts-festival-featuring-sing-a-long-with-city-councilmember-eric-bottcher/ LOCATION:Westbeth Older Adult Center/Greenwich House CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Eric-Bottcher-sing-a-long-march-20-2025.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T170000 DTSTAMP:20260609T050217 CREATED:20250217T202258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250418T191034Z UID:10000727-1742457600-1745514000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:DRAG BINGO WITH PAIGE TURNER RETURNS BY POPULAR DEMAND SEE VIDEO DESCRIPTION:DRAG BINGO ON VIDEO! A TYPICAL EVENING OF SONG\, GAMES\, FUN AND SURPRISES…INCLUDING ON THIS VIDEO\nVideo by Roger Braimon \n\n \nWhen::Thursdays March 20 and April 24\, 2025\n7pm – 9pm \nWhere: Westbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nWhoa: Limited to 75 persons. First come\, first served \nWhat:.FREE and Bingo supplies provided. Amazing and unqiues prizes to the winners! \nWhy: Paige Turner performs show-stopping musical numbers along with her hilariously improvised Bingo games with fabulous prizes\, surprises\, mayhem more \nWho::NYC’s most recognizable names in drag “Showbiz Spitfire” PAIGE TURNER! Known as the love child of Barbie & Pee Wee Herman\, This 2-time Glam Award winner tours internationally in her All -Live Sung one woman shows. She is a headliner for OUTBOUND TRAVEL and has a summer residency in Provincetown at the acclaimed Post Office Café & Cabaret. Paige coined the phrase Slurp! which was NYC’s longest running drag show for 9.5 years. She was an original cast member of the reality show Shade: QUEENS OF NYC\, on the Fusion Network and has been featured numerous times on WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE! With Andy Cohen On Bravo\, even portraying Mary Poppins for Dame Julie Andrews! Most recently she guest starred on Law and Order in a Drag Story Hour related episode.\nwww.paigeturnernyc.com\n“Paige Turner is the ultimate theater queen and always gets everyone to sing along.”\nTHE NEW YORK TIMES URL:https://westbeth.org/event/drag-bingo-with-paige-turner-returns-by-popular-demand-see-video/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/DRAG-BINGO-MAR-20-APRIL-24.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250318T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250318T200000 DTSTAMP:20260609T050217 CREATED:20250215T024907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250320T151933Z UID:10000726-1742324400-1742328000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:The Twilight of Bohemia: Westbeth and the Last Artists in New York Peter Trachtenberg Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nTuesday March 18\, 2025 at 7pm\nWestbeth Comunity Room\n155 Bank St\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nBOOK DESCRIPTION\nAn intimate history of Westbeth\, told through the stories of nine of its artist residents. The Twilight of Bohemia also explores the changing notions of what it means to be a successful artist and the heartbreaking difficulty of surviving as one at our present cultural moment. \nREVIEW EXCERPTS\n“Who would have thought that a book about artist housing in Lower Manhattan would be impossible to put down? The force and beauty and clarity of Peter Trachtenberg’s writing is what makes The Twilight of Bohemia a page-turner about so much more than the characters we meet and the lost world of New York City that it so vividly evokes.”\n— Francine Prose\, Vixen \n“Reading The Twilight of Bohemia\, I had the feeling that its subject—a complex of buildings—had been condensed into book form through some Borgesian literary-alchemical process. This work is elegiac\, intimate\, and wry. Trachtenberg tells interlacing tales of an architectural entity\, artists who have lived as neighbors for fifty years\, an art world that now only exists in New York City’s rear-view mirror\, and a friendship that began in youth and ended with suicide in Westbeth. But the book is also a true historical document\, detailed and precise. And completely crucial.” – Nelly Reifler\, Elect H. Mouse State Judge \n“Beautiful! How often have you read a great book and thought\, ‘Why can’t I live there? Why can’t I live that story?’ . . . Trachtenberg has artfully\, tenderly\, and wisely recreated New York City’s legendary Westbeth artists’ community through the stories of dozens of artists who lived there\, himself included. The result is a messy tale of love and loss anchored in the equally messy act of creation. . . . It is a story that left this reader hungering for more.”\n— Mary Gabriel\, Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner\, Elaine de Kooning\, Grace Hartigan\, Joan Mitchell\, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art \nBIO\nPeter Trachtenberg is the author of the memoir 7 Tattoos\, The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning\, and Another Insane Devotion\, a 2012 New York Times Editors’ Choice. His honors include Whit­ing and Guggenheim Fellowships and the Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction. He is a professor emeritus in the Writing Program of the University of Pittsburgh. He has been connected to Westbeth since the 1970s and lived in the building from 1995 to 2006. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/peter-trachtenberg-book-launch-the-twilight-of-bohemia-westbeth-and-the-last-artsts-in-new-york/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Peter-Trachtenberg-Westbeth-book-SQ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250316T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250420T150000 DTSTAMP:20260609T050217 CREATED:20250106T220523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250417T195032Z UID:10000737-1742130000-1745161200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Penny Jones & Co PuppetsToby's Magic Forest DESCRIPTION:Sundays\nMarch 16 & 23\nApril 6 & 13\n2025\nat 1pm \nCome help make Spring bloom! \nWestbeth Community Rm\n155 Bank St\nNew York\, NY\n(enter through courtyard\nbetween West and Washington Sts. ) \nFun and funny things happen in the magic forest. The children raise flowers and even help to make Spring. A fan favorite because the children get to do so much. This is interactive puppet theater in an intimate space for young children. With lots of participation\, fun and games\, and magic. The Early Childhood Puppet Theatre’s first show- now even better. A hit for generations. With Jack\, the Pied Piper and Mother Goose’s silly little dog Toby. – And make a puppet to take home after the show! \n“The puppets are charming\, the program never overexcites the audience\, although there’s lots of room for participation” – The New York Times\n“Real warmth and gentleness.” -New York Magazine \nPENNY JONES & Co. PUPPETS\nEarly Childhood Puppet Theatre www.pennypuppets.org \nA VILLAGE GEM FOR 50 YEARS \n“Very simple\, and perfect as an introduction to theatre.” -New York Magazine\n“Charming.” -The New York Times\n2024-25 REPERTORY SEASON \nTickets on sale at pennypuppets.org and Eventbrite\nTickets are $15 for all ages\nShow Times: 1 PM\nAll Ages – Great for 2 to 8\nStroller Parking\nShows Run about 45 Minutes\nworkshop follows\nInformation: (212) 924-0525 \nhttp://www.pennypuppets.org \nBUS AND SUBWAY: M14A\, M11\, M20\, (2 blocks)\nA\, C\, E\, L\, 1\, 2\, 3 (5 or 6 blocks) \n“A Child’s first experience with theater is important and forming. Quality counts.” – Penny Jones \nPENNY JONES & CO. PUPPETS has been a mainstay of children’s theater in New York since the 1970’s. The company specializes in informal puppet shows for children aged three to eight\, and puppet ballets with live music for audiences of adults\, children or both. The company performs in collaboration with chamber ensembles and orchestras. The repertory includes adaptations of classical works as well as original stories and scores. Penny is the winner of the Puppeteers of America Education Award. In schools\, the company has performed hundreds of times\, and Penny has a wide variety of programs from puppet pageants with a cast and crew of 30 to 90 school children\, to workshops for small classes\, and Penny’s “One on One” – interweaving puppetry\, storytelling\, movement and arts. \nThe company has appeared on television\, in the Henson International Puppet Festival at the Public Theatre\, The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, at BAM with the Brooklyn Philharmonic\, at City Center\, Avery Fisher Hall\, and in museums including The Museum of the City of New York\, The Children’s Museum of New York\, the American Museum of Natural History\, at Emelin\, Wave Hill\, the Washington Square Music Festival\, at venues from Macy’s to Barnes & Noble\, and with orchestras at Bargemusic\, Casa de España\, Greenwich House Music School\, with the New Jersey Symphony\, up on the Highline\, out on the piers -and many\, many\, more… URL:https://westbeth.org/event/penny-jones-co-puppets-presents-tobys-magic-forest/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-2025-03-06-at-5.07.14-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250313T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250313T203000 DTSTAMP:20260609T050217 CREATED:20250307T135051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250317T015304Z UID:10000739-1741892400-1741897800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Movie Night: The Last Laugh DESCRIPTION:Thursday March 13\, 2025\nat 7pm\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nNew York NY\n(enter through courtyard) \nClick image to find out more about the film \nClick to enlarge URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-movie-night-the-last-laugh/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Westbeth-Movie-Night-The-Last-Laugh-SQUARE.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250311T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250311T210000 DTSTAMP:20260609T050217 CREATED:20250306T212507Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250313T025926Z UID:10000735-1741716000-1741726800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Fix-It Night at Westbeth Don't Trash It - Repair It! DESCRIPTION:Tues March 11\, 2025 6pm – 9pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nNew York\, NY\n(enter through courtyard) URL:https://westbeth.org/event/fix-it-night-at-westbeth/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dennis-Fix-it-night.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250308T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250308T210000 DTSTAMP:20260609T050217 CREATED:20250306T220031Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250313T025827Z UID:10000736-1741460400-1741467600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Composers Concordance Seth & Gene's Excellent Electroacoustic Adventure DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 8th\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n55 Bethune St\, NYC \nComposers Concordance presents ‘Seth & Gene’s Excellent Electroacoustic Adventure’. Composers Gene Pritsker and Seth Boustead will perform a duo concert featuring special guests\, poets Robert C. Ford and Imelda O’Reilly. The program will showcase newly written electroacoustic music combined with poetry and film\, performed five times in five different cities. Most of the music is scored for electric guitar\, piano\, and electronics\, with poetry by Robert C. Ford and Imelda O’Reilly. Also on the program are three films—two by Octavio Maya and one by Salem Krieger. \nThe event will launch on March 8th in New York City at the Westbeth Artist Complex. The group will then travel to San José\, Costa Rica\, performing on March 20th at the University of Costa Rica and on March 22nd in Turrialba\, Costa Rica. Next\, they will head to Mexico City for a performance on March 27th at Casa Patricio\, followed by a presentation on March 28th in Morelia\, Mexico at CMMAS (Mexican Center for Music and the Sound Arts). \nThe composers on the program are Seth Boustead\, Gene Pritsker\, Marvin Camacho\, Carlos Castro\, Rodrigo Grillo Grillasca\, and Rodrigo Sigal. \nThe concert will also be live-streamed on Composers Concordance’s Facebook Page.\n______________________________________________________________\nComposers:\nSeth Boustead\, Gene Pritsker\,\nMarvin Camacho\, Carlos Castro\,\nRodrigo Grillo Grillasca\, Rodrigo Sigal \nPerformers:\nSeth Boustead – piano\nGene Pritsker – Di.J. / guitar\nRobert C. Ford – poet / narrator\nImelda O’Reilly – poet / narrator \nFilms by:\nOctavio Maya\, Salem Krieger \nFree Event\nFacebook\nLive Stream \nTHIS EVENT WILL ALSO BE PRESENTED IN VENUES ACROSS\nCOSTA RICA AND MEXICO \nMARCH 20\, 6pm – SAN JOSE\, COSTA RICA\n@ Auditorio Abelardo Bonilla\nEscuela de Estudios Generales – UCR \nMARCH 22\, 8pm – TURRIALBA\, COSTA RICA\n@ Teatro Municipal de Turrialba. \nMARCH 27 – MEXICO CITY\, MEXICO\n@ Casa Patricio \nMARCH 28\, 7pm – MORELIA\, MEXICO\n@ Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras | CMMAS And www.cmmas.org \n“I don’t appreciate avant-garde\, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.”\n– Ravi Shankar \n______________________________________________________________ \nStaying in rotation for 41 years in NYC is a rare feat. In the case of a new music presenting organization\, it requires not only diligence and cognizance of achievements of the past but also an ethic of keeping one’s ear to the ground for emerging stylistic and technological developments\, as well as talented new composers on the scene. Composers Concordance\, founded in 1984 by Joseph Pehrson and Patrick Hardish\, advised by Otto Luening\, strives to present contemporary music in innovative ways\, with an emphasis on thematic programming. Directors Gene Pritsker and Dan Cooper co-curate the programs and lead the CompCord Ensemble\, Chamber Orchestra\, String Orchestra\, and Big Band. Associate Directors are Milica Paranosic\, Peter Jarvis\, Debra Kaye\, and Seth Boustead. Composers Concordance has also created a Naxos-distributed record label: Composers Concordance Records. Composers Concordance’s overriding vision is to promote contemporary music\, composers\, and new works as a rightful and respected part of society. Good music performed and recorded well\, pushing the boundaries of sound and composition. \n“Composers Concordance..a veritable New York new music institution of concerts\, album production and multiple ensembles under a sweeping\, tenacious brand\, thriving on the emulsion of contemporary classical\, free improv\, jazz and rock\, overt humor and fearless political statements\, all very much in evidence..The ensemble..was masterful throughout.”-John Pietaro\, The New York City Jazz Record \n“An unwavering force in giving composers exposure through concert bookings and its own record label\, the intrepid new-music organization Composers Concordance” – The Brooklyn Rail \n“The Composers Concordance folks are unpredictable and at times refreshingly irreverent in a reverent sort of way….ingenious fun” – Classical-Modern Music Review \n“Enterprising new music organization” – The New York Times \nPlease follow NYC Covid-19 protocols & updates:\nhttps://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/home\nhttps://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-main.page\nhttps://www.nycgo.com/coronavirus-information-and-resources-for-travelers \n2024-2025 SEASON SITE URL:https://westbeth.org/event/composers-concordance-presents-seth-genes-excellent-electroacoustic-adventure/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-2025-03-06-at-4.46.18-PM.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR