BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Westbeth - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://westbeth.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Westbeth REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260428T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260517T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T111525 CREATED:20260401T024819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260418T181534Z UID:10000988-1777381200-1779040800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Working Conditions Residency Unlimited 2026 NYC Based Artist in Residence Exhibition NYCBAR DESCRIPTION:“Working Conditions” is the culminating exhibition of Residency Unlimited’s 2026 NYC-Based\nArtist-in-Residence (NYCBAR) Program. \nArtists: Catherine Chen\, Ekene Ijeoma\, Rehan Miskci\, Jiangshengyu Nova Pan and LuLu Meng (2015\nRU Alum)\nCurated by Phil Zheng Cai \nOpening: Tuesday April 28\, 2026 | 6-8pm\nOn view: April 28 – May 17\, 2026 | Wednesday – Sunday\, 1-6pm \n\nLocation: Westbeth Gallery\, 55 Bethune St\, New York\, NY 10014 (map) \n \nA common screening question asked by curators and gallerists is: “Do you plan on being a professional artist for the rest of your life?” \nThis arrogant request for proof of dedication undermines the hardship of treating art as a profession\, especially in a city like New York.\nMore often than not\, artists in the City have other jobs and find a balance between their art and non-art practices.\nTo some\, their “day jobs” are a soulless exchange for material cost\, and to others\, these occupations\ninspire and inform\, providing for their art practices in the form of subject matters\, methodologies\,\nhabits\, constraints\, or guidelines.\n​Taking its title from Hans Haacke’s collected writings\, “Working Conditions” seeks to dissect the notion\nof the “artist” into two intertwined identities: the one who makes art\, and the one who performs “artist”\nas a profession. By acknowledging their indivisibility\, the project invites five artists who maintain other\n“day jobs” to reflect on how those experiences inform their practices. Within the negotiable\nenvironment of an artist residency\, artists navigate a push and pull between their roles as pure creative\nagents and professional practitioners. \nCatherine Chen (Product Manager\, Connected Banking Growth at J.P. Morgan Chase) is an\ninterdisciplinary artist whose work enacts and embodies the ways in which digital platforms made by\ncorporate structures gamify everyday life. In her studio practice\, Chen creates paintings and drawings\nthrough a labor-intensive and accumulative process of mark-making as a way to map the immateriality\nof her fancy wagecuck into a messy physicality. During the residency at RU\, Chen expands this logic off\nthe picture plane into a physical sculpture to shift the negotiation from individual accumulation to\ncollective aggregation. Gamification is also staked in the process of making. Chen’s mother does not\nnecessarily believe in her work as art\, but agreed to help produce the sculpture once she learned of the\nartist grant\, as the money\, which she does believe in\, reorients her faith in her daughter as an artist.\nChen frames her works as “brute gamification” – in which one engages with games via total-body\ninvolvement rather than simulation. Her work gently nudges the viewers’ perceptions to reveal that\nthose appears to be a free-for-all exploration might in fact be an orchestrated trick: “Though users of\nthe Chase app click through with a sense of absolute agency\, I am aware of the physical labor that\nmakes this immaterial journey possible\, as well as the fact that there is no agency–every step of their\npath has been predetermined by me.” \nEkene Ijeoma (Founder\, Black Forest | Founder\, Poetic Justice at the MIT Media Lab) is a conceptual\nartist\, computational designer\, and experimental composer researching social\, political\, and\nenvironmental systems to develop multimedia works that expose inequities and empower\ncommunities. As a project-based artist working without a permanent studio space\, Ekene constantly\nnavigates the duality between a maker and a professional survivor. He believes that to be of service to\nsociety requires building the very infrastructure that sustains that service. \nThe installation on view\, “Tree Hustler\,” is both a sculptural critique and a functional\, poetic gesture of\nresilience\, acting as an organic continuation of Black Forest—a participatory art and community\nforestry initiative planting trees for Black lives across all 50 states. “Tree Hustler” was motivated by the\nFall 2025 cancellation of a $1.5B urban forestry grant\, which forced Ekene’s practice into survival mode.\nInstead of stopping planting\, he hustles to plant more. The Tree Hustler Coat will be exhibited as a\nsuspended\, living sculpture where a multi-layered forest thrives from within. Photographs will be on\nview\, documenting the artist performing as a street vendor hustling bare-root tree saplings and exotic\nfloras across NYC sites historically synonymous with street vending and Black commerce. \nRehan Miskci (Photography and Digital Imaging Manager\, the Woodman Family Foundation) is a\nmultidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn. Her practice weaves together layers of archive\, photography\,\nand text to reimagine traces lodged within both individual and collective memory. Working with\narchival materials provides Miskci with a unique perspective towards the ontology of an archive: not as\na fixed repository but as something porous and negotiable. Her installations propose that the physical\nmanipulation of photographic forms—layering\, reprinting\, reframing—is a way to imagine alternative\nfutures for the histories that have been only partially recorded. Her cultural heritage as an Armenian\ngrowing up in Turkey reflects in her works as paying attention to gaps\, discrepancies and interruptions\nin archives.\nInspecting how her practice as an artist is informed by her job as a Photography and Digital Imaging\nManager\, Miskci zooms in on the archival documentation devices\, such as a copy stand anda\nscanner—both a tool and a site—which she set up for the foundation where she works and later\nreplicated at her own studio. With these devices\, she performs surgically on the afterlives of\nphotographs\, and highlights the labor required to sustain them. Even though how the machines\nfunction remains consistent between her studio and work\, the intentions of the surgeries performed\ndifferentiate eerily across the two sites\, calling for the often omitted differentiation between labor at\nwork and labor when working for one’s self. \nJiangshengyu Nova Pan (Conservation Technician\, Baltimore Museum of Art) is a moving image and\ninstallation artist who is always in motion. Her works explore the transformations of space\, power\nrelations\, and social networks faced by a mobile population\, often exemplified by the artist’s own\nnomadism. Instead of seeking clarity\, Pan’s worldview centered on blurriness\, and it usually starts with\ntexts that are neither ‘facts’ nor ‘fictions.’\nAs a conservation technician\, Pan’s routine includes using a soft\, small oil-painting brush to sweep dust\nfrom the surfaces of artworks\, which the artist perceives as a quiet form of spatial reorganization on the\nobject’s surface\, depending on exclusion and withdrawal. The video on view depicts one of her\ncolleagues performing a routine sculpture brush-off. When the museum-grade machinery is turned on\,\nthe noise element becomes an invisible warding mechanism for the sculpture\, which has momentarily\nbecome an active site of construction. The objects’ occupation of a space is contingent upon the\nwithdrawal of others\, and so is our access to power. As an artist who is fascinated by the distance\nbetween entities\, Pan\, on this occasion\, compresses the “safe viewing distance” of an artwork by the\nproximity of labor required to maintain it. Other works on view include spatial objects Pan\nreconstructed from the Baltimore Museum of Art’s discard pile\, blowing new life into what was\ntraditionally a lifeless support system for the true masterpieces. \nLuLu Meng (Operations Director\, Residency Unlimited) works across media to explore the interplay\nbetween the individual and the collective in contemporary society. Employing everyday materials\,\ndigital components\, clothing\, drawings\, and photographs\, they create durational installations that\ninvite interaction and reflection. With “Working Conditions\,” their installation invites the viewers to\nattempt a balance. Inspired by the seesaw\, an object that is almost never in balance\, the structure\nseduces with the simplicity of the task\, but offers a harsh reality check once movements are attempted. \nWorking as an integral part of the organizing institution for this residency and exhibition\, Meng’s very\nposition both within and overseeing the exhibition is a simulation of a “working condition\,” for their role\nas an artist and as an administrator is ushered into one site. With this unique perspective\, in\ncollaboration with the curator\, they co-design and co-initiate a working space in the form of an open\noffice that is accessible to the public for everyone to sit down and do some desk work. Thinking about\nthe residency model as a “third space” between artist studios and their final destinations (galleries and\nmuseums)\, this act of relational aesthetics argues for an insertion of utility in “art for art’s sake” when\nlabor is constantly generated and consumed during the process.\nPlease feel free to sit down\, pay some bills\, do your taxes (if you are late)\, brainstorm an idea\, or curate\nyour next show. No credit-giving is required. \nAbout the Curator\nPhil Zheng Cai is a curator and writer based in New York. He graduated from the University of\nWisconsin-Madison with a BA in Social Science\, and received his MA from Sotheby’s Institute of Art. He\nhas held posts at Mary Boone Gallery\, Phillips Auctioneers\, and is currently a partner at Eli Klein Gallery.\nCai’s research focuses on systematic critique\, providing recontextualized commentaries following the\ntraditions of institutional critique\, highlighting the non-severability of framework and context.\nCai’s curated exhibitions have received critical acclaim. His curated exhibition “(In)directions: Queernessin Chinese Contemporary Photography” was reviewed by Hyperallergic\, Musee Magazine\, Asian American Arts Alliance AMP Magazine\, and many others. His curated exhibition “Alienation?” was reviewed by the Brooklyn Rail. He has participated in panel discussions and talks at institutions such as\nthe Asia Society Museum New York\, the SCAD Museum of Art\, Columbia University\, Sotheby’s Institute\nof Art\, among others. \nSpecial thanks to curatorial assistant Vu Thien An Nguyen who made this project possible. \nThe 2026 NYC-Based Artist Residency Program is made possible by the New York State Council on the\nArts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. This program is\nsupported\, in part\, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in\npartnership with the City Council. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/working-conditions-an-art-show-about-how-their-day-jobs-impact-their-artwork/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:Featured Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/WORKING-CONDISITONS-REVISED-SQ.png GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T111525 CREATED:20260406T194029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260406T194806Z UID:10000994-1777662000-1777665600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Kate Walter Article About First Friday Music Events DESCRIPTION:Photo: Kate Walter of Eve Zanni Quartet in the Westbeth courtyard. lr: John Simon\, sax; Eve Zanni\, vocals; Mark Hagan\, bass; Issac Raz\, keyboards. \nVillage Star-Revue\nApril 2026 \nLink: https://villagestar-revue.com/first-fridays-at-westbeth/\nLast December I was sitting in an intimate space with great acoustics\, listening to the John Eckert Quartet. The veteran trumpet player led a swinging group with a guest singer\, Pete Caldera\, who channeled Frank Sinatra. No\, I wasn’t at Mezzrow. I was at the Westbeth community room attending a show in the First Fridays concert series\, where a Westbeth musical artist and guests perform on the first Friday of every month at 7 p.m. \nSponsored by the Westbeth Artists Residents Council and Westbeth Music Works and curated by jazz vocalist and Westbeth resident\, Eve Zanni\, this series is open to the public and free. \nI never miss this event unless I’m away. I get to hear top-notch musicians who play in big venues like Joe’s Pub. \nFirst Fridays started in 2023 evolved from a concert series called Summer Soundwaves that Zanni produced in the Westbeth courtyard during the summers of 2022 and 2023. “We were coming out of the pandemic and I proposed a series of outdoor concerts to uplift the community\,” Zanni said. “It was the opening of a new dawn for music at Westbeth.” \nSummer Soundwaves was a big success\, featuring artists such as the jazz guitarist Peter Bernstein\, a regular at the Village Vanguard and Blue Note. For two summers\, I sat outside with my neighbors listening to great music. Now I get to do this once a month during all four seasons. \nThe well-attended First Fridays showcases a variety of music: rock\, blues\, jazz\, gospel\, traditional folk\, classical\, world music\, cabaret\, and live dance party that gets people on the floor. Among the highlights over the years were the harmonic trio BETTY and the jazz singers Alexis Cole and Sarah King. \nRehearsal space with shows\n“My mission is to promote and revitalize music at Westbeth\,” said Zanni\, “I want to promote Westbeth musicians and for them to have their own space for rehearsals and performances.” Her dedication to helping other musicians springs from her artistic role as a singer/songwriter/educator. \nZanni’s work as a curator is totally volunteer. She recruits artists to perform by putting out notices and sending emails. She approaches all new musicians who have moved into the building. Recent arrivals Veronica Parrales (cello) and Jason Mathena (percussion)\, a married couple\, gave the February concert\, playing solos and duets. \nFirst Fridays is produced and funded by the Westbeth Artists Residents Council. Zanni submits a proposal directly to the Residents Council\, which provides infrastructure and advertising support. The musicians handle the setup\, refreshments\, breakdown\, and the performance. And they receive a stipend. \nWhenever Zanni introduces a show\, she mentions the history of the building. The famous arranger Gil Evans lived and worked in Westbeth. Westbeth Artists Housing was created in the former home of Bell Labs. \n“[It] is not lost on me that Bell Labs is where the amplifier and the microphone were created\,” she said. “I’m dedicated to enhancing Westbeth’s long standing reputation as a place for sound innovation and for creative music making.” \nAs a piano tuner and technician for 40 years\, Zanni is sensitive to the acoustics of a room. “The Westbeth community room is a live room with warmth. It’s actually the ideal room for acoustic and gently amplified music. All instruments seem to read really well including voices.” she said. \nCareer as producer\nZanni’s experience in producing musical events started before her arrival in Westbeth. She spent over 10 years curating programs for the jazz ministry at Saint Peter’s Church\, including their annual Lester Young Memorial Celebration. \nAfter she moved to Westbeth in 2005\, she co-produced 10 three-day music festivals in the Westbeth courtyard from 2005-2015. \nHer long history of curating music at Westbeth led the way to First Fridays. \nThe artists who appear seem to enjoy the show as much as the audience \n“Performing at First Fridays is always a joy\,” said Val Hawk\, singer/songwriter\, who delivered a set of catchy and quirky original songs on March 6. Hawk is a story teller\, writing about her family and relationships. “Codependence” is a twisted love song and “Same Old Nightmare” is a funny\, relatable tune about recurring dreams. “Baby Blue Chevrolet” recalls her childhood when her mother was a singer in Miami and “Wake Up Smiling” is a love song for her daughter\, also a singer. “Walking the Moon” (her dog) describes her friendship with Denise\, the late-night security guard at Westbeth\, a character familiar to the audience. \n“The beautiful community room\, with its concert grand piano\, great sound system\, and fully operational kitchen is a testament to Westbeth’s commitment to supporting artists\,” said Hawk. “Eve Zanni has done a marvelous job. I’m happy to have joined her as co-curator for the 2026 season.” \nBarry Temkin and the Barry Tones will appear on Friday May 1. Led by guitarist Barry Temkin\, the Barry Tones are a dance band playing rockabilly\, blues\, rock\, country music\, originals and classic favorites. \nPhoto above by Kate Walter: Eve Zanni Quartet in the Westbeth courtyard. Left to right: John Simon\, sax; Eve Zanni\, vocals; Mark Hagan\, bass; Issac Raz\, keyboards. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/kate-walter-article-about-first-friday-music-events/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Artists ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Screenshot-2026-04-06-at-3.26.31-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T111525 CREATED:20260419T180755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260419T181543Z UID:10001003-1777662000-1777665600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:The BarryTones First Friday Live Music DESCRIPTION:Friday May 1\, 2026 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nMusicians: Barry Temkin\,* Natasha Gollin\, Craig Howe\,* Bill Dotts*\, Jim Meigs\, Violizzy. With a special guest appearance from Westbeth’s own Eve Zanni! \n*(Westbeth resident).\nThe event: Westbeth rockin’ dance party! Kick your shoes off and DANCE! DANCE! DANCE! \nThe Barrytones are back for another evening of swingin’\, rockin’\, rollin’\, boppin’\, jumpin’\, jivin’\, rip roarin’ dance music. We play a mix of rock\, blues\, rockabilly and western swing music that is guaranteed to get you up on your feet and dancing! \nWebpage: Barry Temkin https://westbeth.org/artist-page/barry-temkin/ \nViolizzy: https://www.violizzy.com/ \nBill Dotts: https://jonbates.com/bill-dotts-bass-guitar/ \nNatasha Gollin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EebnBv9rgE \nPerformance Video URL:https://westbeth.org/event/the-barrytones-first-friday-live-music/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:Com-room ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/The-BarryTones-Instagram-Post.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260503T150000 DTSTAMP:20260423T111525 CREATED:20260409T201651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260409T202306Z UID:10000998-1777726800-1777820400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:16th Annual 2026 WestFest Dance Festival All Over Westbeth DESCRIPTION:Saturday Mary 2 and Sunday May 3\, 2026 \nFree \nWestbeth Artists Housing 155 Bank Street Courtyard entrance\, New York\, NY \nClick image for more info. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/16th-annual-2026-westfest-dance-festival-all-over-westbeth/ LOCATION:Westbeth CATEGORIES:Featured Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/WESTFEST-SQ-ALLOVER-MAY-2026.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260508T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T111525 CREATED:20260402T013907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T212705Z UID:10000989-1778198400-1778889600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Flea Market 2026 Spring 40 Years of Bargains Galore Preview DESCRIPTION:Click Imge to enlarge MOTHERS DAY WEEKEND\nOpens Friday May 8\, 2026 11am – 5pm\nSaturday May 9\, 2026 11am – 5pm\nSunday May 10\, May 2026 11m – 5pm \n$10 Bag Sale Saturday May 16\, 2026 11am – 2pm \nWestbeth Artists Housing Basement\n55 Bethune Street\ncorner of Washington Street\nNew York \, NY 10014 \nSALE PREVIEW – MORE ITEMS DAILY. 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