BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Westbeth - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Westbeth X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://westbeth.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Westbeth REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD 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:20240326T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240326T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20240303T163340Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240327T200105Z UID:10000477-1711479600-1711483200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Evening with W. B. YeatsAs Wild Old Wicked Man hosted by Alison Armstrong of WB Yeats Society DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nTues March 26\, 2024 at 7pm – 8pm \nProgram: Four live readings of Yeats’ poems\, plus presentation of related images. \nPresenter: Alison Armstrong\, Ph.D. of W. B. Yeats Society \nReaders: Terence Burk\, Kurt Kelly\, Andrea Mihok\, and Joel Rooks. \nLocation: Westbeth Community Room \n155 Bank Street NY NY\nb?w Washington and West Sts\nenter through courtyard \nSponsor: Westbeth Artists Residents Council. \n​\nAlison Armstrong writings include literary cookbook\, “The Joyce of Cooking” (Station Hill Press\, 986) and volume of textual analysis of Yeats’s “The Herne’s Egg” (Cornell Univ. Press\, 1993). Alison holds M.A. in English Lit. from Ohio State (thesis on Yeats and James Joyce); M.Litt. from Oxford University. UK (thesis on late Yeats play); and Ph.D. in Comparative Lit. from New York University (dissertation on Joyce and Roland Barthes). Alison’s essays and reviews have appeared in “A Wake Newslitter (sic)\,” “Irish Literary Supplement\,” “James Joyce Literary Supplement\,” and “American Arts Quarterly.” Her short fiction and poetry have been published in “BOMB” and “Exquisite Corpse.” Her paintings and sculptures have been exhibited since 1980. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/evening-with-w-b-yeats-as-wild-old-wicked-man-hosted-by-alison-armstrong-of-wb-yeats-society/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Yeats-poster-FINAL-SQUARE.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240323T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240323T170000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20240311T183628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240327T200117Z UID:10000489-1711191600-1711213200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:West Village Community Blood Drive DESCRIPTION:Click image below which links to scheduling an appointment. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/west-village-blood-drive-act-westbeth/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/BLOOD-DRIVE-MAR-2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T203000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20240301T194203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T200001Z UID:10000478-1711134000-1711139400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Movie Night: Big Picture DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge Friday March 22\, 2024 at 7PM \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\nNY NY\nb/w West and Washington Sts – enter through courtyard \nFREE URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-movie-night-big-picture/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Big-Night-REV-SQUARE.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240315T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240315T090000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20231103T155039Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240315T181227Z UID:10000471-1710493200-1710493200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Vincent Lucas Flute Masterclass at Westbeth DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nFriday March 15\, 2024 9am – 11:30am \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\nNew York ny\nenter through courtyard \nA masterclass in orchestral and solo repertoire for the flute\, hosted by Louna Dekker Vargas. \nWestbeth Residents free \nGENERAL PUBLIC:$10 \nPARTICIPANTS $150\nTo apply as a performer\, contact Lounna Dekker Vargas at lounadekker@gmail.com \nVINCENT LUCAS has been the principal flute soloist of the Orchestre de Paris since 1994.\nAs a featured soloist\, he appears regularly with European and French orchestras and has collaborated extensively as a chamber musician and soloist. Lucas has recorded several albums of French flute repertoire\, an acclaimed CD of solo flute works and participated in six complete works albums of Dutilleux\, Saint-Saens\, Debussy\, Gaubert\, Poulenc and\nJevtic which have won numerous awards. \nIn addition to his career as an orchestral musician\, he is sought after as a master professor of French technique in France and abroad.He is Principal Professor at CRR of Paris and and honorary professor at the College of Music Toho Gakuen” in Tokyo. \nMr Lucas is appearing at Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra de Paris on March 16\, 2024. Carnegie Hall Info \nFor a recent sample of Mr. Lucas’s work in Fall of 2023 in the Orchestre de Paris under the baton of\nKlaus Makela\, visit:\nhttps://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr/live/concert/1159521-orchestre-de-paris-klaus-makela\n. \nLOUNA DEKKER VARGAS is a Franco-American flutist\, daughter of Claudia Vargas painter and and Reinier Dekker\, a Dutch craftsman. \nAn expressive flutist with a fondness for the stage\, she is at home in several musical fields\, from experimental jazz in New York (the group Atlantic Extraction\, whose two albums produced by Out of Your Head Records were met by acclaim in the press in the U.S. and France)\, the theatrical world of Broadway (Wicked 2017- 2020)\, and\, above all\, chamber music with her various ensembles (Peabody Conservatory YADS Prize winners\, guest artists at numerous festivals\, including the Sitka Centennial Hall Chamber Music Festival\, El Paso Pro Musica festival\, Fox Fine Arts Hall\, quarter-finalist at the Fischoff International Competition… ) She performs with Trio Azure\, duo Lune d’Olive and Trio Soleil regularly in Paris through her chamber music non-profit La Chambre de Musique.\nInterested in contemporary creations\, she has worked with many living composers\, including Georg Friedrich Haas\, George E. Lewis\, Tyshawn Sorey\, Vijay Iyer\, Daniel Sabzghabaei\, Ledah Finck and Valerie Coleman\, among others. \nIn 2022 and 2023 she was invited as a soloist to the Cité Internationale des Arts\, the Grand Amphitéatre de la Sorbonne\, the Grand Salon du Collège Néerlandais de la Cité Internationale\, and Salle Cortot.\nLouna has also recently been invited to collaborate with the New Jersey Festival Orchestra and the International Contemporary Ensemble. A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory and finishing her studies under the tutelage of Vincent Lucas\, Louna has also worked with many renowned flutists in masterclasses: Emmanuel Pahud\, Marina Piccinini\, Sophie Cherrier\, Philippe Bernold\, Emily Skala… URL:https://westbeth.org/event/vincent-lucas-flute-masterclass-at-westbeth/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Vincent-MasterclassSQ-NY-March-15-2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240315T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T170000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20240401T235853Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240516T004507Z UID:10000505-1710489600-1711126800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:WESTBETH KIDS ART SHOW 2024: A REVIEW WITH PHOTOS DESCRIPTION:POP UP GALLERY: WESTBETH ARTIST CHILDREN’S HAPPINESS\nA review by Alison Armstrong Ph.D \nPoster by R Braimon \nAdvertised as Westbeth a Kids Art Show\, March 15 – March 22\, 2024\, the inner courtyard former daycare space an ehibition popped up with art by uninhibited and happy very young artists exhibiting a variety of colorful paintings. \nThe youngest were two girls \, Frankie (20 months) and Phoebe (2 years\, 5 months). The lavish reception of food and wine drew quite a lot of grown-ups who wandered in to have a look and stayed to admire the skill and diversity of the art\, including sculptures of various sizes and subjects. The medium was paper and paint or graphite. Scultptural works included Miss Hallier’s Paper-Mache giraffe of newsprint with an overlay of yellow staining. Her startling abstraction hung on an adjacent wall.Skillful paintings and a 3 dimensional piece by the Bernstein brothers\, introduced the entrance to the middle room\, \nGracing the long left hand wall of the end room were drawings that continued from black and white images into the more colorful works. Needless to say they were all hung at eye level. Black and white drawings by Ezra contrasted with brilliant abstracts\, not to mention representational images that suggest motioning excited sudden emotion.The largest work was a dramatic semi-realist image of two humanoid figures in red/white/blue with green feet that dominated the end wall of the main space. \nClick image for 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\nDue to brevity (the sudden appearance and disappearance) of this marvelous exhibition\, this reviewer regrets that not all of the artists could be interviewed in person nor all of the art works featured here. However we have hopes that this have been the first of a future series of such exhibits that feature our youngest members of Westbeth Artists Community. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-kids-art-show/ LOCATION:Inner Courtyard Pop Up Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KIDS-POSTER-AQ-kids-a-2-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240323T180000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20240304T170627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T200030Z UID:10000459-1709730000-1711216800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Women on the Verge Exhibition of Artists Affiliated with the29.art DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nMarch 6 – March 23\, 2024 \nOpening Reception: Wednesday\, March 6\, 2024 6pm – 8pm\nNote: The Westbeth Gallery will open at 6pm on that day. \nWestbeth Gallery\n55 Bethune Street\, NY\, NY\nGallery hours: Wednesday-Sunday\, 1-6 pm and by appointment \nWestbeth Gallery is pleased to present Women on the Verge\, a group exhibition of artists\naffiliated with the29.art\, a digital platform seeking to create opportunities for self-identified\nwomen working in the arts. It is a group of more than twenty-nine well-established\, mid-career\, and emerging artists\, diverse in practice\,\nmedium\, age\, ethnicity\, and background. \nThe exhibition is curated by Kathy Brew and features films\, art\, poetry\, and performance. \nParticipating Artists \nKathy Brew\nYoshiko Chuma\nMartha Edelheit\nMichelle Handelman\nJulia Heyward\njennifer jazz\nPamela Lawton\nStefani Mar\nAline Mare\nLucia Maria Minervini\nHelen Oji\n \nJanet Panetta\nJeanne Quinn\nMelinda Ring\nFelice Rosser\nLynne Sachs\nSusan Salinger\nMM Serra\nShelly Silver\nPamela Sneed\nLila Zemborain \nFor press inquiries and appointments\nSusan Salinger (917) 327-6201 or Kathy Brew (917) 592-4134 \nMore info: the29.art URL:https://westbeth.org/event/women-on-the-verge-exhibition-of-artists-affiliated-with-the29-art/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/WOMEN-ON-VERGE-WITH-NAMES.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240305 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240328 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20240305T170026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240402T001520Z UID:10000481-1709596800-1711583999@westbeth.org SUMMARY:WESTZINE Inaugural Issue Open Call DESCRIPTION:click to enlarge \nDownload the WESTZINE Open Call PDF WESTZINE URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westzine-quarterly/ LOCATION:Online and Info at Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/WESTZINE_flyer_OpenCall_online1080.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240302T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240302T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20240222T225806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240303T160332Z UID:10000474-1709406000-1709413200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Composers Concordance: Music and Films Imelda O'Reilly film and more DESCRIPTION:March 2\, 2024 at 7pm\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nenter through courtyard\nNew York\, NY \nComposers Concordance presents “Music & Film @ Westbeth\,” an event combining cutting-edge short films with contemporary music composition.\nClick to enlarge \n \nThe Films\nFilms by Roxana Avila\, Imelda O’Reilly\, and Cecilia Mandrile\nFilm: Suspicious Minds\nA Short Narrative Film written & directed by Imelda O’Reilly starring Gina Costigan\, Ed Malone and Morgan Bullock\nImelda O’Reilly Artist Page \nPerforming live with the films is the renowned CompCord Ensemble::\nJessica Bowers (mezzo soprano)\, Charles Coleman (baritone)\, Lynn Bechtold (violin)\, Christof Knoche (bass clarinet)\, Jai Jeffryes (piano)\, Troy Rinker (double bass)\, and David Cossin (drum set)\, conducted by Gene Pritsker. \nFeatured on the program:\nThe animated Tango opera The Tunnel with music by Carlos José Castro Mora;\nBricks\, Beds\, and Sheep’s Heads with music by Seth Boustead\nThe Seamonster and the Milk Thistle with music by Gene Pritsker\nProject Imaginaire (Robin) with music by Lynn Bechtold \nThe Concert\nJessica Bowers\, mezzo-soprano\nCharles Coleman (AKA Das Krooner)\, baritone\nLynn Bechtold\, violin\nChristof Knoche\, bass clarinet\nJai Jeffryes\, piano\nTroy Rinker\, Jr.\, double bass\nDavid Cossin\, drum set \nGene Pritsker\, conductor \nWorks :\nCarlos José Castro Mora — The Tunnel\nSeth Boustead — Bricks\, Beds\, and Sheep’s Heads\nGene Pritsker — The Seamonster and the Milk Thistle\nLynn Bechtold — Project Imaginaire (Robin) \nThe concert will also be live streamed on Composers Concordance’s Facebook page. \nMore information about Composers Concordance and the CompCord HERE URL:https://westbeth.org/event/composers-concordance-music-and-films-imelda-oreilly-film-and-more/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Composers-Concordance-SQ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240301T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240301T213000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20240216T172225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240303T160127Z UID:10000472-1709323200-1709328600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:First Friday Music: OLDSCOOL Dance to Music of 70s DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge Friday March 1\, 2024 at 8pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nNew York\, NY\nenter through courtyard \nOLDSCOOL is a LIVE-BAND DANCE PARTY FOR SENIOR SCENESTERS. The 5-Piece Band performs THEME NIGHTS of Popular/Rockin’ Dance Music intended to appeal to all age groups\, but with special attention to the Over-50 segment of the population….because\nbeing YOUNG is great\, but OLD’S COOL too. \nThe theme of First Friday performance is The Music of 1970s \nOLDSCOOL performs regularly at their home base\, BAKER’S FALLS (formerly the PYRAMID CLUB)\, at other Nightspots\, and at Private Events. An impressive variety of GUEST VOCALISTS is featured at every gig. We always encourage Community Participation. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/first-friday-music-oldscool-dance-to-music-of-70s/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/FIRST-FRIDA-SQOLD-SCHOOL-WEB.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240225T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240225T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20240224T161511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240303T160152Z UID:10000476-1708884000-1708891200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Joan Beard: Mommy's House Book Party about Marita Dingus -Black\, Feminist Environmental Artist DESCRIPTION:Sunday Feb 25\, 2024 6pm – 8pm\nArtist Talk\, Slide Show\, Refreshments & Entertainment. \nWestbeth Community Room\n55 Bethune Street NYC \nJoan Beard’s new book about Artist Marita Dingus\nMommy’s House\nPhotography by Joan Beard\nPublished by Traver Gallery and Slipstitch Studio Seattle.\nAvailable to buy HERE \n“it has been three years in the making. I spent many days with Marita Dingus at her Family Home\, thus named Mommy’s House which is her indoor outdoor studio. I documented\, her\, her work and the incredible eco system of Black\, Feminist\, Environmental Art!\nIn 2022 a 4culture grant was awarded to Marita Dingus to create a book with Joan Beard’ for the book Mommy’s House. The book is a photo essay of her studio at her Mommy’s House\, her work\, the artist and her animals.”\n– Joan Beard photographer joanbeard.com \nMarita Dingus has received a Visual Art Fellowship from Artist Trust (1994)\, a John S. Guggenheim Fellowship (1999)\, and the Morrie and Joan Alhadeff PONCHO Artist of the Year Award (2005). \nDingus has had solo shows at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter and The Stenersen Museum\, both in Norway (2002\, 2006)\, the Museum of Glass in Tacoma\, WA (2005 – 2006). Her work has been included in Nature/Culture organized by The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh (2006 – 2008). Her work is in many regional museums and corporate collections. \n“I consider myself an African-American Feminist and environmental artist. My approach to producing art is environmentally and politically infused: neither waste humanity nor the gifts of nature. I am primarily a mixed media sculptor who uses discarded materials. My art draws upon relics from the African Diaspora.” \nJoan Beard photography for “Mommy’s House”\n(click for slideshow) URL:https://westbeth.org/event/joan-beard-mommys-house-book-party-about-marita-dingus-black-feminist-environmental-artist/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Dingus-Feature.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240221T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240221T203000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20240302T194323Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240324T195832Z UID:10000464-1708542000-1708547400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Movie Night Big Night DESCRIPTION:Wednesday Feb 21\, 2024 at 7PM\nWestbeth Community Rm\n155 Bank Street\nNew York\, NY\nenter through courtyard b/w west and Washington Sts. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-movie-night-big-night/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Big-Night-SQUARE.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20231109T044258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240222T190413Z UID:10000467-1708455600-1708462800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Transformation: An Evening of Poetry\, Prose and Music DESCRIPTION:Tuesday Feb 20\, 2024 at 7pm\nWestbeth Community Room\n55 Bethune St\nNY NY\, 100134 \nAn evening of original prose and poetry about change with a musical interlude presented by Westbeth Literary Arts Committee \nProgram \n1. Barbara Rosenthal…….The Peacock Who Declared Himself King\n2. Terence Burk……………..Grandma\, I Love You\n3. Leigh Stuart……………….The Oyster\n4. Anna Shapiro……………..Inconsequence\n5. Griselda Steiner………….White Wolf\, I Await \nInterlude: Cello solo by Leigh Stuart \n6. Joya Staack………………..The Rose\n7. Kate Walter……………….My Visit to the Cloisters Transformed Me\n8. Linda Marks……………….Matriarch\, This Is My Life Now\n9. Jan Leslie Harding………The Wall\n10. Eve Zanni…………………Without a Song URL:https://westbeth.org/event/transformation-poetry-prose-and-music/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Transformation-literrary-arts-presents.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240218T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240218T163000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20240103T221742Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240222T190429Z UID:10000452-1708268400-1708273800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Beth Soll & Company: Four Dancers\, One Choreographer and One Musician DESCRIPTION:An informal showing of two repertory works and four premieres\nwith discussion led by Beth Soll \nSunday\, February 18th \, 2024 at 3 pm\nAt the Martha Graham Studio Theater\nIn Westbeth at 55 Bethune Street\, NYC\nSuggested Donation $10\nPresented by Dance Projects\, Inc.\nPhone: 212-927-0476 \nAbby Dias \nBeth Soll NY Choreographer and Artistic Director of Beth Soll & Company will\npresent “Four Dancers\, One Choreographer\, and One Musician” in a showing of two repertory works and four new dances. \nSoll\, whose work is often described as enigmatic and uncategorizable\, will give the audience some insight into her creative process with a discussion of the sources for the works listed below. Questions from the audience will be\nwelcome. \nDANCERS: Janet Aisawa\, Abigail Dias\, Lindsey Miller\, and Beth Soll.\nMUSICIAN/COMPOSER: Kathryn Woodard. \nInformation about Beth Soll & Company:bethsollandcompany.org\nhttps://www.facebook.com/BethSollandCompany. \nTHE FULL PROGRAM: \nBeth Soll in “Zerkolo” Photo: Barry Hetherington Folk Dance: A Restless Fugue. (2022) Duet for Abby Dias & Lindsey Miller. This work was\ninspired by traditional folk dances and embroidery patterns from Eastern Europe. The dancers move\nfrom upstage to downstage with detailed\, ‘embroidery paths.’ Much of the dance is performed as a\nfugue\, but as it develops\, the dancers abandon the fugal structure and dance together or in\nopposition\, which both enriches and undermines the conventions of folk dance and evokes a sense\nof the passionate emotions and suggestions of conflict that are often implicit in traditional dances.\nImprovised music for this work will be performed by noted musician/composer Kathryn Woodard. \nArdent Things (2023). Solo for Beth Soll. Now in her eighties\, Soll has observed that the challenge\nand richness of experience do not fade with age\, but\, in fact\, as time passes\, they achieve a kind of\nglowing intensity that has both positive and negative implications. The dance is also inspired by the\nmany poems that contain the word ‘ardent’ and the phrases ‘ardent things’ that reflect the\nreceptivity of the artistic sensibility to the vibrancy of life. Music by Eka Chabashvili. \nBeth Soll “Flight” Photo: Laszlo Toth Four Conversations (premiere) Duets for Janet Aisawa and Abby Dias. Several months ago\, Soll\nwatched videos of many of the dances she had created almost 50 years ago. With no clear goal and\nworking intuitively\, she found herself creating four very different conversations from the\nvocabulary and moods of these old works: \n-Quiet Negotiation is based on Soll’s observation of her Russian grandfather\, who lost a leg to\ntuberculosis of the bone\, working in his garden and negotiating the awkwardness of his heavy\nwooden leg. The resultant\, purely formal dance reveals a tranquil interaction between the dancers. \n-Jittery Chit-Chat was inspired by the energetic\, restless\, free-form interchanges carried on by\nkids and teenagers. \n– Secrets is shaped by Soll’s 1979 work: Conversations in a Foreign Language\, in which she\ncreated a sense of the sublime intimacy of quiet personal conversations that happen in a foreign\ncontext where meanings are often suffused with a sense of the mysterious and magical. \n-Runaway Interplay. A fast\, furious\, athletic dance that reveals an absurd\, sometimes awkward\nconnection between the dancers. Music by Eka Chabashvili. \nBeth Soll “Neonate” Beth Soll. Since the beginning of her career\, Soll has been recognized as a choreographer of\nenigmatic and powerfully expressive dances. \nEarly on\, she studied in Ithaca\, NY with Romanian modern dancers Iris Barbura and Vergiu Cornea and later attended the Kurt Jooss School and the Harald Kreutzberg School in Europe. Since graduating in Dance from the University of Wisconsin\, she has choreographed more than 150 dances and has also established an impressive reputation as a\nsoloist. She has held faculty positions at Boston University\, MIT\, where she directed the Dance\nProgram for 20 years\, the Harvard Summer Dance Center\, and UC Santa Barbara; she has also taught\nas an adjunct at numerous Boston and New York colleges\, including Hofstra University\, the New\nSchool\, and Manhattanville College. Before forming Beth Soll & Company in 1977\, she performed\nprofessionally in Madison\, Wisconsin\, and in Boston with the Ina Hahn Dance Company\, Dance\nCollective\, and the Harvard Summer Dance Company. In addition to major Boston and New York\nseasons\, her company has participated in numerous residencies and performance engagements at\nAmerican universities and performance venues\, including a 3-week residency at Jacob’s Pillow. As a\nsoloist\, she has performed and taught in Canada\, France\, Germany\, Hong Kong\, Hungary\, Romania\, \nand Russia. Her work has been generously supported by grants and prizes from corporations and\nfederal and state agencies. Her book\, Will Modern Dance Survive? Lessons to be Learned from the\nPioneers and Unsung Visionaries of Modern Dance\, was published in 2002.\nReview quotes:\n“. . . there is an understated virtuosity in the movement\, and it was this that held my attention\nthroughout this short but extraordinarily rich concert.” David\nVaughan\, Dance Magazine.\n“Soll works like a collector – showing us in varying lights the odd and/or beautiful discoveries\, the\neveryday objects treasured for their private significance.” Deborah Jowitt\, The Village\nVoice.\n“[Soll] stood still and just saw\, her focus channeling distances so apocalyptic or visionary that we\ntrembled as they appeared within the lens of this beautiful dance.”\nFiona Dolenga\, Culture Vulture. \n“Soll is something of an alchemist: she takes the dross of everyday life and\nturns it into the equivalent of spun gold.”\n                                                       Thea Singer\, The Boston Phoenix. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/beth-soll-company-four-dancers-one-choreographer-and-one-musician/ LOCATION:Martha Graham Studio Theater at Westbeth CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Beth-Soll-SQ-Abby-in-purple.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240216 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250301 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20240216T165712Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240720T160211Z UID:10000469-1708041600-1740787199@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Featured in Mastercard Audio Walking Tour DESCRIPTION:Westbeth Artists Housing \nTHE EXPERIENCE\nEmbark on an immersive\, self-guided journey through one of Manhattan’s oldest and most fascinating neighborhoods\, Greenwich Village. \nThis app-based itinerary lets you explore at your own pace\, unlocking secrets at every corner through GPS-triggered stories by legendary artists\, trailblazing activists\, and beloved local entrepreneurs. You’ll learn the history of iconic sites like Washington Square Park\, Café Reggio\, and the Stonewall Inn—and even pick up a secret gift along the way. Exclusively for Mastercard® cardholders. \nDIRECTIONS\nAudio tours can be accessed using GESSO’s webpage or downloading the GESSO app. \nYou can also hit the REDEEM Button at https://www.priceless.com/travel/product/186205/audio-tour-of-greenwich-village \nClick to enlarge DETAILS\nAudio walking tour is available until February 28\, 2025\nTranscripts of each stop available\nWalking shoes\, fully-charged phone and headphones/earbuds recommended \nTour covers the following sites:\nThe iconic Washington Square Park\nHistorical Café Reggio and Café Wha?\nJoe’s Pizza and Murray’s Cheese\nThe Friends Apartment\nThe Stonewall Inn\nWestbeth Artist Residence\nThe Whitney Museum\nThe High Line\nBy participating\, you agree to all our Terms of Use\nTerms & Conditions URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-featured-in-mastercard-audio-walking-tour/ LOCATION:Greenwich Village NYC CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Greenwich-Vil-SQ-audio-walking-tour.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241219T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20240413T232015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240525T175253Z UID:10000457-1708023600-1734642000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Monthly Drag Bingo Nights with Paige Turner DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \n \nWestbeth Artists-Residents Council is thrilled to present Drag Bingo featuring renowned drag personality\, Paige Turner! \nAmazing Prizes from La Mer to La Moola\, Games\, Songs\, Laughter and Thrills and more \nWhere: Westbeth Community Room\nWhen: Every 3rd Thursday of the month (2nd Thursday on March 14)\nExact Dates: 2/15\, 3/14\, 4/18\, 5/16\, SUSPENDED FOR SUMMER\, 9/19\, 10/17\, 11/21\, 12/19\nTime: 7 – 9 PM\nSeating: Limited to 75 persons. First come\, first serve.\nPrice: FREE! and Bingo supplies provided. \nEach month\, Paige will perform show-stopping musical numbers along with her hilariously improvised Bingo games with fabulous prizes\, surprises\, mayhem and foolishness. \nDRAG BINGO NIGHT Feb 15\, 2024. Photos: Roger Braimon\nClick image for 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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nAbout Paige Turner\nNYC’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 \n“Paige has a Broadway powerhouse voice\, filled with good cheer and openness! \nCABARET SCENES \n“Hilarious and delectably witty!”\nOUT MAGAZINE \nIn the same vein as the Carol Burnett Show and Pee Wee Herman!”\nHUFFINGTON POST \n“Paige is an excellent singer and performer with a gift for selling songs!”\nBROADWAY WORLD \nWestbeth\, the largest artists community in the world\, was established in 1970 at the former Bell Laboratories in the West Village as a non-profit artists housing corporation comprising residential live/work and commercial spaces and later a Community Room and Art Gallery. Westbeth Artists-Residents Council (aka WARC) was established in 1980 as a non-profit volunteer-run tenant corporation that oversees The Westbeth Community Room and The Westbeth Gallery. WARC produces original events\, exhibitions\, and classes free to the public year-round (i.e. WestFest Dance Festival\, Westbeth Icons\, unique acting/singing/collage/exercise classes\, Westbeth Flea Market\, etc. )\, as well as hosts events from NYC and neighborhood partners (The Whitney\, Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts\, Open House NY\, etc.). Westbeth\, the physical campus\, is landmarked in city\, state and national registries. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/bingo-night-with-paige-turner-at-westbeth/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Drag-April-SQ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240212 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240701 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20231003T031948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240312T012028Z UID:10000461-1707696000-1719791999@westbeth.org SUMMARY:A Sampling of Actors Exhibition David Greenspan\, Erica Fae\, Jack Davidson\, Gloria Miguel\, Karen Ludwig\, Joel Rooks\, SHukura DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nCourtyard Gallery\nInner Courtyard\n55 Bethune Street\nNY NY \nThe Courtyard Gallery is open 9am – 9pm every day. \nFor each actor\, the exhibit features a photo\, bio\, their favorite role and a synopsis of the production featuring that role. \nDAVID GREENSPAN\nDavid Greenspan\, actor and playwright\, is the recipient of six Obies\, including an award for Sustained Achievement. He is currently appearing in “On Set With Theda Bara” at the Brick Theater.\nDavid Greenspan Interview \nERICA FAE\nErica Fae brings radical stories from history onto the stage and screen. Her feature film “To Keep the Light”\, was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize. ericafae.com \nJACK DAVIDSON\nJack played Tobias in Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance for which he was nominated for an Elliot Norton award for outstanding actor and received the IRNE Award as best actor in a play.\nJack Davidson Westbeh Icon Film \nGLORIA MIGUEL\nGloria Miguel is Kuna/ Rappahannock and is a founding member of Spiderwoman Theater whose mission is rooted in an urban Indigenous performance practice.\n. Gloria Miguel Profiles in Art Interview\nGloria Miguel Westbeth Icon \nKAREN LUDWIG\nKaren Ludwig has performed in and directed numerous off-Broadway plays\, including one woman shows\, appeared in films with Meryl Streep and and Robert De Niro\, and directed Uta Hagen’s Acting Class.\nKaren Ludwig website \nJOEL ROOKS\nJoel Rooks has worked steadily\, acting extensively in theatre\, both on and off Broadway as well as throughout the U.S. and overseas.\nJoel Rooks Interview \nSHukura\nSHukura’s most recent successes have been her roles in Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black\, her recurring role as Prison Guard Raina on NBC TV’s New Amsterdam\, and her appearance on Crackle TV’s Inside the Black Box. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-actors-exhibition/ LOCATION:Westbeth Courtyard Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Sampling-of-Actors-SQ-no-opening4.04-PM-e1710206562379.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240206T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240309T203000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20240116T171953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240311T182310Z UID:10000454-1707246000-1710016200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:David Greenspan: On Set with Theda Bara Tues and Wed Discount Tickets!!!!! DESCRIPTION:All photos: Emilio Madrid \n \n \nFebruary 6 – March 9\, 2024\nThe Brick\n579 Metropolitan Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY 11211 \nIn this hallucination of a one-person show\, a genderqueer teen who goes missing and their gay detective father come face-to-face with the supernatural and consciousness-devouring Theda Bara\, the real-life vamp and silent film star of the 1910s. On Set with Theda Bara is part gothic coming-of-age story and part campy melodrama about identity consumption and the horror of not knowing who you are. \nTransport Group and Lucille Lortel Theatre are proud to present the full-length Off-Broadway debut of On Set with Theda Bara\, written by Joey Merlo\, directed by Jack Serio (Uncle Vanya)\, and performed by the incomparable six-time Obie winner David Greenspan. \nThe run time is 65 minutes\, with no intermission.\nOn Set with Theda Bara was first showcased at an eight-night only presentation by The Brick and The Exponential Festival in 2023. \nHey Friends\,\nFollowing a wildly enthusiastic response last year\, I’m returning in the compelling and surprisingly poignant rollercoaster of a solo play\, On Set With Theda Bara\, by Joey Merlo\, directed by Jack Serio. For those who didn’t catch it the first time around\, it’s a haunted and humorous 65 minutes at The Brick in Williamsburg – two quick stops on the L (or for the cognoscenti of Brooklyn and Queens) the much-beloved G. See below for tickets and description. I hope you can catch it. – David \nTicket information and website:\nThe Transport Group https://transportgroup.org/project/on-set-with-theda-bara/ \nProfiles in Art: Interview with David Greenspan\nWestbeth Artist Page: David Greenspan URL:https://westbeth.org/event/david-greenspan-on-set-with-theda-bara-tues-and-wed-discount-tickets/ LOCATION:Brick Theater\, Brooklyn NY CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/David-Grteenspan-Theda.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240203T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240224T180000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20231128T023130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240226T175741Z UID:10000445-1706965200-1708797600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Dana Gordon Signs of LIfe Paintings from 2023 DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nFeb 3- Feb 24\, 2024\nOpening Reception\nSunday Feb 3\, 2024 5pm – 7pm \nThe Westbeth Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of 25 paintings from 2023 by Dana Gordon. \nDana Gordon is an American abstract painter who began his art career working\nas assistant to Tony Smith and George Sugarman in the late 1960s in New York. He studied painting at Brown University and Hunter College\, and photography with Aaron Siskind in Chicago. He was a professor of art\, mainly in the 1970s\, and his avant-garde films have been featured at MoMA and internationally. \nGordon’s painting has been seen in fifteen solo shows and many group shows in New York\,\nChicago\, Paris\, and Boca Raton\, including at such galleries as Andre Zarre\, Charles Cowles\,\n55 Mercer\, and The Painting Center in Manhattan\, and Sideshow in Brooklyn. \nIn 1974\, after making three-dimensional and shaped canvases and other avant-garde\nexperiments for about nine years\, Gordon decided to “start over”\, to find his own language\nof art. He put a simple white chalk mark on a piece of black paper\, and let things develop\nfreely from there. The marks went not only toward strokes and their arrangements\, lines\,\noutlines\, and abstract or figurish shapes\, but inevitably toward proto-languages\, too. He\nretained the use of pure color so essential to abstraction. \nGordon’s recent paintings (and writings) energize a revitalized appreciation of abstraction\nand its connection with the old and the new. \nDana Gordon was one of the principal founders of The Painting Center in New York in\n1993. In the same year one of his paintings was reproduced as the front cover of the Paris\nReview (issue no. 129). \nGordon’s work is in many collections\, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art\, M.I.T.\,\nAdelphi University\, and the Royal Belgian Film Archive\, and of Edward Albee\, Virgil\nThomson\, Hilton Kramer\, and James Panero. \nHis art received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Fdn.\, Rauschenberg’s Change Fdn.\,\nand university research grants\, and residencies at the Edward Albee Fdn.\, the Triangle Workshop\,\nand the Millay Colony. In 1978 he was the “runner-up” for the NEA’s US/UK Bicentennial Exchange Fellowship. \nCritical acclaim for Gordon’s work has included the L.A.Times\, 1978: “… for purists and\npioneers in pursuit of new perceptions.” John Russell in the NY Times in 1987 “…well\nworth seeking out…a painter of whom it would be good to see more.” Helen Harrison\, NY\nTimes\, 1994: “…beautiful paintings\, filled with the controlled exuberance of a carefully\norchestrated spectacle.”\nGrace Glueck\, NY Times\, 1997: “… a very lively eyefest.” James\nPanero\, in the New Criterion\, 2014: “While many artists paint widely\, Gordon paints\ndeeply…. Gordon knows ‘what only painting can do.’ ” David Cohen\, of Art Critical\, on\nGordon’s 2018 Paris show “Lucky Paris.” \nGordon has written about art for The Wall Street Journal\, The New Criterion\, The New\nYork Sun\, Commentary\, Delicious Line\, The Jerusalem Post\, and Painters’ Table.\nGordon says: “To paint I get into a frame of mind where I can bring everything to bear\,\nfocused on the moment of painting. A given subject is too limiting; painting’s potency is\ncomprehensive and open-ended and develops its own subject\, if allowed to. Abstract\nform underlies all visual art; form’s content expresses intellect and feeling. Painting is as\nalive as ever: after millenia why would our little era not have it\, it’s a sign of life. All art\nis now; in art there are no “other” cultures. My painting does not subvert\, it upholds art\nand reaches for beauty.” \nNext to the Hudson River\, in Manhattan’s West Village\, The Westbeth Gallery is an\nindependently curated gallery run by artists living in Westbeth\, a historic artist residence\nin a building converted in 1970 from the Bell Telephone Laboratories and on the National\nRegister of Historic Places.Westbeth also houses The New School for Drama\, and The Kitchen. \nHome Page image: Sea of Possibility (detail) oil on canvas 64 x 72 inches 2023 \nMore info: danagordon.art\n1danagordon@gmail.com\nInfo: westbethgallery@gmail.com URL:https://westbeth.org/event/dana-gordon/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DanaGordon_-SQ-11x8.5_RGB.png GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240202T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240202T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20231216T162223Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240214T035307Z UID:10000453-1706900400-1706900400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:First Fridays: Copasetic Connection with Brenda Bufalino\, Teri Roiger\, and John Menegon DESCRIPTION:Friday Feb 2\, 2024 at 7Pm\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\nenter through courtyard\nNYC \nBrenda Bufalino (Taps and Poetry)\nTeri Roiger (Vocals and Piano)\nJohn Menegon (Bass) \nAn evening of Jazz Music and Tap Dance featuring compositions by Billy Strayhorn\, Charles Mingus and others\, as well as original music and poetry by Brenda and Teri. \nAn excerpt of “Woodpecker”\, a documentary that Tony Waag is creating on the artistic life of Brenda Bufalino\, will be shown. \n \nBRENDA BUFALINO\nBrenda Bufalino is a mixed genre artist: Jazz tap dancer\, vocalist\, poet\, Author\, Ceramicist\, and Choreographer. https://www.brendabufalino.com/ \nShe was the creator\, and director of highly acclaimed American\nTap Dance Orchestra\, and the International Tap Dance Orchestra.\nPerforming her one-person shows internationally\, she has also appeared\nas a guest tap dance soloist at Town Hall\, Carnegie Hall\, The Joyce\nTheater and Kennedy Center. She is the creator of numerous solo shows\nperforming with jazz duos and trios. Her collaborations have been with\nbassist Joe Fonda on tour internationally and on his project and album\n“From the Source\,” reissued in 2023\, with Teri Roiger and John\nManegon\, Frank Kimbrough\, and Jay Clayton with whom she created\nthe Tap Opera\, “Gertrude’s Nose\,” for voices and taps. With her mentor\nand partner Charles “Honi” Coles\, she toured internationally for\ndecades. Most recently in November 2023\, Ms. Bufalino created a new\nevenings work “Blue Heron Flies” performed at the Regent Theater in\nArlington\, Mass.\nMs Bufalino’s book of poems “Circular Migrations” and her\nmemoir “Tapping the Source\,” which is now in it’s third printing\, are\nboth published by Codhill Press\, and her novella “Song of the Split\nElm\,” is published by Outskirts Press. Her many DVD’s\, CD’s and\nbooks are available on her website: brendabufalino.com\nShe has received several NEA fellowships\, The Tap City Hall of\nFame Award\, The Dance Magazine Award\, and the prestigious\nBessie Award\, for lifetime achievement. \nJOHN MENEGON \n(Bassist\, Composer\, Arranger) www.johnmenegon.com \n“New York bassist John Menegon is in the line of George Mraz and Michael Moore; a\nharmonically sophisticated bassist with technical facility who swings hard when it’s\ncalled for.” Kirk Silsbee\, Downbeat!\nMenegon is a jazz bassist\, but is also a guitarist\, arranger\, and composer. He began his\ncareer as a musician in Montreal playing in groups with the great guitarist Nelson\nSymonds\, as well as pianist Vic Vogel and guitarist Sonny Greenwich. After relocating\nto New York City\, he played bass for over ten years with two legendary tenor\nsaxophonists\, Dewey Redman and Texas Tenor David “Fathead” Newman. This\nexperience provided a solid foundation for Menegon to continue his explorations as a\nbandleader\, composer and arranger\, and he has been composing and arranging music\nthroughout his career. Menegon has released five CDs as a bandleader featuring\nDewey Redman\, Frank Kimbrough\, Joel Frahm\, Matt Wilson\, David “Fathead” Newman\,\nJoe Lovano\, Kenny Burrell\, Jack DeJohnette\, Teri Roiger\, John Di Martino\, John\nGunther\, and many others. He currently plays with jazz legend Joe Lovano’s “Classic\nQuartet” as well as numerous other stellar musicians. As an educator\, he spent several\nyears teaching in the Jazz Departments of SUNY New Paltz\, Williams College\, Bard\nand Bennington Colleges. Menegon has a new release coming out in April 2024 with his\nband “Sound Embrace” featuring his original compositions with Jean-Michel Pilc on\npiano\, Chet Doxas on sax\, and Jim Doxas on drums. \nTERI ROIGER\n(Jazz Vocalist\, Pianist\, Lyricist) www.teriroiger.com \n“Teri has an intuitive laid back sense of time reminiscent of Abbey Lincoln and Betty\nCarter but with her own uniqueness.” JACK DEJOHNETTE (legendary jazz drummer &\n2012 NEA Jazz Master)\nAn American jazz musician\, vocalist\, pianist\, songwriter\, lyricist\, educator\, and\nproducer\, Teri lives in New York City. Her first recording was made with the legendary\nstride pianist Butch Thompson\, and since then she has recorded with Jack DeJohnette\,\nKenny Burrell\, John Menegon\, Frank Kimbrough\, Gil Goldstein\, Steve Williams\, Matt\nWilson\, Pete Levin\, Joel Frahm\, Jay Collins\, Nanny Assis\, and many others. The depth\nof her experiences and love of jazz is apparent when she brings all her talents to live\nperformances\, the recording studio\, and through her moving lyrics and compositions.\nTeri’s five recordings as a bandleader have all met with critical acclaim\, as have her live\nperformances at festivals and top New York jazz spots. Her recordings showcase her\nuncommon knowledge\, appreciation\, and deep love for the artistry of Billie Holiday\,\nAbbey Lincoln\, and Thelonious Monk. The acclaimed critic Scott Yanow selected\n“GHOST OF YESTERDAY: Shades of Lady Day\,” as one of the top 30 Jazz CDs of\n2017! Her composition “Still Life\,” the title track of another album\, won 3 rd prize in the\njazz category of the acclaimed songwriting competition ISC. In 2013 her recording of\nAbbey Lincoln’s music was featured as one of the five best tribute releases in NYC Jazz\nRecord. Teri & John Menegon’s first collaboration\, MISTERIOSO\, includes jazz legends\nJack DeJohnette and Kenny Burrell\, and Teri was given permission to publish her own\nlyrics to Monk’s iconic composition “Misterioso.” They will be releasing a re-mixed and\nmastered vinyl edition in 2024.\n“Teri is made for those who still understand the meaning of the term the real thing.”\nStanley Crouch (Author & Cultural Critic) \nPhoto Credits:\nJanis Wilkins for John Menegeon (left)\nNeil Segal for Teri Roiger (right)\nSteve Peterson for Brenda Bufalino (center) URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-first-friday-copsasetic-connection/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/First-Friday-SQ-Copasetic-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240126T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240126T213000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20240108T000219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240130T193447Z UID:10000449-1706299200-1706304600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Nasheet Waits and friendsRe-Imagining Max Roach's Freedom Suite DESCRIPTION:The revolutionary 1960 album We Insist!: Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite explored issues of social justice and racial inequality through the lens of jazz and poetry. In celebration of the centennial of Max Roach — drummer\, bebop pioneer and civil rights activist — this landmark work is reimagined for today’s world.Featuring Cassandra Wilson\, Ravi Coltrane\, Sonia Sanchez\, Saul Williams\, Nasheet Waits & more. Video by Alyson Shotz. \nNew Jersey Performing Arts Center. NJPAC \nVenue:Prudential Hall\nBetty Wold Johnson Stage \nDate:Friday January 26\, 2024 at 8pm \nTickets:$39-$79. Ticketmaster \nFeaturing Cassandra Wilson\, Ravi Coltrane\, Sonia Sanchez\, Saul Williams\, Nasheet Waits & more. Video by Alyson Shotz. \nMusical director Nasheet Waits (of Max’s percussion ensemble M’Boom) is joined by vocalist Cassandra Wilson\, poets Sonia Sanchez and Saul Williams\, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane\, pianist Nduduzo Makhathini and bassist Eric Revis. The Honorable Mayor Ras Baraka will help open the program\, with a special appearance by The Last Poets. Experience the modern evolution of the Freedom Now Suite\, a piece that continues to live\, expand and inspire across generations. \n“We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we’re master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we’ve been through.” \n–Max Roach to DownBeat magazine \nWestbeth Profiles in Art: Interview with Nasheet Waits URL:https://westbeth.org/event/nasheet-waits-and-friends-re-imagining-max-roachs-freedom-suite/ LOCATION:New Jersey Performing Arts Center CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-07-at-6.42.53-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240126T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240126T203000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20231210T181343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240130T193248Z UID:10000451-1706295600-1706301000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Movie Night: Minority Report DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-movie-night-8/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Minority-Report-FINAL-SQUARE-e1704911566562.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240106 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250101 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20240106T230102Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240116T165605Z UID:10000447-1704499200-1735689599@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Gallery 2024 Exhibitions Calendar DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-gallery-2024-exhibitions-calendar/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Westbeth-Gallery-REV-2024-Exhibition-Calendar.png GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240105T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240105T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20231001T031215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240106T225049Z UID:10000442-1704483000-1704488400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:First Friday Music: Mike DiRubbo Quartet DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nJanuary 5\, 2024 at 7:30pm\nWestbeth Community Room \nAn evening of Modern Jazz with alto saxophone\, piano\, acoustic bass and drums. Mike will be performing some of his original compositions from his brand new recording\, “Inner Light”\, most of which were composed here at Westbeth. The performance will be followed with a Q&A. \nMike DiRubbo saxophonist\, composer\n“Something about the sound Mike DiRubbo elicits from the alto saxophone – deep\, dark\, immense\, with a machete edge that denotes a ready-for-anything urban sensibility – immediately grabs the ear. It’s a sound familiar to the cream of New York’s hardcore jazz community since the mid-‘90’s”\n– Ted Panken\nmikedirubbo.com \nBrian Charette organist\, pianist\nA leading voice in modern jazz\, Charette is a Hammond U.S.A\, Hammond Europe\, I.K Multimedia\, and Casio endorsed\, Cellar Live recording artist. Brian is currently #2 on the 2023 Downbeat Critic’s Poll for Organ and also won 2023 “Rising Star: Keyboard”. Brian was also the winner of the 2014 Downbeat Critics’ Poll “Rising Star: Organ” award and 2015 Hot House Magazine’s “Fan’s Decision Jazz Award for Best Organist”.\nbriancharette.com \nUgonna Okegwa bassist\nOne of the most distinctive and sought-after jazz bassists in the world. Critics across the globe have praised him for his rich tone\, supple sense of swing\, stylistic range and inventiveness. These qualities have not only earned him a place on the bandstand with jazz legends as diverse as Clark Terry\, Benny Golson\, Pharoah Sanders and Joseph Jarman – they have established him as one of the leading lights of a younger generation redefining jazz for the new century.\nugonnaokegwo.com \nEvan Sherman drummer\nAmerican drummer\, bandleader\, and arranger Evan Sherman has recorded and toured internationally in the bands of Ron Carter\, Cyrus Chestnut\, Roy Hargrove\, Jimmy Heath\, Branford & Wynton Marsalis\, the Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars & Samara Joy.\nhttps://www.evanshermanmusic.com URL:https://westbeth.org/event/mike-dirubbo-quartet/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Mike-DIRUBBO-SQ-e1702615075482.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240105T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240125T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20240111T133345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240130T193309Z UID:10000438-1704474000-1706209200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Beyond the Surface: Constructing DestructionGroup Show DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nShow Dates: January 5 – January 25\, 2024 \nWestbeth Gallery is pleased to launch its 2024 season with “Beyond the Surface: Constructing Destruction.” Curated by Vida Geranmayeh and Daniel G. Hill\, this exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists who challenge and expand the boundaries of painting\, drawing\, and sculpture. \nFeaturing Artists:\nGail Biederman\, Lily de Bont\, Daniel G. Hill\, Kathleen Kucka\, Steven Millar\, Gelah Penn\, David Rhodes\, Mary Schiliro\, Howard Schwartzberg\, Jan Maarten Voskuil \n“Beyond the Surface: Constructing Destruction” navigates the nuanced space between creation and disruption\, with a focus on transformative techniques and the integral role of materials in the creative process. The exhibition re-contextualizes the traditional mediums of painting and sculpture\, as each artist explores the dynamic interplay of contrasting transformations. In an era marked by global challenges\, the exhibition positions art as a platform for dialogue and positive change. It confronts self-censorship\, extends the reach of artistic expression\, and encourages viewers to investigate uncharted territories. By reexamining the familiar\, these artists discover new paths within established genres\, inspiring viewers to question and reconsider prevailing artistic notions. The exhibition underscores the importance of mastery of craft in achieving innovation\, often leading to an expansion of artistic boundaries. \nGail Biederman utilizes felt and yarn\, creating psychogeographic maps in her large-scale installations and intimate works on paper\, drawing upon experience and memory. \nLily de Bont radically reimagines the painter’s linen\, deconstructing the canvas into loose threads\, leading to complex compositions where gravity plays a pivotal role. \nDaniel G. Hill explores the physical and metaphorical roles of gravity in art\, creating self-reflexive pieces that provoke wonder and contemplation. \nKathleen Kucka uses burning as a transformative technique\, exploring rebirth and destruction through a personal language of forms and patterns. \nSteven Millar draws inspiration from diverse allusions\, from atmospheric phenomena like rainbows to symbolic objects such as memorial stones. Merging the handmade\, fabricated\, and found\, his pieces cultivate unique forms of expression. \nGelah Penn’s site-responsive installations and wall constructions blur the lines between drawing and sculpture\, orchestrating events of perceptual incident and psychological unease. \nDavid Rhodes’s paintings feature material brevity\, elemental facture and compelling visuality. He uses only black paint on canvas. The complex figure ground configurations and rhythmic pattern are typical. \nMary Schiliro experiments with acrylic paint and Mylar\, exploring the tangible versus the ephemeral as metaphors for the human condition. Her work expands the boundaries of painting and presents new possibilities for presentation. \nHoward Schwartzberg uniquely employs paint and canvas to craft shapes\, pushing beyond traditional painting boundaries and exploring the canvas’s multidimensional roles in artistic expression. \nJan Maarten Voskuil stretches painting into the third dimension\, cutting and reconstructing canvases into modular forms that blur the lines between painting\, sculpture\, design\, and architecture. \nContact: Vida Geranmayeh (917) 838-1774 vida@gallerygeranmayeh.com \nGallery hours: Wednesday through Sunday\, 12pm–6pm and by appointment \nClosing Event/Artist Reception: Thursday\, January 25\, 2024\, 5-7pm \nWestbeth Gallery\, 55 Bethune Street\, New York\, NY 10014 www.westbeth.org URL:https://westbeth.org/event/beyond-the-surface-constructing-destructiongroup-show-2/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Construction-DestrucT-SQ-REV-_1080x1080_Constructing-Destruction_white.jpg GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240105T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241206T170000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20240106T231147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240116T165622Z UID:10000448-1704441600-1733504400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:First Fridays Westbeth Music Performances 2024 DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/first-fridays-music-performances/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/FIRST-FRIDAYS-REV-2024-CALENDAR-.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231224T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231224T143000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20231002T030117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231228T013815Z UID:10000441-1703422800-1703428200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Toby's Holiday Spectacular Penny Jones & Co Puppet Show DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nClick to enlarge URL:https://westbeth.org/event/tobys-holiday-spectacular-penny-jones-co-puppet-show/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screen-Shot-2023-12-14-at-8.35.46-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231223T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231223T203000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20231121T033922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231228T013825Z UID:10000440-1703358000-1703363400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Movie Night: Wizard of Oz DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-movie-night-wizard-of-oz/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/THE-WIZARD-OF-OZ-SQUARE-1-e1702611803529.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231222T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231222T213000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20231205T035452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231228T013835Z UID:10000437-1703264400-1703280600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Holiday Caroling and Winter Solstice Celebration DESCRIPTION:TWO HOLIDAY EVENTS  : ALL ARE WELCOME!\nHoliday Caroling in Westbeth Lobby 5pm – 6:30pm\nWinter Solstice Celebration in Westbeth Community Room 7pm – 9:30pm\nDecember 22\, 2023\nRefreshments served URL:https://westbeth.org/event/holiday-caroling-and-winter-solstice-celebration/ LOCATION:Westbeth Lobby and Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screen-Shot-2023-12-04-at-10.44.59-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231221T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231221T230000 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20231130T175430Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231228T013846Z UID:10000434-1703185200-1703199600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:ElderBro Holiday Jam DESCRIPTION:Thursday Dec 21\, 2023\n7pm – 10pm\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St (enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY\nFREE PARTY\, BYOB \nElderBro is an ever expanding ensemble of musical friends of WB resident stringed instrumentalist and vocalist Marc Jacoby. The band includes resident musicians Michael Moss on various wind instruments and Andreas Brade on percussion. \nAlso participating are lifelong musical partners of Marc: Andy LaDue on percussion\, and Jeff Reich on bass. \nMore info about Marc Jacoby\nMore info about Andreas Brade \nThis is a free event open to WB residents and the general public celebrating all holiday traditions. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/elderbro-holiday-jam/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Elder-Bro-Dec-21-SQ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231208 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240101 DTSTAMP:20260425T001749 CREATED:20230929T034413Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240106T225108Z UID:10000443-1701993600-1704067199@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Dickcissel: A Rare Bird Sighted at Westbeth DESCRIPTION:Photo of Dickcissel by Chip Franke \nOn Dec 8\, 2023 The Linnaean Society of New York issued “A Rare Bird Alert” for the Dickcissel. “This bird has bounced around the West Village – the Bleecker Playground\, Abingdon Square Park as well as moving around the adjoining neighborhood.” \nDuring the weekend\, Westbeth was visited by dozens of birdwatchers who wandered into the Westbeth courtyard and stationed themselves on the corners of Bank St and Washington St hoping to nab a sighting. \nThe Westbeth courtyard garden \, a National Wildlife Foundation certified wildlife habitat garden\, is home to many House Wrens. According to Charles\, a birdwatcher who was interviewed by the website\, “Hanging with House Wrens is a perfect plan since the Dickcissel is very similar in build except it has yellow streaks along its head.” \nCharles the birdwatcher further explained why a Dickcissel in the area makes for a rare bird sighting. “Dickcissels\, as birds do\, migrate south this time of year. However the Dickcissel migratory pattern originates in the Midwest and heads towards Central America. Sighting them as far north as the Big Apple City is a rare experience for bird and watcher.” \nThe Linnaean Society of New York fosters an appreciation of the natural world with a special emphasis on birds. Founded in 1878\, the Society comprises dedicated amateurs and professionals interested in the study\, preservation\, and enjoyment of nature and the environment. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/dickcissel-a-rare-bird-sighted-at-westbeth/ LOCATION:Westbeth Bank St Courtyard CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screen-Shot-2023-12-14-at-11.42.36-PM.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR