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SUMMARY:West Side Fest: A celebration of art and life  at Westbeth and Other Venues on the Western Edge of Manhattan
DESCRIPTION:July 11 – 13\, 2025\nFor more information westsidefest.nyc \nCourtyard and left middle photo by Roger Braimon; Top left and bottom left photos by David Plaake Media NYC 2025 \nThe third annual West Side Fest\, organized by the West Side Cultural Network\, offers three days of festivities\, including free admission\, crafts for kids and families\, artmaking activities for all ages\, performances\, special indoor and outdoor programming\, and much more.New Yorkers and visitors of all ages are invited to celebrate the vibrant\, cultural village along the waterfront of Manhattan’s west side!\nVISIT  westsidefest.nyc for more information and schedule of events at all venues. Rain or Shine \n \nEVENTS AT WESTBETH\nFRIDAY JULY 11  MUSIC 7pm\nWestbeth Community Room 155 Bank St \nClick to enlarge \nEVE ZANNI QUARTET ANGELS AND ANCESTORS\nOriginal compositions\, jazz standards\, songs from ancestral stories and traditions” with Isaac Raz\, piano\, Yoshi Waki on bass and Andreas Brade on drums and percussion special guests; followed by Sing Along with The Bliss Singers!\nhttps://westbeth.org/event/first-friday-live-music-eve-zanni-quartet-angels-and-ancestors/ \n \nSATURDAY JULY 12  DANCE CLASS 11am – 12pm\nWestbeth Community Room 155 Bank St\nTAKE A CHANCE WITH DANCE: Reflecting on Merce Cunningham’s Legacy at Westbeth\nMerce Cunningham Dance Company was a longtime resident of Westbeth\, creating iconic pieces in the 11th Floor studios. \nIn this one hour\, interactive session for dance lovers of all ages you’ll learn a bit about Cunningham’s artistic process\, basic movements\, building phases\, like rolling dice. Absolute beginners are welcome! \n \nSATURDAY JULY 12  MUSIC 1pm – 3pm\nWestbeth Courtyard 155 Bank St\n MONVELYNO ALEXIS Showcasing Haiti’s musical legacy through both traditional and contemporary songs.\nMonvelyno Alexis\, voice and guitar with friends on drums and bass\nIG: @monvelyno\nyoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@monvelyno \n \nSATURDAY JULY 12  MUSIC 3pm – 5pm\nWestbeth Courtyard 155 Bank St\n TERI ROIGER TRIO \nVocalist Teri Roiger captures the sublime influences of Billie Holiday\, Abbey Lincoln\, and Shirley Horn\, propelling her voice into a rich palette of nuance that leaves you wanting more. Her trio features John Menegon (Joe Lovano) on bass and Bill Ware (Jazz Passengers) on vibes\, both of whom she’s had a long musical relationship with. Teri Roiger brings a depth of experience and a distinct\, rich voice to American Jazz.\nTeri Roiger\, vocals Bill Ware\, vibes John Menegon\, bass IG: @teriroiger web: https://teriroiger.com/ \n \nSATURDAY JULY 12  WESTBETH OPEN STUDIOS 1pm – 5pm\nMain Entrance 55 Bethune St St \nPhoto C Maile \nSELF GUIDED TOURS TO ARTISTS’ STUDIOS: \nSee where art and passion begin: \nPrintmakers:: LIGORANO Reese\, Alberto Barrera\, Christina Maile\nPainters\, Multimedia:Tamara Wyndham\, Inez Foose\, Debra Jenks\, Valèrie Hallier\, Karin Batten\, William Kennon\, Jayne Holsinger\, Karen Santry Joan HallJoan BeardSheila SchwidStephan Hall Rachel Urkowitz Beverly Brodsky Diana Jensen  \n \nSATURDAY JULY 12  OUTDOOR MARKET 1pm – 5pm\nWestbeth Courtyard 155 Bank St\n ART\, CRAFT\, VINTAGE MARKET Featuring handmade jewelry\, vintage clothes\, original paintings. prints\, pottery\, and more. \n \nSATURDAY JULY 12  4 SOLO SHOWS ART EXHIBIT 1pm – 6pm\nWestbeth Gallery\n Featuring the work of AVRI OHANA\, FATEN GADDES\, MASHA NEVEROVA\, and TAMI LUCHOW \, These artists\, all of whom now live in the USA\, come from four continents. While they represent four different cultural backgrounds\, visions\, and concerns\, they recognize in each other the courage in pursuing their individual freedom of expression.\nMore about the artists 4 Solo Shows \n \nSUNDAY JULY 13  PEPPI AND THE POP-UP DRAGON PUPPET SHOW 11am  Note: new time.\nWestbeth Community Room 155 Bank St\n Penny Jones & Co. Puppets have charmed audiences in the West Village with their Old Time interactive puppet theater in an intimate space for young children. The company has appeared on television and all over New York from the High Line to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and BAM. Penny Jones was awarded the Education Award from the Puppeteers of America and is a Westbeth Icon. The story of Peppi will be sure to charm all. Children will be invited to make a puppet after. \n \nSUNDAY JULY 13  MUSIC 1pm – 3pm \nWestbeth Courtyard 155 Bank St \nALEXIS COLE Jazz vocalist Alexis Cole has performed around the world\, from headlining clubs in the U.S. and Asia to appearing as a soloist with the Boston Pops and Detroit Symphony. Celebrating her third year at Westbeth this summer\, she brings her dynamic stage presence and deep love of the music to this creative community. Alexis Cole\, voicewith friends IG: @alexiscole web: https://alexiscole.com/ \n \nSUNDAY JULY 13  MUSIC 3pm – 5pmWestbeth Courtyard 155 Bank St \nTHE MIZELL\, SANWALD\, BRADE TRIO  Original material in the Americana Jazz genre with catchy\, heart-reaching and intriguing harmonies\, melodies\, improvisation and arrangements.Cameron Mizell\, Guitar Paul Sanwald\, Bass Andreas Brade\, Drums\nweb: https://andreasbrade.com/ web: https://paulsanwald.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-hill-before-home \n \nSUNDAY JULY 13  WESTBETH OPEN STUDIOS 1pm – 5pm\nMain Entrance 55 Bethune St St\n SELF GUIDED TOURS TO ARTIST STUDIOS\nSee where art and passion begin.\nPrintmakers:: LIGORANO Reese\, Alberto Barrera\, Christina Maile\nPainters\, Multimedia::Tamara Wyndham\, Inez Foose\, Debra Jenks\, Valèrie Hallier\, Karin Batten\, William Kennon\, Jayne Holsinger\, Karen Santry Joan Hall Joan Beard Stephan Hall Rachel Urkowitz Beverly Brodsky Diana Jensen  \n \nSUNDAY JULY 13  OUTDOOR MARKET 1pm – 5pm\nWestbeth Courtyard 155 Bank St\n ART\, CRAFT\, VINTAGE MARKET Featuring handmade jewelry\, vintage clothes\, original paintings. prints\, pottery\, and more. \n \nSUNDAY JULY 13  4 SOLO SHOWS ART EXHIBIT 1pm – 6pm\nWestbeth Gallery\n Featuring the work of AVRI OHANA\, FATEN GADDES\, MASHA NEVEROVA\, and TAMI LUCHOW \, These artists\, all of whom now live in the USA\, come from four continents. While they represent four different cultural backgrounds\, visions\, and concerns\, they recognize in each other the courage in pursuing their individual freedom of expression.\nMore about the artists of the 4 Solo Shows \n \nWest Side Fest highlights the city’s newest cultural destination on the western edge of\nManhattan\, a historic area with a welcoming and unique mix of fresh activities\, open gathering\nspaces\, and more. The neighborhood includes organizations and community gathering spaces\nthat have been on the West Side for decades as well as newer arrivals like Hudson River Park’s\nGansevoort Peninsula. West Side Fest is conveniently accessible by subway\, bus\, the High\nLine\, bike\, or car. While many organizations are offering free admission to programs and events\,\nadvance registration may be required. To confirm the details for each organization\, please visit\nwestsidefest.nyc. \nSome of the West Side Fest highlights include:\n● Center for Art\, Research and Alliances (CARA) will offer special tours of Stephanie\nComilang’s first solo institutional exhibition in the United States\, Stephanie Comilang: An\nApparition\, A Song\, alongside servings of the Filipino dessert halo-halo (“mix-mix”).\n● Dia Chelsea will present Kishio Suga: Being and Murder\, a selection of film and video\nworks by artist Kishio Suga\, including his feature-length\, murder-mystery film Being and\nMurder (1999). Other activities include a curator-led tour of the exhibition Steve\nMcQueen and activities for children.\n● Offerings at the High Line include an artist-led workshop for families which will focus on\ncreating artworks inspired by the plants\, soil\, fungi\, and insects in the High Line gardens.\nOn Sunday\, High Line wellness instructors will all come together for a special day to offer\nsamplings of Tai Chi\, Afro-Brazilian Dance\, and Fit and Lit.\n● The Kitchen will present School for Temporary Liveness (STL) Vol. 4\, a unique series of\nperformances\, sonic convenings\, workshops\, and conversations with over fifteen artists\,\nalongside a multi-day reading room\, participatory window installation\, and screening\nprogram.\n● Hill Art Foundation will have special extended hours and an all-ages game night on\nFriday\, July 11. Activities will include a backgammon tournament on artist Sam Moyer’s\nhandcrafted boards\, a children’s scavenger hunt\, and special tours led by Hill Art\nFoundation Educators.\n● Hudson Guild will host The 27th Annual Community Art Jam at Hudson Guild Gallery\,\nand New York City Scenes/Paintings by MKS Adams\, Barbara Berger\, Debbie Berger\,\nKimberly Hall will be on view at Guild Gallery II.\n● Hudson River Park will offer music by Sonido Costeño\, walking tours that engage with\nthe local ecology of the Hudson River\, and a painting workshop at Manhattan’s only\nbeach\, Gansevoort Peninsula.\n● The Joyce Theater will stage performances of Pilobolus’s Other Worlds Collection\,\ntraversing the landscape of the human experience with heart-stopping grace\, acrobatic\npower\, and breathtaking artistry.\n● New York City AIDS Memorial and LGBT Community Center will partner with the\nKinfolk Tech Foundation to imagine expansive futures through collaging and\nzine-making in a Community Imagination Workshop using the LGBT Center’s National\nHistory Archive. This workshop is presented as part of Portals of Remembrance (May\n17\, 2025—April 2026)\, a new exhibition at the New York City AIDS Memorial featuring\nthree monuments created by four renowned contemporary artists.\n● In addition to numerous free performances\, workshops\, and art activations\, Poster\nHouse will highlight its four exhibitions with curatorial tours of Fallout: Atoms for War &\nPeace and From the Bronx to the Battery: The Subway Sun\, a Spanish-language tour of\nPuerto Rico in Print: The Posters of Lorenzo Homar\, and an artist-led tour of\nCopy/Paste/Print/Repeat: Mike King & the Art of the Gig Poster. Sunday will also be\ndedicated to free family-friendly programming for all ages!\n● Print Center New York will host a zine-making workshop with artist Francisco Donoso.\nDuring this futurist-archive-in-the-making activation\, participants will contribute to\ncollective imagining and respond to guiding questions with a quick zine\, using pre-folded\npaper and provided materials. Finished zines will be donated\, photocopied and added to\na zine wall\, or scanned as part of a collective digital archive.\n● Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art will organize a family art activity on Sunday\, July 13\nfrom 1–4 pm at CUE Art Foundation. Inspired by mandalas in the Rubin’s collection\,\nparticipants will create their own mandalas while reflecting on the spectrum of human\nemotions.\n● The Shed will host a variety of public programs spanning installation\, performance\,\nmusic\, and readings. They include Portals\, an exhibition of passage\, transformation\, and\nresistance featuring new work by twelve early-career\, NYC-based artists and collectives;\nan immersive\, audiovisual performance by Marwa Eltahir; Chelsea Odufu’s\nTransmissions from the Archive: Unearthing Gold’s Frequency; a live performance by\nJarrett Key; a mixed-media sculpture installation by Yelaine Rodriguez and Luis Vasquez\nLa Roche; and music and dance on the Plaza with the DJ collective Soul Summit.\n● Westbeth Artists Housing brings the vibrant spirit of its creative community to West\nSide Fest with a dynamic weekend of programming for all ages. Highlights include\nhands-on kids’ activities\, enriching senior programs\, compelling art exhibitions\, open\nstudio tours\, live performances and music\, and a lively Art\, Craft & Vintage Market!\n● White Columns will celebrate the opening reception of its summer exhibition\, in which\ndirector and chief curator Matthew Higgs will consider aspects of his tenure over the past\n20 years. The opening will feature a musical performance by Private Time to celebrate\ntheir new EP Walkable\, the latest release from White Columns’ vinyl-only record label\nThe Sound of White Columns (TSoWC).\n● The Whitney Museum of American Art will host Open Studio for Teens from 1–3 pm\non Friday\, July 11. Later in the evening\, Public Records will fill the Museum with music\nduring Free Friday Night. The Whitney is also offering free admission from 5–10 pm on\nFriday\, July 11\, and from 10:30 am–6 pm during Free Second Sunday on July 13.\nVisitors of all ages will enjoy artmaking\, tours\, classes\, and other special activities that\ncelebrate Whitney exhibitions and community events. Free Second Sunday also includes\nfree storytimes with The New York Public Library. In collaboration with the Whitney\, the\nMeatpacking District Management Association (Meatpacking BID) will return with “Step\nInto Hopper\,” a program that will bring immersive 3-D recreations of Edward Hopper\npaintings to the Meatpacking District during West Side Fest. Free and open to the public\,\n“Step Into Hopper” is designed by Theresa Rivera Design and will also feature live\ninteractive elements. \nThe West Side Cultural Network includes the Center for Art\, Research and Alliances; CUE\nArt Foundation; Dia Chelsea; Hill Art Foundation; the High Line; Hudson River Park; The\nJoyce Theater; The Kitchen; The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community\nCenter; Little Island; NYC AIDS Memorial; Poster House; Print Center New York; Rubin\nMuseum of Himalayan Art; The Shed; Westbeth Artists Housing; White Columns;\nWhitney Museum of American Art.\nThe West Side boasts a wide range of unique offerings to explore in the neighborhood\, including\nrestaurants\, shopping\, and free programming across the West Side for visitors to enjoy\nthroughout the day. \nSUPPORT\nWest Side Fest is made possible through the generous support of our sponsors.\nThank you to our Presenting Sponsor Bloomberg Connects.\nThank you to our Supporting Sponsors Chelsea Market\, the Meatpacking District Business\nImprovement District\, and Pier 57. \nPhotograph by Max Touhey \n###
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