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: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:20250227T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250427T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20250206T232712Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250326T003927Z UID:10000720-1740682800-1745784000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:LORRAINE O' GRADY Westbeth IconThe Filmed Interview and Evening DESCRIPTION:Director and Editor: Theodore Timreck\nInterviewer Terry Stoller\nCameraperson and Lighting: Ethan Mass\nNarration: Sandra Kingsbury \nPhoto: Lelani Foster 2021. (Click image to enlarge poster) \nThurs Feb 27\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nJoin us for an evening celebrating the life and work of Lorraine O’Grady including a recently filmed interview and speeches by friends and colleagues. Lorraine lived at Westbeth for many years and was and continues to be inspiration for art and defiance. \n“Lorraine O’Grady (1934 – 2024) was a concept-based artist and cultural critic widely regarded as a leading intellectual voice of her generation. Working across media and disciplines––including writing\, photography\, performance\, curating\, installation\, and video––O’Grady challenged artistic and cultural conventions through her incisive critique of the binary logic inherent in Western thought. She skillfully deployed the diptych form to refute and subvert both the “either/or” logic of Western philosophy and\, by extension\, the prevailing understanding around gender\, race\, and class. Over the course of her career\, she advocated for an anti-hierarchical approach to difference that follows the reasoning of both/and. From her earliest work\, Cutting Out the New York Times (1977)\, to more recent series like Family Portraits (2020)\, O’Grady expanded the possibilities of conceptual art and institutional critique through her profound explorations of hybridism and multiplicity. And in writings such as “Olympia’s Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity\,” an influential essay of cultural criticism published in 1992\, O’Grady shaped the theoretical contours of a body of work that has been groundbreaking in its charting of the emergence of Black subjectivity in both artistic modernism and Western modernity as a whole.” \n– An excerpt from the Lorraine O’Grady website URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-icon-lorraine-ogrady/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/LORRAINE-O-GRADY-copy.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250131T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250131T210000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20250108T215340Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250204T025619Z UID:10000706-1738350000-1738357200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS: Joan Hall\, Ethan Mass\, Karen Santry DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge Friday January 31\, 2025\nat 7PM \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY\nFree \nJoan Hall Westbeth Artist Page\nKaren Santry Westbeth artist page\nEthan Mass Website URL:https://westbeth.org/event/get-to-know-your-neighbors-2/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/GET-TO-SQ-KNOW-YOUR-NEGIHBORS-copy.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250116T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250116T210000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20250108T222719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250120T175445Z UID:10000708-1737054000-1737061200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:DRAG BINGO 2025 DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nWhen: Thursday January 16\, 2025\nSeating: Limited to 75 persons. First come first served. \nTime: 7pm – 9pm \nPrice: FREE! and Bingo supplies provided. \nPaige performs show-stopping musical numbers along with her hilariously improvised Bingo games with fabulous prizes\, surprises\, mayhem and more! \nWhere: Westbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nenter through courtyard\, NYC \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 URL:https://westbeth.org/event/drag-bingo-with-paige-turner/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025-DRAG-BINGO_SQ-REV-ad-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250112T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250112T150000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20241202T014636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250114T013905Z UID:10000686-1736676000-1736694000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Joan Hall Collage Workshop DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge Sunday January 12\, 2025 10am – 3pm\nFree \nMaterials provided\, bring scissors \nLimited to 20 people\nReserve early at\nJHCollage@gmail.com \nJoan Hall is a pioneer in the field of collage and assemblage illustration. Her work has appeared on covers of Time magazine and in The New York Times and numerous other publications.\nHall’s collages and assemblages have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide\, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. She was commissioned by the American Cultural Center to lecture\, exhibit\, and conduct workshops in France\, India\, Brazil\, and most recently lectured at The National Arts Club in New York City. \nJoan Hall :\n Profiles in Art Interview\n Westbeth Artist Page URL:https://westbeth.org/event/joan-hall-collage-workshop-3/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/JOAN-HALL-COLLAGE-WEB.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250103T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250103T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20241217T193508Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250106T194355Z UID:10000696-1735930800-1735934400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:FIRST FRIDAYS MUSIC JOHN MENEGON QUARTET 'SOUND EMBRACE' DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge[/caption]Friday\, January 3\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard_\nNew York NY 10014 \nThe music presented by Bassist/Composer/Educator John Menegon\, in collaboration with these exceptional musicians\, pushes the boundaries of today’s music on the world stage. The intuitive\, spontaneous nature of the music between the musicians in the Quartet is deeply rooted in the traditions that come out of the Free Bop era created in the “Moment Of Now!” \n\n\nJOHN MENEGON (bass & compositions)\nSTEVE EINERSON (piano)\nPETE SMITH (guitar)\nMATT GARRITY (drums)\nspecial guest ANGUS MENEGON (voice\, synthesizers & compositions) \nJOHN MENEGON (bass & compositions)\n“New York bassist JOHN MENEGON is in the line of George Mraz and Michael Moore; a harmonically sophisticated bassist with technical facility who swings hard when it’s called for.” Kirk Silsbee\, DOWNBEAT!\nMenegon is a jazz bassist\, but is also a guitarist\, arranger\, singer\, and composer. He began his career as a musician in Montreal before moving to New York City\, where he spent ten years as bassist for two legendary tenor saxophonists\, Dewey Redman and David “Fathead” Newman. This experience provided a solid foundation for Menegon to continue his explorations as a bandleader\, composer and arranger\, and he has been composing and arranging music throughout his career. Menegon has released 6 recordings as a bandleader\, and his latest recording\, SOUND EMBRACE\, was released in 2024 on Valley Jazz Records. It features Jean-Michel Pilc on piano\, Chet Doxas on sax\, and Jim Doxas on drums. Here is what Abe Goldstein had to say about John’s latest recording on his blog PAPATAMUS REDUX (NOV 2024): “Although he is known primarily for his bass playing with folks such as David Fathead Newman\, Dewey Redman\, Joe Lovano\, and other notable musicians (not to mention his own recordings)\, Sound Embrace showcases Menegon’s exceptional writing skills. Let’s not forget the strong\, lyrical and harmonically- advanced bass playing of Menegon as a soloist or intuitively interacting with the ensemble.”\n@johnmenegonjazz \nSTEVE EINERSON (piano)\nPianist Steve Einerson originally hails from Milwaukee (WI) where he spent three formative years studying with David Hazeltine. After freelancing in the Milwaukee/Chicago circuit for several years\, he relocated to New York City in 2004\, fresh off the heels of being selected as a finalist to compete in the national jazz piano competition sponsored by the American Pianists Association. Whether it’s solo piano\, small groups or big bands\, Steve now finds his services in NYC in high demand and has performed at venues and jazz festivals across the country and around the world. A sampling of some of the musicians he’s had the privilege of working with include Marlena Shaw\, Joe Farnsworth\, Philip Harper\, Killer Ray Appleton\, Slide Hampton\, Ian Hendrickson-Smith\, John Dokes\, Hilary Gardner\, Teri Roiger\, the George Gee Orchestra\, and the Cab Calloway Orchestra.\n@seinerson \nPETE SMITH (guitar)\n“Mr. Smith is something rare\, fair and fine…a consummate musician who makes an unsuspecting audience aware that his guitar is not his instrument – it is his partner and musical mate for life – Mr. Smith exhibited skills that would make a symphony conductor salivate.” Stephen Mosher\nPete Smith is a New York City-based guitarist who performs in a wide range of musical settings. As a founding member of Grupo los Santos\, a vanguard Afro-Cuban and Brazilian-style quartet\, he has played New York’s Town Hall and concerts throughout the U.S.\, Cuba & Austria. Pete has performed at the Berlin Jazz Festival and Montreal Jazz Festival\, as well as concerts in thirty countries throughout Europe\, Eastern Europe\, Africa and Asia. He has worked with Norah Jones\, trumpeter Donald Byrd\, Cuban trombone master Juan Pablo Torres\, Andrew Hill\, Kat Edmonson\, Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks\, the Moonlighters\, Madeline Peyroux\, Natalie Merchant and Huun-Huur-Tu\, and is a member of Michael Feinstein’s Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. In 2023 he traveled to Congo-Kinshasa as a member of the band Opius Bliss—as cultural ambassadors for the US Embassy—to perform for and teach\, play and dialogue with local musicians in Kinshasa and Kisangani.\n@peteguitarsmith \nMATT GARRITY (drums)\n“Matt is a swinging drummer and true keeper of the flame.” Vincent Herring\, saxophonist\nDrummer Matt Garrity has been on the New York City music scene since 1994. He has performed with some of the best in the business\, including Grammy winner Vincent Herring\, David Williams\, Teri Thornton\, Peter Bernstein\, Gary Versace\, Ed Cherry\, Ben Monder\, Jeremy Pelt\, among others. Garrity has been living in the Hudson Valley since 2017 and produces a concert series out of his home/studio in Woodstock called BARNSTOCK.\n@garritydrums \nANGUS MENEGON (vocals\, synthesizers\, compositions)\nMonolounge is the synth-punched\, reverb-soaked vision of Australian songwriter-producer Angus Menegon. Crafting dream-pop from his bedroom\, Monolounge melts 70s drums\, 80s synthesisers\, and 90s guitars into a melancholic journey through time. Angus did all the composing and playing on all 9 tracks of his debut recording KILLING TIME. It was released on Bandcamp in September 2024.\nhttps://ihatemonolounge.bandcamp.com/album/killing-time\nWebSite: www.ihatemonolounge.com\n@ihatemonolounge URL:https://westbeth.org/event/john-menegon-quartet-presents-sound-embrace-for-westbeth-first-fridays/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/John-Megeon-Rev-Corrected-Instagram.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241219T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241219T210000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20240722T234841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241223T232516Z UID:10000659-1734634800-1734642000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Drag Bingo with Paige Turner Games\, Prizes\, Songs\, Fun\, and Free DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nLAST GAME OF 2024 Thursday Dec 19\, 2024\nat 7pm – 9pm \nWhen: Every 3rd Thursday of the month\nExact Dates: Oct 17\, Nov 21\, Dec 19\, 2024\nTime: 7 – 9 PM\nSeating: Limited to 75 persons. First come first served.\nPrice: FREE! and Bingo supplies provided. \nEach month\, Paige performs show-stopping musical numbers along with her hilariously improvised Bingo games with fabulous prizes\, surprises\, mayhem and more! \nWhere: Westbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nenter through courtyard\, NYC \n \nPhotos from Fall 2024 Drag Bingo Games at Westbeth\nClick image to start slide show \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \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 URL:https://westbeth.org/event/drag-bingo-with-paige-turner-games-prizes-songs-fun-and-free/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/DRAG-BINGO-SQ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241203T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250128T181500 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20241127T023447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250129T223121Z UID:10000687-1733246100-1738088100@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Meditation Practice with Steve Clorfeine DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge An introduction to sitting and walking meditation as a simple contemplative practice of mindfulness and awareness in daily life. \nFree\n7 week session Tuesdays 5:15 – 6:15pm \nMeet in Community Room on\nTuesdays Dec 3\, Dec 10\, Jan 7\, Jan 21\, and Jan 28 \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\nenter through courtyard\nNew York \, NY \nMeet in Westbeth Flea Market\nTuesdays Dec 17 and Jan 14 \nWestbeth Flea Market\nBasement\n55 Bethune St\nNew York\, NY \nSteve Clorfeine\nProfiles in Art Interview URL:https://westbeth.org/event/steve-clorfeine-meditation/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/MEDITATION-SSQ-TEVE-CLORFEINE24-copy.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Westbeth Beautification Committee":MAILTO:westbethfleamarket@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241102T150000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20241002T194335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241103T000102Z UID:10000658-1730541600-1730559600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Joan Hall Collage Workshop Free DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge Saturday Nov 2\, 2024 10 am – 3pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nenter through courtyard\nNew York\, NY \nSpace is limited: Contact Joan Hall at JHCollage@gmail.com \nNative New Yorker Joan Hall is a pioneer in the field of collage and assemblage illustration. Her work has appeared on covers of Time magazine and in The New York Times and numerous other publications.Hall’s collages and assemblages have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide\, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. She was commissioned by the American Cultural Center to lecture\, exhibit\, and conduct workshops in France\, India\, Brazil\, and most recently lectured at The National Arts Club in New York City. \nJoan Hall Westbeth Artist Page URL:https://westbeth.org/event/joan-hall-collage-workshop-2/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Joan-Hall-Collage-Nov-2024.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241019T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241020T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20240722T224018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T235358Z UID:10000663-1729342800-1729447200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Open House New York at Westbeth: Guided History Tours; Open Artists Studios; Art & Craft Fair plus Exhibitions about Jazz\, Actors plus Affordable Art DESCRIPTION:CLICK TO ENLARGE \nSaturday Oct 19\, 2024 1pm – 56pm\nSunday Oct 20\, 2024\, 1pm – 5pm \nGUIDED HISTORICAL TOURS (capacity 20) will be offered on a rolling basis from 1pm to 4pm\, covering the history of both Bell Laboratories and Westbeth Artists Housing\, along with the vital role that Westbeth plays for artists today and will play in the future. Tours will meet at 155 Bank Street beginning at 1PM\nOct 19 2pm tour in Chinese\nOct 20 2pm tour in Spanish \nEXPLORE DOZENS OF WESTBETH ARTIST STUDIOS Studios will be open for drop-in visits from 2pm to 6pm. Meet the artists in their work spaces. Visits are self guided. Travel at your own pace. Studios are open 2p – 5pm. Artists will be selling their work. Studio roster in Westbeth Courtyard at 155 ank St. \nAFFORDABLE ART in Wesbeth Basement. Original work by Westbeth artists\, past and present\, donated to support Westbeth. 1pm – 5pm \nOPEN ART & VINTAGE MARKET Self-guided shopping featuring unique artwork\, crafts\, vintage wears and more. With LIve Music in the Courtyard. Vendors open 1pm – 5pm \nEXHIBITION “WITHIN THESE WALLS – JAZZ AT WESTBETH”. A new installation at Bethune St Lobby celebrating the lives and contributions of Jazz musicians who once lived or still live at Westbeth. 24/7 \nEXHIBITION “UP CLOSE FROM AFAR” The current exhibiton at Westbeth Gallery The group show explores eclectic artistic perspectives on our contemporary moment in the West.\nThrough an array of mediums\, including drawing\, painting\, sculpture and installation\, artists from Asia\, Europe and from within the United States\, offer detailed views\, up close and afar\, from their multicultural perspectives on contemporary existentialism. 1pm – 6pm \nEXHIBITON “A SAMPLING OF ACTORS” . An installation at the Inner Cvourtyard entrance of Westbeth actors – film\, TV and theater\, their lives and accoplishments.24/7 \n \n \nFor moe information westbethevents@gmail.com \nFor moe info about OPENHOUSE NEW YORK Click image below URL:https://westbeth.org/event/open-house-ny-at-westbeth/ LOCATION:Westbeth Artists Housing CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/OHNY_MKT_2024_FIN_WEB.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241004T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241004T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20240818T201800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241006T215744Z UID:10000651-1728068400-1728073800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:First Friday Concert: Roots to Shoots: Michael Moss\, Alexis Marcelo\, Ken Filiano\, Michael Wimberly\, Isamil Baiz\, Andreas Brade DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge Michael Moss ROOTS to SHOOTS\nFirst Fridays Concert Series\nOctober 4\, 2024 @ 7:00 pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nenter through courtyard\nNew York\, NY \nFor this performance we are exploring iconic compositions by John Coltrane\, Eric Dolphy\, Bill Evans\, Joe Henderson\, and Charles Mingus. We will also play original pieces by Michael Moss inspired by ethnic music of the Middle East and India. \nMichael Moss:\nReed player/composer Michael Moss has been actively involved in the music scene for many years leading his own musical groups: Bows Ensemble for Strings and Piano\, ROOTS to SHOOTS\, the Accidental Orchestra—a 22-piece renaissance jazz orchestra\, Four Rivers\, and Free Energy. Numerous grants include Meet the Composer\, NYSCA\, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, and CREATE Council on the Arts. His record label\, Fourth Stream Records\, has produced multiple LPs\, cassettes\, and CDs including HELIX\, Intervals\, Free Play\, Dream Time\, In Between Gigs\, Pyramid\, Upstream\, Cross Current\, Live at ACIA. Performances and commissions are wide-ranging— Little Island\, Bridge Street Theatre\, Turks and Caicos Arts Foundation\, Isthmus Jazz Festival\, New York Loft Jazz Celebrations\, New York Musicians Festival\, Revelation Gallery\, St John’s in the Village\, Jazzmania\, Studio Rivbea\, Environ\, Joe Lee Wilson’s Ladies Fort\, Central Park Bandshell\, Space For Innovative Development\, Stockton State College\, SUNY at Stony Brook\, and Borough of Manhattan Community College. He curated and performed in Loft in the Sky Jazz Festivals and multiple Westbeth Music Festivals. Collaborations include work with electroacoustic composer James Dashow\, choreographer Judith Moss\, storyteller Regina Ress and playwright Domnica Radulescu. Michael Moss holds a Ph.D. in psychology. \n“Moss’ astute penchant for melding the outside parameters of jazz with imaginative compositions and a wide-ranging improvisational platform delivers the knockout punch.” Glenn Astarita. All About Jazz.\nBANDCAMP: https://michaelmoss.bandcamp.com \nAlexis Marcelo :\nAlexis Marcelo is a pianist with a deep love for music who creates a soulful New York City sound.. He believes in the power of music as a positive and uplifting force. Alexis is always looking to communicate those intimate parts of the soul through music. He instinctively delivers a sound representative of a wide range of influences. \nAlexis has been blessed to receive an extensive musical education at the Harlem School of the Arts when he began studying with JD Parran (AACM). He went on to The University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he studied African-American Music/Jazz Piano Performance as well as composition with world-renowned saxophonist Dr. Yusef Lateef. Alexis has performed nationally and abroad at various festivals and prestigious venues\, including the North Sea Jazz Festival\, Etnafest in Italy and the Detroit Jazz Festival with Yusef Lateef\, Mediawave Festival (Hungary-The Hub)\, Alice Tully Hall and more. Recently Alexis recorded his first album and is featured on recordings with Yusef Lateef\, Adam Rudolph’s Go Orchestra & Moving Pictures\, Mike Pride\, Malcolm Mooney (Can)\, and with the Dance Clarinets in the release of Colorations-Explorations by Joe Daley. He performed Michael Moss’ Qabbala::Entanglement on synthesizer in the Accidental Orchestra as well as with Van Lier Fellow Anaïs Maviel in an electroacoustic large ensemble. \n Alexis Marcelo is a very unique pianist who looks to provide a soulful experience. \nKen Filiano:\nKen Filiano is a bassist\, composer\, improviser\, and teacher who performs around the world\, fusing the rich traditions of the double bass with his own seemingly limitless imagination. A “creative virtuoso” (JazzValley)\, Ken has performed and recorded with a veritable who’s who in multiple genres\, from Anthony Braxton to Pablo Ziegler. Ken leads two quartets\, Quantum Entanglements and Baudolino’s Dilemma\, and is co-leader of The Steve Adams/Ken Filiano Duo and other collective ensembles. He is also an integral member of groups led by Taylor Ho Bynum\, Jason Kao Hwang\, Fay Victor\, Vinny Golia\, Diane Moser\, Karl Berger\, and others\, and was a key member of groups led by the late Roswell Rudd and Connie Crothers. Ken’s extensive discography includes the solo CD\, “Subvenire”(Nine Winds) and Quantum Entanglements’ “Dreams From a Clown Car” (Clean Feed). He is a Guiding Artist and on the Board of Advisors for Creative Music Studio in Woodstock\, NY. \n“What is rare among today’s arco soloists is Filiano’s mixture of absolutely pitch-perfect intonation and precise bowing hand motion alongside an openness of phrasing that is beholden to very few of his predecessors. His staccato is furious\, his legato weeps\, and he is able to alternate within the space of a few measures.” (Charles Walker) \nMichael Wimberly:\nMichael Wimberly\, percussionist\, composer\, educator and producer has performed\, recorded and toured internationally with innovative artists Charles Gayle\, William Parker\, Henry Rollins\, Steve Coleman’s 5 Elements\, Parliament Funkadelic\, D’Angelo\, Blondie\, Angie Stone\, and many others. Michael performed the Lion King on Broadway\, The Wiz at the Beacon Theatre featuring Stephanie Mills\, and Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls” at the American Place Theatre. Sound design projects include; Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” for the\nClassical Theatre of Harlem\, St. Lucy’s Eyes for the Cherry Lane Theatre\, and Shackled\, Iced\, and Chain for the National Black Theatre Company.\nAs a soloist\, Michael’s been featured with Berlin’s Rundfunk Symphony\, Vienna’s Tonkuntsler Symphony\, Leipzig Symphony\, International Regions Symphony Orchestra of Europe\, Yakima Chamber Orchestra\, Yakima\, WA\, and Sage City Symphony\, Bennington\, VT. As a composer Michael’s commissioned dance scores appear in the companies of Urban Bush Women\, Joffrey Ballet\, Alvin Ailey\, Philadanco\, Complexions\, and Forces of Nature Dance Theatre. Film soundtracks include “Atlantic City Lights” for HBO\, and “As An Act Of Protest” an independent feature. Michael has wo published percussion instruction books with Hudson Music Publishing entitled “Getting Started with Djembe”\, and “Getting Started with Cajon”\, and a new album “Afrofuturism” on Temple Mountain Records (TMR) distributed by Universal Music Group / Level Music. Michael is currently a member of the faculty of music at Bennington College in Bennington\, VT since 2012. \nIsmael Baiz:\nIsmael Baiz is a touring and recording artist who resides in New York since 2009. Originally from Caracas\, Venezuela\, Ismael began his music studies at age 5. After a bitter-sweet breakup with the piano\, his interest for percussion sparked while at the Prudencio Esaa music school. Soon enough he began receiving private drum lessons from different teachers who including exceptional classical percussionists Jose Mato\, with whom he studied for 8 years. He began performing professionally at age 14. A short time later he toured his native Venezuela and\, had the opportunity of touring internationally. \nWhen Ismael came to New York he joined The Collective School of Music as a full-time student for 2 years. Following that\, he attended the CCNY Jazz Performance Program. Studying with Ian Froman\, Peter Retzlaff\, Bob Quaranta\, Kim Plainfield\, Vince Cherico\, Marko Djordjevic\, Chris Coleman\, Tim Ries\, Dan Carillo\, Vanderlei Pereira\, and Mike Hollober amongst others helped him refine and develop his sound and vision in music. \nIsmael currently performs nationally and internationally with Blondy\, Yordano\, Monte\, Amine Hachem\, Ali Bello\, The Latino Experimental Project\, just to name a few. Aside from this\, he continues teaching and recording in his state of the art studio. \nIn 2009\, Maelo Drums sprung from Ismael’s rigorous research and dedicated passion towards providing unique designer sounds for unique artists. To learn more about MAELO DRUMS visit: www.maelodrums.com \nWith a cultural melting-pot in his brain\, Ismael is constantly composing original music and arrangements with The Latino Experimental Project\, a musical experiment that mixes his Venezuelan roots\, Afro-Latin and Caribbean styles with a contemporary and improvisational approach. \nAndreas Brade:\nGerman born drummer\, educator and composer Andreas Brade has been a professional drummer for over 30 years. With an open mind he has found himself over the years in many different musical situations\, “the good and the bad” and many lessons learned. Andreas has performed and recorded nationally and internationally with many different Jazz\, African\, Afro Caribbean\, Gospel\, Rock\, R&B\, and Improvisational Artists at venues and festivals such as the Montreal Jazz Fest\, Kennedy Center\, Boston Symphony Hall\, NJPAC\, the Blue Note\, the Apollo Cafe and many more. These days\, Andreas likes to maintain his passion for Jazz\, and different genres of the world\, mainly African and Afro Caribbean styles\, while exploring his own voice. He is also drawn more towards electronica\, art and Improvisational music. \nAndreas has worked for over 20 years as an accompanist for modern dance for schools like the Martha Graham School\, Mark Morris Dance Center\, Paul Taylor\, Alvin Ailey\, Joffery Ballet. \nAs a composer Andreas has worked for Cornfield Dance for 15 years creating sound scores and sound scapes\, using his own samples and manipulating them with electronic effects. His works have been played/performed at venues and festivals such as 92nd Street “Y”\, Bryant Park Summer Stage\, the Battery Park Dance Festival\, the British Museum at Yale\, Baryshnikov Arts Center and the University of Georgia. \nAndreas holds a diploma from Berklee College of Music and a Masters of Modern American Music in Performance from Longy School of Bard College\, and endorses VicFirth and Zildjian Cymbals.\nhttps://westbeth.org/artist-page/andreas-brade/ URL:https://westbeth.org/event/first-friday-concert-roots-to-shootsmichael-moss-alexis-marcelo-ken-filiano-miachel-wimberly-ismail-baiz-andreas-brade/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/FIRST-FRIDAYS-WEB-SQ-ROOTS-TO-SHOOTS-MASTER-DOC-copy-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240927T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240927T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20240917T003135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240928T005829Z UID:10000645-1727463600-1727467200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Get To Know Your Neighbor: Jenny Tango\, Ken Wade\, Lilly Rivlin DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge Friday Sept 27\, 2024 at 7pm\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nenter through courtyard\nNew York NY \nJenny Tango’s (b. 1926\, Brooklyn\, NY) most recent show was 100 Women of Spirit – a group exhibition in 2024 dedicated to Joan MItchell at Salon Zurcher.\nAn active participant in the Feminist Art Movement of the 1970s\, she was editor of the Women in the Arts Newsletter. She published an artist’s book\, Women of Chelm\, started a women’s comic book collective\, Bloody Wymmin\, and authored a pictorial history: The Jewish Community of Staten Island. She collaborated with sculptor Susan Grabel on Project Venus\, presenting unabashed images of the aging woman’s body\, from 1999-2001. Her work has been shown in New York City\, Beijing\, Shanghai\, Italy and recently in The Difference We’ve Made: New Work by Women Artists of the 70s at Carter Burden Gallery. \nKen Wade moved into WestBeth Artist Housing on January 1\, 1970 where the artist has lived and worked for 53 years. In Sept 2023 Wade had a solo Selective Retrospective with drawings\, paintings\, and sculptures dating from 1964 to the present qt Westbeth Gallery..\nHe began making art in the early 1960s while living on the Island state of Tasmania; 125 miles off the SE coast of Australia. His first American exhibition (1968) was at the Corcoran Museum\, Washington DC.”Ken Wade has been singing songs and telling stories for many years. Featured on Austrailian national televesion and WBAI radio\, he has performed in London\, LA\, and Belfast.In New York City\, he sang songs and told stories at Dixon Place\, EAT-NWS Festival\, NYC Farmer’s Markers (& Upstate)\, Make Music NYC\, the (old) Brecht Forum\, Westbeth Music Festival\, and the New York Public LIbrary.In 2014\, he performed a two-act one-man show at the spectacular Barns Performance Space in N. Virgina.Ken is an active story teller at The Moth as well as Word\, and other story telling venues in New York City\, and has been a regularly invited performer at The Stage Left Theater\, NYC. \nLilly Rivlin Award-winning filmmaker\, writer and political activist Rivlin was born in Jerusalem and immigrated to the United States with her family in 1945. She did her graduate degree in Political Science at U of C\, Berkeley. Before focusing on documentaries\, she was a journalist\, and foundation consultant on the Middle East and women.\nMost recently Rivlin was selected as the 2013-14 recipient of the annual Miller Distinguished Jewish Woman Filmmaker Award.The ‘personal is political’ is expressed in the documentaries she produced\, directed and wrote: her latest is ESTHER BRONER: A WEAVE OF WOMEN\,( (2013) and before that the award winning film\, GRACE PALEY: COLLECTED SHORTS\, (2010); CAN YOU HEAR ME? ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN WOMEN FIGHT FOR PEACE (2006); GIMME A KISS (2000); MIRIAM’S DAUGHTERS NOW\, aired on PBS and Israel TV (1986); THE TRIBE\, CUNY TV (1983). URL:https://westbeth.org/event/get-to-know-your-neighbor-jenny-tango-ken-wade-lilly-rivlin/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GTKYN_JENNY-SQ-KENLILLY2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240906T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240906T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20240829T031533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240909T010632Z UID:10000573-1725649200-1725654600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:First Friday Music: The Barry Tones Dance Music DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge Friday Sept 6\, 2024 at 7pm\nWestbeth Community Rm\n155 Bank St\nenter through courtyard\nNew York\, NY \nFree and open to the public! \n“We play dance music that is guaranteed to get everyone up on the dance floor and moving to the beat of rock\, blues\, rockabilly and country. We play a mix of covers and quirky originals.” \nFor more info on The Barry Tones : Westbeth Artist Page – Barry Temkin URL:https://westbeth.org/event/first-friday-music-the-barry-tones-dance-music/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FIRST-FRIDAYS-SQ--e1722914692808.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240731T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240831T170000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20240802T122513Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240917T012629Z UID:10000566-1722412800-1725123600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Profiles in Art: Ethan Mass Cinematographer DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/profiles-in-art-ethan-mass-cinematographer/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ethan-Mass-SQ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240726T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240726T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20240715T031603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240727T141938Z UID:10000559-1722020400-1722025800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Get To Know Your Neighbors: Melika Dave\, Jan Leslie Harding\, Vinod Dave DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/get-to-know-your-neighbors-melika-dave-jan-leslie-harding-vinod-dave/2024-07-26/2/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Get-to-Know-Your-Neighbors-SQ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240705T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240705T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20240701T195545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T014709Z UID:10000550-1720206000-1720211400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:First Friday Music: Berg Jazz John Eckert\, Chris Hemingway\, Cecilia Coleman\, Will Woodard and Andy Watson DESCRIPTION:Friday July 5\, 2024 at 7pm\nWestbeth Community Rm\n155 Bank St (enter through courtyard\nNew York\, NY \nFree admission \nJohn Eckert trumpet\nChris Hemingway alto sax\nCecilia Coleman piano\nWill Woodard bass\nAndy Watson drums \nDescription of the event: \n“Having seen Wozzeck\, I have been very interested in Berg’s music.\nI was fascinated by his 4 Early Songs\, hearing the most contemporary harmony used by modern Jazz performers throughout these songs written in 1910. I formed a small group to perform this music as Jazz. These songs were written for a vocalist with piano accompaniment. Alto Sax and Trumpet share the vocal melody\, Bass plays the bass line of the piano part. Pianist plays the piano part. Drums intuitively add Jazz rhythm. Generally no material is added\, none is left out.” \nAlban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. Although he left a relatively small oeuvre\, he is remembered as one of the most important composers of the 20th century for his expressive style encompassing “entire worlds of emotion and structure”. \nBios\nJohn Eckert is one of the busiest freelance trumpet players on the East Coast. He can play it all: jazz\, latin\, pop\, classical\, even opera. John juggles his engagements\, often working one or two recording or rehearsal sessions during a day followed by a bebop big-band gig or an evening at the Carlyle with Bobby Short later that same night.\nJohn has played on concert stages worldwide as well as in orchestra pits of operas and Broadway shows. He is equally comfortable in the lead trumpet chair of a big band or small jazz ensemble\, and enjoys playing all types of music with all kinds of musicians. “The variety just presents itself\,” says John\, explaining how he can play Benny Goodman or Stan Kenton arrangements one day\, then work with the Simon & Garfunkle Reunion Band\, the Smithsonian Jazz Orchestra\, Deodato’s 2001 Orchestra\, or the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra the next. John Eckert \nChris Hemingway\, born in Florence\, SC\, Chris grew up listening to the sounds of gospel\, soul\, R&B\, and blues even though he and his friends weren’t quite accepting of this “old people’s” music. However\, as a product of his own environment Chris eventually came full circle and would later pull from these early listening experiences to develop his overall approach to music today. Chris’ natural fluency in both classical and jazz styles separates him from most musicians.\nIn 2007 Mr. Hemingway won an Emmy Award as a performer of WQED’s (PBS affiliate station) “Live From Studio A.” As a sophomore at Duquesne University\, Chris won the School of Music’s prestigious concerto competition. At the young age of 21\, he was also a featured soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony. Chris has studied with James Houlik at the North Carolina School of the Arts and at Duquesne University.@chrisheminwaysax \nA native of Long Beach \, California\, Cecilia Coleman started on piano at age five and began jazz piano studies at age fifteen. During the early 1980’s\, she studied with vibraphonist Charlie Shoemake\, arranger Tom Kubis and classical pianist Dr. Allan Giles.\nCecilia has led her own groups since 1990\, when she formed a trio with bassist Eric Von Essen and Kendall Kay on drums. In 1993\, she began working with her quintet. They recorded three CD’s:Words of Wisdom\,Young and Foolish and Home between 1990-1995 . Along with numerous local club and concert appearances\, the quintet also performed at the Monterey and Telluride Jazz Festivals. In 1998\, Coleman moved to New York and has played with a variety of groups as a sideman\, accompanist and leader.\nIn 2010\, Cecilia became a big band leader of some significance and has recorded two CD’s with the Cecilia Coleman Big Band. The 18 piece band continues to play concerts regularly in the NYC area and has been listed in the the Down Beat Critic’s poll as a rising star in the big band category. Cecilia Coleman \nWill Woodard’s big sound\, strong feel and creative approach have made him a welcome presence on stages and bandstands and in recording studios around the world. He’s been blessed with numerous opportunities to work with\, and learn from\, revered masters (Dave Liebman\, Ed Blackwell\, Billy Hart\, Chico Hamilton)\, cherished contemporaries (Walt Weiskopf\, Vince Herring\, Roy Hargrove)\, and great younger players (Chris Potter\, Jon Irabagon). Will just wrapped up the second of two long stints as a member of drummer Rick Hollander’s quartet\, with which he recorded five cds for the Concord\, Timeless and Laika record labels\, two of which featured his compositions\, and with which he toured extensively\, performing in major clubs\, concert halls and festival stages throughout the US\, Europe and Japan. Will Woodward \nAndy Watson has been a fixture on the New York jazz scene for over two decades. He has performed and recorded with an impressive list of artists and groups\, including: Toshiko Akiyoshi\, Bill Frisell\, Benny Golson\, Jim Hall\, Tom Harrell\, Jon Hendricks\, Woody Herman\, Joe Lovano\, Wynton Marsalis\, Marian McPartland\, James Moody\, Marvin Stamm\, Mike Stern\, Lew Tabackin and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. As a member of Jim Hall’s trio\, Andy played on the critically acclaimed recording\, “Dialogues “. All About Jazz magazine called his performance on David Bixler’s “Call It A Good Deal” “one of the top ten for 2006”. Other notable recordings include Jon Hendricks’ “Boppin’ at the Blue Note\,” Toshiko Akiyoshi’s “Hiroshima: Rising from the Abyss\,” Jim Hall’s “Downbeat Critic’s Choice”\, The Westchester Jazz Orchestra’s “Maiden Voyage Suite” and the Telarc compilations “Jazz: Live from New York\,” and “Triple Play: Live From the Blue Note.” Watson has toured extensively throughout the United States\, Europe\, Asia and South America\, appearing at many of the major festivals: Monterey Jazz Festival\, Ravinia\, JVC New York\, Playboy Jazz Fest\, JVC Saratoga\, Zurich Jazz Festival\, and the Vienna Jazz Festival Andy Watson URL:https://westbeth.org/event/first-friday-music-berg-jazz-john-eckert-chris-hemingway-cecilia-coleman-will-woodard-and-andy-watson/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/First-Friday-John-Eckert2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240628T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240628T210000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20240304T214628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240630T164919Z UID:10000535-1719601200-1719608400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Get to Know Your Neighbors: An evening with Alexander Berg\, Patricia Melvin\, and Linda Marks DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nFriday June 28\, 2024\n7PM – 9PM\nWestbeth Community Rm\n155 Bank St\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nAlexander Berg portrait photographer \nLink: Westbeth Artist Page \nPatricia Melvin painter\n“As a plein air painter of New York City\, I have been painting landscapes for forty years. While I am primarily self-taught\, I studied with Gabriel Laderman and Robert Beverly Hale at the Art Students’ League\, and with Martin Pajeck\, who was a student of Max Beckman. I also studied independently in Paris and Amsterdam\, where I did my first plein air paintings. I have painted and exhibited in the United States and Europe\, and now live in New York City’s Greenwich Village.”\nLink: Westbeth Artist Page\nWebsite: Patricia Melvin \nLinda Marks poet\nFrequently gives readings of her poetry.\nLink: Transformation Reading\nLink: Open Mic URL:https://westbeth.org/event/get-to-know-your-neighbors-an-evening-with-alexander-berg-patricia-melvin-and-linda-marks/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GTKYN-Square–JUNE_v2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240607T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240607T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20240414T151240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240613T003721Z UID:10000528-1717786800-1717792200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:First Friday Music: The Mizell Sanwald Brade Trio joined by Ben Swan DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \n\nFriday June 7\, 2024 at 7PM\nWestbeth Community Room\n55 Bethune St\nNew York\, NY \n\nWestbeth resident Andreas Brade presents\nThe Mizell/Sanwald/Brade Trio\nwith Ben Swan \nAn evening with all original compositions in the Americana-Jazz genre and beyond. \nListen to the Trio’s new digital album “The Last Hill Before Home” \nCameron Mizell\, Brooklyn-based guitarist and composer\, has been part of the diverse New York City music scene since 2004\, performing in a wide variety of genres from experimental improvisation to bluegrass musicals. Mizell has released 11 albums ranging from jazz-funk to Americana to avant-garde experimentalism. His latest effort as a band leader\, The Tree on Saffron Path\, pairs his guitar with a string trio for a set of cinematic chamber music\, lilting folk tunes\, and ambient improvisations. “Quietly and efficiently\, Mizell has put together a remarkably tuneful\, eclectic\, understatedly cinematic body of work. In a world overpopulated by guys who play a million notes where one would do\, Mizell’s economical\, purposeful style stands out even more.” (New York Music Daily). To hear his music and learn more\, visit http://cameronmizell.com \nAndreas Brade\, German born drummer\, educator and composer Andreas Brade has been a professional drummer for over 30 years. With an open mind he has found himself over the years in many different musical situations\, “the good and the bad” and many lessons learned. Andreas has performed and recorded nationally and internationally with many different Jazz\, African\, Afro Caribbean\, Gospel\, Rock\, R&B\, and Improvisational Artists at venues and festivals such as the Montreal Jazz Fest\, Kennedy Center\, Boston Symphony Hall\, NJPAC\, the Blue Note\, the Apollo Cafe and many more. These days\, Andreas likes to maintain his passion for Jazz\, and different genres of the world\, mainly African and Afro Caribbean styles\, while exploring his own voice. He is also drawn more towards electronica\, art and Improvisational music. \nAndreas has worked for over 20 years as an accompanist for modern dance for schools like the Martha Graham School\, Mark Morris Dance Center\, Paul Taylor\, Alvin Ailey\, Joffery Ballet. \nAs a composer Andreas has worked for Cornfield Dance for 15 years creating sound scores and sound scapes\, using his own samples and manipulating them with electronic effects. His works have been played/performed at venues and festivals such as 92nd Street “Y”\, Bryant Park Summer Stage\, the Battery Park Dance Festival\, the British Museum at Yale\, Baryshnikov Arts Center and the University of Georgia. \nA passionate educator\, Andreas taught at Berklee College of Music\, The Boston Community Music Center of Boston and the South Shore Conservatory. He is currently faculty at Brooklyn Music School and has his own teaching studio. \nAndreas holds a diploma from Berklee College of Music and a Masters of Modern American Music in Performance from Longy School of Bard College\, and endorses VicFirth and Zildjian Cymbals. \nThese days Andreas still enjoys staying inspired\, maintaining an open mind towards new musical adventures and solidifying his own sound\, Visit www.andreasbrade.com\nPaul Sanwald: \nPaul Sanwald is a bassist and composer living in Brooklyn\, NY. He leads a quartet that focuses on his original music\, and also works steadily as a sideman on upright bass and guitar\, and occasionally works as an arranger. \nPaul started playing music professionally as a teenager\, and has worked steadily for more than 20 years as a sideman and leader. Paul has toured internationally and recorded with Dem Brooklyn Bums\, Elizabeth and the Hot and Silver Trio\, Mizell/Sanwald /Brade Trio\, The Blue Saracens\, Flipside Phonics and Regatta 69. \nPaul has composed and arranged music for almost every kind of group imaginable: small jazz groups\, jazz big bands\, orchestras\, string quartet\, and a variety of chamber groups. \nA lifelong student\, Paul attended the New School’s venerable jazz performance program on a scholarship\, and studied orchestration\, conducting and composition at the Juilliard Evening Division with Dr. Daniel Ott and Jonathan Dawe. He studied jazz privately with many teachers\, but his first and most important teachers were Ed Paolantonio and John Wheliss.\nVisit http://paulsanwald.com \nBen Swan has traveled the globe for more than 20 years learning from musical masters to develop a signature style of improvisational violin playing. While centered within the American jazz tradition\, Ben employs a unique blend of musical concepts garnered from a variety of cultures to form his musical vocabulary.\nVisit www.swanviolin.com \nhttps://paulsanwald.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-hill-before-home URL:https://westbeth.org/event/first-friday-music-the-mizell-sanwald-brade-trio-joined-by-ben-swan/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FF_ANDREASBRADE_square.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240605T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240621T100000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20240530T135631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240720T202629Z UID:10000533-1717578000-1718964000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Rooftop Pilates with Ellie Kusner on Westbeth Roof DESCRIPTION:CLICK TO ENLARGE \nWednesdays and Fridays\n9:15 – 10 :15am\nJune 5\, 7\, 12\, 14\, 19\, 21\, 2024 \n$10 per class\nNo experience necessary \nWestbeth Roof\n55 Bethune St\nNYC\nTake elevator to 11th floor \nContact: Elliekusnerpilates@gmail.com \nEllie Kusner has been teaching pilates to people of diverse movement experiences\, physical abilities and health backgrounds for over 20 years. She began her own pilates practice as a student of the Boston Ballet in the 1990’s. After graduating from Barnard College\, she pursued a freelance dance career and quickly found that teaching pilates was an ideal way to financially and physically support her performing life while honoring her knowledge of the human body in motion. Ellie is a faculty member of the Dance Department at The Juilliard School\, where among other things\, she teaches pilates and runs a pilates teacher training program. She holds an MSc in Dance Science which contributes a scientific\, evidenced-based perspective to her pedagogy. Her classes encourage movement specificity and robust physicality while cultivating a deep\, integrated connection to the mind\, body and spirit through the use of rich\, anatomically-informed imagery.\nwww.elliekusner.com URL:https://westbeth.org/event/ellie-kusner-teaches-pilates-on-westbeth-roof/ LOCATION:Westbeth Roof CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Rooftop-Pilates-SQ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240531T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240531T210000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20240417T144028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240603T153307Z UID:10000527-1717182000-1717189200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Get to Know Your Neighbors: An evening with Robert Bunkin\, Ze'eva Cohen and Tamara Wyndham DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nFriday May 31\, 2024 at 7pm – 9pm\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nEnter through courtyard\nNYC \nThis is the inaugural session of a new WARC-Sponsored program\, Get To Know Your Neighbors. \nPlease come and find out what some of your neighbors do\, why we’re here in the Westbeth Artists Community.\nOur presenters will share 20-minute presentations of some aspect of their careers as artists: \n  \nRobert Bunkin\, focusing on recent paintings made post-Covid;\nZe’eva Cohen\, dancer and choreographer will be showing a video of her work\, and\nTamara Wyndam will do a live performance piece. \nRoibrt Bunkin is a painter\, curator\, art historian and educator. “All of my work is concerned with the particular: a portrait\, a tree trunk\, and a sculpture are all part of this on-going investigation into the specifics of appearances. \nWestbeth Artist Page: Robert Bunkin \nZe’eva Cohen dance artist and choreographer. “High art can be\, and indeed should be\, entertaining. The wonder of dancer Ze’eva Cohen was that she not only accepts this principle\, but achieved a flawless balance… There is high art for you… Cohen is a genius in the field. – San Francisco Chronicle.” \nWestbeth Artist Page’ Ze’eva Cohen \nTamara Wyndham psinting\, performance. “Contact prints of the body have a tradition in sacred arts\, often functioning as evidence of the physical existence of divine or holy persons.” \nWestbeth Artist Page: Tamara Wyndham URL:https://westbeth.org/event/get-to-know-your-neighbors-an-evening-with-robert-bunkin-zeeva-cohen-and-tamara-wyndham/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-19-at-10.09.59-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240528 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240716 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20240528T165510Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240701T210546Z UID:10000530-1716854400-1721087999@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Open Call: Westbeth Gallery DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nCALL FOR EXHIBITION PROPOSALS 2025 \nDeadline July 15\, 2024 \nThe Westbeth Gallery is a nonprofit fine arts gallery located within Westbeth Artist Housing in\nthe West Village in Manhattan. The gallery is operated by the Westbeth Artists Residents\nCouncil which is a volunteer organization elected by the residents of Westbeth. \nThe gallery is seeking diverse proposals from institutions\, curators or individual artists for\nexhibitions in 2025. Each exhibition is approximately three weeks in length and must use all\nfour rooms of our 2900 square foot gallery. \nProposed exhibitions should be composed of artwork that is the product of professional artists and executed in the last five years. are given latitude in the content and arrangement of their work. Exhibitors are expected to work independently to curate\, promote and install their exhibition professionally. \nProposal Requirements\nAll proposals are due by July 15th\, 2024. Proposals submitted after July 15th will be ineligible\nfor review. We only accept digital proposals. \nPlease Note – Non-refundable exhibition fee:\nIf your proposal has been accepted\, you will be notified and receive a contract to sign along with a request for a non-refundable exhibition fee to go toward the maintenance of the gallery.\nExhibition Fees (non-refundable) are split into three categories:\n1) If the show is curated from within Westbeth: $400 fee\n2) If the show is curated by an individual or group from outside Westbeth: $800 fee\n3) If the show is curated by an Institution (i.e. The Whitney): amount may vary. \nEmail your proposal to: submissionswg@gmail.com \nDOWNLOAD SUBMISSION FORMS WG Call form Proposals 2025 \nSUBMIT:\n• 200 word statement of your proposed exhibition including title see attached form below.\n• A Resume in pdf form of the curator and/or featured artist(s).\nVisual Support:\n• 6 digital images from an individual artist or a selection of 2 images per artist from a group or\ninstitution.\nPlease format your images in the following:\nFile name: labeled with your last name and order number\nEXAMPLE: Smith01.jpg\, Smith02.jpg\, Smith03.jpg\nDimensions: the largest size should be no more than 2000p pixels\, no wider than 10″.\nResolution: 72dpi (do not send Tiff files)\nImage List: provide: title of piece\, materials and dimensions\, date the work was produced \nThe Review Committee will not look at websites of any kind.\nGallery Information\nGuidelines for the gallery and floor plans can be found at www.westbeth.org under About/Westbeth Gallery.\nSelection Process\nAll proposals will be reviewed by members of the Visual Arts Selection Sub-Committee.\nProposals that are accepted will be notified by September 2024.\nEXHIBITION PROPOSAL COVER SHEET\nName of Featured Artist(s) and/or Institution: ___________________________________\nFrom Westbeth (circle one): Yes – No\nContact Name: ____________________________________________________________\nContact Email Address: _____________________________________________________\nContact Phone Number: ____________________________________________________\nProposed Title: ___________________________________________________________\nMedium(s) (sculpture\, mixed media\, painting\, video\, etc): ___________________________\nExpected total number of works: __________\nSize of works (range): ________________\nSpecial Requirements for the Exhibition: __________________________________\nNumber of Participating Artists: ___________\nAre your artists from New York City? Tri-State Area? International? ___________\nDo you plan on hosting artist talks or other special events during your exhibit? Please describe:\n___________________________________________________________________________ URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-gallery-open-call-2025/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:non-event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/flyerOpenCall_2025_REVjuly15SQ-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20231203T161721Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240504T155144Z UID:10000513-1714762800-1714768200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:FIRST FRIDAY presents ALY 'S BDAY CABARET featuring BETTY and Friends DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nJoin the celebration of bass player and vocalist Aly Palmer with Elizabeth Ziff and Amy Ziff and their rocking harmony trio BETTY. Joining the night are sensational singers and Aly Pals Miss Maggie Moore with Tony Salvatore\, Kristi Ambrosetti\, Mishti\, Eve Zanni\, The Line Up’s Susie Moser and more! \nIt’s a cabaret for all ages\, all musical styles from jazz pop rock and blues\, and anyone who loves a smorgasbord of tasty talent. Stick around afterward\, for when DJ EZ plays old school dance music to shake off anybody’s birthday blues! \nWebsite: BETTY URL:https://westbeth.org/event/first-friday-presents-aly-s-bday-cabaret-featuring-betty-and-friends/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ALYFirst-Friday-BDay-Rev_Square2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20240302T041708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240409T233021Z UID:10000480-1712343600-1712347200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:First Fridays Music: Victoria Horne and Friends Jazz\, Blues\, and more DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/victoria-horne-first-friday/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/SQUARE_VICTORIA_HORNE_V2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240403T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240421T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 CREATED:20240229T224630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T011459Z UID:10000479-1712149200-1713722400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Mind Leaves Body: Elisabeth Condon\, Susan Luss\, Alyse RosnerReview by Art Spiel DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nApril 3 – April 21\, 2024 \nOpening Reception: Wednesday April 3\, 2024 at 6pm – 9pm \nWalk Through: Saturday April 6\, 2024 at 2pm \nPanel Discussion: Wednesday April 17\, 2024 at 7pm\nwith Amy Talluto.\nAmy Talbot is a painter and sculptor who lives and works in Upstate NY. In 2018 the was awarded a NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellowship in Painting and was an Art Forum Critics Pick for her solo exhibition at Black & White Gallery. She has recently shown her work at Auxier Kline Gallery\, Jeff Bailey Gallery\, The Berkshire Botanical Gardens\, the Samuel Dorsey Museum\, Geoffrey Young Gallery and Wave Hill Gardens\, She is the host and producer of the Pep Talks for Artists Podcast. \nClosing Reception: Sunday April 21\, 2024 at 5pm – 7pm \nFeatured Artists: Elisabeth Condon\, Susan Luss\, Alyse Rosner \nMind Leaves Body features works by three painters who explore nature\, city dwelling\, and décor through creative processes that blur distinctions between inside and outside\, interior and exterior\, and intuition and physicality. Their flexible\, large-scale pieces propose\, in the words of essayist Paul D’Agostino\, that\, “If it sometimes seems as though the artist’s mind leaves the artist’s body\, then it’s because the artist’s mindless body is often the more fluidly productive one in the studio.” \nReview by Art Spiel \nWhen Elisabeth Condon noticed an Open Call for a show at Westbeth\, she immediately thought of artists Alyse Rosner and Susan Luss\, whose process-oriented approach perfectly matched her vision for a collaborative project. They all agreed to come together\, planning to let the installation unfold over four days\, allowing their work to merge and shape the exhibition dynamics. Their setup process—discussing\, reshaping\, and improvising in the gallery—revealed more profound interconnections. The trio’s improvisational method produced an exciting viewing experience analogous to a live jazz ensemble with distinct leitmotifs.em> URL:https://westbeth.org/event/mind-leaves-body-elisabeth-condon-susan-luss-alyse-rosneropens-r-review-by-art-spiel/ LOCATION:Westbeth Gallery CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MIND-LEAVES-BODY-SQ-1080-x-1080-pixels-300-dpi-CMYK.png GEO:40.737051566887;-74.009218415339 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240323T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240323T170000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 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:20240315T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T170000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 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:20240302T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240302T210000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 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:20260423T094637 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:20240215T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241219T210000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 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;TZID=America/New_York:20240202T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240202T190000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 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:20240105T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240105T210000 DTSTAMP:20260423T094637 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 END:VCALENDAR