BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Westbeth - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://westbeth.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Westbeth REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260131T170000 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20251212T231206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T162522Z UID:10000929-1765526400-1769878800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Video of "Stories Around the Table" Filmed Oct 28\, 2025 DESCRIPTION:(For close captioning\, click  the rectangle with the double CC’s  at the  Vimeo menu line) \n\n \n“I started this group many years ago when we were worried about getting old. I said ‘let’s write about it.’ We were 40.\nWe used to meet at Shami Chaikin’s apartment\, sitting around her table. Now 40 years later\, we meet on zoom.”\n– Karen Ludwig \nCurrent Members \nKaren Ludwig’s numerous Broadway credits include Neil Simon’s BROADWAY BOUND\, and THE DEVILS with Anne Bancroft. She appeared in many Off-Broadway performances at The Public Theater and was a member of Andre Gregory’s Manhattan Project. She was in the world premiere of MOONCHILDREN at The Royal Court in London as well as playing Lady McDuff in MACBETH at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.Karen Ludwig produced and directed UTA HAGEN’S ACTING CLASS; a compelling DVD of her incomparable teacher conducting Master Acting Classes UTAHAGENVIDEO.com. Ms. Ludwig has directed plays for the Theater for the New City\, NYU School of the Arts\, Ensemble Studio Theater\, Circle Rep\, and The HB Playwrights. On TV she is a LAW and ORDER veteran and many other shows. She conducted an acclaimed interview series ABOUT THE WORK with prominent theater people at the New School for Drama where she also taught for many years.\nhttp://karenludwig.com/#actor \nJoan Hall Known for her artwork\, Joan Hall’s collages and assemblages havebeen exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide\, including theCentre Georges Pompidou in Paris\, and the Museo Rufino Tamayo inMexico. She is a winner of the Miriam Chaikin Foundation 2018 awardfor her poetry. Joan’s poetry and collage books\, Journey to Somewhere\,Behind My Mind\, and Rhyme Time are available on Amazon. Joan hasbeen a resident of Westbeth since 1971.\nhttps://www.joanhallcollage.com \nDawn D/Arcy is a writer\, actor and musician notably\, as well as relevantly\, having played bass in fellow writer Diane Spodarek’s Detroit punk band The Dangerous Diane Band. She worked at The Actors Studio with director John Stix as well as with actor/director Estelle Parsons on Yeats translation of Oedipus starring Al Pacino and Dianne Wiest. She is the very proud grandma of Etta Rose and is never\, ever unaware of how lucky and grateful she is to write\, co-create and perform with Karen Ludwig and this brilliant group of artists for the past 20+ years. \nDiane Spodarek is a Canadian American writer and a recipient of artist fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. \nJoyce Aaron Oboe winner for Acting in a play Acrobatics co written by Luna Tarlo. Original member of The Open Theater\, directed by Joseph Chaikin. Premiered America Hurrah by Jean Claude Van Itallie in New York and at The Royal Court Theater in London. Lived and worked with Sam Shepard on many of his early plays. \nDale Soules is an American actress known for starring in The Messenger\, Sesame Street\, and for portraying Frieda Berlin in Orange Is the New Black from 2014 to 2019. She appeared in the original production of Hair in the role of Jeannie. \n\nPast Members \nShami Chaikin Obie-award winning actress\, Shami Chaikin was a member of the legendary Open Theater under the direction of Joe Chaikin. She appeared in their seminal productions of The Serpent\, Terminal\, Mutation Show\, and more. Her theatrical appearances also include working with with Andre Serban\, and Elizabeth Swados and Meredith Monk at the New York Shakespeare Festival\, among other venues. In film\, she has acted under the direction of Michaelangelo Antonioni\, James Ivory and Alan Parker\, and has appeared in numerous TV shows\, including Law and Order. \nNancy Gabor is a director and acting teacher.She directed Joseph Chaikin in ‘The War In Heaven\,’and ‘Struck Dumb\,’ staged readings\, as he was recovering from Aphasia at the American Place Theater. She was an actor in The Open Theater and participated in the creation of ‘The Serpent.’\nAmong her many credits:‘The Three Sisters\,’ at Princeton where she was an associate acting professor. Nancy taught and directed at the Amsterdam Theater School in the Netherlands for twenty years.\nAlong with Paul Binnerts\, she conducts an acting workshop at Westbeth\, ‘You’re Never Too Old To Play.’ \nChristina Maile\nHer work reflecting her West Indian and Dayak heritage\, she has received grants from Pollock-Krasner and Joan Mitchell Foundation\, as well as two Miriam Chaikin Foundation Writing Awards. Her landscape architectural work was featured in Garden Design Magazine. She was the co-founder playwright of the Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective. christinamaile.com URL:https://westbeth.org/event/video-of-stories-around-the-table-filmed-oct-28-2025/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Karen-Ludwig-wesite-Home-stories-around-ta.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251028T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20251002T135519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251106T132347Z UID:10000852-1761678000-1761681600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Stories Around the Table Losing It DESCRIPTION:Tuesday October 28\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nenter through courtyard\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nSTORIES AROUND THE TABLE began many years ago as a Word of Mouth project by Karen Ludwig for actors and writers. Over the years and under her guidance it has evolved into a literary group of women whose stories originate in personal experience and the challenges of that experience. Recently the group began giving annual presentations of their work\, of which this is the 5th or 6th. \nKaren Ludwig’s numerous Broadway credits include Neil Simon’s BROADWAY BOUND\, and THE DEVILS with Anne Bancroft. She appeared in many Off-Broadway performances at The Public Theater and was a member of Andre Gregory’s Manhattan Project. She was in the world premiere of MOONCHILDREN at The Royal Court in London as well as playing Lady McDuff in MACBETH at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.Karen Ludwig produced and directed UTA HAGEN’S ACTING CLASS; a compelling DVD of her incomparable teacher conducting Master Acting Classes UTAHAGENVIDEO.com. Ms. Ludwig has directed plays for the Theater for the New City\, NYU School of the Arts\, Ensemble Studio Theater\, Circle Rep\, and The HB Playwrights. On TV she is a LAW and ORDER veteran and many other shows. She conducted an acclaimed interview series ABOUT THE WORK with prominent theater people at the New School for Drama where she also taught for many years.\nhttp://karenludwig.com/#actor \nJoyce Aaron\nOboe winner for Acting in a play Acrobatics co written by Luna Tarlo. Original member of The Open Theater\, directed by Joseph Chaikin. Premiered America Hurrah by Jean Claude Van Itallie in New York and at The Royal Court Theater in London. Lived and worked with Sam Shepard on many of his early plays.\nJoan Hall Known for her artwork\, Joan Hall’s collages and assemblages havebeen exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide\, including theCentre Georges Pompidou in Paris\, and the Museo Rufino Tamayo inMexico. She is a winner of the Miriam Chaikin Foundation 2018 awardfor her poetry. Joan’s poetry and collage books\, Journey to Somewhere\,Behind My Mind\, and Rhyme Time are available on Amazon. Joan hasbeen a resident of Westbeth since 1971.\nhttps://www.joanhallcollage.com \nDawn D/Arcy is a writer\, actor and musician notably\, as well as relevantly\, having played bass in fellow writer Diane Spodarek’s Detroit punk band The Dangerous Diane Band. She worked at The Actors Studio with director John Stix as well as with actor/director Estelle Parsons on Yeats translation of Oedipus starring Al Pacino and Dianne Wiest. She is the very proud grandma of Etta Rose and is never\, ever unaware of how lucky and grateful she is to write\, co-create and perform with Karen Ludwig and this brilliant group of artists for the past 20+ years. \nDiane Spodarek is a Canadian American writer and a recipient of artist fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. \nDale Soules\nis an American actress known for starring in The Messenger\, Sesame Street\, and for portraying Frieda Berlin in Orange Is the New Black from 2014 to 2019. She appeared in the original production of Hair in the role of Jeannie. \nArtwork: “NonFiction” by Christina Maile URL:https://westbeth.org/event/stories-around-the-table-losing-it/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Storeis-aroundSQ-the-Table-Autumn-2025-updated-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20250921T230348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251026T145633Z UID:10000837-1760727600-1760731200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Creative Ozone: The Artists of Westbeth Book Launch with author Miriam Chaiken DESCRIPTION:Friday Oct 17\, 2025 at 7pm\nWesteth Community\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nand a second launch\nWednesday Oct 22\, 2025 at 6pm\nsponsored by Village Preservation\nat Westbeth Community Room\nThis talk will concentrate on the architecture of Westbeth.\nFor more info about this free event Village Preservation \n” From legendary photographer Diane Arbus and conceptual artist Hans Haacke to avant-garde theater pioneers like Joe Chaikin and Gloria Miguel\, Westbeth has nurtured some of the most influential voices in contemporary art. Beyond its creative legacy\, the residence has been a hub for social change. Its artists played leading roles in the anti-Vietnam protests\, LGBTQ+ rights movements\, feminist art collectives\, and urban preservation efforts. \nIn Creative Ozone\, Miriam Chaiken offers a rare insider’s look at this extraordinary community. Drawing on intimate interviews with multiple generations of Westbeth residents\, including those who grew up in the building as “feral children” immersed in art from birth\, Chaiken captures the spirit of a place where creativity and activism are inseparable. She explores how Westbeth artists have weathered gentrification\, economic upheavals\, and major historical events\, from 9/11 and Hurricane Sandy to the ongoing pandemic\, revealing the resilience of this one-square-block artistic village. Blending vivid storytelling with cultural history\, Creative Ozone is a tribute to the artists who shaped\, and were shaped by\, New York City. \nRich with character-driven narratives\, this book will captivate art lovers\, history buffs\, and anyone fascinated by the creative life. Whether you’re drawn to the bohemian legends of Greenwich Vil­lage\, the evolution of urban spaces\, or the intersection of art and activism\, Creative Ozone offers an unforgettable portrait of a community like no other.”\n– Fordham University Press \nMiriam Chaiken\nMiriam’s earlier writing derives from her years of anthropological field research in Africa and Asia\, focusing on poverty and hunger alleviation\, gender equity\, and the welfare of children. She has published many articles and co-edited two books on international development and community resilience. \nAfter extensive research on three continents\, she pivoted to her most eo ic site yet – Greenwich Village in New York. Three members of Miriam’s family were long-time residents of the Westbeth Artists’ Residence\, which opened doors when she turned her anthropological gaze to this community. After three decades of research in villages in sub-Saharan Africa\, she realized that Westbeth is a vertical village\, with all the drama and intrigue of any village. Her book Creative Ozone: The Artists of Westbeth (Empire State Books from Fordham University Press) recounts the history of the Westbeth community\, and focuses on the intriguing characters that called Westbeth home. \nMiriam was formerly Dean of the Conroy Honors College and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at New Mexico State University. She lives with her husband and fellow anthropologist Tom Conelly in southern New Mexico. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/creative-ozone-the-artists-of-westbeth-book-launch-with-author-miriam-chaiken/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Creative-Ozone-Chaikin-SQ-.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251008 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251114 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20251008T203448Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251206T024200Z UID:10000855-1759881600-1763078399@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Karen Santry Profiles in Art Interview DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/karen-santry-profiles-in-art/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/KAREN-SQ-SANTRY-PROFILE-POSTER.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250930T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250930T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20250922T012556Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251002T000337Z UID:10000840-1759258800-1759262400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:The Cat and The MoonOne Act Play by W B YeatsDirected by Alison Armstrong DESCRIPTION:Tuesday Sept 30\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nWARC Literary Arts presents:\nThe Cat and the Moon by W.B. Yeats\nDirected by Alison Armstrong \nCast:\nTerence Burk: Blind Man\nDennis Fitzpatrick: Lame Man\nBeth Griffith: First Musician\nSusan Hyman: Second Musician\nAlison Armstrong: Third Musician\nSaint Colman: Himself \nMasks by Casey Compton & Ralph Lee\nFlute music: from Moore’s Irish Melodies \nNotes from Alison Armstrong\nImagine a country road in the West of Ireland. County Mayo perhaps. We observe a pair\nof elderly tramps\, the Blind Man who carries the Lame Man on his back for forty years. They\nhave wandered the country roads of the west of Ireland searching for Saint Colman’s Holy Well\,\nwhere they may be healed or blessed.\nWe hear a tension between the two old men who cannot live without one another and yet\ncannot live happily in their codependence. We realize that they evoke any number of\ncodependent pairings—married couples\, children and parents\, warring brothers such as Jacob\nand Esau\, Samuel Beckett’s Vladimir and Estragon\, or Hamm and Clov. Thus this simple story\nof comic irony appeals to the archetype that most of us experience in our own lives.\nYeats’s stagecraft was influenced not only by the classical Greeks but also in certain cases\nby the Japanese forms of Noh and Kyogen that combine the irony of inevitable absurdity and\nprofound suffering\, despair and hope\, rancor and forgiveness. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/the-cat-and-the-moonone-act-play-by-w-b-yeatsdirected-by-alison-armstrong/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Alison-Armstrong-SQ-Cat-and-Moon.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250617T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250617T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20250512T225636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250614T182840Z UID:10000775-1750186800-1750190400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Arnold Hinton Book Event Photography DESCRIPTION:This event was cancelled because ordered books will not arrive in time for the launch. \nClick to enlarge Tues June 17\, 2025 at 7pm\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY \nArnold Hinton’s photography focuses on social justice and humanity\, drawing parallels between the racism and oppression experienced by Jews in concentration camps to the experience of African Americans. \nArnold recently visited concentration camps in Berlin and Vienna. “In America if you were Black\, you were a slave\, you picked cotton and sugar cane and that was it\,” said Arnold. “But to see how the Germans built these camps/houses with sinks and toilets and wash basins for people that you were going to annihilate– to me\, it made no logical sense.” Despite facing his own share of systemic barriers and societal prejudices\, his work conveys a sense of activism and empathy\, calling for a dialogue that bridges the past to the present. \nGrowing up\, Arnold found solace and inspiration in drawing\, a medium that allowed him to articulate his emotions. Influenced by Norman Rockwell’s depictions of American life\, particularly “The Problem We All Live With”\, Arnold found his passion in photography after taking a course at Pratt Institute and discovering storytelling through the lens of a camera. “Creativity is a natural talent. Being an artist is like the emperor who has no clothes on\, because when you create something and let it free\, the world will see it as whatever it is\, and they will give critiques\, good or bad\,” he said. Through his photography\, he continues to seek out the positive while offering his own perspective on history and identity.\nMore info URL:https://westbeth.org/event/arnold-hinton-photography-book-launch/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ARNOLD-HINTON-SQ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250508T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250508T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20250417T201417Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250511T191612Z UID:10000757-1746730800-1746734400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Miriam Chaikin 9th Annual Writing Awards; Reading by the winners DESCRIPTION:. Thursday May 8\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nWinner in Prose: Elizabeth Hoban\nProud mom to three adult sons\, she is a semi-retired nurse practitioner\, who enjoys spending her free time with family\, friends and four-legged critters. Reading and writing are her oxygen. Elizabeth is the author of numerous\nshort stories. Her book publications include: The Final Mission: A Boy\, a Pilot\, and a World at War; The Cheech Room; and The Secrets That Save Us. She is also the author of numerous columns and magazine articles in professional journals. When people ask her why she writes\, her\ntypical response is\, “I don’t know how to stop.” \nWinner in Poetry: Joanne Durham\nJoanne Durham is the author of To Drink from a Wider Bowl\, winner of\nthe Sinclair Poetry Prize (Evening Street Press\, 2022) and the chapbook\, On Shifting Shoals\n(Kelsay Books\, 2023). She has won Third Wednesday’s Annual Poetry Prize\, the Mary Ruffin\nPoole Prize\, and Prime Number Magazine’s Summer Challenge\, as well as being a finalist in\nmany other contests. She is an Eric Hoffer and three-time Pushcart nominee; her poems appear in\nPoetry South\, Poetry East\, River Heron Review\, Vox Populi\, Whale Road Review\, and many\nother journals and anthologies. Joanne is a retired educator who currently teaches poetry\nworkshops online and in person. She lives on the North Carolina coast\, with the ocean as her\nbackyard\, muse\, and source of sanity in troubled times. Visit her at www.joannedurham.com. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/miriam-chaikin-9th-annual-writing-awards-reading-by-the-winners/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-17-at-10.01.57-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T170000 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20250326T005932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250427T230217Z UID:10000745-1742889600-1742922000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Anna Shapiro Writer Profiles in Art Interview DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/anna-shapiro-writer-and-vsual-artist-profiles-in-art-interview/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-2025-04-11-at-10.42.08-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T170000 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20250326T004357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250410T224622Z UID:10000744-1742889600-1742922000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Lorraine O Grady Film of Westbeth Icon evening DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/lorraine-o-grady-film-of-westbeth-icon-evening/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/LORRAINE-O-GRADY-copy.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250318T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250318T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20250215T024907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250320T151933Z UID:10000726-1742324400-1742328000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:The Twilight of Bohemia: Westbeth and the Last Artists in New York Peter Trachtenberg Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nTuesday March 18\, 2025 at 7pm\nWestbeth Comunity Room\n155 Bank St\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nBOOK DESCRIPTION\nAn intimate history of Westbeth\, told through the stories of nine of its artist residents. The Twilight of Bohemia also explores the changing notions of what it means to be a successful artist and the heartbreaking difficulty of surviving as one at our present cultural moment. \nREVIEW EXCERPTS\n“Who would have thought that a book about artist housing in Lower Manhattan would be impossible to put down? The force and beauty and clarity of Peter Trachtenberg’s writing is what makes The Twilight of Bohemia a page-turner about so much more than the characters we meet and the lost world of New York City that it so vividly evokes.”\n— Francine Prose\, Vixen \n“Reading The Twilight of Bohemia\, I had the feeling that its subject—a complex of buildings—had been condensed into book form through some Borgesian literary-alchemical process. This work is elegiac\, intimate\, and wry. Trachtenberg tells interlacing tales of an architectural entity\, artists who have lived as neighbors for fifty years\, an art world that now only exists in New York City’s rear-view mirror\, and a friendship that began in youth and ended with suicide in Westbeth. But the book is also a true historical document\, detailed and precise. And completely crucial.” – Nelly Reifler\, Elect H. Mouse State Judge \n“Beautiful! How often have you read a great book and thought\, ‘Why can’t I live there? Why can’t I live that story?’ . . . Trachtenberg has artfully\, tenderly\, and wisely recreated New York City’s legendary Westbeth artists’ community through the stories of dozens of artists who lived there\, himself included. The result is a messy tale of love and loss anchored in the equally messy act of creation. . . . It is a story that left this reader hungering for more.”\n— Mary Gabriel\, Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner\, Elaine de Kooning\, Grace Hartigan\, Joan Mitchell\, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art \nBIO\nPeter Trachtenberg is the author of the memoir 7 Tattoos\, The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning\, and Another Insane Devotion\, a 2012 New York Times Editors’ Choice. His honors include Whit­ing and Guggenheim Fellowships and the Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction. He is a professor emeritus in the Writing Program of the University of Pittsburgh. He has been connected to Westbeth since the 1970s and lived in the building from 1995 to 2006. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/peter-trachtenberg-book-launch-the-twilight-of-bohemia-westbeth-and-the-last-artsts-in-new-york/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Peter-Trachtenberg-Westbeth-book-SQ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250211T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250211T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20250129T233351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260118T031218Z UID:10000715-1739300400-1739304000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:HOMEAn evening of original prose about home plus musical interludes DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nTues February 11\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nenter tdhrough courtyard\nNew York\, NY \nWestbeth writers will be reading their stories (and an essay) exploring what home means to them. They include memories of their youth and reflections on dying parents along with the attendant loss of the family home.\nAnd on a lighter note\, there are entertaining stories about first apartments in the Village and Little Italy. \n For the musical “entr’actes\,” Leigh Stuart offers a cello solo and Beth Griffith\, a song. \nPROGRAM \nTerence Burk MY FIRST HOME\nLinda Marks FIRST HOME\nParviz Mohassel LILAC SQUARE\, TEHRAN\nJoya Staack BOMBAY\nKate Walter SELLING OUR FAMILY HOME\nSteve Clorfeine Mother \nMUSICAL INTERLUDE Beth Griffith singing SUMMER IS LATE by Benjamin Browning \nGrsiseld Steiner HOME read by Dennis Fitzpatrick\nJoan Hall NEW BEGINNINGS\nEve Zanni TENEMENTS AND TRIBULATIONS\nTerry Prutinton HOME\, A REFLECTION URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-writers-present-an-evening-of-prose-about-home/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/HOME-SQ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250115T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250115T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20241224T000239Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250116T163001Z UID:10000698-1736967600-1736971200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Andrea Mihok "Gytha" Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Click image to enlarge \nJanuary 15\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nClick image for more info about book \nAndrea Mihok lives here with her Ragamuffin cat—Gytha. She continues to research early English history and has begun work on a second book. She is also a serious student of the piano. She has three children and four grandchildren and looks forward to their frequent visits. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/andrea-mihok-gytha-book-launch/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Andrea-Mihok-Glytha-SQ-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241008T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241008T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20241006T172853Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241009T173352Z UID:10000649-1728414000-1728419400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Stories Around the Table: Coming and Going with Karen Ludwig\, Nancy Gabor\, Joyce Aaron\, Joan Hall\, Dawn D'Arcy and Diane Spodarek DESCRIPTION:Tuesday October 8\, 2024 at 7pm\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nenter through courtyard\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nSTORIES AROUND THE TABLE began many years ago as a Word of Mouth project by Karen Ludwig for actors and writers. Over the years and under her guidance it has evolved into a literary group of women whose stories originate in personal experience and the challenges of that experience. Recently the group began giving annual presentations of their work\, of which this is the 5th or 6th. \nKaren Ludwig’s numerous Broadway credits include Neil Simon’s BROADWAY BOUND\, and THE DEVILS with Anne Bancroft. She appeared in many Off-Broadway performances at The Public Theater and was a member of Andre Gregory’s Manhattan Project. She was in the world premiere of MOONCHILDREN at The Royal Court in London as well as playing Lady McDuff in MACBETH at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.Karen Ludwig produced and directed UTA HAGEN’S ACTING CLASS; a compelling DVD of her incomparable teacher conducting Master Acting Classes UTAHAGENVIDEO.com. Ms. Ludwig has directed plays for the Theater for the New City\, NYU School of the Arts\, Ensemble Studio Theater\, Circle Rep\, and The HB Playwrights. On TV she is a LAW and ORDER veteran and many other shows. She conducted an acclaimed interview series ABOUT THE WORK with prominent theater people at the New School for Drama where she also taught for many years.\nhttp://karenludwig.com/#actor \nJoan Hall Known for her artwork\, Joan Hall’s collages and assemblages havebeen exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide\, including theCentre Georges Pompidou in Paris\, and the Museo Rufino Tamayo inMexico. She is a winner of the Miriam Chaikin Foundation 2018 awardfor her poetry. Joan’s poetry and collage books\, Journey to Somewhere\,Behind My Mind\, and Rhyme Time are available on Amazon. Joan hasbeen a resident of Westbeth since 1971.\nhttps://www.joanhallcollage.com \nDawn D/Arcy is a writer\, actor and musician notably\, as well as relevantly\, having played bass in fellow writer Diane Spodarek’s Detroit punk band The Dangerous Diane Band. She worked at The Actors Studio with director John Stix as well as with actor/director Estelle Parsons on Yeats translation of Oedipus starring Al Pacino and Dianne Wiest. She is the very proud grandma of Etta Rose and is never\, ever unaware of how lucky and grateful she is to write\, co-create and perform with Karen Ludwig and this brilliant group of artists for the past 20+ years. \nDiane Spodarek is a Canadian American writer and a recipient of artist fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. \nNancy Gabor is a director and acting teacher.She directed Joseph Chaikin in ‘The War In Heaven\,’and ‘Struck Dumb\,’ staged readings\, as he was recovering from Aphasia at the American Place Theater. She was an actor in The Open Theater and participated in the creation of ‘The Serpent.’\nAmong her many credits:‘The Three Sisters\,’ at Princeton where she was an associate acting professor. Nancy taught and directed at the Amsterdam Theater School in the Netherlands for twenty years.\nAlong with Paul Binnerts\, she conducts an acting workshop at Westbeth\, ‘You’re Never Too Old To Play.’ URL:https://westbeth.org/event/stories-around-the-table-coming-and-going-with-karen-ludwig-nancy-gabor-joyce-aaron-joan-hall-dawn-darcy-and-diane-spodarek/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/STORIES-AROUND-TABLE-SQ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240502T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20240103T210328Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260111T174454Z UID:10000502-1714676400-1714680000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:MIRIAM CHAIKIN WRITING AWARD WINNERS EVENING DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nThursday May 2\, 2024. (time to be determined)\nWestbeth Community Rm\n155 Bank St\nEnter through courtyard\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nWorks in Poetry will be read by Terence Burk\, Beth Griffith and Joel Rooks \nWinner in Prose:\nSheena Daree Romero is an essayist\, humorist\, and doodler based in New York City. Her\nstories and essays have been published in Autostraddle\, Taco Bell Quarterly\, Split Lip Magazine\,\nand elsewhere—and featured on the Longreads Best of 2022 list. She’s working on an essay\ncollection that bridges memoir and cultural criticism to meditate on blackness in disparate\nlocations. \n \nWinner in Poetry:\nThom Brucie’s novel Children of Slate won the 2023 bronze medal Illumination Award for excellence in Catholic literature\, and his novel Obsidian Mirth won the American Writing Award\nin fiction (2022). His poetry chapbook Moments Around the Campfire with a Vietnam Vet was\nnamed the best chapbook of 2010; his chapbook Apprentice Lessons contains a grouping of\npoems dedicated to the dignity of labor. He has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize\, and\nhis short stories and poems have appeared in a variety of journals\, including the San Joaquin\nReview\, Cappers\, the Southwestern Review\, Pacific Review\, Wilderness House Literary Review\,\nNorth Atlantic Review\, and many others.\nDr. Brucie is retired Professor of English and Professional Writing at South Georgia State\nCollege. You can find out more about Thom Brucie at: www.ThomBrucie.com \nMiriam Chaikin Foundation Writing Awards\nThese awards were established in memory of Miriam Chaikin\, a longtime Westbeth resident\, former Westbeth Artists Literary Chair\, and a prolific writer. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/miriam-chaikin-writing-award-winners-evening/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Miriam-Chaikin-Award-2024-SQUARE.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240220T210000 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20231109T044258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240222T190413Z UID:10000467-1708455600-1708462800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Transformation: An Evening of Poetry\, Prose and Music DESCRIPTION:Tuesday Feb 20\, 2024 at 7pm\nWestbeth Community Room\n55 Bethune St\nNY NY\, 100134 \nAn evening of original prose and poetry about change with a musical interlude presented by Westbeth Literary Arts Committee \nProgram \n1. Barbara Rosenthal…….The Peacock Who Declared Himself King\n2. Terence Burk……………..Grandma\, I Love You\n3. Leigh Stuart……………….The Oyster\n4. Anna Shapiro……………..Inconsequence\n5. Griselda Steiner………….White Wolf\, I Await \nInterlude: Cello solo by Leigh Stuart \n6. Joya Staack………………..The Rose\n7. Kate Walter……………….My Visit to the Cloisters Transformed Me\n8. Linda Marks……………….Matriarch\, This Is My Life Now\n9. Jan Leslie Harding………The Wall\n10. Eve Zanni…………………Without a Song URL:https://westbeth.org/event/transformation-poetry-prose-and-music/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Transformation-literrary-arts-presents.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20230801T135159Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231119T225707Z UID:10000410-1700161200-1700164800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Stories Around the Table: LOST AND FOUND DESCRIPTION:Thurs Nov 16\, 2023 at 7PM\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nNew York\, NY 10014\nenter through courtyard \nStorytellers:\nKaren Ludwig\nKaren performs\, directs and teaches in New York and L.A.Her B’way credits include Prelude to a Kiss with Steve Guttenberg and John Randolph\, Broadway Bound with Joan Rivers\, The Devils with Anne Bancroft\, The Bacchae with Irene Pappas and many plays at the Public Theater. She was a member of Andre Gregory’s Manhattan Project for two years and performed The Seagull and Wallace Shawn’s Our Late Night with the Company throughout the United States and Europe.Her first film was Woody Allen’s Manhattan\, (Meryl Streep’s lover) and her most recent is That Awkward Moment with Zach Efron. She teaches at The New School for Drama and the HB Studio in NYC. \nDawn D’Arcy\nDawn is an actor\, writer\, bass player and thrilled to be a new grandma to Etta. She is in love with each of the women in this group and plans to marry them all in the very near future. \nJoyce Aaron\nOboe winner for Acting in a play Acrobatics co written by Luna Tarlo. Original member of The Open Theater\, directed by Joseph Chaikin. Premiered America Hurrah by Jean Claude Van Itallie in New York and at The Royal Court Theater in London. Lived and worked with Sam Shepard on many of his early plays. \nJoan Hall\nJoan Hall who won the Miriam Chaikin Writing Foundation Award in 2018\, 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. 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. \nDiane Spodarek\nDiane Spodarek is a Canadian-American artist and writer with a background in the visual and performing arts. She is the recipient of artist’s fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the New York Foundation for the Arts\, Creative New Zealand\, and the Michigan Council for the Arts. \nDale Soules\nis an American actress known for starring in The Messenger\, Sesame Street\, and for portraying Frieda Berlin in Orange Is the New Black from 2014 to 2019. She appeared in the original production of Hair in the role of Jeannie. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/stories-around-the-table-lost-and-found/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Stories-Around-AQ-the-Table-LOST-FOUND-NOV-16-2023-SQUARE-SIZE-FINAL.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231102 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240113 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20230703T015307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T052541Z UID:10000426-1698883200-1705103999@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Miriam Chaikin Writing Award Call for Submissions DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/miriam-chaikin-writing-award-call-for-submissions/ LOCATION:Online and Info at Westbeth Gallery END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231010T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231010T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20230701T231000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231011T183327Z UID:10000399-1696964400-1696968000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Banned Books: A Lively Evening of Readings and Discussion DESCRIPTION:The rise of book banning in America’s schools and public libraries is headline news. Join us to talk about some of those books: The Kite Runner\, Maus\, books by Alison Bechdel and Judy Blume\, and more. \nTues Oct 10\, 2023 at 7PM\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nenter through courtyard\nNew York\, NY URL:https://westbeth.org/event/banned-books-a-lively-evening-of-readings-and-discussion/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Banned-books-SQUARE-e1695337948286.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221209T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221209T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20221107T004522Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221212T000520Z UID:10000124-1670612400-1670617800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Voices of the New Belarus: Steve Clorfeine and Steve Wangh filmmakers DESCRIPTION:Voices of the New Belarus is a documentary film that premiered at the Hong Kong festival “Art\non the Edge—Fear Not” in September 2022. It is based on a series of interviews\, testimonies and\nletters from Belarusian dissidents who were arrested\, beaten\, jailed\, even murdered during the\n2020-21 uprising in Belarus. As the war in Ukraine continues\, the Belarus dictatorship and its\narmed forces and secret police collaborate with Russia along the 600-mile shared border between\nUkraine and Belarus. \nSteve Clorfeine’s life as an artist is underpinned by his deeply felt spiritual beliefs. His\nintroduction to the Naropa Summer Institute in the mid-1970s led to an association with dancer\nBarbara Dilley and with performance artist Meredith Monk\, both of whose companies he joined.\nA performance artist in his own right\, Clorfeine has taught theatre and storytelling workshops\nboth in the U.S. and overseas. Trained in the Tibetan Buddhism and Shambhala traditions\, he\nincorporates his practice in the various courses he teaches\, including meditation\, improvisation\,\nand writing. Among his numerous published works are the poetry collections Simple Geography\,\nTogether/Apart and Other Poems\, and While I Was Dancing. See steveclorfeine.com. \nSteve Wangh is a playwright\, director\, and acting teacher. He is the author of fifteen plays and\nwas associate writer for The Laramie Project (Emmy nomination\, 2002)\, and a writer of The\nPeople’s Temple (Glickman Award: Best Play in the Bay Area\, 2005). He was dramaturg of\nMoisés Kaufman’s Gross Indecency. Steve is the author of two books about teaching acting: An\nAcrobat of the Heart\, a Physical Approach to Acting inspired by the work of Jerzy Grotowski\,\nand The Heart of Teaching: Empowering Students in the Performing Arts.\nSee stephenwangh.com. \nPoster photo: In the center is Svetlana Tikhanovskaya\, who replaced her jailed husband as\npresidential candidate in the 2020 election and received 56% of the vote but was forced into\nexile. On her right is Maria Kalesnikava\, a well-known musician who stepped in to be campaign\nmanager and later received a 12-year jail sentence\, which she is now serving. On the left is\nanother organizer. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/voices-of-the-new-belarus-steve-clorfeine-and-steve-wangh-filmmakers/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Voices-of-the-New-Belarus-SQ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221129T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221129T170000 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20220429T205203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230328T043053Z UID:10000026-1669708800-1669741200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:WESTBETH X FILES: CHAPTER 2 DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-x-files-2/ LOCATION:Website CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/X-Files-poster-Chapter-2-SQUARE.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221007T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221007T190000 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20220919T131220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221010T152627Z UID:10000106-1665169200-1665169200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:An Evening with Four Westbeth Poets DESCRIPTION:Griselda Steiner is a poet\, playwright\, feature article and screenplay writer. Her poetry\ncompilation The Silent Power of Words is currently available on Amazon. She has read her\npoetry at the Cornelia Street Café\, Episcopal Actors Guild\, 92Y Tribeca Café\, Duplex Club\,\nPoetry House and Mexican Consulate\, New York City. Her poems are published in the anthology\nFrom Neza York to New York and appear in many literary journals and online publications.\nCheck out my new Westbeth Web Page\nhttps://westbeth.org/wordpress/artist-page/griselda-steiner \nAnne Weichberger has been writing poetry since 1963 when she was in Paris sitting at La\nCoupole across from Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir having tea. After a long\nsuccessful career in fashion\, she pivoted toward a new career as a postpartum doula. Currently\nher work is looking after the elderly while writing her memoirs. \nLinda Marks has been writing\, reading and publishing poems in small venues in downtown\nManhattan and elsewhere since the mid-’70s. She is putting together a book of poems and also\nworking on memoirs and family history. She writes prosey accessible poetry. \nAlison Armstrong retired in 2021 after many years of teaching college English. She has read her\nwork to various audiences including Artists Without Walls\, Ward-Nasse Gallery\, Nuyorican\nPoets Cafe\, Kaleidoscope\, and at Westbeth. Her poetry has been published in Mid-American\nReview\, Words\, Match Factory\, and James Joyce Broadsheet. She is now revising new poems\nfor a projected book\, Voices in Retrospect.\nAlison Armstrong artist page URL:https://westbeth.org/event/four-westbeth-poets/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Westbeth-poets-SQUARE-e1663592965783.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220914 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221201 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20220914T212207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221010T195848Z UID:10000105-1663113600-1669852799@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Stephen Hall Profiles in Art DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/profiles-in-art-at-westbeth/ LOCATION:Website CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Stephen-Hall-Profiles-in-Art-square-size-e1663190229235.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220602T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220602T170000 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20220202T150352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220701T231929Z UID:10000002-1654156800-1654189200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Spotlight: Writers' Room: Joan Hall DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/spotlight-writers-room-joan-hall/ LOCATION:Website CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/JOAN-HALL-SPOTLIGHT-SQ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220523T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220523T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20220509T013814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220525T220019Z UID:10000030-1653332400-1653337800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Stories Around the Table: Elegies and Confessions DESCRIPTION:Monday May 23\, 2022 at 7PM \nAn innovative evening of true and almost true stories…\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nNew York\, NY 10014\nenter through courtyard \n MASKS REQUIRED: \nWRITERS \nKaren Ludwig\nKAREN LUDWIG performs\, directs and teaches in New York and L.A. Her B’way credits include Prelude to a Kiss with Steve Guttenberg and John Randolph\, Broadway Bound with Joan Rivers\, The Devils with Anne Bancroft\, The Bacchae with Irene Pappas and many plays at the Public Theater. She was a member of Andre Gregory’s Manhattan Project for two years and performed The Seagull and Wallace Shawn’s Our Late Night with the Company throughout the United States and Europe.\nHer first film was Woody Allen’s Manhattan\, (Meryl Streep’s lover) and her most recent is That Awkward Moment with Zach Efron. She teaches at The New School for Drama and the HB Studio in NYC. \nDawn D’Arcy\nDawn is an actor\, writer\, bass player and thrilled to be a new grandma to Etta. She is in love with each of the women in this group and plans to marry them all in the very near future. \nJoyce Aaron\nOboe winner for Acting in a play Acrobatics co written by Luna Tarlo. Original member of The Open Theater\, directed by Joseph Chaikin. Premiered America Hurrah by Jean Claude Van Itallie in New York and at The Royal Court Theater in London. Lived and worked with Sam Shepard on many of his early plays. \nNancy Gabor\nTheater Director\, Acting Teacher:\nOpen Theater\, Director – The War in Heaven with Joseph Chaikin\,\nMaster Teacher – Princeton University\, and the Amsterdam Theater School\, Holland.\nDirector – On-site production Lost and Found\, by Paul Binnerts at Westbeth.\nOffering the popular You’re Never Too Old to Play story telling and improvisation workshop for seniors that recently played to great acclaim at Little Island\, New York in July 2021 \nJoan Hall\nJoan Hall who won the Miriam Chaikin Writing Foundation Award in 2018\, 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. 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. \nChristina Maile\nHer work reflecting her West Indian and Dayak heritage\, she has received grants from Pollock-Krasner and Joan Mitchell Foundation\, as well as two Miriam Chaikin Foundation Writing Awards. Her landscape architectural work was featured in Garden Design Magazine. She was the co-founder playwright of the Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective. She accepts Dawn’s marriage proposal but only if its an open marriage. \nDiane Spodarek\nDiane Spodarek is a Canadian-American artist and writer with a background in the visual and performing arts. She is the recipient of artist’s fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the New York Foundation for the Arts\, Creative New Zealand\, and the Michigan Council for the Arts. \nDale Soules\nis an American actress known for starring in The Messenger\, Sesame Street\, and for portraying Frieda Berlin in Orange Is the New Black from 2014 to 2019. She appeared in the original production of Hair in the role of Jeannie. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/stories-around-the-talbe/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/STORIES-AROUND-TABLE-MAY-SQ-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220504T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220504T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T075204 CREATED:20220413T203801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T151624Z UID:10000020-1651690800-1651696200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:An Evening of Readings: Walter\, Florio and Herman DESCRIPTION:Wednesday May 4\, 2022 at 7PM \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street (enter through courtyard)\nb/w Washington and West its.\nNew York\,NY\nFREE \nKate Walter is the author of two memoirs: Behind the Mask: Living Alone in the\nEpicenter and Looking for a Kiss: A Chronicle of Downtown Heartbreak and Healing.\nHer essays and opinion pieces have appeared in the New York Times\, Newsday\, New York\nDaily News\, AM-NY\, Next Avenue\, the Advocate\, the Village Sun\, and many other outlets.\nShe taught writing at CUNY and NYU for three decades. \nDonna Florio is a lifelong resident of Bank Street in Greenwich Village. Nurtured by colorful\,\neccentric neighbors who taught her to “never wonder about life from the outside—jump in!”\nDonna has\, over the years\, worked as an opera singer\, a TV producer\, a Wall Street executive\,\nand an educator\, and has backpacked around the world. \nMichele Herman is the author of the novel Save the Village and two poetry chapbooks\, Just\nAnother Jack: The Private Lives of Nursery Rhymes and Victory Boulevard. Her poems\, stories\,\nand essays have appeared widely in journals\, including Ploughshares and the Hudson Review.\nShe’s a longtime teacher at the Writers Studio\, a developmental editor\, and she writes for the\nVillage Sun. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-literary-arts-committee/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/READINGS-SQ.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR