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: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:20251003T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251003T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250921T233342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251007T234940Z UID:10000838-1759518000-1759523400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:First Fridays Free Live Music : Emergency Group and Framed Ophelia DESCRIPTION:Friday Oct 3\, 2025 at 7pm\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nJoin Westbeth Musician Andreas Brade for an evening full of Free Improvised Music touches of ambience\, Jazz Rock\, Electronica\, Krautrock and Free Jazz will feature two Groups \nFramed Ophelia: featuring Walter Horn\, keyboards; Tsuyoshi Honjo\, Saxophone; Peter Evans multi instrumentalist & electronics. \nEmergency Group: featuring Robert Boston\, keyboards; Jonathan Byerley\, guitar; Dave Mandl\, Bass; Andreas Brade\, drums \nWith this event we will celebrate the recording Emergency Group at Westbeth.\nPlease come and join us for an evening of music in the moment\, This is an all age event. \n Bandcamp link Emergency Group\n\nBandcamp link to Framed Ophelia URL:https://westbeth.org/event/first-fridays-free-live-music-emergency-group-and-framed-ophelia/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/first-fridays-Emergency-Group-.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251002T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251002T170000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20251002T111540Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251018T012232Z UID:10000851-1759392000-1759424400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Giraudo Sinfonietta Pedro Giraudo Chamber Orchestra DESCRIPTION:Sunday Oct 12\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nFREE FOR WESSTBETH RESIDENTS\nGENERAL PUBLIC TICKETS : Eventbrite Giraduo Sinfonietta \nThis event marks the performance of the Giraudo Sinfonietta — a brand-new chamber orchestra dedicated to performing the music of Pedro Girado. This ensemble of 10 extraordinary musicians will bring his compositions to life for the very first time in this format.\n \nPedro Giraudo\nLatin Grammy Award winner bassist and composer Pedro Giraudo is among the most compelling tango artists today. After two decades performing with the most important interpreters of tango\, Pedro Giraudo debuted his own Tango Orchestra at Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing in July 2015 and since then has become an active cultural ambassador of this beautiful and passionate music of his native Argentina. \nWestbeth Artist Page: Pedro Giraudo\nWebsite Pedro Giraudo URL:https://westbeth.org/event/giraudo-sinfonietta-pedro-giraudo-chamber-orchestra/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Oct-12-SQ-Giraudo-Sinfonietta-@-Westbeth.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251001T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T170000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250912T163821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251018T012255Z UID:10000833-1759305600-1760547600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Learn to Tango! with Leonardo Sardella DESCRIPTION:Click image to enlarge\n\nWednesdays\nOctober 1\, 8\, 15\, 2025\n6pm – 7pm\nFREE \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nThis October\, come experience the passion and singular improvisational magic of Tango. In this three class series\, Leonardo Sardella\, an experienced and compassionate teacher\, will guide participants to the nuances of tango’s distinct embrace\, moving partners through walking\, pivoting\, shifting\, turning\, and more with a sensitive connection to music and rhythm. In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month\, WARC presents this unique opportunity to TANGO! \nThe New York Times described Sardella’s dancing as\, “Elegance\, musicality\, romance\, wit and serious glamor.” \nFor more info\, ontact Ellie Kusner Westbeth Performance chair: westbethperformance@gmail.com \nLeonardo Sardella started dancing tango professionally in his hometown of Buenos Aires. He has trained with renowned tango instructors and has performed on the best stages in Argentina with several dance companies: Colon theater and Cervantes theater among others. \nHe moved to New York City in 2011 when he co-founded with Walter Perez Malevaje dance company; and later Friends of Argentine Tango – a non profit organization that brings shows and classes to seniors and schools kids\, working with City Center and performing for the schools at the City Center stage. \nLeonardo has participated in the International Tango festivals worldwide and has performed and DJ in major cities in the United States and in England\, France\, Germany\, Italy\, Switzerland\, Sweden\, Denmark\, Iceland\, Dominican Republic \, Mexico\, Bolivia and Argentina.\nHe ranks very high on the list of the most important Argentine tango dancers and DJ. in the world that are capable of exchanging smoothly and creatively roles of leader and follower. \nHe worked as a jury for the Argentine Tango World Cup and other dance competitions. \nLeonardo was the choreographer of Male Tango\, (IATI theatre) which was recognized with two HOLA (Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors) awards (Outstanding performance in musical theater: Leonardo Sardella – and Outstanding Musical production\, and Two Latin ACE Awards (Asociación de Cronistas de Espectáculos de NY) nominations (Best Director – best choreographer)\nFor the last two years he was also part of Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing – teaching and performing with renowned Argentine electronic tango band Tanghetto and the típica Messies. \nRecently je opened and directs the NYCity tango school\, in the heart of NYC. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/learn-to-tango-with-leonardo-sardella/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Tango-blue-IG.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250930T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250930T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 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:20250920T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T210000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250913T150845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250921T205011Z UID:10000835-1758387600-1758402000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:The Village Trip Open Stage for artists at Westbeth and in the neighborhood DESCRIPTION:Saturday Sept 20\, 2025\n6pm – 9pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nThis is a community-focused opportunity* to share your talents and ideas with the Festival attendees and to represent the amazing artists who live at Westbeth and in the neighborhood. \n*this is a volunteer opportunity (no compensation) \nCall for Artists of all disciplines! \nSaturday\, SEPT 20 (6 ‘til 9 pm) Westbeth’s Community Room will be hosting a Community Hang in celebration of “The Village Trip” with an \nOPEN STAGE – Show up & Sign up!\nPlease email me (Teri Roiger if you would like to present something at this event\, or if you have any questions: teriroiger@gmaiil.com \nWestbeth musicians and friends are particularly invited. \nMORE INFO ABOUT THE VILLAGE TRIP HERE \nNow in its seventh year\, The Village Trip is an annual festival celebrating Culture and Community by sharing Music\, Art\, Poetry\, Spoken Word\, Dance\, Film & Storytelling across Greenwich Village and the East Village from Friday SEPT 19 through Sunday SEPT 28 (2025). You can read more about it here: https://www.thevillagetrip.com/ URL:https://westbeth.org/event/the-village-trip-call-for-artists-of-all-disciplines/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/The-Village-Trip-FLYER-SQ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250826T182241Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250921T204853Z UID:10000827-1758135600-1758141000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:GIRAUDO SINFONIETTA Pedro Giraudo Chamber Orchestra celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month DESCRIPTION:Wednesday Sept 17\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nTickets: Eventbrite Giraduo Sinfonietta \nThis event marks the debut of the Giraudo Sinfonietta — a brand-new chamber orchestra dedicated to performing the music of Pedro Girado. This ensemble of 10 extraordinary musicians will bring his compositions to life for the very first time in this format. \nMembers of the Giraudo Sinfonietta\nKatie Althen-Velázquez\, flutes\nDjakhangir Khaydarov\, clarinets\nJosh Deutsch\, Trumpet & Flugelhorn\nRyan Keberle\, trombone\nMartha Kato\, piano\nNicolas Danielson\, violin\nJeremías Sergiani Velázquez\, violin\nNardo Poy\, viola\nAmy Kang\, cello\nPedro Giraudo\, bass & compositions \nThis premiere is also a special way to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month\, honoring the traditions and voices that inspire Pedro Giraudo’s work. \nThis project is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) and the Westbeth Artists Residents Council (WARC). \nPedro Giraudo\nLatin Grammy Award winner bassist and composer Pedro Giraudo is among the most compelling tango artists today. After two decades performing with the most important interpreters of tango\, Pedro Giraudo debuted his own Tango Orchestra at Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing in July 2015 and since then has become an active cultural ambassador of this beautiful and passionate music of his native Argentina. \nWestbeth Artist Page: Pedro Giraudo\nWebsite Pedro Giraudo URL:https://westbeth.org/event/giraudo-sinfonietta-pedro-giraudo-chamber-orchestra-celebrates-hispanic-heritage-month/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/GIIRAUDO-SINFONIETTA-SQ.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250909T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250909T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250828T142809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250912T152414Z UID:10000830-1757444400-1757449800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Movie Night: Up in the Air DESCRIPTION:Tues Sept 9\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nClick Image to find our more about the film. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-movie-night-up-in-the-air/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/up-in-the-air-SQ-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250905T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250905T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250809T155857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250912T152447Z UID:10000820-1757098800-1757102400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:First Friday MusicMichael Moss with Roots to Shoots DESCRIPTION:Photo of Michael Moss by Scott Friedlander \nFriday Sept 5\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nROOTS to SHOOTS:\nWarren Smith\, Alexis Marcelo\, Adam Lane\, Jackson Krall \nMichael Moss/ROOTS to SHOOTS is a stellar band playing music from the classic bag of modern jazz composers ranging from Eric Dolphy to John Coltrane\, Bill Evans to Duke Ellington\, and original compositions by Michael Moss. Moss (tenor and soprano sax\, bass clarinet\, flute) will be joined by his old buddy Jackson Krall\, Cecil Taylor’s long-time drummer\, jazz icon Warren Smith on vibes\, amazing bassist Adam Lane\, and fantastic keyboard player Alexis Marcelo who will be breaking in Westbeth’s new Baldwin 9 foot concert grand piano! \n“…powerful\, amazing\, unique\, genuinely creative music”\nRon J. Pelletier\, Jazz from Gallery 41\, Berkeley\, CA \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. \nMoss composes music reminiscent of different cultures in order to deeply explore cultural traditions without appropriating those cultures\, learning Persian scales of Iran and Iraq\, musical scales of Turkey\, Armenia\, and the Balkans\, Greek modes\, Israeli and klezmer scales\, Japanese and Chinese pentatonic modes\, plus scales and meters used in classical ragas of India so as to get inside the music. He plays non-western instruments\, playing Indian cane flutes he bought in New Delhi\, India\, the Thai khean bought in Bangkok\, Thailand\, plus odd Peruvian pan flutes and penny whistles. \nMoss released records beginning in the 1970 on his independent record label\, Fourth Stream Records\, and produced three lps featuring Four Rivers—Upstream\, Cross Current\, and Live at ACIA. I went on to drop multiple cassettes and cds and digital releases. \nThe latest releases\, beginning in 2015\, feature the New York Free Quartet with pianist Steve Cohn\, bassist Larry Roland\, and drummer Chuck Fertal: Dream Time\, In Between Gigs…Can You Dig?\, and Free Play. He appears with guitarist Billy Stein on Intervals. This year Moss is dropping a 4 cd/digital box set including everything ROOTS to SHOOTS and Ensemble Bows in all of its iterations have recorded entitled Quantum Butterfly. \nMichael Moss holds a Ph.D. in psychology. \nWARREN SMITH\nWarren Smith was born May 14\, 1934\, in Chicago\, Illinois\, to a musical family.[1] His father played saxophone and clarinet with Noble Sissle and Jimmie Noone\, and his mother was a harpist and pianist. At the age of four Smith studied clarinet with his father. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1957\, then received a master’s degree in percussion from the Manhattan School of Music in 1958. \nOne of his earliest major recording dates was with Miles Davis as a vibraphonist in 1957. He found work in Broadway pit bands beginning in 1958 when he was in the original production of Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story. WIS also played with Gil Evans that year. In 1961 he co-founded the Composers Workshop Ensemble. In the 1960s Smith accompanied Aretha Franklin\, Nina Simone\, Lloyd Price\, and Nat King Cole; he worked with Sam Rivers from 1964–76 and with Gil Evans again from 1968 to 1976. In 1969 he played with Janis Joplin and in 1971 with King Curtis and Tony Williams. He was also a founding member of Max Roach’s percussion ensemble\, M’Boom\, in 1970. \nIn the 1970s and 1980s Smith had a loft called Studio Wis that acted as a performing and recording space for many young New York jazz musicians\, such as Wadada Leo Smith and Oliver Lake. Through the 1970s Smith played with Andrew White\, Julius Hemphill\, Muhal Richard Abrams\, Nancy Wilson\, Quincy Jones\, Count Basie\, and Carmen McRae. Other credits include extensive work with rock and pop musicians and time spent with Anthony Braxton\, Charles Mingus\, Henry Threadgill\, Van Morrison\, and Joe Zawinul. He continued to work on Broadway into the 1990s\, and has performed with a number of classical ensembles. \nSmith taught in the New York City public school system from 1958 to 1968\, at Third Street Settlement from 1960 to 1967\, at Adelphi University in 1970–71\, and at SUNY-Old Westbury from 1971. \nALEXIS MARCELO\nAlexis Marcelo is a pianist who creates a soulful New York City sound. He instinctively delivers a sound representative of a wide range of influences. His training began at the Harlem School of the Arts learning from JD Parran (AACM) and continued at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he studied composition with Yusef Lateef. \nAlexis Marcelo benefitted greatly from growing up in New York City as a black Latino. He was exposed to Hip Hop\, Rock\, Salsa\, Merengue\, and Gospel music. His studies led him to the greats in African American music where he fell in love with Thelonious Monk\, John Coltrane\, Miles Davis\, and Wayne Shorter. \nThe unique sound of Alexis Marcelo comes from all of these influences and aims to capture the soulful expression of man. He’s performed overseas and domestically at various festivals and prestigious venues. They include the North Sea Jazz Festival (Holland-Yusef Lateef)\, the Detroit Jazz Festival (Yusef Lateef)\, Etnafest (Italy-Yusef Lateef)\, Mediawave Festival (Hungary-The Hub)\, Alice Tully Hall in New York City as well as multiple tours to Germany\, Poland\, United Kingdom\, and Denmark. \nHe has also recorded multiple albums with former professor and mentor Yusef Lateef. He has just recorded his first album (coming out in 2019) and can be heard on current recordings with Adam Rudolph’s Go Orchestra & Moving Pictures\, and a new recording with Malcolm Mooney (Can). Alexis Marcelo is a very unique pianist who looks to provide a soulful experience. \nADAM LANE\nComposer/Bassist\nBy combining a disparate set of influences into a unique and personal improvisational voice\, Adam Lane has become recognized as one of the most original creative voices in the New York improv scene. He is the leader of several different ensembles that perform his original creative music compositions. His most recent projects include The Adam Lane Trio\, featuring legendary reedist Vinny Golia\, Four Corners\, a co-lead ensemble with reedist Ken Vandermark\, The Full Throttle Orchestra (both West and East coast versions)\, formed to perform Lane’s large group music for improvising orchestras\, and an ongoing solo project that combines unique processed double bass improvisations with Lane’s original story telling. Sam Prestiani of Jazziz says of Lane’s writing: “His confidence and confrontational prowess as well as his abiding sense of lyricism and heavy-groove power place him in the lineage of forward-jazz adventurism.”\nLane is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the Julius Hemphill award for large ensemble jazz piece\, several meet the composer awards\, and a Paternings Scholarship award for study at the Darmstadt School for New Music where Lane studied double bass with Steffano Scodanibbio\, and attended master classes in composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen. \nAs a sideman he has performed with an eclectic mix of musicians\, from tenor great John Tchicai\, to alto iconoclast Richard Tabnik\, to rock legend Tom Waits\, plus Steve Cohn\, Michael Bisio\, Lou Grassi\, Perry Robinson\, Julian Priester\, Blaise Siwula and Burton Greene\, Mark Whitecage and Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre as a co-leader. As a leader he worked with Avram Fefer\, Roy Campbell\, Barry Altschul\, Tayler Ho Bynum. \nJACKSON KRALL\nBorn December 10\, 1949\, Detroit\, Michigan\, growing up there and in Wisconsin. Drummer Jackson Krall has been an active member of the NYC Avant Jazz scene since the mid 1970’s. Mark Hennen and John Blum have been his musical collaborators\, individually and together\, for decades. Jackson has also played drums in performance with high-profile avant jazz musicians such as Bill Dixon\, Alan Silva\, Karen Borca\, William Parker\, J.D. Parran\, Jemeel Moondoc\, Rob Brown\, Steve Swell\, and many\, many more\, as well as choreographers Elaine Shipman and Kay Nishikawa\, and his own group “The Secret Music Society”. He was a frequent drummer of choice for the iconic pianist Cecil Taylor for 20+ years and served on the faculty of Bennington college while under the tutlige of Profs. Bill Dixon\, Milford Graves and choreographer Judith Dunn\, just prior to moving to New York in 1975. In the 1980’s he was a founding member of the largest of its kind in NYC\, Empire Loisieda Escola de Samba. He is also known as a maker of drums\, bells\, and other instruments and has created a series of sound sculptures dedicated to the memory of Sun Ra. \nm2moss11@gmail.com\nwww.m2Theory.com\nhttps://michaelmoss.bandcamp.com \nFirst Fridays Music is a curated free monthly live music event open to the public and is sponsored by the Westbeth Artists Residents Council and Westbeth MusicWorks. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/first-friday-musicmichael-moss-with-roots-to-shoots/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Michael-Moss-Instagram-Post.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250821T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250820T190919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250826T182518Z UID:10000821-1755802800-1755806400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Movie Night: RRR DESCRIPTION:Thursday Aug 21\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\nenter through courtyard\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nClick image to learn more about the film URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-movie-night-rrr/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Westbeth-MOVIE-RRR-BIG.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250816T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250816T170000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250728T005343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250820T185650Z UID:10000815-1755342000-1755363600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:West Village Community Blood Drive at Westbeth DESCRIPTION: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/west-village-community-blood-drive-at-westbeth/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Blood-Drive-SQ-August-16-2025.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250711T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250711T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250620T010756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250716T214428Z UID:10000802-1752260400-1752265800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:First Friday LIve Music : Eve Zanni Quartet Angels and Ancestors DESCRIPTION:Friday July 11\, 2025\n7pm\nFree\n  \n\n\n  \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nenter through courtyard\nNew York\, NY\n  \n\n \nClick to enlarge \nThe Eve Zanni Quartet presents “Angels and Ancestors”...original compositions\, jazz standards\, songs from ancestral stories and traditions” with Isaac Raz\, piano\, Yoshi Waki on bass and Andreas Brade on drums and percussion special guests; followed by Sing Along with The Bliss Singers! \nEve Zanni is an original jazz voice\, warm and expressive with a sensual musicality…traversing the primal depths of great jazz standards and original compositions in a blend of her unique arrangements that embrace classic jazz\, Brasilian\, Afro-Cuban\, Celtic and Middle-eastern rhythms….all sung with passion and romantic soul. Eve also tours\, records\, in the U.S.\, the Caribbean and Europe. .Westbeth Artist Page \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\,\nWestbeth Artist Page \nIsaac Raz After graduating from Berklee College of Music\, Isaac returned to New York where he became active in performing\, arranging\, and production\, working with Jazz and Pop greats\, and composing the score for an Emmy winning television film. In addition to teaching\, Isaac continues to regularly compose and perform\, and has developed expertise in a broad range of instruments and as a vocalist.\nWebsiteWebsite \nYoshi Waki Born in Fukuoka\, Japan\, Yoshi attended Berklee College of Music in Boston to pursue a carreer in music. Starting from the National Tour Company of Fosse\, tours has taken him to many parts of the world over the years. Based in New York City for the past 20 years\, Yoshi have worked with The Artie Shaw Orchestra\, Chihiro Yamanaka\, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown\, Dan Zanes and Friends\, Deborah Harry\, Freddie Cole\, Harry Whitaker\, Kenia\, Paquito D’Rivera\, Randy Johnston\, Shunzo Ohno\, Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra\, William Galison among others.\nAmong the numerous recordings he did\, Catch that Train! (Dan Zanes and Friends) won the 49th Annual Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children\, and After Hours (Chihiro Yamanaka) won the 23rd Japan Gold Disc Award for Jazz Album of the Year.\nWebsite URL:https://westbeth.org/event/first-friday-live-music-eve-zanni-quartet-angels-and-ancestors/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Eve-Zanni-Instagram-Post.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250708T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250708T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250620T012905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250716T214347Z UID:10000803-1752001200-1752006600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Movie Night: Daughters of the Dust DESCRIPTION:Tuesday July 8\, 2025\nat 7pm\nFree \n\n\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\nenter through courtyard\nNew York\, NY\n\n\n\nClick image to discover more about the film. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-movie-night-daughters-of-the-dust/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Westbeth-Movie-Night-Daughters-SQ-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250628T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250628T170000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250609T005826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250703T122559Z UID:10000792-1751108400-1751130000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:West Village Blood Drive: We All Bleed the Same DESCRIPTION:Saturday June 28th\, 2025 11am – 5pm\n\n\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St (enter through courtyard\nNew York\, NY\n\n \n  \nNew York Blood Center (NYBC) has declared a blood emergency\nfollowing a sharp and sustained drop in blood donations\, especially of O- and O+ blood types.\nO- which is the universal blood type and used in emergencies is down to a 1-2 day supply. With only 2% of New Yorkers donating blood\, the state is short of nearly 390\,000 donors needed to meet patient needs. As summer brings both an increase in trauma cases and a sharp decline in donations. This combination creates a dangerous shortage\, and the need for support is more urgent than ever. \nPlease take a moment to schedule your donation today. Every donation has the power to save up to THREE lives. Your donation could be the difference. \nClick to enlarge URL:https://westbeth.org/event/west-village-blood-drive-we-all-bleed-the-same/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/BLODD-SQ-DRIVE-JUNE.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250627T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250627T210000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250614T182715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250703T122527Z UID:10000800-1751050800-1751058000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Get to Know Your Neighbors Lucille Rhodes filmmaker and Bob Malenky folk musician DESCRIPTION:Click image to enlarge Friday June 27\, 2025\n7pm – 9pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nBob Malneky is deeply involved with blues and other forms of roots music. He participated in Sunday sessions in Washington Square Park in the early ’60’s and has learned from and played with many blues legends such as Muddy Waters and Lightnin’ Hopkins.\nIn 1974\, he recorded and toured with the legendary harmonica player Sonny Terry.\nBob taught World Folk Music at CCNY for many years and has remained active\, playing at clubs\, coffee houses and festivals in this country and abroad\, as well as performing at concerts here at Westbeth. \nLucille Rhodes is a photographer\, former filmmaker and professor. Her films have been screened at the New York Film Festival \, Berlin Film Festival\, PBS\, etc. She profited from her creative retreats at Yaddo and the MacDowell Art Colonies as well as Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute. She was one of the founding staff members of both the New York State Council on the Arts and the Kentucky Arts Council\,and for many years has been a judge of documentary films for the Guanajuato International Film Festival. \nThe Alice Neel film we will be seeing was selected to accompany Alice’s one woman show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2021\, and can be accessed from their film archive through YouTube. Lucille has been working on several photographic projects for a number of years including one\, on her great love\, the riders of the NYC subway system! URL:https://westbeth.org/event/get-to-know-your-neighbors-lucille-rhodes-filmmaker-and-bob-malenky-folk-musician/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/GET-TO-KNOW-YOUR_JUNE-WEB.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250617T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250617T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 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:20250607T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250607T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250501T214059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250609T004427Z UID:10000786-1749322800-1749328200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Movie Night: Jaws DESCRIPTION:Saturday June 7\, 2025 at 7pm \nClick image for info about the movie: URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-movie-night-jaws/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Westbeth-movie-JAWS.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250601T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250601T170000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250514T221414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250609T004615Z UID:10000776-1748786400-1748797200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Crossing Tones Presents: Celebrating Westbeth Jazz 1980 Guest Commentator: Billy Harper DESCRIPTION:Click image to enlarge\n\nSunday June 1\, 2025 12 – 5pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nLISTENING SEESION FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC \nHistoric recordings of Freddie Waits\, Patti Boiwn\, Chuck Israels\, Billy Harper\, Gil Evans\, Peter Warren\, Stanely Cowell\, and more! \nMore info CrossingTones.org \n‘WITHIN THESE WALLS; JAZZ AT WESTBETH\, While you are at Westbeth\, visit the exhibition at Bethune St Lobby. It features photos and bios of the jazz greats who lived here\, including all of the above and much more \, as well as the musicians who live here now. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/jazz-at-westbeth-1980-listening-sessing-with-billy-harper/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CROSSTONE-AQ-S-BILLY-HARPER.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250530T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250530T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250507T002128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250531T195410Z UID:10000768-1748631600-1748635200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Get to Know Your Neighbors: Jonathan Bauch and Pele Bach DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge Friday May 30\, 2025 at 7pm \nAbout Jonathan Bauch\nSculptor\nEvolving from an abstract painter to sculpture\, Bauch adroitly manipulates welding technology\, transforming hard steel into delicate organic forms reminiscent of the natural world. In taming the steel\, the industrial quality of the medium is tempered by the indelible mark of the human hand\, resulting in sculptures that seem to defy their material with their lacy and ethereal qualities.\nIn addition to exhibiting in both solo and group exhibitions in New York City and New England\, he has been the recipient of grants from the Joan Mitchell\, and Adolph and Esther Gottlieb foundations\, and has taught welding steel sculpture at the Educational Alliance. \nHe is the father of Pele who arew up at Westbeth. \nAbout Pele Bauch\nChoreographer / Dancer\nAn interdisciplinary choreographer who weaves dance\, theater\, and installation design into unique performances. As a Hapa Haole Kanaka Maoli (multi-racial Native Hawaiian) contemporary artist\, Bauch’s work also draws from oli and hula (Hawaiian chant and dance). She was selected for the 2025 Wehiwehi cohort of Kanaka Maoli artists working at the intersection of indigeneity and contemporary performance and the 2023 WAA Native Launchpad\, Bauch’s work has been presented at numerous New York venues. She has received residencies from The Joyce Theater Foundation; Dance Theater Workshop; Chocolate Factory; and 92Y Harkness Dance Center. Funders include the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; Brooklyn Arts Council; and Harkness Foundation for Dance. \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY URL:https://westbeth.org/event/get-to-know-your-neighbors-jonathan-bauch-and-pele-bach/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Get-to-Know-your-Neigh-Bauches_-MAY-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250516T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250516T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250506T225610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250521T012328Z UID:10000766-1747422000-1747427400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Movie Night: Being John Malcovich DESCRIPTION:Friday May 16\, 2025 at 7pm\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY \nFree \nClick Image for more info about the film URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-movie-night-being-john-malcovich/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/John-MakG.-SQ.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250513T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250513T210000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250506T235207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250515T222537Z UID:10000767-1747159200-1747170000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Fix-it Night: New Hope for Broken Objects DESCRIPTION:Tuesday May 13\, 2025 6pm – 9pm\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY \nBring a lamp gone dark\, too-hot toaster\, wobbly chair\, vacuum sans vavoom or anything needing an expert on the case! \nClock\, watch and shoe guru David Rafael will change batteries (BYOBattery) and evaluate your old soles. \nPlease email;westbethconservation@gmail.com to book a slot. \nOne item per visitor\, please. Suggested donation $5. \nRepair reduces waste\, slows climate change and saves you money.\n Tuesday May 13\, 2025 6pm – 9pm URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-fix-it-night-at-westbeth-2/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/fixt-i-night-maile-photo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250510T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250511T170000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250430T205641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250511T195443Z UID:10000765-1746903600-1746982800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Jenny Tango Women of Chelm book brought to life with puppets\, dance and music DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge Saturday May 10 at 7pm and Sunday May 11 at 2 pm \nReal-life mother-daughter duo\, Suzanne Bernstein and Miryam Coppersmith bring the eccentric women of Jenny Tango’s 1991 artist’s book\, Women of Chelm to life through theater\, dance\, music and puppets! \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\nenter through courtyard\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nTickets:\nGeneral Admission $18\nStudent/Senio $10 \nAbout Jenny Tango\n“If art is autobiography\, then it seems that I have truly been an artist since childhood. The funny pages of newspapers and the movies that I saw Saturday mornings at the local theater were my first teachers of visual media. I discovered painting in Music and Art High School and the Bauhaus in Cooper Union and Brooklyn College. After I got my BFA\, I spent two years painting abstractly\, but I found it too limiting. One discovered an individual visual idea that was a sort of signature and repeated it endlessly. The probing\, discovering\, and ascertaining of an aspect of reality that figuration offered seemed more challenging.\nWhen the 1970s ushered in the Feminist Art Movement\, I discovered that what I was already doing had a name. . \nhttps://westbeth.org/artist-page/jenny-tango-painter/ URL:https://westbeth.org/event/jenny-tango-women-of-chelm-brought-to-life/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/WoC-Flyer-outside_20250413_133339_0000.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250508T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250508T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 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:20250504T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T210000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250417T194220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250506T201003Z UID:10000756-1746392400-1746392400@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Icon: David Greenspan actor and playwright DESCRIPTION:Sunday May 4\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestberth Community Room\n155 Bank Streety\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NYT 100124 \nWestbeth Artists Residents COunceil (WARC) designed the Icons project to honor Westbeth artists who have continued to work in the arts and a are an inspiration to others. \nSix-time Obie recipient David Greenspan (The Patsy\, Strange Interlude\, Four Saints in Three Acts\, On Set With Theda Bara)\, Drama Desk nominee Mona Pirnot (I Love You So Much I Could Die) and two-time Obie recipient Ken Rus Schmoll (Middletown\, The Internationalist\, Telephone\, Map of Virtue). \nDavid Greenspan has appeared in his plays Dead Mother\, She Stoops to Comedy\, Go Back to Where You Are\, I’m Looking for Helen Twelvetrees\, The Memory Motel and his solo plays The Argument and The Myopia\, performed solo renditions of three American plays from the 1920’s: Barry Conners’ comedy The Patsy\, Eugene O’Neill’s six-hour\, nine-act drama Strange Interlude\, Gertrude Stein’s experimental Four Saints in Three Acts and solo renditions of Stein’s lectures Plays\, Composition As Explanation and What Are Masterpieces and acted in many contemporary plays\, notably Terrence McNally’s Some Men\, Joey Merlo’s solo play On Set With Theda Bara and revivals of Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band and Goethe’s Faust. Honors include Guggenheim\, Lortel and Fox fellowships\, Alpert\, Lambda Literary\, Helen Merrill Playwriting awards\, a RUTHIE and six OBIES. URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-icon-david-greenspan/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Green-sq--e1744918911847.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250502T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250502T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250418T192044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250506T201142Z UID:10000758-1746212400-1746216000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:FIRST FRIDAY MUSIC: THE BARRYTONES DESCRIPTION:Click Image to enlarge \nFriday May 2\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nThe BarryTones. We are a dance band playing danceable rockabilly\, blues\, rock and country music. We play a mix of originals and classic favorites. The BarryTones include Westbeth’s own Barry Temkin on guitar\, Michael Moss on sax\, Bill Dotts on bass and Craig Howe on drums\, along with Natasha Gollin on vocals\, Violizzy on fiddle\, Jim Meigs on blues harp. \nBring your dancing shoes!\nFREE URL:https://westbeth.org/event/first-friday-music-the-barrytones/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/The-BarryTones-Instagram-Post.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250408T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250408T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250405T151332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250410T224648Z UID:10000751-1744138800-1744144200@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Movie Night: Clash by Night DESCRIPTION:Tuesday April 8\, 2025\nat 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Babk St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY \nDlick image for more info about the film \nClick to enlarge URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-movie-night-11/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Westbeth-MOVIE-SQ-CLASH-BY-NIGHT-.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250404T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250404T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250326T011838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250405T145943Z UID:10000746-1743793200-1743798600@westbeth.org SUMMARY:FIRST FRIDAY LIVE MUSIC WITH THEO BLECKMANN QUARTET DESCRIPTION:Friday April 4\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nFREE \nVocalist Theo Bleckmann’s ethereal and instrumental approach to the voice is both ancient and modern. Layering his voice thru live looping evokes both Gregorian chants and Ambient sound clouds. He will be performing his own compositions and arrangements\, with and without worlds\, and those of his co-musicians. \nTheo Bleckmann: Voice\nTimo Vollbrecht: saxophone\nLuke Marantz: piano\nJason Burger: drums \nTheo Bleckmann is a multi GRAMMY® nominated vocalist\, composer and ECM recording artist who has recorded over 17 albums and collaborated with artists such as Ambrose Akinmusire\, Sheila Jordan\, Kneebody\, Ben Monder\, John Hollenbeck\, Phil Kline\, David Lang\, Ulysses Owens\, Bang on a Can All-Stars\, and\, most prominently\, with Meredith Monk since 1994. Bleckmann has been interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air and appeared on the David Letterman show with Laurie Anderson.\nMore info Westbeth Artist Page \nFor upcoming First Friday Events check out Westbeth Musicworks 2025 Calendar URL:https://westbeth.org/event/first-friday-with-theo-bleckmann-quartet/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Theo-Blackman-Quartet-SQInstagram-Post-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T170000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250217T202258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250418T191034Z UID:10000727-1742457600-1745514000@westbeth.org SUMMARY:DRAG BINGO WITH PAIGE TURNER RETURNS BY POPULAR DEMAND SEE VIDEO DESCRIPTION:DRAG BINGO ON VIDEO! A TYPICAL EVENING OF SONG\, GAMES\, FUN AND SURPRISES…INCLUDING ON THIS VIDEO\nVideo by Roger Braimon \n\n \nWhen::Thursdays March 20 and April 24\, 2025\n7pm – 9pm \nWhere: Westbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nWhoa: Limited to 75 persons. First come\, first served \nWhat:.FREE and Bingo supplies provided. Amazing and unqiues prizes to the winners! \nWhy: Paige Turner performs show-stopping musical numbers along with her hilariously improvised Bingo games with fabulous prizes\, surprises\, mayhem more \nWho::NYC’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-returns-by-popular-demand-see-video/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/DRAG-BINGO-MAR-20-APRIL-24.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250318T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250318T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 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:20250313T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250313T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250307T135051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250317T015304Z UID:10000739-1741892400-1741897800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Westbeth Movie Night: The Last Laugh DESCRIPTION:Thursday March 13\, 2025\nat 7pm\nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nNew York NY\n(enter through courtyard) \nClick image to find out more about the film \nClick to enlarge URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-movie-night-the-last-laugh/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Westbeth-Movie-Night-The-Last-Laugh-SQUARE.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250311T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250311T210000 DTSTAMP:20260423T155134 CREATED:20250306T212507Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250313T025926Z UID:10000735-1741716000-1741726800@westbeth.org SUMMARY:Fix-It Night at Westbeth Don't Trash It - Repair It! DESCRIPTION:Tues March 11\, 2025 6pm – 9pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nNew York\, NY\n(enter through courtyard) URL:https://westbeth.org/event/fix-it-night-at-westbeth/ LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room CATEGORIES:past-events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://westbeth.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Dennis-Fix-it-night.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR