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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250627T190000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250513T180000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250510T190000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T170000
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250313T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250313T203000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250311T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250311T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T174618
CREATED:20250306T212507Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250307T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250307T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T174618
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SUMMARY:FIRST FRIDAYS LIVE MUSIC: Bob Malenky\, Marc Jacoby\, Jerry Marcus\, Jeff EldridgeRoots and Folk Music
DESCRIPTION:. March 7\, 2025 at 7pm \nFree \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nA concert of songs from American\, Anglo-American\, English\, Irish and Yiddish root. Join us for an evening of familiar unfamiliar songs.\nMusicians:\nBob Malenky- Vocals/ Guitar\nMarc Jacoby- Vocals/ Guitar/ Slide guitar\nJerry Marcus- Vocals/ Concertina/ Banjo/ Dulcimer\nJeff Eldredge- Keyboards/ Trumpet \nChelsea based Jeffrey Eldredge plays keyboard instruments and trumpet and loves music of all kinds. He has lived in NewYork for over 40 years. \nGerald (Jerry) Marcus is a singer of traditional songs from the Anglo-American and English traditions as well as from the Yiddish tradition. He accompanies himself on banjo and concertina and has performed at various venues including the Zlante Uste Golden Festival in New York\, which concentrates on Balkan music. He is also a painter and printmaker and has exhibited widely nationally and internationally. His Yiddish translations are published by Syracuse University. \nBob Malenky is deeply involved with blues and other forms of roots music. He was one of the participants in Sunday sessions at 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. In 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. \nWith Bob will be guitarist and singer Marc Jacoby and keyboard artist Jeff Eldredge\, who are fine players. Also on the program is Jerry Marcus\, who is a great singer of traditional songs from America\, the British Isles\, and the Yiddish tradition. Jerry accompanies himself on concertina and banjo. \nMarc Jacoby\, https://westbeth.org/artist-page/marc-jacoby/ and www.marcthemusicman.com
URL:https://westbeth.org/event/first-fridays-bob-malenky-jerry-marcus-jeff-eldrididge-marc-jacoby/
LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room
CATEGORIES:past-events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250304T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250520T170000
DTSTAMP:20260423T174618
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SUMMARY:Meditation Practice with Steve Clorfeine
DESCRIPTION:MARCH 4th\, 5-6\nMARCH 11th:4:45-5:45\nMARCH 18th\, :4:45-5:45\nAPRIL 8th\, :4:45-5:45\nAPRIL 15th\, 5-6\nAPRIL 22nd\, 5-6\nMAY 20th\, 5-6 \nWestbeth Commmunity Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014
URL:https://westbeth.org/event/meditation-practice-with-steve-clorfeine/
LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room
CATEGORIES:past-events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250228T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250228T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T174618
CREATED:20250212T235434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250302T211539Z
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SUMMARY:Get to Know Your Neighbors: Kate Walter\, Michael Moss\, Judith Moss
DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge  Friday February 28\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter throough courtyard)\nNew York\, NY \nKate Walter is the author of two memoirs: Behind the Mask: Living Alone in the Epicenter\, (2021); Looking for a Kiss: A Chronicle of Downtown Heartbreak and Healing (2015).  Westbeth Artist Page \nMichael Moss. Reed player/composer Michael Moss has been actively involved in\nthe music scene for many years\, leading his own musical groups including Mike Moss/4 Rivers\, Free Energy\, and the AccidentalOrchestra\, a 22-piece renaissance jazz orchestra.  Westbeth Artisst Page \nJudith Moss As an independent choreographer she has been a guest artist at numerous colleges and universities.She is a recipient of fellowship awards in choreography from the National Endowment for the Arts\, State Arts Councils in New York\, Wisconsin\, and Pennsylvania\, the Arts Council of Great Britain\, and Turks & Caicos Friends of the Arts Foundation.
URL:https://westbeth.org/event/get-to-know-your-neighbors-at-westbeth/
LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room
CATEGORIES:past-events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250221T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250221T203000
DTSTAMP:20260423T174618
CREATED:20250206T235554Z
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SUMMARY:Westbeth Movie Night; MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
DESCRIPTION:Friday Feb 21\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter though courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nFree and Open to the Public \nClick Image to Learn More About the Film
URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-movie-night-presents-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail/
LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room
CATEGORIES:past-events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250211T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T174618
CREATED:20250129T233351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260118T031218Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250207T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T174618
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SUMMARY:GINA LEISHMAN "Welcome to My Living Room" A Solo First Fridays Concert
DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge Friday Feb 7\, 2025 @ 7:00 \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nAward-winning composer\, multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter\, Gina revives the old tradition of an annual solo concert “to keep me honest”\, drawing on the multitude of sources and musical traditions that have brought her here – from Bach to circus to jazz\, from Bertolt Brecht to Noel Coward\, filtered through her own compositions and uniquely skewed perspective. Vox\, piano\, accordion\, baritone ukulele. Special guests possible…\nWebsite: ginaleishman.com \n Westbeth Artists Page: Gina Leishman
URL:https://westbeth.org/event/gina-leishamn-a-solo-concert-at-first-friday-westbeth/
LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room
CATEGORIES:past-events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250131T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250131T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T174618
CREATED:20250108T215340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250204T025619Z
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SUMMARY:GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS: Joan Hall\, Ethan Mass\, Karen Santry
DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge Friday January 31\, 2025\nat 7PM \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY\nFree \nJoan Hall Westbeth Artist Page\nKaren Santry Westbeth artist page\nEthan Mass Website
URL:https://westbeth.org/event/get-to-know-your-neighbors-2/
LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room
CATEGORIES:past-events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250130T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250130T203000
DTSTAMP:20260423T174618
CREATED:20250108T220742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250204T030021Z
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SUMMARY:Westbeth Movie Night: The Conversation
DESCRIPTION:For more info about the movie\, click image January 30\, 2025\nat 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY \nFor More info about the movie\, click the image
URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-movie-night-the-conversation/
LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room
CATEGORIES:past-events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250116T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250116T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T174618
CREATED:20250108T222719Z
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SUMMARY:DRAG BINGO  2025
DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nWhen: Thursday January 16\, 2025\nSeating: Limited to 75 persons. First come first served. \nTime: 7pm – 9pm \nPrice: FREE! and Bingo supplies provided. \nPaige performs show-stopping musical numbers along with her hilariously improvised Bingo games with fabulous prizes\, surprises\, mayhem and more! \nWhere: Westbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nenter through courtyard\, NYC \nAbout Paige Turner\nNYC’s most recognizable names in drag “Showbiz Spitfire” PAIGE TURNER! Known as the love child of Barbie & Pee Wee Herman\, This 2-time Glam Award winner tours internationally in her All -Live Sung one woman shows. She is a headliner for OUTBOUND TRAVEL and has a summer residency in Provincetown at the acclaimed Post Office Café & Cabaret. Paige coined the phrase Slurp! which was NYC’s longest running drag show for 9.5 years. She was an original cast member of the reality show Shade: QUEENS OF NYC\, on the Fusion Network and has been featured numerous times on WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE! With Andy Cohen On Bravo\, even portraying Mary Poppins for Dame Julie Andrews! Most recently she guest starred on Law and Order in a Drag Story Hour related episode.\nwww.paigeturnernyc.com\n“Paige Turner is the ultimate theater queen and always gets everyone to sing along.”\nTHE NEW YORK TIMES
URL:https://westbeth.org/event/drag-bingo-with-paige-turner/
LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room
CATEGORIES:past-events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250114T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250114T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T174618
CREATED:20250107T135613Z
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SUMMARY:Fix-It Night  With the Fixers Collective Special Guest David Rafael of David's Shoe and Watch
DESCRIPTION:Tues January 14\, 2025\n6pm – 9pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York NY\n$5 per item suggested donation \nBring Your Own Parts \n Sign Up for a Fix: Westbethconservation@gmail.com \nFIX-IT NIGHT is back! The first fixing session of 2025.\nWe can’t fix the future but for your furniture\, small appliances\, electronics\, jewelry\, clothing\, ceramics and pottery\, toys and more\, we are here and NOW! $5 per item. Please email WestsbethConservation@gmail.com to book a spot.\nInclude a description of your item\, what’s wrong (if you know) and the time you’d like to come.  Appointments are on the :10s\, :30s and :50s beginning at 6:10pm. \nSPECIAL GUEST David Rafael of Greenwich Village’s David’s Shoe and Watch Repair will be among the repair gurus at our Fix-It Night on January 14th! Bring your flappy soles\, your broken heels and your slow-running timepieces to place in his expert hands! \nAlso! Cord Clearout! Bring those old wires\, cubes\, cords\, fobs and adapters for our Stray Cable Table! It’s time to let that junk go. Bring a cord. Swap it for the one you need. AirPods without partners? Bring ’em\, too. Those unadopted are headed to electronics heaven in the DSNY e-waste bin.
URL:https://westbeth.org/event/fix-it-night-with-the-fixers-collective/
LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room
CATEGORIES:past-events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250112T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250112T150000
DTSTAMP:20260423T174618
CREATED:20241202T014636Z
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SUMMARY:Joan Hall  Collage Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge Sunday January 12\, 2025 10am – 3pm\nFree \nMaterials provided\, bring scissors \nLimited to 20 people\nReserve early at\nJHCollage@gmail.com \nJoan Hall is a pioneer in the field of collage and assemblage illustration. Her work has appeared on covers of Time magazine and in The New York Times and numerous other publications.\nHall’s collages and assemblages have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide\, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. She was commissioned by the American Cultural Center to lecture\, exhibit\, and conduct workshops in France\, India\, Brazil\, and most recently lectured at The National Arts Club in New York City. \nJoan Hall :\n Profiles in Art Interview\n  Westbeth Artist Page
URL:https://westbeth.org/event/joan-hall-collage-workshop-3/
LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room
CATEGORIES:past-events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250103T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250103T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T174618
CREATED:20241217T193508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250106T194355Z
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SUMMARY:FIRST FRIDAYS MUSIC  JOHN MENEGON QUARTET 'SOUND EMBRACE'
DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge[/caption]Friday\, January 3\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard_\nNew York NY 10014 \nThe music presented by Bassist/Composer/Educator John Menegon\, in collaboration with these exceptional musicians\, pushes the boundaries of today’s music on the world stage. The intuitive\, spontaneous nature of the music between the musicians in the Quartet is deeply rooted in the traditions that come out of the Free Bop era created in the “Moment Of Now!” \n\n\nJOHN MENEGON (bass & compositions)\nSTEVE EINERSON (piano)\nPETE SMITH (guitar)\nMATT GARRITY (drums)\nspecial guest ANGUS MENEGON (voice\, synthesizers & compositions) \nJOHN MENEGON (bass & compositions)\n“New York bassist JOHN MENEGON is in the line of George Mraz and Michael Moore; a harmonically sophisticated bassist with technical facility who swings hard when it’s called for.” Kirk Silsbee\, DOWNBEAT!\nMenegon is a jazz bassist\, but is also a guitarist\, arranger\, singer\, and composer. He began his career as a musician in Montreal before moving to New York City\, where he spent ten years as bassist for two legendary tenor saxophonists\, Dewey Redman and David “Fathead” Newman. This experience provided a solid foundation for Menegon to continue his explorations as a bandleader\, composer and arranger\, and he has been composing and arranging music throughout his career. Menegon has released 6 recordings as a bandleader\, and his latest recording\, SOUND EMBRACE\, was released in 2024 on Valley Jazz Records. It features Jean-Michel Pilc on piano\, Chet Doxas on sax\, and Jim Doxas on drums. Here is what Abe Goldstein had to say about John’s latest recording on his blog PAPATAMUS REDUX (NOV 2024): “Although he is known primarily for his bass playing with folks such as David Fathead Newman\, Dewey Redman\, Joe Lovano\, and other notable musicians (not to mention his own recordings)\, Sound Embrace showcases Menegon’s exceptional writing skills. Let’s not forget the strong\, lyrical and harmonically- advanced bass playing of Menegon as a soloist or intuitively interacting with the ensemble.”\n@johnmenegonjazz \nSTEVE EINERSON (piano)\nPianist Steve Einerson originally hails from Milwaukee (WI) where he spent three formative years studying with David Hazeltine. After freelancing in the Milwaukee/Chicago circuit for several years\, he relocated to New York City in 2004\, fresh off the heels of being selected as a finalist to compete in the national jazz piano competition sponsored by the American Pianists Association. Whether it’s solo piano\, small groups or big bands\, Steve now finds his services in NYC in high demand and has performed at venues and jazz festivals across the country and around the world. A sampling of some of the musicians he’s had the privilege of working with include Marlena Shaw\, Joe Farnsworth\, Philip Harper\, Killer Ray Appleton\, Slide Hampton\, Ian Hendrickson-Smith\, John Dokes\, Hilary Gardner\, Teri Roiger\, the George Gee Orchestra\, and the Cab Calloway Orchestra.\n@seinerson \nPETE SMITH (guitar)\n“Mr. Smith is something rare\, fair and fine…a consummate musician who makes an unsuspecting audience aware that his guitar is not his instrument – it is his partner and musical mate for life – Mr. Smith exhibited skills that would make a symphony conductor salivate.” Stephen Mosher\nPete Smith is a New York City-based guitarist who performs in a wide range of musical settings. As a founding member of Grupo los Santos\, a vanguard Afro-Cuban and Brazilian-style quartet\, he has played New York’s Town Hall and concerts throughout the U.S.\, Cuba & Austria. Pete has performed at the Berlin Jazz Festival and Montreal Jazz Festival\, as well as concerts in thirty countries throughout Europe\, Eastern Europe\, Africa and Asia. He has worked with Norah Jones\, trumpeter Donald Byrd\, Cuban trombone master Juan Pablo Torres\, Andrew Hill\, Kat Edmonson\, Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks\, the Moonlighters\, Madeline Peyroux\, Natalie Merchant and Huun-Huur-Tu\, and is a member of Michael Feinstein’s Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. In 2023 he traveled to Congo-Kinshasa as a member of the band Opius Bliss—as  cultural ambassadors for the US Embassy—to perform for and teach\, play and dialogue with local musicians in Kinshasa and Kisangani.\n@peteguitarsmith \nMATT GARRITY (drums)\n“Matt is a swinging drummer and true keeper of the flame.” Vincent Herring\, saxophonist\nDrummer Matt Garrity has been on the New York City music scene since 1994. He has performed with some of the best in the business\, including Grammy winner Vincent Herring\, David Williams\, Teri Thornton\, Peter Bernstein\, Gary Versace\, Ed Cherry\, Ben Monder\, Jeremy Pelt\, among others. Garrity has been living in the Hudson Valley since 2017 and produces a concert series out of his home/studio in Woodstock called BARNSTOCK.\n@garritydrums \nANGUS MENEGON (vocals\, synthesizers\, compositions)\nMonolounge is the synth-punched\, reverb-soaked vision of Australian songwriter-producer Angus Menegon. Crafting dream-pop from his bedroom\, Monolounge melts 70s drums\, 80s synthesisers\, and 90s guitars into a melancholic journey through time. Angus did all the composing and playing on all 9 tracks of his debut recording KILLING TIME. It was released on Bandcamp in September 2024.\nhttps://ihatemonolounge.bandcamp.com/album/killing-time\nWebSite: www.ihatemonolounge.com\n@ihatemonolounge
URL:https://westbeth.org/event/john-menegon-quartet-presents-sound-embrace-for-westbeth-first-fridays/
LOCATION:Westbeth Community Room
CATEGORIES:past-events
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