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Admission is free, but please book tickets below. Attendees must be 21 years or older. Screening of Elana Frankelโ€™s short documentary on six people who use cannabis to enhance their […]

Framing the Village: Identity
Exhibition until Sept 28

Moshava Art 45 W 8th Street, Second Floor, New York, NY, United States

The third annual Village Trip art show, curated by long-time Village artist Marc Kehoe. This yearโ€™s group exhibition of paintings, drawings, and photography powerfully explores notions of identity.
Monday to Saturday 2pm - 5pm

Free

Meet Teatro Cuatro
Exhibition until Sept 30

La Sala de Pepe y Foto Espacio 73 Avenue C, New York, United States

La Sala de Pepe y Foto Espacio presents a multimedia journey back to the East Village of the 1970s. where you will learn about Teatro Quatro, a street youth theater group, founded at Mobilization for Youth (MFY), a federally funded antipoverty program on East 4th Street.
Thursday to Saturday 2pm - 7pm and by appointment

Free

The Long-Gone But Not-Forgotten 1970s Music Venues of the East Village, Walking Tour

105 Second Avenue at 6th Street 105 Second Avenue at 6th Street, New York, NY, United States

Join Ann McDermott and travel back to the East Village of the 1960s and โ€˜70s, when the music was rocking, apartments were cheap, and you had to show up in person to buy a ticket! Visit 11 venues, including the Fillmore East, the Bottom Line, and CBGBs, where careers were launched, and stars were born.

$30 โ€“ $35

Painting the Village: The Village Trip Art Walk โ€“ A Tour with Artist and Historian Marc Kehoe

Washington Square Arch Washington Square Park, New York, NY, United States

Greenwichย Villageย has spawned more influentialย artistsย and art movements than any other place in America. Walk theย Villageย streets withย artistย and historian Marc Kehoe as he traces the history of the Hudson River School, the workย of John Sloan and the Ashcan School, and the provocations of Dada in New York.

$25 โ€“ $30

The Village Trip on West 4th Street

West 4th Street between Jones Street and Barrow Street West 4th Street, New York, United States

Presented with the West Village BID the festivalโ€™s traditional opening block party takes place this year on West 4th Street, โ€œNew Yorkโ€™s Left Bank,โ€ centered around the historic Music Inn, a Village fixture for more than half a century, and a hangout for the many musicians who played down the street at Gerdes Folk City and the Bottom Line.

Free
Event Series Beatnik Greenwich Village

Beatnik Greenwich Village, Walking Tour

Stumpdown Coffee Corner of West 8th & MacDougal Streets, New York, NY, United States

Straighten your shades Daddy-o, Marc Catapanoโ€™s walking tour goes right through the heart of Beatnik Greenwich Village. Visit the hottest spots, where the Beatniks made the scene and meet some of its hippest characters, like Jack Kerouac, Jackson Pollock, Lenny Bruce, and Diane DiPrima. Be there or be square!

$30 โ€“ $35

The Colors of My Life โ€“ A Cy Coleman Songbook
Janis Siegel & Yaron Gershovsky

Blue Note 31 West 3rd Street, New York, United States

Marking the 20th anniversary of Cy Colemanโ€™s death and the release of Janis Siegel and Yaron Gershovskyโ€™s acclaimed new album, this concert will be an unmissable celebration of the composer of such immortal classics as โ€œWitchcraft,โ€ โ€œRhythm of Life,โ€ โ€œThe Best is Yet to Comeโ€ โ€“ and โ€œThe Colors of My Life.โ€

$30

East Village Art Tour with Marc Kehoe

The Cube at Astor Place at Lafayette Street, New York, NY, United States

Artist and historianย Marc Kehoe leads you through the streets of the legendary East Village, cradle of counterculture and home of ground-breaking artists of the 1950s, โ€˜60s, โ€˜70s and โ€˜80s. Though the scene declined in the 1990s, it has experienced a surprising rebirth of galleries and artistic activity in recent years.

$25 โ€“ $30

In Memory of Sean Satin

Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY, United States

Composers Concordance presentsย a concert in memory of Sean Satinย as part of The Village Trip Festival. The event celebrates the life of guitarist Sean Satin, who passed away too soon in April 2024. Sean was a guitarist and a teacher at Greenwich House in the West Village, a dear friend, husband, and all-aroundย beautiful person. During the concert, Composers Concordance will launch The Sean Satin Memorial Prize for Guitar. Free to attend but booking required .

Free

Lead Belly: The Man Who Invented Rock & Roll

The Loft at City Winery 11th Avenue at 15th Street, New York, NY, United States

The New York City premiรจre of Curt Hahnโ€™s authorized documentary Lead Belly: The Man Who Invented Rock & Roll, which explores the extraordinary journey of music icon Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter, one of the most influential figures in 20th-century popular music. As George Harrison once put it: "No Lead Belly, no Beatles."

$25 โ€“ $35

The Music of the Bard: Words & Music of Shakespeare in the Park 1956-1967

The Public Theater at Joe's Pub 425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place), NY, United States

โ€œWe have public libraries. Why not public theaters?โ€ย said Joseph Papp, facing down Robert Moses, New York Cityโ€™s infamous โ€œpower broker,โ€ when the New York Theater Workshop was just two years old. This year marks the 70th birthday of what became Shakespeare in the Park, which we celebrate with David Amram who, from 1956 to 1967, composed the music for 25 of its productions. Gail Merrifield Papp, Joeโ€™s widow andย theatrical partner for 25 years, will be among the friends joining him for this unique evening.ย 

$30

The Music of the West Village from Dylan to Springsteen and Beyond, Walking Tour

11 West 4th Street at Mercer Street 11 West 4th Street at Mercer Street, New York, NY, United States

Join Ann McDermott and visit the venues and hear the stories of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, two of the most prolific and popular artists of our times. Explore the sites of the dimly lit Greenwich Village clubs, such as The Gaslight Cafรฉ and Gerdeโ€™s Folk City, from where they started out.

$30 โ€“ $35

Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of Americaโ€™s Bohemian Music Capital
David Browne in conversation with Liz Thomson

La Lanterna di Vittorio 129 MacDougal Street, New York, NY, United States

A publication-day conversation with Rolling Stoneย senior writerย David Browne, whose latest book, Talkin' Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of Americaโ€™s Bohemian Music Capital โ€“ based on 150 interviews and previously unseen documents โ€“ is an enthralling and long-overdue history of musicโ€™s most influential neighborhood. And what better place for an intimate chat than the fabled MacDougal Street coffeehouse that was once home to Pete and Toshi Seeger!

$10 โ€“ $40

Edward Hopper, Georgia Oโ€™Keeffe and Jackson Pollock: A Celebration in Music

Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Georgia O'Keeffe described music as being able to be "translated into something for the eye.โ€ This unique concert features music inspired of by three of New York Cityโ€™s most iconic artists, all of whom lived and worked in Greenwich Village and shared the heartbeat of the city: Edward Hopper, Georgia Oโ€™Keeffe and Jackson Pollock. The concert โ€“ presented in partnership with Cutting Edge Concerts โ€“ takes place in an elegant art-filled Italianate townhouse that for over 150 years has been home to one of New York Cityโ€™s most celebrated arts clubs.

$20 โ€“ $30

The Village Trip Lecture: Ruth Feldstein โ€“ Performing Politics in the Village: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement

Jefferson Market Library 425 6th Avenue, NY, United States

The third annual Village Trip lecture will be given by Ruth Feldstein, Professor of History and American Studies at Rutgers University and award-winning author of How It Feels To Be Free, which provided the basis for a 2020 PBS documentary produced by Alicia Keys that examined Black women performers who played critical roles in political and social activism.

Free

American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend

The Village, long home to many musical innovators, has always pushed the boundaries of arts, activism, and ideas. This year, The Village Trip is proud to welcome musical scholars and composers from twelve countries to give talks, demonstrations, lecture recitals and concerts touching on American Primitive and those "inventors of genius" who changed the conversation. Come be part of it.

Microtonal Village Conference, hosted by composer Agustรญn Castilla-รvila American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend

Composers and musicologists from around the world gather to present their music and thoughts on the microtonality of American Primitive and other new directions, with attention to developments in Greenwich Village through visionaries like Cage, Harrison and Partch. Agustรญn Castilla-รvilaโ€”a tireless advocate for composers around the world who are exploring new and old tuning systems, and President of the Ekmelic Society of Salzburgโ€”will preside.

Free

Greenwich Village A Go Go : The Greenwich Village Rock and Pop Scene of the 1960s, Walking Tour

Bagel Pub 418 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Join Marc Catapano and Ann McDermott on a journey of discovery of the Mod, Pop, Happening world of 1960s Greenwich Village. Visit iconic spots like Cafรฉ Wha? and Kettle of Fish, where legends like Bob Dylan, Edie Sedgwick, and Jimi Hendrix turned the Village into a cultural epicenter. Immerse yourself in the era's wild energy and liberating spirit.

$30 โ€“ $35

Roy Lichtenstein Studio and Home Tour

Roy Lichtenstein Studio 745 Washington Street, New York, NY, United States

The Lichtenstein studio is not usually open to the public, so this is a special opportunity to explore the place where one of the 20th centuryโ€™s most important artists created many of his seminal works of Pop Art. The tour will be led by Nick Holmes, the Whitneyโ€™s Legal Counsel and a person who was instrumental in the renovation of the building.

Free