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Julie Gold: Closing the Distance

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

An intimate evening of songs and stories with the inimitable Julie Gold, Greenwich Villageโ€™s own Grammy winner, a singer-songwriter known the world over for โ€œFrom a Distance,โ€ a song which has been read into the Congressional Record and which was used to wake up the astronauts on the Mir Space Station the very first time the Americans hooked up with the Russians in outer space. Join Julie โ€“ a wonderful raconteur as well as songwriter โ€“ for a very special evening.

$25 โ€“ $30

Lafcadio Hearn Project: Four ghost stories for speaker and pianist

Tenri Cultural Institute 43A West 13th Street, NY, United States

Tenri Cultural Institute has a 30-year history of celebrating Japanese and Western culture. The Irish poet Lafcadio Hearn became an important bridge between Japan and the West. Four composers created musical works for narrator with piano based on Hearnโ€™s much loved, โ€œKwaidanโ€, a chilling collection of Japanese ghost stories.

$25 โ€“ $30

David Mills: Glamour + Despair

Pangea NYC 178 2nd Ave, NY, United States

A harrowing, hysterical look at life on the edge of the apocalypse. A genre-defying, comedic romp through the boneyard of contemporary culture.

$20 โ€“ $25

Picture Book Bohemia: A Childrenโ€™s-Book Walking Tour of Greenwich Village Led by Historian and Critic Leonard Marcus

Opposite the Forbes Building Fifth Avenue & 12th Street, NY, United States

This tour is postponed to Sunday 24, at 10am (due to forecast of thunderstorms on Saturday)

Greenwich Village was a vibrant creative crossroads for childrenโ€™s literatureโ€™s greats. On this walking tour, weโ€™ll visit the sites where 'Where the Wild Things Are', 'The Very Hungry Caterpiller', and - yes - 'Make Way for Ducklings' were all created + more

$5 โ€“ $10

In the Wake of the High Line:ย  New Architecture in the Far West Village and Hudson Square. Walking Tour with Architect Kyle Johnson

The plaza between the Whitney Museum and the south end of the High Line 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY, United States

Explore the rapidly changing western edge of Greenwich Village and Hudson Square, where luxury apartment towers by star architects and new office complexes for major tech and entertainment companies, are replacing old warehouses and industrial structures.

$20 โ€“ $25

Bringing It All Back Home to Washington Square. Free concert with the Peace Poets, People of Earth, & BETTY

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

Due to the high chance of heavy thunderstorms, this concert in Washington Square Park has been cancelled.
Geographically and spiritually, Washington Square has always been the center of the Village. Bohemiaโ€™s beating heart. A place to gather, whether to protest or just hang out, often with a guitar โ€“ and to dance! The signature event of each yearโ€™s Village Trip festival, this concert in the Park brings together a stellar selection of New York City talent: People of Earth, The Peace Poets and BETTY, the award-winning indie rock trio which (as Gloria Steinem puts it) โ€œspreads the most lasting kind of revolutionโ€.

Free

Horszowski Trio: Chamber music by Village composers

Tenri Cultural Institute 43A West 13th Street, NY, United States

The celebrated Horszowski Trio presents music by composers who have livedย in Greenwich Village - Elliott Carter, Paul Chihara, Louis Karchin and Wang Jie, performed alongside Shostakovich's landmark Second Trio.ย The Horszowskiย Trio (Jesse Mills, Ole Akahoshi and Rieko Aizawa) has been described as "eloquent and enthralling" by the Boston Globe.

$25 โ€“ $30

Electric Circus: presented by Composers Concordance & Marsyas Productions

St Markโ€™s in the Bowery 131 East 10th Street, New York, NY, United States

Composers Concordance brings together two e-guitar quartets โ€“ Bodies Electric and My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama โ€“ celebrating the Mel Powell centenary and offering new works by William Anderson, Bruce Arnold, Dan Cooper, Jane Getter, Patrick Grant, Kyle Miller, Gene Pritsker, Dave Soldier.

$20 โ€“ $30

The Intimate Village: A West Village Walking Tour with Critic Michael Kimmelman

Churchill Square corner of Downing Street and Sixth Avenue, New York, United States

The event has been rescheduled from Sept. 24 to Saturday, Sept. 30.

Walk the West Village with New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman. The tour will unpack some of the social and cultural history of the Village.

$35

A Tribute to Martin Boykan: Cygnus with Sharon Harms and Jessica Bowers

Loft 393 393 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

C๏ปฟygnus w๏ปฟith soprano Sharon Harms and mezzo Jessica Bowers
P๏ปฟrogram includes:
D๏ปฟavid Claman: The Maldive Shark
M๏ปฟartin Boykan: Diptych (quintet for Cygnus) and Sea Gardens, featuring Sharon Harms, soprano and Joan Forsyth, piano
R๏ปฟichard Festinger, Hidden Spring
C๏ปฟarman Moore: A Village Triptych for guitars, mandolins and soprano (setttings of poems by Gamel Woolsey, Djuna Barnes and Lennox Raphael)

It Was 60 Years Ago Today: A Beatles Conversation with Cousin Brucie and Jamie Bernstein

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

A celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Beatlesโ€™ first visit to America and their historic appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964. The harmonies of the duo Blac Rabbit (โ€œMaybe the Best Beatles Cover Band Ever,โ€ New York Times) will transport us back to the heady days of Beatlemania.

$25

Cannabis + Creativity

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