The Village Trip in 2021 ran for 9 days, from Saturday, September 18, to Sunday, September 26, with its usual mix of words and music at venues across the Village
Busking in Father Demo Square
Father Demo Square 220 Bleecker Street, New York, NY, United StatesFolk, rock, jazz, classical โ come and experience the infinite variety of Village music and musicians!
Land of the Blacks Walking Experience
Washington Square Arch Washington Square Park, New York, NY, United StatesBlack Gotham Experience will present a walking experience called "Land of the Blacks" for The Village Trip 2021. The walk will center around the lives of Black people that lived […]
Open Design Studios
Architecture and design firms โ including Thomas Phifer and Partners (180 Varick Street, 11th Floor), Architecture Research Office (170 Varick Street, 7th Floor), and Suchi Reddy (Reddymade, 80 West 3rd […]
Free Kick-Off Concert on Eighth Street
Intersection of Eighth and MacDougal streets Greenwich Village, New York, NY, United StatesDavid Amram will headline a free outdoor concert to launch The Village Trip 2021 and will be joined by special guests, including Rene Manning, Earl McIntyre, and guitar quartet Bodies Electric.
Walk on the Wild Side: The Folk Scene, Before and After Bob Dylan
Abingdon Square Veterinary Clinic 130 West 10th Street, New York, United StatesMusic historian Jesse Rifkin leads us back, โdown the foggy ruins of timeโ, on a tour of places associated with the folk revival. The tour examines the fabled Greenwich Village […]
Land of the Blacks Walking Experience
Washington Square Arch Washington Square Park, New York, NY, United StatesBlack Gotham Experience will present a walking experience called "Land of the Blacks" for The Village Trip 2021. The walk will center around the lives of Black people that lived […]
Storytime in Washington Square Park
Washington Square Arch Washington Square Park, New York, NY, United StatesChildren's Book Readings. Hear authors, including Diane Zahler, Ann Burg and Giselle Potter, read from their latest books and take questions from the audience. Free for kids of all ages. […]
Busking in Father Demo Square
Father Demo Square 220 Bleecker Street, New York, NY, United StatesFolk, rock, jazz, classical โ come and experience the infinite variety of Village music and musicians!
Eating the Village: Pizza, pork, pastries, and more
Visit some of the Village's independent food purveyors--from the city's oldest butcher to a favorite pizza parlor and a French pastry shop--and hear the stories behind them and the neighborhood. […]
Bad, Rad, and Boho Women of the Village Walking Tour
Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United StatesJoin public historian Kathleen Hulser to hear about mavericks such as Emma Goldman, Isadora Duncan, Dorothy Day, Mabel Dodge, Louise Bryant, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lorraine Hansberry, Nina Simone, Jane Jacobs, and […]
Hear The Marvelous Mrs. Maiselโs Bill Groom, Production Designer, talk about the hit series
North Square Lounge at the Washington Square Hotel 103 Waverly Place, New York, NY, United StatesHear Bill Groom, production designer of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, talk about using Greenwich Village as one of the key locations for the hit television series and how he and […]
From Washington Square to Stonewall: An LGBT History Walk
Join the experts at theย NYC LGBT Historic Sites Projectย for a walking tour of Greenwich Village. Learn about the LGBT presence in the Bohemian Village and hear about the places and […]
Smash Cut: Author Talk with Brad Gooch
Lobby Bar at the Washington Square Hotel 103 Waverly Place, New York, NY, United StatesBrad Gooch will speak about his bookย Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the 70s & the 80s. Vanity Fairย has described the memoir, chronicling an incandescent moment in […]
West Village Theater Crawl
Visit the Lucille Lortel, Cherry Lane, Rattlestick, the New Ohio Theater and other theaters and hear about their illustrious histories, the talented people who have performed there, and their upcoming […]
Diana Wege’s Earth Requiem: Wake Up + World Premiere of Prelude, Prayer and Dance for Unaccompanied Viola by David Amram, performed by Consuelo Sherba
Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United StatesThis event will also be livestreamed.
A unique opportunity to experience Eve Beglarianโs opening movement of Earth Requiem: Wake Up and the world premiรจre performance of Prelude, Prayer and Dance for Unaccompanied Viola by David Amram, Artist Emeritus of The Village Trip, commissioned for this yearโs festival by the Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music. Performed by Consuelo Sherba.
“Itโs Difficult to Write This Without Sounding Alarmistโฆโ Larry Kramer and the Start of AIDS Activism
NYC AIDS Memorial Park 76 Greenwich Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesThe quote comes from the start of Larry Kramerโs first article on AIDS, โA Personal Appealโ published in August 1981 in the New York Native, a gay newspaper of the […]
Lorraine Hansberryโs Village Voice
Virtual Webinar on ZoomPlaywright, activist, and villager Lorraine Hansberry is best known for her award-winning play A Raisin in the Sun, which premiered on Broadway in 1959. She had an unflinching commitment to […]
An Evening of Chamber Music by Harold Meltzer
St Johnโs in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesThis event will also be livestreamed.
A journey through the โgraceful, sensual and contemplativeโ sound worlds of the much-garlanded East Village composer
New York Studio School โ A Tour of the Arts with Bee Chessman
New York Studio School 8 West 8th Street, New York, NY, United StatesSince its founding in 1964, the New York Studio School has been an innovator in arts education, prioritizing daily continuity of study for artists through work in the studio. In […]
New York Studio School โ A Tour of the Arts with Bee Chessman
Since its founding in 1964, the New York Studio School has been an innovator in arts education, prioritizing daily continuity of study for artists through work in the studio. In […]
Eating the Village: Pizza, pork, pastries, and more
Visit some of the Village's independent food purveyors--from the city's oldest butcher to a favorite pizza parlor and a French pastry shop--and hear the stories behind them and the neighborhood. […]
David Del Tredici, in Black and White
St Johnโs in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesThis event will also be livestreamed.
Pianist Marc Peloquin celebrates the keyboard music of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Westbeth composer, with whom he enjoys a symbiotic relationship
Painting the Village: The Village Trip Arts Walk with a Village Artist
Washington Square Arch Washington Square Park, New York, NY, United StatesJoin historian, painter, filmmaker, performance artist and exuberant raconteur Marc Kehoe for a stroll through the artist's Greenwich Village, birthplace of American Modern Art. Greenwich Village, has spawned more influential […]
Walk on the Wild Side: The Birth of Punk
NYU D'agostino Hall 110 West 3rd Street, New York, NY, United StatesMusic historian Jesse Rifkin traces the development of the city's punk scene, from Andy Warhol's discovery of the Velvet Underground in the mid-'60s through the early-'70s glam rock scene and […]
Bringing It All Back Home to Washington Square โ Free Concert in the Park with Bobby Sanabria and His Multiverse Big Band
Garibaldi Plaza Washington Square Park, New York, NY, United StatesA free concert headlined by Latin jazz great Bobby Sanabria and his Multiverse Big Band, plus friends and special guests, including Janis Siegel of The Manhattan Transfer. Bring your dancing shoes for the ultimate high-energy, feel-good afternoon.
The Joy of Music: A Concert by Students of The Third Street Music School Settlement
St Johnโs in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesThis event will also be livestreamed.
Music is not a luxury but a necessity. Since 1894, Third Street has ensured that every child experiences its transformative and enriching power
Bodies Electric Celebrates the Music of Edgard Varรจse, and Frank Zappa and the Psychedelic Circus
The Bitter End 147 Bleecker Street, New York, NY, United StatesFathers of invention โ the first wild man of classical music and the cultural gadfly. Two great iconoclasts who never met yet have much in common
Eating the Village: Pizza, pork, pastries, and more
Visit some of the Village's independent food purveyors--from the city's oldest butcher to a favorite pizza parlor and a French pastry shop--and hear the stories behind them and the neighborhood. […]
Walking Tour with David Amram: Sixty-five Joyous Years in the Village
Washington Square Arch Washington Square Park, New York, NY, United StatesA truly unique opportunity to join Village Trip Artist Emeritus David Amram on a walk through his own gilded and colorful life. Photo shows Larry Rivers, Jack Kerouac, David Amram, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso.
Sing Out! The Village Trip Hootenanny
The Bitter End 147 Bleecker Street, New York, NY, United StatesThis event will also be livestreamed.
A glorious finale to The Village Trip! Join Christine Lavin and friends David Buskin and Robin Batteau, David Massengill, Hannah Reimann, Michele Temple and of course David Amram, Artist Emeritus of the festival, for the now-traditional Village Trip hoot, a celebration of the New York folk revival and its rich and enduring heritage.
BLUE: celebrating the 50th anniversary of Joni Mitchellโs acclaimed album
The Bitter End 147 Bleecker Street, New York, NY, United StatesHannah Reimann and Michele Temple perform Joni Mitchell's Blue in its entirety, a performance that marks the albumโs fifty-year anniversary.