East Village Tour
Take part in the action of downtown NYC! On the East Village TV & Movie Sites Walking Tour, you’ll be able to pose in front of The Puck Building featured … Read More
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Busking in Father Demo Square
Folk, rock, jazz, classical – come and experience the infinite variety of Village music and musicians!
Land of the Blacks Walking Experience
Black 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 … Read More
Open Design Studios
Architecture and design firms – 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 … Read More
Free Kick-Off Concert on Eighth Street
David 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
Music historian Jesse Rifkin leads us back, “down the foggy ruins of time”, on a tour of places associated with the folk revival. The tour examines the fabled Greenwich Village … Read More
Land of the Blacks Walking Experience
Black 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 … Read More
Storytime in Washington Square Park
Children’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. … Read More
Busking in Father Demo Square
Folk, rock, jazz, classical – 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. … Read More
Bad, Rad, and Boho Women of the Village Walking Tour
Join 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 … Read More
Hear The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Bill Groom, Production Designer, talk about the hit series
Hear 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 … Read More
From Washington Square to Stonewall: An LGBT History Walk
Join the experts at the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project for a walking tour of Greenwich Village. Learn about the LGBT presence in the Bohemian Village and hear about the places and … Read More
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 … Read More
Smash Cut: Author Talk with Brad Gooch
Brad Gooch will speak about his book Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the 70s & the 80s. Vanity Fair has described the memoir, chronicling an incandescent moment in … Read More
Diana Wege’s Earth Requiem: Wake Up + World Premiere of Prelude, Prayer and Dance for Unaccompanied Viola by David Amram, performed by Consuelo Sherba
This event will also be livestreamed.
A unique opportunity to experience Eve Beglarian’s opening movement of Earth Requiem: Wake Up and the world première performance of Prelude, Prayer and Dance for Unaccompanied Viola by David Amram, Artist Emeritus of The Village Trip, commissioned for this year’s festival by the Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music. Performed by Consuelo Sherba.
Salons, Saloons and Lonely Night Vigils: Great American Writers in Greenwich Village
Literary Walking Tour / Cancelled Joyce Gold explores the lives of some of the many novelists, poets, playwrights, writers of detective fiction, short stories and muck-raking exposés who found inspiration … Read More
“It’s Difficult to Write This Without Sounding Alarmist…” Larry Kramer and the Start of AIDS Activism
The quote comes from the start of Larry Kramer’s first article on AIDS, “A Personal Appeal” published in August 1981 in the New York Native, a gay newspaper of the … Read More
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. … Read More