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Founder and Fugitive: Aaron Burr’s Greenwich Village, walking tour
Aaron Burr Tour 160 Varick Street, New York, United StatesBefore he gained fame in the musical theater as "the damn fool that shot him," there was the real Aaron Burr — Vice-President, war hero, and visionary schemer. Join Marc Catapano and explore the Greenwich Village where Burr’s brilliance, ambition and nefariousness combined to change the course of the country.
$30 – $35 -
The 1960s and ‘70s Music of the West Village from Dylan and Springsteen to Woodstock and Beyond, walking tour
1 West 4th Street at the corner of Mercer and W 4th Street 1 West 4th Street, New York, NY, United StatesBob Dylan, Judy Collins, Simon & Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, The Mamas & The Papas, Bruce Springsteen…. So many great careers were launched on the rickety stages of Greenwich Village. Join Ann McDermott for a trip “down the foggy ruins of time” to learn the real stories behind A Complete Unknown and the lives of Dylan, Pete Seeger and Joan Baez. Hear how The Woodstock Festival of Music and Art had its origins on Village streets.
$25 – $30 -
Dorothy Day: A Radical Saint of the City
The Village Trip Lecture Given by Robert EllsbergJefferson Market Library 425 6th Avenue, NY, United StatesDorothy Day, champion of the oppressed, witness for peace, was born in Brooklyn and spent most of her life in New York’s Lower East Side. In the 1920s, while working as a journalist for progressive papers, she became close to Eugene O'Neill and others in the Greenwich Village scene. After her conversion to Catholicism, she founded the Catholic Worker newspaper and the first of her “houses of hospitality” combining service to the poor and work for justice.
Robert Ellsberg, a former managing editor of the CW and editor of Day’s writings, will describe her New York journey and her road to possible sainthood.Free -
Women’s Work
St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesThe Village Trip presents “Women's Work,” an evening of music and poetry that explores the tension between the external demands placed on women and the rich creative interior lives they have always sustained. Central to the program is a world première from Greenwich Village composer Kitty Brazelton. The program also draws on works by Liz Queler (The Edna Project), Missy Mazzoli, Shoko Suzuki, Ann Southam, and Whitney George, alongside texts by Eleanor Roosevelt, Marcella Remund, Edna St Vincent Millay and Anne Lovering Rounds.
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Stand Up & Be Counted! The Village Trip Comedy Night
Greenwich Village Comedy Club 99 Macdougal Street, New York, NY, United StatesJoin Lindsay Barnes and Katie Finn and friends for another great night of comedy featuring some of the best popular and up-and-coming comic talents in the New York area.
$25