Every person has a voice, but not everyone feels that the voice they use in the world truly represents who they are. Rather than teaching people to adopt a particular “ideal” voice, this workshop introduces a process of discovering greater vocal freedom, authenticity, and choice.
A celebration of trans voices, stories, and songs across generations. Hosted and music directed by Vivian LeDay, this one-night cabaret brings together trans New Yorkers to share the experiences, humor, heartbreak, resilience, and joy that have shaped their lives. From the voices that paved the way to the artists making history on New York’s stages today, the evening celebrates a living legacy of trans expression and resistance—just steps away from Christopher Street, in the heart of a neighborhood where queer revolution changed the world.
Bob 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.
Before 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.
As the much-missed Gloria Steinem noted, creativity is an essential means for women to reclaim their voices and challenge societal restraints. The Village Trip is proud to present this timely celebration of 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. Women’s Work also features music by Adam Tendler, Sharon Harms, Joan Forsyth, Liz Queler, Jocelyn Morlock, Missy Mazzoli, Shoko Suzuki, Ann Southam, Harold Meltzer, Whitney George, and more. Texts by Eleanor Roosevelt, Marcella Remund, Edna St Vincent Millay, and Anne Lovering Rounds. Proudly introducing composers Devon Lee and KiMani Bridges from the Luna Composition Lab, and soprano Curtlyn Ifill.
Join Lindsey 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.
Dorothy 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.
