The Village Trip Lecture: Clay Risen – Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America
Jefferson Market Library 425 6th Avenue, NY, United StatesIn Red Scare, New York Times reporter Clay Risen unfolds the gripping story of the political hysteria that gripped America in the 1940s and '50s, an era that continues to reverberate today. In his lecture, Risen will describe how New York City, including the Village itself, became a centerpoint of anti-Communist witch hunting – and a surprising source of resistance. "Risen tells his story with a punch and an economy that are at times almost Hemingwayesque," wrote the New York Times.
Stand Up & Be Counted! The Village Trip Comedy Night
Greenwich Village Comedy Club 99 Macdougal Street, New York, NY, United StatesA great night of comedy featuring some of the best popular and up-and-coming comic talents in the New York area.
Norman Raeben and Bob Dylan: A Lecture by Fabio Fantuzzi
The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation 526 Laguardia Place, New York, NY, United StatesBob Dylan once said that Norman Raeben “put my mind and my hand and my eye together, in a way that allowed me to do consciously what I unconsciously felt… didn’t teach you so much how to draw … he looked into you and told you what you were.” From late March to August 1974, Dylan made the daily journey uptown to Raeben’s eleventh-floor studio above Carnegie Hall, developing a visual approach to writing that shaped seminal albums like Blood on the Tracks, Desire, and Street Legal. Reflecting on that creative period in a 1991 interview, Dylan added: “That was my painting period… that’s like taking a brush and painting those songs onto a canvas.”
It’s Complicated: New York’s 400-year Relationship with its Waterfront
Pier 57, Daffodil Room 15th Street at Hudson River Park, New York, NY, United StatesPresented by The Village Trip, this panel discussion examines New York's waterfront from a range of perspectives and is made possible through the support of DutchCultureUSA, a program of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the United States.
From its piers, canals, landfills, and seawalls, New York City has interacted in complex ways with its ever-changing waterfront. Now climate change and rising sea levels are forcing the city to address its water’s edge with new strategies and expensive plans for the future.
The Queen of Bohemia Looks Forward to Meeting You!
The Francis Kite Club 40 Avenue C (between 3rd and 4th streets), New York, NY, United StatesThe Occasion: The publication of author Eve Kahn’s Queen of Bohemia Predicts Own Death a biography of Lower East Side activist journalist and party person Zoe Anderson Norris (1860-1914)
The Event: There will be cocktails, mocktails, signed books, tiaras, music by DJ Pepe Flores, a presentation of Zoe Anderson Norris’s life and works and an extraordinary panel of contemporary “Queens of Bohemia” in conversation with Eve Kahn.
The Topic: If the Past is Prologue (yes, talking about you Zoe) what will we do about the Future?
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