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SUMMARY:Framing the Village Exhibition: Independent Thinkers!
DESCRIPTION:[image by Marc Kehoe. Image credit: Kampin\, Whyland\, McNichol\, Schreier\, Rosenthal] \nThe fifth Village Trip Art Exhibition! Curated by East Village-based artist\, art historian\, and tour guide Marc Kehoe\, it celebrates the Manhattan artists who are today’s Independent Thinkers! continuing to excite\, inform\, beautify\, and challenge the city and the world with their aesthetic innovations in figurative\, abstract\, and conceptual drawing painting\, sculpture\, photography\, and electronic art. \nCome see the festival’s always-stimulating display of painting\, drawing\, collage\, photography\, video\, and wall-mounted sculpture created by the many independent thinkers who live and work in and around Greenwich Village and the East Village / Lower East Side. \nOur host this year is the historic St Mark’s in the Bowery Parish Hall in the heart of the East Village. \n\n Marc Kehoe\n\nFREE. St Mark’s in the Bowery Parish Hall\, 131 E 10th Street\,  NY 10009\nThe gallery is open to the public most days until 3pm\nThe exhibition runs until September 30
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/framing-the-village-independent-thinkers/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church in the Bowery\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Art
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SUMMARY:Let Freedom Sing: Paul Robeson – His Words\, His Music A Tribute\, with baritone James C Martin\, pianist Lynn Raley
DESCRIPTION:[image: Paul Robeson | James C Martin] \nPaul Robeson — singer\, athlete\, actor\, activist — embodied all the promise of America at its best. He used his art as a weapon of justice and\, as a global citizen\, he spoke truth to power\, heedless of the personal cost. “Artists are the gatekeepers of truth\,” he once said. “We are civilization’s radical voice.” Fifty years after his passing\, his magnificent voice still rings out\, entreating us all to fight the good fight. Baritone James C Martin\, with Lynn Raley at the piano\, celebrates a true American patriot with a program of Robeson’s best-loved songs and his bravest words\, spoken in a tumultuous time when many turned against him.\nThe program also features a world première by David Amram and other composers\, including Augusta Read Thomas\, Chen Shih-hui\, Erik Santos\, Robert Wellington Pound\, and Maria Thompson Corley setting words by Robeson’s friend and fellow activist Langston Hughes.\nJames C Martin and Lynn Raley. Photo: Sten Hartman\nPaul Robeson by Karsh 1941\nBy the time of his death in 1976\, Paul Robeson had been all but invisible for more than a decade\, persecuted and driven into internal exile by 1950s paranoia. Despite the FBI’s best attempts to erase him from the history books\, Robeson’s spirit and his voice live on. A renaissance man – a professional football player and lawyer as well as an actor and singer – he used his voice to speak out against injustice wherever he saw it\, and to sing out for the dispossessed\, whatever the personal cost. \nRobeson’s rise to stardom is rooted in the avant-garde and bohemian culture of 1920s Greenwich Village. In 1924\, he was cast as the lead in Eugene O’Neill’s All God’s Chillun Got Wings at the Provincetown Playhouse\, a performance that launched his illustrious theatrical career. In 1925\, he gave the first concert dedicated to African-American songs at the Greenwich Village Theater on West 4th Street\, with George Gershwin among the audience. And in 1926\, he posed nude for sculptor Antonio Salemme in his studio on Washington Square North. \nIn a church which has long been a beacon of justice and civil rights\, acclaimed bass-baritone James C Martin celebrates the art and activism of a musical hero with a concert taking inspiration from his celebrated 1958 Carnegie Hall performance of songs and theatrical monologues.
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/let-freedom-sing-paul-robeson/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church in the Bowery\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Music
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SUMMARY:East Village Underground: Two Centuries of Creativity and Rebellion\, walking tour
DESCRIPTION:Discover how German émigrés fleeing the 1848 revolutions in Europe sparked the US labor movement\, thus shaping the area’s identity as the epicenter of radical counter-cultural movements. With guide Marc Catapano\, you’ll visit Tompkins Square Park\, scene of the 1874 and 1987 riots and home to the mystical Hare Krishna Tree. Stroll down St Mark’s Place\, where free jazz\, acid rock\, and punk reshaped music. The tour will investigate the infamous 1967 “Groovy Murders” and visit CBGB’s\, the Fillmore East\, and the setting of Rent. We’ll also learn about luminaries such as Allen Ginsberg\, Yoko Ono\, Patti Smith\, and Charlie Parker. \n\nMarc Catapano\n\nStarting location: St Mark’s Church in the Bowery (outside)\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York 10003
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/east-village-underground-two-centuries-of-creativity-and-rebellion-walking-tour-2026/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church in the Bowery\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Art,2026 Tour
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SUMMARY:The East Village\, The Music and the Explosions of the 1960s\, ‘70s and ‘80s\, walking tour
DESCRIPTION:The edgy East Village has long led the way in cultural revolutions. This tour begins at the first place where Patti Smith read poetry\, beginning the journey that led to her breakthrough. Why did she and so many creatives come here? Follow Ann McDermott on a stroll back through East Village music venues of the 1960s and ‘70s and learn about the performing artists who helped shape our culture.\nMusic was abundant\, apartments cheap\, and the venues of the East Village gave artists a chance to play – and for some to become world famous. We’ll visit over ten sites where musical and artistic history was made\, see where some of your favorite album covers were shot. We’ll discuss how the “scene” in NYC in the mid-70s opened doors and allowed for an explosion of creative energy and drive. It wasn’t just the dingy clubs on the Bowery\, such as CBGBs\, that enabled this to happen – there were economic factors as well. Who were the music impresarios discovering the artists and helping catapult them to worldwide fame? It all happened here in the late 1960s and early ‘70s. Explore the careers of the New York Dolls\, the Ramones\, Blondie\, Talking Heads\, Led Zeppelin\, the Who\, and Jimi Hendrix and discover how this neighborhood and these venues helped establish their artistic reputations and following. We’ll also hear about some of the many lesser-known figures who were no less talented but didn’t become quite as famous. \n\nAnn McDermott\n\nSTARTING LOCATION: St. Mark’s in the Bowery Church\, 131 East 10th Street/Second Avenue
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/the-east-village-the-music-and-the-explosions-of-the-1960s-70s-and-80s-walking-tour-2026/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church in the Bowery\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Tour
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SUMMARY:Classical Cool: Ich Bin Ein New Yorker:  Orchestral Concert for Young People
DESCRIPTION:[Top left: Amos Gabia. Bottom left: Garrett Keast\, Photo by Kiran West] \nClassical Cool is the festival’s annual concert for children and families and this year\, with Ich Bin Ein New Yorker\, it honors the New York spirit and the East Village community at its heart. Hosted by Nina Bernstein Simmons\, the program features excerpts from Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story\, and his “Ode to Freedom” from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony\, performed at his Christmas concert in Berlin in 1989\, a year of hope and peaceful revolutions. Classical Cool also features premières by Shoko Suzuki\, and William Kentner Anderson. Community African drummers under Amos Gabia and local choral ensembles join The Village Trip Festival Orchestra\, conducted by Garrett Keast of the Berlin American Academy of Music. Featured soloists include the winner of our Concerto Competition\, and soprano Curtlyn Ifill.\nThe premise of Ich Bin Ein New Yorker is that New York City is not the United States. It is an island\, literally and culturally\, as self-contained and singular as West Berlin once was — surrounded\, watched\, improbable; fiercely itself. At a legendary Christmas concert in 1989 celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall\, Leonard Bernstein changed just one word of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” — replacing Freude (joy) with Freiheit (freedom) — but it meant everything. Schiller’s original 1785 poem promises rescue from tyranny’s chains\, declaring that beggars will become brothers of princes — lines dropped from Beethoven’s version. Freedom was always there – but edited out. Bernstein put it back. \nTo perform Bernstein’s “Ode to Freedom” here — in this city\, in this moment\, in this anniversary year of American Independence — is to ask what “Freiheit” means when the wall is not made of concrete. Leading The Village Trip Festival Orchestra in a program rooted in the neighborhood’s immigrant experience is Garrett Keast\, Artistic Director of the Berlin Academy of American Music\, whose work between these two cities makes him the ideal conductor for today’s concert. We’ll hear excerpts from Bernstein’s West Side Story\, as well as Shoko Suzuki’s Chess Players Observe\, which celebrates young Nigerian refugee and New York chess champion Tani Adewumi; William Kentner Anderson presents a fresh take on beloved American folk music. Community African drumming under Amos Gabia and local choral ensembles bring the neighborhood onstage. Soloists include our Concerto Competition winner and soprano Curtlyn Ifill. \nIch Bin Ein New Yorker is in the East Village tradition that democracy is a practice worked out night after night in clubs\, churches\, and community halls. A fitting finale to ten days of arts\, activism\, and ideas. \n\nNina Bernstein Simmons\, host\nGarrett Keast\, conductor\nAmos Kwaku Gabia\, community African drummers\n\nNow Ensemble \n\nSoprano Curtlyn Ifill\, soprano\nJoan Forsyth\, piano\n\n\n\n\n\n			\n		\n			\n					\n			\n	\n\n\n \n\nClassical Cool International Concerto Competition for Musicians 21 and under\n \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/classical-cool-2026/
LOCATION:St Mark’s Church in the Bowery\, 131 East 10th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:2026 Children's Events,2026 Music
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