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Holiday, an immersive crafting experience
Step into Holiday, an intimate, immersive crafting experience where art, memory, and community intertwine. Join Dakota and Riley as they guide you through a cozy, hands-on journey filled with laughter, reflection, and unexpected discoveries. Together, we’ll roll up our sleeves, share stories, and make something meaningful — not just with our hands, but with our hearts. Set at the intersection of theatre and ritual, Holiday invites audiences to gather around the crafting table, rediscover connection, and find a little hope and magic for the season.
City of Ashes & Other Works
Matthew Westerby Company presents "City of Ashes", a new full-length contemporary dance work tracing the onset of the AIDS crisis and its profound impact on New York City. The program additionally features two short new works — The Counterfactual, a piece for four women reflecting on the “what ifs” that define our daily choices, and a new work created for MWC2, the MWC’s second company of performers.
$30 Gen. Admission, $20 Artist/Student/Older Adult
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE: Charlie King + Tret Fure
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
City of Ashes & Other Works
Matthew Westerby Company presents "City of Ashes", a new full-length contemporary dance work tracing the onset of the AIDS crisis and its profound impact on New York City. The program additionally features two short new works — The Counterfactual, a piece for four women reflecting on the “what ifs” that define our daily choices, and a new work created for MWC2, the MWC’s second company of performers.
$30 Gen. Admission, $20 Artist/Student/Older Adult
Judson Arts Wednesdays: Black Aesthetics Featuring “Slavery (Working Title)” by Kyle b. co.
Structured as a collective post-therapy musical “talkback,” Slavery (working title) reimagines the form of the sermon as a space for unraveling rather than instruction, opening a speculative relationship to psychoanalysis, confession, and communal reflection.
The Actionplay Voices Choir Holiday Gala (Winter Spectacular!) & Cha-Chingle Jingle Mingle
Actionplay, a disability-inclusive theatre company, is pleased to welcome you to the Actionplay Voices Choir Holiday Gala (Winter Spectacular!) & Cha-Chingle Jingle Mingle! Come see the Actionplay Voices Choir singing a concert full of festive tunes, with special guest stars, food, drink, and merry holiday cheer. This gala performance will raise funds for the Voices Choir, our new disability-inclusive choir, who recently performed at Night of Too Many Stars. All proceeds will go towards more amazing concerts from the Voices Choir.
THAT SHOW
THAT SHOW is a community gathering and showcase of early career performance artists. The evening is meant to build community within and beyond the New York City performance art scene— connecting movement, sound, and theater artists to each other and their audiences. We embrace a messy, do-it-yourself, community centered model.
Doors open at 6:30pm and performances start at 7:00. Refreshments will be available by donation.
Fire Ensemble: The Nature of Things
The Fire Ensemble presents The Nature of Things, a musical exploration of air, fire, water, and earth. Led by Creative Director Troy Anthony, this performance celebrates the power of collective song to transform and heal. The concert features the co-created new work Testimonies of Fire, commissioned by Pink Fang, which uplifts the voices and stories of the choir, alongside previews of other new works in development.
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE: Brooklyn Women's Chorus + Lissa Michalak
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
"Messiah" Sing with West Village Chorale
Join West Village Chorale for their annual open sing of this holiday classic, led by Artistic Director Colin Britt. They’ll provide you with the score (or bring your own). Come make a joyful noise!
NYC Friends of Clearwater Monthly Gathering
NYC Friends of Clearwater is having our monthly gathering which is held on the third Friday of each month, starting at 6:30pm in the Assembly Hall. Join us for a night of live music, potluck dinner, and environmental discussion.
Greenwich Village Caroling Walk with West Village Chorale
Get out your Christmas sweaters (ugly or otherwise!), your Santa suits and your festive holiday finery, and warm up your fa-la-las! Join us for our 51th annual Caroling Walk—and stroll with members of the Chorale through our historic West Village neighborhood, singing along as we lead seasonal favorites!
It’s fun for the entire family, it’s free (donations gladly accepted), and we even supply the music!
Come sing with us!
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE: Songs of the Season with Robin Greenstein & special guests
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
Fools Mass by Dzieci Theatre
Dzieci Theatre's Fools Mass, an annual offering since 1998, cannot be silenced this season. The piece celebrates both the sacred and profane, the miracle of life and the enigma of death, all with enchanted choral singing, riotous comic buffoonery, and extraordinary dramatic invention. Fools Mass, like no other event during these ravaged times, truly captures the heart of the holidays and the sanctity of the human spirit.
Tickets: $20-$30
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
MOVEMENT RESEARCH
A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.
NYC Friends of Clearwater Monthly Gathering
NYC Friends of Clearwater is having our monthly gathering which is held on the third Friday of each month, starting at 6:30pm in the Assembly Hall. Join us for a night of live music, potluck dinner, and environmental discussion.
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE: Martin Luther King Day Celebration
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
Judson Book Group
The Judson Book Group will be reading and discussing for their January 21, 2026 meeting "The Women" by Kristen Hannah.
Contact Jane Treuhold (treujane@gmail.com) to receive the zoom link.
MOVEMENT RESEARCH
A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
Know Hope - NYC Premiere Screening
Film screening followed by a Q&A with director Omer Shamir and protagonist Addam Yekutieli, moderated by renowned public artist SWOON.
TICKETS $5-$10 (NOTAFLOF)
NYC Friends of Clearwater Monthly Gathering
NYC Friends of Clearwater is having our monthly gathering which is held on the third Friday of each month, starting at 6:30pm in the Assembly Hall. Join us for a night of live music, potluck dinner, and environmental discussion.
Judson Arts Wednesdays: Black Aesthetics with Song Aziza Tucker
“dreams from our seabed” is an embodied invitation to engage in the biomythrographical work of reimagining ones life through poetic form. song aziza tucker and Makaila chaplain will perform a duet together, emboldened by the work of engaging with our shadows and wayward senses of self. We bring these sister selves closer to, we breathe and dream together. Rayven Nishae Leak will be mobilizing sound, offering live dreaming reverberations. I offer this proclamation: “How can you expect me to not live in my dreams when the field where I rest my bones upon is an amnesiac landscape, a fragmented project of memoriam. I must speak in poetics, I must speak only in dreams, in glitter and blood because that is truth telling.”
Judson Book Group
The Judson book group will be reading and discussing "The Lion Women of Tehran" by Marjan Kamali for its meeting on Wednesday, November 19 at 6:30 pm on Zoom.
Contact Jane Treuhold (treujane@gmail.com) to receive the zoom link.
MOVEMENT RESEARCH
A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.
Gaia Collective One Day Choir
Gaia Music Collective's One-Day Choir series is an opportunity to sing in a choir for one day only. A celebration of song and the connective power of singing in harmony. An opportunity to build community, make some new friends, and raise our powerfully diverse voices as one.
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE: Hawaiian Music & Dance Night
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
Judson Arts Presents: Rabble: Black Aeshetics x FourOneOne
RABBLE is an extended, evening length program exploring manifold states of radical creativity as they meet the present political moment, featuring Asphalt Savannahs, HxH in collaboration with Laura Sofía Pérez and Kayla Farrish, Palestinian dream pop band DUNUMS, Qiujiang Levi Lu and Kwami Winfield, and Black Aesthetics founder/curator Arien Wilkerson.
The Rapture: A Reading
InterPoets Theater Presents…
THE RAPTURE
A reading of the satirical miracle play based on current events
by James Sherry & Mark Wallace
Judson Arts Wednesday: Grant Jacoby & Dancers
An exploration of deferred desires, beach piece juxtaposes the warmth and wilderment of reflecting on the past, in conjunction with the omnipotent pressure of the inevitable aging and decay of the human brain, body, and spirit. The dance is set entirely to music by The Beach Boys, evoking a nostalgic longing mixed with the sensation of lucid dreaming.
People's Flag Show: Opening Reception
Don’t miss the opening reception for the Peopl'e’s Flag Show, Tuesday Nov 11 @ 6pm!
MOVEMENT RESEARCH
A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.
People's Flag Show
Join Judson Commons for the People’s Flag Show running Nov 9-15. And don’t miss the opening reception Nov 11 @ 6pm!
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE: Sonia Rutstein (SONiA of Disappear Fear)
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
MOVEMENT RESEARCH
A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE: Lisa Gutkin
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
Heartbeat Opera: ORGY & BESS
Thursday, October 30th @ 7:30 pm - Opening Night
Friday, October 31st @ 7:30 pm - Halloween show
Saturday, November 1st @ 7:30 pm- Gala performance
Tuesday, November 4th @ 7:30 pm - Performance
Thursday, November 6th @ 7:30pm - Performance
Friday, November 7th @ 7:30pm - Performance
Saturday, November 8th @ 7:30pm - Closing Performance
MOVEMENT RESEARCH
A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.
Judson Arts Wednesdays: “The Ghetto Shaman” at Black Aesthetics by Ja'Moon Jones
The Ghetto Shaman: That Which Lurks in the Shadows is a performance ritual that conjures themes of endurance, power, and transformation. The only way is through.
6:30pm Free Food + Doors | 7pm Show *Note earlier time!
MOVEMENT RESEARCH
A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE: Rock & Roll for Freedom, with Val Kinzler & Violizzy Taub + Al Ronzoni
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
West Village Chorale Honors Ed Shiner
As we begin our 2025-26 season, in addition to our usual preparations for our upcoming concerts, our community has another task ahead of us—to celebrate the life of our dear friend Ed Shiner, who passed away on July 13th.
If you would like to join us as we remember our friend, please RSVP to westvillagechorale@gmail.com.
NYC Friends of Clearwater Monthly Gathering
NYC Friends of Clearwater is having our monthly gathering which is held on the third Friday of each month, starting at 6:30pm in the Assembly Hall. Join us for a night of live music, potluck dinner, and environmental discussion.
Judson Book Group
On Oct 15th, the Judson Book Group will be reading and discussing James Baldwin's Go Tell It On the Mountain.
Go Tell It on the Mountain is a 1953 semi-autobiographical debut novel by James Baldwin. It tells the story of John Grimes, an intelligent teenager in 1930s Harlem and his relationship with his family and his church. The novel focuses on the role of the Pentecostal Church in the black community, both as a source of repression and a source of inspiration and community. It also describes John’s journey of self-discovery. It is considered one of the 100 best English-language books of the 20th century.
THE BIG BANG: Cold Reading Series with JOnathan Caren
The Big Bang is a cold reading series of new works, hosted by Jonathan Caren, at Judson Church.
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE: James Gordon
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
Transmutation: Mirror Memoirs
Mirror Memoirs is proud to present a full-scale live production of our theater project, "Transmutation: A Ceremony," a performance featuring our sacred storytellers Samantha Jo Dato, Ebony Ava Harper, Alexandra Magallon and Sydney Rogers. This production, supporting these four Black and Afro-Latina transgender women sharing their true stories of surviving child sexual abuse and the ongoing violence of transmisogynoir, and their visions of healing and the world we need and deserve, was written and directed by Luna Merbruja, Amita Swadhin, and Jaden Cervantes-Fields.
MOVEMENT RESEARCH
A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE: A Capella Night, with Nikki Nesbary & Joe Willing
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.