Puppet show! Puppet show! Bread & Puppet Theater is excited to announce our spring tour, traveling from Vermont down the Eastern Seaboard. Of our latest show, The Obligation to Live, director Peter Schumann reminds us that, “The obligation to be alive and act against the actors of death is just one of humanity’s many obligations. We also have the obligation to courage and the obligation to plant garlic in the rubble of the empire. Possibilitarians know this and bring giants, dragons, horses, sheep, butterflies, and the exact dance of death required for this exact moment.”

After the show Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread & Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press – will be for sale.

Puppet show! Puppet show! Bread & Puppet Theater is excited to announce our spring tour, traveling from Vermont down the Eastern Seaboard. Of our latest show, The Obligation to Live, director Peter Schumann reminds us that, “The obligation to be alive and act against the actors of death is just one of humanity’s many obligations. We also have the obligation to courage and the obligation to plant garlic in the rubble of the empire. Possibilitarians know this and bring giants, dragons, horses, sheep, butterflies, and the exact dance of death required for this exact moment.”

After the show Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread & Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press – will be for sale.

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.

Event moved from March 5 to April 9

by Maurice Ivy

Two mourners win the opportunity air their grievances of loss when they serendipitously call into a late night radio broadcast.

This show is curated by Malcolmx Betts + Arien Wilkerson as part of the Black Aesthetics series.

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.

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.

An avant-garde psychedelic rock sound bath with guided meditation and ritual inspired by the Tibetan Buddhist practice of Chöd and the bardo as described in the TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD and later adapted for psychedelic trip sessions by Drs. Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert.

We will guide you out of your body, into the Luminous Bardo of Dharmata.

Tickets here

Save the date for West Village Chorale’s annual fundraiser, Viva Vino!

Join members of the West Village Chorale on Thursday, April 3rd for an evening of music and wine! The evening will feature performances from talented artists, “paired” with wines curated by WVC tenor (and sommelier!) James Dantas, DipWSET of Brooklyn’s Northside Discount Liquors & Liquors.

The Big Bang is a cold reading series of new works, hosted by Jonathan Caren, at Judson Church.

Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth, is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio.

Something of a companion piece to 2009’s Bluets, Pathemata merges a pain diary chronicling a decade of jaw pain with dreams and dailies, eventually blurring the lines between embodied, unconscious, and everyday life. In scrupulously distilled prose, Pathemata offers a tragicomic portrait of a particularly unnerving and isolating moment in recent history, as well as an abiding account of how it feels to inhabit a mortal body in struggle to connect with others.

RSVP required:
Book + Event Bundle - $35

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.

SUN SONGS is a 21-song, two act, immersive folk musical experience featuring 3 "lead" vocalists, a 4 person band of musicians (upright & electric bass, guitar, piano, cello), an ensemble of ancestors who all sing and play percussion instruments throughout.

SUN SONGS is a 21-song, two act, immersive folk musical experience featuring 3 "lead" vocalists, a 4 person band of musicians (upright & electric bass, guitar, piano, cello), an ensemble of ancestors who all sing and play percussion instruments throughout.

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.

Requiem creates a dialog between two pieces for chorus and orchestra: the beloved Requiem of Gabriel Fauré and Seven Last Words of the Unarmed a recent (contemporary) work by Joel Thompson (b. 1988). 

February 21^st , 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.  NYC's new Congestion Pricing is the topic this evening. Our guests will be transit activists Danny Pearlstein, policy and communications director of Riders Alliance and David Peter Alan, contributing editor of Railway Age magazine. We'll discuss the environmental aspects, how well is it working, where the money is going, and rail solutions for transportation.  It should be an exciting discussion!

“Synesthesia” by the Foreign DestinEtion Arkestra aims to dissect the balances of human nature through a sensory lens, while also diving into topics of social justice/injustice and protest.

This concert will fully embody the concept of synesthesia, with many different sounds, colors, sights, and feelings to infatuate the listener and watcher.

Judson’s Book Group meets monthly on Wednesdays to discuss the book of the month.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

February 21^st , 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.  NYC's new Congestion Pricing is the topic this evening. Our guests will be transit activists Danny Pearlstein, policy and communications director of Riders Alliance and David Peter Alan, contributing editor of Railway Age magazine. We'll discuss the environmental aspects, how well is it working, where the money is going, and rail solutions for transportation.  It should be an exciting discussion!

Judson’s Book Group meets monthly on Wednesdays to discuss the book of the month.

Pay-what-you-wish reservations required

This Presidents Day, gather beneath the shifting clouds for a personal inauguration in the aftermath of the presidential one.

Temporary Occupant premiered for the 2021 presidential inauguration, as a COVID-safe immersive experience for one person at a time, in a theater transformed into a sacred space of individual reflection.

Join this next iteration of the project updated for 2025 as an opportunity for communal as well as solitary reflection. In historic Judson Memorial Church, the Temporary Occupant team invites you to dream with us as we chart paths forward for the administration ahead, together.

Created by Rachel Gita Karp, Mextly Couzin, Kate Eberstadt, Frank J Oliva, Jacob Russell, and Salvador Zamora

Learn more and reserve your seat here.

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.