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.

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.

From Community Minister Elæ Moss Benedetto:

This is an AMAZING program, offered for free, put together in collaboration with organizers and mutual aid orgs across the city, responding to our continued need to feel and be prepared for any number of scenarios -- and to acknowledge and sit with our bodyminds and how much they are carrying right now!

Feeling confident and informed makes such a difference not only in our physical actions on the ground but also how traumatized we feel -- not only in anticipation, during, and after challenging events. Skill training in community health and safety serves to demystify areas of fear, moving us out of uninformed panic into a space of discernment and familiarity with best practices.

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!

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.

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!

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.

Religion and the Constitution have a long and complex relationship. Those who drafted the Constitution and its amendments had varied and nuanced understandings of religion, which influenced their views of governance, liberty, and equality.

So when proponents of originalism argue that constitutional interpretation must follow its so-called original meaning, are they engaging with that nuance? Or have they replaced it with a politically motivated just-so story to promote a regressive and antidemocratic social agenda?

Join us at a live in-person event at Judson Memorial Church at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 13, for a timely discussion on the role religion has played in shaping originalist thought, as well as alternative approaches to understanding the Constitution and our relationship to it.

Produced with support from the Steven M. Polan Fellowship in Constitutional Law and History

Tickets $20

An urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation.

Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified. While a settler colonial state continues to inflict devastating violence, fundamental truths are deliberately obscured—the perpetrators are coddled while the victims are blamed and placed on trial.

Why must Palestinians prove their humanity? And what are the implications of such an infuriatingly impossible task? With fearless prose and lyrical precision, Mohammed El-Kurd refuses a life spent in cross-examination. Rather than asking the oppressed to perform a perfect victimhood, El-Kurd asks friends and foes alike to look Palestinians in the eye, forgoing both deference and condemnation.

Join in fellowship for a collaboration between Judson's Health and Safety Working Group and Middle Church's Meeting the Moment Task Force for a special event on Sunday February 9th. 

We will participate in a time of collective, embodied practice -- acknowledging how the challenges of these times lives in our bodies, and locating the powerful tools of faith, breath, and action together. Our special guest for the day will be Miriam, an ER RN and Street Medic who has been leading free anticarceral community first aid trainings in collaboration with Judson. Miriam will lead us in a session reviewing some basic collective readiness protocols for both sanctuary and street action in a range of scenarios, as well as addressing specific risks in this moment around police and ICE involvement. We'll close with actionable next steps and with an invitation to future offerings already in the works from Judson, Middle, and our network of radical faith spaces. 

Break Free is leading the discussion on mental health, substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders within the fashion industry and beyond. Every runway season, we host a fashion showcase that puts mental health and recovery center stage during New York Fashion Week.

Tickets $60

Sisters Affirming Sisterhood Project (SAS Project) aims to empower through fashion. We distribute free clothing and toiletries to trans women, men, and anyone else in need. We are a solidarity initiative focused on gender/identity affirmation, environmental justice, and worker’s rights. The fast fashion industry is causing detrimental harm to our planet and underpays is largely woman workforce. Rather than ending up in landfills, we can work together to recirculate clothing to those in need in a show of solidarity with garment workers, Mother Earth, and our trans siblings.

Our fashion show hopes to show people what we can do with clothing that already exists. We are encouraging designers to create gender neutral clothing using upcycled and repurposed materials. Our goal is to educate people on how we can mend and reuse items instead of throwing them away. 

Thursday January 30th, join us for our THIRD annual SOPHIE show at the @judsonchurchnyc at 7pm.

MTHR TRSA presents a tribute to SOPHIE at Judson Memorial Church featuring Brenda, Julie J, Soo Intoit, Cherry Jaymes, Maxx Love, Miss Toto, MissMa’amShe, Petal Supply, Ariel Zetina, Luna La Sirena, Ruby Szarsky, Buffy Sierra & Easton Blake. This is a ticketed event.

A portion of ticket sales will be going to @blacktransliberation kitchen who feeds the community every Wednesday at this very venue AND @btfacollective who SOPHIE had once used her platform to uplift. Thursday we gather to celebrate, mourn and give back to those who have uplifted us🌹

MLK Meets Inauguration Day
Performances and presentations by Chris "Oledude" Owens, DuPrée, hot glue & the gun (Carrie Klein & JoEL McGlynn), Brian McQueen, Dilson Hernandez, Mike Hiller, Barry Kornhauser, Barbara Frankel, Martin Wallace, Music On The Inside (Jonathan Finkelman & Marie Williams), The Angels of Transformation Dancers, Kaitlyn Byrd, Bracha Lieberman, Judy Gorman, Tamara Fish, Elijah Dixon Owens and more!

On Monday, January 20, 2025, we will celebrate the birthday and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We will also witness the installation of America's 47th President. As we all wrestle with the intertwined futures of our nation and our world, there are waves of thoughts and feelings that wash over us.

On Saturday, January 18th, we ask these questions: What would Dr. King say about where we are today? How does his legacy impact the choices we will be making going forward? How do we celebrate this important holiday when uncertainty chokes the air we breathe?

Chris "Oledude" Owens has invited various performers and presenters to build community by sharing their voices with all of us. Saturday night will be an intense and uplifting experience for all, so please share it with us! The evening's event will also be livestreamed, so don't let cold weather stop you from attending!

PVC members know that Oledude always produces a memorable show!