The Community Room: General Info

The Community Room
Offers an exciting array of readings, lectures, theatre and dance performances, as well as film screenings and music concerts presented by Westbeth artists and invited guest artists.

When available, the space is also booked for rehearsals, classes, workshops, and use by other non-profit arts and community organizations.

Location
57 Bethune Street mid block b/w Washington and West Sts, then up steps to inner courtyard.

Or 155 Bank St b/w Washington and West Sts, enter outer courtyard and up ramp to inner courtyard.

Directions
Take A, C, E, or L trains to 14th Street and 8th Avenue. Walk south 6 blocks, turn right at Bethune Street.

Current Events

• WILL BEAUTY SAVE
THE WORLD?
Saturday 26 June 2010

Dostoevsky once enigmaticallly
let drop the phrase, Beauty will
save the world."

What does this mean? For a
long time I thought it merely
a phrase. Was such a thing
possible? When in our blood-
thirsy history did beauty ever
save anyone from anything?
Ennobled, elevated; yes. But
whom has it saved?
"Could not art and literature
in fact, help the modern world?"
(from Alexander Solzhentsyn's
1970 Nobel Prize acceptance
speech which he was not
allowed travel permit to
deliver in person. The speech
continued for several thousand
words arguing for the power
of literature to speak truth and
vanquish lies.

Five artists have taken inspira-
tion from that theme:
Melissa Levokove, Bob Herman,
Matt Hopard (aka Stop Motion),
John Marcus Powell, and
Michelle Slater will present
responses in poetry, prose,
and music.

Upcoming Events

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