Join us Sep 27 @ 11:45am via Facebook LIVE for a work in progress showing by poet, Mario Moroni, during his residency at Bethany Arts Community. View on Facebook LIVE This performance is an evocative, immersive, poetry reading experience. The first part entitled “Ballads of Maine” is a traditional reading with the support a microphone that […]
Join us Friday, April 9th at 7:30 PM via Zoom for "Collaborations: Words & Images" – an Online Talk with JILL KIEFER, Ph.D. Register During this talk we’ll be taking a look at some significant collaborations between wordsmiths and painters—from medieval times to the present day. In addition to illuminated manuscripts and bestiaries, we’ll have […]
Poetry Reading & Talk: An Interpretation of the Real: Poetry & Photography Register for Webinar April 18th from 1:00pm - 2:30pm "Photography is the art of the image while the work of many poems is to render images from the raw material of language. Both forms can also seek to find the essence of a […]
Generative ars poetica workshop with Poet in Residence, Pichchenda Bao April 28, 6 - 8 PM 8 Seats (registrants) Location: Bethany Arts Community – Performance Space (back-up plan will be virtual using Zoom) Masks, social distancing and healthcheck all required) Register Recommended Donation $20 Donate In this workshop we will explore the impulse to create and the ways in which we may recognize and […]
Poetry reading with poets in residence: Pichchenda (Chanda) Bao, Nicole Callihan, Jacob Goldwasser, Erika Meitner, Jason Schneiderman, and Rachael Phillips Shapiro. Watch the Poetry Reading Replay! In recognition of the 25th anniversary of National Poetry Month, Bethany Arts Community is offering our first ever residency focused on poetry. Join us for readings from these talented […]
Jenny Browne will be reading an excerpt of from her sequence of experimental ekphrastic poems “Here To See You”. Jenny will then be conducting a generative poetry workshop is open to all experience levels and will introduce participants to ekphrasis (writing in response to other works of art) as well as provide some hands-on tips […]
Bethany Arts Community offers residencies to emerging and established artists for the development of both new works and works in progress. APPLY NOW! For the Poetry Residency we encourage applications from individual poets as well as poet/artist pairs. Poet/Artist pairs must consist of one poet and another artist in any medium. Poet/Artist pairs must apply […]
Join us as we witness two artists bring each other’s works to life. Spoken word artists will share their work while the paint artist creates a piece inspired by the works of the Spoken Word Artist. Artists: Terrie Bentley, Paint Artist, Tamarah Bridgewater, Paint Artist; Andrew Bazemore, Spoken Word Artist; Tanai Goldwire, Spoken Word Artist; […]
2022 Poets in Residence Poetry Reading April 8 at 7pm REGISTER Bethany Arts Community presents our 2nd annual poetry residency. Honoring the deep and long connection between the arts and poetry, where artists have inspired poets, poets have inspired artists, and the two have created hand in hand, we are pleased to welcome these poets […]
Join us Saturday, September 10, 2022 5-7PM for a competitive arts event in the Garden of Peace & Love at Bethany Arts Community in Ossining, NY. Enjoy beautiful nature scenes and art with contemporary poets in heated elimination rounds of spoken word. REGISTER This program is a collaboration between Bethany Arts Community and Art In […]
Participants are invited to grapple with language as matter and material, and in sustained artistic lineages. How does language fizz, slip, crack, and sparkle with material presence? Beyond traditional genres of creative writing, how do language forms vex the ways we have taken authorship and audience as understood positions? Our explorations will open toward ways […]
Sarah Heady will read from her newest book of poems, COMFORT (Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2022), a meditation on female solitude, agency, and relationship set on the prairies of the American West. COMFORT braids together found language from historical texts, including rural women’s magazines of the 1910s and 1920s and “booster” documents extolling the virtues of […]
Kyle Marshall Choreography will be doing a showing of the Alice Coltrane/poetry project and initial ideas for the body rhythm/sound technology collaboration with the greater community. After the showing, there will be Q & A for the audience to offer them time to learn more about the work they are developing and express their thoughts […]
Call for Poets! Submit an Application: SUBMIT Application Deadline: January 3, 2023 at 11:59 PM EST Notifications: February 3, 2023 In recognition of the 27th anniversary of National Poetry Month in April 2023, Bethany Arts Community (BAC) in Ossining, NY is offering its third annual residency focused on poetry. Bethany Arts Community designs its residencies […]
Join us November 19, 2022 3-5 PM as we welcome back 2022 & 2021 BAC Poetry Residency Alumni Emily Hockaday and Nicole Callihan for an afternoon of poetry reading and Q&A. Featuring excerpts from Hockaday’s first full-length collection, Naming The Ghost and Callihan’s upcoming 2023 release, This Strange Garment. Artist Biographies: Emily Hockaday’s first full-length […]
Register Adult Register Student Date and Time of Class: Tuesday, November 22 & 29, 6-8 PM Ages: Open to all ages over 16 Cost: $40 Adults & $20 Students only Instructor: KM Smith TECHNIQUE DEVELOPMENT: Highly engaging, eliminates writer's blocks, great for crisp imagery, and effective symbolism. Materials Required: Feel free to bring a laptop, […]
An Interactive Poetry Reading with Pace University Writing & Cultural Studies students Tuesday, April 4th 4-6pm (not open to the public) As the Community Program component of their residency, BAC's poets-in-residence will facilitate an interactive poetry reading with Pace University students from the Writing & Cultural Studies Department at the Dyson College of Arts and […]
We invite you to listen and respond, to explore your own tenderness through writing and play. Join BAC’s 2023 poets-in-residence for an interactive poetry reading on Friday, April 7th at 7pm. The evening will include poetry readings, an interactive activity, and a Q&A. Date and Time: Friday, April 7, 2023 7-9:00 PM Tickets: Free with registration
REGISTER FOR OPEN MIC Third Sundays, March 19, April 16, May 21, June 18, 2023 3-4:30PM NECS invites you to our monthly Spoken Word Event. We'll have a poetry writing workshop for the first half hour, after which participants will be invited to present their poetry in an open mic fashion. If anyone wishes to […]
Postponed, new date TBA due to weather and travel concerns. Stay tuned for more information on our Poetry Slam! Join us for a competitive arts event in the Garden of Peace & Love at Bethany Arts Community in Ossining, NY. Enjoy beautiful nature scenes and art with contemporary poets in heated elimination rounds of spoken […]
Title: Get Free Friday Date & Time: NEW DATE! Monday, October 2, 2023 7-9PM Join BAC Fall Multidisciplinary Residents Nikomeh Anderson and Melissa Ferrer Civil for their FREE Community Program: Get Free Friday! Gather round the fire pit, find your inner freedom in community through the magic of words, conversations, music, and sharing. The spirit […]