Please note that space is often limited. Reservations are not confirmed until you receive a response from GVSHP regarding your reservation.
If space becomes an issue, all reservations will be honored up until the start of the program, at which point your seat may be given away to those on the wait list.
Upcoming
 Culture & Cuisine: Dishing Up the East Village
Eminent Outlaws: Scenes of the Crime
Hot August Night/1970 — The Forgotten LGBT Riot
GVSHP's 2012 Annual Meeting & Awards Ceremony
The Greenwich Village Follies & the Off Broadway Musical
Please note that space is often limited. Reservations are not confirmed until you receive a response from GVSHP regarding your reservation.
If space becomes an issue, all reservations will be honored up until the start of the program, at which point your seat may be given away to those on the wait list.
GVSHP Does the Jane Jacobs Walk!
Culture & Cuisine: Dishing Up the East Village
Walking Tours Led by Dana Schulz
Wednesday, May 23
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
OR
Thursday, May 24
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
These tours have reached capacity and we cannot accept any more reservations
Join GVSHP staff member Dana Schulz as she takes you on a journey through the East Village, peeling back the layers of the cultural gastronomy scene that have made this neighborhood so eclectic (and delicious!) over the years. Explore how immigrant groups established restaurants to serve their own community as well as share their heritage with the uninitiated. Learn the little-known facts that make these spots famous and infamous and discover how the emerging food scene of today reflects the changing culture of the neighborhood. Stops will include John's of 12th Street, Moishe's Bakery, and the Big Gay Ice Cream Shop. Food samples are NOT included, but you'll surely have some good dining ideas!
Jane Jacobs Walk is a program of the Center for the Living City, a nonprofit organization created by people who knew Jane Jacobs and were fortunate enough to call her a friend. The organization celebrates her life and legacy by helping people organize walks in their communities around the time of Jane's birthday in early May.
Eminent Outlaws: Scenes of the Crime
A Lecture by Chris Bram
Celebrate LGBT History Month With GVSHP & the LGBT Center!
Tuesday, June 5
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th Street
(between 7th & 8th Avenues)
Free; reservations required
RSVP to rsvp@gvshp.org or (212) 475-9585 ext. 35
 In the years following World War II, a small group of gay writers established themselves as literary power players, fueling cultural changes that would resonate for decades to come and transform the American literary landscape forever.
Christopher Bram, author of Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America, will discuss places in Greenwich Village where his protagonists worked, wrote, fought and loved. Following such figures as Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, James Baldwin, Frank O'Hara, Edmund White, Larry Kramer, and others, the lecture will provide a unique window into downtown literary history from 1947 to 1995. Bram's book will be available for sale and signing.
Hot August Night/1970 — The Forgotten LGBT Riot
A Lecture by Steven F. Dansky
Celebrate LGBT History Month With GVSHP & the LGBT Center!
Tuesday, June 19
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th Street
(between 7th & 8th Avenues)
Free; reservations required
RSVP to rsvp@gvshp.org or (212) 475-9585 ext. 35 
In August 1970, one year after the Stonewall Rebellion and one month after the historic first pride march to the Sheep Meadow in Central Park, there was a riot in Greenwich Village. It extended throughout Greenwich Village, involved hundreds of protesters, and culminated in 17 arrests. At the time the August 29, 1970 riot was considered un-newsworthy and, for more than four decades, disappeared from our collective memory.
Steven Dansky, an original member of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and the founder of Effeminism, will contextualize the riot within a historic continuum of LGBT struggle and analyze why the riot happened at that precise moment in history. Hot August Night/1970—The Forgotten LGBT Riot, Dansky's book, will be available for sale and signing.
GVSHP's 2012 Annual Meeting & Awards Ceremony
Thursday, June 7
6:30 - 8:00 p.m. with reception to follow
Tishman Auditorium, The New School
66 West 12th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues)
Free; Space is limited
Reservations must be made by June 4
RSVP to rsvp@gvshp.org or (212) 475-9585 ext. 35
Since 1991, GVSHP has presented businesses, individuals, institutions, and organizations with our Village Awards in recognition of their significant contribution to the legendary quality of life in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. GVSHP will honor the special people and places in our neighborhood, as nominated by you, that have made an important impact on life in the Village. GVSHP will also conduct its annual meeting as part of the ceremony. This evening will be held at the New School's historic Tishman Auditorium, a beautiful interior landmark in the Village.
The Greenwich Village Follies and the Birth of the Off Broadway Musical: A Lecture by Thomas Hischak
 Wednesday, June 13
6:30 - 8:0 p.m.
Salmagundi Club, 47 5th Avenue
(between East 11th & 12th Streets)
Free; reservations required
This event has reached capacity and we can only accept waitlist reservations at this time.
When the musical revue Greenwich Village Follies opened at the Greenwich Village Theatre in 1919, it not only celebrated the Village with a screwball sense of humor, it also introduced a new venue for the American musical theater: Off Broadway. Learn about the history of this remarkable series of musical shows and how it laid the groundwork for an alternative kind of theater forever after identified with the Village.
Thomas Hischak is the author of twenty-three books on theater, film, and popular music, including Off-Broadway Musicals Since 1919: From Greenwich Village Follies to The Toxic Avenger and The Oxford Companion to the American Musical. These titles will be available for sale and signing.
GVSHP’s programs are generously funded by: the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Council Member Rosie Mendez, and State Senator Tom Duane and Assembly Member Deborah Glick through the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Support is also provided by GVSHP members.
 
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