We are excited to announce The 2017 Annual Meeting of the Washington Square Association on June 21st at 6pm at the King Juan Carlos Center. We are pleased to announce the election of our officers, provide association updates and welcome our distinguished speakers:
Read MoreThe weather is warming up and NYU's graduates have marched through the park, which can only mean one thing: it's time to kick off the Washington Square Music Festival, now running in its 59th year. The concert series begins on June 6th at 8pm in the park with a performance of Carmina Burana, featuring the Stonewall Choir, the nation’s first LBGT Chorus, and soloists: Ariadne Greif, soprano; Lindell O. Carter, tenor; andMichael Kelly, baritone. Lutz Rath conducts the Festival Chamber Orchestra.
Concerts will continue running every Tuesday through June 27th. Join us in the park, or if there should be rain at one of our rain spaces. Please check our calendar on the home page for more information.
Read MoreOne of our favorite neighborhood events is the Washington Square Music festival, a series of concerts in Washington Square Park every summer. We have the proud honor of being the Founding Sponsor of the event series, now in it's 58th year. The first concert is June 7th at 8pm, repeating weekly for 4 concerts.
Read MoreCelebrate your favorite winter holiday December in Washington Square when The Washington Square Association offers two chances to sing yuletide carols in downtown’s historic park- Dec 9th at 6pm for the tree lighting and Dec. 24th at 5pm for Christmas Caroling. The Association provides the annual 45-foot Christmas tree under the Arch that will be lit for the season between the hours of 4 pm and 1 am.
Read MoreOn Friday, November 20 at 8 pm in St. Joseph’s Church in Greenwich Village, 371 Sixth Avenue at Washington Place, the Washington Square Music Festival offers a pre-holiday gift to music lovers – A Celebration of Strings, a free concert of 20th century music by Jerome Kern, Ernest Bloch, & Richard Strauss. Lutz Rath conducts Festival String Chamber Orchestra.
Read MoreWe will be holding our annual meeting on Monday, June 29 at 6 pm, at NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South. Our special guest speaker is Emily Kies Folpe, Ph.D,, art historian and author of It happened on Washington Square. The title of the presentation is “Picturing the Square”. Washington Square through the eyes of artists from Edward Hopper to Red Grooms. Refreshments will be served.
There is no charge, but please RSVP to pacrasia@aol.com . Members of the Washington Square Association and neighbors in the community are welcome to join us.
Read MoreOn Tuesday June 23 at 8 pm in Washington Square, Harp & Chamber Orchestra features an unusual program ranging from a setting of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Mask of Red Death” by André Caplet, to the more familiar Peer Gynt suite by Grieg. The harp, played by Lynette Wardle, is the featured instrument in three works.
Read MoreThe Washington Square Association is proud to announce that the 57th season of the Washington Square Music Festival begins this Junes 16th and continues into July. Our free concerts in the park are a long standing tradition of beautiful and interesting music brought to our community through the support of many community organizations.
This season includes 4 concerts starting June 16th:
Read MoreThe Washington Square Association, the venerable institution founded more than one hundred years ago to enhance the interests of the Park and its environs, is pleased to announce "WSA Kids in Culture" a free pilot program of art and chess lessons for children aged 11 through 13 in Washington Square Park, the center of Village Culture.
Read MoreGreat news for our majestic arch. We just received word from Sarah Neilson at the Parks Department that the lights that shine on the Arch and make it stand out at night are bing upgraded. They will be more energy efficient and hopefully no more flickering. You may see some workers at the arch and the lights could be inconsistent over the next couple weeks, but be prepared for a newly lit, even more beautiful arch.
Read MoreWe are very excited to announce the dates for the Washington Square Music Festival, one of our favorite event series of the year. Spring is in the air and June seems almost graspable. As the weather warms, so will the music fill our park with 4 concerts in the park starting June 16th.
Read MoreOn Tuesday June 24 at 8 pm Lucia Hyunju Song, soprano, and Laila Salins, mezzo-soprano, accompanied by the Festival Chamber Ensemble, perform Vocal Music/Baroque To Modern, a free concert in Washington Square Park. Ms. Song and Ms. Salins are favorite performers with the Music Festival, and this concert includes a premiere of Ms. Salins' original settings of poems by Anne Sexton. The Festival is under the auspices of the Washington Square Association, Inc. Seating is on a first-come, first served basis.
Read MoreWe are so pleased to have the weather warm up. Children are playing in the park and on weekends the fountain is buzzing with energy late into the night as the sun sets. The revitatlized arch is as iconic and stoic as ever. And summer means new dates for the Washington Square Music Festival.
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