Special Events
Occasionally, we host or partner with other organizations to bring you special events at various times of the year, including outside our regular summer operating season. Check this page for updates on any special events planned in the future!
Upcoming Special Events
This Program is Sponsored by
Doug Deneen & David Kreckman
This Program is Presented in
Partnership with
The Sound of What You Say
Saturday, September 13, 2025 — 7:00 PM
The Sembrich is partnering with the Adirondack Center for Writing to present this special program. Writer & dramaturg Lauren Whitehead will perform readings and songs that demonstrate how musicality and rhythm give power to the spoken word.
About the Artist
Lauren Whitehead is an Assistant Arts Professor at Tisch Drama. She is a writer, performer, and dramaturg, and writes in several forms including poetry, nonfiction, adaptations, and drama. Whitehead adapted Ta-Nehisi Coates’ award winning memoir, Between the World and Me, for staging at the Apollo Theater and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts (Dir. Kamilah Forbes). Her most recent performances include originating the lead role of “Un/Sung” in the opera We Shall Not Be Moved, which she performed at the Wilma Theater, the Apollo Theater, and at the Stadsschouwburg Theater in Amsterdam (Dir. Bill T. Jones). Whitehead is a Sundance Theater Lab Fellow, a Sundance Talent Forum Fellow, and she has worked as a dramaturg at Hedgebrook and at the Denver Center for Performing Arts. Her writings have been published in Apogee Journal, Winter Tangerine, and in selected anthologies including Break Beat Poets, Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic.
Whitehead has taught creative writing workshops all around the country for the past 15 years. Prior to joining the faculty at NYU, Whitehead was a part-time lecturer at the New School for Drama and was a Teaching Fellow in the Undergraduate Writing Program at Columbia University.
Tickets: $20
This Program is Presented in
Partnership with
Songs of Ukraine
Friday, October 10, 2025 — 7:00 PM
The Sembrich is partnering with the Ukrainian Classical Voice Project to present a concert of Ukrainian art songs. The program will also include a performance of Mykola Lysenko’s children’s opera “The Bully Goat.”
About the Ukrainian Classical Voice Project
The Ukrainian Classical Voice Project is a newly founded groundbreaking educational initiative which focuses on giving voice to the underrepresented composers of Ukraine, while also celebrating and promoting the nation's stunning musical heritage.
Introducing American and global audiences to these rarely-heard musical treasures strongly aligns with our convictions about social justice, supporting the marginalized creative groups and the concept of equality at large. To us at UCVP, fighting for Ukrainian voice means fighting for inclusion, fair representation, diversity and artistic integrity.
The UCVP offers Ukrainian diction coaching for singers, provides music scores, IPA transcription resources, organizes workshops, presentations and seminars on Ukrainian art songs and operatic arias in colleges and universities across the United States and beyond. We frequently put together concerts, recitals and community events meant to spread the word about these unique masterpieces, delivering easy access to the immersive experience for both the audiences and performers.
Tickets: $25