Walking Tours: EV Arts Festival: In-Person Walking Tour: Artists, Writers, Musicians of Tompkins Square
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As part of our fifth annual East Village Arts Festival, please join us for a fun in-person walking tour with library manager Corinne Neary, and street photographer Michael Paul, on Friday, December 3 at 11am.
To attend this free tour, please register above with your email address.
Tompkins Square Park, in NYC's East Village, has long been a center of the arts.
Famed lyricist Yip Harburg spent hours of his childhood in the Tompkins Square Library reading room, years before he wrote the lyrics to the 20th Century's most famous song, Over the Rainbow.
Poet Frank O'Hara, the "poet among the painters" lived on 9th Street and wrote poems while looking across the park at St Brigid's Church.
Allen Ginsberg attended the first U.S. chanting of "Hare Krishna" in the park in 1966.
World famous drag queens RuPaul, Lady Bunny, and Lypsinka performed at the Pyramid Club and the Wigstock festival.
We will discuss these artists, and many more! Please join us!
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