Guild Hall: Emergency Eyewash ABC — Live Performance of Poetry, Visual Art & Music / Sept 26 @ 7 PM

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Featuring artists including Joan Jonas, Eileen Myles, 

Wadada Leo Smith, and more!

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MUSIC

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 7 PM

EMERGENCY EYEWASH ABC: 

CAROL SZYMANSKI, BARRY SCHWABSKY & WADADA LEO SMITH

Artist Carol Szymanski and poet and art critic Barry Schwabsky present Emergency Eyewash ABC, a live performance bringing together poetry, visual art, and music.

The performance features a series of live readings from a new alphabet book for grown-ups written by 28 contemporary American poets alongside projections of Szymanski’s video fantasia on the alphabet and musical improvisation by legendary trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith.

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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

Performing Arts programs are supported by 2026 season sponsors Galia Meiri-Stawski and Axel Stawski, with additional lead support from Henry and Peggy Schleiff, The Melville Straus Family Endowment, Monica and Peter Tessler, and Vital Projects Fund.

Guild Hall’s Performing Arts programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Additional support provided by Friends of the Theater: Natascia Ayers, Bonnie and Joel Bergstein, Gene Bernstein and Kathy Walsh, Amy Cooney and Marty Feinman, John and Joan D’Addario, Lynn and Richard Feinson, Suzanne and John Golden, Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan, Steve and Susan Pesner and Peace, in memory of Michéle Pesner, whose entire life was devoted to all aspects of culture, The Schaffner Family Foundation, Lisa Schultz and Ezriel Kornel, Stacey and Oliver Stanton, Susi and Peter Wunsch, and Mrs. George Yates.

PHOTO: Wadada Leo Smith. Photo: Michael Jackson