EVENTS

2/21/25 - 3/2/25
"February House," the musical
Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts
The Treehouse Collective presents Gabriel Kahane's and Seth Bockley's musical adaptation of Sherill Tippins' "February House," originally staged at the New York Public Theater.
Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts
1929 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL

2/16/25
"Art Making  in a Time of Crisis"
Playwrights Julie Marie Myatt and Jessica Thuebus, artist/activist Cynthia Weiss, and Chicago Poet Laureate avery r. young, and actors from the Wirtz Center's production of "February  House," based on the book by Sherill Tippins, will explore the methods through which artists have resisted tyranny and oppression throughout the ages.
Evanston Public Library
1703 Orrington Avenue
Evanston, IL

10/17/24 (SOLD OUT) & 10/21/24
GHOSTS OF THE CHELSEA HOTEL (and Other Rock and Roll Stories)
Cine Girona, Barcelona, Spain 
Cinemes Girona presents Chip Baker's new documentary, Grand Prix winner of the 2023 Japan Indies Film Festival, featuring actor Michael Imperioli, author Sherill Tippins, rockers Harley Flanagan, Neon Leon, and many others.
Cine Girona
Carrer de Girona, 175
L'Eixample
Barcelona, Spain

9/27/24 - 10/13/24
"February House," the musical
Plaza Theatres, Boston Center for the Arts
The Treehouse Collective presents Gabriel Kahane's and Seth Bockley's musical adaptation of Sherill Tippins' "February House," originally staged at the New York Public Theater.
Boston Center for the Arts
539 Tremont Street
Boston, MA

3/1/24, 7:30pm
Songs from the "February House"Brooklyn Art Song Society
Works by Benjamin Britten and songs by Kurt Weill will be presented, with a pre-concert lecture by "February House" author
Sherill Tippins.
First Unitarian Church
119-121 Pierrepont Street
Brooklyn Heights, NY

9/5/23, 9:00pm
GHOSTS OF THE CHELSEA HOTEL (and Other Rock and Roll Stories) Debuts at Joe's Pub
Chip Baker's new documentary, featuring actor Michael Imperioli, author Sherill Tippins, rockers Harley Flanagan, Neon Leon, 
and many others, makes its debut at the Public Theater's iconic club venue.
Joe's Pub
425 Lafayette Street
New York, NY

3/24/23, 7:00pm
Author Sherill Tippins and Filmmaker Maya Duverdier explore the utopian impetus behind the Hotel Chelsea's creation
Consortium Museum
​37, Rue du Longvic
Dijon, France

3/23/23, 11:00am
Author appearance and book signing, INSIDE THE DREAM PALACE
Médiathèque
8, bis Rue de la République
Salins-les-Bains, France

3/22/23, 7:00pm
Presentation of the Prix du Livre Fourier-Considerant for INSIDE THE DREAM PALACE
Fondation Maison de Salin
6, rue Jean-Marie de Grimaldi
Salins-les-Bains, France

3/17/23, 6:30pm
Historian Jean-Noël Jeanneny announces the selection of INSIDE THE DREAM PALACE for the 2023 Prix du Livre Fourer-Considerant
Salle Courbet, City Hall
6, rue Mégevand
Besançon, France

12/23/22, 7:10am
"The Taylor Show" with Taylor Sterling,
Taylor Sterling has spent time at the Chelsea, and that makes her all the more curious about its origins and history. Tune in for a talk about the nineteenth-century vision behind the hotel.
WTBQ and WGHT Radio, New Jersey

2/20/21, 12 noon
"Pandemic Salon - On Hotels"
Dannielle Tegeder hosts Rick Moody (author and Bonderman Professor of the Practice of Literary Arts at Brown University), Pablo León de la Barra (Curator at Large, Latin America at the Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, New York and Chief Curator at MAC Museum of Contemporary Art of Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro), Sherill Tippins (author), Pablo Helguera (writer, artist, and The New School Professor), Chris Doyle (artist), and Chris Stewart (musician), for a celebration of the pleasures of hotel life around the world.

4/1/19, 6:30 p.m.
"The Queer Creative Impulse: Artistic Expression and Gender Identity"
Join us for a discussion on the intersection of LGBTQ identity and creativity. Hugh Ryan, curator of the exhibition On the (Queer) Waterfront, and author of the new book When Brooklyn Was Queer, is joined by historian and CUNY professor, Daniel Hurewitz, author of Bohemian Los Angeles whose work focuses on the development of gendered and sexual identities, and Sherill Tippins, author of the book February House about the salon/house described by the queer platform, them, as “the Queer Commune in WWII Brooklyn that became a cultural epicenter.” Moderated by the senior managing producer of the Slate Podcast Network, June Thomas, founder of Outward, Slate’s LGBTQ section. How artists helped to inspire queer activism is just one of the many topics that will be explored.
Brooklyn Historical Society
128 Pierrepont St.
Brooklyn, NY

6/7/17, 7:00 p.m.
​"Charles Fourier, Victor Considerant et le Chelsea Hotel: L'Utopie Comtoise et la Naissance d'un Mythe New-Yorkais"
The story of the Chelsea Hotel's origins, in English and French.
Grand Salon
18 rue Chifflet
Besançon, France

6/6/17, 7:30 p.m.
​"Charles Fourier, Victor Considerant et le Chelsea Hotel: L'Utopie Comtoise et la Naissance d'un Mythe New-Yorkais"
The story of the Chelsea Hotel's origins, in English and French.
Salle Notre-Dame
16 rue Ch. Magnin
Salins-les-Bains, France

2/16/17
"Five-Minute Talks 2017" at the National Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Amsterdam 
The Institute's spring semester 2016/17 starts with short presentations by fellows, who will present their research project in 5 minutes to other members of the interdisciplinary academic community. Foreign writer-in-residence Sherill Tippins will describe 
her work-in-progress, The First Two Hundred, the story of the first European settlers on Manhattan Island, creators of the culture that is the city of New York.
NIAS/KNAW
Korte Spinhuis 3
Amsterdam, Netherlands

12/16/15 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Chelsea Hotel Celebrates Resident Composer Gerald Busby
Join Adam Gopnik, Sherill Tippins, Jessica Robinson, Kathryn Reed Altman, Ann Northrop,
Craig Lucas, Linda Troeller, William Ivey Long, and Young Artists at the Chelsea for a celebration
of Hotel Chelsea resident composer Gerald Busby's 80th birthday celebration. 
Hotel Chelsea
222 W. 23rd Street
New York, N.Y. 10011

10/5/15   7:00 p.m.
Reading with Romy Ashby at St. Mark's Bookshop
Readings from Romy Ashby's Stink and Sherill Tippins's Inside the Dream Palace
St. Mark's Bookshop
136 E. 3rd St.
New York, NY 

4/15/15       8:00 p.m.
Buffalo Books and Beer Reading Series
Resurgence Brewing Company
1250 Niagara Street
Buffalo, NY

3/18/15     7:00 p.m.
292 Gallery
292 E. 3rd Street
New York, NY

11/7/14     12:00 p.m.
92 Street Y
1395 Lexington Ave.
New York, N.Y.

8/5/14   7:00 p.m. 
New City Library
220 N. Main Street
New City, NY

7/1/14   3:30 p.m.
Tea and Talk summer lecture series
Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum
104 Walker Street
Lenox, Massachusetts
Tickets $18 in advance, $23 day of lecture, 413-637-3206

5/21/14    7:30 p.m.
Washington Arts Club Marfield Award public presentation program
The Arts Club of Washington
The Monroe House
2017 I Street NW
Washington, D.C.
Free of charge and open to the public

4/10/14    6:30 p.m.
Inside the Dream Palace at the Mid-Manhattan Library
New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Branch
455 Fifth Avenue (at 40th Street), Manhattan, NY

2/19/14   6:30 p.m. 
The Coffee House Club
20 W. 44th Street, 6th Floor, Manhattan, NY
Members Only

12/3/13   7:00 p.m. 
With Dennis Dunaway of Alice Cooper at the Strand Bookstore
828 Broadway (at 12th Street), Manhattan, NY

10/19/13    5:30 p.m.
Britten in Song: A Centennial Celebration
With pianist Malcolm Martineau, pianist Michael Broffman, soprano Martha Guth, and baritone Michael Kelly. Jesse Blumberg, moderator.
Brooklyn Historical Society
128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY

1/8/13     8:00 p.m. 
February House at the National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South, Manhattan, NY

2/18/12    7:30 p.m.
Carson McCullers’ 100th birthday celebration
The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians
Smith-McCullers House, 1519 Stark Avenue, Columbus, GA

5/23/12    8:00 p.m.
February House, the musical by Gabriel Kahane and Seth Bockley, opens at the New York Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY

3/11/11    8:00 p.m.
February House keynote address: The Big Read
R. R. Smith Center, Staunton, VA.

4/6/10    7:00 p.m.
February House reading: The Big Read
Headquarters Library, 300 Maiden Lane, Fayetteville, Ar

5/14/09    7:00 p.m. 
February House reading: The Big Read
Presented by Chapters Literary Arts Center
The Charles Sumner School
17th & M Streets, NW
Washington, D.C.

4/3/08    6:30 p.m.
The Chelsea Hotel: A panel discussion with preservationist Edward Kirkland and Ed Hamilton, author of Legends of the Chelsea Hotel..
The Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

8/24/05    7:00 p.m.
Dartington International Summer School for musicians
Dartington Hall, Dartington, U.K.

7/30/05    6:30 p.m.
February House and the Making of “Peter Grimes” 
The Santa Fe Opera House 
Santa Fe, NM

1/30/05     7:00 p.m. 
Benjamin Britten and ”Paul Bunyan”
Opera Omaha Public Forum
1850 Farnam Street, Omaha, NE