03/13/2026
Inside the Chelsea Hotel
For over a century, the Chelsea Hotel has been much more than just a place.
It is a refuge for artists, a laboratory for creativity, a theater for intense lives.
Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, Andy Warhol...they have all left their mark here.
But few people can tell its story from the inside.
Man-Lai Liang has lived at the Chelsea Hotel for decades.
She is not only a witness: she is its living memory.
Through The Public Speaker, Man-Lai offers a unique experience:
An immersive narrative, told room by room, anecdote by anecdote,
where official history meets intimate memories, where each space becomes a stage, each detail a story.
At private, cultural, or institutional events,
Man-Lai brings the Chelsea Hotel back to life through her words :
a sensitive, embodied narrative, accessible to all, which transports the audience to the heart of New York and its myth.
Listening to Man-Lai is not like attending a lecture.
It is like entering a place filled with souls, and coming out with the feeling of heaving experienced something there.
Man-Lai Storyteller of the Chelsea Hotel