14
Foundation for Jewish Culture News
It seems you are new to The Jewish Culture Log of Arts, so we would like to recommend that you subscribe to our RSS feed to keep yourself up-to-date of the best art from the Jewish Community. Thank you for your visit!
Recent Grants awarded by the Foundation for Jewish Culture
The New Jewish Theater Projects winners for 2007 are: FortyMagnolias (Cambridge, MA) for The Etty Project by Kirk Lynn; The Brooklyn Playwrights Collective (Brooklyn, NY) for To the Orchard by Les Hunter; Whole Art Theater (Kalamazoo, MI) for Ain’t Got No Home by Steve Feffer; and The Marsh (San Francisco, CA) for Rabbi Sam by Charlie Varon. The grants may be applied toward any aspect of the play’s development, such as the commissioning fee, the playwright’s residency expenses, or workshop costs, to name a few.
Upcoming Cultural Events
NEW YORK, NY
A Jew in Poland
Thursday, June 14, 2007 6:30 PM Exhibition Viewing, 7:00 PM Performance
Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street (btwn Fifth and Sixth Avenues), New York City
Admission is $8 Adults; $6 seniors and students; Free for YUM members and YU students and staff.
Contact: (212) 294.8330 ext. 8819 or email: programs@yum.cjh.org
Choreographer Risa Jaroslow performs her 1995 solo piece, “A Jew in Poland” (13 mins.) and will discuss how she developed the autobiographical work that combines dance with theater. “A Jew in Poland” sets up a confrontation between self-definition and the definition of the self by others, using dance and text to connect past and present. The New York Times called her performance piece, “funny, biting, immensely moving.” Post-performance discussion moderated by Elise Bernhardt, President and CEO of the Foundation for Jewish Culture.
Website: www.hightidedance.com
ST. PAUL, MN
Paper Dolls
Tuesday, June 17, 2007 7:00 PM
Jewish Community Center of the Greater St. Paul Area
1375 St. Paul Avenue
Admission is $5 for a St. Paul JCC member and $8 for a non-member.
For more information, please contact Penny Schumacher at 651-255-4740 or pschumacher@stpauljcc.org.
“Paper Dolls,” is a moving documentary that explores the role of immigrant workers in Western culture, and delves into the lives of societal outcasts seeking freedom and acceptance. Tomer Heymann, the film’s Israeli director, tells the story of Filipinos in various stages of gender transition, who were enticed to immigrate to Israel by Israeli authorities who sought to fill gaps in the job market after closing the border to Palestinian workers. He chronicles their adjustment to Israeli society as caregivers to elderly, Orthodox Jewish men who often come to view them as substitute children, juxtaposed by their nightly performances as a drag queen ensemble, “Paper Dolls,” in Tel Aviv nightclubs.
Website: www.stpauljcc.org
LOS ANGELES, CA
The Stuff of Memories: Finding the Artifacts of Jewish L.A.
June 17, 2007 11:00 AM - 5:00 AM
Autry National Center’s Museum of the American West
4700 Western Heritage Way (cross street N. Zoo Drive), 90027
Free Admission to event; Museum Admission is separate.
Contact: (323) 667-2000
Help create our upcoming exhibition on local Jewish history. Bring in your artifacts and special objects-photos of old synagogues, mementos from Boyle Heights, souvenirs from Canter’s on Brooklyn Avenue-whatever you have to help us tell the history of the Jews of Los Angeles. Enjoy panel discussions, music, and entertainment. Then, have your objects appraised.
Website: www.autrynationalcenter.org
VIENNA, AUSTRIA
Gray Area
Reception: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Exhibition June 20, 2007 - August 4, 2007
Habres+Partner Gallery
Hollandstasse 7 A-1020 Vienna
Contact: +43 (1) 522 64 65 22
Shirley Wegner is a New York based artist, born in Tel Aviv, Israel. In her work, Wegner investigates the idea of collective and personal memory as formed through imagery in the Jewish-Israeli experience. Her work addresses ideas of nostalgia, construction of memory and ideology and offers an exploration of the relationship between a personal narrative and a political reality.
Website: www.nacpool.at/upcoming
NEW YORK, NY
Golem w/ Extra Action Marching Band and Nervous Cabaret
Saturday, June 23, 2007 8:00 PM
Knitting Factory
74 Leonard St
Advance Tickets - $12; Day of Show Tickets - $15
Contact: www.knittingfactory.com
Golem is a 6 piece Eastern European folk-punk band, fronted by Annette Ezekiel - singer, accordionist, and 5-foot powerhouse; and vocalist, tambourine player, crazy-man Aaron Diskin; violin virtuoso Alicia Jo Rabins; trombonist extraordinaire Curtis Hasselbring; elegant upright bassist Taylor Bergren-Chrisman, and unstoppable drummer Tim Monaghan. Golem’s sound evokes wisps of old-world elegance filtered through the successes and disappointments of new-world dreams.
Website: www.golemrocks.com
WASHINGTON, DC
Pangs of the Messiah
Part of “Voices from a Changing Middle East” Festival English Language World Premiere by Motti Lerner
June 23 - July 22, 2007;
Performing Wednesday & Thursday at 7:30 pm
Saturday at 8:00 pm
Sunday at 3 & 7:30 pm
District of Columbia Jewish Community Center, The Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theatre
1529 Sixteenth Street, NW
Admission is $25; students $20.
Contact: (202) 518-9400
By the celebrated author of The Murder of Isaac and featuring an Israeli creative team helmed by director Sinai Peter, “Pangs of Messiah” depicts the fiercely humane and harrowing lives of eight West Bank settlers who resist the dismantling of their settlement by the Israeli Defense Forces. Set in the future after the signing of a Peace Accord between the Israeli Government and the Palestinian Authority, Motti Lerner’s play reveals the widely divergent responses within an extended family as Shmuel, the leader of the settlement movement, is forced to reckon with the legacy of his teachings.
Website: www.theaterj.org/center-for-arts/theater-j/06-07season/middleeast/aboutpangs.html
NEW YORK, NY
Ita B’Ita - Ita Aber in Her Time: 60 Years of Creativity and Innovation
Artist’s Reception: Sunday, June 24, 2007 11 AM - 2 PM
Exhibition to View: June 24 - October 14, 2007
Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street (btwn Fifth and Sixth Avenues), New York City
Admission is $8 Adults; $6 seniors and students; Free for YUM members and YU students and staff.
Contact: (212) 294.8330 ext. 8819 or email: programs@yum.cjh.org
This retrospective exhibition shows us 60 years of one artist’s oeuvre in fiber, painting, sculpture, appliqué, embroidery, and printing, most inspired by ancient Jewish art from a contemporary feminist and humanitarian vantage point. It is exceedingly diverse - it includes Purim masks, beaded mezuzot, jewelry, ceremonial Judaica, and synagogue adornments done in appliqué, embroidery, patchwork and pieced fabrics.
Website: yumuseum.org/index.php?pg=3&time=upcoming
NEW YORK, NY
Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
July 11, 2007 7:00 PM, 9:00 PM
Museum of Jewish Heritage- A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
36 Battery Place See map: Google Maps
$10 adults; $ 7 students/seniors; $5 members
Contact: (646) 437-4200
In this poignant and breathtaking memoir, Lucette Lagnado, an investigative reporter and senior special writer for The Wall Street Journal, recounts the exile of her Jewish Egyptian family from Cairo to Paris to New York, and her father’s heroic and tragic struggle to survive his “riches to rags” trajectory. Ms. Lagnado will be in discussion with New York Times editorial legend Arthur Gelb, who is the author of “City Room,” his highly acclaimed memoir of his years in The Times newsroom.
To purchase tickets, go to: www.ticketweb.com
HOLLYWOOD, CA
LA Jewish Symphony: A Feast for the Senses, East Meets West
July 15, 2007 7:30 PM
Ford Amphitheatre
2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East (cross street Highland), 90068
Admission is Full Price $36, $25; Students and Children: $12.
Contact: (323) 461-3673
The Yuval Ron Ensemble, blend exotic music and dance of the Middle East with the lush brilliance of the orchestra. Plus, an Ariel Blumenthal premiere for Oud, voice and orchestra. Bring your own food and have a picnic with friends, order our gourmet boxed dinner, or purchase items at our snack bar.
Website: www.FordTheatres.org
- Si te gustó el artÃculo, deja una marca social (usando el botón “Compártelo” aquà abajo) y compártelo con el mundo. El universo te lo agradecerá, ¡No lo dudes! -
If you liked that post, then try these...
From JOSHUA ABARBANEL by Eyal on February 10th, 2007
My work is inspired and informed by nature, by the colors, forms, and structures found in biological, botanical, and geological forms.
Jewish Art by Bernardo Korzeniak by Eyal on March 16th, 2007
.
Hyman Bloom, eerie paintings of rabbis, ghosts, and demons by Eyal on April 2nd, 2007
by Stephen Vider
.
Comenta esta entrada
Debes loguearte para dejar un comentario.