Monday Digest – May 11, 2009
May 13 at 9 pm Three Weeks (part of LABA) 14 Street Y, NYC
The early stages of Yoav Gal’s brand new opera, “Three Weeks” is featured at LABA. The opera traces the events surrounding the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, c. 70 AD. The sources for this narrative come form the Talmud and Jewish legends. Music and Design by Yoav Gal, Libretto by Ruby Namdar, Video Projections by Mirit Tal
May 14 at 6:30 pm Painted Memories: A Conversation with Artist Mayer Kirshenblatt The Jewish Museum NYC
Self-taught artist Mayer Kirshenblatt is joined by his daughter, noted scholar Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, for a conversation with Dave Isay, Founder and President of StoryCorps, about the role of memory in the creative process. The conversation will also explore how nearly forty years of father and daughter interviews resulted in the exhibition They Called Me Mayer July. Member Prices: $10 General: $15; Students / Over 65: $12
(Read the review of Kirshenblatt’s book, also titled They Called Me Mayer July, on Nextbook)
May 11 – May 17 Not God Montclair, NJ
A play in verse by renowned oncologist, Marc J. Straus, which documents the shared journey through illness of a doctor and patient. The harrowing, eloquent poems form a remarkable dialogue revealing their unspoken yet sacred relationship and the full range of secret hopes and fears, victories and defeats.
May 11 – May 17 Tzelem: Likeness and Presence in Jewish Art Stanton Street, NYC
An exhibition of the Jewish Art Salon about the notion of Tzelem/Likeness, in conjunction with the LABA festival, is taking place at the Stanton Street Shul.
May 19 at 7:30 pm Four Seasons Lodge (preview screening!) JCC Manhattan
Join us for a summer of special Catskill events, kicking off with a sneak preview of this award- winning film. From the darkness of Europe’s death camps to the lush mountains of New York’s Catskills, Four Seasons Lodge captures the final season for a community of Holocaust survivors who come together each summer to celebrate their lives. Followed by Q&A with director. $8.00 Member
$10.00 Non-Member
May 21 at 6:30 pm Conversation & Screening: Imagining the Shtetl The Jewish Museum, NYC
Scholars Jeffrey Shandler and Alisa Solomon join filmmaker Eleanor Antin to consider how shtetl life has been portrayed in film, literature, and popular culture. The evening will include a screening of Eleanor Antin’s film, The Man Without a World. This Yiddish post-modernist creation encompasses the full cycle of shtetl life, complete with abduction, seduction, dybbuks, exorcism, weddings, pogroms, and even the Angel of Death.Member Prices: $10 General: $15; Students / Over 65: $12
May 14 – June 21
Paintings and Collage by
Shanee Epstein at the 404 Gallery
Brooklyn NY
May 17, 1 – 4 PM; Opening Reception
