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Join LABA BAY AREA for CHANGE on 11/16

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Over the past year, the 2025 LABA BAY AREA fellows have collectively engaged with ancient Jewish texts on the subject of “CHANGE” in LABA’s open-minded and free-spirited house of study. They encountered old stories and ideas and then created new art and culture in response. Join us for an intimate experience of these creative works,

Applications open for 2026 LABA BAY AREA fellows — NAME

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APPLY HERE. The 2026 LABA theme is NAME. We will be exploring the act of naming, the act of being named, and humanity’s strange relationship with language overall. For thousands of years, Jews have been obsessed with names, interrogating the relationship between language, existence and consciousness. Assigning language to a particular person, place, thing, or

CHANGE

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  THE 2025 THEME FOR LABA IS CHANGE. Our relationship with change reaches in two, oppositional directions. We fear change, loathe change, long to keep things as they are or reverse things to how they used to be. We desire to return to mythical homelands, to gardens, our childhoods, to the people and communities and

TABOO @ ICA+SF

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Congratulations to the 2023 LABA BAY AREA fellows for their sold-out TABOO exhibition and showcase.   For program info click here. And for images from the weekend click here and here.

LABA East Bay is Live and BROKEN

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LABAlive is BROKEN ART. MUSIC. THEATER. PERFORMANCE. ANCIENT TEXTS. Join LABA East Bay: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture at the JCC East Bay for a two-part series of art, performance, ancient Jewish text teachings, wine and schmoozing. The works featured in LABAlive come from the 2022 LABA East Bay artist fellows, and are inspired by

Our 2023 theme is TABOO

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In 2023, LABA hubs around the world will dive into the theme of TABOO. Clean. Dirty. Sacred. Profane. Okay. Not okay. We moderns like to think we are better than this. That we see beyond these moral categories and inhabit a muddied middle ground, an infinite gray area, in which life, people, things, are complicated.

Yochai Greenfield on “It Gets Bitter”

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    On June 16, LABA artist Yochai Greenfeld (New York-2018) will be presenting a full-version of his LABA project “It Gets Bitter” at the Gordon Art Center in Baltimore as part of the Queer Jewish Arts Festival. “It Gets Bitter is a one act dramedy featuring Abbi and Si Gezunt, a mother-son Kosher-Entertainment Duo.

LABA East Bay Gets TIPSY

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On Sunday, March 20 LABA EAST BAY hosted TIPSY, a wine, text, art and performance tasting outdoors at the JCC East Bay.

Our Doors Were Finally Opened

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On November 7, 2021 the JCC East Bay opened its doors to the public for the first time since Covid came into our lives. The reason was to welcome everyone to our first-ever LABAlive, during which we showcased the work of our CHOSEN fellows. Here’s a rundown of the work: Naomie Kremer TREE OF LIFE