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“A new day, or a new era, begins not with the start of new conditions, but with the demise of the old conditions.” Jenny Levison and Josh Waletzky discuss “The Last Dybbuk,” a devised theater work incorporating dance and music. Through it, they are investigating how we know when an ideology is no longer relevant. Come
HOW DO WE USE TIME TO CREATE ORDER IN OUR LIVES? WEDNESDAY, 4/1 7:30PM $20 RUN TIME: 75 MIN. JOIN US FOR AN EVENING OF SUBVERSIVE TEACHINGS AND INNOVATIVE ART AND PERFORMANCES INSPIRED BY ANCIENT JEWISH TEXTS. The evening will feature: FILM: “5 x Lydda” SARAH FRIEDLAND 5 x Lydda is a documentary installation about
BY ANDY TEIRSTEIN When I was a kid, I remember walking down the street, peering up at the full moon, and feeling a secret connection. It woke something in me, a kind of truth in nature, a relationship. Years later, sleeping on a mountain in Maine or in canyons out west, I would watch the
We Live For Tomorrow A Socially Aware Art Project OMTA discuss their work in progress, a new visionary playground that will look at how art can be used to heal and transform. See them present this live on March 5th, at SACRED TIME. [hr style=”striped”] Tell us about your project. “It is easier to build
Benjamin Kamine looks at how God spends the day and whether leisure is really possible for creators. [hr style=”striped”] Unlike most people, I am not particularly bothered by my lack of work/life balance. I find myself frustrated by the idea. It suggests that there is this thing called work and this thing called life. They
On Thursday, February 26, LABAllive will present “Creating Time,” an evening of innovative culture and subversive teachings exploring our relationship with time. The evening will feature curator Daniel S. Palmer talking about a new digital curatorial model, teacher Ruby Namdar explaining the relationship between creation and time and Benjamin Kamine presenting an excerpt from a
Join us for an evening of subversive teachings and innovative art and performances inspired by ancient Jewish texts. CREATING TIME. THU 2/26, 7:30pm Do we make time? Does time make us? TICKETS HERE The evening will feature: THEATER: “Promised Land” Written by Ari Stess, Directed by Benjamin Kamine While World War II rages on in
“There is wine and there is wine, so also there is a cup and there is a cup, and all is, this for good and this for evil.” Zohar II:246b SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 7:30 PM You’ve seen wine paired with food, but how about wine paired with texts? Join LABA fellows, ancient text scholars and a sommelier
YOAV GAL. LEVI-YULZARI DUO. ALICIA SVIGALS. NADAV LEV & RINAT SHAHAM. JANUARY 9/ 8PM JANUARY 11/ 11:30AM with BRUNCH TICKETS START AT $15 14th STREET Y *BRUNCH INCLUDES MIMOSAS AND A LIGHT NOSH CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS. FEATURING: YOAV GAL Pioneering ‘indie opera’ creator Yoav Gal presents his “Shekhinah” song cycle, which constructs
Presented by LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture, as part of NYTF’s KulturefestNYC THE MAR VISTA THE MAR VISTA, a dance/theater work written and choreographed by Yehuda Hyman in collaboration with the Mystical Feet Company (Ron Kagan, Dwight Kelly, Amanda Schussel and Hyman), is a fractured memoir about an American Jewish family. Taking place over