On Saturday, November 18th, at 7:30 PM at the 14th Street Y, LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture will kick off its 10th season with DRUNK, an intoxicating evening of art, performance and Jewish texts. Below, theater artists Brandon Woolf and Jon Adam Ross serve up an artistic aperitif. Egg Dream Procedural // Brandon Woolf
Kicking-off LABA’s 10th anniversary with our celebration, DRUNK: an evening filled with feasting, sipping and studying. Throughout the night, this year’s LABA fellows will be giving us an intoxicating taste of their projects, and LABA’s lead teacher Liel Leibovitz and LABA’s resident scholar Ruby Namdar will be enticing the guests into the mysterious eternal fermentation
The 2018 LABA Fellowship ventured to Brooklyn’s Industry City for a day of study, wine tasting and ping-pong. Fellow Jon Adam Ross reflects on his experience. I’m not scared to perform in front of large groups. I’m a very friendly, outgoing person who regularly makes conversation with strangers. And I already knew the day was
The Seventh Day: Israeli Literature Fifty Years After the Six-Day War To answer the question of our future, we need to look to the past. And this timeless question—grown even more urgent in these days of global insecurity—runs like a common thread through The Seventh Day Festival. Curated by LABA Journal Editor Hanan Elstein and featuring,
A year ago I dreamt about our LABA theme, WAR. This is not how it typically works. We don’t choose a theme just from a dream, but through our thoughtful and inclusive process at the 14th Street Y we “walk the talk” and have dialogue with our stake holders about choosing a theme at the core
At the outset of this study year, LABA’s new scholar, acclaimed author and journalist Liel Leibovitz, calls upon us to throw down our gauntlets and join him to an unpredictable and hazardous journey straight into a treacherous territory – this year’s theme, WAR & PEACE. “War is wonderful. They’ll never stamp it out. It’s one
TRANSLUCENT BORDERS By Andy Teirstein Composer Andy Teirstein is a 2014-2015 LABA alumnus. His work, inspired by the rich and diverse folk roots of modern culture, has been described by The New York Times and The Village Voice as “magical,” “ingenious,” and “superbly crafted.” A student of Leonard Bernstein, Henry Brant, Bruce Saylor and David Del Tredici, Teirstein
On Thursday, May 11th, LABAlive Three will present an evening of art works and subversive teachings exploring our annual theme, OTHER. The evening will feature teachings by LABA Scholar Ruby Namdar and works by fellows Elana Greenfield, Michael Leibenluft, and Laura Beatrix Newmark, who will present her work in progress, Hannah and Her Sisters: 5 stories on mOTHERhood. Here, Beatrix Newmark introduces her work and offers
THEME The LABA theme for 2017 -2018 is WAR and PEACE. Conflict is part of who we are, it is not an external force that we can aspire to exorcise and be permanently free of. Conflict defines the individual, the social and the cultural self. It is not accidental that our civilization’s foundation myth, the
LABAlive TWO: OTHERS THURS March 16 // 7:30PM At LABAlive OTHER: ONE you saw the work of Gil Sperling, Michael Gac Levin, and Keren Moscovitch, and now Fellows Gordon Haber, Abigail Katz and Hadar Ahuvia take the stage in LABAlive TWO: OTHERS for an evening of dance, literature and theater inspired by this year’s theme