TIME OUTSIDE US. 4/1

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

THIS IS WHY WE NEED TO LOOK AT THE MOON

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

OMTA Explains “We Live for Tomorrow”

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

Not Even God Has Work/Life Balance

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

BENJAMIN KAMINE DISCUSSES ‘PROMISED LAND’

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

CREATING TIME. 2/26

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

DRUNK

“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

LABA: Unlimited

Get your tickets for a full season of a subversive teachings, contemporary culture and copious wine drinking. LABA: Unlimited includes access to every single cultural event of the year along with an invitation to one of our intimate study sessions. Art, music, theater and dance, all inspired by ancient ideas. LABA:Unlimited will grant you access

‘ANY MORE A PORTION’

“For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything.” A film by Sarah Friedland inspired by Hart Island and Ecclesiastes.

MEET FELLOW JOSH WALETZKY

Josh Waletzky is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, born and raised in New York City. He has worked as a director, writer and editor on numerous documentary films about cultural and social themes, beginning as a sound editor on Ibeorgun (1975, the Kuna Indians) and Academy Award-winningHarlan County, U.S.A.(1976, striking coal miners). He directed and edited such films as