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
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
“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.
December 2. 2014 New York City: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu announced today that the 14th Street Y’s LABA is one of 919 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works Grant. LABA received a $10,000 grant to support the LABAlive series. Every year, LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture selects ten
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
Jenny Levison is a playwright, screenwriter, theater artist, dancer, musician, and social justice activist whose work focuses primarily in the areas of immigrant rights and racial equality, economic justice, disability rights, LGBTQ equality, counter-white nationalism, and progressive Jewish activism. I’ve been deeply involved in Jewish performance for the past 20 years, starting with Yiddish folk song, and