LABA MUSIC

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

The Mar Vista

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

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.

LABA Receives a Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts

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

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

MEET FELLOW JENNY LEVISON

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

LABA LAUNCHES TIME

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22nd, 7:30 PM Join us for the launch party of LABA’s theme for the new year, “Time.”It’s a chance to get to know our new fellows, and begin the intellectual and creative journey into the invisible yet ubiquitous concept of time. Ruby Namdar will teach Ecclesiastes – you know, the “to everything there is a season” one. Woven

MEET FELLOWS OMTA

OMTA (founded 2006) represents the artistic collaboration of international new-media artists Tal and Omer Golan. OMTA has exhibited in many countries including continuous representation at the Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and active participation in New York galleries and features. OMTA are associate members of the Leonardo/International Society for the

MEET BEN GANTCHER

Ben Gantcher’s recently completed collection of poems, “Snow Farmer,” was a finalist in the 2014 Omnidawn Open book contest. His first chapbook, “Strings of Math and Custom,” was published in 2013 by Beard of Bees Press and is available online as a free PDF. “If a Lettuce,” his first manuscript of poems, was a finalist