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Yes, We Sang! Yom HaShoah Concert
Location name: JCC East Bay, Berkeley Branch Date: Sunday, April 7, 2013 Time: 4:00 pmA Musical Tribute to Jewish Communities that perished in the Holocaust
Three choirs will combine voices in a musical offering of Pre-Holocaust poetry and songs in Yiddish, Ladino and Hebrew, telling the stories of communities that have disappeared in the holocaust. The choirs will each perform selections from their own repertoire, and will also sing together. The program will also include a community sing along with lyrics provided.
Participating Choirs:
The Jewish Folk Chorus of San Francisco
Cantor Linda Hirschhorn
Nigunim Community Folk Chorus
Three choirs will combine voices in a musical offering of Pre-Holocaust poetry and songs in Yiddish, Ladino and Hebrew, telling the stories of communities that have disappeared in the holocaust. The choirs will each perform selections from their own repertoire, and will also sing together. The program will also include a community sing along with lyrics provided.
Participating Choirs:
The Jewish Folk Chorus of San Francisco
Cantor Linda Hirschhorn
Nigunim Community Folk Chorus
Spotlight: Emerging Young Jewish Voices
Location name: JCC East Bay, Oakland Branch Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013 Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmA new series from the JCC East Bay featuring the poems, songs, and artistic reflections of our area’s youngest, freshest, and inspiring new voices. This month features Ariel Luckey, performing bits from Amnesia, his new interdisciplinary play, which reveals America’s forgotten immigrant roots and investigates the role of race at the border. Tracing Luckey’s Jewish family’s escape from a Russian police raid in the 1880s and their subsequent immigration to the United States, Amnesia explores the historical context and human cost of current Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in Tucson, Arizona.
Jewish Circle Productions
Location name: JCC East Bay, Berkeley Branch Date: Monday, April 15, 2013 Time: 7:30 pm - 8:30 pmCome join Jewish Circle Productions for Playback Theater. Playback Theater is a creative and flexible vehicle of theatrical reflection in which actors allow participants to view their own stories. Together we will celebrate success, process change, identify themes, grief loss and share hope feasible. Jewish Circle Productions is tackling the issues of Israeli American cultural exchange, Jewish literacy, cross-cultural dialogue, through engaging the community with theater and music and playing with Hebrew and English language.
