Dinner: 6:00 pm
Community Candlelighting: 6:45 pm
Show: 7:00 pm
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Join Kerem Shalom’s Community Chanukah Celebration for an evening like no other! Kerem Shalom is thrilled to welcome the Magid Ensemble to join us for this holiday celebration. Our evening will begin with a latke dinner followed by community candlelighting (remember to bring your menorah!). Then, we’ll gather in close for an exciting theatrical performance of Shterna and the Lost Voice, following Shterna on an epic hero’s journey through the living world, the underworld, and the immortal world, in order to retrieve the lost voice of her friend. The use of darkness and light illuminates this world. Narration unfolds to tell this original story accompanied by a stunning papercut crankie (see here) and a live, original klezmer score. Developed through rigorous research on Eastern-European Jewish folklore, Shterna & the Lost Voice is a highly engaging 50-minute storytelling performance that is captivating for audiences of all ages! Kerem Shalom is thrilled to welcome the Maggid Ensemble to join us for this holiday celebration. We hope you will join us! RSVP today.
Magid Ensemble (magid, meaning “storyteller” in Yiddish) is a new collaboration featuring award-winning klezmer musicians and composers Mattias Kaufmann, Raffi Boden, and Rachel Leader; Yiddishist, storyteller, and writer Weaver; and visual artist Kiah Raymond. The Magid Ensemble explores the interplay of sound, story, light, and shadow to create expressive and immersive storytelling landscapes. To learn more, visit Magidensemble.com.
“Shterna & The Lost Voice is a wondrous journey through today’s new landscapes of Yiddishland — deeply rooted in traditional tale and music yet written and performed in a trailblazing 21st-century voice. It’s a complete work of art in all its aspects: the riveting storytelling and plot, the heart-stopping, crystalline original score by three musicians who work together like family, the marvelous, old-new arts of the papercut and wooden crankie scroll leading us through the fiery, glowing terrain of epic and dreamtime. Shterna is a triumph of both art and craft, at once timeless and completely of the moment. It’s one of the finest pieces of performance of any genre I’ve ever seen.”
– Michael Alpert, NEA National Heritage Fellow & Yiddish cultural scholar