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Sheilah Kaufman
Tips to Fearless and Fussless, Easy and Elegant Jewish
Cooking
Sheilah’s method of teaching is aimed to "demystify" gourmet
and make people not afraid to try things. In this hour-long workshop, she
will work with participants by providing them with tips to fearless, fussless
cooking. With her usual style of some talking, some cooking, and some eating,
those who attend Sheilah’s workshop will look forward to cooking Sheilah-style!
Sheilah Kaufman has worked
in a wide variety of culinary specialties throughout the course of her career,
as an educator, a writer and editor, media spokesperson, a television and
radio personality, culinary consultant, and recipe developer. She has authored
many cookbooks and traveled the country teaching, lecturing and making personal
appearances at stores for culinary demonstrations. She is a member of Les
Dames d'Escoffier, and a former member of the International Association of
Culinary Professionals (IACP).
Contact: www.cookingwithsheilah.com
Jay McCrensky
Why Do Contemporary Celebrities Flock to Kabbalah?
This workshop will provide an introduction to the basic concepts of Kabbalah
and explore the Kabbalistic theological and philosophical foundations of Hasidism
while seeking answers to why so many celebrities and Jewish renewalists are
attracted to Kabbalah and ‘New Hasidism.’
Jay McCrensky is author of
Understanding Evil: Insights from Kabbala and a Ph.D. candidate in Kabbalah
and Jewish Studies at the Baltimore Hebrew University. He and his wife, Barbara
Hess, are founders of Machaya Klezmer Band, a Jewish band that masters the
style, feeling and dynamism of authentic East European Jewish music. Jay is
also the founder and President of the Contemporary Kabbalah Institute (CKI),
a new rabbinic and scholarly center for the development and promotion of contemporary
Kabbalah.
Contact: www.machaya.com
Cantor Sue Roemer
Folk Songs and Freilach in Yiddish
A veritable dynamo, Cantor Sue Roemer will lead participants in melody. She
is a long-time supporter of the Festival, and is unparalleled as a workshop
leader. Join her in raising voices in song to honor American Jewish Yiddish
culture.
Cantor Sue Roemer is a member of the Fabrangen Cheder Community and on the faculty of Maalot Seminary; she retired after 25 years as Cantor for Temple Beth Ami. She is also a founding member of the Fabrangen Fiddlers, which has been entertaining for over 25 years and performing Hebrew and Yiddish favorites, Sephardic melodies, Hassidic songs, near Eastern (Indian) style music with sitar and ‘liturgical bluegrass.’
Mark Suresh Schlanger
Spirit Drumming for the Jewish Soul
Let the stress of the week go as we drum, create community, laugh and chant
together. This is a dynamic experience for participants who wish to express
themselves through rhythm and have fun. All ages welcome. Please come ready
to ROCK your Jewish soul. No previous experience is necessary! Percussion
is provided, but bring your own drum to the workshop if you have one!
Mark Suresh Schlanger has been playing hand
drums for 15 years. He has studied percussion in Cuba, NYC, and WDC, and has
accompanied African, Afro-Cuban, Middle-Eastern and modern dance classes.
A certified yoga instructor with a degree in psychology and an MBA, Mark combines
drumming with movement and self exploration activities, in order to encourage
others to reach their highest potential. Mark Suresh currently teaches workshops,
leads staff and community retreats, facilitates corporate team building events,
works with children, adults and seniors, utilizes the HealthRhythms program
to promote wellness and stress reduction, and teaches privately.
Contact: botttomlinedrumming@earthlink.net
Myrna Teck
The Chai of Jewish Art
Participants will be treated to a geographic overview of Jewish art from the
ancient world to contemporary times. Included will be painting, sculpture,
mosaics, manuscripts, architecture and photography.
Dr. Myra Teck is a professional art educator,
who earned her PhD in Visual Arts Education from the University of Kansas
in Lawrence, Kansas. She has many years of teaching in public, private, and
parochial schools. She also spent some years as an art museum educator at
the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, VA. She currently is a Visual Arts Consultant,
offering presentations, classes, and educator workshops.
Contact: www.jewisharteducation.com
Susan Gaeta
From Her Nona's Drawer:
A Journey of Sephardic Music
Susan Gaeta will share music and stories of Flory Jagoda, internationally
renown as a composer, singer and the ‘Keeper of the Flame’ of
Sephardic music. Susan also will teach selected pieces she learned as Flory's
apprentice in the Master/Apprenticeship Folklife Program through the Virginia
Foundation for the Humanities.
Susan Gaeta is a vocalist and guitarist. For eight years she performed jazz and both American and Argentine folk music in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Under the auspices of the Folk Life Apprenticeship Program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, she completed her studies with National Heritage Fellow, Flory Jagoda. Susan performs nationally as a soloist, as well as a guest accompanist for Flory Jagoda. She received a grant from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities to record a CD to preserve and continue the music of her mentor. The recording traces the evolution of the authentic a cappella women’s Sephardic vocal tradition that Flory learned from her grandmother (Nona), to Susan’s interpretation of the composer’s more contemporary pieces.
David Julian Gray
Klezmer Music: 1492 to Darling of Early 21st Century
Avant Garde
The dance music of the Jews of Eastern Europe was nearly lost in the Holocaust,
but miraculously rebounded to become not only popular once more for weddings,
but a strong component of today’s avant garde. David Julian Gray, a
pioneer of this resurgence, will trace the development of the music, from
the first citations, through the ‘Golden Age’ of 1880-1930 (which
inspired the revival), to the 1940s & 1950s (surprisingly once viewed
as the Dark Ages), to the revival of the 1980s and its current avant swing.
Diagrams and arrows as well as plenty of music will be provided.
A multi-instrumentalist, David Julian Gray
is seminal figure in the resurgence of klezmer music. In 1975, David helped
found The Klezmorim, the group universally recognized as the fountainhead
of modern klezmer music. With The Klezmorim, David introduced klezmer music
to a new generation through international tours, film and television appearances
and recordings, including the Grammy nominated “METROPOLIS”. Today,
in addition to his work as a freelance musician on clarinet, guitar, ‘ud
and mandolin, David leads the group Klezcentricity and serves as Senior Systems
Architect for National Public Radio.
Contact: www.klezcentricity.com
Carolivia Herron
From Anecdote to Epic: Narrating Your Geography
One characteristic of epic is that it associates a hero with a particular world view. In this workshop writers (and aspiring writers) identify and expand personal or family anecdotes toward brief epics that creatively express the relationship between person and place.
Dr. Carolivia Herron is a retired professor who taught Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at the College of William and Mary, Binghamton University and Harvard. She has published four books of fiction, and has one in press, Always an Olivia: A Remarkable Family History, which describes her family’s Judaic heritage from Spain through Libya, to the Geechees of the Georgia Sea Islands
Stan Levin
Flics and Jews: The Jewish Film Image
Over the course of a century of American films, there persists a presence
of Jewish characters in disproportion to their numbers in America's population.
Using film clips and other audio visual aids, Stan Levin will explore with
participants, how, over the generations, the images of Jewish men and women
in film have evolved.
A native Washingtonian and graduate of New York University in Film and Theatre, Stan Levin has worked in many different aspects of theatre, television, and film production – including writing, directing, and editing. He has had a long and illustrious career as a filmmaker, writer and producer, and has been a film and theatre critic in some venue or another since college, including the Washington Globe newspaper and the cable TV show, The Screening Room. He is a board member, critic, and moderator for Cinema Art Bethesda and frequently speaks to Jewish groups about film.. For 14 years he has led the Film Study Group for the Brandeis University National Women’s Committee. He currently is teaching film history as part of Johns Hopkins’ Evergreen program.
Tamar Pelleg
Bibliodrama at Its Finest!
Join us for a thorough hands-on consideration of the Torah. In this workshop,
you may find yourself improvising, playing a Biblical role, or just considering
the actions of others.
Tamar Pelleg teaches Hebrew at the University of Maryland and George Washington University, as well as biblical studies at Adas Israel Congregation. She received her Masters degree in counseling education and a Bachelors degree in Hebrew literature from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is continuing her studies with Rabbis Ohad Ezrahi and Dr. Peter Pitzele working towards attaining smicha as a maggid. Tamar specializes in bibliotherapy and bibliodrama, methods that use literature and Biblical texts to enhance self- awareness.
Rabbi Yaacov Benamou
Kabbalah: the Art of the Ten Sefiriot
Explore your inner strengths through prayers and images, including those from
a local artist, using meditative techniques from the great Kabbalists.
Rabbi Yaacov Benamou, spiritual leader of
the newly formed Jewish Rockville Outreach Congregation (JewishROC), has over
twenty years of both rabbinic and Jewish education experience. He is an ardent
scholar and teacher, and can be found at the ROC, located in North Bethesda,
both teaching and learning. He has enjoyed the unique opportunity (for over
10 years) to be in close contact with and learn from both Baba Sali and Rabbi
Kaduri, the two leading Kabbalists of the 21st century.
Contact: www.jewishroc.org
Seth Kibel
Versatility and the Klezmer Man
Here’s an opportunity to find out what it takes to be a versatile performer.
Join Seth as he riffs his way through melody and talks about creativity. He
is a superb clarinetist, saxophonist, and flutist. (He has, however, been
known to make some noise on harmonica, recorder, guitar, piano, and accordion.)
He swings and sways with the best and plays all types and styles of music,
including jazz, blues, rock, classical, swing, Dixieland, and klezmer.
Seth Kibel began his full-time professional
musician career in 1996, when he moved to the Washington/Baltimore area following
his graduation from Cornell University. Seth is currently the band leader,
clarinetist, and composer for The Alexandria Kleztet, an ‘alternative’
klezmer band in the area and winner of nine Washington Area Music Awards,
or Wammies! All three Kleztet albums produced by Seth Kibel have received
awards for the Best World Music Recording following their release.
Contact: www.kleztet.com
Shalshelet
Got Music?
Linking Melody and Sacred Text
Join Emily DeVoto, Rabbi Gilah Langner and Norma
Brooks from the board of Shalshelet, to sing and hear some of the winning
compositions from Shalshelet's two recent festivals of new Jewish liturgical
music. Find out about the next International festival and how you can support
Shalshelet's mission of using music to build bridges both within and outside
the Jewish community. Shalshelet's festivals reach participants and supporters
across all Jewish denominations. If you have a gift for melody and a connection
to sacred text, you will not want to miss this workshop!
Contact: www.shalshelet.org
Norman Shore
Sweet Singers of Israel
This workshop is dedicated to the texts and stories taken from rabbinic literature
about David, Miriam, Jubal, the sons of Korach and other biblical musicians
and artists. Participants will gain insight into this little known area knowledge
in an interesting, engaging manner as Norman leads the group in lively discussion.
Norman Shore, noted Talmudic scholar, is a teacher’s teacher of
all things Hebrew. He is well known in the DC area for his warm smile, sense
of humor, and ability to turn the driest facts into likable and fascinating
information. Catch his classes at the Jewish Study Center, the Melton Program
or at any number of adult education programs of synagogues in the area.
JFAF
Red Tent 1:00 – 5:30
(Women Only)
Livin’ in Shekhina’s
World
1:15 -2:15 pm
Jennifer Judelsohn
Shekhina is both within us and all around us, sheltering us and inspiriting
us. In this Art and Soul mini-workshop, experience the Presence of the Divine
Feminine through artistic expressions, poetic devotions, and visionary vocalizations
that will make your heart soar!
Jennifer Judelsohn, MSW, JD, is a Jewish educator, artist, psychotherapist, and soulworker and author/illustrator of Songs of Creation: Meditations on the Sacred Hebrew Alphabet. She teaches at religious schools throughout the greater area, and creates and facilitates family education, adult learning, and teacher training programs. She presents workshops and seminars on Jewish spirituality at conferences nationally and internationally.
Kol Isha! Chanting
2:30 – 3:30 pm
Holly Taya Shere
Come celebrate the voice of woman! In this circle, we will explore Jewish
teachings on the power of women's voices. We will engage and experience the
creative and transformative power of our own vocal expression. No experience
(in singing, in Hebrew, in anything) necessary!
Holly Taya Shere, co-founder of Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute (kohenet org), is a folklorist, ritual facilitator and educator on Renewal Judaism and Women’s Spirituality. Her first CD, Kol Isha!: Chants of a Wild Earth Shebrew will be released in December 2007.
Drumming, Soul Relaxation
3:45 – 4:45 pm
Kristen Arant
Join us for a workshop on hand drumming including basic technique, rhythms and songs, as well as a drum meditation for the soul relaxation of participants. Kristen welcomes teens and adults - come experience the healing power of the drum!
Kristen Arant is a performing artist, drummer
and drum instructor. She is the Founding Director of the Young Women's Drumming
Empowerment Project - a drumming, poetry and performance art empowerment group
designed to build the confidence and self esteem of teenaged girls. She is
also a co-founder of the activist drumming group, Rhythm Workers Union, participates
regularly as a poet and drummer with the DC Guerrilla Poetry Insurgency, and
performs with a variety of rhythmic musical ensembles lending her talent on
drums, whistles, vocals and oboe.
youngwomendrum.org