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Musicians and writers. Pickles and puppets. Noshing JEWISH ARTS and shmoozing. What’s going to move you this Spring? COLLABORATIVE WELCOME Tradition meets innovation. Matzah balls collide with molecular gastronomy. Modern dancers leap to electrified ancient melodies. After 3,500 years of wandering through deserts and sailing across oceans, Jewish culture is about to embark on another journey with the launch of the Jewish Arts Collaborative. Whether in the shtetl or in the suburbs, the Jewish people have inhaled the cultures of the world, mixed them with our unique perspectives, and exhaled something beautiful. Our mission – and passion – is sharing that beauty, in its many forms and styles, with you. From Austrian silent movies to Yemenite rock’n’roll, from Shylock’s Venice to Sholom Aleichem’s Lower East Side, you’ll find surprises, inspiration, and just plain fun in our inaugural season. So get off your tuchus already and get some tickets. We’ll see you soon. Laura Mandel Joey Baron Executive Director Artistic Director HOW TO GET TICKETS MAJOR SPONSORS ABOUT US ONLINE: The Jewish Arts Collaborative is a bold new initiative to infuse Jewish arts and culture into our community. The Collaborative Visit jartsboston.org brings together the Boston Jewish Music Festival and the New At only $2-5 per ticket, we are doing our Center for Arts and Culture, in partnership with an array of Boston’s cultural and Jewish organizations. Simply put, the best to keep service fees to a minimum. Collaborative brings the art to the Jewish and the Jewish to the art. BY PHONE: Call Ovation Tickets, 24/7, at 866.811.4111 The Collaborative is the product of extensive conversations and planning by local Jewish cultural leaders. This inaugural for all events except Moon of Israel. season reflects the creativity of today and unleashes the unlimited potential of tomorrow. QUESTIONS & ASSISTANCE: Call the Jewish Arts Collaborative at 617.531.4610 or email us at [email protected]. JEWISH A COLORFUL APPROACH TO ARTS OUR SPRING 2016 SCHEDULE COLLABORATIVE 1320 Centre Street January February March Suite 201 Newton Center, MA 02459 April May June 617.531.4610 [email protected] JANUARY FEBRUARY Sunday, January 24 Thursday, February 25 TU B’SHVAT TERRARIA AL KOOPER AND THE FUNKY FACULTY Happy birthday, trees! Tu B’Shvat is all about What do Bob Dylan, George Harrison, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, The appreciating trees and the environment. Celebrate Who, and Trisha Yearwood have in common? Al Kooper has recorded with with this build-your-own-terrarium workshop and them all. Enjoy a night of musical gems and fascinating stories from a key Tu B’Shvat seder. player in rock’n’roll since 1958, just a year after his Bar Mitzvah. LOCATION: TIME: TICKETS: LOCATION: TIME: TICKETS: Mahoney’s Garden Center 12:00 PM $38 Center for the Arts in Natick 8:00 PM $35 until January 31 449 Western Avenue tcan 14 Summer Street $40 from February 1 Brighton, MA 02135 Natick, MA 01760 Saturday, February 27 THE NEFESH MOUNTAIN HOUSE PARTY Nefesh Mountain is the place where Jewish music is transformed by bluegrass and old-time musical traditions. Sing along, clap along, or just smile along as husband and wife team Eric Lindberg and Doni Zasloff share their unique, heartfelt Jewish Americana. LOCATION: TIME: TICKETS: TBA 8:00 PM $20 Sunday, February 28 FAMILY FUN WITH MAMA DONI A concert geared for young families, with lots of clapping, singing, and dancing along with two of the most irresistible performers you can imagine. LOCATION: TIME: TICKETS: Kerem Shalom 11:00 AM $8 kids 659 Elm Street $12 adults Concord, MA 01742 $40 family limit Getting off your tuchus the first time may cause dizziness; move slowly. MARCH Thursday, March 3 ODESSA HAVANA An award-winning musical fusion of Latin, klezmer, and LOCATION: TIME: jazz by Canada’s Odessa Havana Project, featuring David Villa Victoria 7:30 PM Buchbinder and Grammy-nominated Cuban pianist Hilario 85 W Newton Street Duran. An exciting example of cultural sharing presented Boston, MA 02118 TICKETS: with one of Boston’s leading Latin organizations, IBA-Boston. $25 After the show, join us for dessert in IBA’s LaGalleria to meet the band and featured painter Isabella Mellado and mingle with your fellow music lovers. Saturday, March 5 ODESSA HAVANA An award-winning musical fusion of Latin, klezmer, and LOCATION: TIME: jazz, featuring David Buchbinder and Grammy-nominated Unity Hall 8:00 PM Cuban pianist Hilario Duran. Inspired by the band’s 90 Main Street sharing of traditions, the concert is presented with the Worcester, MA 01608 TICKETS: Latin Jewish Round Table of the Jewish Federation of $20 Central MA and El Centro. Music more caliente than even homemade horseradish. Saturday, March 5 MOON OF ISRAEL: AN EPIC SILENT FILM WITH LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT This 1924 film directed by Mihaly Kertesz (who later, as Michael Curtiz, went on to direct Casablanca) tells the story of a Jewish slave girl who falls in love with the son of Pharaoh. While this love leads to numerous problems, at Sunday, March 6 the end of the film, Moses leads his people through the Red Sea. Shot in Vienna with 5,000 extras, at the time, this was THE GUY MENDILOW ENSEMBLE: one of the most elaborate and expensive films ever made THREE SIDES TO EVERY STORY and is considered far more visually advanced than DeMille’s Journey through the Balkans to the Mideast beginning in Sarajevo The Ten Commandments. Live musical accompaniment by and winding through war-torn Salonica, in this collection of songs and award-winning Austrian pianist, composer, and silent film vignettes of struggle, redemption, and celebration. Created by Guy authority Gerhard Gruber. Mendilow and Nathan Wadley, the concert features Guy’s award-winning quintet with players from Israel, Palestine, Argentina, and the USA, with FEATURED ARTIST: the Philadelphia Girls Choir. From epic to stark to irreverently funny, Pianist Gerhard Gruber Three Sides to Every Story explores the ways that contradictions come together to flesh out a story with greater depth and humanity. LOCATION: TIME: TICKETS: Somerville Theater 7:30 PM $25 film FEATURED ARTISTS: 55 Davis Square $40 with post-film Guy Mendilow Ensemble with the Philadelphia Girls Choir Somerville, MA 02144 dessert reception LOCATION: TIME: Temple Israel, 200 State Street 2:00 PM Portsmouth, NH 03801 TICKETS: Advance: $20 adults, $10 students, $50 family maximum At the door: $25 adults Sunday, March 6 IN THE FIDDLER’S HOUSE Presented by the Celebrity Series of Boston, we have a LOCATION: TIME: limited allotment of tickets for this 20th anniversary Symphony Hall 7:00 PM celebration of Itzhak Perlman’s beloved klezmer recording 301 Massachusetts Avenue and PBS special In the Fiddler’s House. Perlman revisits this Boston, MA 02115 TICKETS: important, personal project celebrating the klezmer tradition $80, $100, $125 at Symphony Hall with some of his closest musical friends, including music director Hankus Netsky. FEATURED ARTISTS: Itzhak Perlman with Andy Statman, Frank London, and the Klezmer Conservatory Band Saturday, March 12 NOAM KATZ AND BAND Singer, songwriter and rabbi, Noam Katz’s musical journey has taken him everywhere from the Eisner campgrounds to the Ugandan villages of the Abayudaya Jews. Enjoy an evening of uplifting music that is as energetic as it is heartfelt. LOCATION: TIME: TICKETS: Temple Beth Abraham 8:00 PM $20 adults 4 Raymond Street $10 students Nashua, NH 03064 Saturday, March 12 Sunday, March 13 TRIUMPH: A CONCERT AND CONVERSATION SIDRA BELL: WITH SIDRA BELL DANCE COMPANY FAMILY MOVEMENT CLASS This exciting NYC modern dance company creatively explores issues LOCATION: Enjoy a fun and inspiring family movement class of beauty, ethnicity, and identity. They will perform Triumph, with Riemer Goldstein Theater with an exceptional educator and choreographer. live music composed by Sidra Bell’s father, Dennis Bell, and featuring Leventhal Sidman JCC MusiConnects Boston Public Quartet. Later, Sidra will discuss her Nahanton Street, Newton, MA 02459 LOCATION: TIME: work with Debra Cash and the audience. Riemer Goldstein Theater 11:00 AM TIME: TICKETS: Leventhal Sidman JCC 8:00 PM $25 FEATURED ARTISTS: Nahanton Street TICKETS: $10 Sidra Bell, Dennis Bell, Boston Public Quartet, and Newton, MA 02459 Debra Cash, Executive Director, Boston Dance Alliance Sunday, March 13 BEYOND BUBBIE’S KITCHEN Beyond Bubbie’s Kitchen is Boston’s premier Jewish food celebration, exploring the Jewish culinary imagination of the area’s best chefs. Taste inspired modern updates on traditional Jewish favorites, along with samples of beer from Notch and Coney Island, Jack’s Abby craft lagers, Gubba rum, and more. LOCATION: Back Bay Events Center 180 Berkeley Street Boston, MA 02116 TICKETS: $36 TIME: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Tuesday, March 22 SHYLOCK IS MY NAME: STEPHEN GREENBLATT AND HOWARD JACOBSON IN CONVERSATION On the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto, acclaimed authors Stephen Greenblatt and Howard Jacobson talk about the legacy of its most famous resident – Shylock, the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, as well as numerous books on Shakespeare. Howard Jacobson is the Thursday, March 24 author of more than a dozen novels, including Man Booker A-WA Prize winner The Finkler Question, The Mighty Walzer, and J. His new novel, Shylock Is My Name, is a contemporary Modern and ancient. Fun and funky. Take three music-loving Yemenite sisters and one retelling of The Merchant of Venice. They will be boundary-breaking producer, Balkan Beat Box’s Tomer Yosef, and you get music with a interviewed by Jonathan Wilson, director of the Tufts whole new flavor.