Talmud Jazz / Art / Poetry session

Uri Sharlin by Dina Horowitz

Our interactive art workshop with performance poet Jake Marmer and the band was a great success.

 

February 16th we gathered at Manhattan's Community Synagogue where saxophonist Greg "Jazz Rabbi" Wall, Uri Sharlin on keys, Rob Henke on trumpet, and Jon Madof on guitar did an excellent job improvising on Jake's spoken words.

 

Based on what was happening on the stage, the audience sketched, painted, took photographs, or just enjoyed the scene. 

Several people contributed to Ellen Alt and Meghann Snow's interactive Talmud Page. 

View photos of the event here. Some of the art made that night here.

 

Rob Henke by Dina Horowitz

Talmud Synesthesia (Visual Art/Jazz/Poetry): A unique workshop

Thursday February 16, 8:30PM -10:00PM

Jewish Art Salon and Sixth Street Synagogue in NYC premier a night of break-through cross-genre collaboration.

Talmud Synesthesia (Visual Art/Jazz/Poetry): A Workshop

Open to the public. Welcome to all.

Performance poet Jake Marmer will recite his cycle of Talmud-inspired poems, while musicians will interact with, and interpret the spoken material. Saxophonist Greg "Jazz Rabbi" Wall, Uri Sharlin on keys, Rob Henke on trumpet, and Jon Madof on guitar.

The audience is invited to sketch or paint the performers or to further interpret the words and music with their art: sketch, dance, take photos, paint. Or just hang out....

Greg Wall

There will be discussion and conversation interspersed with the performance. 


Create your own art work or participate in a collaborative piece!
There will be an opportunity to do large-scale work as well.


Exhibit of the best results will be on view at the synagogue's social hall that night till February 29th.

• The Center for Jewish Arts and Literacy at the Sixth Street Community Synagogue,
• 325 East 6th Street, New York, NY 10003.
• Between 1 & 2 Avenue. N, R, or 6 train to St. Marks Place / Astor Place / 8th Street.
• Thursday February 16, 8:30PM -10:30PM
  
   

$10 Cover /$6 for JAS members.

Bring your own sketch book and art materials. For non-artists who'd like to try, paper & markers will be available.

RSVP required at jewishartsalon@gmail.com

Radical Jewish art and community - Jewish Art Salon at Limmud NY 2012

Patricia Eszter Margit of Art Kibbutz has invited the Jewish Art Salon to participate in two events at Limmud NY.

Panel: Radical Jewish art and community 

Sunday January 15, 2012. 4:40 - 5:35 PM

With Marc Michael Epstein, Patricia Eszter Margit, 

Greg Wall, Yona Verwer

Three Jewish cultural organization’s leaders discuss how their work creates community, encourages diversity, understanding, action, outstanding artistic expression, collaboration and new ways to connect to Jewish identity through art. 

Panelists share their experiences about inspiring, innovative and relevant projects that foster 21st century Jewish culture and creativity, such as Art Kibbutz’s Shofar FlashMob, that involved artists in more than 20 international locations taking a post-modern twist (flashmob) on an ancient ritual (sounding the ram’s horn) enabling myriad of artistic interpretations. Jewish Art Salon’s Dura Europos Project brought together a diverse group of visual artists giving their responses to the very first visual presentation of Jewish culture. Rabbi Greg Wall at The Sixth Street Community Synagogue uses the arts to promote Jewish literacy among artists and their audiences.

Drink’n Draw with Jewish jazz   

Sunday January 15, 2012. 9:15 PM–10:30 PM

With Frank London, Greg Wall, Hasidic New Wave. 

Presenter Patricia Eszter Margit and Curator Yona Verwer.