PHC Commonwealth Speaker Appointment!

Posted by on Jun 24, 2011 in News, Upcoming Events | 0 comments

PHC Commonwealth Speaker Appointment!

I’ve just been informed that I have been selected as a Commonwealth Speaker for 2012 – 2013.   This appointment means I will have the opportunity to travel to Pennsylvania non-profit groups (libraries, schools, community centers, even state parks!) with my lecture/recital program Women’s Voices in Yiddish Song with my honorarium and travel expenses paid by the PA Humanities Council.   If you live in the state or have connections to people or institutions within the state, please check out www.pahumanities.org for more information.   The updated e-catalog will be available in November of 2011, but for now you can see my listing as a presenter of  Jewish papercut arts. I’ll certainly be glad to talk to you about scheduling for the ’12/’13 calendar years. I will be available with the Women’s Voices program as of January 1, 2012.  This is a wonderful opportunity to partake of Yiddish culture, so please be in touch!  ...

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Pennsylvania Humanities Council – 2010/2011 Commonwealth Speaker

Posted by on Jun 23, 2011 in News, Upcoming Events | 0 comments

Pennsylvania Humanities Council – 2010/2011 Commonwealth Speaker

I am currently in my second year as a Commonwealth Speaker for the PA Humanities Council.  This appointment allows me to travel around the state lecturing on the history and vitality of Jewish Papercut art.  I find it very exciting to share this rather simple folk art form (What do you need? A piece of paper and scissors or a blade!) with people who have never encountered the intricacy and variety of papercuts that have specific calendric, ritual or family use, as most traditional Jewish papercuts do. Click here to see for yourself what the Humanities Council Speakers are up...

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Senior Adults and Chisuk Emuna Lunch and Learn

Posted by on Jun 23, 2011 in News, Upcoming Events | 0 comments

Senior Adults and Chisuk Emuna Lunch and Learn

On June 23 I offered a multi-media presentation to the combined Senior Adult Club and Chisuk Emuna Congregation Lunch and Learn program at the Harrisburg JCC, titled:  “The Legacy of the Triangle Fire – 100 Years Out.”  The program, in a lecture/recital format, was built around the biographies of several women who were young needleworkers and became and remained social activists for their entire lives.  Archival photos and calligraphic tributes to the indigent victims of the Triangle Fire rounded out the program which featured Yiddish songs of needleworkers and the labor movement interspersed among the lecture...

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Zingendik!

Posted by on Jun 23, 2011 in News, Recordings, Yiddish Music | 0 comments

Zingendik!

My first solo recording features 18 rarely heard Yiddish songs, a total of 14 accompanying musicians and a 20-voice women’s chorus, and arrangements that offer each song its own highlights.   Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer are among the accompanists.  The enclosed booklet contains all the lyrics in English translation and transliterated Yiddish, as well as contextual information.  Dip into a treasure trove of songs! Here are some short clips from Zingendik!:  

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Sol LeWitt-inspired Ketubah

Posted by on Jun 21, 2011 in Ketubah Art, News | 0 comments

Sol LeWitt-inspired Ketubah

The late American conceptual artist Sol LeWitt was a friend and inspiration to this couple, and they chose to acknowledge his impact on them and their community by focusing on LeWitt’s brilliant colors and minimalist drawings.   Hours of study of Sol LeWitt’s works and artistic statements led me to a color palette and a style of abstract thumbnails, each of which represents some essential interest or quality of the bride and groom. The five tiny ink drawings which set off the lettering are simplified abstract nods to  art, writing, music, and a joyfully creative relationship that characterize the couple’s life...

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