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AUTUMN 2023 EVENTS
Talk on Cork Jewish history and traditions -
Friday 3rd November 12.30pm in the Crawford Gallery, Cork
Concert of Fresh Air Collective
(klezmer/world folk) -
Monday 6th November 8pm in Crosshaven - this is part of Cross Culture, a series of events I'm curating in 2, Point Road, Crosshaven (see poster). Each event includes a bit of music, a speaker with something interesting to say, and some nibbles!
Screening of my documentary film Cork Jewish Culture Virtual Walk at Cork International Film Festival (!!)
with Q and A - Thursday 23rd November 3.30pm at St Peter's Church in Cork
Irish Jewish Theatre Festival in 2024 - my application to the Arts Council Agility Award was successful, so I am now going full-steam ahead on the feasibility study to see if this can happen. This involves building a team of supporters for the project and lots of funding applications, as well as researching the potential content. It's really difficult to work on this project at present. It seems so trivial and scary and important and massive all at the same time.
Earlier in 2023:
From Kovno to Cobh – launch of Jewish Arts and Culture Ireland (JACI)
Irish Klezmer Suite - A new composition by Ruti Lachs - performed in Cork City Library in May and the Glucksman Gallery in October.... awaiting confirmation of a tour for 2024
In-person guided musical tours of Cork's Jewish Culture took place during the summer.
Looking back to 2021:
October - Tsitsit Fringe Festival: Green Feather Boa and other Cork Jewish Stories (online event with music and history)
August - National Heritage Award runner-up for Memories of a Cork Jewish Childhood
July/August/September - A series of 11 concerts by the Fresh Air Collective at outdoor venues in County Cork
August 14th - Cork Heritage Open Day: Memories of a Cork Jewish Childhood - a video featuring members of the old community
July - Cork Jewish Culture Virtual Walk video screened at Midleton Arts Festival
January - Cork Jewish Culture Virtual Walk featured on Nationwide - RTE TV
January - My intergenerational project, Songs For Our Times, was featured on the Arts in Education Portal from this Friday. http://artsineducation.ie/en/home/
January - Zoom events: Tu B'Shvat event with B'Shert community in Brooklyn, including some new music, and Kol Ami congregation in Salt Lake City.
Awards 2021:
Arts Council Professional Development Award for a course in Theatre Writing under the tutelage of Ger Fitzgibbon.
Arts Council Agility Award to record songs from Green Feather Boa and work on my new play, A Bedtime Story For Adults.
Cork City Council Heritage Grant for Memories of a Cork Jewish Childhood.
Cork County Council Local Live Performance Programming Scheme Grant for the Fresh Air Collective outdoor concert series.
Late 2020:
My Cork Jewish Culture Virtual Walk project received a National Heritage Week 2020 award. You can view it here.
Throughout lockdown, the development of Green Feather Boa continued, with a full reading with five actors on Zoom, a re-write (resulting in the fourth draft now being complete) and the scoring of the songs. You can now see a photocollage with music from the second reading, in Cork City Hall, here.
Both of these projects were supported by Cork City Council.
My Cork Jewish Culture Virtual Walk project received a National Heritage Week 2020 award. You can view it here.
Throughout lockdown, the development of Green Feather Boa continued, with a full reading with five actors on Zoom, a re-write (resulting in the fourth draft now being complete) and the scoring of the songs. You can now see a photocollage with music from the second reading, in Cork City Hall, here.
Both of these projects were supported by Cork City Council.