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Festival of Books and Culture
at the Boulder JCC
Saturday,
Nov. 3 - Saturday, Nov. 17
Authors in Person!
Concerts!
Films!
Art Exhibits!
Children’s
programs and more!
For two weeks, the
Boulder JCC hosts the Festival of Jewish Books and Culture with
highlights that include:
Bat Kol in
Concert
A Musical Journey into
Connection with the Divine
Featuring
Sheldon Sands, Eyal Rivlin
and Michelle Ayalah Wolf
Saturday,
Nov. 3, 8 p.m.
Cost: $15/non-members; $12/Boulder JCC members
Tickets available at the door
Co-sponsored
by Nevei Kodesh
Where We Come From: A Jewish Genealogy Workshop
With Mark Fearer
Sunday, Nov.
4, 1- 4 p.m.
Cost: $18
Come learn about the many U.S.
resources available to find ancestors, in addition to the growing online
resources for Eastern European research.
Wisdom and Wellness: What Would Maimonides Do?
With DU
Professor Sarah Pessin
Thursday,
Nov. 8, 7 p.m.
Cost: $5/Boulder
JCC members; $6/non-members
Come and
learn how Maimonides, drawing on Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy
before him, envisions a deep universal harmony at the heart of reality,
one which links individual health, communal flourishing, and the
possibilities for spiritual perfection.
Oy to the World: Unwrap the Reason for the
Season
With Amichai Lau-Lavie
Creator of Storahtelling
Saturday,
Nov. 10, 7:30 p.m.
Cost: $10/Boulder JCC members; $12/non-members
Israeli-born mythologist, storyteller and teacher of Judaic Literature,
Amichai Lau-Lavie has been celebrating ancient ceremonies in modern garb
since he founded Storahtelling
in 1998. Using twenty-first century performance art techniques, Storahtelling
brings personal contemporary meaning to 5,000 years of Jewish tradition.
Emerging: Young Jewish Artists of Boulder
With
Rachel Stanley, Sierra Shaffer, Janey Ellis,
Lael Harand guests
Meet the Artists Wine and Cheese Reception
Sunday, Nov. 11, 5:30 p.m.
Book Signing with Kati Pressman
Local
author Kati Pressman will be signing copies of her book, Simple Presence: When There Is No Place to
Stand, during the artists’ reception
Sunday,
Nov. 11, 5:30-7 p.m.
For Tomorrow: The Poetry and Story of Hilda Stern Cohen
Sunday, Nov. 11, 7 p.m.
With Gail Rosen
Cost: $12
Tickets available at the door
Co-sponsored by Boulder Hadassah and
HospiceCare of Boulder
and Broomfield
Counties
“For Tomorrow” is an unusual
presentation—part theater, part storytelling, part prayers, part
chant. The 90-minute program is divided into a series of vignettes, based
on episodes in Hilda Stern Cohen’s life as recounted to Gail Rosen.
Crafted from interviews with Hilda Stern Cohen conducted in the two years
before her death in 1997, the performance uses many of Cohen’s poems
as well as the Jewish prayers that were so much a part of her daily life.
A Crack in the Earth: A Journey Up Israel’s
Rift Valley:
What Scientists,
Settlers and Stories Tell Us about the Rift Valley
With author Haim
Watzman
Tuesday,
Nov. 13, 7 p.m.
At the Boulder
JCC
Cost: $5/Boulder
JCC members; $6/non-members
Contact Kathryn@boulderjcc.org, 303-998-1021
As an observant Jew
who has written extensively about science and scholarship, Watzman
strives to understand the valley in all its complexity—its physical
facts, its role in human history and in his own life, and the stories it
has engendered.
Older Adults
– Not Just for Seniors
“I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon
Wiesenthal”
(2006)
Directed by Richard
Trank
Wednesday,
Nov. 14, noon
Cost: $8 for film
and lunch
Oscar winner Nicole
Kidman
narrates this fascinating new documentary about architect- turned-Nazi
hunter Simon Wiesenthal. After losing nearly 90 family members in the
holocaust and surviving a German death camp, Wiesenthal spent the next 60
years doggedly tracking down more than 1,000 Nazis on two continents.
The History of Last Night’s Dream
With author Rodger
Kamenetz
Thursday,
Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m.
Cost: $8/Boulder
JCC members; $10/non-members
Preceded by private wine and cheese reception with Rodger Kamenetz,
6 p.m. Cost: $18. Space limited. Please RSVP by Nov. 9
Co-sponsored by Naropa
University
The
acclaimed author of The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet’s Re-Discovery of
Jewish Identity in Buddhist India, Roger Kamenetz has
been called "the most formidable of the Jewish-American poets."
His latest book, The History of Last
Night’s Dream, opens up the whole field of word and
image, psychology and imagination, and points to an ancient but now
hidden way of using dreams to rediscover the soul.
Reel Israel
presents
“Paper Dolls”
Saturday,
Nov. 17, 7 p.m.
Cost: $6/Boulder
JCC members; $8/non-members
Co-sponsored by
Menorah, B’Yahad and Congregation Har HaShem
Contact Kathryn@boulderjcc.org, 303-998-1021
Tomer
Heymann’s startling and tender new documentary follows a group of
Filipino drag queens who,
ostracized by family and community in their native country, come to Israel
as guest workers and care for elderly, mostly Orthodox Jewish men.
All programs at the Boulder
JCC, unless otherwise noted. For complete program, ticket
and book store hour information, contact Kathryn@boulderjcc.org,
303-998-1021 or Froma@boulderjc.org,
303-998-1900, ext. 5 or Read
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