Current courses by topic: The Arts
8 courses in 3 subcategories:
Literature and Writing (3 courses)
Series
Allen Ginsberg Festival
A800-CJM
The Contemporary Jewish Museum collaborates and partners with historical literary organizations around San Francisco to broaden the interest and discussion around the life and times of Allen Ginsberg. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Beat ...
Beat Reunion: A Celebratory Night of Panels, Performances, and a Beat Cafe
A800B-CJM Instructors: Starting: 07/12/2013 Location: Mechanics' Institute Library
Join us at the Mechanics' Institute Library for an evening of celebration and conversation. BEAT CAFÉ, Café Fourth floor, 5:30–6:30pm Featuring Poetry-Jazz with poet ruth weiss and percussionist Hal Davis The Prophetic Voice: Blake, Whitman, ...
Poetry Shabbat: Havdalah and Its Possibilities
A800C-CJM Instructors: Starting: 07/13/2013 Location: Congregation Sha'ar Zahav
Contemporary poets write original works to celebrate and illuminate the Shabbat service. It will be part of the Havdallah ceremony. Poets include Neeli Cherkovski, Sam Sax, and Daphne Gottlieb. Congregants will also participate by reading ...
Music (2 courses)
Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly: A Tribute to Composer and Lyricist Irving Berlin
A475-JMF Instructors: Weiss Starting: 05/19/2013 Location: JCC East Bay
Irving Berlin arrived from Russia at age five. A native Yiddish speaker, he quickly mastered English and taught himself to play piano. With these basic skills and remarkable raw talent, he composed some of the ...
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Singing Communities Intensive
P800-LJ Instructors: Richman Starting: 06/17/2013 Location: Congregation Netivot Shalom
Join Music Director and Ba’al Tfilah Joey Weisenberg and Rabbi Dorothy Richman for four interactive days of energetic singing as we explore the connections between Jewish music, prayer, spirit, and text. Daily Schedule 9:30 - ...
Visual Art (3 courses)
Series
Allen Ginsberg Festival
A800-CJM
The Contemporary Jewish Museum collaborates and partners with historical literary organizations around San Francisco to broaden the interest and discussion around the life and times of Allen Ginsberg. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Beat ...
Beat Reunion: A Celebratory Night of Panels, Performances, and a Beat Cafe
A800B-CJM Instructors: Starting: 07/12/2013 Location: Mechanics' Institute Library
Join us at the Mechanics' Institute Library for an evening of celebration and conversation. BEAT CAFÉ, Café Fourth floor, 5:30–6:30pm Featuring Poetry-Jazz with poet ruth weiss and percussionist Hal Davis The Prophetic Voice: Blake, Whitman, ...
Bill Morgan in Conversation with Gordon Ball
A800A-CJM Instructors: Morgan Starting: 07/11/2013 Location: Contemporary Jewish Museum
Two great storytellers take the stage to delve into the myth and man of Allen Ginsberg. Bill Morgan (I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg and The Beat Generation in San Francisco) ...