REVEAL: “An all-night Tikkun Leil Shavuot of immersive ritual, learning, and performance”
Shavuot is one of three Jewish pilgrimage festivals. This progressive synagogue in Berkeley will host a dinner that starts at 6pm and their main ritual/art event starts at 7pm and GOES ALL NIGHT LONG!
I will install a new version of my Interface series. A giant face – you can decide if it helps you encounter the divine or the mundane. The work reveals how we often see what isn’t really there, and sometimes fail to see what truly is.
June 1st, 6pm to Sunrise. The exhibitions will be available for a few weeks after the event.
For those who can’t party all night and want to see the art mark your calendar for the art tour: 9:25- 10:05pm
a self-guided art tour w/ Hila, Michele and I standing near our works
Location: Chochmat HaLev
2215 Prince Street
Berkeley, CA 94705
Event includes:
- provocative and immersive ritual theater designed and led by Rabbi Amichai Lau Lavie, Founding Spiritual Leader of Lab/Shul NYC and star of the award-winning Sabbath Queen documentary, and Rabbi Zvika Krieger, Spiritual Leader of Chochmat HaLev
- with sacred chanting led by Lauren Arrow
- mystical study sessions led by Rabbi Amichai, Rabbi Zvika, and Judaic scholars Professors Deena Aranoff and Sam Shonkoff
- music, dance, art, embodiment experiences– all created and led by LABA artists, curated by Elissa Strauss:
- INTERACTIVE DANCE with Liv Schaffer
- SITE-SPECIFIC IMMERSIVE ART INSTALLATION from Hila Amram
- PHOTOGRAPHY from Ari Salomon
- GROUP VOICE AND MOVEMENT IMPROV from David Israel Katz
- REVELATION SOUND INSTALLATION from Forest Reid
- SENSORY SHAVOUT INSPIRED FEAST from Chef Daniella Bensimon
- ART by Michelle Brenner
