magidah: master class in jewish storytelling

Oct 31 - Dec 19, Mondays from 5 - 6:30 PST

Learn Jewish storytelling techniques and stories with Master Storyteller, Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, in a collaborative and joyous setting. 

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Date: Mondays, 5 - 6:30 PST,  Oct 31 - Dec 19 (8 sessions)    

Who can apply?  Self-identified Jewish performance artists and artists from all traditions who want to be in a space devoted to the art of Jewish storytelling: welcome.  Storytellers, magidim, puppeteers, poets, musicians, dancers, clowns, circus and theater folk, badchaniot, tanyaderas, balladeers, folk singers, comedians and professional schmoozers: welcome!  Speakers of Ladino, Yiddish, Hebrew, Arabic, sign language and otherJewish diaspora languages: welcome.  

This class is a shomeret shalom space.  Shomeret Shalom practices are performed in steadfast solidarity with communities owed reparations in the spirit of teshuvah for systemic and ongoing harms associated with white supremacy, patriarchy and colonial settlerism.  Sacred tales cannot be used for the further entrenchment of systemic harms.
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Curriculum: Classes include Jewish storytelling resources, break out into small collaboration groups, and storytelling with R. Lynn and guests. 

Session 1: Introduction to the Art of Jewish Storytelling and Each Other ( bring ‘an opening’ to a story  to share with the class in performance - or a way you might envision announcing a story) 
Session 2: Biblical performance legacies: oracle givers, prophets, seers and voices of lament
(bring a percussive instrument, or the instrument of your choice)
Session 3: M’targaman: The art of simultaneous translation of sacred text into living story: key words and themes, and the transformation of living text.   Bring a single line of Torah you want to translate in your performance style.  
Session 4: Flipping the Script: Techniques in Jewish storytelling that deconstruct conventional narratives for the sake of liberation.  Bring a line ofJewish story whose script you wish to flip. 
Session 5: Start with a Joke: Clever wit traditions, riddles & proverbial discourse. (Talmudic passover mouse in the house story)  
Were proverbs spoken in your house? Bring family or community proverbs and/or jokes that were/are part of your personal legacy. 
Session 6: Pageantry and the art of collective storytelling in Jewish life.   Bring/make a puppet that represents something from one of the seven days of creation that fits your zoom screen. You can use cardboard, paint or any materials that inspire your creation.    
Session 7: At the Gathering of Nations:  Jewish Performance art in multi-heritage ritual settings on the front lines of solidarity. Bring a story and blessings for an indigenous land back ceremony, or other occasion which aligns with your activism.  
Session 8: Telling the story - collaborative or individual tellings of a 3 minute Jewish tale; closing ceremony.  

Cost: $150 via PayPal registration. if you’re interested, email rabbilynng@gmail.com for more info 

reparations & indigenous land back teshuvah

September 5, 12, 19, Mondays from 4:30-5:45 PDT

This is a three-week mini-series facilitated by Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb in the year of her rabbinic jubilee. How do we create a reparative practice devoted to healing the ongoing wounds of colonial settlerism and zionism? Rabbi Lynn invites you to engage ancestral teshuvah legacies as well as applied insights from present-day movement building in preparation for the new year, 5783. Our time together begins with indigenous land acknowledgment, radical welcome, and water ceremonies.

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Dates: September 5, 12, and 19, 2022. We will meet every Monday from 4:30 pm to 5:45 pm PDT (7:30 pm to 8:45 pm EDT)

Everyone is welcome!

Curriculum: Sessions include text study, storytelling & shared reflections:

September 5:

• Torah as a peacemaking treaty.
• Teshuvah is a 5 Step system of repair. 
• Steps 1 and 2: Acknowledgement & Accountability in light of ancestral guest laws and colonial settlerism.
• Where do we hold trauma in the spectrum of class, race, sexual orientation, gender, national origin, citizenship status, religion, ability, and age?
• Jewish healing & teshuvah practices for the wounds we carry & the harms of colonial settlerism which we carry.

September 12:

• Steps 3 and 4: Vidui & Peiraon.
• Truth-Telling from the front lines of harm in the text and in the present.
• Reparations in the text and in the present.
• Rehabilitation, restoration, and compensation.

September 19:

• Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation.
• Wrap up and next steps.

Cost: We run this program on a sliding scale (tuition includes land back reparations):

• 200 USD – Higher/Supporter Fee (employed/high earning power): When you pay the higher/supporter fee, you know that you are helping others access the program. This is an opportunity to not only be part of the program but also support your fellow community members.
• 150 USD  – Full Fee (employed/high earning power): When you pay the full fee for this program, you know you are helping JeLiThIn cover costs.
• 120 USD  – Low Fee (employed/struggling): When you pay the low fee for this program, you know you are letting your community hold you and support you.
• 90 USD – Lower Fee (student/unemployed):  When you pay the lower fee for this program, you know you are letting your community hold you and support you.

All of these are wonderful and acceptable ways of participating in the program.

If affording any of the sliding scale amounts in full is impossible for you right now, email us to talk about a payment plan that works for you at info@jelithin.ca

PAST EVENTS

• Teshuvah & Reparations: a Vision for this Time (Virtual event with Dr. David Ragland and Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb)
• Four Faces of the Jewish Goddess (Workshop series)
• Way of the Mishkan (Workshop series)
• Ger: Guest Laws & Land Back (Workshop series with Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb and Ian Schiffer)
• Harnessing Inter-communal Resilience in the Age of COVID19 (with the Truth Telling Project)
• and many more!