Limmud Winnipeg 2019

Pre Limmud A Cappella Workshop (Session 1)
Pre registration for this particular workshop is required either when registering online or by contacting coordinator@limmudwinnipeg.org or 204-48-7559
Provided there is a large enough group of people who participate at both Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning workshops there will be an A Cappella performance at lunch time.
Daniel’s participation at Limmud was made possible with generous support from the Covenant Foundation.

Kīrtan, a Sanskrit word meaning “telling” [a story], is a call-and-response musical experience originating in India. The tempo, audience participation, and the very vibration of the instruments and the words help quiet the mind and reduce stress on your journey to bliss.
Join Rabbi Aníbal Mass and Leslie Emery of Congregation Shaarey Zedek, and a Kīrtan ensemble including traditional and western instruments, as they guide you in a Jewish spiritual musical journey blended with voice, Harmonium (Indian-Asian pump organ), Tabla (North Indian hand drum), Electric Bass Guitar, and Hand Drums to create a high energy experience.

Learn about contemporary Jewish a cappella singing from the 1980's through today. What were the influences on early Jewish a cappella groups and how was today's vibrant scene built?
Daniel’s participation at Limmud was made possible with generous support from the Covenant Foundation.

A thousand years ago, in the cosmopolitan Mediterranean world of Muslim and Christian Spain, Hebrew culture produced the greatest body of Jewish poetry since the Bible, influenced by Greek wisdom texts, Arabic love of poetry and Islamic reverence for the written word. In this urban Jewish society, radically different from the shtetl culture of Eastern Europe, stars like Shmuel HaNagid, Ibn Gvirol and Yehuda HaLevi composed Hebrew poetry of beauty, sensuality and pre-Shulkhan Aruch Judaism, and now in 21st century Israel, that poetry has been enthusiastically set to Israeli popular music.  An introduction to the Golden Age of Hebrew poetry in Spain of 1000 – 1200 AD, and a listen to contemporary Israeli renditions of that poetry, a millennium later

This session draws on vignettes by contemporary Israeli writer, Etgar Keret, to examine some ‘impossible’ aspects of childhood and growing up Israeli. Keret, master of the extremely short short-story, is keenly attuned to his inner-adolescent and is rediscovering the world of childhood through the eyes of his young son Lev. After a look at his artist’s statement, called “Asthma,” we’ll begin with a story featuring Lev called “Pastrami” in the author’s 2015 memoir-in-progress, The Seven Good Years, and move on to several of his brief works of fiction whose first-person narrators are youngsters, youth and grown inner-children.