Wednesday, February 25, 2015

PURIMSHPIEL 2015! Three events in three days!

The Aftselokhes Spectacle Committee, Jews For Racial & Economic Justice & The Workmen's Circle present:

Your Roots Are Showing: An Underground Purim Botanical
Purim 2015! Three events, three days!


Join us for a long weekend of carnival and community celebration as we unveil the results of months of collaboration, organizing, rehearsing, and endlessly inventive spectacle engineering.

Thursday, March 5 - SHOW
Doors 8pm, Show 8:15
East Midwood Jewish Center
1625 Ocean Avenue between Avenue K & L, Brooklyn
Q to Avenue J

The dazzling premiere of our magnificent Purim show! A cozy performance of our folk pageant remixing the Book of Esther with the politics of the moment to bring you the visual and musical spectacular of the season! Featuring live music in many Jewish languages, giant puppets, intricate hand-made masquerade, an intergenerational cross-cultural cast, audience participation, homentashen, and more!

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Saturday, March 7 - PARTY AND PERFORMANCE
Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm
East Midwood Jewish Center
1625 Ocean Ave between Avenue K & L, Brooklyn
Q to Avenue J

The party of the year! Join us for the luscious performance of our folk pageant, including bands, DJs, dancing, and revelry at our ecstatic all-night extravaganza.

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Sunday, March 8 - CARNIVAL FOR ALL AGES
1-4 PM
Union Temple
17 Eastern Parkway at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
2/3 to Brooklyn Museum, Q to 7th Ave, S to Botanic Gardens

A sumptuous, topsy turvy, social justice-themed Purim carnival featuring hand-made carnival games designed and built by kids and youth. Featuring an excerpt from the Aftselakhis Spectacle Committee's Purimshpiel! Fun for all ages! Wear a costume of your own, or dress up from our costume chest and strike a pose in our photo booth.

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To learn more about Purim programming and how to get involved follow us on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/SpectacleCommittee

Each year (tfu tfu tfu) the Aftselakhis Spectacle Committee (TASC) produces a radical Purimshpil in cahoots with Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ). The process of planning and realizing the Purimshpil is led by TASC in collaboration with JFREJ members, Youth Brigade leaders and staff, as well as a broad range of cultural workers, volunteers and social justice organizations and their members.

Co-sponsored by:
East Midwood Jewish Center
Great Small Works
Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives
Ma'yan
Union Temple