Join us for this year’s Purim shpil, produced by the Aftselakhis Spectacle Committee in cahoots with Jews for Racial & Economic Justice and Great Small Works:
Matryoshka Purim: Loops, Lots, & Consequence
Thursday, March 28th: JFREJ Purim shpil Preview Show 5779
Matryoshka Purim: Loops, Lots, & Consequence
7:30-10 PM at East Midwood Jewish Center, Brooklyn
A more intimate, expedited version of the show. Lots of seating available. Music from the legendary Purim house band. Be among the first in the known universe to ever see this shpil!
Matryoshka Purim: Loops, Lots, & Consequence
7:30-10 PM at East Midwood Jewish Center, Brooklyn
A more intimate, expedited version of the show. Lots of seating available. Music from the legendary Purim house band. Be among the first in the known universe to ever see this shpil!
Saturday, March 30th: JFREJ Purim shpil 5779
Matryoshka Purim: Loops, Lots, & Consequence
8:00 PM - 3AM at East Midwood Jewish Center, Brooklyn
A ritually confusing masquerade ball, with the Purimshpil at the center of it joined by our legendary Purim House Band. Our endlessly fun and confusing party bring you a shpil in 3 acts and dazzles throughout the night with live bands and DJ sets. Come dressed up to build political imagination and solidarity with you, your best enemies and friends.
Matryoshka Purim: Loops, Lots, & Consequence
8:00 PM - 3AM at East Midwood Jewish Center, Brooklyn
A ritually confusing masquerade ball, with the Purimshpil at the center of it joined by our legendary Purim House Band. Our endlessly fun and confusing party bring you a shpil in 3 acts and dazzles throughout the night with live bands and DJ sets. Come dressed up to build political imagination and solidarity with you, your best enemies and friends.
For kids, don’t forget to join our other two Kids Defend NYC Purim events:
Sunday March 24th: Purim Art Party & #NeighborsBeyondAmazon Parade
2:30-5:30 PM at Jewish Center of Jackson Heights, Queens
2:30-5:30 PM at Jewish Center of Jackson Heights, Queens
Sunday, March 31st Kids Defend NYC: A Purim Carnival
2-5 PM at East Midwood Jewish Center, Brooklyn
2-5 PM at East Midwood Jewish Center, Brooklyn
To volunteer for the Purimshpil, please fill out this form.
To volunteer for either of the Kids Defend NYC Purim events, please email Jen Abrams.
For access questions please check out Facebook page and website or contact Anna Jacobs Tafjacobs@gmail.com for specific questions.
To volunteer for either of the Kids Defend NYC Purim events, please email Jen Abrams.
For access questions please check out Facebook page and website or contact Anna Jacobs Tafjacobs@gmail.com for specific questions.
Our Purim creative process is uniquely community-based and community-driven. We have reason to believe that it’s the largest and most participatory multi leftist medium Purim shpil anywhere in the world, and one of the largest in New York City overall. For all of our meetings, builds, rehearsals, and performances, we provide food, childcare, wheelchair-accessible spaces, and Metrocards for travel to those who are part of the events' creation.
The Aftselakhis (Yiddish: In Spite Of) Spectacle Committee — originally gathered under the tutelage of visionary Yiddish scholar and beloved Diva Adrienne Cooper (z'l) — works with hundreds of activists, artists, educators, queers, kids, and community volunteers to make an original work of art grounded in the traditional pan-Jewish practice of dressing up and staging transgressive folk plays in the cold day and long nights of winter.
Please join us!
