Arts & Culture

 Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council

Rimon, an initiative of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, promotes and enhances Jewish identity through arts and culture, supports arts and artists who broadly explore Jewish themes, and assists the greater Jewish community in developing a collaborative involvement with the arts. Rimon also provides community grants to qualified local projects.

 

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Rimon Artist Salon Highlights

 

Rimon presents P’Chotchka, a tasty sampling of Rimon grant-supported art

Monday, June 4, 6 pm at Pinstripes (3849 Gallagher Drive, Edina)

P’Chotchka is a fun, fast-paced event featuring eight artists from the fields of music, writing, theater, photography, architecture, video, and visual art, showing 18 images of their work and what has inspired it. HeARTY refreshments will be served.

Artists include rock-pop star Adam Levy (from the Honeydogs), actor Dylan Fresco, singer-songwriter Elisa Korenne, architect Kent Simon, videographer Matt Peiken, glass artist Lucy Rose Fischer, photographer Sylvia Horwitz, and writer Margie Newman.

 

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Cost: $54 per person ($25 tax deductible). RSVP by May 30.

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A Delicate Balance: The Environment, Sustainability, and an Artist's Voice

Thursday, May 17, 7:00pm at the Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art, Studio 204, 250 3rd AVE N, Minneapolis

Artists Lynda Monick-Isenberg and David Feinberg spoke with art critic Roslye Ultan about the impact of an environmental sensibility and Jewish tradition on their work.

Care for the earth is a core cultural value deeply grounded in Jewish life and Judaism's texts. It is interpreted with a new urgency in the 21st century. Rimon invited visual artists to submit work that responds in an imaginative way to Jewish traditions (based in language, imagery or praxis) of sustaining the environment. Guest curator Roslye Ultan selected the work of three artists - Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin, David Feinberg and Lynda Monick-Isenberg for special recognition. Four artists have been awarded Honorable Mention - Sonya Berlovitz, Brenda Litman, Bonnie Rubinstein and Rochelle Woldorsky.

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Rimon selects recipients of Fall 2011 Project Support Grants

Laura Silver, creator of the film The Book of Knish, has been awarded funding to support production costs for her documentary film on the knish and the story of the Knish Ladies, a group of women who have been making and selling knishes to benefit the Sholom Home for the last twenty years. Knish Ladies Photo by David Sherman

 

Miryam Kabakov, director Izun/Mizan—A Film and Dialogue Series, has been awarded funds to support screenings of significant films on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as well as post-film dialogue at local and regional colleges and universities. Adi/Israeli and Rana/Palestinian, Building Bridges for Peace, 2002 Photo by Lisa Gossels

 

In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre has been awarded funding to support production costs for Shota and the Star Quilt, a play exploring themes of friendship, understanding between diverse cultures, and social action as seen through the eyes of a Jewish child and her American Indian friend.

 

 

TVbyGIRLS has been awarded funding to support production costs for Undercover, a film in which a group of girls from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim backgrounds explore the misunderstandings and media stereotypes of different religious traditions.

 

World Without Genocide has been awarded funding to support arts activity (theater, film, photography, and installation) related to the month-long series of events, Nuremberg: Its Lessons for Today, at William Mitchell College of Law.

Click here for information on the Project Support Grant Recipients from Spring 2011.

 

Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council presents the May E-guide to Jewish Arts in Minnesota: Events. For the full month schedule of events, click here.

 

Thursday, May 17, 7 p.m. The Rimon Artist Salon Series concludes with A Delicate Balance: The Environment, Sustainability, and an Artist’s Voice at Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art (250 Third Ave. N., Studio 204, Mpls). Artists Lynda Monick-Isenberg and David Feinberg discuss with moderator Roslye Ultan the impact of an environmental sensibility on their own work. FFI: 952-381-3449.

Sunday, May 20, 3 p.m. Piano virtuoso Peter Arnstein presents a concert of his own works as well as Beethoven, Chopin, and Brahms at St. Richard’s Catholic Church (7540 Penn Ave. S., Richfield). FFI: 612-869-2426.

Sunday, May 20, 7 p.m. The talented Abelson family from Temple Israel (2324 Emerson Ave. S., Mpls), which includes two cantors, presents A Celebration in Song. Expect an entertaining evening from Stephen, Barry, and Margo Abelson. FFI: 612-377-8680.

Through May 20.  The Guthrie Theater (818 S. 2nd St., Mpls) presents Time Stands Still by the always interesting playwright Donald Margulies. The production has received strong reviews. FFI: 612-377-2224.

Wednesday, May 23, 7 p.m. Harpist Andrea Stern and flutist Jane Garvin are the Bella Duo. You can hear them at the Sabes JCC (Barry Family Campus, 4330 S. Cedar Lake Rd., Mpls) playing everything from classical to Celtic to pop. FFI: 952-381-3499.

Thursday, May 24, 7 p.m. Legendary singer-songwriter Peter Himmelman performs at the Dakota (1010 Nicollet Ave., Mpls). Always a treat. FFI: 612-332-1010.

Saturday, May 26, 8:30 p.m. Temple Israel hosts a special program for their Tikkun Leil Shavuot, featuring cellist Janet Horvath in It’s Not Too Late to Stop the Hate. This multimedia piece tells the story in verse, imagery, and music of Horvath’s parents’ horrific experience during WWII. FFI: 612-374-0344.

Thursday, May 31, 7 p.m. Local favorite Tom Lieberman plays a show with his band Tommy and the Liebermen at the Dakota (1010 Nicollet Ave., Mpls). FFI: 612-332-1010.

Friday, June 1, 7:30 p.m. It’s opening night for Park Square Theatre (408 St. Peter St, St. Paul), as it jumps on the Neil Simon bandwagon with Laughter on the 23rd Floor. A classic. It runs through July 8. FFI: 651-291-7005.

Through June 2.  Midway Contemporary Art (527 Second Ave. SE, Mpls) presents work by acclaimed artist Jordan Wolfson. FFI: 612-605-4504.

Sunday, June 3, 3 p.m. The Twin Cities Jewish Chorale presents A Concert of Psalms at Temple Israel (2324 Emerson Ave. S., Mpls). The program highlights settings of psalms that cross many centuries and cultures. The choir from St. Anthony Park United Church of Christ will perform with the Chorale as special guests. FFI: 612-298-4060.

Sunday, June 3, 7 p.m. Highly praised jazz chanteuse Sophie Millman was born in Russia, raised in Israel, and is currently living in Toronto. She makes a rare appearance at the Dakota (1010 Nicollet Ave., Mpls). FFI: 612-332-1010.

Monday, June 4, 6 p.m. Rimon features eight artists it’s funded over the years (from architecture to video, short story to theater) in a lively, fast-paced presentation of their work. The event’s called P’Chotchka, and you’re invited. The venue is Pinstripes (3849 Gallagher Dr., Edina). FFI: 952-381-3449.

Wednesday, June 6, 7:30 p.m. The St. Paul JCC Orchestra (1375 St. Paul Ave.) closes its season with a concert featuring Paul Ben-Haim’s Fanfare to Israel, among other works. FFI: 651-698-0751.

Through June 6. The Paradise Center for the Arts (321 Central Ave., Faribault) presents photographer Jane Strauss’s exhibit “Israel—Macro through Panoramic.” FFI: 507-332-7372.

Through June 30. Painter Susan Weinberg’s poignant works on Holocaust themes are on view at the Eiger-Zaidenweber Holocaust Resource Center (Barry Family Campus, 4330 S. Cedar Lake Rd., Mpls). FFI: 952-381-3360.

Rimon Named One Of Top 50 Most Innovative Jewish Organizations In North America.

Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council has been named one of the nation’s 50 most innovative Jewish nonprofits in Slingshot ‘11-‘12, a resource guide for Jewish innovation.  Rimon was selected for this list because of its resourcefulness in creating opportunities, programs, and collaborations that place the arts in the center of the community’s life rather than at its margins. More than 200 artists working in all disciplines and institutions (Jewish and non-Jewish) have benefited from Rimon’s multi-faceted support. Read more.

 

Rimon's  Monthly e-Guide

A publication that highlights events and opportunities in the local Jewish arts community, click here for the May 2012 edition.

If you would like to subscribe to the Rimon Monthly E-Guide, click here.

 

Rimon's Summer Newsletter 2011

Learn about all the exciting things happening in the Twin Cities arts community and the ways Rimon is making an impact.  

 

Rimon Artist Salon Highlights

From the March 25th Artist Salon Gathering the Mystic Light: The Art of Blowing Glass

Claude Riedel, a leading contemporary creator of the ner tamid (Eternal Light), with artist and legendary educator Aribert Munzner: Jewish mysticism and the art of sculpting glass, metal, and light. The Salon included a live demonstration of blowing glass.

 

Scenes from The Secret Life of Puppets

Rimon's February Artist Salon at Open Eye Figure Theatre featured puppet artist Shari Aronson and storyteller Carla Vogel.

 

Art Maven: Going Undercover with Teenage Filmmakers
Recent Recipient of a Rimon Project Support Grant
by David Jordan Harris

Barbara Wiener has a deep faith in the power of film to change the lives of teenage girls. During the past 10 years she has nurtured TVbyGIRLS, a pioneering organization she created to harness the power of film and video for developing leadership skills in girls.

TVbyGIRLS has worked with more than 1,200 adolescents, ages 10 to 20, in Minnesota and throughout the United States. The teens are mentored by professional filmmakers and taught the skills to write a script, shoot footage, edit and learn the skills of post-production. Most importantly, the girls gain confidence in their ability to think critically, collaborate with their peers and adults, and work constructively toward making a better world.

The organization’s current project, Undercover, is a new collaboration in which Jewish girls, Muslim girls and mainstream American girls are working together to explore public perceptions and stereotypes experienced by Muslim girls and how this relates to the perceptions of the world and media influences.

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2011-12 Advisory Board and Staff of the Rimon: Minnesota Jewish Arts Council, click here.