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.

 

If you've enjoyed the e-guide, attended an Artist Salon, known an artist who's received a Rimon Project Support grant, or attended any Rimon event, show us that you care. Click here to donate to the Rimon Arts Fund or mail a  check to Rimon/Jewish Community Foundation, MI 37, PO Box 9201, Minneapolis, MN 55480-9201. Your gift matters to us!

  

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 Accepting Project Support grant proposals in its Spring round.

Rimon supports projects with or without funding in one of four ways: artistic development and/or production; community planning and collaborations; research or administrative assistance; or marketing and outreach assistance.

For a project to be considered, it must address Rimon's mission to promote and enhance Jewish identity through arts and culture, support artists who broadly explore Jewish themes, and assist the Minnesota Jewish community in developing a collaborative involvement with the arts.

Grants will provide financial support up to $3000 but will not exceed 50% of a project's budget. Deadline for submission is March 23, 2012. 

For Project Support guidelines and application, click here. To read the press release, click here.

 

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 February E-guide to Jewish Arts in Minnesota: Events February 1 through February 12, 2012. For the full month schedule of events, click here.

Thursday, February 2, 7:30 p.m. The Sabes JCC hosts the Minnesota premiere of Something Ventured at the Showplace Icon Theater (W. 16th St. & Park Place Blvd., St. Louis Park). The film tells the tale of Silicon valley innovators and their inner workings. FFI: 952-381-3405.

Friday, February 3, 8 p.m. Shir Tikvah (1360 W. Minnehaha Pkwy., Mpls) hosts a celebration of Shabbat Shira by joining forces with the choirs and musicians of Bet Shalom and First Covenant Church. The mega-choir will perform psalms and liturgy gospel-style. First Covenant (810 S. 7th St., Mpls) will host the same event on February 19, 10 am. FFI: 612-822-1440.

Saturday, February 4, 8 p.m.  Beth El Music & Arts (5224 W. 26th St., St. Louis Park) presents A Coffeehouse Cabaret, featuring the talents of Debbie and John Orenstein and a host of other local talent. FFI: 952-920-3512.

Sunday, February 5, 3 p.m.  Margie Newman and four other outstanding local writers present Ghost Stories, an exploration of historical trauma as seen through the eyes of the writers and their families who live in its shadow. The St. Paul JCC (1375 St. Paul Ave.) hosts this exceptional event. FFI: 651-698-0751.
 
Thursday, February 9, noon.  Stacy Beckwith discusses Jews in Contemporary Spanish Fiction - how and why renowned authors in Spain engaged with their country’s Sephardic past. The event is hosted by the Center for Jewish Studies at the U of MN (150B Nicholson Hall, 216 Pillsbury Dr. SE, Mpls). FFI: 612-624-4914.

Thursday, February 9, 7 p.m. The Twin Cities Jewish Book Fair at the St. Paul JCC (1375 St. Paul Ave.) concludes its season with Lisa Miller’s absorbing Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife. FFI: 651-698-0751.

Thursday, February 9, 10 a.m.  Youth Performance Company (Howard Conn Fine Arts Center, 1900 Nicollet Ave., Mpls) opens its production of And A Child Shall Lead about the children who used their capacity for creativity to live in Terezin. The show runs through February 26. FFI: 612-623-9080.

Thursday, February 9, 7:30 p.m. A new arts organization, The Open Window Theatre (1313 Chestnut Ave., Mpls) presents Edith Stein, a riveting drama about the spiritual and intellectual struggle of a woman tragically murdered at Auschwitz. The show runs through February 26. FFI: 651-336-3302.

Thursday, February 9. The Sabes JCC (Barry Family Campus, 4330 S. Cedar Lake Rd., Mpls) presents Stephen Henderson’s cycle of paintings, The Rebbe Series, exploring everyday life in Eastern European shtetls. The exhibit runs through March 25. FFI: 952-381-3416.

Saturday, February 11, 6 p.m. Form + Content Gallery (210 2nd St., N., Mpls) hosts a reception for Dialogue in Place, work by Joyce Lyon and Andrea Thoma on the themes of time, intimacy, pilgrimage, and dwelling. The exhibit runs through March 17. FFI: 612-436-1151.

Saturday, February 11, 6:30 p.m. Adath Jeshurun Congregation (10500 Hillside Lane W., Minnetonka) presents a Sampler of Jewish Culture. Presenters include dancer and historian Judith Brin Ingber (the evolution of Israeli and Jewish dance) and Cantor Scott Buckner (sacred chanting). FFI: 952-545-2424.

Sunday, February 12, 10 a.m.  The Yiddish Vinkl presents dancer/choreographer Judith Brin Ingber at the Sabes JCC (Barry Family Campus, 4330 S. Cedar Lake Rd., Mpls). Judith will show film footage of Jewish dance icon Felix Fybush. FFI: 952-544-5423.

 

The Rimon Artist Salon series continues on Sunday, February 19, 1 p.m. with “The Secret Life of Puppets: The Art of Rekindling the Kid in All of Us”

Click here to make an online reservation.

Puppet artist Shari Aronson, co-director of Z Puppets Rosenschnoz, demonstrates the wonder and fluid magic conjured by a puppet in motion. Master storyteller Carla Vogel joins Shari in conversation about this both playful and spiritual art form. Suitable for children age 10 and older.

The Artist Salon takes place at Open Eye Figure Theatre, 506 East 24th Street in Minneapolis. The cost is $10. Youth under 18 are admitted for $5.

Tickets for Shari Aronson and Z Puppets Rosenschnoz’s production of “Monkey Mind Pirates” at In the Heart of the Beast Theatre (Feb. 18 & 19) are 2-for-1 with the purchase of a ticket to the Rimon Artist Salon. For further information, call 612-721-2535, code word Rimon.

The Salon is co-sponsored by In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre. The Rimon Artist Salon Series is funded in part by the Tychman Shapiro Gallery of the Sabes JCC, the Leo & Lillian Gross Philanthropic Fund, and by appropriations from the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the State’s general fund and from its arts and cultural heritage fund that was created by a vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.

 

Rimon's  Monthly e-Guide

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

 

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

 

Artist Salon Series with Author David Lehman

Rimon opened its 2011-12 Artist Salon Series at The Baroque Room with author, David Lehman, who discussed his widely praised book, A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs.

 

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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