HOMOS AND HOUMOUS AND Manchester Jewish Museum PRESENTS:
Faith and Performance: Open artists forum (online)
What role does religion or faith play in making performance today?
Homos and and Houmous invites all theatre-makers, musicians, live artists, poets, dancers, drag artists, and circus performers with an interest in how faith integrates into their practice to meet and explore in a relaxed environment. We encourage people with any connection or experience of faith or religion (positive and negative) and those who are newly discovering their creative side to attend.
This is a FREE online event (zoom)
Facilitators:
Dex Grodner is the Creative Director and host of the queer, Jewish cabaret Homos and Houmous which they perform as the Yiddish music hall grand dame Chanukah Lewinsky. They have a particular interest in women’s and queer stories in Yiddish Theatre. Their solo show, ‘Chanukah Lewinsky: 120 Years from Grodno’ sold out at JW3 in 2018. They have run workshops and retreats on gender and Judaism at Sadeh Farm, Limmud Festival and University of Cambridge, and given talks on gender and theatre practice at Ovalhouse, Hackney Showrooms and RADA. They are a trainer and consultant for Gendered Intelligence with a particular focus on trans inclusion in the Arts.
Dr Laura Seddon is Creative Producer at Manchester Jewish Museum working with artists to activate the stories in the archives of the many different Jewish communities around the world who came to Manchester. She brings together the diverse communities in Cheetham Hill where the museum is situated, with artists to explore Jewish histories together and make meaningful connections. She is a feminist musicologist, her book British Women Composers and Instrumental Chamber Music in the Early Twentieth Century is published by Routledge and has been currently working on feminist musical responses to memorialisation and protest.
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Homos and Houmous has been London's queer, Jewish cabaret night since 2016, mincing about with a smorgasbord of drag, comedy, live klezmer, poetry and politics. The project was started as an open mic at Housmans Bookshop for LGBTI+ Jews to celebrate these two identities which can so often feel at odds. Judaism has a longstanding tradition of camp and queerness and Homos and Houmous is always a raucous family affair
Please send your queries to dexpresents@gmail.com