![]() ![]() Shoshana Gugenheim Kedem (Founding Artist and Co-Director) is an interdisciplinary artist, Torah scribe, curator and chutzpanit.Īdam Carlin (Co-Director) is a sculptor and social practice artist that lives and works in Greensboro, North Carolina. ![]() The Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum, the only Jewish museum of its kind in North Carolina, is a Jewish museum created in collaboration with faculty and students in the Jewish Studies program and College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina Greensboro and the greater Greensboro Jewish public. ![]() Sponsored by Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum, Greensboro Jewish Federation, and Carolina Jews for Justice. We made a special dedication with the help of artist Beatrice Schall to our long-time friend, Seymour Levin, who we and so many in our community and beyond hold such deep love and admiration for. The event featured special guests Rabbi Sandra Lawson Southern Jewish food writer Marcie Cohen Ferris and artist Beatrice Schall. The kitchen table is a place for both nourishing and building.Ģ021’s event was built collaboratively with The Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum Founding artist and co-director, Shoshana Gugenheim and co-director Adam Carlin, Gabrielle Berlinger and her Jewish Folklore class at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and UNCG Director of Public History Anne Parsons. The event will encourage us to look at the meaning (even sacredness) of the objects we gather in our home, as well as the institution of home as the foundation for self-care, for living out our values, and for social justice work. We will not hold an ordered seder as in past years, but instead will hold an interactive gathering with speakers, readings, and discussions. As a contemporary adaptation, the event has woven together old traditions with Elsewhere’s Jewish legacy, social justice texts, and museum art-ifacts to build a narrative relevant for today.Ģ021’s event was named “Radically at Home” to mark one year under quarantine, connecting again through the virtual world that is just a big constellation of our far flung homes. "Radically at Home" is Elsewhere’s annual celebration of Passover, the Jewish ritual retelling the ancient tale of slavery, plagues, and liberation from the Book of Exodus (Shemot). “ My mother had two faces and a frying pot where she cooked up her daughters into girls before she fixed our dinner.” “Radically at Home”: Elsewhere’s 10th Annual Radical Seder ![]()
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