Sounds of Persia
447Be transported into another sound world as you listen to a traditional improvised solo by the world's leading master of Persian santoor, Dr. Dariush Saghafi. Then hear the world premiere of a piece for SINGING string quartet by Dr. Reza Vali using the Persian Dastgâh-Magham modal system. This program celebrates the release of a collaborative […]
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | My Name Is Sara
3666Drama | 2019 | Poland, USA | 111 min English, Polish, English subtitles Directed by Steven Oritt This powerful saga of courage and compassion is based on the astonishing true-life story of Sara Góralnik, a 13-year-old Polish Jew who lost her entire family in the Holocaust, yet struggled to outlast the Nazis and fought to […]
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | City of Joel
3666Documentary | 2018 | USA | 84 minutes English | Directed by Jesse Sweet Small-town politics and ancient tradition collide deep in the Hudson Valley, in City of Joel, an absorbing account of a high-profile turf war between an ultra-Orthodox community and its neighbors. Located in rural upstate New York, Kiryas Joel is a modern […]
Music from the Sole: Tap Dance and the Underground
3546 1678 Asylum Ave, West HartfordLeo & Greg, Artistic Directors of Music from the Sole, discuss tap's lineage to house dance, Brazilian funk (passinho), samba, and street dance with house/vogue/street dance artists. Leonardo Sandoval (choreographer, dancer, artistic director) Brazilian tap dancer Leonardo Sandoval has established a reputation in the tap world and beyond for his musicality, and for adding his […]
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Shared Legacies
3666Documentary | 2020 | USA | 97 minutes | English Directed by Dr. Shari Rogers The crucial historical lessons of Black-Jewish cooperation are revisited and revived in this utterly fascinating, urgent call to action. The modern alliance between African Americans and Jewish Americans dates to the NAACP founding in 1909. Since then, both groups have […]
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Incitement
3666Docudrama | 2019 | Israel | 123 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Directed by Yaron Zilberman For the first time on screen and based on true events, acclaimed writer-director Yaron Zilberman chronicles the disturbing descent of a promising law student to a delusional ultranationalist obsessed with murdering his country’s leader, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. […]
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Thou Shalt Not Hate
3666Drama | 2020 | Italy | 96 minutes Italian, English Subtitles Directed by Mauro Mancini Simone Segre is a successful surgeon who leads a carefree existence, marred only by a difficult relationship with his recently deceased father, a Holocaust survivor. One day he finds himself assisting a victim of a hit and run accident. When […]
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | VIRAL: Antisemitism in Four Mutations
3666Documentary | 2020 | USA | 83 minutes Directed by Andrew Goldberg The film looks at the rise of antisemitism today, through the eyes of some of those most affected by it in the US, France, the UK and Hungary. Examining the far-Right in the US and how they have incited such acts as the […]
Mandell JCC Book Festival In Your Living Room | Eternal: A Novel
Virtual Event | To purchase tickets, visit: https://www.showclix.com/event/lisa-scottoline-eternal-a-novel/tag/mandellIn partnership with the JCC Literary Consortium, the Mandell JCC Book Festival In Your Living Room is a virtual series of author Zoom talks and Q&As. "Eternal: A Novel" by Lisa Scottoline | March 21 | 8:00 p.m Eternal is the culmination of a lifetime of work: a sweeping historical epic fueled by devastating true […]
Music from the Sole: Tap Dance as Music
3546 1678 Asylum Ave, West HartfordGreg, Artistic Director of Music from the Sole, discusses the creative process of "composing" tap dance, blending the choreographic and musical composition processes. Also includes discussion of the specificities of writing music for and with tap dancers, compared to other work. Gregory Richardson (musical director, artistic director) Born to a family of musicians where everyone […]
Mandell JCC Book Festival In Your Living Room | The Call to Unite
Virtual Event | To purchase tickets, visit: https://embed.showclix.com/event/tim-shriver-call-to-unite/tag/mandellIn partnership with the JCC Literary Consortium, the Mandell JCC Book Festival In Your Living Room is a virtual series of author Zoom talks and Q&As. "The Call To Unite" by Tim Shriver | March 22 | 7:00 p.m. In Conversation with Dr. Deepak Chopra, NYT Bestselling Author; Founder, The Chopra Foundation and Chopra Global […]
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Those Who Remained
3666Drama | 2019 | Hungary | 83 minutes Hungarian (with English subtitles) Directed by Barnabás Tóth Hungary’s official entry for the Academy Award for Best International Film is an achingly tender tale set in Budapest after the end of World War II. Having survived the camps, 42-year-old Aldo lives a solitary life as a doctor […]