Dear Friends, We hope that all is well and healthy with you and your loved ones during this life-changing pandemic. Since the pandemic struck us in early 2020, The Jüdische Kulturbund Project has been harnessing its creativity, shifting plans, and starting new initiatives. We are adapting, inventing, and re-defining our goals. Throughout COVID-19, the Project has embraced … Read More
Author: Gail Prensky
Illusions by a Chilean Immigrant
A story featured in “NY—Art News” about Joan Belmar, a participating artist in The Jüdische Kulturbund Project’s Shared Stories Collection. Underground-2 © Joan Belmar “People think that if you know how to draw and paint, you know how to make art, but that is not correct. You just know how to repeat a technique.”- Joan … Read More
Bullets to Books Virtual Event on Stars in the House Please join us to raise awareness and support for Promised Land Secondary School in Juba, South Sudan. The school and its founder, Jok Abraham Thon, are the inspiration for and centerpiece of the Bullets to Books initiative, helping to bring peace and unity through education and cultural exchange. Thursday … Read More
Abuelas in Argentina
Tickets available for this beautiful film about Argentina’s Grandmothers’ struggle that has been going on for 43 years. Their struggle is it is everyone’s struggle. Written and directed by Cristian Arriaga. Music direction by Ignacio Montoya Carlotto. Featuring Estela de Carlotta, President of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. On … Read More
The Power of Art in South Sudan
September 8, 2020 by Akot Deng Agoth and Gail Prensky Gail Prensky, creator, executive producer and director of The Jüdische Kulturbund Project, dedicated to exploring issues of oppression and response through music and art, shares her interview with young South Sudan artist Akot Deng Agoth. Gail Prensky and Akot Deng Agoth in Juba South Sudan, which gained … Read More
Weinberg’s Symphony No. 21 ( “Kaddish”) live stream on August 16 at 1pm ET
Wanted to share this with you from one of the participating artists in The Jüdische Kulturbund Project: Hobart Earle, the conductor of the Odessa Philharmonic, will be streaming a free concert on Sunday, August 16 at 1pm ET. www.odessaphil.org/en The concert is Weinberg’s Symphony No. 21 ( “Kaddish” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._21_(Weinberg) performed on January 27, 2020 – “International Holocaust Memorial … Read More
KIDS VIDEO STORIES Podcast with Eye to Eye
You can hear the entire podcast here.
From Bullets to Books: One Washington Mandela Fellow’s Work Towards Peace
BUREAU OF EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE ALUMNI Inspire. Empower. Connect. June 30, 2020 In war-stricken South Sudan, education is not always easily accessible. Jok Abraham Thon, an alumnus of the Mandela Washington Fellowship program and winner of the 2019 Ron Kovac Peace Prize, is determined to rewrite that story — and he’s getting support from … Read More
‘Blue’
The opera on police violence that America needs to see, but can’t. By Michael Andor Brodeur June 17, 2020 at 7:00 a.m. EDTThe Washington Post Kenneth Kellogg as the Father and Aaron Crouch as the Son in the Glimmerglass Festival’s 2019 world premiere of Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s “Blue.” (Karli Cadel/The Glimmerglass Festival) The good news … Read More
Choir Students Sing in COVID-19 Support Video
MINOT, N.D. – Two Minot State choir students participated in a collaborative music video to support essential workers. Destiny Smestad, freshman elementary education major, and Sage Garrett, a sophomore interdisciplinary studies major, both sang for the cover of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Director of Choral Activities Emerson Eads mentioned the project to his students while they were … Read More