AN ONLINE GATHERING FOR CREATIVES & CULTURE MAKERS BY JEWS OF COLOUR FOR JEWS OF COLOUR

PRISM RETURNS WITH PRISM 2.0: “SHOW AND TELL” EDITION!

Our inaugural March 2021 convening was amazing and filled with light, love, and lots of creative Jews of diverse backgrounds and identities. Participants asked for more opportunities to share and learn what other JOCISM (Jews of Colour, Indigenous Jews, Sephardi & Mizrahi) artists and culture makers are up to, so we are holding PRISM 2.0 with opportunities to share snippets of your practice in a series of breakout rooms. (No advanced prep required.) Are you a painter or performer, director or dancer, curator or choreographer? Perhaps you’re a theatre artist, writer, filmmaker, content creator, or musician? Join us!! We’re a small, grassroots team shaping an intentional, intergenerational space to connect and even spark collaboration — a growing community that is kind, supportive, queer-positive, cultured and colourful, centred on Jews of Colour (JOC). Maybe you grapple with the term JOC, that’s okay! (So do we!!) If you feel more Jew-ish than Jewish, that’s alright too. Let’s all come together on November 17.

Important Pre-Registration Information: If you’re a Jew of Colour and don’t self-identify as an artist or culture maker or if you’re a Jew with solely Ashkenazi heritage, we respectfully ask you to sit this one out so that a creative community can begin to form among Jewish artists and culture makers of Colour, including Sephardi and Mizrahi creatives. More on this and other frequently asked questions below.

PRISM 2.0 WILL MEET ON NOVEMBER 17, 2021 | 5 PM PST | 7 PM CMT | 8 PM EST

THIS EVENT IS FREE BUT ADVANCED REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED BY NOVEMBER 12. SIGN UP HERE.

If you have an accessibility request, please indicate at time of registration or contact us at info@fentster.org  

Organized by No Silence on Race, FENTSTER, JQT Vancouver, DNAWORKS & The Workshop

CORE ORGANIZING TEAM

• Sara Yacobi-Harris | Toronto, Canada (No Silence on Race, filmmaker, M.E.d Candidate, University of Toronto)

• Kendell Pinkney |New York, USA (Rabbinical student, Jewish Theological Seminary; Rabbinic Fellow for Reboot, LABA and Ammud – The Jews of Color Torah Academy; Co-Founder of Kaleidoscope)

• Adam W. McKinney | Fort Worth, Texas, USA (Professor of Dance, Texas Christian University; Co-Director of DNAWORKS, an arts and service organization committed to healing through the arts and dialogue)

• Devyani Saltzman | Toronto, Canada (Writer, Curator, Producer; Outgoing Director of Public Programming, Art Gallery of Ontario)

• Carmel Tanaka | Vancouver, Canada (Founder & Executive Director of JQT Vancouver, a Jewish Queer Trans non-profit; Community Engagement Professional)

• Evelyn Tauben | Toronto, Canada (Producer, Writer, and Founder / Curator of FENTSTER; JOC Ally)

ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS

No Silence on Race is a movement borne out of the necessity for racial equity and inclusivity within Canadian Jewish spaces. Dedicated to building a Jewish community reflective of its immense diversity, the movement is committed to advocacy, education, and change.

FENTSTER (Yiddish for “window”) is an independent exhibition space located in the storefront window of Makom: Creative Downtown Judaism in downtown Toronto. Providing a window onto Jewish life through art, FENTSTER’s work is increasingly moving beyond the window gallery space – catalyzing critical conversations through exhibitions, programs and online gatherings, furthering a commitment to creating an anti-racist Jewish community and to telling diverse stories connected to the Jewish experience.

JQT Vancouver is ‘queering’ Jewish spaces and ‘Jew-ifying’ queer spaces to make them more inclusive, through education, dialogue, art, cultural celebration, and partnerships.

DNAWORKS is dedicated to dialogue and healing through the arts, focusing on identity, heritage, culture, and liberation.

The Workshop is the first North American arts fellowship centering the work of JOCISM (Jews of Color, Indigenous Jews, Sephardi & Mizrahi) artists & culture-makers.

PRISM original artwork created by Maxine Lee Ewaschuk combining motifs drawing from Jewish and Korean art traditions, reflecting the artist’s heritage (acrylic gouache and embroidery floss on cotton), 2021.