SHTETL ON THE SHORTWAVE
The Art of Breast Milk on Shtetl
Lactation Station is an installation by Toronto-based performance artist Jess Dobkin. She’ll tell us why she’s inviting the public to come out and do a breast milk tasting. Similar to a wine tasting but touching on taboos that are bound to make us question why we’re ok with milk from a cow but not from a mom.
Jess Dobkin is Guest Curator of Harbourfront Centre’s HATCH residency program and a Fellow at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto.
Tune in for new music from Leonard Cohen, John Zorn and Matisyahu (post-Hasidic). Plus Gogol Bordello (coming to Montreal!), Shtreiml, and some classic Beastie Boys in honour of Adam Yauch aka MCA.
More Shtetl on the Shortwave
Poetry Jam on Shtetl. Israeli-born sign language poet Aneta Brodski meets Tahani a Palestinian-American slam poet in the doc Deaf Jam. Also, meet 2 wild Jewish poets:Jazz Talmudist Jake Marmer and professor, poet and media artist Adeena Karasick.
Self-hatred 101 today on Shtetl with Joseph Rosen, author of “In Defense of Self-Hatred”, and the young woman who wrote “Nice Jewish Boys” and “A Jewish Education” under the pseudonym Lick My Knish. Deconstructing a fav. Jewish pass time.
This Friday on Shtetl’s Passover Epsiode: Journalist Marlee Wasser spends time with the men at a Jewish halfway house in Montreal. And, we speak with director Rhonda Moskowitz about her incredible work documenting the lives of Jews in the prison system.
Every year at the Passover Seder Jews are commanded to drink four glasses of wine. But what did they do in the 20′s when the sacred juice was forbidden? Bootleggers, kosher wine scandals and more on Shtetl.
Get a t-shirt drawn by Bon Iver and other indie rock stars and support great causes. Matt Stotland talks about the Yellow Bird Project. And, Biblical scholar A.J. Levine tells us why she thinks Jews should be reading the Big Book of Jesus.
We’re talkin’ Purim this week with Rabbi Julia Appel. And, discover Tel Aviv with Brooklyn-born dancer Shamel Pitts, in Montreal at Place des Arts with Israeli dance company Batsheva.
Tune in for Shtetl’s tribute to music that’s BLACK & JEWISH. From old tunes you’re sure to recognize to ones that will surely be new. Happy Black History Month people!!
Basya Schechter’s album Songs of Wonder puts music to the Yiddish poetry of activist and mystic Rabbi A.J. Heschel. And, Tzeporah Berman is the legendary environmental activist behind the Victoria’s DIRTY Secret campaign.
Which side of the proverbial mechitza do you sit in? This week on Shtetl we explore coming out as trans to your Jewish parents. Plus music from trans-identified bands like Schmekel, Antony and the Johnshons, Dana International….
