Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia Cinder-Rachella World Premiere!
Fine Arts Program
May 2014, dates and times TBA The JCCNV has commissioned, and will produce, present, and tour the world premiere of “Cinder-Rachella,” a family-friendly adaptation of a play with music which celebrates Israeli culture through the eyes of the iconic fairytale Princess. Written by Leslie A. Kobylinski, with original music by Alvin Smithson. Yael Ingel, the JCCNV’s recent Community Shlicha (emissary), consults from Israel. The project has received a grant from the Arts Council of Fairfax County, supported by Fairfax County. Additional funding and support is coming from First Draft, a local theatre company dedicated to developing new plays alongside audiences, supporting DC-area playwrights and partnering with theaters and artists looking to produce new work.
Tickets go on sale March 1. For questions, and to buy tickets: Box Office: (703) 537-3000 Email: boxoffice@jccnv.org Purchase tickets through www.brownpapertickets.com.
14th Annual Northern Virginia Jewish Film Festival
Thursday–Sunday, March 20–30 Last year the theme was “Culture, Community, Chutzpah.” What will it be this year? What contemporary Jewish-themed and/or Israelimade films will delight and provoke our audiences? Following an opening night dinner and film (which sold-out last year) at the JCCNV, we are honored to return to Angelika Film Center and Café at Mosaic as our festival home. While the films and schedule will be announced in the early spring, now is the time to become a screening sponsor for this annual community event. Contact Dan Kirsch for sponsorship and group sales information.
Visit www.jccnvarts.org for updates. Your Complete Mind, Body and Spirit Center.
Nature’s Splendor February 11–April 7 This exhibit captures the beauty of the natural world.
Fine Arts Coordinator Irene Gavin, (703) 537-3063 • Irene.Gavin@jccnv.org The JCCNV Fine Arts Program supports and encourages the development of Jewish arts and artists. The program is also committed to establishing and strengthening the relationship between the Northern Virginia community and Israel by integrating Israeli arts into its program. The JCCNV Fine Arts Program’s dedication to the arts has garnered an international reputation that is well-respected amongst artists, art enthusiasts, buyers, and sellers. Over the years, the Center’s Bodzin Art Gallery exhibitions have attracted talented artists who work in a wide-variety of media including painting, photography, jewelry, crafts and new media. For a listing of past exhibits, visit our Fine Arts Archive at www.jccnvarts.org.
Exhibits
The Bodzin Art Gallery continues to feature many local artists, supporting the creative talent in our tri-state area.
For many years Darlene Kaplan painted realism before changing to oriental brush painting, where she could immerse herself in the natural world. Grinding the ink in preparation for painting, stroking or brushing color onto natural papers to interpret the bamboo orchid, a complicated soothing landscape or mountains in the mist, the viewer journeys peacefully through her art. Darlene states, “I believe that an artist is a person who can see something within the mind that can be brought into reality where it can be seen, felt, touched, heard and even sometimes smelled.”
Showcases: Daphne Nadler has been creating a line of original ageless handbags. She says of the variety of women who carry her bags, “Like me, they think outside the box… and appreciate originality, creativity and unique designs.” Her selection of fine fabrics and feathers make use of texture and color, and provide us with user-friendly, functional, yet beautiful lasting pieces to complement our style. This is the opportunity to see her newest handcrafted designs.
Powers of Perception: Maggie Siner’s Vision
On Deaf Ears
December 17–February 10
This exhibit commemorates Yom Ha’Shoah and reflects the theme of public response to injustice today. This year’s Jewish Community Relations Council’s (JCRC) annual Holocaust commemoration (on April 27 at the JCCNV) is themed “On Deaf Ears: Media Coverage and Public Response in the Holocaust Years.” Artists have been asked to exhibit works of art that represent the contemporary connections to this theme.
This exhibit focuses on a highly creative and talented Jewish artist’s comprehensive body of work.
Maggie Siner paints directly from life. She calls her work “Perceptual Painting” [including drawings and sculptures], based on direct observation and the intricacies and complexities of visual perception (i.e. not reproduced from a camera). She is particularly interested in movement and how gesture brings the reality of time into an image, which can otherwise be fixed and static. Working from life means that she paints what she sees with a highly varied subject matter that can be intimate or vast, ordinary or whimsical.
April 8–May 27
Hector Emanuel is a Peruvianborn photojournalist, now from DC, who has traveled and photographed extensively throughout the world. His primary interest is the examination of social and political issues in Latin America and the United States. He shares his dedication to expressive documentary work grounded in humanistic stories and themes — which is clearly visible in his powerful images of the human plight existing today.
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