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Women’s Work in Troubled Times
September 15 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Advance tickets are available online. It is advised to purchase advance tickets for this event. If tickets sell out online, tickets will not be available at the door.
Women’s Work in Troubled Times
A Celebration of SWANA Artists New Work
A co-production with Red Poppy Art House and Aviva Arts.
Join us on September 15th for an inspiring lineup of live music, songs, poetry rants, and reflections of works in progress performance by Southwest Asian North African (SWANA) theater-makers emceed by Mama Ganuush, Palestinian Drag Artist and Social Justice Activist.
This eclectic evening features nationally recognized artists including Amal Bisharat, Golden Thread’s artist-in-residence, Manaar Azreik of Holistic Solutions, Andrea Assaf of Art2Action, Debórah Eliezer of Aviva Arts, Zina Pozen, and surprise guests.
This event is also offered in conjunction with Art2Action’s 11 Reflections: San Francisco project. Come for a special Sneak Peak at 11 Reflections in development!
Women’s Work in Troubled Times offers soul-inspiring songs, an excerpt from a new Palestinian musical, Arab Jewish spoken word and so much more!
Featuring:
Andrea Assaf
Manaar Azreik
Amal Bisharat
Sophia Alawi
Debórah Eliezer
Lena Sibony
Zina Pozen
Sunday, September 15th, 2024
Time: 2:45 pm doors, 3:00 pm show
Admission: Free
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
The Aviva Arts mission is to promote growth and transformation through liberatory arts modalities. We center intersectional narratives that champion our relationship to ourselves, each other and the natural world.
https://www.avivaarts.org/womens-work
Sophia Alawi is a first-generation Muslim Moroccan/Italian American actress, singer, songwriter & writer. She has a BFA in Musical Theater from Rider University. She also studied at T’Schreiber, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, and The Barrow Group in New York. She’s so excited to be a part of this new musical that uplifts unrepresented Palestinian voices. She won the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle award for Best Featured Actress – Musical in 2019 for Groundhog Day The Musical and was named one of “Five Standout Performances” in 2019 by the Houston Chronicle for the role of Wendla in Spring Awakening. Regional credits include Sound of Music(Hillbarn Theater) She Loves Me, Merrily We Roll Along & Fun Home (42nd St Moon), As You Like It, Twelfth Night and Groundhog Day The Musical (San Francisco Playhouse), Spring Awakening (Theater Under the Stars), and In the Heights (Playhouse on Park). New York credits include Fat Kid Rules the World, and Emerson Loses Her Mind. TV credits include Law & OrderSVU.
Debórah Eliezer (she/her)
Debórah Eliezer (she/her) is a mixed-identity Arab-Jewish artist, activist, coach, and California fire survivor. Passionate about the power of human transformation, her work focuses on disrupting assumptions about art, human values, the environment, and society. She is the Artistic Director of Aviva Arts, an Associate Artist with Golden Thread, a Mitsui Collective Somatic Jewish Leader Fellow, (Kollel3,) artEquity arts facilitator alumna, and proudly serves on the inaugural MENATMA board. Eliezer has devised numerous world premieres and toured internationally, including writing and performing (dis)Place[d], about Iraqi Jews. As the former foolsFURY Co-Artistic Director, she produced the FURY Factory Festival of Ensemble Theater in SF for 13 years and BUILD digital convenings. Eliezer holds a B.A. Cum Laude in Drama Cum Laude from SFSU, and is a certified Sound, Voice Music Healing practitioner from CIIS, and a certified Kaula Tantra Yoga instructor.
Zina Pozen
Originally from Ukraine, Zina Pozen grew up in a family of classical musicians, playing piano from a young age. In her house, salty Yiddish sayings, contraband Barry Sisters, Stravinsky and Poulenc, traditional Ukrainian and Moldovan tunes, Utyosov and Dunaevsky weaved their sounds together. After moving to the U.S., Zina fell under the spell of the Eastern European Folklife Center Balkan Music Camps and picked up the accordion to play traditional music. Zina plays klezmer, Moldovan, Ukrainian, Turkish, Armenian, Greek rebetiko, and other styles.
She was a founding member of Seattle’s infamous (and famously fun) Bucharest Drinking Team. In the Bay Area, she plays with Saul Goodman Klezmer Band, Orchestra Euphonos, Metanastys, Yeraz Ensemble, Cabin 19, Moonshine Jelly, Jonnie Pekelny, and friends, and sits in with Balkan Sunday jams.
Outside of music, Zina is a language technologist, training robots to help humans learn human languages.
Sunday, September 15th, 2024
Time: 2:45 pm doors, 3:00 pm show
Admission: Free
Note: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door unless otherwise noted on the Facebook event page that the show is SOLD OUT.
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