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Mendelsohn — Better Than Beethoven!
This week: Syzygy Theatre Group stages Lanford Wilson\’s Pulitzer-winning \”Talley\’s Folly\”; celebrated composer Felix Mendelsohn receives the ultimate compliment in the new play, \”Better Than Beethoven,\” as well as center stage; a special screening of the new documentary, \”Out of Faith,\” takes place today only at Laemmle Sunset 5; big name comedians donate stage time to raise money for The Federation\’s children\’s literacy program, KOREH L.A.; fine art and contemporary crafts can be found all weekend long at the inaugural Santa Monica Arts Festival.
Posters by Czech Students Bring Back Lost ‘Neighbors’
The Czech nation, in its many incarnations, has figured prominently in Jewish lore and literature. It has spawned the Golem and Franz Kafka, to say nothing of the recent Maurice Sendak and Tony Kushner collaboration, \”Brundibar,\” a play that was staged by the Berkeley and Yale repertory theaters and that took its story of children who vanquish a monstrous adult, a stand-in for Hitler or fascism in general, from an opera written in the Terezin ghetto at the time of the Holocaust.
Students Draw on Movie for Tolerance Mural Inspiration
Gayle Gale started Kids for Peace after she returned to Los Angeles from a series of trips to Israel as a visiting artist at Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba in 1994 and 1995. With assistance from the local Israeli consulate and a grant obtained with help from the Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity from the Jewish Community Foundation, she set out to teach youth about Israel through artistic means. In the years since, Gale has found herself doing much more.
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