Jewish Arts Inc

Director: Judy Campbell

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Vision

To foster Jewish continuity through engagement with the arts, the arts being a powerful player in the shaping of identity.

Jewish Arts encourages and facilitates the creation and delivery of, and increases access to, arts experiences in a Jewish context.

Specific objectives are:

to inspire and entertain with high quality Jewish arts presentations across a variety of art forms
to offer opportunities to participate in the arts in a Jewish context to support and nurture practitioners of Jewish arts
to provide innovative artistic pathways to explore what it means to be Jewish today
to promote cross-denominational unity, particularly on the North Shore of Sydney

The financial strategy to support the pursuit of the above goals is to steadily build an endowment fund that will ultimately support the program into the future through the annual income accumulated. Other sources of funding, such as grants and individual donations, are sought along the way to facilitate the delivery of the program.

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What has been achieved so far

2007

August - program launched and initial donations received.
October - donations gratefully received via the Kol Nidre Appeal.

2008

June - Musical presentation at community-wide Yom Yerushalayim event, bringing together singers and instrumentalists from NSTE, North Shore Synagogue and Masada College.
October - Donations gratefully received through the Kol Nidre Appeal.
November - "Art & Israel" presentation and exhibition by Israeli-born artist Elan Lemberg.

2009

June - supported "A Jewish Heart", a concert at NSTE featuring notorious Jewish comedian Austen Tayshus and the NSTE Choir.
August - Supported the NSTE Jubilee art competition and exhibition that culminated in a beautiful commemorative printed calendar for 2010.
September - Part-funding for Jubilee CD "Celebration". It is envisaged that this will be entirely recouped over time through CD sales. The balance of costs was covered through generous personal donations from members of the NSTE Choir.
Finalised a constitution and registered Jewish Arts as an incorporated not-for-profit association.
November - musical event at NSTE: Mark Ginsburg gave a presentation on his masters research findings regarding the links between jazz improvisation and traditional cantorial singing, followed by a Mark Ginsburg Band performance.

2010 plans

February - Launch of Rikudei-Am dance program by expert practitioner Jayme Akstein, a native of Brazil who has spent several years living in Israel.
July - co-present a community-wide choral workshop delivered by visiting Musician-in-Residence, Cantor Robbie Solomon.
August - sponsor an artist at the inaugural Sydney Jewish Music Festival: "Shir Madness".
Plans in progress to deliver/co-present events in the areas of visual art and theatre.