The Charlotte Jewish News - March 2014 - Page 12
Mark Your Calendars for the 2nd Annual Levine JCC
Arts Festival on March 30
The Levine JCC will host the
2nd Annual Arts Festival on Sun
day, Mar eh 30, from 10 AM-4
PM. All of the artists are loeal to
the Charlotte area and the festival
ineludes a diverse range of hand-
erafted art only. This year there
will be an expanded dimension of
musieal venues throughout the
day, with some revisited numbers
from this year’s hugely sueeessful
winter musieal produetion of Fid
dler on the Roof from the Levine
JCC’s Performing Arts Depart
ment. There will also be danee
performanees and food trueks
serving up delieious luneh items
on site.
There are a lot of festivals
throughout the year in this eity,
but ours will be a full arts festival
with musie and danee perform
anees during the event. There will
be emerging new artists who are
showing their work for the first
time, alongside veteran artists that
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have done festivals for years. We
plan to be outdoors at the beauti
ful Camp Mindy eampus to have
a real “Festival” atmosphere. If it
rains, we will be in the Sam
Lemer Cultural Hall.
We had 36 vendors at our first
Arts Festival; featuring eeramies,
glass, jewelry, photography,
wood, fiber, watereolor, and met
als. This year we will have many
returning artists and some new
ones. Artist Patriek Robertson will
be displaying mixed media seulp-
tures. Artist Suzanne Nash will
showease her eustom jewelry, ere-
ating her own original designs
featuring fused glass, beads, and a
unique wire braiding proeess. She
also has a line ealled “Just For
You” whieh is ereated from your
own repurposed artiele - pin, but
ton, earring, a family heirloom
that you don’t like as is.
“I wanted to do an Arts Festival
at the Levine JCC primarily to
promote loeal artists, and foster an
arts awareness within our JCC
eommunity,” said Gwen Orland,
Visual Arts Coordinator for the
LJCC. “A lot of people think ‘Fit
ness Center’ when they see the
JCC but I am hopeful that with
these kind of events, they will also
think ‘Art’ - both visual and per-
formanee. Our JCC hallways are
enhaneed by beautiful, donated
pieees of art and I hope to bring
more art minded folks to the
LJCC - the festival is one way to
do that.”
Celena Burnett is a elay artist
Charlotte
Celena Burnett s whimsical designs
who has been teaehing eeramies at
the LJCC sinee 2010. Prior to that
she had her own teaehing studio in
Charlotte ealled The Whirling
Wheel. She now foeuses on ereat-
ing a whimsieal style of eeramie
wall hangings. Celena says that
one of her biggest joys is meeting
new people who appreeiate hand
made art. “I am always touehed
when someone wants to take
home one of my pieees and I see
the happiness on their faees be-
eause they really love it.”
For more information about the
Arts Festival, visit: www.eharlot-
tej ee. org/vi sualarts.
For questions, please eontaet
Gwen Orland at gwen.orland@
eharlottejee.org or 704-944-
6781. ^
German Studies Conference at Davidson
Omer Bartov-Keynote Speaker
“The Voice of Your Brother ’5 Blood: The Holocaust as
Communal Genocide^^
Omer Bartov ranks among one
of the leading and most aeeom-
plished Holoeaust and Genoeide
Studies seholars. Bom in Israel
and trained at Tel Aviv University
and St. Antony’s College, Oxford,
he eurrently holds the John P.
Birkelund Distinguished Profes
sor of European History and Pro
fessor of History and German
Studies at Brown University. His
publieations, ineluding seven
books and three edited volumes,
have been translated in many lan
guages and transformed the field.
He has reeeived numerous presti
gious awards and grants and has
previously taught or held fellow
ships at Rutgers University, Har
vard University, Prineeton
University, and Tel Aviv Univer
sity. His early researeh on the
Nazi indoetrination of the
Wehrmaeht and the German
army’s erimes during the Seeond
World War helped broaden and
alter the understanding of Holo
eaust perpetrators and resulted in
his well-reeeived studies The
Eastern Front 1941-45: German
Troops and the Barbarisation of
Warfare (1985) and Flitler's Army:
Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the
Third Reich (1991). He then ex
amined the intrieate links between
genoeide and total war, produeing
path-breaking works sueh as Mur
der in Our Midst: The Holocaust,
Industrial Killing, and Represen
tation (1996) and Germany’s War
and the Holocaust: Disputed His
tories (2003). Most reeently, he
has turned to an examination of
interethnie relations in the border
lands of Eastern Europe, shifting
the foeus to the level of eommu-
nities, vietim populations, and
non-German perpetrators. In this
eontext, he headed a eollaborative
projeet at the Watson Institute.
These projeets have resulted in
the eo-edited volume Shatterzone
of Empires (2013) and Erased:
Vanishing Traces of Jewish Gali
cia in Present-Day Ukraine
(2007). Omer Bartov is eurrently
eompleting another major mono
graph, The Voiceof Your Brother’s
Omer Bartov
Blood: Buczacz, Biography of a
Town, on whieh his keynote talk
will be based.
The keynote address will be
given on UNC Charlotte’s Center
City Campus in uptown Charlotte
on Thursday, Mareh 27, at 4:30
PM. The Levine-Sklut Judaie Li
brary is proud to eo-sponsor the
program.
Diseussion and reeeption to
follow. ^
Shalom Park Freedom School Film Event
2711 Randolph Road, Suite 205 Charlotte, NC 28207 704-377-2503
Thursday, May 1, 7 PM
SPFS Movie Fundraiser and
Friendraiser
Sam Lemer Center for
Cultural Arts
From Swastika to Jim Crow
$10 tiekets to go on sale
in April
Light movie refreshments
will be served
Come support our Shalom Park
Freedom Sehool seholars by
watehing this inspiring doeumen-
tary about Jewish refugee sehol
ars.
This one hour PBS doeumen-
tary tells the story of how histori-
eally blaek eolleges in the south
during WWII opened their doors
to Jewish refugee seholars from
Nazi Germany.
Aside from a shared experienee
of perseeution, the two eommuni-
ties are shown as partners embrae-
ing the powerfulness of a good
edueation and a devoted teaeher.
A brief panel diseussion will
immediately follow the sereen-
ing.
For more information or to get
involved please eontaet Event
Chair Cheryl Alley at
ealley@eomporium.net. ^