Hadithi

In October 2022, The Jüdische Kulturbund Project and Mandela Washington Fellowship Reciprocal Exchange Awardees traveled from America to collaborate with Dua Ya Dada and Keymar Women CBO in Kenya.  We led a 2-week immersive storytelling workshop with 15 girls in a remote compound called Cheptebo, located outside of Eldoret, a city in the Rift Valley … Read More

Vatengesi

Vatengesi is an interpretive adaptation of Hannah Kroner and The Jüdische Kulturbund who used their art to stand up to the Nazis and save dancers from being sent to the labor camps.  

Hair Stories

The Jüdische Kulturbund Project’s Kultur Stories 2024 focused on the theme of hair. Hair can tell many stories, whether it resembles one’s personality or culture. Hair plays a unique role in shaping our identities. Many types, textures, styles, lengths, colors, or possibilities open an outlet for expression through one’s hair. Kultur Stories began to explore … Read More

Kids Video Stories

Two groups of young artists from the United States and South Sudan connect over Zoom to create a story about the effects of COVID-19. This video captures their experience over two weeks in June 2020. Gail Prensky, Producer and Sean MacLaughlin, Producer and Editor. KIDS VIDEO STORIES is an initiative of The Jüdische Kulturbund Project’s … Read More

Remembering the Jews of Greece

Highlight video, produced in December 2019. Highlights of “Remembering the Jews of Greece: A Musical Journey” performed at The United Church/Die Vereinigte Kirche in Washington, DC on November 9, 2019. The program was co-sponsored by the Greek Chamber Music Project, The Jüdische Kulturbund Project, and The United Church in cooperation with the Rabin Chair Forum … Read More

Hannah’s Dance

In June 2019, The Jüdische Kulturbund Project was invited to The Greenhouse at Andy’s Summer Playhouse to devise vignettes around the story of Hannah’s Dance. This video highlights that experience.

Bullets to Books

  In collaboration with co-producer/director Andy Truschinski and cinematographer/editor Sean MacLaughlin, we are producing a feature documentary film called Bullets to Books, which tells the story of 28 year-old Jok Abraham Thon, founder of the Promise Land Secondary School in South Sudan. Jok’s mission is changing minds from bullets to books, believing that it is through education that … Read More

Democracy Summer 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CDZxioU6ls&t=8s This video promotes Congressman Jamie Raskin’s Democracy Summer Leadership PAC’s program to “Mobilize a New Generation of Organizers to TAKE BACK CONGRESS in 2018 and Beyond!” democracysummerpac.org

Music + Art: Responses to Oppression-Students

This video highlights The Jüdische Kulturbund Project “Music + Art: Responses to Oppression” workshops with middle- and high-schools in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA   November 13-15, 2017. Sponsored by Classrooms Without Borders.

Poland Personally

Classrooms Without Borders journeyed through Poland from June 25 to July 3, 2017. This teaser promotes a 30-minute video about the participants’ reflection on key themes of Jewish life in Poland before, during, and after the Holocaust. Produced for Classrooms Without Borders, September 2017.