Exciting news! I received a NY LABA Fellowship along 10 brilliant artist from varied fields! LABA is a Laboratory for Jewish Culture with hubs in New York City, the Bay Area, Berlin and Buenos Aires, which uses classic Jewish texts to inspire the creation of art, culture, conversation, and community. LABA Fellow are writers and artists, filmmakers and musicians working in varied fields of expression and this fellowship theme is BROKEN.

“We are broken vessels, and we live, according to Jewish mysticism, in a broken vessel. The chaos is never-ending, as is our longing to put the pieces back together”.

LABA will dive into the pain and pleasures of brokenness through our study of ancient Jewish texts, as we contemplate the ways in which brokenness is foundational to the Jewish tradition, and the ways in which brokenness plays out in our individual psychology and the world around us. Layered into this, we will also consider our dual-edged impulse to heal, which can just as easily lead us to a remedy as it can disillusion us–particularly in this age of self-optimization.