Oy di velt vet vern yinger - Oh the world will grow younger (2008)

This work-in progress performance was driven by recorded and live music and soundscape, with simultaneous installations using dance, song, visual arts, object theatre, projections, sewing and 3 Naivelt cottage installations.

Artistic Team: Ruth Howard, Noah Kenneally, Sean Frey*, Lisa Marie DiLiberto, Martin van de Ven, Michelle Silagy, Sybil Goldstein, Michaela Otto, Maggie Hutcheson, Liz Rucker, Michael Burtt, Leah Houston, along with an able crew of Naivelt teenagers and community members of all ages, and based on the research of Ester Reiter and the memoirs of Manya Lipshitz, Avram Himelstein and other oral histories from the community.
* a Metcalf Intern

Photograph by D. Barndt

Funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Ontario Trillium Foundation, Metcalf Foundation, United People’s Jewish Order

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