Each year, YNY’s popular and super-affordable Kids & Teens programs incorporate music, art and theater as a fun way of introducing young YNYers to the world of Yiddish culture.
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YNY KIDS!
Sun 12/22-Thurs 12/26, 9:30AM-5:30PM
at Hebrew Union College, 1 W 4th Street in Manhattan
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This year the kids’ program is focusing on how we can learn from our community’s rich history and traditions. In addition to our songs, play, and Yiddish fun, this year we will get to meet experts in folklore, learn oral history interviewing techniques , and then use our new skills to collect stories, songs and more from our YNY community. YNY Kids is led by Esther Gottesman, an elementary and middle school librarian and public school teacher in Brooklyn. Esther also teaches at the Worker’s Circle Manhattan Shule, is a native Yiddish speaker and occasionally sings in Yiddish, too.
KLEZMER KOMPOSITION/
FAMILY BAND
Sun 12/22-Wed 12/25, 4:15PM-5:30PM
at Hebrew Union College, 1 W 4th Street in Manhattan
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Facilitated by musician and educator Judy Sweet, YNY kids, teens, and their families will work together to create an original ‘Klezmer Komposition’ using voice, body percussion, instruments, found sounds, and more. All ages, abilities, and instruments are welcome!
YNY TEENS!
Sun 12/22-Thurs 12/26, 9:30AM-5:30PM
at Hebrew Union College, 1 W 4th Street in Manhattan
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The projects we do each December in the YNY Teen Theater Workshop are really asking “What time is it on the clock of the world? ?װיפֿל אַ װעלטזײגער איז עס” How can our Yiddish languages, books, poems, songs, ancestral stories, and importantly *New York City itself * help us make sense of the moment we are in? How, as youth storytellers, can we use tradition and the stuff only we know to lift the spirits of our community (style, good outfits, jokes, music, dance moves, your favorite thing here) and create an enchanted space in which to think? We’ll create an incredible theater show, with an original script, sets, and so much DrAmA (only the good kind! ). Led by Raya Ferholt-Wirz, OBIE-award winning theater producer/actor Jenny Romaine and Ozzy Gold-Shapiro.