When:
Thursday, March 5, 2015,
7:00 pm - 11:59 pm

Location:
EMJC - Regency Room

Another reason East Midwood is the place to be on Thursday nights.

While NightShul takes an inter-session break, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and the Aftselokhes Spectacle Committee bring their annual Purim celebration for the first time to East Midwood Jewish Center, with a Purimspiel on March 5 and masquerade ball on March 7.

How does JFREJ celebrate Purim? Since 2002, JFREJ has sponsored a radical Purimshpil project founded by artist agitators and educators Adrienne Cooper (zts”l) and Jenny Romaine in partnership with the Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter-Ring and the Great Small Works theater collective. For the past few years, the Aftselokhes Spectacle Committee has worked with JFREJ and a long list of other artists and social justice organizations to produce Purim spectacles that bring together hundreds of revelers each year for a wild time. Each year, the Purimshpil offers a powerful example of what can happen when we use our cultural abundance in our political organizing. From 2002’s “Giant Puppet Purim Ball Against the Death Penalty” to 2004’s “Rehearsal for the Downfall of Shoeshine: An Immigrant Justice Purim Spectacular!” to 2007’s “Roti and Homentaschn: The Palace Workers Revolt! A Purim Carnival Spectacular” to 2012’s “Your Homentaschen Are Killing Me! A Purim Ball for the body, its resilience, its fragility, and its bounce!”, the shows have enlivened, enlightened, confused, and inspired JFREJ members and our friends and comrades.