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Identity and its Discontents with Kendell Pinkney
To live as a Black Jew in North America is to live with a keen awareness of just how precarious group belonging can be, yet a felt sense of ‘belonging’ is a core human need. Between this self-evident need for community and the complexities of contemporary identity, lies a unique space bounded by subtle challenges and creative possibilities. Join theatre artist and rabbi, Kendell Pinkney, for an evening of conversation, experimentation, and excerpts from his theatre work that probes the boundaries of Black, Jewish, and rabbinic identity. The evening will include a beautiful havdalah.
Rabbi Kendell Pinkney is a New York based playwright, librettist, and rabbi. His collaborative theatre works have been presented at venues such as Feinstein’s 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, LABA @ the 14th St. Y, and Two River Theatre, to name a few. Recent play commissions include I Know of Plagues for Theater J and Douglass in Britannia for RedYes Studio. As a rabbi, he has been featured in the acclaimed docuseries "The New Jew," with actor-comedian Guri Alfi, BuzzFeed’s Tasty channel broadcast of “Saturday Night Seder,” and Crooked Media’s religion and society podcast, “Unholier than Thou.”
Rabbi Kendell currently serves as the Director of Jewish Learning at Reboot, and is the founding Artistic Director of The Workshop (theworkshopny.com / @theworkshopartist) - a New York based arts and culture fellowship that supports and foregrounds the work of professional artists of BIPOC-Jewish heritage.
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