‘Shtisel’ Artist Alex Tubis in Conversation With Art Expert Ronnit Vasserman (virtual)
Alex Tubis, a 43-year-old artist based outside Tel Aviv, is the genius behind the masterpieces the fictional Akiva Shtisel creates on the hit Netflix series “Shtisel.” Learn how Tubis’ own experiences influenced Akiva’s artwork, a motif throughout the hit TV show. Join us to hear about his own creative process and his involvement with the show’s production.
Wednesday, March 2, 11:30 a.m., $20/$24
See more about this program at https://www.jccotp.org/programs/day-trips-experiences/#shtisel
Sunday of Strong Women 2022 (in-person)
Hear the voices of three strong women with unique ideas to share. Audacious and tenacious, these women will engage, enlighten and entertain.
2022 Authors
Deborah Copaken: ‘Ladyparts’
Did you see “Emily in Paris” on Netflix? What about “Modern Love” on Amazon? Deborah Copaken has written for those shows and wrote the bestselling book “Shutterbabe,” among others. She is a contributing writer at the Atlantic and has been an Emmy award-winning news producer and photojournalist. Her latest book, “Ladyparts,” is about the female body and the body politic of womanhood in America. It’s irreverent and funny, and very serious.
Gillian Laub: ‘Family Matters’
Photographer and filmmaker Gillian Laub spent decades using her camera to explore political, social and psychological conflict, inviting both her subjects and viewers into conversations about reconciliation. In 2016, during the most divisive election in U.S. history, with her family on two sides of the gaping divide, Laub discovered that this conflict was inextricably linked to the complex and loving relationships she had been chronicling in her own family for more than two decades. This book, companion to her current exhibit at ICP, contains those photographs.
Qian Julie Wang: ‘Beautiful Country’
In China she was the daughter of professors. In Brooklyn her family was “illegal.” Qian Julie Wang was 7 when she moved to America, the “Beautiful Country,” where she and her parents found that the roads of New York City were not paved with gold, but with crushing fear and scarcity. Barely surviving, she battled hunger and loneliness at school. A heartrending story of a girl who comes of age in the shadows and never stops seeking the light.
Sunday, March 20, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., $40/$48 (includes lunch)
Full vaccination required. Participants will need to be masked when not eating. Seating will allow for distancing.
Books available for purchase and signing.
Event Sponsors: Kim and Marc Harrison; and Lisa Beth and Greg Meisel. Supported in part by the James H. Grossmann Memorial Jewish Book Endowment Fund.
Call Kathy Graff at 201.408.1454 for more information.
For more info, https://www.jccotp.org/programs/author-events/#strong_women
(Courtesy of JCCOTP)
