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Storahtelling - Our Present Story
Vision & Mission || Past
|| Present || Future
|| Year End Report 2009
“Storahtelling’s
performance was a testimony to the power of narrative
and music, and I can think of no better way to honor
the work of ancient artists in Jewish sacred space.
Their program brought art to life, and there is
no more compelling experience than that.”
— Allison Day, Youth
and Family Programs Manager
Brooklyn Museum, NY
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This past year we increased our
staff, now including six full time and three part
time employees; we added two more directors
to our board and company and increased the size
of our touring company, now numbering over 50
artists and educators.
In the past ten years we produced over than 500 presentations
and educational programs, directly engaging over 150,000
people at prominent venues worldwide, including synagogues,
schools, theaters, museums, campuses, clubs and conferences.
Storahtelling’s vision is recognized internationally
as ground breaking and is representative of a pioneering
trend among younger generations of Jews. In March 2006
the National Foundation for Jewish Culture released
a report analyzing the current trends in the Jewish
American experience, focusing on Storahtelling’s
NYC events as one of the primary examples of innovative
Jewish life. The following excerpts from the report
speak to the impact of our work and charge us further
on our mission:
Storahtelling is… part
of a broad set of endeavors that define Jewish life
and community by and for a new generation…Rather
than critique or fight against the institutes of
Jewish life, the events model a kind of guerilla
Judaism that is ironic, funny, entertaining, contemporary,
playful and empowering…
In our policy implications section, we point to
the potential of Jewish cultural events: to strengthen
networks, create community, and incubate leadership;
to project a view of Jewish engagement that is contemporary
and enticing; to serve as a laboratory and model
of cultural change for institutional Judaism; and
to contribute historically to the construction of
Jewish culture in New York and the country.’
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Cultural Events
& Jewish Identities: Young Adult Jews in New
York
Steven M. Cohen and Ari Kelman
Commissioned by the National Foundation for Jewish
Culture and UJA Federation of New York, 2006 |
Among Storahtelling's accomplishments to date
are the following grants and awards:
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Resident project of Bikkurim: UJC/JESNA
Incubator for New Jewish Ideas 2000-2003 |
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Recipient of a Joshua Venture fellowship
2002-2004 |
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Recipient of UJA Federation of New York
Commission on Jewish Identity and Renewal Grant 2000-2004 |
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Recipient of New York Foundation for the
Arts Commission for Israeli-American Cultural Exchange Grant |
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Recipient of STAR Synagogue Transformation
And Renewal Grant |
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Synagogue 2000 Fellowship |
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Consultancy to Andrea and Charles Bronfman
Philanthropies |
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