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Sunday 6th July, 6pm
Slow Boat to Haifa
HMS President
Victoria Embankment, London EC4Y
Board the Slow Boat to Haifa in 1946,
complete with bands, tea dancers, stewards, deckchairs and performers.
Join the party in the dwindling hours of the British Mandate with
renegade Jewish partisans hidden in the steerage.
Entertainment from Israeli emerging sensation Rona Kenan
playing an exclusive set of 40's classics in addition to her own
work, 1940s jazz swing band The Hot Club de Kings Cross,
VJ Miki Shaw, ship lectures, secret partisan meetings with instructions
on how to smuggle your way into Palestine, dance, performers and
djs. Dress 1940s and don't forget your suitcase.
Produced by YaD Arts for the JCC
London.
£8 in advance, £10 on the door
if you come 40's style,
£12 on the door if you don't. Book
online or call 02074319866
Tuesday 8th July, 6pm to 8pm
(Followed by Jam until 9pm)
Workshop with Rona Kenan
University of London
Room G3, SOA, University of London, 10 Thornhaugh Street, London
WC1H
Singing-songwriting workshop with Israel's new female leading artist
whose dark velvety voice, biting lyrics and striking presence have
set the bar.
By the young age of 18, Rona Kenan was already heralded as a "discovery,"
with promising talent as a musician, singer and songwriter. Her first
public appearance attracted much attention, when she performed two
original songs for Eran Tzur's program and album in memory of the
poetess Yona Wollach. Since then, she has composed for and performed
in numerous and varied projects.
In 2004, she released her long-anticipated debut album, "Breathing
Down to Zero," produced by leading Israeli producer Izhar Ashdot,
with 11 original tracks in both Hebrew and English. She has also written
the music for a number of Israeli films and television series. In
February 2007, Rona released her second album: "Through Foreign
Eyes". The disk presents ten songs, all composed and written
by her.
Co-Produced by Yad Arts and JMI,
with support of theJCC
London. For bookings and more information
please email info
@ jmi.org.uk
Sunday 20th July 2008, from 6pm
Radio Gagarin
Notting Hill Arts Club
21 Notting Hill Gate W11
London's only Balkan/Russian/Baltic/Gypsy/Klez/Mash/Thrash/Trash/KULTURKlash!!!
'The Arts Club's most adventurous and anarchic night (and
that's saying something)' Time Out
The Commissar continues to pledge:
UK debut of French Roma band Gadjologie, Angelina and the Gipsy
Punks, Bow Mods, Zoe Klinger's Friends of Gagarin, Lenin's Talkin'
Blues project, and Mishka the Bear, Max Reinhardt & Misha Maltsev
sweating it out in the Gypsy Diskoteka til' the road of excess has
led us to the place of wisdom. Early evening come to cool your soul
with summer home-cookin in the Kitschen and new and classic shorts
from Eastern Europe.
Radio Gagarins' bi-monthly Experiments in Sunday Socialism sessions
fill Notting Hill Arts Club to overflowing with a tundra melting
mix of live music, digital DJ prowess, performance art, east European
cinema, poetry, puppetry, poverty, latkes, blinis and vodka. Live
acts have included Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hutz, Oi Va Voi, DJ Shantel,
Sophie Solomon, Mukka, London Sevdah, London Bulgarian Choir, Graham
Lewis (Wire) with Scifi Kane, Luminescent Orchestrii, Geoff Berner,
The Destroyers, Mammatrix & Ghetto Plotz.
Co-Produced by Adrian Philpott / The Shrine/ YaD Arts / Oi Va Voi
£5 on the door
For more information, call 02076295555
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