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Festival Open Day Sunday 17th August 2008

11.00 – 3.00pm (time subject to change)

Join us for bagels, coffee, cake and a taste of Jewish cultural events and shows at the Edinburgh Festivals!

The 2008 event is being planned now.  If you are interested in performing, then please let us know

12.00pm       Doors Open & Exhibition Opens – in hall

12.20pm:      In Conversation (Main Hall)                

• Jenni Wolfson talking about her one woman show, ‘RASH’: the true story of a Scottish woman’s journey as a U.N. human rights worker in post-genocide Rwanda.
• Iris Bahr from New York who is performing dai (enough) – a play set in a café in Tel Aviv moments before a suicide bomber enters.
• The Solomon Sisters performing extracts from their superb show Yiddish Cabaret – Yiddish vaudeville, comedy and glitz!
• Linda Marlowe talking about her new one woman show Believe.

1.15pm:      Tour of the Shul  (assemble in foyer)

1.45pm:      In Conversation (Main Hall)

• Louise Oliver & Frodo McDaniel from Waiting For Groucho – a wonderful new play about the Marx Brothers.
• Leah Thorn & Laoise Davidson who are performing, Ethnic Shtick – a sound-scape of Jewish poetry and roots music.
• Stephanie Brickman, Phil Alexander & Jo Nicholson who are The Yiddish Song Project – from klezmer to jazz, raucous, joyful and melancholy Yiddish music and song.

2.15pm:      Tour of the Shul  (assemble in foyer)

2.45pm:      In Conversation  (Main Hall)

• Judy Batalion, stand-up comedian (‘endearingly dotty’ – The Stage) who is performing as part of the season of Jewish Cabaret in the Fringe.
• Lynn Ruth Miller, an amazing American comedian, storyteller and actress who is proof that life doesn’t slow down when you are in your seventies, is performing no less than three shows in the Fringe!
• Neyire Ashworth, clarinetist & actress who is performing, stenclmusic – a music theatre piece which draws on stories from the Jewish community of the East End of London
• Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité by The Boy Who Cried Theatre Co. – true story of one man’s journey of survival in World War 2.

4.00pm:      In Conversation (Main Hall)

• The Tad Brothers from Berlin who are performing their show, Murder on the Panini Express.
• David Boyle who is performing a new one man show, Newley: The Singer and his Songs.
• Woody Sez – the cast of a new show about the legendary Woody Guthrie.

4.30pm:      Doors close!