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Palestinian rapper Muhammad Mughrabi
and Israeli poet Adi Keissar, live, October
Mekudeshet festival, Jerusalem
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This Tuesday's featured speakers at Curley's will jointly present
material as part of their engagement in
the current Israeli literary and performance scene and its role in healing the
near two-generational wounds between Palestine and Israel via joyous cultural
interchange of Kulna/Kulantu (Arabic and Hebrew, respectively, for “all of us”), rather than through the
strident dogmatism of politics.
Since last year, Yael Stolarsky has been working at the Jewish Community
Center in Stamford as an emissary of Israel who brings a version of
her land and people not usually found in the public media. A former
intelligence research officer serving with the IDF for three and a half years,
Yael worked as a counselor in a Jewish day camp in Philadelphia and in Nyack,
New York.
She is also active as an Israeli Poetry and Songs presenter with Richard
Schwartz at the Jewish Historical Society of Fairfield.
Richard earned his Master's Degree from Columbia University, specializing
in 17th Century English Literature (he elaborates on his particular fondness for this period here) and wrote his thesis on John Milton; Richard also
received a J.D. in California.
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| Israeli & Palestinian peace marchers |
A photographer and poet, Richard’s love of the written word and instruction
was first instilled in him by his mother, Helen, who taught classes in the
Psalms at the local synagogue in Mt. Vernon. He carries on his mother’s zeal
for creative guidance through an eponymous Connecticut- and New York-based consultancy, delivering logistical support to client
artistic, publishing and photographic projects; presently, he is designing
a liberal arts curriculum to be included in pre-medical studies. His blog,
“Tell It Like It Is”, covers his passion for poetry, culture, mentoring and
other topics (click here to listen to one of his readings).
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