Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements Nov. 22, 2009
To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text: no HTML, other coding, or attachments; and write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. _______________________________________________________________________ From:[email protected] *SURVIVAL: WHEN TRUTH AND FICTION INTERSECT* *What* Letterpress prints, photographs, and installation by Robyn Stoller Awend *When* Thursday, December 3, 2009 =96 Saturday, January 9, 2010 Gallery hours: Thursday =96 Saturday, 12:00 =96 6:00 pm and by appointment * * *Opening Reception* Saturday, December 5, 2009 from 7 =96 9 pm *Closing Reception * Saturday, January 9, 2010 from 7 - 9 pm Poetry and writings inspired by the literary works of Abraham Sutzkever and the themes of survival explored in the exhibition. Introduced by Daniel Ettedgui and read by Alison Morse, Paulette Myers-Rich and Margie Newman. All events are at Form+Content Gallery and are free and open to the public. *Where* Form + Content Gallery Whitney Square Building 210 North 2nd Street, Suite 104, Minneapolis, MN 55401 Between 2nd Avenue N. and 3rd Avenue N. *Info* [email protected] http://www.formandcontent.org Gallery: 612/436-1151 or Howard Oransky: 651/592-1841 *Description* We dreamers now have to become soldiers and fight And melt into bullets the soul of the lead. Abraham Sutzkever, *The Lead Plates of the Romm Printers, *1943 A haunting poem written in the Vilna Ghetto of Lithuania by Abraham Sutzkever in September 1943 has inspired Minneapolis artist Robyn Stoller Awend to create the exhibition *Survival: When Truth and Fiction Intersect*= . This is an ambitious installation that includes new letterpress prints,photographs, and hand-crafted bullets. Stoller Awend began with the poet's story of doomed Lithuanian Jews melting down lead printing type to make bullets as a last resort for survival against the Nazis. The exhibition includes an antique type drawer that once housed lead printing type, now weighted with bullets and suspended open from the gallery wall. Photographs taken by the artist while visiting the site of Vilna's former Jewish ghetto capture the remnants of Jewish life striving to remain present. Her letterpress prints contain imagery formed through the use of text. Stoller Awend'work references and reinvigorates the centuries-long history of the letterpress printing process. Sutzkever's poem of survival is layered with mystery and controversy,causing decades of debates regarding the accuracy of the events and questioning its truth or fiction. Before the war, Vilna was once a major center of Jewish learning and publishing. 95% of Lithuania'Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, the highest rate of genocide of any country in Europe. Of the many Romm Press buildings that were once in operation in Vilna beginning in 1805, only the outside of one structure remains today. The Romm Press famous for printing some of the most important Judaic scholarly texts in Eastern Europe, including the Babylonian Talmud hassince been converted into businesses and residential living areas. This exhibition has been funded in part through a grant from the Howard B.Brin Jewish Arts Endowment, a designated endowment of the Jewish Community Foundation of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation. *Robyn Stoller Awend Biography* Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Robyn Stoller Awend has a BFA from the University of Arizona, Tucson and an MFA from the university of Dallas, Texas. She primarily works in the letterpress tradition; using actual lead type letters of the Hebrew alphabet in her compositions which are printed at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Her work has been included in over forty exhibitions nationally. Stoller Awend is a founding member of Form+Content Gallery. ________________________________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead,direct your mail as follows: Material for Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements, i.e. announcements of events, commercial publications, etc., always in plain text (no HTML or the like) to: victor.bers at yale.edu (IMPORTANT: in the subject line write "Mendele Personal") Material for postings to Mendele Yiddish literature and language, i.e. inquiries and comments of a non-commercial or publicity nature: mendele at mailman.yale.edu IMPORTANT: Please include your full name as you would like it to appear in your posting. No posting will appear without its author's name.Submissions to regular Mendele should not include personal email addresses in the body of the message, as responses will be posted for all to read. In order to spare the shamosim time and effort, we request that contributors adhere, when applicable, as closely as possible to standard English punctuation,grammar, etc. and to the YIVO rules of transliteration into Latin letters, which are explained in summary form at http://www.yivoinstitute.org/about/index.php?tid=57&aid=275 . All other messages should be sent to the shamosim at this address: mendele at mailman.yale.edu Mendele on the web: http://mendele.commons.yale.edu/ The Mendele webpage currently gives access to issues starting with the inauguration, dated May 15, 1991 up to Vol. 16.027 (April 5, 2007).Issues starting with Vol. 18.004 (July 3, 2008) up to the most recent.can be found at http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/mendele/ We are now working to fill the hole between those two sets and add a search routine To join or leave the list: http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
