Workshop with Adam Gottlieb in concurrence with
When Souls Stick
Work by Jess Bass and Gabriel Chalfin-Piney
September 1 - October 1, 2023
In this 2-hour creative workshop-as-ritual intended for all creatives, we will make sacred space to enter into the ten Days of Awe, focusing on our intentions for this charged container of time that the Jewish high Holy Days invite us into. We'll explore possibilities for personal and collective meanings of “opening the gates of Heaven.” What is “Heaven?” How can we practice art-making as a conscious process of receiving and/or sending specific messages to Heaven?
Through a combination of performance, song circle/jam, interactive prompts and poetry reading, Adam will offer guidance and structures for participants to express their intentions for Teshuva (Return/Repentance/Rebirth). The purpose is to experience creativity as prayer or magic and create something (writing, music, movement, visual art, etc) that embodies a personal act of renewal, focus, release/forgiveness, prophecy, etc, for the coming year. (Feel free to bring instruments, art supplies, and/or ideas/works in progress, but this is not necessary.)
Adam Gottlieb is a musician, poet, teaching-artist and organizer from Chicago. This year he is was of the nominees for the inaugural Poet Laureate of Chicago. As a youth he was featured in the documentary film Louder Than A Bomb about the poetry slam festival by the same name. He is the leader of the Fusion band Adam Gottlieb and OneLove. He serves as Resident Liturgical Artist for Tzedek Chicago, a values-based anti-zionist synagogue in Chicago, IL. He has organized with a wide range of grassroots groups around issues such as housing justice, anti-gentrification, Indigenous sovereignty, education, and police/prison abolition. He also writes on occasion for People’s Tribune.
Special thanks to the Logan Square Chamber of Commerce for sponsoring our September exhibition & related programming.