{"id":1594,"date":"2024-09-30T10:09:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T14:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=1594"},"modified":"2024-10-03T10:31:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T14:31:50","slug":"beat-midras","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/judaicstudies\/event\/beat-midras\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat Midras"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/709\/2024\/09\/Beat-Midras-2.png\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs\">Neta Weiner and Samira Saraya have collaborated for more than a decade in a range of artistic projects, sharing the stage in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Salzburg, Berlin and New York, among other places. Their work demonstrates the role of art in opening up questions and facilitating conflictual dialogues and collaboration, and examines the boundaries between text, body and voice while addressing contexts of political violence in Israel-Palestine.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">Neta and Samira will perform segments of one of their recent works, \u201cBeat Midras,\u201d along with a musical and spoken word multilingual performance, followed by a conversation with the audience. \u201cBeat Midras\u201d is a word play between the Jewish concept of Beit Midrash, a Jewish religious-intellectual discursive space; mad\u0101ris\/madrassa, the Arabic name for an educational institution (secular or religious); and the sonic, rhythmic and musical meanings of the English word beat. Broadly, this work investigates multi-languaging and the politicization of the linguistic public sphere via various performative and creative traditions, including spoken word, martial arts, and beatboxing. More specifically, they explore the relationships between language, vocal production and movement in Israeli-Palestinian contexts as well as in terms of gender formation.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">Neta Weiner is a musician, theatre director, singer, actor, rapper, poet, accordionist, and the artistic director of \u201cBeit System Ali,\u201d a multi-lingual hip-hop project. He was born in Kibbutz Givat Haim in 1987. Weiner has created and acted in several critically acclaimed and award-winning stage works produced for festivals and prominent theaters worldwide. As a musician, he wrote the soundtrack for the acclaimed TV teen series \u201cMadrasa\u201d (meaning \u201cschool\u201d in Arabic). Weiner is a lecturer in Tufts University\u2019s Theatre, Dance, and Performance Department and a guest scholar at the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">Samira Saraya is an actor, writer, director, spoken word artist, musician and LGBTQ activist. She was born in Haifa in 1975. In her early twenties, she began performing as a drag king while working as a nurse. She won the Acco Festival Award for unique acting in 2012; Fringe Theatre Award for 2015 and 2017; Best Actress Award in the 2017 Jerusalem Film Festival (JFF); and the Best Script Award for her short film Polygraph of 2018 at TLVFest. Samira graduated from Tel Aviv University with a degree in directing and debuted with Polygraph in 2020. 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