Hearing the Call: Creating Dynamic High Holiday Family Programming
This interactive virtual webinar with Shira Kline, Jewish ritual and performance artist, will explore dynamic ways to enliven your High Holiday family services. Join us for awesome inspiration!
- After School and Beyond
- Educator Training
- Congregational Learning
- Early Childhood
- Family Engagement
- Teen Engagement
Shira Kline (she/her) is a ritual and performance artist, recognized as a revolutionary educator and named one of the new re-engineers of Jewish life today. Known in the sanctuary as a spiritual adventurist and on the kiddie rock stage as ShirLaLa, she practices in the field of sacred play. As an artist educator and a proud recipient of the prestigious Covenant Award 2024, Shira weaves liturgy, story and song into immersive sacred theatre. She tours extensively locally and globally with a vibrant invitation to connect, for a new and realized conscious world. She has been featured on NPR, hosted a queer Jewish podcast, led Shabbat on the Burning Man playa, recorded four award-winning albums, and is a frequent guest faculty of numerous international leadership conferences including Hava NaShira, SLBC, PJ Library, and in the HUC-JIR Seminary and the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music. Shira is a member of the Mitsui Collective, cultivating pathways towards Jewish embodiment.. Expansive and imaginative, Shira is here to nourish and ignite expression of the spirit. At home in Brooklyn, unceded Lenape lands, she lives to cook, dance, and play with her beloved and their daughter. Co-founder of Lab/Shul in NYC, she serves as Spiritual Leader of this artist-driven, God-optional, experimental community for sacred Jewish gathering.
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