Exhibition: Bal Tashchit: Thou shalt not destroy
Environmental apocalypse and the Hebrew Bible
29 June 2008
Gallery
Contemporary art that highlights Jewish responses to the environment, examining what is different about being Jewish and green. Asking both Jewish and non-Jewish artists to respond to the earliest readings of the Torah and Talmud, this exhibition returns to our religious beginnings and re-contextualises these fundamental ideas in a contemporary framework.
GUIDES AND VOLUNTEERS
Theme: Challenges to Tradition and Authority
Lecture series by Paul Forgasz
Part l ‘The Struggle between Faith and Reason’
9.45 for 10.00am
Shavuot (Harvest Festival)
GUIDES AND VOLUNTEERS Lecture Series by Paul Forgasz – cont.
Part 2 Challenges to Tradition and Authority
‘The Struggle between Faith and Reason’
9.45 for 10.00am
GUIDES AND VOLUNTEERS ‘A New Look at Guiding in the J.M.A.’
Attendance of all guides essential.
Speaker: Tanya Warms, Volunteer Coordinator
9.45 for 10.00am
GUIDES AND VOLUNTEERS Exploring Biblical Texts.
‘Shira ha Shirim – Song of Songs’
Speaker: Debbie Miller
9.45 for 10.00am
GUIDES AND VOLUNTEERS Preview Lecture for forthcoming exhibition
‘Victor Majzner – Painting the Torah’
Speaker: Victor Majzner
9.45 for 10.00am
Exhibition: Victor Majzner Painting the Torah
28 September
Gallery
Victor Majzner is a highly regarded Australian painter who has produced an extraordinary new body of work - an ambitious and beautiful collection of watercolours for every parashah (the weekly reading from the Torah). Painted over a six year period, these paintings are imbued with symbols which reflect the Australian Jewish experience.
