Chutzpahdik Storytelling Evening
29 May, 2025
6:30pm - 8:30pm
What’s the most *chutzpahdik experience of your life?
What happened when you decided to seize life by the *kishkes one day?
Join some of Melbourne’s best live storytellers as they take you on a journey from the bold to the unbelievable.
Host Dalit Kaplan, writer Marjorie Solomon and Jew-of-all-trades John Safran will each share stories inspired by the JMA’s latest exhibition, Chutzpah and push the boundaries of expectation and believability.
Raise your eyebrows and get ready to laugh with this line up – the truth is always stranger than fiction.
Arrive early to experience Chutzpah for yourself before the event. Places are limited.
*chutzpahdik: Yiddish, extreme self-confidence or audacity.
*kishkes: Yiddish, guts.
Cost
Member: $36
Non-member: $40
Student: $25
Tickets include entry to Chutzpah
Host Bio:
Dalit Kaplan divides her time between storytelling, running and teaching in an independent Jewish House of Learning and impact investing.
As the founder of Storywell, Dalit delivers inspiring and interactive workshops and coaching in the art and science of storytelling to purpose-driven organisations and individuals. She believes that the path to a more humane and empathetic world is through the sharing of – and listening to – stories. She has also published essays on feminism, health, grief and intergenerational trauma and is now working on a novel.
Dalit is also a co-founder of Beit Midrash Oz. She is a student of Torah and holds Shiurim, exploring Jewish sources from an earth-based, feminist, psychologcal and mythical perspective. She is also a director of Just World Investments, a fund whose mission is to harness capital to create meaningful social and environmental change.
She has lived in Sydney, Jerusalem, Chicago, New York and now resides in Melbourne with her children, husband and tyrant-cat.
