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Ketubah
Saturday 8th October,7.15pm, Modern
Art Oxford
£6.50 (£3.50 conc.)
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Ketubah update : Since its premiere in Oxford, Max was invited
to take the installation to Lithuania. His journey was documented
by radio producers Somethin’ Else and the project will
be the subject of a BBC Radio 4 programme later this year.
Watch this space for news of when and where.
Ketubah was a new production, commissioned and produced by
OCM as part of the Arrivals season celebrating the music and
culture of the Baltic States on the occasion of their entry
into the European Union. Max Reinhardt, DJ, composer and theatrical
inventor created a wedding installation developed with visual
artists G-Lab, Arturas Bumsteinas & Laura Garbstiene,
and percussionist Arkadijus Gotesmanas from Lithuania. The
project also featured musicians Eugenijus Icanevicus, Galina
Liebensteyn and Boris Kirzner (all from Lithuania), Stevie
Levy and Vanya Krawczyk from the UK.
When is a wedding not a wedding?
Not a wedding? Vot a vedding?
Is a wedding a way out or a way in?
Which way? Oi Veh.
Ketubah is literally a marriage contract between Jews, and
contracts are made to be broken. Come break the glass, drink
the wine, eat the gefilte fish - at a Wilna wedding party
1914-style. Celebrate a marriage of the Past with the Present,
Cinema with Klezmer, Flight with Arrival, Breakbeats with
Batchans, Wilna to Vilnius, London to Lithuania. Mazeltov!
The audience (or guests) were dressed for a wedding and the
night started with a ceremony for a virtual bride and groom
in the foyer of Modern Art Oxford. The wedding party, accompanied
by the wedding band, then processed to the Northgate Hall
on St Michael’s Street where the reception got into
full swing.
Commissioned and produced by Oxford Contemporary Music in
association with the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture and Modern
Art Oxford as part of Arrivals and the Lithuanian Season funded
by the Urban Cultural Programme as part of Evolving City.
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