BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.3//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:27@reyim.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T220000 DTSTAMP:20260514T194015Z URL:https://www.reyim.org/events/tikkun-leyn-shavuot-a-celebration-of-mizr achi-music-history-and-tradition/ SUMMARY:Tikkun Leyl Shavuot with Performance by Anat Halevy Hochberg and Ta lk by Professor Yuval Evri: A Celebration of Mizrachi Music\, History and Tradition DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a very special evening celebrating Mizrachi Music\, History and tradition.  We will begin with a kosher vegetarian po tluck dinner in our courtyard. RSVP here.\n\nHere is our schedule for the evening as we celebrate the beginning of Shavuot!\n\n6:00 p.m. Potluck Din ner in the Courtyard. Bring (or purchase) a kosher vegetarian/dairy dish. If there is a Mizrachi flavor to it\, even better. Here are some amazing M izrachi recipes!\n\n[caption id="attachment_2754" align="alignleft" width= "195"] Anat Halevy Hochberg[/caption]\n\n7:00 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. "A Taste o f Yemeni Song"\n\nJoin Anat Halevy Hochberg for an evening of Jewish Yemen i song. Accompanied by percussionist Matt Meyer and bassist James Heazlewo od-Dale\, Anat will perform songs in Hebrew and Arabic from both the men ’s and women’s singing traditions\, encompassing the sacred and secula r. We will also learn about the history and context of this music. Come re ady to sing! – participants will learn two to three songs from the reper toire.\n\nAnat Halevy Hochberg is a musician\, teacher\, and ritual leader based in Boston. Her passions include leading song\, empowering others to raise their voices\, and working to reclaim the Yemeni melodies of her he ritage. She has taught and led ritual at Let My People Sing!\, Eden Villag e Camp\, Hadar’s Rising Song Intensive\, and Linke Fligl. She co-produce d Tishrei: the end is the beginning and Elul: Songs for Turning\, and her debut album How can I keep (from) singing? was released in 2020.\n\nAnat p erforms original arrangements of traditional Yemeni Jewish song. Drawing f rom both the sacred men’s singing tradition rooted in piyyut and women ’s folk songs\, her work brings forward a wide range of Yemenite Jewish musical life—prayer\, poetry\, and everyday song. With a voice of striki ng clarity\, Anat sings with directness and care\, allowing the weight and beauty of the repertoire to speak. Her upcoming album of this repertoire\ , Ahavat Hadassah\, will be released late 2026.\n\n \;\n\n[caption id= "attachment_2755" align="alignleft" width="200"] Professor Yuval Evri[/cap tion]\n\n8:30 to 9:15 p.m. Teaching and Discussion on Mizrachi Jewish hist ory by Yuval Evri. Professor Evri is assistant professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and Marash and Ocuin Chair in Ottoman\, Mizrahi and Sep hardic Jewish Studies at Brandeis University. He is a cultural historian s pecializing in Sephardi/Arab-Jewish modern history and culture\, with a pa rticular interest in Palestine during the first half of the 20th century. His current book project traces the invention of the Mizrahim/Sephardim as go-betweens and mediators on the borderline that emerged between the Jew and the Arab and between Hebrew and Arabic and explores how the fluidity i nherent in this position became a source of resistance to the dominant nat ional and monolingual forces. His last book\, The Return to Al-Andalus: D isputes Over Sephardic Culture and Identity Between Arabic and Hebrew\, wa s published by Magnes Press in 2020.\n\n \;\n9:15 p.m. Maariv and Kidd ush\n9:30-10:30 p.m. Presentation and conversation with our Reyim communi ty member Solomon Sheena END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR