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Opening Ceremony for Carve: Seven Days for Collective Care with Maggid Jhos Singer

Sunday, July 9, 2023 | 2–3pm

ADMISSION: Free with Museum admission; advance registration strongly recommended

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2023-07-09 14:00:00 UTC2023-07-09 23:00:00 UTC America/Los_AngelesThe CJM - 736 Mission St, San Francisco, CAOpening Ceremony for Carve: Seven Days for Collective Care with Maggid Jhos SingerCommunity leader Maggid Jhos Singer will open a week of programming related to Carve; The Mystic Is Nourished From This Sphere, a collaborative installation featured in the exhibition Cara Levine: To Survive I Need You to Survive. Drawing from a deep well of Jewish spiritual practices and folklore, Singer will create a space for visitors to engage with the themes of grief, loss, and renewal explored in artist Cara Levine's powerful project. All are welcome to participate in this experience, which will include meditation and story, supplication, and commemoration. 

Community leader Maggid Jhos Singer will open a week of programming related to Carve; The Mystic Is Nourished From This Sphere, a collaborative installation featured in the exhibition Cara Levine: To Survive I Need You to Survive. Drawing from a deep well of Jewish spiritual practices and folklore, Singer will create a space for visitors to engage with the themes of grief, loss, and renewal explored in artist Cara Levine's powerful project. All are welcome to participate in this experience, which will include meditation and story, supplication, and commemoration. 

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About Carve: Seven Days for Collective Care

This event is part of a weeklong series of programs called Carve: Seven Days for Collective Care, which marks the final phase of community and artist activation for Cara Levine: To Survive I Need You To Survive. The programs, centered on the artwork Carve; The Mystic is Nourished From This Sphere, engage themes of grief, healing, community, and interconnectedness.

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About Maggid Jhos Singer
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Maggid Jhos Singer

Maggid Jhos Singer has been on the pulpit since 2000, and with his wife, Julie Batz, is currently one of the congregational leaders at Chochmat HaLev in Berkeley. He is also the Maggid for the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. His title, Maggid, could be defined as a Jewish preacher, a counselor, a rogue, a spiritualist, or a storyteller. Jhos holds a B.A. in music from UCLA and an M.A. in Jewish Studies from the Graduate Theological Union. His work can be found in the anthologies Balancing on The Mechitza, Torah Queeries, the online magazine Killing The Buddha, and at Elitalks.com 

About the Exhibition

Cara Levine: To Survive I Need You to Survive

Cara Levine: To Survive I Need You to Survive explores loss, empathy, and equity through sculpture, video, and socially engaged practices. Grappling with some of the most pressing issues of our time, including police brutality, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic, the California-based artist uses her artistic practice as a means to explore and process grief around personal and collective traumas. The resulting works highlight how creative endeavors can facilitate healing and help mourners find meaning in community with one another. Drawing on Jewish traditions, community practice, and interconnectedness, the exhibition invites visitors to explore installations and sculptural works that plumb the depths of the intimate and universal experiences of grief and regeneration.

An aerial photo of a large dirt hole, surrounded by a circle of people digging.


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supporters

Support for Cara Levine: To Survive I Need You To Survive is generously provided by Grants for the Arts.

Image Credits

Header image: Dallis Willard

Exhibition image: Cara Levine, DIG: A Hole To Put Your Grief In, 2021. Shalom Institute, Malibu, CA. Photo: Nir Yaniv. Courtesy the artist.