JCCSF And TJT Announce Their Partnership

The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (JCCSF) and Traveling Jewish Theatre (TJT) are pleased to announce a new mutually beneficial partnership. As a pivotal center for Jewish life and culture in the Bay Area, the JCCSF joins forces with TJT at a time when this treasured Bay Area arts company most needed support.

"The JCCSF is delighted to help TJT recover from the financial hardship that almost forced closure of the company last spring," stated Carole Zawatsky, Associate Director for Arts, Ideas and Jewish Life at the JCCSF. "We are so pleased that our new partnership has assisted the company in receiving community support, and it will enhance both organizations' public profile, accessibility and reach."

As part of the partnership, JCCSF has included a TJT's production of 2XMalamud: The Jewbird and The Magic Barrel in its' Arts and Ideas program. The production brings Bernard Malamud's most celebrated stories to the stage: The Magic Barrel centers on a hapless rabbinical student's encounter with a mysterious, herring-eating matchmaker, and The Jewbird is Malamud's darkly hilarious fable of assimilation and identity. 2XMalamud will be presented in Kanbar Hall on February 14 and 15.

TJT will provide an artistic home for the JCCSF's young adult outreach program, The Hub, included as an add-on in the TJT subscription series. The Hub presented Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinwitz January 22- 24, and will offer a workshop production of Stateless by Dan Wolf and Tommy Shepherd, from Thursday through Saturday, June 4 - 6 at 8 pm. A hip-hop theatrical collaboration, Stateless explores the problems of racism within the Jewish-American and African-American experience.

"We are thrilled to have The Hub's artistic programming anchored at TJT. It is an opportunity for TJT to diversify programming and offer something fresh and youthful to audiences," stated Sara Schwartz Geller, TJT's Executive Director. "We are also pleased to be in a position to help strengthen the artistic arm of The Hub by offering our professional expertise and artistic support."

The JCCSF also now operates TJT's Box Office, making TJT's tickets available on site at the JCCSF, online and by phone. For tickets and information to all TJT and Hub performances: 415/292-1233 or online at www.jccsf.org/arts.

The JCCSF has been serving the Bay Area since 1877 with programs that transform people's lives - mind, body and spirit. A home away from home for San Franciscans of all faiths and backgrounds, the JCCSF welcomes more than 5,000 guests each day, presenting them with world-class cultural events, a state-of-the-art fitness center and hundreds of inspiring educational, recreational and social programs.

This year Traveling Jewish Theatre celebrates 30 years of creating and presenting plays that are rooted in the Jewish experience and that serve as a bridge to other cultures. TJT has created and produced dozens of original works that have been applauded far and wide - from Jerusalem to Berlin, and from Amsterdam to Georgia - in addition to its beloved Bay Area home.

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