SHABBAT MEET-UPS
Anyone can host a Shabbat Meet-Up. Want to offer your home for a pot-luck Shabbat dinner? Offer yourself as a point-person and suggest a meeting place for a Shabbat afternoon walk? Want to invite others over for an afternoon tea and stimulating discussion? Just contact Rabbi Gurevitz (336-1858) with your Shabbat Meet-Up event, the time and place, and any other relevant information, and we’ll make sure that we spread the word via the temple’s weekly ‘Happenings’ e-mail, and other e-mail groups. And be sure to look out for upcoming Shabbat Meet-Ups that you can attend in this email communications. All Meet-Ups are open to everyone, although some Meet-Ups will be particularly suitable for different age groups or interest groups.
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A Special Shabbat tea, for widows and widowers With Special Guest
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That's the real secret of "FACE BOOK: 2010." If you know how to look, you will be amazed at what you may find looking back at you! Once sensitized to, and aware of, the bilaterally symmetrical structure of the FACE, it amazingly appears in the most unexpected things and places. Before long, you may very well see FACES everywhere! Whether walking through a forest or your own back yard, a city, looking at a building, into a store window, at mechanical equipment or an animal - faces are there! The more you are aware, the more you will see. Not in a negative or frightening way, but more often in an amusing way. It is somewhat of a game that Dave Pressler plays with his environment. Such FACES benignly appear throughout nature and in the man-made world, in the oddest places. Dave Pressler holds a BFA in Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design and has studied at the Smithsonian Institute and Silvermine Guild Arts Center, where he is currently a Guild Member and a former Board Officer and Trustee. He is an artist member and part President of ArtPlace Gallery, Fairfield, and is liaison with ArtPlace Gallery @ the Watermark, Bridgeport. He is also a member of: the Fairfield Public Library's Curatorial Committee for the Bruce S. Kershner Gallery; Westport Arts Center; and Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk. David has headed a division at The American Museum of Natural History, New York; Field Museum, Chicago; and The Hudson River Museum, Westchester. His work has been exhibited at the Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan; Sackler Gallery, Stamford; Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence; The Northern Westchester Center for the Arts and The Hudson River Museum. He is President of SYNAPSIS, a creative marketing communications consulting firm in Shelton, and a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America. David is the recipient of numerous awards for his design work and is named on several patents for proprietary design contributions to such companies as: Kodak, BASF, Warner-Lambert and Hasbro. You may view a selection of Dave Pressler's work at: www.artplace.org, www.silvermineart.org and www.heartifacts.us. |
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A Shabbat meet-up is an informal gathering with other members of Congregation B'nai Israel to celebrate and enjoy Shabbat together. A Shabbat meet-up can be a dinner, an afternoon tea and social, a Shabbat walk, Havdalah social, and much more. Anything that helps individuals and families make space for Shabbat and enjoy it in the company of others is an opportunity for a Shabbat Meet-Up.
David Pressler, visual artist and art curator and a member of B’nai Israel, will be holding a discussion on his most recent work “FACE BOOK: 2010” as originally shown at ArtPlace Gallery. David had adapted this exhibition for digital projection in order to continue to share the extraordinary images and insight from the original exhibition. Where do you see FACES? The answer is what David Pressler has been telling artists, photographers, children and adults for many years: First, "you must learn to look, in order to see."