Wednesday, March 5 and March 12, 2025
12-1:30 p.m. EST
$54
Purim, like many Jewish holidays, is a wonderful occasion for storytelling. The Purim tale revolves around the characters from the Megillah that we know well and also continue to explore. As Purim approaches, it’s the ideal moment to step into the role of a storyteller!
Join a two-part series with Cantor and performing artist Karen Webber, who will guide you in shaping and crafting an original tale. Karen will share ways to find and utilize stories from fairy tales, folk tales, Jewish texts and other sources and will also teach you how to animate your story by focusing on voice modulation, dynamics, intonation, physicality and the lyrical essence of your words.
By participating in engaging prompts, you will begin to bring your story to life.
This session will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.
Karen Webber is a performance, teaching and liturgical artist who crafts music/theatre pieces for use in Zoom rooms, senior centers and on the bimah. Ordained as a cantor by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1990. Karen has served congregations large and small in all four corners of the U.S. and Canada. The Maryland State Arts Council awarded her a Creativity grant based on an original short film in 2022, and a Master/Apprentice grant in Yiddish folksong in 2023. In 2024, Karen was invited by the Maryland State Arts Council to join the Folk Arts panel to award grants, to be a regional judge for ‘Poetry Out Loud’  Her poems appear online and in print at Ritualwell, Poetica, Unlikely Places, Abandon Journal and The Torrid Literature Journal. Her Havdalah ritual was published in Lilith Magazine (2009) poems in Am Yisrael Chai (2023) and essays in Prophetic Voices: a Haftarah commentary published by CCAR Press (2023)