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Thursday, December 2, 2021 | 7pm
ADMISSION: $20; purchase tickets through the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
Hallelujah, San Francisco! Get ready to sing your heart out because Choir! Choir! Choir! is coming to Kanbar Hall this December. Equal parts singing, comedy, and community-building, and led by creative directors Daveed Goldman and Nobu Adilman (AKA “DaBu”), the night unfolds like a melodic dream: you receive a lyric sheet at the door, DaBu teaches you an original vocal arrangement to a song you love, and you record your part. There are no auditions, and the audience is you, the choir! We’ll get our Hanukkah groove on with some holiday tunes, followed by the centerpiece of the evening: Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” What could be better than belting out one of the greatest songs ever composed with hundreds of others that love to sing as well? Nothing. So don’t miss it!
This event is presented in partnership with the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (JCCSF).
This in-person event is located at Kanbar Performing Arts Center in San Francisco. Learn more or purchase tickets here.
Through his poetry, novels, songs, and lyrics, Leonard Cohen expressed the complexities and desires of body and soul—a compelling metaphor for the twenty-first century Jewish experience. An observant Jew, Cohen also deeply explored Buddhism and various other worldviews. His commitment to questions of spirituality and existence shines through in songs such as “Suzanne,” “Bird on a Wire,” and “Hallelujah,” which masterfully combine mystery and universality with sacred and profane, and are now imprinted on our collective memory. Experience Cohen’s legacy like never before—through the eyes of contemporary artists George Fok, Judy Chicago, Candice Breitz, and Marshall Trammell.
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Lead Sponsorship of Experience Leonard Cohen is generously provided by Craig Newmark Philanthropies.
The Contemporary Jewish Museum (The CJM) thanks Maribelle and Stephen Leavitt, The Bernard Osher Foundation, Suzanne and Elliott Felson, the Irving and Eleanor Jaffe Foundation, the John Pritzker Family Fund, Taube Philanthropies, Kendra and Tom Kasten, Jessica Silverman, and Meyer Sound for generously supporting the exhibition.
Media Sponsorship is provided by the San Francisco Chronicle. In-kind support is provided by Where the Buffalo Roam.
Public Programs at The CJM are made possible thanks to generous support from Grants for the Arts and the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.
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