Join The Neighborhood for the premiere performance of Mishkan – a participatory concert and musical ritual built upon the themes of sanctuary, diaspora, belonging, grief, joy, migration, and liberation, featuring musician AANI alongside Michael Winograd, Zoë Aqua, Éléonore Weill, and Raffi Boden.

The music that forms the core of the Mishkan project was composed and recorded by AANI as an extension of conversations with Holocaust survivors (including their own grandmother), as well as Jewish musical and mystical traditions. Mishkan constructs an imaginative, diasporic body of art exploring generational and personal trauma and current immigration and border politics. This project utilizes the biblical image of the mishkan (mobile tabernacle) as a metaphorical vessel to explore the question of sanctuary.

Beginning with an intimate and spiritual tone, this concert will move from a space of ritual-based music, progressing into an exploration of Ashkenazi Jewish diasporic musics, interweaving AANI's original works with Yiddish songs, khazones (cantorial traditions) niggunim, and Klezmer music. This evening will take us from Sukkot into Simchat Torah, building towards a joyful dance-party with a full Klezmer band.

Placing their music in conversation with ancestral traditions, AANI aims to construct a continuum of culture, imagining new creative possibilities and a liberated future deeply rooted in our collective past.

This event will take place as part of Sukkot in The Neighborhood – a festival of Jewish arts, culture, and spirituality taking place in an art installation Sukkah in Brooklyn. Check out the full line-up of events here.

If price is an obstacle to your participation in this event, please reach out to info@theneighborhoodbk.org to request an accommodation.