Mishkan: AANI & Friends in Concert

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…