Welcome to The Sukkah: Shabbat Dinner and Zine Launch

Join The Neighborhood for our Sukkot launch event, in collaboration with Ayin Press. Over Shabbat dinner, we will hear from textile artist Hilla Shapira about the Lavender Diaspora Sukkah she has created, and launch Ayin Press’ new publication, Indwelling: An Earth-Based Sukkot Companion Zine.

Sukkot and the rituals surrounding it are an invitation to come together as a community, with a particular emphasis on the cultivating of temporary shared spaces. Our Sukkah, Lavender Diaspora, created by Israeli-born artist Hilla Shapira, is both a community space and an art installation.

Shapira’s Sukkah draws inspirations from designs common in Israel’s Orthodox community, in which Hilla was raised, transforming the forms into soft objects. The visual language of the Sukkah derives from Jewish iconography and Hebrew scripture. Hilla’s transformation of the traditional sukkah form reinterprets this ancient tradition, bringing a queer perspective on the sukkah as an ephemeral ritual space.

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