Yoni Oppenheim
Yoni Oppenheim is a theater director, dramaturg, translator, and multidisciplinary artist. He is the artistic director of 24/6: A Jewish Theater Company and is currently presenting and performing 24/6's TELEPHONE PLAYS to housebound seniors via Dorot's University Without Walls in partnership with the Y and JCC of Washington Heights-Inwood. Last year, his video "Coronavirus Diary" was exhibited in Berlin as part of Lola Arias's PANDEMIC FILMS series, and he performed his lecture-performance "My Archive of Mourning and Memory" as part of Arias's online MY DOCUMENTS series. For 24/6 he most recently directed two plays by Israeli playwright Dani Horowitz, " A Page of Talmud" and "Last Tree in Jerusalem", the latter of which he translated from Hebrew as well. Yoni was a 2019 Target Margin Theater Institute Fellow and is the associate producer of "Talk Live from Lincoln Center TONY Predictions Critics' Special" which aired on PBS. He is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab.
Yoni is bringing the DEBT FORGIVENESS for the Shmita pop-up event on October 26th 2021 at the Chelsea Market.
"And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbour; he shall not exact it of his neighbour and his brother; because the LORD'S release hath been proclaimed." (Deuteronomy 15:2) This verse from Yoni's bar mitzvah portion commands us on the Shmita year to forgive the financial debts owed to us. Yoni's conceptual art piece DEBT FORGIVENESS will invite participants to share an emotional debt they would either like to forgive someone else, or which they would like to be forgiven. Participants will be offered a piece of paper and a marker to share the emotional debt they would like to forgive or be forgiven, and the papers will be hung up for display during the event with binder clips or laundry clips. All papers will then be photographed and posted online for those unable to attend in person. Those who cannot attend in-person will be able to remotely post their own papers of emotional debt forgiveness with a specific hashtag created for the project.
Yoni Oppenheim is a theater director, dramaturg, translator, and multidisciplinary artist. He is the artistic director of 24/6: A Jewish Theater Company and is currently presenting and performing 24/6's TELEPHONE PLAYS to housebound seniors via Dorot's University Without Walls in partnership with the Y and JCC of Washington Heights-Inwood. Last year, his video "Coronavirus Diary" was exhibited in Berlin as part of Lola Arias's PANDEMIC FILMS series, and he performed his lecture-performance "My Archive of Mourning and Memory" as part of Arias's online MY DOCUMENTS series. For 24/6 he most recently directed two plays by Israeli playwright Dani Horowitz, " A Page of Talmud" and "Last Tree in Jerusalem", the latter of which he translated from Hebrew as well. Yoni was a 2019 Target Margin Theater Institute Fellow and is the associate producer of "Talk Live from Lincoln Center TONY Predictions Critics' Special" which aired on PBS. He is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab.
Yoni is bringing the DEBT FORGIVENESS for the Shmita pop-up event on October 26th 2021 at the Chelsea Market.
"And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbour; he shall not exact it of his neighbour and his brother; because the LORD'S release hath been proclaimed." (Deuteronomy 15:2) This verse from Yoni's bar mitzvah portion commands us on the Shmita year to forgive the financial debts owed to us. Yoni's conceptual art piece DEBT FORGIVENESS will invite participants to share an emotional debt they would either like to forgive someone else, or which they would like to be forgiven. Participants will be offered a piece of paper and a marker to share the emotional debt they would like to forgive or be forgiven, and the papers will be hung up for display during the event with binder clips or laundry clips. All papers will then be photographed and posted online for those unable to attend in person. Those who cannot attend in-person will be able to remotely post their own papers of emotional debt forgiveness with a specific hashtag created for the project.
