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*Space is limited for all performances. We encourage you to read the program, for additional choices
happening simultaneously throughout the Museum.
*Scheduled appearances subject to change
*We regret the omission of any of our generous performers due to printing deadlines
8:00 pm | DOORS OPEN |
8:00 pm –onwards | Art Installations: (Re) Velation, Education Gallery Art Installations: Smashing, 2nd floor |
8:15-9:00 pm | Ronna and Beverly: Guided Comedy Docent Tours of the Museum Beginning in Lobby Area and continuing throughout Museum |
8:30, 9:15 & 10:15 pm | In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis/ Exhibition and Discussion, 2nd Floor Gallery |
9:00 & 10:00 pm | From the New Yorker to Shrek: The Art of William Steig/ Exhibition and Discussion, 1st Floor Gallery |
9:00 pm | WELCOME toast in Lobby Area |
9:15-10:15 pm | Conversation with Jonathan Safran Foer, Main Performance Stage |
9:00-10:15 pm | Dawn '08 Film Shorts Program, Education Room |
9:15 -10:05 pm | Thievery, Trespassing and Harlotry on High: Rabbinic Tales of Deceit At Mount Sinai, with Rabbi Jonathan Jaffe, Board Room |
9:15- 11:15 pm | Stump the Rabbi/ Rabbinal Scholar Booth Opens for Business! Education Gallery |
9:30-10:00 pm | Comedy with Moshe Kasher, 2nd floor YUD |
10:00-10:50 pm | Instant Book Club/ Readings About the Book of Ruth, Education Gallery |
10:15 -11:00 pm | Re"Jew"Venate With Heaping Portions, 2nd floor YUD |
10:15 -10:45 pm | Jews At 33rpm: An Album Cover Tour Of Jewish History, with Josh Kun, Education Room |
10:15-11:15 pm | Trans And Trance At Har Sinai, with Rachel Biale, Board Room |
10:45 -11:45 pm | Dengue Fever, Main Performance Stage |
11:00 pm | Museum Galleries close |
11:00 pm – 12:45 am | Sons of Sakhnin United (West Coast Premiere), and discussion with producer Michael Cohen, Education Room |
11:15 pm -12:00 am | More Ronna and Beverly... with Josh Radnor, 2nd floor YUD |
11:15 pm -12:00 am | Correlating Images with The Ten Commandments with Rabbi Micah Hyman, Board Room |
MIDNIGHT | DAWN 2008 RITUAL: I-Vow-Now Presented by Amichai Lau-Lavie of Storahtelling and special guests. Main Performance Stage |
12:30-1:30 am | Groove with Yossi Fine, Lobby Area |
12:30 -1:15 am | A Reading and Conversation with Adam Mansbach and his latest books The End of the Jews, Board Room |
12:30-1:00 am | Confessions of A Tefillin Supermodel, with Rabbi Dorothy Richman, 2nd Floor Yud |
1:00-1:30 am | Letter To Uncle Morris, Aaron Davidman 2nd Floor Yud |
1:00-1:30 am | Israel/Palestine - 2001/2006, with Stephen Elliott, Education Room |
1:00-2:30 am | Benya Krik with Live Original Score, Main Performance Stage |
1:15-2:05 am | Not Your Bubbe's Borders: America, Immigration, and You with Sarah Leiber Church, Board Room |
1:45-2:15 am | Angry White Black Boy, with Dan Wolf, 2nd floor YUD |
3:00 am | Doors Close at the Museum |
3:30 am- Dawn | Dawn Continues at The Mariposa Hunter's Point Yacht Club. David Katznelson will lead the discussion Why The Hell Are We Here, Anyway? Followed by a true treat: Amichai Lau-Lavie's heralded Ritual Lab. There will be music played (CD mixing) and breakfast-type food being served, as well as drinks at Sunrise. No host bar. |
Mariposa Hunter's Point Yacht Club
405 Terry A. Francois Boulevard, San Francisco, CA 94158
Phone (415) 495-9344
Location: http://mhpyc.org/
Directions: Go West on Mission. Take a Right on Fourth. Go Left on either King or Berry Street and Right on Third. After you go over the bridge you will take your first left-- Terry Francois. It will take you around the coast....do not worry about the left curve!!!! Follow it to 405 Terry Francois. On your left side.