PURIM7: From the Crown Down
A Prophetic, Phantasmagorical Post-Patriarchal, Purim Performance Party
Enter the Temple of Esther and travel through the seven gates of vice and virtue to strip down, rise up and come out as your truest self.
For the first time since 2020 we’re back on the Main Stage at House of Yes in Brooklyn! Join us for a one-night-only ritual theater experience reimagining one of Judaism’s most popular narratives through the lens of ancient and modern myth.
7:30pm – Show Begins
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Our ritual performance will feature some of your favorite familiar Lab/Shul faces, along with an exciting array of guest artists and performers guided by the brilliant artistic direction of long-time Lab/Shul friend, Stuart B. Meyers.
PURIM7 features the art and teachings of Ayeola Omolara Kaplan, a Black, Queer, and Jewish abolitionist who spent a great deal of her life developing various masks in order to be accepted. Ayeola believes that sharing her own self-exploration is a radical act, and we are honored to be sharing Ayeola’s art and teachings with the Lab/Shul community as we travel through Esther’s coming out journey together.
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Unexpected performances and radical rituals will be offered by some of your favorite Lab/Shul faces including Maryam Chishti, Ben Freeman, Sam Hipschman, Stephanie Kane, Shira Kline, Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, Ali Levin, Naomi Less, Ari Monts, Stephen Silva and Sarah Sokolic.
AND, we are thrilled to welcome seven spectacular guest artists featured below. Scroll down to meet them!
Guest Artists
Ruby Jew
Ruby Mizrahi, (they/Fae) is a Queer-Mizrahi nyc based mixed media artivist, ritual arts organizer with JFREJ/Bend The Arc as a 2021 Jeremiah Fellow healing urban social disparities; and a performing poet featured in 2023 at The Shed, LES Film Festival, New Yiddish Rep & The Actors Temple. They are pursuing a Masters in Applied Theatre at CUNY, and have exhibited internationally their portfolio, where they currently are represented by Fountain House Gallery & The Ahava Project (@the.ahavaproject) and the founder of “nyc queer artists” a radicalMutual aid to center artists on the periphery with social, economic & physical support to be connected to venues that uplifts their authentic bodyOf art. Fae has been a Lab/ShulPartner & volunteer with us since 2017, and performed annually 3X at House of Yes as a Qween Esther’s Escort, aka “The #1 Purim Slut” among other Holigay benefits at Brooklyn Opera House & Tribeca Performing arts center, among many luminary JEWcy residencies worldwide. Chag Sameach!
Ayeola Omolara Kaplan
Through depicting the intersections of identity, class, and spirituality, I hope to contribute to the moving canon of revolutionary surrealist art. I create with the belief that art can be weaponized as self-defense against an anti-truth culture plagued by unhealed generational trauma. My work features empowering and electrifying imagery created to energize people, as well as celebrate marginalized folks carrying themselves with clout. The pieces exist as spiritual tools created with the intention to manifest a blissful and equitable future.
Elana June Margolis
Elana June Margolis is a Queer Jewish teacher, writer, ritualist and performing artist. Her life's work is dedicated to liberating texts and ritual/ pedagogical technologies towards access, relevance and healing in service of collective liberation. Elana June makes her home Lenapehoking, where she is an educator at the Brooklyn Waldorf School.
Stuart B Meyers
Stuart B Meyers is an interdisciplinary artist and performer working in dance, theatre, ritual, and parties. Stuart’s been actively creating Queer Jewish experiences since 2017, starting with *The Shabbos Queen*, a Queer & Dreamy Shabbat Dinner Delight & Extravaganza. Originally funded by the Berlin Cultural Senate, Stuart has toured TSQ nationally (Brooklyn, Boston, Miami, Philadelphia) and internationally (Amsterdam, Berlin, Krakow, Tel Aviv, & Vancouver) in collaboration with Jewish non-profits worldwide. Stuart has performed in drag as “Yenta,” a matchmaking angel from heaven above, with funding from the BK Arts Council and support from the Center for Performance Research (CPR). This is Stuart’s 4th Purim creation, having previously worked with FED, B’nai Jacob, and JQY. Stuart also organizes New York’s Queer Jewish Dance Party FLAMINGGG (@flamingggnyc).
Tiresias
Tiresias aka Evan Silver is a hybrid writer, director, composer, performer, mythmaker, ritualist, and oracle based in NYC and the Underworld. Hailed as ‘a rara avis of experimental theatre’ by The New Yorker, their work aims to divine new ecologies and mythologies in performance to fabulate new ways of being and becoming in the world.
Minnie Tonka
International burlesque star Minnie Tonka is known as the One Woman Riot and Minnie’s theatrical, inventive, and flirtatious striptease has been dazzling audiences across the globe since 2004.
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Inspired by the traditional forgiveness ritual of Selichot, join Lab/Shul’s ritual team and the leaders of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care for an intimate sacred eve of reflection and meditation, shared traditions, live music and spiritual preparation for the new year. 
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