The Beth ShalomJewish Community Presents:
Hearing Lightning, Seeing Thunder: AMorning of Sacred Storytelling
Sunday, January 26, 2014 – 10-11:30am
Free to the public
Please join the Beth Shalom Congregation in welcoming a performance of Jewish Storyteller Brian Rohr as he leads us on a journey of rich storytelling and exploration, sharing one of the defining moments in Jewish sacred lore, the covenant at Sinai. In this performance, entitled Hearing Lightning, Seeing Thunder, we will travel together as one community with Moses and our ancestors to the base of Sinai, where we as a people have regularly returned for thousands of years, ready to connect with the divine. This program invites us to relax into this sacred story and explore themes of ritual preparation, connection, fear and awe as we delve into the meaning and mysteries of a sacred covenant.
This program is an inter-generational event intended for people of all generations, ages and family structures. It is structured to be relevant for adults and appropriate for kids.
About Brian Rohr
“The oral tradition of storytelling offers insight, inspiration and meaning in our own journey aswe travel our unique Jewish Path,”says Rohr.
BrianRohris astoryteller, poet and healing arts practitioner who resides in the Pacific Northwest - a land of constant rain, Evergreen trees, mountains and the waters of the Pacific Ocean. In 2007,Brianleft his hometown of Chicago and moved to Port Townsend, WA to study with Mythologist and MasterStorytellerDaniel Deardorff.
Since that time, Brianhas performed and taught for a number ofJewishcommunities and organization. A selected list includes: the 14th InternationalJewishRenewal Aleph Kallah, the P'nai Or and Havurah Shalom communities in Oregon, as an Artist-In-Resident at Camp Solomon Schechter in Olympia, WA, as well as at Temple Chai located in the Chicagoland area and Temple B'nai Torah in Bellevue, WA. He most recently performed the story of the priest entering the Holy of Holies for the ShirHayam community in WashingtonState during the Yom Kippur service.
This past June, Rohr was honored by JT News (the Seattle Jewish Newspaper) as a "10 Under 40" recipient for 2013 by being chosen as one of 10 Jewish people in Washington State under 40 years old whom they consider are doing particularly important and inspirational works within the community, specifically as astoryteller.
More about Brian at: brianrohr.com