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Elana Bell
Storahtelling, louderARTS
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Elana Bell is a poet, performer, and educator. Deeply rooted in community, she seeks to create work that explores meaningful questions. Elana, who has been performing since age 12 throughout the U.S., Japan, and England, is the recipient of a Jerome Foundation grant in Literature, a Drisha Arts Fellowship, and was selected as the winner of the 2004 Stephen Dunn Poetry Award. She holds an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and has been a featured poet throughout New York City and abroad. Elana serves as the writer-in-residence for the Bronx Academy of Letters, and currently performs with the Jewish Ritual Theatre Company, Storahtelling.
Storahtelling Presents
BECOMING ISRAEL
Arts & Performance, Israel
- Saturday 3:00PM–4:15PM Stardust
- Sunday 9:15PM–10:30PM Stardust
Three parallel lives intertwine to discover their shared story and their common name — Israel — "The One Who Struggles with God". Leah, a Biblical wife, meets Rachel, a Holocaust survivor, and Jake, a young American on his first trip to Israel. BECOMING ISRAEL fuses sacred scripture with contemporary stagecraft and examines the intersection between individual identity and collective memory, inviting audiences for a closer look at the legacy of Israel in a global reality.
**Please note, this session will use audio-visual equipment.
Poetry Reading and Workshop
Arts & Performance, Israel
- Sunday 2:30PM–3:45PM Tower VIP Room
Poet Elana Bell will read from her manuscript in progress, Holy. Land. Holy. Land. is a collection of poems in multiple voices that interweaves characters who are inexorably linked to the land of Israel, including historical characters, biblical characters, and poems in the voice of the land itself. Many of the poems are inspired by interviews conducted in Israel, the Palestinian territories and America, around people's complex relationships to the land—as Biblical Jewish homeland, Zionist dream, modern political entity, and occupied territory. After the reading there will be a Q & A, as well as an opportunity for participants to try writing in the voice of a character they have always been curious about.
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