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I have recently been consulting for the Santa Cruz Jewish Film Festival on a pro bono basis, helping them set up their WordPress website. I have been working closely with committee member, Leah Kushner (who also designed the banner). The Festival runs from March 24 to April 5, and showcases 11 films. Below is the SCJFF mission statement:

As we enter our 12^th year, the Santa Cruz Jewish Film Festival Committee is proud to celebrate the richness and diversity of our Jewish world through the magical lens of media.   Each year, our film committee takes you on an eye-opening global journey fostering diverse Jewish cultural awareness while building bridges of understanding through film. Our goal is to increase awareness of the richness of Jewish culture among all residents of Santa Cruz County.

We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive community program offering outstanding world cinema that promotes awareness, appreciation and pride in the diversity of the Jewish people to the community at large.   Over the course of fourteen days, our Festival program aims to educate and illuminate through evocative, award-winning independent fiction and documentary films that portray the Jewish experience, with both current and historic perspectives.

This is cool. The future is now…or in maybe 5 years…

I’m very excited about my friend Kim Dana Kupperman coming to the Bay Area in October to read from her new book, I Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives From the Other Side of Silence.

Read the book review from the NYTimes. Read: Kim Dana Kupperman: The TNB Self-Interview – A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again.

Bay Area Book Readings:
October 10, 5:30 p.m.: Reading at Capitola Book Café, 1475 41st Ave., Capitola, CA.
October 13, 7 p.m.: Reading at Books, Inc., 2251 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA.
October 14, 7:30 p.m.: Reading at Mrs. Dalloway’s, 2904 College Ave., Berkeley, CA.

I invite all of you in the Bay Area to come!