With Sukkot: hosting the hosts, Ariel Efraim Ashbel and friends create a performance as an inclusive, living ritual over five days in the Sophiensæle Festsaal.

Sukkot is the third holiday of the busy beginning of the Jewish calendar. The name Sukkot is the plural of “Sukkah”: a hut, tent or other temporary dwelling. In the mythical narrative, the term refers to the huts in which the Israelites slept during their journey through the desert after departing from Egypt.

The main tradition of this holiday is hosting: A Sukkah is built to live in for a week. In it, you gather together and invite friends, family members and strangers to join you.

As part of the new performance series The high holidays of 5786, a sukkah will be built in the Sophiensæle Festsaal for Sukkot: hosting the hosts. Here, various hosts will develop their own hosting environments. The events during this week will focus on artists who consider hosting as a central principle in their work. Among them are the performance artists Jen Rosenblit and Nuray Demir, the philosopher, director and poet Michal Govrin, and art collectives Queereeoké and [in]operabilities. Further information via www.ashbela.com

The sukkah thus becomes the setting for an unfolding of knowledge exchange and conversation. The gatherings take on very different forms, part workshop, part hangout, talk, concert or also party. Everything remains in motion: Guests become hosts and hosts become guests in a constantly changing negotiation.

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• 08.10., 18:30: Talk with Michal Govrin
• 09.10., 16:30: Situation with Nuray Demir
• 10.10., 21:00: Kiddush with Jen Rosenblit
• 11.10.,15:00: Workshop Ornaments for children
• 11.10., 19:30: Queereeoké Workshop
• 11.10., 22:30: Queereeoké Party
• 12.10., 19:00: A musical meeting with [in]operabilities and Show Choir