Comix Midrash: Drawing the Orchards (Pardes) of Elul
with Rena Yehuda Newman
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When
Thursdays - 3 Weeks
2-3:30 pm ET/11 am-12:30 pm PT
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Join Rena Yehuda Newman for an exploration into Jewish images and comix creation. In Jewish learning, we’re often familiar with text study – but what about text-and-image study? The themes of Elul are visually rich, striking, and introspective ahead of the High Holidays. Comix, spelled with an “x”, are part of a tradition of “co-mixing” text and image: a powerful and underrated tool in the spiritual toolbox for engaging with ritual and liturgy.
In this class, students will create their own comics using Elul-themed prompts, study and illustrate Elul related texts like Shir HaShirim (Song of Songs) and high holiday liturgy, and learn how to apply the classical Pardes exegesis method to each others’ work, understanding the comix we make as meaningful midrash. Using techniques inspired by Lynda Barry, no drawing experience is necessary for this drawing-heavy Elul course.
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This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.
Cost
This course is available at a sliding scale cost of $126 (the true cost), $99 or $72.
If you can afford the full price, we hope you will choose that option, which allows us to continue to offer lower rates and scholarships to those who otherwise would not be able to access this learning because of financial barriers.
If you need financial aid beyond the sliding scale, please fill out this simple form, and we will get right back to you.
with Rena Yehuda Newman
—
When
Thursdays - 3 Weeks
2-3:30 pm ET/11 am-12:30 pm PT
—
Join Rena Yehuda Newman for an exploration into Jewish images and comix creation. In Jewish learning, we’re often familiar with text study – but what about text-and-image study? The themes of Elul are visually rich, striking, and introspective ahead of the High Holidays. Comix, spelled with an “x”, are part of a tradition of “co-mixing” text and image: a powerful and underrated tool in the spiritual toolbox for engaging with ritual and liturgy.
In this class, students will create their own comics using Elul-themed prompts, study and illustrate Elul related texts like Shir HaShirim (Song of Songs) and high holiday liturgy, and learn how to apply the classical Pardes exegesis method to each others’ work, understanding the comix we make as meaningful midrash. Using techniques inspired by Lynda Barry, no drawing experience is necessary for this drawing-heavy Elul course.
—
This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.
Cost
This course is available at a sliding scale cost of $126 (the true cost), $99 or $72.
If you can afford the full price, we hope you will choose that option, which allows us to continue to offer lower rates and scholarships to those who otherwise would not be able to access this learning because of financial barriers.
If you need financial aid beyond the sliding scale, please fill out this simple form, and we will get right back to you.
with Rena Yehuda Newman
—
When
Thursdays - 3 Weeks
2-3:30 pm ET/11 am-12:30 pm PT
—
Join Rena Yehuda Newman for an exploration into Jewish images and comix creation. In Jewish learning, we’re often familiar with text study – but what about text-and-image study? The themes of Elul are visually rich, striking, and introspective ahead of the High Holidays. Comix, spelled with an “x”, are part of a tradition of “co-mixing” text and image: a powerful and underrated tool in the spiritual toolbox for engaging with ritual and liturgy.
In this class, students will create their own comics using Elul-themed prompts, study and illustrate Elul related texts like Shir HaShirim (Song of Songs) and high holiday liturgy, and learn how to apply the classical Pardes exegesis method to each others’ work, understanding the comix we make as meaningful midrash. Using techniques inspired by Lynda Barry, no drawing experience is necessary for this drawing-heavy Elul course.
—
This class will be recorded and available to enrolled students to watch later.
Cost
This course is available at a sliding scale cost of $126 (the true cost), $99 or $72.
If you can afford the full price, we hope you will choose that option, which allows us to continue to offer lower rates and scholarships to those who otherwise would not be able to access this learning because of financial barriers.
If you need financial aid beyond the sliding scale, please fill out this simple form, and we will get right back to you.
Meet Rena Yehuda
Rena Yehuda Newman (They/Them) is a Jewish, transgender writer, educator, independent publisher, and comix artist living and working between Brooklyn, NY and London, UK. They create work celebrating the intersections of gender, sexuality, antifascism, and spiritual identity. Their zines are distributed internationally, including their landmark publication, “The Testosterone Survey Zine“. Rena Yehuda is deeply passionate about communal memory, the power of art and storytelling, and queering the line between the personal and political. Rena Yehuda is also the Director of the UnYeshiva Certificate Program.
