JFREJ PURIMSPIEL: Talking About a Revolution

 **JFREJ PURIMSPIEL: Talking About a Revolution **
Sunday, March 1st | 2:30 - 4:30 pm* 
Judson Memorial Church*

*PLEASE NOTE: New Time and Location as of 2/26

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Join us for a genre-bending, youth-powered Purimspiel where queens say NO, fans become The People, and walls of ice are meant to melt. When a Burger King crowned in comfort plots belonging and not-belonging with the help of Vanilla Ice Haman and his frozen machine of repression, Esther (Queen of YES) joins forces with Vashti (Queen of NO), Mayor Mordechai Mamdani, and a demon-hunting, music-making movement to turn fear into collective power. Through rap, rally, drag, parachutes, and song, the people discover that humanity cannot be divided without shattering itself, and that joy, when wielded together, can topple empires, melt the ice, and make revolution irresistible.

You read that right. It’s JFREJ’s FIRST-EVER PURIMSPIEL STARRING…YOUTH!!! (Alongside some childish grown-ups, of course.)

Please email info@jfrej.org if you can not afford the ticket price.

Your ticket for the JFREJ Purimspiel will get you access to our event. No one turned away for lack of funds. 

All proceeds go to our partners at Mi Tlalli.
Mi Tlalli, meaning “My Earth” in a Nahuatl dialect, has stepped up to care for, fight for, and stand with our asylum-seeking neighbors and all undocumented community members in NYC. Our joy is bound up with theirs.

Doors open at 2:30 pm for our winter pageant, live music, Hamantaschen, dancing, and crafting. The Purimspiel will begin at 3 PM SHARP!

PLEASE NOTE: We will be taking photos and video at this event to post on social media. If you/your child do not want to be in photos online, let us know!

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Access Info:

  • Judson is wheelchair accessible.
  • This is now an indoor event! We learned yesterday about our need for a new venue, and were not able to secure another outdoor space. Rather than cancel, this will now be an indoor event that will require masking while not eating and drinking, per JFREJ’s covid and masking policy. Masks will be provided. Due to space constraints, we are not able to provide separate places to eat and drink unmasked, and not all performers will be masked at all times. 

Dress Code: 

  • Costumes are HIGHLY encouraged!!! Think: melting ice, Demon Hunters, Revolutionaries, Drag & of course, PURIM!
  • No meanie or appropriative costumes please! If you think it might be a bad idea, it is. Don’t do it!

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