Maia Brown and Shelby Handler – Ways of Awe
Ways of Awe is a new audio series by Maia Brown and Shelby Handler, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
Weaving together interpretative translations, research, interviews, and sounds, Ways of Awe is a queer anti-Zionist audio companion for the Jewish High Holidays. Join talmud scholars, rabbis, and artists as they unearth the meanings, grammar, and ancient gossip inside the holiest prayers of the Jewish year. These audio collages range from meditative to liberatory, grief-stricken to playful, irreverent to awestruck, and from the ancestral to the immediate.
From Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur, the Days of Awe, or the Yamim Noraim, are a portal for collective reckoning and return. Each episode of Ways of Awe features a different prayer and could be listened to during the ten days, or in the month of Elul leading up.
You can hear the whole series at https://signalfirecoop.org/ways-of-awe/
Applications for Jack Straw’s 2027 Artist Residency Programs are available now via Submittable.
