DAWN 2010 Announced
Our friends over at Reboot & Tablet Magazine are joining forces to bring you DAWN 2010, a massive late-night cultural arts festival celebrating the Jewish holiday Shavuot in San Francisco. Based on the last DAWN event in 2008 and knowing that these guys don’t mess around when it comes to programming, DAWN 2010 is shaping up to be one hell of an event. DAWN 2008, among others, featured a performance by the band Dengue Fever, a conversation with Jonathan Safran Foer, an amazing short film series, and countless other speakers, performers and teachers.
DAWN is a modern take on the ancient holiday and its traditional all-night rabbinical study sessions. Using a multi-media platform to inspire learning and conversation and a late-night structure to appeal to the young adult generation, DAWN has become a major Shavuot extravaganza appealing to both the Jewish and secular San Francisco young adult community.
Saturday, May 15, 2010, 7:30 pm
@ California Academy of Sciences
DETAILS
List of Performers:
Comedian Sandra Bernhard (Brilliant comedian and once made out with Madonna
Author Gary Shteingart (Best Selling author of Absurdistan and the Russian Debutantes Handbook)
A screening of Spike Jonze’s short tribute to Maurice Sandek (Where The Wild Things Are)
A musical performance by the Los Angeles/Israeli afro-beat massive Fools Gold
Daniel Handler
(aka Lemony Snicket) & master mixologist Bryan Ranere (of Laszlo fame) mixing up a special Shavuot cocktail, available only at DAWN 2010.
And if you won’t be around the Bay Area next month? It just so happens that Tablet Magazine will fly you to Dawn! Sign up for the Tablet email list and be automatically entered to win.