DAWN

Thou Shalt: Shavuot Sketches

May 31, 2022

Avi Amon and Lynne Marie Rosenberg present a series of music, film, and stopmotion animation collaborations, exploring the themes, images, and sounds of Shavuot, as creatively synthesized through an antique piano and one and half Jews. It is one of the highlights of Reboot’s past DAWN celebrations with music, film, comedy, dance, food, teaching and more. Watch here.
Avi Amon and Lynne Marie Rosenberg present a series of music, film, and stopmotion animation collaborations, exploring the themes, images, and sounds of Shavuot, as creatively synthesized through an antique piano and one and half Jews.

DAWN is Reboot’s all-night interpretation of the magical and mighty holiday of Shavuot. We spend the night immersed in music, comedy, food, learning and conversation – all presented by some of the greatest artists, rabbis and thinkers of our generation. For years, Reboot gathered people in person, but in the midst of the pandemic, we took the tradition online, producing a “choose-your-own” experiential adventure in partnership with the Jewish Emergent Network and LABA’s Into the Night Tikkun Layle Shavuot, connecting people across the world for disparate experiences together. In advance of Shavuot this year, Reboot is rolling out highlights of the past years’ DAWN celebration with music, film, comedy, dance, food, teaching and more.

To facilitate conversation and study, we have created this discussion guide to accompany our 2022 DAWN Playlist.

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Lynne Marie Rosenberg

Artist, Animator, Actor, Advocate

Lynne Marie Rosenberg is a Brooklyn based artist, performer, writer, and lo-fi stopmotion animator. She is the creator and host of “Famous Cast Words” on the WNET/Thirteen affiliate channel, ALL ARTS; featuring stars of stage and screen, Famous Cast Words blends hilarious readings of language from the casting world with an earnest investigation into what’s wrong, and what’s changing, with the entertainment industry. In her Extremely Short Films, Lynne investigates social justice, representation, compassion, and other topics through the whimsical lens of stopmotion animation. As an actor, Lynne is best known as “Dinah” on HBO’s High Maintenance.

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Avi Amon

composer, sound-designer, sound-artist, educator, (Turkish-American, Sephardic)

AVI AMON is an award-winning, Turkish-American composer, sound artist, and educator. His multi-genre work has been developed or presented by: HBO Films, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, SoHo Rep, Actors Theater Of Louisville, The O’Neill, Berkeley Rep, The Playwrights Center, and New York Theater Workshop, among others. Upcoming: HEROINE’S GUIDE with Claire Kiechel (Spotify/Gimlet), CUPIDS with Zoey Martinson (Tribeca Films), and RATED BLACK with Kareem Lucas (Woolly Mammoth). Avi is a Jonathan Larson Grant and New Music USA Grant winner, the resident composer at the 52nd Street Project, and teaches at NYU Tisch.

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From William DeMeritt, a short documentary of interviews with Jews of Color on poignant life stories of negotiating the complicated boundaries of identity when society often seeks to pit said identities against one another. Featuring: William DeMeritt, Nemuna Ceesay, Noah Keyishian, Juliana Aiden Martinez, and Connie Shi. It is one of the highlights of Reboot’s past DAWN celebrations with music, film, comedy, dance, food, teaching and more. Watch here.

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Event

'Round Midnight Reconsidered

One of Jazz composer and pianist Thelonious Monk’s most revered ballads, ‘Round Midnight was interpreted in spectacular style by Bay Area guitarist and composer John Schott and an all-star group of musicians in a continuous eight-hour exegesis, June 4, 2022 from 9:00 p.m. – 5:30 a.m. PT. The concert was performed live in San Francisco at Light Rail Studios and streamed online as the centerpiece of DAWN, a bold reimagining of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot by Reboot. Watch the recording on the event page or on Reboot’s YouTube page.

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Digital Series

Drunk (and Possibly Stoned) History of Shavuot

As part Dawn, of Reboot’s all-night interpretation of the magical and mighty holiday of Shavuot, we offer a very not sober history of Shavuot as moderated by Alex Grossman with Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove of Park Avenue Synagogue in NYC, comedian Heather Pasternak and writer/comedian Joel Stein. It is one of many highlights of Reboot’s past DAWN celebrations with music, film, comedy, dance, food, teaching and more. Watch here.