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Five Montgomery County-based community theater groups chose independently to stage productions with Jewish themes within the next three months. While that is not rare in the arts, especially in a multicultural metropolitan area, a season where such choices predominate is noteworthy. We must wonder what about these times makes such themes particularly View more

Founded as a Quaker community, Sandy Spring became a place of refuge for people seeking religious tolerance and fleeing slavery. Today, the Sandy Spring Museum continues that heritage by showcasing the works of refugee artists. “Uprooted: The Art of Refugees” features six artists originally from Ethiopia, Iraq and Somalia. Through their work, they View more

The JCC is hosting a curated exhibit called “Na’aseh v’nishma” in which 25 artists express their own responses two-dimensionally. Although in its original historic-religious context, the phrase relates to a specific faith group, the JCC saw it as universal and welcomed submissions from non-Jewish artists. “It’s a phrase that every Jew, Christian View more

Nilimma Devi won the Lifetime Achievement Award in the 2013 County Executive’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities. Four years later, the artist, educator and choreographer continues to create and achieve. Devi is the founder and director of the Silver Spring-based Sutradhar Institute of Dance and Related Arts (SIDRA), which presents View more

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