Our Yiddish Open Mic Café runs approximately once a month. These online events draw participants and listeners from across the Yiddish-speaking world to share songs, poetry, stories and more in Yiddish, with Yiddish and English texts on the screen. Details of our next event are below:
80th Yiddish Open Mic Café
Sunday 15 February (on Zoom at 16:00 UK/8:00 PST/11:00 EST/13:00 ART/17:00 CET/18:00 IST)
This month’s theme: Apocryphal Tales
This months’ charity: https://www.alzint.org/donate/
Special Guest: Boris Sandler, Founding Editor of the online journal Yiddish Branzhe and author of 22 books of prose and poetry
To perform or join the audience, please register here.
We invite old and new performers to participate, on the theme or not. If you would like to read Khumesh lider or Megile lider by Itsik Manger, we can help you find poems and translations. Please send your presentations of up to 6 minutes in PowerPoint (preferably) or Word, in both Yiddish (oysyes if possible, or transliteration) and English translation to openmic@yiddishcafe.com by Monday 9 January.
We are happy to translate your material or transcribe it in oysyes. We will need at least a week, please.
Recordings of previous sessions can be found on our YouTube page.
If you have any questions or would like to join our mailing list, contact us at openmic@yiddishcafe.com
We look forward to seeing you soon!