Joel Tauber’s Social Practice Project & Performance

MUSE Winston-Salem is hosting the U.S. premiere of Chavruta: A Model for Discourse Today, a social practice project and performance by Joel Tauber, artist, filmmaker, and Department of Art Professor of Filmmaking and Video Art.

The event will be held on three separate evenings: October 1, October 15, and October 29 from 7-8:30 p.m. Guests are encouraged to attend multiple events to engage more deeply with the social practice of chavruta, but single-event participation is also welcome.

Each evening will include a screening of the film, Razor-Sharp: When Arguing Is A Good Thing, Tauber’s award-winning exploration of the ancient Jewish practice of “chavruta” (or, heated discourse and constructive debate). Following the screening, Tauber will model chavruta discourse—as a performance—with a different guest each evening. The October 1st guest will be Russ May, co-founder of Anthony’s Plot Community and a Moravian pastor; October 15th will feature Dixon Kinser, Rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal; October 29th will feature Dr. April Ruffin-Adams, Lecturer in African American and African Diaspora Studies at UNC Greensboro and Master of Divinity student at Wake Forest University. For the final part of each evening, attendees will be invited to participate in chavruta-style conversation about a provided text, an excerpt from the Iroquois Constitution, The Great Law of Peace.

Tickets for these events are free, but registration is required here.