SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Waters of Eden, San Diego Community Mikvah and Education Center, hosts its premier event, a multimedia stage production of “The Mikveh Monologues”. Written by best-selling author Anita Diamant (The Red Tent) and director Janet Buchwald, the play is an introspective tour of the ritual bath, redefined for 21st century usage, and a theatrical celebration of personal discovery in all of its complexity and mystery.
The performance will take place at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, 4126 Executive Drive in La Jolla, at 7:30 pm on Saturday, January 30, 2010. The evening will include a community havdalah and dessert reception. Individual tickets are available for $25 through the JCC Box Office, (858) 362-1348 and lfjcc.org. Please call for group rates.
The Mikveh Monologues serve as a moving testament to the power of the ancient ritual of immersion in water. The production presents a compelling case for the reinvention of mikvah as a means to mark life passages of celebration, healing, and personal transformation for men and women, young and old. Through music and dramatic interpretation, the viewer will understand how this experience can be a Jewish antidote to the homogenization of modern life.
A second performance will take place the afternoon of Sunday, January 31, 2010 as part of the Agency for Jewish Education’s Yom Limmud: San Diego’s Community Day Learning.
Waters of Eden, San Diego Community Mikvah & Education Center, is an independent California non-profit 501c3 organization. The Center is projected to break ground at the base of Cowles Mountain, adjacent to Tifereth Israel Synagogue, in 2011 and to be dedicated during Chanukah, 2012. Waters of Eden will provide a unique center for Jewish continuity, spirituality, renewal, and learning for the greater San Diego community as a separate and independent institution, open to all, regardless of affiliation who self-identify as Jewish and those on their paths to Judaism.
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