Semi-staged musical theatre in one act

Join shortlisted writers and audiences for an evening celebrating contemporary Australian writing on Jewish subjects.

The evening includes announcement of the 2026 award winners, followed by a conversation with international authors and refreshments.

Joanne Fedler speaks with Magdalena Ball about her new memoir Bring Us Home from Sorrow (2026), written following the death of her mother from ovarian cancer in 2020.

Performed as a live dramatic reading, Dear Jessy, Dear Miriam imagines the friendship Jessica Chapnik Kahn and Miriam Hechtman might have shared had they met as teenagers, decades before encountering each other as adults.

Drawn from Mima’amakim (Out of the Depths), one of the earliest collections of Holocaust songs, this event brings those works to life through live performance alongside stories of the composers, lyricists and the remarkable effort to preserve their voices.

An intimate evening of spoken word, live music and Jewish storytelling, Voices of the Tribe brings together poets tracing pride, grief, humour, longing and the strange feeling of recognition when language suddenly feels shared.

Drawn from Mima’amakim (Out of the Depths), one of the earliest collections of Holocaust songs, this event brings those works to life through live performance alongside stories of the composers, lyricists and the remarkable effort to preserve their voices.

A new body of songs by multidisciplinary artist Anita Lester, informed by Jewish memory and the cultural rupture of recent years, these unreleased works sit between liturgical cadence and folk storytelling.

Music and language meet as equal partners in this live performance built around Sergei Prokofiev’s Visions Fugitives and excerpts from Simon Tedeschi’s memoir Fugitive.

Staged Reading – Written by Ron Elisha. Sydney East Location.

Part performance, part creative development, Groyse Tsores offers a rare encounter with original contemporary Yiddish theatre in formation. Blending live music, movement, puppetry and conversation, the event presents songs and scenes from Der Griner Giraf, a new intergenerational work exploring childhood through Yiddish language and song.

Two new plays exploring conflict, identity, power and belonging through intimate encounters shaped by pressure, memory and survival.

Bible Slam brings together performers to reinterpret the Torah through character, poetry, storytelling, song and dialogue.

Hebrew and English song, prayer, chant, niggunim and spoken word come together in this live gathering responding to the aftermath of the Bondi attack and the long shadow of October 7.

You Were Great in Shule! turns the awkwardness, chaos and emotional intensity of Jewish coming-of-age culture into a live comedy podcast recording packed with storytelling, nostalgia and communal oversharing.

From Torah to TikTok, Amalek to Kanye West, A Jewish Guide to Surviving History races through thousands of years of Jewish history in an expansive one-woman performance blending spoken word, storytelling and comedy.

An intimate poetry reading with music bringing together three distinctive Jewish Australian voices whose work is shaped by long lives, deep memory and a restless curiosity about the world.