[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements--Yiddish Language and Song courses in London

[Victor Bers]

Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements

May 7, 2011

To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests:
1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance.
2. Send material as plain text:  no HTML, other coding, or attachments;and 
write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line.
3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has
posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames.
_________________________________________________________________________________

Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 21:39:19 +0100
From: Geraldine Auerbach <jewishmusic at jmi.org.uk>
Subject: Yiddish Language and Song courses in London

Yiddish Language and Yiddish Song Summer Schools 2011

JMI runs two separate (but concurrent) one-week courses - one for Yiddish 
language students and one for singers. Sunday 14 - Friday 19 August 2011

The language course is for beginners to advanced students. We usually have 
students of various backgrounds and from about the age of 18 to 90 
attending. The mix of ages is very special - those who know Yiddish from 
before mixing with those coming to it fresh, is very productive.

The song course is for serious singers who want to embrace the vast and 
touching Yiddish song repertoire. The courses take place at the Vernon 
Square Campus of SOAS University of London Penton Rise, London WC1X 9EW

More details on Website www.jmi.org.uk

The courses start with registration on Sunday morning 14 August (at 
10.30am for those that want to brush up on the alef beys - the letters in 
which Yiddish is written) and at 11.30am for all others.

>From Monday to Friday classes are from 9.30 in the morning till 6.30pm. 
There are Yiddish language sessions for all each morning in four levels. 
After lunch there is a 'learning Yiddish through song' session for 
everyone - after which, singers have masterclasses and sessions on 
interpretation pronunciation etc while the language students have 
conversation sessions, Yiddish films and even some drama if they want it, 
as well as optional extra writing and reading practice. The language 
course is led as always by Helen (Khayele) Beer of UCL with her popular 
team of Sonya Pinkusowitz (Brussels), Heather Valencia (Stirling) and Lily 
Kahn (UCL) and with Barry Davis presenting films. The song school is 
headed by Shura Lipovsky  with the welcome return of Joanne Borts, Yiddish 
theatre star from New York and the ever popular and amazing singer and 
accompanist Polina Shepherd.

For klezmer music and dance the KlezFest Caravan is running courses in the 
World Music Summer School at SOAS from 5.00pm to 9.00pm in the week of 4 - 
8 July details and booking at www.soas.ac.uk/music

For more information email Yiddish at jmi.org.uk or speak to Yvonne Glass on 
Tel 020 8909 2445
______________________________________________________________________

Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead, direct 
your mail as follows:

Material for Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements, i.e. nouncements of 
events, commercial publications, requests to which responses should be 
sent exclusively to the request's author, etc., always in plain text (no 
HTML or the like) to:

victor.bers at yale.edu (in the subject line write Mendele Personal)

Material for postings to Mendele Yiddish literature and 
language,i.e.inquiries and comments of a non-commercial or publicity 
nature:

      mendele at mailman.yale.edu

IMPORTANT:  Please include your full name as you would like it to appear 
in your posting.  No posting will appear without its author's name. 
Submissions to regular Mendele should not include personal email 
addresses, as responses will be posted for all to read.  They must also 
include the author's name as you would like it to appear.

In order to spare the shamosim time and effort, we request that 
contributors adhere, when applicable, as closely as possible to standard 
English punctuation, grammar, etc. and to the YIVO rules of 
transliteration into Latin letters. A guide to Romanization can be found 
at this site:
http://www.yivoinstitute.org/about/index.php?tid=57&aid=275

All other messages should be sent to the shamosim at this address:
mendele at mailman.yale.edu

Mendele on the web: http://mendele.commons.yale.edu/

To join or leave the list:
http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele