[artinfo] The Jewish Renaissance Boxing Club – Vienna

Sun Sep 20 22:32:16 CEST 2015

Dear All,

We invite you to take part in *The Jewish Renaissance Boxing Club –
Vienna, *a project realized within the frame of the Wienwoche festival, 24
- 29 September at the Brick5 and Café Sperlhof.

There are many ways for you to participate: in conversations, brunches,
lectures, performances, and in beginning-level boxing lessons. A short
statement and schedule of events is included at the end of this email, and
you can visit the Wienwoche
<http://www.wienwoche.org/de/366/the_jewish_renaissance_boxing_club_-_vienna>
website
more info. All events are free admission.

Please feel free to contact The JRBC-V via e-mail (jrbc.vienna at gmail.com).
We are also on Facebook
<https://m.facebook.com/events/134351306907076?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A5%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22%5B%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22page%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22main_list%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%5D%22%7D&aref=5&refid=17>,
and will be posting updates over the next weeks. Looking forward to your
participation, and your thoughts!

Yours,

The Jewish Renaissance Boxing Club - Vienna

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*The Jewish Renaissance Boxing Club – Vienna revitalizes histories of
Jewish cultural and community life through boxing, critical political
discourse and performance.*

*This project takes up the history of Jewish sports associations and social
life in Vienna. The event locations reflect this interest in history: Caf*
*é** Sperlhof formerly contained a Jewish prayer room, and Brick-5 was the
gym of the Maccabi Sports Association. The Jewish Renaissance Boxing Club –
Vienna uses these historical contexts to engage questions about what it
means to be Jewish, queer, or to box in Vienna in 2015. What divergent and
overlapping problems come up, and how can we build collectivity around
these issues?*

*The Jewish Renaissance Boxing Club – Vienna takes boxing as both an
activity and a cultural, political metaphor. Boxing requires awareness of
boundaries: taking responsibility for your opponents and for yourself.*

*To our boxing lessons we invite people who may not have had previous
opportunities to try the sports (please see invitation politics in **program
details*
<http://www.wienwoche.org/de/366/the_jewish_renaissance_boxing_club_-_vienna>*).
A program of discussions and performances are open to all those interested
in reframing Jewish cultural and social histories from a
Jewish-queer-feminist perspective in present-day Vienna. The presentation
and discussion led by Teri **Sz**ü**cs** will address literary depictions
of Jewish female bodies. Marty Huber’s sporty lecture-performance will
explore connections among Jewish and queer identities. In an open workshop
The JRBC-V asks: What does a contemporary, pluralistic and open-minded
Jewish community require? How can we facilitate it, how can we bring it
forward? The project's final evening will reflect experiences of both
participants and organizers during the week's events—both athletic and
discursive—and will wrap up with a dance party.*

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*Program details:*

Thu, 24. 9., 15:00 - 17:00

*Boxing lesson*

Maccabi-Turnhalle, BRICK-5, 1150, Fünfhausgasse 5, entrance located at
Herklotzgasse 21 (barrier-free access)

The boxing lessons are open to women, femmes, butches, trans*men,
trans*women, intersex individuals, gender queers, women*, lesbians and
gays, as of 16 years and older.

Trainer: Tatiana Kai-Browne.

No previous knowledge required. Limited number of participants.
*Registration* until 24 hours before the start of training respectively at:
jrbc.vienna at gmail.com <jrbcvienna at gmail.com>

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Thu, 24. 9., 20:00

*Official opening*

Maccabi-Turnhalle, BRICK-5, 1150, Fünfhausgasse 5, entrance located at
Herklotzgasse 21 (barrier-free access)

With the lecture/performance, *First Public Statement of The Jewish
Renaissance Boxing Club – Vienna by Zsuzsi Flohr, Tatiana Kai-Browne,
Veronica Lion and Sarah Mendelsohn *(in German and English). Following
this, party with DJ Fred Schmidt-Areanales

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Sun, 27. 9., 11:00 - 15:00

*Jewish Renaissance in Vienna - What Should Be Done?*

Maccabi-Turnhalle, BRICK-5, 1150, Fünfhausgasse 5, entrance located at
Herklotzgasse 21 (barrier-free access)

Workshop and brunch, in English language accompanied by whisper-translation
into German

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Mon, 28. 9., 09:00 - 11:00

*Boxing lesson*

Maccabi-Turnhalle, BRICK-5, 1150, Fünfhausgasse 5, entrance located at
Herklotzgasse 21 (barrier-free access)

The boxing lessons are open to women, femmes, butches, trans*men,
trans*women, intersex individuals, gender queers, women*, lesbians and
gays, as of 16 years and older.

Trainer: Tatiana Kai-Browne.

No previous knowledge required. Limited number of participants.
*Registration* until 24 hours before the start of training respectively at:
jrbc.vienna at gmail.com <jrbcvienna at gmail.com>

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Mon, 28. 9., 15:00 - 17:00

*Boxing lesson*

Maccabi-Turnhalle, BRICK-5, 1150, Fünfhausgasse 5, entrance located at
Herklotzgasse 21 (barrier-free access)

The boxing lessons are open to women, femmes, butches, trans*men,
trans*women, intersex individuals, gender queers, women*, lesbians and
gays, as of 16 years and older. Trainer: Tatiana Kai-Browne.

No previous knowledge required. Limited number of participants.
*Registration *until 24 hours before the start of training respectively at:
jrbc.vienna at gmail.com <jrbcvienna at gmail.com>

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Mon, 28. 9., 19:00

*Female Bodies, Jewish Bodies, Weak Bodies and Strong Bodies -
Representation in Jewish Literature*

Café Sperlhof, 1020, Große Sperlgasse 41 (barrier-free access)

Lecture and follow-up discussion with Teri Szücs (Literature historian,
freelance scientist, author), in English language accompanied by
whisper-translation into German

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Tue, 29. 9., 09:00 - 11:00

*Boxing lesson*

Maccabi-Turnhalle, BRICK-5, 1150, Fünfhausgasse 5, entrance located at
Herklotzgasse 21 (barrier-free access)

The boxing lessons are open to women, femmes, butches, trans*men,
trans*women, intersex individuals, gender queers, women*, lesbians and
gays, as of 16 years and older. Trainer: Tatiana Kai-Browne.

No previous knowledge required. Limited number of participants.
*Registration* until 24 hours before the start of training respectively at:
jrbc.vienna at gmail.com <jrbcvienna at gmail.com>

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Tue, 29. 9., 15:00 - 17:00

*Boxing lesson (includes sparring)*

Maccabi-Turnhalle, BRICK-5, 1150, Fünfhausgasse 5, entrance located at
Herklotzgasse 21 (barrier-free access)

The boxing lessons are open to women, femmes, butches, trans*men,
trans*women, intersex individuals, gender queers, women*, lesbians and
gays, as of 16 years and older. Trainer: Tatiana Kai-Browne.

*Previous knowledge required.* Limited number of participants.
*Registration* until 24 hours before the start of training respectively at:
jrbc.vienna at gmail.com <jrbcvienna at gmail.com>

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Tue, 29. 9., 19:00

*Exploring Alliances and Breakages Between Queerness, Jewishness and Sports*

Maccabi-Turnhalle, BRICK-5, 1150, Fünfhausgasse 5, entrance located at
Herklotzgasse 21 (barrier-free access)

Athletic lecture/performance by Marty Huber (author, queer activist,
academic), in English language accompanied by whisper-translation into
German

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Tue, 29. 9., 21:00

*Closing event*

Maccabi-Turnhalle, BRICK-5, 1150, Fünfhausgasse 5, entrance located at
Herklotzgasse 21 (barrier-free access)

Following lecture/performance by Marty Huber and closing words by the
Jewish Renaissance Boxing Club - Vienna, party with Hip Hop and Pip Pop by
Weirdbeard

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*Zsuzsi Flohr*
phd-in-practice fellow
institutes of fine arts, art theory and cultural studies
]a[ academy of fine arts vienna

+43 6776 120 58 48 (at) <%2B43%20680%20221%209193>
+36 30 29 18 270 (hu)
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skype: flohrzsuzsi

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