Joshua Nelson
My previous article focused on events for grownups on Wednesday and Thursday of this week including events that continue into the early hours of Friday. Because Friday is a compulsory day off both for adult workers and school children several local Jewish institutions have family programming that day. Joshua Nelson and the Kosher Gospel Choir will offer two concerts at The Museum of Jewish Heritage on Friday December 25th, one for families at 11:00 AM and another for a general audience at 1:00 PM: 
11 A.M.: $20, $15 Museum and JCP members, $10 children 12 and younger
1 P.M.: $35, $25 students/seniors, $20 members
Family concert co-sponsored by the JCP.
The Museum of Jewish Heritage is located at 36 Battery Place in Lower Manhattan's Battery Park City.
The Museum at Eldridge Street located at 12 Eldridge Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side will also have a concert for children on Friday December 25th at 11:00 AM:
Sing, dance, learn Yiddish and "get married" at our annual family concert. Clarinetist Greg Wall and his band Klezmerfest lead the audience on a musical tour of Eastern European Jewish culture. The program ends with an audience-enacted shtetle wedding with children taking on the roles of bride, groom and wedding guests.
Continuing the theme of family programming at museums The Jewish Museum located on Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street in Manhattan will have a A Family Celebration on Friday December 25th from 11:30 AM–4:00 PM for children ages 3 and up.
We turn the Museum over to families for this New York holiday tradition. A huge drop-in arts and crafts extravaganza, live music and gallery hunts add up to a special day with your family.
11:30 am - 3 pm
Drop-in Art Workshop
Children can design mixed-media collages using silver rubbings of textures, colored vellum, and tracings of found objects. These collages are inspired by the dynamic works in the current exhibition, Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention.
12:30 pm and 2:00 pm
Concert: Metropolitan Klezmer .jpg)
Metropolitan Klezmer, established in 1994, brings eclectic exuberance to Yiddish musical genres from all over the map. Performing vibrant versions of lesser-known gems from wedding dance, trance, folk, swing and tango styles, as well as soundtrack material from vintage Yiddish films, they re-invent tradition with both irreverence and respect.
12:30pm - 2:30pm
“Strike a Surreal Pose” Photo Booth
Families will have the opportunity to pose in front of a surreal scene inspired by work of Man Ray and incorporate props into an offbeat family portrait. The photos will be accessible from the Museum's Flickr account after the Family Celebration.
All Day
Family Gallery Guides
Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention
Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life
Free with Museum admission (Adults: $12, Seniors/over 65: $10, Students: $ 7.50, Children under 12: Free) Age 3 and up.
Both 92YTribeca and the uptown 92nd Street Y have programming for grownups on Friday:
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Saturday night December 26th at 9:00 PM there will be more Jewish music to be heard when JDub band The Wailing Wall performs with Brooklyn-based folk/experimental music and art collective Cabinet of Natural Curiosities at Portal D'Or 841 Sterling Place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. For a taste of The Wailing Wall's experimental sounds check out their video:
Other bands on the same program Saturday night include The Points North and Renaissance Sun.
For other NY Jewish Culture events see the links in the right margin of this page under New York Jewish Culture Events Listings.
For more information: David Cooper
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