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Presidential Library in Little Rock, Ark.
Unlike the Maccabi Games, Sorkin
he Jewish Community Centers
said, ArtsFest will have little for specta-
Association — umbrella group
tors to see until the closing event. She
for JCCs in North America and
envisions the last day as a giant half-day
for the annual teenage Maccabi Games
arts fest, with stages, exhibitions and
— is adding a separate Maccabi pro-
food vendors.
gram for artists and dancers next sum-
While most of the participating JCCs
mer.
are from the East Coast, because of the
Some 34 JCCs will send
change of school calendars to
500 teens to the inaugural
start classes after Labor Day
JCC Maccabi ArtsFest in
some Midwestern and
Baltimore from Aug. 20-25.
Western JCCs will attend,
Detroit is planning to send 20
including Detroit,
teens.
Minneapolis and St. Paul, San
There will be programs in
Antonio, San Francisco and
digital video, instrumental
LaJolla.
music, musical theater
Boca Raton, Fla., and Metro
(including dance), star
Arlene Sorkin
Direst (West Orange), N.J., have
reporting, techies, visual arts
already volunteered to be host
and vocal music. Participants
sites for ArtsFest in 2007.
will learn from experts in •
Detroit Maccabi Club and
their field and work on group
JCC officials have been plan-
programs and, like the
ning the new•activity. Karen
Maccabi Games, participate
Gordon of West Bloomfield, a
in social programs and corn-
frequent Detroit Maccabi dele-
munity service. A public
gation head and registrar and
exhibition of ArtsFest proj-
a former Maccabi athlete, said
ects is planned for the final
Dave Stone
prospective ArtsFest partici-
day at the host site, the JCC of
pants should come to the
Greater Baltimore.
Maccabi Games kickoff meet-
ArtsFest is being coordi-
ing 4:30 p.m. Jan. 22 at the
nated for the JCCA by Arlene
JCC in West Bloomfield.
Sorkin, wife of David Sorkin,
All the details, including
the former executive director
cost, should be 'worked out by
of the Jewish Community
then.
Center of Metropolitan
Gordon is excited about
Detroit.
ArtsFest, even though she is
"We have been talking for
Karen Go rdon
committed to leading the
years [within the JCCA]
.
Detroit Maccabi delegation to
about building on the JCC Maccabi
Phoenix instead. ArtsFest attracts "a
Games," Arlene Sorkin said. ArtsFest is a whole group of kids who would not oth-
way to give non-athlete teens the
erwise be involved': Gordon said.
Maccabi experience, she said.
Dave Stone, assistant executive direc-
ArtsFest will have a Maccabi Games
tor of the Detroit JCC, was a 12-year-old
structure. Jewish teens ages 13 16 on
participant in the first JCC Maccabi
July 31 are eligible and will participate
Games in Memphis in 1982. "Nobody
in workshops and programs in their
was more interested in sports than I
discipline during the day, attend social
was' he said. "But once you get to the
activities in the evening and have a Day
Games, athletics become secondary to
of Caring and Sharing. The teens will be
meeting Jewish kids from all over."
' housed in the homes of members of the
He said the experience changed his
Baltimore Jewish community.
life — "I 1.vouldn't be doing what I do
The majority of the time, Sorkin said,
today [as a JCC executive] if it hadn't
"they will be learning from master
been for Maccabi."
teachers!" One of the first experts hired
Stone is grateful for ArtsFest. He said
— Jay Wolf Schlossberg-Cohen —
New Orleans was slated to be one of the
painted a portrait of President Bill
Maccabi Games' sites next summer but,
Clinton that was hung in the White
because of Hurricane Katrina, the New
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