The Naming is an acoustic/electronic and multi-media event featuring music, dance, and vivid video projections interpreting some of the most compelling women of the Bible.
The edgy all-female band Divahn lends traditional Middle Eastern Jewish music an innovative soundscape with Indian and Latin percussion, lush string arrangements, and haunting vocals in Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic and Judeo-Spanish.
A range of interactive musical workshops for adults, children, or both, on Dardashti’s music, the traditions it comes from, piyutim, trends in Israeli music, and the instruments in her band.
Dardashti offers a range of lectures on her work as a cultural anthropologist on Israeli music and Jewish culture.
Dardashti leads special Sephardic/Mizrahi services for Friday night, Saturday morning and holidays.