WHAT’S HAPPENING 33rd Annual Strelitz International Golf Tournament, affectionately known as the Bob Josephberg Classic, slated for next month
Then, Now, & Looking Forward: Lorraine Fink Retrospective
Tuesday, September 14, 10:30 Registration; 12 pm Tee-off Bayville Golf Club in Virginia Beach
Join the artist for a reception: Sunday, September 12, 1- 3 pm
Carly Glickman
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or the past 33 years, Strelitz International Academy’s annual golf tournament has been a highlight in the Tidewater community. The tournament sees more than 100 players coming out to support Tidewater’s only Jewish Community Day School and traditionally raises more than $128,000 in sponsorships to directly benefit the students and families at SIA. This year’s Bob Josephberg Classic, which is co-chaired by Ilana and Nathan Benson, offers players something extra to celebrate. In July, Strelitz International Academy was authorized as Tidewater’s first International Baccalaureate® World School for the Primary Years Programme. This is the culmination of years of planning, development, and implementation that would not have been possible without the support from United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, Tidewater Jewish Foundation, the Simon Family Foundation, friends in the community, SIA’s board of trustees, and SIA staff. With SIA’s new IB® status, the school is positioned to be the top primary
year’s institution for growing Tidewater’s future leaders. Many levels of sponsorship opportunities are available, starting at $400 and ranging up to $5,500. SIA’s 33rd Annual Golf Tournament welcomes all golfers and volunteers for a day of fun, golf, and an exciting awards reception with a delicious kosher buffet. To register as a sponsor, player, or volunteer, contact Carly Glikman, director of development at Strelitz International Academy at CGlikman@StrelitzAcademy. org or 757-424-4327.
Wednesday, August 25, 5:30–7:30 pm Sandler Family Campus outdoor pool Jill Grossman
Jill Grossman
“Fink does not observe nature and then paint it. Rather she is a channel through which nature itself emerges practically fully formed in its primal energy, beauty, and soul. Her drawing, mark-making, brushstrokes—all are deftly spontaneous. Fink has no intention of duplicating reality with them. Rather her marks frolic and dance from her hands with a life of their own. Of course, they suggest those things we know in our reality, but they become their own humans, animals, birds, shamans, ancestors, and family as she releases them into the world.” —Ken Daley, Old Dominion University, Professor of Art Emeritus
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Sababa Social Club
What’s Sababa? Find out around the Simon Family JCC’s outdoor pool at the launch of Sababa Social Club. It’s a chance for adults (no kids) to be together (swimming optional, masks required inside the JCC) and have some bites (delicious kosher ones!), beverages (yes beer, yes wine, yes Sababa Sangria!), and music (singer/songwriter Lewis McGehee!). So, whether it’s after work, after golf, or after a nap—bring friends, significant others
On view in the Leon Family Gallery and throughout the Sandler Family Campus through September 30
or just your fabulous self to the Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus for the start of something great for Tidewater’s Jewish community, the Sababa Social Club. It’s free to all. Now, is the answer clear about what Sababa is? Cool. For more information and to register, go to JewishVA.org/Sababa8 or contact Jill Grossman, director, Arts + Ideas, at jgrossman@ujft.org or 757-965-6137.
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ocal Artist and arts supporter Lorraine Fink will be celebrated in this first retrospective of her work spanning five decades. Drawing on her interest in myths and folk tales from different cultures, Fink’s work has been influenced by her travels with late husband, Dr. H. William Fink, to Africa, Nepal and India, New Guinea, Israel, Russia, Central America, the Caribbean islands, and the Far East. ”Working with mixed media, I enjoy drawing, painting, and sculpting, which show textures of abstract and gestural energy. Playful amorphic animal and bird images leap and dance, metaphors for the human condition. Discarded objects become totems and whimsical members of a tribe,” says Fink. Inspired by the outpouring of interest in her recent auction of drawings, the Simon Family JCC invited Fink to exhibit this retrospective, the Leon Family Gallery’s most substantial presentation to date. Fink began her studies with Charles Sibley and Ken Daley at Old Dominion University, graduating with a BFA in 1978 and an MFA in 1983. Fink and her art have
Mooncycle Transformation to Beast.
been featured on WHRO’s PBS television feature Curate, and she has been recognized with numerous honors including the Virginia Watercolor Society’s Purchase Award at the College of William & Mary, The Miniatures Juror’s Choice Award at the Hermitage Museum, and inclusion in a two-year traveling Smithsonian exhibition from the Virginia Printmakers show awarded at the Virginia Museum. Fink was invited to feature her paintings as the opening exhibit of the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). The exhibition will run through September 30, 2021 at the Leon Family Gallery and throughout the Reba and Sam Sandler Family Campus of the Tidewater Jewish Community, 5000 Corporate Woods Drive in Virginia Beach. To learn more or to RSVP for the reception, contact Jill Grossman, Arts + Ideas drector, at JGrossman@ujft.org, 757-965-6137, or visit www.JewishVA.org/ gallery.
