June 2009 M! News
Teaching Awareness and Respect through Jewish Life & Culture, Immigration, Art, Lessons of the Holocaust, Bridges of Understanding, Exhibitions and workshops.

WHERE WE ARE
400 S. Kearney St.
Denver, CO 80224
303.394.9993
www.mizelmuseum.org

SPONSORS
Museum sponsors and supportors		  
Congratulations Dean Singleton!
   Congratulations
William Dean Singleton!
This year the Mizel Museum honored William Dean Singleton at the annual Community Cultural Enrichment Award. Don't miss our dinner next year scheduled for May 27, 2010!

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Late Bloomer, Barbara D. Cohen		   My Self: Original Self Portraits of the Mizel Museum Artist Alliance
May 4, 2009 through September 1, 2009
Exhibit open for viewing during regular museum hours.
Monday, June 1, 8:00 pm
Hineni, Here I Am: Jewish Philosophical Conceptions of Self
Monday, June 29, 8:00 pm
Blogging as Self Portraiture Panel Discussion
 Israli Film Series, Tel Aviv: A Portrait
Presented by the Mizel Museum, ISIME and the Allied Jewish Federation and the Mizel Museum.
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Flying Camel   2009 Summer Outdoor Israeli Film Series — Tel Aviv: A Portrait
presented by The Mizel Museum, ISIME, and The Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado
A Jewish professor, an Arab trash collector and a novice Catholic nun find themselves together in a junk yard in this amusing film, which provides an upbeat message as it explores ethnocentrism and religious conflict in Israel.

June 18, 2009
Film begins at 8:30 PM on the Mizel Museum Lawn.
Admission: $5 [Bring a chair or blanket] Cash Hummus Bar provided by UDI’S Handcrafted Foods

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More campM
Campers in the Israel Safari Camp experienced what it was like to spend time in a tent, eating and talking about life in Israel.
CampM is funCampers learned to "milk a cow" too!
   Mizel Museum CampM! is now taking registrations
 For full camp descriptions of camps listed below
Download the 2009 Summer Camp Brochure
Faces of the World Mask Camp
June 8 - 12 :: Ages 6 -9 :: 9:00 am - 3:30 pm :: $185
Animal Symbols in Sculpture #1
June 8 - 12 :: Ages 5 - 7 :: 9:00 am - Noon :: $95
Little Picassos Great Artists Camp #1
June 15 - 19 :: Ages 5 - 7 :: Mornings: 9:00 am - Noon :: $95 Full days: 9:00 am - 3:30 pm :: $185
Animal Symbols in Sculpture #2
June 22 - 26 :: Ages 5 - 7 :: 9:00 am - Noon :: $95
Putting the Pieces Together Art & Math Camp
June 1 5- 19 :: Ages 5 - 7 ::12:30 pm - 3:30 pm :: $95
Life on a String Puppet Camp
June 22 - 26 :: Ages 8 - 12 :: 9:00 am - 3:30 pm :: $185
Jewish Crafts Camp #1
June 22 - 26 :: Ages 6 - 8 :: 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm :: $95.00

Some scholarship funds are available based upon need.
To register for CampM! call 303-394-9993 ext. 103, or email jmock@mizelmuseum.org
Julian Bonder at Bai Yar Park Memorial Event   Walking Tour Through Babi Yar Park
Docent-led group tours through Babi Yar Park located at Yale and Havana in Denver. Tours focus on lessons about history, geography and human rights. Available upon request, weather permitting. $5/person Groups of 10 or more.

Please call 303.394.9993 ext. 103 or email the museum.
Irina K
   Irina Kopelevich Exhibit
Mizel Museum Artist Alliance member
Monday, May 11 - August 11
Kohelet Congregation, 428 S. Forest St.
Kopelevich's work features scenes of contemporary Jewish themes and characters captured in movement.

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Arel Mishory   Arel Mishory Exhibit
Mizel Museum Artist Alliance Assistant Director
Monday, May 20 - August 31

Meet Arel Mishory at the Opening Reception
June 15 :: 5:30 - 7:00 pm
Rafael Spiritual Healing Center at the Jewish Family Service, 3201 S. Tamarac Drive :: Denver

Arel Mishory's art reflects her warmth, humor, joy and deep interest in a spiritual life. She invests her art with the life affirming energy that she receives from her Judaic studies. Call 303 394-9993, Ext. 107 for information.
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Tikkun Olam   A TRAVELING ART EXHIBITION OF THE MIZEL MUSEUM Tikkun Olam: Repairing the World
Art installation by Christy Honigman

May 21 to June 18, 2009
Aurora Municipal Building
15151 E. Alameda Pkwy., Aurora, CO, 80012

Call 303.394-9993 ext. 103 to arrange for a docent led tour.

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paintbrushes are just the thing   ADULT EDUCATION CLASSES
All Classes are held at the Mizel Museum, 400 S. Kearney in Denver, unless otherwise noted.
Oil & Acrylic Painting with Boris Shoshensky
Tuesdays, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm :: $150
Summer Session I — May 26, June 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30
Summer Session II — July 7, 14, 21, 28, August 4 & 11
Watercolor Painting with Boris Shoshensky
Wednesdays, 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm :: $125
Summer Session I — June 3, 10, 17, 24, July 1 & 8
Summer Session II — July 15, 22, 29, August 5, 12 & 19
Call 303.394.9993 ext. 103 to register.
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  THE CELL is now open.
Located within the Denver Civic Center Cultural Complex, adjacent to the Denver Art Museum, The Center for Empowered Living and Learning (The CELL) presents its first permanent exhibit, “Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere: Understanding the Threat of Terrorism” as an educational tour of global terrorism and the challenges its poses to civilized societies today.
Admission hours are;
Tuesday-Thursday, 10:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M.
Friday, 10:00 A.M.-8:00 P.M.
Saturday 10:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M.
Sunday, 12:00 P.M.-5:00 P.M.
For more information, visit www.thecell.org