News Highlights Soul Sounds Performer Neta Weiner at JewishBoston.com

Musician, performer, and activist Neta Weiner was profiled in JewishBoston.com this week for his cross-cultural performances ad bridge-building activism. Neta and his partner Stav Marin have a long track record of blending cultural influences in their art and using that art as a platform for activism and dialogue, and we are thrilled to host them for our first Soul Sounds concert of the season on February 6. From the story:

Hip-hop and…accordion? No, it might not be Eminem’s or Dr. Dre’s style, but Israeli musician, social activist and theater director Neta Weiner combines both skills—as well as a love of teaching and cross-cultural collaboration—as a visiting artist at Brandeis and Tufts universities.

Fifteen years ago, he launched the Jewish-Palestinian hip-hop ensemble System Ali, performing in Arabic, Amharic, English, Hebrew, Russian and Yiddish with a collective of musicians from various nationalities. He also oversees artistic direction for Beit System Ali, an Israel-based cultural educational movement rooted in the power of artistic action to promote equality and to generate socio-political change…

The group now creates educational programs that spark multicultural discourse on social issues such as segregation, racism, gender-based violence and police brutality through multilingual, multicultural art.

Read the full story at JewishBoston.com. Tickets for Neta & Stav at Hebrew College on February 6th are available here.