21.06 Friday

Di Libe brent wi a nase Szmate (“Love Burns like a Wet Rag”) returns to FestivALT for a Shabbat evening of music, stories, and food. Maja Pompa and Łaja Szkło’s duo will kick off this year’s festival with Klezmer-infused melodies, queer lyrics, and stories from the seedy underbelly of pre-war Jewish Poland.

Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau are the two most famous and most visited genocidal sites in the world, but they do not encompass the whole of the Auschwitz complex. Jason Francisco's photo-text-installation work examines a part of the Auschwitz story all but erased from public memory, through a deliberate misuse of the historical practice of stereoscopy.