Purim 5784 - Megillah mugshots
Megillah Mugshots is back! Get ready for yet another creative and memorable Megillah reading!
Our playful Megillah reading on Sunday morning, March 24th at 10 am will be accompanied by a pictorial slideshow of Shearith Israelites "performing" the Book of Esther in photographs. These photographs will be staged “tableaux” or “freeze frames” of key moments in the Purim story. Families will costume themselves, find appropriate props, and stage the action to match the moment. Once you’ve created the tableau, take a digital photo and send it back to us. Even an iPhone picture will do.
We need YOU to participate and submit photographs of yourself and/or your family acting out one of the Purim story's countless scenes and vignettes! View the available scenes and instructions below. Please submit your photos as soon as possible!
For inspiration and ideas, view last year's slideshow here.
Megillah Mugshots - Scenes & Descriptions
INSTRUCTIONS:
We have separated Megillat Esther into 30 "action moments" which are meant to be the caption describing the content of the photograph. A full list of available scenes may be viewed here. Review the list of plot points and decide on an image in the story that you would like to capture. The caption is the moment you have to illustrate with your personal or family photograph.
We would LOVE for you to get CREATIVE with your photographs. We think it's going to be really fun to see multiple interpretations of each scene as we tell the story of Esther on Purim. To help bring consistency to the multiple interpretations, we're asking everyone to follow a few guidelines in your representations.
To register to attend the Megillah Reading featuring "Megillah Mugshots" on Sunday, March 24th at 10 am, click here.
Tue, May 21 2024
13 Iyyar 5784
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