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This, my third Tidings program (broadcast in 2008) was based on actual notes from the journal I kept during my move from Manhattan to Mattituck (1999) after which I shared my odyssey during conversations with three others who described the upheaval and the uplifting experiences of their moves. I wrote: It’s a very big move. It’s the doing of it that’s big, not […]
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This is the first of a two-part series on the art, craft and practice of letter writing. An avid letter writer myself, I invited Jenny Bhatt, a kindred spirit and editor of Storyacious, a fine new literary magazine in which I’d read her essay on writing letters, for a conversation about the significance of letters […]
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On December 10, 1948, at the United Nations General Assembly, Eleanor Roosevelt was the first to proclaim to the world the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On Human Rights Day sixty-six years later, Bill Hass, United Nations veteran and president of United Nations Association of Southwestern Connecticut, talks about the status of human rights among the UN’s […]
Growing Up Jewish in Lahore — And in an Internment Camp COURTESY OF HAZEL KAHAN Not Your Typical German Anti-Nazis: From left, Hazel Kahan, her mother Kate, and her brother Michael, in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1948. By Gabe Friedman Published October 18, 2014, issue of October 24, 2014. Full article: http://forward.com/articles/207415/when-jews-found-refuge-in-pakistan/?p=all#ixzz3IrfmUhjW
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Links to North Fork Works programs 2012 and 2013 and to Southold Historical Society to learn about the North Fork’s past and present. Alex Villani, long-time fisherman and Stephanie Villani, fishmonger, proprietors of Blue Moon Fish describe their lives working their Mattituck-based family business. (November 5, 2014) https://ia600700.us.archive.org/2/items/AlKrupskiNorthForkWorks030514/Al%20Krupski-%20NorthForkWorks-03-05-14.mp3 Barbara Shinn, of Shinn Estate Vineyards in Mattituck, explains […]
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Sister Margaret Smyth, talks about how she became a nun, started and built the North Fork Spanish Apostolate in Riverhead and Greenport. She gives us an intimate and current look at the many challenges–and triumphs in the Hispanic community, including reuniting the unaccompanied children from Central America with their mothers on the East End of […]
Yet why not say what happened? Here’s everything I have to say about leafages since I made the first one in the year 2000. It was published by the wonderful Storyacious magazine.
I will be writing about this project in detail once it’s completed.
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Global Days of Listening is the project of Afghan Peace Volunteers (APV) who invite people around the world to talk directly on the 21st of each month via livestream and Skype sessions with youth in Afghanistan and other war-torn countries, to listen to the ordinary voices of those whose homeland is occupied with violence. The next Day […]
Now a dying species, letter writers were a staple of Lahore culture when I was growing; they were literate and multilingual in a society where the majority was illiterate. Despite the competition from technology and literacy, letter writers still survive, offering to fill out government application forms for example. The letter writers of Lahore sit […]
Born to German Jewish refugee physicians in Lahore (now Pakistan, then British India) Hazel has lived, studied and worked in many places–India, England, Australia, Israel and the United States. She makes her home in the woods of the eastern end of Long Island, New York where she produces the art of leafages, the radio sounds of Tidings and writes about growing up Jewish in Lahore. Read more about Hazel…
Leafages by Hazel Kahan are made from real leaves, vines and tendrils interwoven with calligraphy, decorative pen and ink flourishes and imaginary Latin botanical names. Leafages contain a philosophical or inspirational thought, quotation or verse from sages, poets or religious texts. Some leafages are specially created for an individual, a couple or a family with words or leaves reflecting their personal narrative. They are available on the Leafages shop on Etsy although the supply is low right now, all my energies having been absorbed by the book I’ve been writing. Do come back soon when the shop will be full of new leafage abundance or contact me.
