Taste
Sunday Dec 11, 2:00-5:00pm: (in person) Tea Salon & Story Circle with Noor Adabachi and Debórah Eliezer
Tea and story circle with delightful Mediterranean Mezze.
Join San Francisco Bay Area artivists Debórah Eliezer and Noor Adabachi of Aviva Arts in a participatory tea salon. Together we’ll weave a lively story of ritual, community, and conversation based on themes of their upcoming world premiere docu-myth, Burning Wild. Drawing inspiration both upon their story as fire survivors and the stories of those in the room, this offering will inspire and bring light through human connection. Mediterranean mezze, beer, wine and refreshments will be served.
Location TBA, Available to donors of $200+
Meet the Hosts!
Noor Adabachi, Artist (he/him)
Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Noor Adabachi was barely 18 at the start of the Lebanese civil war and was forced out of his native land to ironically take refuge in the land of his colonizer. Eager to discover himself as an artist and guided by his rebellious and opportunist nature; he jumped right into the rabble-rousing dance and theater world of 70’s France. Moving to California in the 80’s, he studied Stage & costume design at CalArts and collaborated on many film & stage productions before expanding to environmental sculptural installation, design, architecture and furniture making. Noor’s stage designs for theater include foolsFURY’s Dionysus Was Such a Nice Man directed by Ben Yalom, (dis)Place[d], directed by Ben Yalom, The Unheard of World, directed by Michelle Haner, and Faulted, directed by Evren Odcikin. Noor also designed custom furniture for 3 decades, creating work for Milton Katselas, Oprah Winfrey, Catherine Bell, Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil, and many others. His work has been featured in architectural magazines and on E The Entertainment Channel. With his partner Deborah, he is currently co-creating “Burning Wild”, a docu-myth performance ritual about loss, adversity and renewal.
Debórah Eliezer, Artistic Director (She/Her)
(“di-BOR-uh el-ee-AY-zr”) is a mixed identity white/SWANA theater maker, cultural activist and California fire survivor living and working on the unceded territories of the Ramaytush Ohlone and Southern Pomo. She is the founding Artistic Director of Aviva Arts, an Associate Artist with Golden Thread, an artEquity arts facilitator alumna, and serves on the MENA Alliance of Theatre Makers steering committee (MENATMA) and formerly on the board of the Alliance of Jewish Theatre. Passionate about the power of human transformation, her work focuses on disrupting assumptions about art, human values and society. Formerly the Artistic Director of foolsFURY Theater, she has devised numerous world premieres, working with playwrights Katie Pearl, Kate Tarker, Yussef el Guindi, Denmo Ibrahim, Torange Yeghiazarian, Fabrice Melquiot, Angela Santillo, Sheila Callaghan, Doug Dorst, Ben Yalom and Dan Chumley. Eliezer wrote and performs (dis)Place[d] which toured the FURY Factory Festival of Ensemble Theater, Ko Fest, Olivia Cruises and Limmud UK in 2019 and is featured in Michael Malek Najjar’s book, Middle Eastern American Theatre: Communities, Cultures and Artists. She stars in the short film Wresting Place written and directed by Coral Cohen release date TBD. As a professional voiceover, you may have heard her voice in over 25 Leapfrog Toys, Sims 2, 3 and 4 video games or numerous radio ads. Eliezer teaches throughout the Bay Area and maintains a private coaching practice. She holds a BA Cum Laude from SFSU, a certificate in Sound, Voice Music Healing from CIIS and is a certified yoga instructor.