Upcoming events
Alicia Jo Rabins, the singer-songwriter-Torah-teacher behind Girls in Trouble, tours internationally performing Girls in Trouble songs – sometimes solo, sometimes with a band – in venues ranging from rock clubs to living rooms to synagogues.
She also performs her poetry, teaches about women in Torah and other topics, offers creative workshops, and offers talkbacks and screenings of her recent independent musical feature film, A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff.
Please visit Alicia’s website for tour dates (for Girls in Trouble as well as other projects)!
Selected past events
Dec 12 – Alicia performs and teaches at URJ Biennial, Chicago IL
Sessions at 2:00 and 3:45pm
Open to registered conference attendees.
Dec 12 – Evening, Chicago: public poetry reading/performance
with Aviya Kushner & Amaia Gabanxto
@ Gallery 1070, 1070 W Granville Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
7:30 pm, free and open to the public, Alicia will play some Girls in Trouble songs
*Located right off the Granville El on the Red Line*
http://www.edgewaterartists.
January 2020
New Girls in Trouble Curriculum units soft launch: Yael and Deborah, Rebecca, Serakh bat Asher, Noah’s wife, and Lot’s wife!
January 27 + 28 – lecture & performance in Denver, CO
details coming shortly
May 13-17: UNC Asheville + Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center – Faith in Arts Institute
Four days of workshops, artist talks, readings, performances, exhibitions, contemplative practice and conversation.
To join, pre-register here!
May 18-27: Readings and performances in Israel: Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and elsewhere
please get in touch if you’d like to book Alicia for an appearance in the region!
July 28-30 – Alicia performs and teaches at NewCAJE
Portland, OR
More info here
Summer 2019
New Girls in Trouble units launch: Potiphar’s wife, Samson’s first wife, Hagar, the Israelite Women in Egypt, Wise-Hearted Women, Woman of Valor/Eishet Chayil
Tuesday, April 16 – Alicia teaches webinar on Girls in Trouble curriculum
1-2 pm ET, online and open to all
Passover edition webinar on the Israelite Women in Egypt, through URJ (Union for Reform Judaism)
A Sex-Positive Midrash on the Exodus, exploring the Rabbinic Midrash of the Israelite women who saved their people by seducing their husbands beneath the trees.
free and open to all.
Sunday, February 23 – NYC premiere of documentary film by Alicia
NYC premiere of Chavruta: A Drummer’s Bat Mitzvah + performance + Q&A!
@ Town and Village Synagogue, 334 E 14th St
7 pm Havdala ceremony led by Jewish Priestess Kohenet Shamirah (aka Sarah Chandler)
7:30 pm Film screening (see trailer here) + Q&A with Alicia and Lisa
8 pm short performances by Alicia & Lisa + celebration!
$5-20 Sliding scale, open to all
Monday, January 28 – Girls in Trouble performance in Palo Alto
Solo Girls in Trouble show + open mic
@ “Culture Grinds”, Kehillah Jewish High School
7 pm, free & open to the public, details here
January 19-20 – Girls in Trouble performance at Limmud Seattle
Bellevue College, Seattle, WA
Alicia reads & performs at Limmud Seattle
2018
December 23-27 – Girls in Trouble performance at Limmud Festival UK
Birmingham, UK
Alicia reads & performs at Limmud Festival UK!
Sunday, November 25 – Alicia’s poetry book launch reading in Baltimore
Book launch reading for Alicia’s poetry book Fruit Geode
at The Ivy Bookshop
6080 Falls Road
Baltimore, MD 21209
5 pm, free and open to the public ** note this is an afternoon reading**
Sunday, October 28 – Alicia’s poetry book launch in NYC
Book launch for Alicia’s poetry book Fruit Geode
14th St Y Theatre, 344 E 14th St
An evening of Jewish Women Writers from the West
with novelist Rebecca Clarren & poet Lynn Melnick
Q&A to follow
free and open to public, RSVP requested
doors 6:30, reading starts at 7 pm
Wednesday July 18 – Poetry reading by Alicia in Portland, OR
Alicia reads poetry at Mother Foucaults Bookshop
523 SE Morrison St.
Portland, OR
7 pm
Free
May 17 – Girls in Trouble performance in Los Angeles
7pm
Part of an evening presented by the Christian podcast Drunk Girls Bible Study at Emerson College, Los Angeles (in Hollywood).
April 25 – Alicia teaches webinar on Girls in Trouble curriculum
1-2 pm ET, online and open to all
Webinar on female agency in the Torah, through Jewish Women’s Archive
Exploring female power in Torah through Sotah and the Daughters of Tzelofchad
(+ the Girls in Trouble songs about those characters!)
free and open to all, register here
March 6 – Girls in Trouble performance at UNC Asheville
Hosted by the Center for Jewish Studies, UNC Asheville. During the evening, Alicia will perform and discuss some of her music, read original poems, and talk about her work.
Location: Humanities Lecture Hall at UNC Asheville
Free and open to the public
More info here.
Feb 18 – Girls in Trouble (solo show + Alicia teaching) at Limmud NY
Princeton NJ
more details here
Jan 27 – Girls in Trouble (duo show) in Portland Oregon
9 pm
2017
May-Nov – Alicia’s music in artist Hadassa Goldvicht’s video installation in Venice, Italy
Alicia’s music in Hadassa Goldvicht’s video installation
The House of Life
Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy
Nov 16th – Solo acoustic performance in Western Mass
Red Barn at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
8pm
5 college students free; RSVP to ebSA@hampshire.edu; donations accepted by cash or check at the door
Nov 11 – Solo acoustic performance in Portland
Solo acoustic performance @ Wordstock (Portland’s Book Festival)
Modern & Contemporary Art galleries, Portland Art Museum
11:15-11:45 am, included with $15-18 Wordstock admission
More info here
Sept 11 – Poetry as Spiritual Autobiography Workshop in Portland
Poetry as Spiritual Autobiography: A Generative Workshop
Through Mountain Writers
Multnomah Friends Meeting House, 4312 SE Stark, Portland
6-9 pm, $95, open to all levels
info & sign up here
Aug 16 – Poetry Reading with Alicia Jo Rabins & Allison Tobey in Portland
Through Mountain Writers
@ Ford Food and Drink, 2505 SE 11th Ave, Portland, OR
7:30 pm, free!
May 23 – Girls in Trouble solo performance and teacher training event in LA
The Box@ SIJCC
Doors 7:00pm
Tickets: $10 (include one hour cocktail reception hosted by YALA)
Free workshop for educators beforehand
May 18 – Alicia teaches webinar on Girls in Trouble curriculum
Through Jewish Women’s Archive
Featuring a unit from the GIT Curriculum
Teacher training focus, but relevant to anyone interested in women in Torah
One hour, free and open to all
More details and registration here
March 28 – Alicia performs and teaches about the story of Miriam in NYC
Learning session with live song as part of “The Bible: The Greatest Stories Ever Told” series
The Temple Emanu-el Streicker Center, Upper East Side
$99 for full eight-part series, $25 for one class
February 26 – Girls in Trouble Duo Performance at Limmud Miami
February 6 – Alicia performs Girls in Trouble songs with Torah study in Chicago
Orot Center for New Jewish Learning
7 PM, $20 General Admission, $10 for high school students
2016
November 20 – Alicia performs Girls in Trouble songs in NYC
Girls in Trouble solo set @ the Sunday Salon Reading Series
7-9 pm, East Village, at Jimmy’s No. 43, free
w/writers Karissa Chen, Leland Cheuk, Laura McDermott, Peter Orner
November 19 – Alicia performs Girls in Trouble songs in Northampton
Havdalah Concert: Girls in Trouble solo + poems
6:30-7:30 concert, $5-10 sliding scale, open to the public!
Congregation Bnai Israel, 253 Prospect St
Northampton, MA
November 14 – Alicia performs at the GA conference in DC
A mini-plenary called “Performing Jewish.” Alicia performs Girls in Trouble songs, poems, and answers questions about bringing Jewish traditions to life through art.
Note: open only to conference attendees; stop by, GA folks!
2:30 PM
Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Ave NW
Oct 21-22 – Asheville, NC – Festival of Literature and Faith
Alicia performs and reads at the Faith in Literature Festival
See schedule of events for times
Free, open to the public
UNC Asheville, 1 University Heights, Asheville, NC
October 13 – Alicia at Portland State of Mind: Performance and Q&A
Alicia performs poems and songs and answers questions about Judaism, gender, poetry and music for Portland State of Mind at PSU
4 PM, free and open to the public
Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 333
1825 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR
Sept 22 – Los Angeles – Solo Girls in Trouble show by Alicia
$15
Skirball Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Thursday Sept 15 – Online/everywhere – Jewish Women’s Archive webinar with Alicia
Hannah Raises her Voice: A webinar with Alicia Jo Rabins
Offered through our friends at the wonderful Jewish Women’s Archive, who are also hosting short song-only versions of the Girls in Trouble Curriculum on their site.
1-2 pm ET/10-11 am PT.
June 21 – Bay Area – Girls in Trouble solo show
Girls in Trouble songs, with storytelling
to celebrate the launch of the Girls in Trouble Curriculum!
at Peninsula Jewish Community Center
800 Foster City Blvd, Foster City, CA 94404
6:30 pm
free & open to the public!
Throughout spring 2016 – Portland, Oregon – pilot teaching
Girls In Trouble Curriculum Pilot Teaching
Open to all adults, class meets on Mondays through June.
Please contact Havurah Shalom in Portland, OR for more information.
April 20 – Online/everywhere – Jewish Women’s Archive webinar with Alicia
Miriam in the Desert: A webinar with Alicia Jo Rabins
Offered through our friends at the wonderful Jewish Women’s Archive, who are also hosting short song-only versions of the Girls in Trouble Curriculum on their site.
From JWA: “JWA is thrilled to be partnering with Alicia Jo Rabins, writer, composer, performer, and Jewish educator, to present her new curriculum based on her song cycle about Biblical women, Girls in Trouble. During this online learning program, Alicia will introduce the curriculum, and will focus specifically on her lesson about Miriam…just in time for Passover! The lesson focuses not on Miriam’s celebrated moment at the sea, but on a difficult episode later in her life; through art and song, we will consider how the fullness of Miriam’s story might reflect the complexity of our own lives. This program has been designed with an educator audience in mind, but anyone who is interested is encouraged to participate.”
Registration is free and open to all; sign up here.
Portland: Wednesday April 20
Girls in Trouble solo set
with The Oo-Ray and Lili and the Dirty Moccasins
at The Waypost
3120 N Williams Ave, Portland Oregon
7:30 pm show, Alicia plays at 8
$5 suggested donation
April 2 – Los Angeles – An evening with Alicia Jo Rabins
Girls In Trouble Songs & Poems
@ Paper or Plastik,
5772 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90019
8 pm doors/8:30 show
$10 adv/$15 door, tickets here
presented by IKAR
February 27 – Duo Show w/Larry Yes
At Living Room Realty,
SE office 2625 SE 26th Avenue, Portland.
House concert style.
(Yes it’s at a Real Estate office! They are hip.)
2015
Nov 14 – Brooklyn, NY – Album Release Show at the Living Room!
Full band show @ The Living Room, Williamsburg, 7-9 pm w/David Freeman on drums
(Beginning and end times are sharp: we go on at 8:15 on the dot and end at 9 on the dot!)
This show is free! Tip jar will be passed.
Alicia’s book and the new Girls in Trouble album will be available for purchase.
Nov 16 – CAMBRIDGE, MA – Harvard University Performance
BOOK LAUNCH READING + GIRLS IN TROUBLE DUO, CAMBRIDGE, MA
@ Harvard U Hillel’s Rosovsky Hall, 7 pm, free
presented by Harvard Office for the Arts Learning from Performers Series, Woodberry Poetry Room, Jewish Women’s Archive, and Harvard Hillel
Alicia’s book and the new Girls in Trouble album will be available for purchase. More info here.
Nov 19 – Brooklyn NY – Album launch concert
THURSDAY NOV 19: BROOKLYN
ALICIA PERFORMS MUSIC & POETRY AT KOLOT CHAYEINU, BROOKLYN
Duo Girls in Trouble show w/poetry and feminist Torah storytelling @ Kolot Chayeinu Synagogue, Park Slope, Brooklyn
$10 / cover, @ Church of Gethsemane, 1012 8th Avenue, Brooklyn
Doors @ 7pm, Concert @ 7:30pm
Alicia’s book and the new Girls in Trouble album will be available for purchase.
October 10 – Berkeley, CA – Album Launch @ Urban Adamah
SATURDAY OCTOBER 10: GIRLS IN TROUBLE RELEASE SHOW IN BERKELEY
in the Urban Adamah farm tent, what could be better?
7:30 pm, free! canned good donations welcomed
August 15 – Girls in Trouble Duo on a Farm in Washington State
SUNDAY AUGUST 15, 2015: GIRLS IN TROUBLE DUO @ HELSING JUNCTION SLEEPOVER
Girls in Trouble return to perform at this beautiful organic farm festival
held by K Records! We play at noon.
Details here
August 31 – San Diego – Yom Limmud
Girls in Trouble performance & a morning teacher training session by Alicia
GIT plays at 2:15 pm
at Limmud San Diego, San Diego JCC
Details here
