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Connecting

communities

through

Culture From Israel

BAMAH helps communities design meaningful experiences that harness the power of culture from Israel to inspire and connect people of all ages, genders, racial identities, and backgrounds.

about us

BAMAH is an independent non-profit arts platform providing opportunities for artists from Israel to develop and teach their work; promote creative innovation, mutual respect, and understanding; and inspire a more inclusive, respectful, and tolerant society.

We work with artists from Israel of all disciplines and of all religions, ethnicities, races, gender identities and expressions, physical and mental abilities, political persuasions, and national identities. We raise our annual budget from private individuals and foundations without government support.

Our values

We believe Israel is a hub of creative inspiration for people of all identities and backgrounds.

We believe artists are the vanguard of new ideas and movements, and that cultural exchange creates meaningful, transformative encounters that increase tolerance, connection, and understanding between people.

We believe in freedom of speech and artistic expression.

Our vision

“Works of art are the only silver bullet we have
against racism and sexism and hatred.”

Lin-Manuel Miranda

BAMAH Is deeply committed to a culture of collaboration, equity, and inclusion, ensuring access and an equal opportunity for all individuals and communities to take part in and experience our mission at work. Given our vision to bridge divisions between individuals and groups through dialogue that is meaningful, empathetic, and constructive, we are consciously inclusive about representation in the cohorts and communities we engage, and aspire to involve artists and audiences who reflect the extraordinary diversity of American and Israeli societies.

BAMAH Is deeply committed to a culture of collaboration, equity, and inclusion, ensuring access and an equal opportunity for all individuals and communities to take part in and experience our mission at work. Given our vision to bridge divisions between individuals and groups through dialogue that is meaningful, empathetic, and constructive, we are consciously inclusive about representation in the cohorts and communities we engage, and aspire to involve artists and audiences who reflect the extraordinary diversity of American and Israeli societies.

SIGNATURE INITIATIVE

The Visiting Israeli Artists Program

The Visiting Israeli Artists Program fosters cultural exchange between Israel’s most creative thinkers and practitioners, and North American communities.

Over the past 15 years, the program has brought more than 130 acclaimed artists from Israel in film/tv, theatre, dance, music, visual arts, and literature to North America, nurturing high levels of sustained interaction with students, campuses, and communities. Through semester-long, full-credit academic arts courses, Visiting Artists create space for students and community members to engage with Israel and/or narratives from Israel in and beyond the classroom, facilitating complex, meaningful, in-depth discussions on Israeli society and culture that go beyond the headlines.

While in residence, artists develop and/or co-create projects that engage the campus and broader community. In addition, they are encouraged to initiate and participate in additional masterclasses, lectures, exhibitions, readings, and events in and beyond their host campuses and communities. Through these multiple and layered engagements, the program fosters high levels of sustained interaction between Israeli artists-in-residence and the local campuses and communities where they are based, creating opportunities for mutual learning, dialogue, discourse, and understanding.

Board Members

Flo Low

Founding Executive Director, she/her

Flo Low is an entrepreneurial program manager and creative producer with 10+ years of experience developing, managing, and evaluating high-impact programs at the intersection of culture, education, and social impact. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama with an MFA in Theater Management, she produced “Four Minutes from the Frontlines,” a series of animated documentary shorts about COVID-19, and a reading tour of COME MY BELOVED, a new play about the shared history and future of Black and Jewish communities in the United States. Flo has worked at the La Jolla Playhouse, the Joint Distribution Committee, and the Jewish Agency, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from both Barnard College and The Jewish Theological Seminary.

Taylor Barfield

Founding Board Member, he/him

Taylor Barfield is a dramaturg, writer, and theater artist from Baltimore, MD. Taylor served as the Acting Literary Manager at Yale Repertory Theatre and the Literary Manager for Two River Theater. Before that he served as the Associate Artistic Director at Collaboraction Theatre Company in Chicago, IL. He received his M.F.A. in Dramaturgy from Yale School of Drama and his B.A. in Molecular/Cellular Biology and English Literature from Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a D.F.A. candidate at Yale School of Drama where his dissertation explores how contemporary Black American playwrights re-imagine and re-stage Black theater history.

Shai Korman

Founding Board Member, he/him

Shai Korman is the Director of Communications at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) where he leads media, digital, and event strategy to advance the Center’s mission of developing innovative and pragmatic national security policies. He spent twelve years at the U.S. Department of State working in public affairs and communications roles, including Director of the Office of International Media Engagement. Shai is the founder of P4T Media, a consulting firm specializing in strategic and crisis communications, media training, virtual event production, and content creation. He also sits on the board of Camp Young Judea Sprout Lake, and co-created and co-hosts with his sisters the weekly pop-culture podcast, Friday Night Movie.

Melissa Young

Founding Board Member, she/her

Melissa Young is the founder and CEO of May Strategies. Melissa national leadership shapes awareness, discussion, and action around economic justice as a key driver in ending poverty and realizing racial justice. Her efforts galvanize federal, state, and local public policy and systems change, catalyze investments in proven solutions, and foster emerging solutions. She’s conceived and launched several first-in-the-nation coalitions, national learning and action hubs, and advocacy campaigns. Melissa’s sits on variety of national leadership tables alongside a myriad of public and private stakeholders. She has written extensively about policy and system drivers of inequity and poverty.

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