Join us for a night of live theater and music in the Chocolate Church Arts Center Annex as The Magid Ensemble welcomes us into a world of paper cut art, story, and song. Shterna & The Lost Voice is the debut theatrical project of the Magid Ensemble, transporting audiences into the rich world of Yiddish folklore. Developed through rigorous research on Eastern-European Jewish folklore, this immersive storytelling production follows Shterna on an epic hero’s journey, through the living world, the underworld, and the immortal world, in order to retrieve the lost voice of her friend. Narration unfolds alongside a stunning papercut crankie (a long scroll wound onto two spools that illustrates the story as it unwinds) and is accompanied by a live original klezmer music score. Shterna & The Lost Voice is a highly engaging 50-minute storytelling performance suitable for audiences of all ages. The Magid Ensemble (magid, meaning “storyteller” in Yiddish) is a new collaboration featuring award-winning klezmer musicians and composers Mattias Kaufmann, Raffi Boden, and Rachel Leader, Yiddishist and storyteller Weaver, and visual artist Kiah Raymond. The Magid Ensemble explores the interplay of sound, story, light, and shadow to create expressive and immersive storytelling landscapes.

Shterna & The Lost Voice is a highly engaging 50-minute storytelling performance suitable for audiences of all ages!

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗱 𝗘𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗲 (𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘥, meaning “storyteller” in Yiddish) is a new collaboration featuring award-winning klezmer musicians and composers Mattias Kaufmann, Raffi Boden, and Rachel Leader, Yiddishist and storyteller Weaver, and visual artist Kiah Raymond. The Magid Ensemble explores the interplay of sound, story, light, and shadow to create expressive and immersive storytelling landscapes.