The 1st annual WBUR Festival is a taste of the New Yorker Festival in Boston, featuring top talent like Anthony Fauci, Ophira Eisenberg, Ira Glass and more. Nestled amongst this top talent is a performance by CJP x JArts Community Creative Fellow Neta Weiner, Israeli hip hop artist and performer. Neta performs at 3:15 PM.
This is a program of the The Community Creative Fellowship, powered by CJP and JArts, launched in 2020 to bring fresh Jewish inspiration to our community by supporting local Jewish artists in creating new works that explore Jewish identity.
Neta Weiner
Neta Weiner is a musician, actor, and director based in Jaffa. He is the founder, lead singer, and accordionist of System Ali, a multilingual Jewish-Arab Hip-Hop project. Weiner is also the artistic director of the Beit System Ali social educational movement. He has created several critically acclaimed and award-winning plays that have been produced for festivals and significant theaters worldwide. As an actor, he has appeared in several Israeli films and television shows and wrote the soundtrack for the anticipated series "Madrase". Weiner released his second solo album, "PINUI BINUI" last year, written in Hebrew, Arabic, Yiddish, and English. Additionally, he has been practicing martial arts for over 20 years and is a licensed teacher of Wing Tsun Kung Fu.
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