Thursday, September 30, 2010, 6:30-9pm
Peter Max Studio
37 West 65th Street, 7th Floor
Between Columbus & Central Park West, New York City
Mary and Peter Max will host a benefit for United Poultry Concerns and the Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos on Thursday evening, September
30th at the Peter Max Studio from 6:30 to 9pm. The evening will include delicious vegan food, including kosher vegan food from some
of NYC’s finest restaurants, the art of Peter Max, and the opportunity to help end the practice of swinging and slaughtering chickens in
Kaporos rituals – a custom preceding Yom Kippur in which chickens are ritually sacrificed in some Orthodox Jewish communities.
Karen Davis, PhD, President of United Poultry Concerns & Founder of the Alliance to End Chickens
as Kaporos, will give a presentation about the formation of the Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos, talk about the sweetness of chickens, and
show a delightful video – “Chickens At Play” – about the rescued chickens at United Poultry Concerns’ sanctuary
in Virginia.
Rina Deych, Brooklyn resident, animal activist and a Founding Member of the Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos, will present a short video of her courageous filming of a Kaporos ritual site in Brooklyn, NY. Rina has spent twenty years doing one-person
demonstrations at places where chickens are swung and slaughtered. Rina will talk about her orthodox grandfather, a kosher butcher in Boro Park
in the 1920s, who opposed the use of chickens in Kaporos rituals as well as the mindset of individuals who continue this practice.
Carol Moon, dedicated NYC animal activist and musician, and singer Joy Askew, will sing their own, creative versions of Donna, Donna and Mazel, and the choral group, Veggie Voices, will sing two
songs including We Will Not Be Silent. Songs will be adapted to the plight of chickens.
Mary and
Peter Max
will personally welcome people to their beautiful studio filled with the great art of Peter Max. Members of the press are cordially invited to
attend this special evening in which magnificent art and compassionate activism join forces to help chickens.
The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos is a project of United Poultry Concerns, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the compassionate
and respectful treatment of domestic fowl (
www.upc-online.org
). The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos is an association of compassionate groups and individuals who seek to replace the cruel practice
of swinging and slaughtering chickens in Kaporos rituals with mercy and charity in the true spirit of religious atonement.
www.EndChickensAsKaporos.com
