Eve Sicular

Eve Sicular is drummer, bandleader and founder of Metropolitan Klezmer (octet) and Isle of Klezbos (sextet). The versatile bands have toured internationally, as well as having recordings featured by shows from The Royal Ballet in London to The L Word on Showtime. Her research on queer subtext in Yiddish cinema and related topics has appeared in publications including Davka, Mix, Lilith, Jewish Folklore & Ethnology Review, Queer Jews, and When Joseph Met Molly: A Reader on Yiddish Film. Since 1994, she has presented her “Celluloid Closet of Yiddish Film” clips-lecture at a wide assortment of festivals, colleges, media and community venues throughout North America and Europe. She is a former curator of film and photo archives at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York, and was on staff for The Museum of Modern Art’s landmark retrospective, “Yiddish Film: Between Two Worlds.” She has also worked as a film & video archivist for the Warhol Foundation as well as doing refugee resettlement casework for Soviet émigrés. She formed Popcorn Sister Productions while living in Seattle to produce such gay cultural multi-media presenters as Vito Russo and Allan Berube. A graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe in History & Literature of Russia, she wrote her thesis, “Ideology & Montage,” on the early work of pioneering Soviet documentarian Esther Shub. Her own film work has included the animated musical short “Vegetable Rag.” A two-time Outmusic Award-winner for CDs produced on Rhythm Media Records, she is currently completing Metropolitan Klezmer’s fourth release, “Traveling Show,” an all-live recording out in time for Pesakh 2007. Full details and video footage are also available at: http://myspace.com/metroklez.