Kleztronica Hannuka

Upstate NY's first-ever Kleztronica dance party, hosted at CBS by Adam Tinkle, Liz McKee and Daniel Micah Morrissey. Electronic music composer and performer Chaia (NYC) is stopping in to help Troy celebrate the festival of lights by turning CBS's sanctuary into a dancefloor!

3 p.m. DJ Mercy

5 p.m. Havdallah and Hannukah candle lighting ritual + dance performance

5:30 p.m. Learn an original Hannukah-themed line dance, led by Lo Ryder (Lauraly Grossman)

6 p.m. DJ Chaia

A celebration of our Jewish "hereness" in this moment and place, we bring you a party prayerfully oriented to an anticolonial future where Jews and their friends can share in cultural expressions old, new and invented, blending tradition with experimentation to revel in our diasporic Jewishness.

About Chaia

Chaia weaves archival Yiddish audio with techno and ambient frameworks, creating hybrid folk-electronic compositions that situate ancestral sound within global and liberatory rave culture. In live performance, she brings together accordion, vocals, and samples, inviting audiences to engage with ritual and the echoes of ancestral memory. Chaia was raised in the klezmer tradition and mentored by Yiddish music pioneers Hankus Netsky, Jeff Warschauer, and Basya Schechter. She works closely with Yiddish archives to identify, highlight, and catalog material for her electronic work. In her current work, including her Tang Museum installation, she highlights audio archives, newly digitized by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, of the Jewish Labor Bund, the radical socialist movement that advocated for workers' rights, secular Yiddish culture, and solidarity across national and ethnic boundaries. The Bund's vision of doikayt—Yiddish for "hereness," or the principle of building a meaningful Jewish life wherever one lives—offered an alternative to nationalism rooted in territorial belonging. Chaia's sound installation, Yiddishland on the Move highlights the Bund's decadeslong commitment to anti-Zionism, and collages movement leaders' voices, political and poetic with song and ambient sound,. The installation remains up (through Jan 4 2027) at the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, and Chaia will also appear in dialogue with Molly Crabapple, best-selling author of the Bund history Here Where We Live is Our Country at Skidmore on Dec 6: https://tang.skidmore.edu/calendar/3005-yiddishland-on-the-move.