Jewish Pessimisms and Futurisms: A Live Conversation

Event Details • 📅 November 5, 2026 • 🕖 7:00–8:30 PM • Doors open at 6:30 PM • Program starts promptly at 7:00 PM • There will be time before and after the conversation to explore the exhibition! • 📍 Nicholas Martin Hall, Boston Center for the Arts • 🎟️ Free, RSVP Required. Donations encouraged • 🖼️ Full group exhibition on view in person October 27 - November 8, 2026 and online beginning October 27, 2026 Rather than staging a debate between pessimism and futurism, this intimate conversation brings together a small group of practitioners, thinkers, and artists to explore how these frameworks interact with and illuminate one another, and the range of questions they force us to contend with. Join Becca Leviss, Jordan Berg Powers, and Nate DeGroot, to explore how frameworks of pessimism, futurism, and imagination shape this moment in Jewish life, and what they reveal about the futures we build. This event is free and open to the public; however, RSVPs are required due to capacity constraints. Donations to support the exhibition and future programming are welcome and appreciated. The Judeofuturism Project is a multidisciplinary initiative supporting Jewish futures rooted in imagination, resilience, and collective thriving. We ask: What becomes possible beyond survival? How can communities think long-term? And what can Jewish wisdom offer a world in transformation? The Judeofuturism Project believes Jewish communities have always been futures-builders. Our mission is to recover, practice, and amplify that capacity, connecting the people, tools and ideas needed to strengthen our infrastructure of imagination for this moment and beyond