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WBAI 99.5 FM Folio November 1986 [[image - painting of a cat]] 15th annual WBAI Holiday Crafts Fair set for three weekends prior to Christmas The 15th Annual WBAI Holiday Crafts Fair, the oldest and largest Winter crafts market place in America, will be taking place during the three weekends immediately prior to Christmas, Friday through Sunday, December 5-7, 12-14 and December 19-21. As always, the WBAI Crafts Fair will be taking place in Columbia University's Ferris Booth Hall (the home of this event for the last decade), which is located at 115th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. The Fair is open to the public on Fridays from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m., and from Noon to 7:00 p.m. each of the three Saturdays and Sundays. Over 300 carefully-selected professional craftspeople from over 30 states— selected from over 2,000 applicants —will be displaying and selling their own handmade work. The two full floors of crafts will feature shopping items and gift ideas to tempt everyone, including: ceramics, jewelry, handmade wearables, leather, blown glass, woodworking, homefurnishings and housewares, musical instruments, basketry, quilts and tapestries, and much more. Fantasy or practical, there will be work for every age, taste and pocketbook (prices range from $1.50 up to the many thousands of dollars). There will be different craftspeople exhibiting each of the weeks of the show, so each Fair will be a different visual and shopping experience! Many rare and diverse crafts will also be represented at this year's Fair, including pewter, handmade puppets and marionettes, bookbinding, scrimshaw (carving on bone and ivory), wood and metal kaleidoscopes, blown glass, fiber and paper jewelry, musical instruments (guitars, dulcimers, flutes, whistles, African melodic slit drums and ocarinas), handmade reproductions of 17th Century scientific instruments (telescopes, sun dials, barometers, and so on), paper masks and wall hangings, metal fireplace equipment, brooms and feather dusters, wooden miniature replicas of early model cars, and much more. In addition to the many thousands of handmade crafts for sale at the 15th Anual WBAI Holiday Crafts Fair, there will be assorted homemade foods, desserts, and refreshments available. Live entertainment will be provided by the comedy/juggling duo known as "Two Complete Fools," acappella singers, and others. The poster for this year's Crafts Fair was designed by noted theatrical graphic artist, Gilbert Lesser. Transportation to the WBAI Crafts Fair includes the IRT Seventh Avenue local train (the no. 1) to 116th Street and Broadway, as well as the M104, M4 and M5 buses on Broadway. Good parking is also available in the Columbia University area. Admission to the 15th Annual WBAI Holiday Crafts Fair is $5.00 per person with all proceeds going to benefit non-commercial listener-supported radio station, WBAI-FM (99.5 in New York City). Additionally, for a $10 admission charge, Fairgoers will gain unlimited entry to the show for any and all days of their choice. For more information, please call WBAI at(212) 297-0707 or (212) 695-4465, weekdays between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. [[5 images - homemade works]] The Grand Dame of Yiddish Song [[image - photograph]] Lin Yaldati was born in the Jewish Quarter of Amsterdam in 1912. At 12 she left school in order to take care of her parents' household. They were factory workers. Two years later she also went to work in a factory and attended dance classes after wrok. It was in a Layman's Yiddish Theater that she first sang Yiddish songs. During the Thirties she studied and worked with the Netherlands Ballet, and an Agit-Prop group, In 1938 she met and began to work with the German pianist-musicololgist Eberhard Rebling, who had gone to Holland and had begun to work in the underground. Their musical collaboration resulted in an evening of Yiddish songs and dances. By the end of April 1940 they were performing a program called "An Offer to a Foreign Land" with great success. Holland fell to the Nazis two weeks later, and they both began to work for the illegal resistance. They were not able to get married because of the Nuremberg Nazi laws. Two years later, in May 1942, the Reblings and their year-old daughter entered the underground, worked as couriers and gave illegal concerts featuring Yiddish songs. Yaldati was arrested in July 1944, underwent three days of interrogation, was imprisoned in Amsterdam and then transported to concentration camps: Westerbork, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, where she sang for her fellow prisoners and met Margot and Anne Frank. Yaldati was freed in 1945. Six weeks after her liberation she found her family. Rebling had been condemned to death, but managed to escape. Yaldati and her sister were the only survivors of their family. At the end of 1945 Lin appeared again in concerts, singing Yiddish resistance songs she had heard in the concentration camps. (continued next page) WBAI-FM PACIFICA RADIO 505 EIGHTH AVENUE NEW YORK, N.Y. 10018 ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED Postmaster Dated Material NON-PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID NEW YORK, N.Y. PERMIT 5639
