Game On! Open Court Ping-Pong Pop-Up Opening Event

Join the Jewish Museum of Maryland for the opening of Open Court: Ping-Pong Pop-Up, an experiential pop-up installation transforming the Museum’s Cohen Weinberg Gallery into a community ping-pong venue featuring three tables, scoreboards, spectator bleachers, a vibrant super graphic wall treatment, and customized ping-pong balls.

Featuring graphic design by Bruce Willen, Open Court is inspired by the deep history of Jewish ping-pong playing from backyards, youth groups, summer camps, and play during Shabbat, to the highest levels of the International Table Tennis Federation competition.

Learn more about the installation, see an anticipated ping-pong match between JMM Executive Director Sol Davis and Isaac Simon, and try your hand (and paddle!) at the sport!

Isaac Simon serves as the Internship Programs Manager at the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. Isaac is a trained archivist and Holocaust educator with an MA in History and MLS in Library Science from Queens College (CUNY). For the past five years he has worked for the noted writer and jazz historian, Gary Giddins, as both a research assistant on his upcoming biography of George Gershwin, as well as a cataloguer of his personal papers. His research interests have dealt with Holocaust memorials, memory, and the history of Holocaust education in the United States. Isaac acted in the recently released A24 film Marty Supreme in the role of Roger, a cocky amateur table tennis player who is hustled by Timothée Chalamet’s Marty Mauser.

1:30 PM Program opening + Isaac Simon v. Sol Davis ping-pong match-up

2:00 PM Open play

3:30 PM Program closing

4:00 PM Museum closing

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