Collective Escape
April 10–20
A love letter to California.
Free, bold, connected.
Slowly, slowly, the senses awaken.
Ten years of Collective Escape
In 2016 NuRoots imagined Passover as a weeklong East Hollywood popup, bringing together artists, performers, and young adults from everywhere in L.A., making something personal, local, transformative, new.
Collective Escape became a tradition, a citywide festival, a week of experiences with beloved partners and friends. Each one creates culture and community, tells a story, expresses an emotion, opens the window of imagination.
With Base L.A., Beth Chayim Chadashim, The Braid, Der Nister, Ikar, Jewish Studio Project, Jewtina y Co., Lunar Collective, OneTable, Repair the World, and Trybal Gatherings
Passover, the story of our relationship with nature, renewal. Freedom revealing itself, revealing ourselves. The heart of the season. A profound strength. Life affirming, love filled. From a narrow place, to the future. It’s in this spirit that NuRoots shares Collective Escape.
OUR ECHO
A night of sound & ritual
to open the festival
THURSDAY, APRIL 10
VERDUGO HILLS, GLENDALE
Join us for a feast of nature. Sun and stars, friends and family, bread in our bellies, symbols on our skin. Profound sound, woven together, the rhythm of us. In the Verdugo hills, a private outdoor camp is the perfect place for our escape. At the heart is the memory of Miriam, leading the way, setting us free.
Limited tickets through 4.2
Special Gen Z pricing
SUPERHOST
SUPERBLOOM
Two nights of seders
with NuRoots & OneTable
SATURDAY, APRIL 12
SUNDAY, APRIL 13
Spring to the fullest. As a Collective Escape superhost, you’ll receive everything you need to make an extraordinary seder — gift cards on us and a creative community to bring your gathering to life.
BASE L.A.
BACKYARD SEDER
SATURDAY 4.12
MID CITY
Join Base L.A. to explore what it means to be Jewish, what it means to be free, and what twenty first century Jews can do with a thousands year old ritual. Bring your questions, bring your stories, bring your friends — we’ll journey through the Haggadah together, exploring an ancient tale of liberation.
FOOD JUSTICE
MEAL PREP
SUNDAY 4.13
LINCOLN HEIGHTS
Passover emphasizes reflection, resilience, and liberation. Join Repair the World to extend these concepts to food justice — an ethical call to care for one another, address hunger and inequality, and advocate for a more compassionate society, where every person can partake in the blessings of sustenance and dignity.
In this spirit, we invite you to come help our friends at Project Angel Food prepare and package some of the three thousand meals they make each day for the local community.
FROM A
NARROW PLACE
SUNDAY 4.13
GLENDALE
Jewish Studio Project invites you to an immersive half day retreat, drawing on the power of our inherent creativity — through text study, intuitive art making, and reflective writing — to uncover fresh insights into Passover's timeless call for personal healing and collective liberation.
OUR SEDER,
OUR STORIES
SUNDAY 4.13
CHEVIOT HILLS
The tradition continues for a fourth year! Lunar Collective invites Asian Jews and their guests to experience Passover in an enchanting backyard space. Once again, their celebrated haggadah will be the centerpiece, a pathway to share stories around the table, combining traditional rituals, interpretive readings, and Asian American Jewish perspectives.
SECOND NIGHT
WITH TRIBE
SUNDAY 4.13
MID CITY
Ikar is a community rooted in progressive, justice oriented Judaism, and the Passover seder — a ritual incorporating tradition, teaching, and community — is a perfect match. Join TRIBE, their 20s and 30s group, for an inclusive and accessible second night seder.
AGUAS
LIBERADORAS
TUESDAY 4.15
VENICE BEACH
As the ancient waters parted to reveal a path to freedom, Jewtina y Co. invites Latin Jewish community members and loved ones to part from the ordinary and step into the extraordinary.
Hosted with Maaleh Hayim — and celebrating the release of Jewtina and Mayyim Hayyim’s trilingual mikvah guide — a unique heritage will attune our souls to the profound healing that can take place through water. Gather where land meets ocean, reimagining the ancient mikvah ritual bath, connecting us with ancestors who once crossed their own impossible seas. Like Miriam's well, nourishing us with liberation, we'll emerge, de nuevo, new again.
QUEER & COZY
TRIVIA NIGHT
WEDNESDAY 4.16
MID CITY
All are welcome to join Beth Chayim Chadashim, the world’s first LGBTQIA+ synagogue, for a relaxing holiday evening with inclusive cocktails, light bites, Jewish and queer trivia, and Passover themed prizes.
SONGS OF
LIBERATION
THURSDAY 4.17
DOWNTOWN L.A.
Join Der Nister for a brilliant night of performances — headlined by klezmer group Mostly Kosher and singer songwriter Gidon — followed by festive food and drinks.
STORYTELLING
DISCO
SATURDAY 4.19
SANTA MONICA
Let loose with The Braid in a magical night of meaning and movement — hearing and sharing true stories of personal exodus, and continuing the journey on the dance floor.
PICKLEBALLS &
MATZAH BALLS
SUNDAY 4.20
SANTA MONICA
Join Trybal Gatherings and a top national Pickleball instructor for a round robin tournament — whether beginner or pro, all are welcome. Between matches, step into an outdoor kitchen to learn how to make perfect matzah balls with a local chef.
MIMOUNA
WITH TRIBE
SUNDAY 4.20
MID CITY
Close out the festival with Ikar in an exuberant, traditional Moroccan end to Passover — with delicious moufletas and pastries, henna tattoos, and belly dancing performances.
From a narrow place, to the future
Passover falls during the Jewish month of Nisan, a time to start letting go of anything holding us back. Like our exodus from Egypt — the Hebrew word for it, mizrayim, means narrow places — this is the moment to burst open, bloom, imagine a more spacious tomorrow.
Our four questions
How are we showing up for each other? What seeds of renewal are we planting? Where can we discover our resilience? How will we activate our liberation?
2016
Collective Escape emerges in a weeklong popup in Little Armenia — bringing together artists, performers, and young adults from every L.A. corner to experience Passover through storytelling, music, food, and meditation.
2017
The festival spreads all over the city — reimagined seders in West Hollywood, downtown, and on the Venice boardwalk, plus herbal mixology, yoga, and a beachside journey by bike.
2018
Year three grows to five seders — exploring numerology, social justice, volunteering, comedy, and the Wizard of Oz, culminating in a last night party breaking bread with OneTable, live music, and havdalah.
2019
Six seders across the city, each with a custom Haggadah, celebrating Los Angeles transplants, our Russian Jewish community, and nineties nostalgia.
2020
Collective Escape goes virtual, bringing creative resources, live gatherings, and new tools — podcast storytelling, Zoom seders, recipes, volunteering, and haggadahs to go.
2021
Spring is a journey. Virtual again, year six adds the NuRoots Passover box — milk and honey facial masks, Passover against humanity, a windowsill grow kit — plus live gatherings with Haggadot.com, OneTable, Repair the World, and Trybal Gatherings.
2022
Desert Xodus. A radical spiritual and creative retreat. A journey of the soul. NuRoots and Trybal Gatherings take off to Cuyama, California for three days of gritty, glampy Passover magic — a tribe of wanderers seeking connection after years of isolation. We walk away changed, dirt on our heels, a new community formed.
2023
Liberation conversation. L.A. Passover love. Year eight brings our first superhosting partnership with OneTable, an Asian Jewish community seder with Lunar Collective, desert festival Passover realness with Wilderness Torah, cooking for good with Repair the World, a queer + Jewish + Muslim Passover + Iftar party with JQ, a Moroccan and Israeli Mimouna celebration with Moishe House, a last minute bagel feast with East Side Jews and Torah Studio, a global Passover box from JDC Entwine, and a Latin Jewish holiday guide from Jewtina.
2024
We belong. Together. Our Burn kicks off our ninth Collective Escape with a big communal farewell to what’s holding us back, embracing the Jewish fire ritual Biur Chametz as our last step before entering Passover, followed by dozens of community hosted seders and events from our partners.
