Collective Escape
Our citywide Passover festival, returning March 29–April 9.
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.
Built on experimentation and reimagining Jewish ritual, recent iterations include Desert Xodus (2022), which celebrated Mimouna with JIMENA and Trybal Gatherings, Our Burn (2024), which brought the Jewish fire ritual Biur Chametz to life, and Our Echo (2025), inspired by Miriam, a night of collective sound and joy.
DESERT XODUS, 2022
A radical spiritual and creative retreat. A journey of the soul. NuRoots and Trybal Gatherings took off to Cuyama, California for three days of gritty, glampy Passover magic – a tribe of wanderers seeking connection after years of isolation, walking away changed, dirt on our heels, a new community formed.
OUR BURN, 2024
A ritual fire to open the festival, embracing the Jewish fire ritual Biur Chametz as our last step before entering Passover.
OUR ECHO, 2025
A night of sound and ritual to open the festival.
A DECADE OF CREATION
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.
2025
A love letter to California celebrating the value of free will – Bechirah. Our Echo opens the festival in a night of sound and ritual.
2026
Rooted in courage, Collective Escape returns March 29–April 1 with 12 days of experiences with partners, seder Superhosting with OneTable, and Mimouna Rising, a Moroccan closing night party co-hosted with friends with deep Moroccan roots.