Assaf Gavron (photo from JCC Jewish Book Festival) As it does every year, the 31st annual Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival offers readers the chance to meet some of their favorite authors. Sean Michaels, the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize…
From Hofesh Shechter’s barbarians trilogy. (photo by Gabriele Zucca) Before barbarians was even created, DanceHouse had included the Hofesh Shechter trilogy in its 2015/16 season. “Programming work before you have had the chance to view and experience it yourself is…
Zander Meisner is a swing in the touring production of Once that will be in Vancouver Nov. 17-22. (photo by Once Tour Company © Joan Marcus) Most of us can only dream about what it would be like to have…
Lilian Broca with the diptych “Judith Meeting Holofernes,” part of the Heroine of a Thousand Pieces: The Judith Mosaics of Lilian Broca exhibit that opens at Il Museo on Nov. 12. (photo from Lilian Broca) Artist Lilian Broca calls her most…
Imagine finding a play so funny and thought-provoking that you just had to mount a production of it in your hometown – and you actually had the talent and wherewithal to do it. Famous Artists Limited’s Bill Allman saw Joshua…
Goldie Hoffman is set to play the character of Daphna in Bad Jews, a play by Joshua Harmon. It will be in Vancouver at Rothstein Theatre from Nov. 10-21, directed by Jay Brazeau and produced by Famous Artists Limited. For…
The Middle East is awash in virulent antisemitism, from the battlefield to the classroom. An Anti-Defamation League global survey of anti-Jewish sentiment last year pinpointed the West Bank, Gaza and Iraq as the world’s most antisemitic lands in the world.…
The Farewell Party screens Nov. 10 in the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival. (photo from VJFF) One could compile a very long list of movies whose enjoyment is enhanced by watching them with someone you love. The Farewell Party is the…
A scene from Semicolon: The Adventures of Ostomy Girl. (photo from Vancouver Jewish Film Festival) The photo of Dana Marshall-Bernstein being hugged by her mother, Cari Marshall, captures the love at the heart of Semicolon: The Adventures of Ostomy Girl. When…
Henrik Gawkowski, as seen in Shoah, directed by Claude Lanzmann. (photo from Les Films Aleph/Why Not Productions) The French intellectual who created what many view as the definitive documentary of the Holocaust is himself the subject of a documentary, called…
