Category Arts & Culture

A melting pot of styles

photo - Seattle band Shpilkis helps open the Mission Folk Music Festival July 25

Seattle band Shpilkis helps open the Mission Folk Music Festival July 25. (photo from shpilkisseattle.com) “We’re delighted to be featured at a folk music festival that understands the vast and expansive variety that makes up folk music, and to bring…

TUTS debut for Newman

photo - He is pictured here with, left to right: Bernardo Arana (Grandpa George), Twyla Raffé-Devine (Grandma Georgina), Imelda Gaborno (Mrs. Bucket) and Sophie O’Brien (Grandma Josephine). For tickets to either TUTS show, visit tuts.ca

(photo by Emily Cooper) Jewish community member Richard Newman, top right, makes his Theatre Under the Stars debut, playing Grandpa Joe in Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, which alternates nights with Legally Blonde until Aug. 16 at the Malkin Bowl…

Love and learning 

People from many cultures show love via food and, of course, Jews are no exception. And what a palate our culture has, since we have lived in so many places. Two children’s books from Collective Book Studio, one new and…

Deborah Wilde makes magic

photo - Writer Deborah Wilde is more public now about the Jewish elements in her novels, which have always had a Jewish sensibility

Writer Deborah Wilde is more public now about the Jewish elements in her novels, which have always had a Jewish sensibility. (photo from Deborah Wilde) East Vancouver author Deborah Wilde has been a writer since childhood, when she filled countless…

With the help of friends

“‘You’re dead, Weiss!’ Declan shouted. He turned back to his friends. ‘This is our chance. Let’s get him!’” And so the chase after sixth-grader Matthew Weiss begins, led by bully classmate Declan Bollard, with Declan’s three followers right behind. It…

Light and whimsical houses

image - Roxsane Tanner’s watercolours are on exhibit at the Steveston Museum and Post Office (painted here by Tanner) this month

Roxsane Tanner’s watercolours are on exhibit at the Steveston Museum and Post Office (painted here by Tanner) this month.  “Steveston is such a beautiful place,” artist Roxsane Tanner told the Independent. Her first solo show of watercolours features quaint houses…

Will you help or hide?

photo - Bema Productions’ The Last Yiddish Speaker cast, director and crew

Bema Productions’ The Last Yiddish Speaker cast, director and crew: standing, left to right, Tess Nolan, Kevin McKendrick, Andrea Eggenberger, Nolan McConnell-Fidyk and Ian Case; seated, Siobhan Davies, left, and Zelda Dean. The play imagines a world in which the…

Jazz fest celebrates 40 years

photo - Among the performers at this year’s Vancouver International Jazz Festival are Ard n’ Saul (Ardeshir and Saul Berson), at Tyrant Studios on June 21, and Andrea Superstein, at Frankie’s Jazz Club on June 26

Among the performers at this year’s Vancouver International Jazz Festival are Ard n’ Saul (Ardeshir and Saul Berson), at Tyrant Studios on June 21. (photo by Joshua Berson) The 40th anniversary edition of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival runs June…

Enjoy concert, help campers

photo - Temple Sholom Senior Rabbi Dan Moskovitz and kids from the shul at Camp Kalsman. Proceeds from Omer Shaish’s My Broadway Shpiel performance on Aug. 21 go towards Temple Sholom’s campership program

Temple Sholom Senior Rabbi Dan Moskovitz and kids from the shul at Camp Kalsman. Proceeds from Omer Shaish’s My Broadway Shpiel performance on Aug. 21 go towards Temple Sholom’s campership program. (photo from Temple Sholom) International singer and actor Omer…

Opera based on true stories

photo - Arya Yazgan plays young Sophia in Sophia’s Forest, a chamber opera by composer Lembit Beecher and librettist Hannah Moscovitch, which is at SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts until June 1

Arya Yazgan plays young Sophia in Sophia’s Forest, a chamber opera by composer Lembit Beecher and librettist Hannah Moscovitch, which is at SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts until June 1.  (photo by Anya Chibis) City Opera Vancouver (COV) presents…