Category Arts & Culture

Film on Jewish burial process

image - My Jewish Death film poster

If you have ever wondered what will happen after your death – when your soul leaves your body but you have not yet been buried – a new film by Saul Henteleff walks you through precisely that experience. The 30-minute…

Exploration of identity

photo - Ira Hoffecker’s Berlin Identities is at Zack Gallery until July 3

Ira Hoffecker’s Berlin Identities is at Zack Gallery until July 3. (photo from Ira Hoffecker) Rarely does the Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver present exclusively a non-Jewish artist. This month, however, the…

Living Jewishly in isolation

image - Scattered Among the Nations book cover

It was a life-changing day for Sei Mang Khong Sai, a 35-year-old man from Sazal, India. Inside the mud and bamboo hut on stilts with him were community leaders, his family and guests. They chanted tribal prayers to the beat…

Our national movie history

photo - Making Movie History panelists during DOXA Industry Day at the SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts on May 7, left to right: Michelle van Beusekom, head of the National Film Board of Canada’s English-language production branch, and filmmakers Mort Ransen, Bonnie Sherr Klein and Anne Wheeler. Panel moderator was Marsha Lederman of the Globe and Mail

Making Movie History panelists during DOXA Industry Day at the SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts on May 7, left to right: Michelle van Beusekom, head of the National Film Board of Canada’s English-language production branch, and filmmakers Mort Ransen,…

Jerusalem in photographs

photo - The Dome of the Rock in the snow, 1940s

The Dome of the Rock in the snow, 1940s. (photo by Moshe (Nicolas) Schwartz / Schwartz Collection, Bitmuna) Jerusalem is one of the most photographed places in the world. The Camera Man: Women and Men Photograph Jerusalem 1900-1950 exhibition at the…

Nina Simone screens

photo - Jeff Lieberman with Sam Waymon, brother of Nina Simone and longtime band member

Jeff Lieberman with Sam Waymon, brother of Nina Simone and longtime band member. (photo from Re-Emerging Films) It started as an accident,” said Vancouver-born, New York-based filmmaker Jeff Lieberman, describing the evolution of his second documentary film, The Amazing Nina…

A coming-of-age story

photo - Nolan Fahey plays the title character in Arts Club’s Billy Elliot

Nolan Fahey plays the title character in Arts Club’s Billy Elliot. (photo by David Cooper) There are no big surprises in Billy Elliot, no bizarre twists or jaw-dropping turns of events, no mistaken identities or star-crossed lovers. But what you…

First book of trilogy now out

photo - Michael Seidelman is donating 10% of novel profits this month to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

Michael Seidelman is donating 10% of novel profits this month to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. (photo from Michael Seidelman) May is Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month, so author Michael Seidelman will be donating 10% of the profits from this month’s book…

A tapestry at the Zack

photo - Valeri Sokolovski’s work forms part of A Tapestry of Cultures, the group art exhibit now on display at the Zack Gallery

Valeri Sokolovski’s work forms part of A Tapestry of Cultures, the group art exhibit now on display at the Zack Gallery. (photo by Olga Livshin) A Tapestry of Cultures opened last week at the Zack Gallery. Run in conjunction with…

Revealing psychiatry

photo - Dr. David Goldbloom

Dr. David Goldbloom (photo by Ksenija Ho) It was not that long ago that seeing a psychiatrist meant that people saw you as unstable or abnormal in some way. While societal views on many things have broadened, the stigma of…