Category Arts & Culture

On the lookout for wildfires

photo - Tova Krentzman’s Fire Tower is a documentary about the people stationed high above the ground in the Yukon and Alberta, who are looking for smoke or signs of a wildfire

Tova Krentzman’s Fire Tower is a documentary about the people stationed high above the ground in the Yukon and Alberta, who are looking for smoke or signs of a wildfire. (photo from  Tova Krentzman) Tova Krentzman’s Fire Tower, a documentary…

Ellis gives needed context

photo - Author Israel Ellis with his new book, The Wake Up Call, after a Feb. 10 talk at Beth Tikvah Synagogue in Toronto, where he joined journalist Dave Gordon in conversation

Author Israel Ellis with his new book, The Wake Up Call, after a Feb. 10 talk at Beth Tikvah Synagogue in Toronto, where he joined journalist Dave Gordon in conversation. (photo by Dave Gordon) In his new book, The Wake…

Family fun with City Birds

photo - Tamar Eisenman, left, and Sagit Shir bring their children’s music project, City Birds, to Vancouver for a March 23 concert at the Rothstein Theatre, as part of Chutzpah! Plus

Tamar Eisenman, left, and Sagit Shir bring their children’s music project, City Birds, to Vancouver for a March 23 concert at the Rothstein Theatre, as part of Chutzpah! Plus. (photo by Javier Ortega) Looking for fun, positive music for your…

Coping with loss, grief

photo - The creative team of Bema Productions’ staging of Rite of Passage, with director Zelda Dean

The creative team of Bema Productions’ staging of Rite of Passage, with director Zelda Dean (centre). (photo from Bema Productions) Victoria’s Bema Productions is staging Rite of Passage, a story of family, grief and coming of age by Los Angeles-based…

Searching for hope in future

photo - Belle Spirale’s dance double-bill, Universus, is at the Vancouver Playhouse March 21-22, as part of the Chutzpah! Plus Spring Edition

Belle Spirale’s dance double-bill, Universus, is at the Vancouver Playhouse March 21-22, as part of the Chutzpah! Plus Spring Edition. (photo © Michael Slobodian) “As I think many of us are right now, I am feeling sense of trepidation, endangerment…

Hebron key to conflict

The White Rock/South Surrey Jewish Community Centre hosted Yardena Schwartz, author of Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine that Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict, on Feb. 23. At the event, held in partnership with the Jewish Federation…

Determined to help others 

photo - Photos from the book include Joy Karp speaking to a group of people at a Terry Fox Run in Whitehorse

Photos from the book include Joy Karp speaking to a group of people at a Terry Fox Run in Whitehorse. (photo from Rick Karp) Creating a Lasting Impact: The Amazing Life of Joy Esther Karp was recently published. Written by…

What your tchotchkes think

Ever wondered what your leather-bound journal thinks about you? Your menorah? The bowl you made in a pottery class? What astrological sign your keepsakes might be? How they’d like to be handled, cared for? Where they’d like to be in…

Sharing parts of their lives

photo - Iris Bahr opens the Chutzpah! Plus Spring Edition on March 19 with Stories from the Brink: My Festive Near-Death Adventures

Iris Bahr opens the Chutzpah! Plus Spring Edition on March 19 with Stories from the Brink: My Festive Near-Death Adventures. (photo from Chutzpah! Festival) The Chutzpah! Plus Spring Edition kicks off with comedy, though the laughs will mix with thoughtful…

Light as a metaphor for life

photo - Itai Erdal, with his mom, Mery Erdal, z”l, on screen, in How to Disappear Completely, which opens at the Historic Theatre in Vancouver March 15

Itai Erdal, with his mom, Mery Erdal, z”l, on screen, in How to Disappear Completely, which opens at the Historic Theatre in Vancouver March 15. (photo from The Chop Theatre) Itai Erdal’s award-winning How to Disappear Completely, which has toured…