Category Arts & Culture

Barrable-Segal brings printmaking to life

photo - Jocelyn Barrable-Segal

Jocelyn Barrable-Segal (photo by Olga Livshin) Jocelyn Barrable-Segal was raised by parents with two vastly different professional backgrounds: her mother was an architect and her father was a pilot. Following her own path, Barrable-Segal managed to combine the two in…

Orkestars at Vogue

photo - Members of Orkestar Slivovica include Susan Gerofsky, fourth from the left

Members of Orkestar Slivovica include Susan Gerofsky, fourth from the left. (photo from Caravan World Rhythms) Caravan World Rhythms presents Boban & Marko Markovic Orkestar on Oct. 18 at Vogue Theatre. Opening for Boban & Marko is a collaboration between…

Memoir more than family history

photo - Alison Pick

Alison Pick (photo by Emma-Lee Photography) Award-winning author and poet Alison Pick comes to Vancouver later this month to participate in two panels at the Vancouver Writers Fest, one of which is already sold out. As a teenager, Pick discovered…

Asper vision spurred action

photo - Miracle at the Forks books at launch

(photo by Rebeca Kuropatwa) Miracle at the Forks: The Museum that Dares Make a Difference, which chronicles the 14-year journey to plan, build and open the Canadian Museum of Human Rights (CMHR), was launched on Sept. 22 at the museum with…

My Rabbi – about us, not others

photo - Joel Bernbaum and Kayvon Kelly are good friends who’ve drifted apart in My Rabbi

Joel Bernbaum and Kayvon Kelly are good friends who’ve drifted apart in My Rabbi. (photo by Derek Ford) Religion, family, even something as innocuous as a book club or a sports team – any group to which we belong creates…

Israel Horovitz calls “action!”

photo - Kevin Kline and Maggie Smith in Israel Horovitz’s My Old Lady

Kevin Kline and Maggie Smith in Israel Horovitz’s My Old Lady. (photo from Cohen Media Group) Arobust 75, the award-winning playwright, theatre director and screenwriter Israel Horovitz isn’t in the market for a new career. Too bad, for his moving…

Storytellers excel at Fringe

Sold out. That pretty much describes every show the Jewish Independent saw during the Vancouver Fringe Festival last month – two even made the Pick of the Fringe, which ran the week after the festival. There were at least five…

Shalom Sesame for Chanukah

Available Oct. 14, SISU is re-releasing the 12 episodes of the 2010-11 season of Shalom Sesame in a new six-DVD thin-pack gift box. Included in the re-release is a bonus DVD featuring two episodes from the classic Shalom Sesame series,…