Category Arts & Culture

Unique in style, rich in culture

photo - Kommuna Lux

Kommuna Lux (photo by Maria Dmytrenko) [Editor’s Note: Due to unforeseen circumstances related to flight restrictions, the Chutzpah! Festival must postpone Yamma Ensemble’s performances to March. However, the festival has found a vibrant alternative for Nov. 5: Itamar Erez Trio…

A harrowing survival story

Almost every Holocaust survivor’s narrative involves some combination of extraordinary coincidence, righteous humanity amid dystopia or a series of chance events that astonishingly result in survival against all odds. The number of such flukes in the life of Vancouver woman…

The first of many Shabbats

photo - Faith Kramer’s Roasted Salmon with Citrus-honey Sauce

Faith Kramer’s Roasted Salmon with Citrus-honey Sauce. (photo by Clara Rice) Somehow, I missed the cookbook 52 Shabbats: Friday Night Dinners Inspired by a Global Jewish Kitchen by Faith Kramer when it was published by the Collective Book Studio in…

Artist’s portals to elsewhere

photo - Artist Amy J. Dyck sits amid her work “Bed Desk,” one of the pieces in her solo exhibit, Portals to Elsewhere, which opened at the Zack Gallery last month

Artist Amy J. Dyck sits amid her work “Bed Desk,” one of the pieces in her solo exhibit, Portals to Elsewhere, which opened at the Zack Gallery last month. (photo by Byron Dauncey) The art of Amy J. Dyck is…

Victoria film fest set to start

photo - The Latin American and Spanish Film Week returns to Cinecenta, on the campus of the University of Victoria, Sept. 19-22

The Latin American and Spanish Film Week returns to Cinecenta, on the campus of the University of Victoria, Sept. 19-22. (photos courtesy Dan Russek) The Latin American and Spanish Film Week returns to Cinecenta, on the campus of the University…

Fundraiser for Emanu-El @ 160

photos - Gregor Craigie and Eleanor Wachtel

(photos courtesy Emanu-El) Gregor Craigie, host of CBC Radio One’s On the Island, interviews Eleanor Wachtel at Congregation Emanu-El on Sept. 15, at 2 p.m., about her career helming the CBC’s premier literary program, Writers & Company.  During her 33-year tenure with…

Fringe Fest coming soon

image - Jem Rolls’ The Kid Was a Spy flyer cover

Jem Rolls’ The Kid Was a Spy is part of this year’s Vancouver Fringe Festival, which runs Sept 5-15. Other Jewish community members with shows include Rita Sheena, with Everybody Knows: Leonard Cohen Dance Theatre, and Theatre Terrific artistic director…

Enjoy Bach with a twist

photo - Alon Sariel is Early Music Vancouver’s artist in residence for this summer’s festival

Alon Sariel is Early Music Vancouver’s artist in residence for this summer’s festival. (photo by Suzette Vorster-Van Acker) ‘We are thrilled to offer audiences an adventurous program of some of Bach’s seminal works, but with a twist,” said Early Music…

Music for better world

image - To Hope and Back book cover

Novelist Milan Kundera said of Jews in the 20th century that they “were the principal cosmopolitan, integrating element in Central Europe: they were its intellectual cement, a condensed version of its spirit, creators of its spiritual unity. That’s why I…