Category Arts & Culture

Habonim role pivotal

A recently retired rabbi who was born and raised in Vancouver is offering an insider’s look at life as a congregational leader. Rabbi Allan Tuffs, who now lives part-time in south Florida and in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina,…

Zack exhibit celebrates nature

photo - Enda Bardell

Enda Bardell (photo from Enda Bardell) Creativity manifests itself in people’s lives in different ways and at different times. For Enda Bardell, various forms of art occupied her for decades, while Mike Cohene discovered woodcarving only a few years ago,…

Educating differently

photo - Ada Glustein’s passion for learning and teaching shines through in her self-published memoir Being Different

Ada Glustein’s passion for learning and teaching shines through in her self-published memoir Being Different. (photo from Ada Glustein) Duke’s father would beat him. Tien, a refugee from Cambodia, had witnessed unimaginable violence. Louise was in and out of foster…

Treatise on war, peace

photo - Left to right: Tom Pickett, Advah Soudack, Kate Besworth and Karthik Kadam in Bard on the Beach’s production of Shakespeare’s Henry V, which runs to Aug. 13

Left to right: Tom Pickett, Advah Soudack, Kate Besworth and Karthik Kadam in Bard on the Beach’s production of Shakespeare’s Henry V, which runs to Aug. 13. (photo by Tim Matheson) Bard on the Beach rarely presents Shakespeare’s history plays.…

The courage to be oneself

photo - The ensemble of Theatre Under the Stars’ The Prom has energy and talent. Jewish community member Cadence Rush Quibell is third from the right

The ensemble of Theatre Under the Stars’ The Prom has energy and talent. Jewish community member Cadence Rush Quibell is third from the right. (Emily Cooper Photography) This summer, Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) has brought two stories of individuality…

A hippie homesteader in B.C.

image - Galena Bay Odyssey cover cropped

“When I came to Galena Bay, I had been afraid of many things,” writes Ellen Schwartz in Galena Bay Odyssey: Reflections on a Hippie Homesteader (Heritage House Publishing Company, 2023). “Of the physical work I would have to do. Of…

Empowered by piano, song

photo - From left to right: Leslie Rosen, Toby Rubin, Tammy Klass and Marilyn Berger dance to the music of singer and pianist Miriam Davidson

From left to right: Leslie Rosen, Toby Rubin, Tammy Klass and Marilyn Berger dance to the music of singer and pianist Miriam Davidson. (photo from JSA) The last session of the Jewish Seniors Alliance-Snider Foundation Empowerment 2022-23 season was held…

Love and concern for nature

photo - Nathan and Sidi Schaffer at the opening of their photography exhibit at the Zack Gallery June 22

Nathan and Sidi Schaffer at the opening of their photography exhibit at the Zack Gallery June 22. (photo from the artists) Painter, printmaker and mixed media artist Sidi Schaffer has a new show at the Zack Gallery – a photography…

Connect with music

photo - The Oot n’ Oots band helps launch Mission Folk Music Festival

The Oot n’ Oots band helps launch Mission Folk Music Festival. (photo from Mission Folk Music Festival) Family band the Oot n’ Oots helps kick off the Mission Folk Music Festival on July 21, as part of the main-stage lineup…

Finding their place in theatre

photo - Cadence Rush Quibell has their debut at Theatre Under the Stars this summer

Cadence Rush Quibell has their debut at Theatre Under the Stars this summer. (photo by Veronica Bonderud / The Portrait Sessions) Cadence Rush Quibell makes their debut with Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) this summer in The Prom, which alternates…