Category Arts & Culture

Uncovering Israel’s wonders

photo - Igal Hecht filming Secrets of the Land

Igal Hecht filming Secrets of the Land. (photo from Chutzpa Productions Inc.) The Western Wall area, with thousands of metres of subterranean space, contains much that is yet to be discovered. The latest find in this space is a market.…

Frost album release

photo - Harriet Frost and the Universal Band

Harriet Frost and the Universal Band (photo from Harriet Frost) Harriet Frost and the Universal Band are holding an album release party on April 15, 8 p.m., at Or Shalom. The Universal Band is Martin Gotfrit (strings, vocals), Wendy Rubin…

Museum releases 40th Scribe

photo - Mordechai Edel is among the artists featured in the latest edition of The Scribe, which will be released April 19 at VanDusen Botanical Garden

Mordechai Edel is among the artists featured in the latest edition of The Scribe, which will be released April 19 at VanDusen Botanical Garden. (photo from JMABC) The Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia (JMABC) is releasing its 40th…

Destruction and rebirth

photo - Grass is Green is at the Rothstein Theatre on April 25

Grass is Green is at the Rothstein Theatre on April 25. (photo from Una Productions) B.C. Movement Arts and Chutzpah!PLUS present the Canadian première of Grass is Green in Vancouver and several other B.C. locations, starting April 25. Grass is…

Pied Piper in music, dance

photo - Into the Little Hill is a multi-disciplinary re-telling of the classic Pied Piper tale. Performances take place May 19 and 20 at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre

Into the Little Hill is a multi-disciplinary re-telling of the classic Pied Piper tale. Performances take place May 19 and 20 at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre. (photo by Flick Harrison) In partnership…

Who decides what culture is?

photo - Mourad Bouayad, left, and Hillel Kogan in We Love Arabs, which is at the Dance Centre April 13-15

Mourad Bouayad, left, and Hillel Kogan in We Love Arabs, which is at the Dance Centre April 13-15. (photo by Eli Katz) “I don’t have answers so I can only ask questions,” Israeli choreographer Hillel Kogan told the Jewish Independent.…

Systemic change possible?

photo - Eleanor Boyle’s Mobilize Food! Wartime Inspiration for Environmental Victory Today offers concrete ideas for how food systems can be transformed

Eleanor Boyle’s Mobilize Food! Wartime Inspiration for Environmental Victory Today offers concrete ideas for how food systems can be transformed. (Julie Doro Photography) I plan to make the Honourable Woolton Pie. Just for fun, not necessarily because I think it’ll…

New season of standup

photo - Jacob Balshin

Jacob Balshin (photo by Emily Cooper) Just For Laughs Vancouver and CBC have announced that original series The New Wave of Standup is returning for Season 3 beginning March 24 on the free CBC Gem streaming service. The third season…

Thinker on hate at 100

Next month marks the centenary of the birth of a psychiatrist whose work on antisemitism deserves a fresh reading. Theodore Isaac Rubin was born 100 years ago April 11. He died at 95, in February 2019. His 1990 book Anti-Semitism,…