Category Arts & Culture

Finding community in art

photo - “Nostalgia” by Lovena Galyide

“Nostalgia” by Lovena Galyide (photo by Olga Livshin) Community Longing and Belonging, the fifth annual exhibition in celebration of Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month, is now on at the Zack Gallery. Curated by Leamore Cohen, coordinator of Jewish Community…

Alegría a gratifying movie

photo - Alegría screens at the Rothstein Theatre March 19, and online March 19-26

Alegría screens at the Rothstein Theatre March 19, and online March 19-26. (photo from vjff.org) You can pick your friends, the old saying goes, but you can’t pick your family. For Alegría, a prerequisite of adulthood is distancing from relatives…

Depictions of turbulent times

In March ’68, the shocking events of the Polish political and social crisis of that time are dramatized through the eyes of two families. Hania, a young woman who is Jewish, is in love with Janek, a boy whose father…

Artfully exploring heritage

photo - Lindsey Tyne Johnson

Lindsey Tyne Johnson (photo from Lindsey Tyne Johnson) Returning from a Birthright trip to Israel in 2019, artist Lindsey Tyne Johnson was inspired. Learning the aleph-bet, she made a laser-engraved spirit board in Hebrew, but accidentally arranged the letters left…

Jewish film fest coming soon

photo - A 1923 studio portrait of the In zikh (Introspectivist) poetry group. Celia Dropkin is surrounded by (clockwise from bottom left): Jacob Stodolsky, Aaron Glanz-Leyeles, B. Alquit, Mikhl Likht, N.B. Minkoff and Jacob Glatstein

A 1923 studio portrait of the In zikh (Introspectivist) poetry group. Celia Dropkin is surrounded by (clockwise from bottom left): Jacob Stodolsky, Aaron Glanz-Leyeles, B. Alquit, Mikhl Likht, N.B. Minkoff and Jacob Glatstein. (photo from Yiddishkayt) The Vancouver Jewish Film Festival…

Erez’s new CD shows mastery

image - May Song CD cover

Itamar Erez’s May Song is inventive on many levels. The most difficult thing for artists to do, and the aim which is most central to their consciousness, is to create something original, something new, something that is their own. We…

Book Fest epilogue event

photos - Jack and Edie Austin

Jack and Edie Austin (photos from JCC Jewish Book Festival) Former federal cabinet minister and senator Jack Austin, who has been involved in politics and public policy for more than 50 years, and his daughter, Edie Austin, editorial page editor…

Series tries to inspire climate action

image - I Can Hear Your Heart Beep book cover cropped

Tikkun olam, repairing the world, is a central tenet of Jewish life, but sometimes the task can seem overwhelming. The climate crisis looms large for all of us, but especially for younger folks, who will bear the brunt of its…

Fresh new fairy tale

image - Lily Blue Riding Hood book cover

Making old, familiar stories new and fresh again. Writer Sandy Lanton and illustrator Kim Barnes do just this with their take on Red Riding Hood: Lily Blue Riding Hood, published by Seattle’s Intergalactic Afikoman. Lily loves to skateboard and almost…