Category Arts & Culture

The journey to healing

photo - Katherine Matlashewski is creator, performer and co-producer of Disclosure, which “explores the struggles of a survivor searching for pathways toward healing in an adversarial medical system”

Katherine Matlashewski is creator, performer and co-producer of Disclosure, which “explores the struggles of a survivor searching for pathways toward healing in an adversarial medical system.” (photo from Disclosure Productions) “Disclosure was inspired by a true story that focuses on…

Celebrating Leonard Cohen

photo - Take This Waltz performers Ted Littlemore, left, and Daniel Okulitch

Take This Waltz performers Ted Littlemore, left, and Daniel Okulitch. (photo by Victoria Bell) Take This Waltz world premières at Rothstein Theatre Sept. 10-11. “The concert as a whole tells a story, and each song finds its place within that…

Flamenco dance, music

photo - Henry Garf

Henry Garf (photo by Herve Lebley) Montreal guitarist and member of the Jewish community Henry Garf takes part in this year’s Vancouver International Flamenco Festival. Presented by Flamenco Rosario, the festival features live performances, with both ticketed and free events.…

Immersive art experience

photo - Marty Katzoff’s The Light Within the Shell was created specifically for the Zack Gallery

Marty Katzoff’s The Light Within the Shell was created specifically for the Zack Gallery. (photo by Lauren Zbarsky) The Light Within the Shell exhibit opened at the Zack Gallery on July 4. There is a sign beside the door: “This…

Welcome back, TUTS!

photo - Much of the humour in Something Rotten! comes from Nostradamus (Jyla Robinson), right, leading Nick (Kamyar Pazandeh) astray with incorrect visions of the future

Much of the humour in Something Rotten! comes from Nostradamus (Jyla Robinson), right, leading Nick (Kamyar Pazandeh) astray with incorrect visions of the future. (photo by Emily Cooper) Theatre Under the Stars is a fun, relaxing way to ease yourself back…

Play tackles Israeli/Palestinian conflict

photo - Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue

Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue (photo from Bema Productions) Bema Productions, directed by Zelda Dean, is bringing the play Peace Talks to the Victoria Fringe Festival, Aug. 25-Sept. 4. Performances will take place at Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue’s Black Box Theatre, 1461 Blanshard…

An afternoon of music

Mexican-Canadian singer Gustavo Herrera helped finish off the 2021/22 season of the Jewish Seniors Alliance Snider Foundation Empowerment Series. The classically trained operatic tenor, who has a powerful and melodic voice, entertained the audience with a mixture of classical and…

A composer for the Queen

photo - British-Israeli composer Loretta Kay Feld

British-Israeli composer Loretta Kay Feld. (photo by Michal Sela) Loretta Kay Feld was asked by someone close to Queen Elizabeth II to compose three tributes, which, said Kay Feld, “were gifted to Her Majesty to honour her 70 years on…

Different horror, same hell

As soon as they got into power, German Nazis began to make life hell for German-Jewish men – partly to promote their sadistically comic-book ideal of “Aryan” masculine supremacy, and partly out of a desire to plunder valuables and property.…

Dreamy Midsummer’s Night

photo - The company of Bard on Beach’s production of Midsummer Night’s Dream

The company of Bard on Beach’s production of Midsummer Night’s Dream. (photo by Tim Matheson) The thespian delights of Shakespeare set against the glorious backdrop of mountains, sea and sky have been missed. But now, after a COVID-induced two-year hiatus,…