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July 2019
Canada Day at Aga Khan Museum
Ashkenaz is pleased to be part of "Rythyms of Canada," the Aga Khan Museum's free multicultural Canada Day celebrations this weekend. Sunday June 30, 12-11pm & Monday July 1, 12-6pm Aga Khan Museum, 77 Wynford Dr. (Eglinton/DVP) Enjoy live music, food vendors, a Middle Eastern souk-style artisan market, family-friendly activities, dance workshops, and more, in a celebration of Canada's dynamic mix of world views, cultures, stories, and rhythms. Full event listings available on Facebook. Join us at 1pm…
Find out more »Shalom Bollywood
Ashkenaz is pleased to participate for the first time in Mississauga’s Bollywood Monster Mashup, Canada’s largest South Asian Festival. In partnership with our friends at MonstrARTity, Polyphonic Ground and Toronto Jewish Film Festival, we are presenting a special FREE screening of SHALOM BOLLYWOOD: THE UNTOLD STORY OF INDIAN CINEMA (2017, 76 mins, Directed by Danny Ben-Moshe). This colourful feature length documentary reveals the unlikely story of the 2000-year old Indian Jewish community and its formative place in shaping the world’s…
Find out more »September 2019
Shalom Bollywood – Encore Screening
Sunday September 8, 2pm Lodzer Centre - 12 Heaton St $5 BUY TICKETS Presented by Congregation Bina, in memory of Diana Abraham z"l https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX03up3RhKI&t=14s
Find out more »A Celebration of Yiddish Kite(s)
Luftmentshen unite! Ashkenaz and Ontario Yiddishkayt (OY!) are coming together to add a Yiddish twist to Toronto's signature kite-flying event, Toronto Windfest. Our free, all-ages celebration of Yiddish Kite(s) (get it?) takes place at Woodbine Beach on Sunday September 22, 12-4pm. Bring your own kite or decorate one of ours and make it your own (limited quantity, first come first served). Bring a picnic lunch and snacks, lawnchairs, beach blankets, a bathing suit (?), your friends and family of all…
Find out more »October 2019
Yemen Blues plays “Hallel”
Wednesday October 30, 2019, 8:30PM Price: $50, $45 Friends, $37.50 students and seniors Includes same-day Museum admission BUY TICKETS We are pleased to partner with Aga Khan Museum to welcome back to Toronto one of Israel’s most exciting ensembles, with a brand new program. At once uproarious and deeply spiritual, Yemen Blues fuses Afrofunk groove and Yemenite Jewish culture in a unique and explosive brew that has garnered world-wide acclaim. Magnetic frontman Ravid Kahalani leads the nine-piece ensemble in their…
Find out more »November 2019
Primo Levi and Vasily Grossman: A Dialogue Between Witnesses
A theatrical reading with live music for Holocaust Education Week 2019 With Michael Miranda and Cantor Charles Osborne, readers Robbie Grunwald, piano | Drew Jurecka, violin, clarinet Saturday November 9, 2019, 8pm Temple Sinai, 210 Wilson Ave. Tickets $15 +HST in advance / $20 at the door CLICK TO PURCHASE TICKETS "Why remember? It is the writer’s duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is a reader’s civic duty to learn this truth. Those who would turn their…
Find out more »April 2020
The Third Seder
Ashkenaz joins a cohort of 18 other Jewish and Yiddish cultural arts organizations from around the world to present "The Third Seder: An Online International Yiddish Cultural Celebration." The event will include many leading singers, actors and instrumentalists from throughout the Yiddish world, almost all of whom are Ashkenaz Festival alumni. The performers will be participants in a Zoom collaboration, which will be broadcast live on Rabbi Avram Mlotek's Facebook page. The script will borrow from the traditional Arbeter Ring secular…
Find out more »Socalled Livestream
Though our upcoming co-presentation of Montreal's Socalled with TO Live at Meridian Arts Centre has unfortunately been postponed, we are pleased to be teaming up with URGNT TRNTO to bring you an intimate online performance by Socalled from his home. The concert will livestream on Facebook on Friday April 24 at 7pm, and it will be available thereafter on multiple platforms. CLICK HERE TO TUNE IN URGNT was created less than a month ago by Mark Marczyk of Lemon Bucket…
Find out more »June 2020
Bubbe and Zaide Book Launch
THURSDAY JUNE 11, 4pm To watch live on Ashkenaz's Facebook page CLICK HERE This event is presented FREE thanks to the generous support of the Peretz Miransky Fund at the Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto Ashkenaz is pleased to partner with Virtual J to present the Canadian launch of Matzah Ball Books’ seventh publication, Bubbe & Zaide. This online event will include a reading of the book by its creator, Anne-Marie Asner, joined by special guest reader, famed actor Ed…
Find out more »July 2020
Canada Day Edition – Yiddish Song: Step Forverts
Ashkenaz is proud to curate and sponsor a special, all-Canadian edition of the "Yiddish Song: Step Forverts" series. Join us live on Facebook at noon (EST) on Wednesday July 1, Canada Day, as we spotlight some of Canada's leading Yiddish singers and songwriters, including Socalled (Josh Dolgin), Mitch Smolkin, David Wall, Theresa Tova, Lenka Lichtenberg, Batsheva, Allan Merovitz and Shayla Fink and Kinzey Posen. Hosted by Polina Shepherd and Efim Chorny, with Eric Stein. Click HERE to Watch. Canada is…
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