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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 »May 2020
Yiddish Song: Step Forverts
A unique international gathering of Yiddish song activists! Live on Facebook every Sunday and Wednesday at 12pm EST, with hosts Efim Chorny (Moldova) & Polina Shepherd (Russia/UK). Watch here: https://www.facebook.com/polinashepherd/ These 90 minute presentation are divided into two 45 minute sessions, each featuring a particular artist sharing their approach to taking Yiddish song further. Each session will also include at least one world premiere of a newly composed or arranged song. Ashkenaz is pleased to join a number of other…
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…
Find out more »August 2020
25th Anniversary Exhibition Online
Be sure to check out our 25th anniversary exhibition, now online at the MNJCC's Virtual J Gallery. Read about the history of the Festival and see photos, videos, press clippings, program books and more. CLICK HERE
Find out more »September 2020
Ashkenaz 2020: Live and From the Archive
Join us online for a virtual celebration of Ashkenaz’s 25th anniversary! The program will run during what would have been this year’s Ashkenaz Festival dates, September 1-7. The festivities will include two parallel programs: a series of new ‘pop-up’ performances by Toronto based artists, livestreaming each day at 4pm, and a series of archival performances from past Festivals, streaming each evening at 8pm. Streams will take place on FACEBOOK and YOUTUBE (click the text in caps to go to those…
Find out more »Book Launch “NY Klezmer in the Early 20th Century”
New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century A Special Book Launch Event Featuring Joel Rubin with Mark Slobin Free Online Event - Stay tuned for links To order Joel Rubin’s new book, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century: The Music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras, go to this link: https://boydellandbrewer.com/new-york-klezmer-in-the-early-twentieth-century.html Use the discount code BB870 for a 35% discount. Starting August 20, there will also be an ePDF and ePUBs available for $24.95. Presented by the…
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