April 2023
Daniel Kahn and Jake Shulman-Ment: Songwriting Workshop, Jam Session, and Concert
Join KlezKanada and the Museum of Jewish Montreal for a Sunday full of Yiddish music and songwriting. You can choose to attend one of the workshops below, a jam session, and a concert taking place in the evening at Casa del Popolo. For more information about this special Sunday, keep reading: WORKSHOP (12:30pm at the Museum of Jewish Montreal) Yiddish Song Smuggling This workshop, taught by Detroit-born, Hamburg-based troubadour and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Kahn, will focus on polyglot performance, traditional subversion, tradaptation (translation + adaptation), multi-musical…
Find out more »How To Hold Glass: A Documentary Screening
“Can anyone find the ability to build a house in the air?” – Rabbi Yehoshua ben Chanania In fall of 2020, Rach Klein began to sort through their father’s archive. They pulled out dusty boxes from the furnace room, and found themselves among hundreds of slides, hours of film, notes, and letters, all showing the lifework of master glassblower, Toan Klein. Born 1949 in Long Island, Toan went on to photograph farmland in Ohio, glass factories in Mexico, and the…
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