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Amour Toujours: Exploring Real and Imagined Histories of Cinéma L’Amour through Toy Theatre

Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal 5220 St. Laurent blvd., Montréal, Québec, Canada

A near-universal experience for any Montrealer walking up Boulevard St. Laurent is glancing at the yellow and red marquee of Cinéma L'Amour, the last adult cinema in Canada. Museum of Jewish Montreal micrograntee Jen Jack will be sharing an ongoing toy theatre and research project that explores an alternative history of...

Don Golem in Prague: A Shadow Puppet Concert

Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal 5220 St. Laurent blvd., Montréal, Québec, Canada

On May 8th, join us for a theatrical evening that blends Jewish mysticism, classical opera, and shadow puppetry. Don Golem in Prague explores the mythology and cultural histories behind the “Golem” creature of Jewish mystical folklore, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni (1787). Fortepianist Gili Loftus and puppeteer Jake (Yankl) Krakovsky will...