September 2017
Leonard Cohen: Rituals of Absence
The Museum of Jewish Montreal is excited to announce the vernissage to launch our year-long exhibit series, Rituals//Fragments at the Museum on Thursday, September 28 at 7:00 PM. The inaugural exhibit, Leonard Cohen: Rituals of Absence, features photographs by Montreal-based artist Morgane CG. Her images document the impromptu memorial of flowers, candles, tea, and oranges left on Cohen’s Plateau doorstep last November. In the wake of his passing, admirers from across Montreal congregated there to pay their respects and…
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Miss Mitzvah
Miss Mitzvah is an ongoing interactive installation and storytelling project which explores Bat Mitzvahs and coming-of-age rituals within a consumer-driven culture. Collecting narratives from young women in New York and Montreal through hands-on workshops and interviews, this first installation of the collection at the Museum of Jewish Montreal consists of an archive of real Bat Mitzvah dresses, invitations, photographs, and other genuine relics from various simchas, which we invite you to explore. About the Artist Zoe Penina Baker is…
Find out more »January 2018
1001 lights
Scintillements | 1001 Lights consists of individually documented Shabbat candle-lighting ceremonies playing in syncopation with each other. Forming the crux of the film’s visuals is a fluid hand gesture choreography in response to these individual ceremonies. The 15-minute piece is projected on a loop in the late afternoon and evening hours onto the street-level windows of the Museum of Jewish Montreal, located in the heart of the Plateau at the corner of boul. St. Laurent and Duluth. During the…
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Nuit Blanche – Lueur dans la nuit
The Museum of Jewish Montreal presents: Lueur dans la Nuit, in partnership with Nuit blanche, Festival Montréal en lumière, and Téo Taxi. For the fifth year in a row, the Museum of Jewish Montreal is taking part in Nuit Blanche – this year, the Museum is lighting up the corner of St-Laurent and Duluth with live dance performances and multi-channel video projections. On March 3, the Museum space will be brought to life by dancer-choreographer Lucy Fandel’s piece Lueur…
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Moving On
An autobiographical painting series which pulls viewers into a reflective narrative that maps the artist’s story leaving her ultra-Orthodox family and community at 17 to avoid an arranged marriage, her first years in the secular world, and her process of healing and self-discovery through art-making. Moving On | Aller de l'avant tells Erenthal’s story vignette-style – reminiscent of a wordless novel - through individual, powerful memories from different chapters of her life. Taken together, Moving On | Aller de…
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MJMxMural – Its’ Complicated by Sara Erenthal
A public mural commissioned by the Museum and created by Sara Erenthal as part of 2018 Mural Festival, which draws on her personal experiences leaving her ultra -Orthodox community while simultaneously bringing a message of resilience, bravery, and female empowerment to the historically Jewish quarter of Plateau-Mont-Royal.
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