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October 2018

Dislocation Vernissage

Tue October 9, 2018 @ 19:00 - 21:00
4040 St. Laurent blvd (corner Duluth), 4040 St. Laurent blvd
Montréal, Québec H2W 1Y8 Canada
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Dislocation is a research based pop-up art exhibition featuring the work of Jordanna Ibghy and Darren Rabinowitz. Over 500 years after their forced expulsion, the Jews of Spain continue to identify as Sephardic (Hebrew word for Spanish). Dislocation investigates the role of place in shaping the artists’ Sephardic identities. Through movement studies in Spain’s medieval Jewish quarters, the artists’ work seeks to develop an embodied understanding of Sephardic identity and presents a series of choreographic interpretations of personal and collective…

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ZEI GEZUNT // PORTE-TOI BIEN // KEEP WELL

Thu October 25, 2018 @ 08:00 - Sun January 27, 2019 @ 17:00
Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.
Montréal, Québec H2T 1S1 Canada
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  ZEI GEZUNT // PORTE-TOI BIEN // KEEP WELL is a cross-generational collaboration between Lejb Pilanski and his grandson Sean Wainsteim that tells the story of an immigrant for whom resourcefulness and an adaptable nature were necessary means of survival. His improvised household objects -- at turns whimsical, practical, and emotional -- are displayed alongside archival documents that map Lejb’s journey as a refugee following World War II,  from Eastern Europe to Montreal and finally Toronto, where he worked as a sweatshop tailor by…

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February 2019

The Ocean Between Us

Fri February 1, 2019 - Sat June 22, 2019
4040 St. Laurent blvd (corner Duluth), 4040 St. Laurent blvd
Montréal, Québec H2W 1Y8 Canada
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The second installment of the MJM’s 2018-2019 Movements & Migrations exhibition series, —The Ocean Between Us— is a research-based community photography installation by Yuula Benivolski.

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March 2019

Encrypted Histories – Nuit Blanche at the MJM

Sat March 2, 2019 @ 21:00 - Sun March 3, 2019 @ 01:00

This Nuit Blanche, join us for an evening of live performance and an immersive art experience playing with cultural identity, visual language, and communication.

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June 2019

Miss Lanouch x MJM

Thu June 6, 2019 - Sun June 16, 2019
Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.
Montréal, Québec H2T 1S1 Canada
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The Museum of Jewish Montreal is thrilled to announce this year’s muralist Miss Lanouch! For the second year in a row the Museum is participating in the summer mural festivities happening all along the Main. The Museum has invited emerging artist MissLanouch to paint "Mother’s Love", a mural that speaks to what the artist views as one of women’s greatest strengths – a mother’s unconditional love for her children. Inspired by Miss Lanouch, the focus for the Museum’s MURAL Festival…

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Darkroom by Edward Hillel

Wed June 26, 2019 - Sun September 15, 2019
Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.
Montréal, Québec H2T 1S1 Canada
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  The Museum of Jewish Montreal is thrilled to present Chambre Noire/Darkroom, an immersive art installation by photographer and multidisciplinary artist Edward Hillel. Using archives from his critically-acclaimed 1987 book The Main: Portrait of a Neighbourhood, the artist invites the public into the intimate setting of a figurative darkroom, offering a glimpse into his creative process while reflecting on time, memory and photographic practice. Darkroom/Chambre Noire will run from June 26th until September 15th, 2019. The Museum of Jewish Montreal,…

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October 2019

Return to The Fortress by Julie Gladstone

Thu October 24, 2019 - Sun February 9, 2020
Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.
Montréal, Québec H2T 1S1 Canada
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  The Museum of Jewish Montreal (MJM) proudly presents: Return to The Fortress by Julie Gladstone, featuring a series of abstract portraits and landscapes which draw from medieval Sephardic iconography, ancient legends, and the native flora of Béjar, Spain. During a recent residency and solo exhibition hosted by the David Melul Jewish Museum in the medieval village of Béjar, Spain, Gladstone was given an opportunity to explore her Sephardic family’s roots and a legacy of diaspora that has lasted since…

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January 2020

Patterns by Jonathan Rotsztain

Thu January 23, 2020 @ 19:30 - 21:00
Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.
Montréal, Québec H2T 1S1 Canada
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  Join us on at the Museum of Jewish Montreal to celebrate the Montreal debut of Jonathan Rotsztain’s Patterns installation. Following our Self-Loving Jew comic making workshop with Jonathan Rotsztain, the Museum will be open to the public to meet the artist behind our newest window projection, and see some of the comics produced through his comic making workshop.  This event is free and open to the public. Cash bar at fletchers Artist, writer, and cartoonist Jonathan Rotsztain’s visual narratives…

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February 2020

Snapshots from the Garden of Eden – Dina Goldstein

Thu February 20, 2020 - Sun May 17, 2020
Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.
Montréal, Québec H2T 1S1 Canada
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Image: Dina Goldstein, The Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge, 2017 Once upon a time… the wicked witch was Lilith, Queen of the Demons, the magical apple came from the Garden of Eden, and the first Rapunzel was Princess Keziah, daughter of King Solomon, locked in a tower waiting for true love...   The Museum of Jewish Montreal invites you to its new exhibition Snapshots from the Garden of Eden by Canadian contemporary artist Dina Goldstein to discover…

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March 2020

Artist talk with Dina Goldstein

Sun March 8, 2020 @ 16:00 - 17:30
Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.
Montréal, Québec H2T 1S1 Canada
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Join us for a special afternoon with internationally-acclaimed contemporary Canadian artist Dina Goldstein.   Sunday, March 8th 2020 from 4:00pm to 5:30pm at the Museum of Jewish Montreal (RC01-4040 boul. St-Laurent).   Dina will be speaking about her practice, inspiration, and iconic photographic series, including Gods of Suburbia, opening March 7th at Art Mûr, and Snapshots from the Garden of Eden, currently on exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Montreal. The artist’s talk will be followed by an audience Q&A.…

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May 2020

Digital Diasporas: Sala-Manca & The Museum of the Contemporary

Thu May 14, 2020 @ 13:30 - 14:30

  As social distancing transforms what it means to interact with art, the Museum of Jewish Montreal is thrilled to announce its new Digital Diasporas Series, an exciting new platform connecting our local community with the practices and new ideas of contemporary artists from across the globe. Much as a diaspora describes the dispersal of a people across space, this series explores the new movements artists are taking away from their practice in the digital world or how they are working in ways…

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June 2020

Digital Diasporas with Sara Erenthal

Tue June 16, 2020 @ 17:30 - 18:30

We are so thrilled to present the June edition of our new Digital Diasporas series featuring multi-disciplinary artist Sara Erenthal! Sara Erenthal is a Brooklyn-based, self-taught, multi-disciplinary artist whose work focuses on themes of displacement, survival, and liberation. Sara has been incredibly active throughout the pandemic in creating impactful street-art on discarded objects, sending out relatable messages of hope and positivity to her local community and her followers abroad. About Digital Diasporas Much as a diaspora describes the dispersal of a…

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July 2020

Digital Diasporas with Artists 4 Long Term Care

Tue July 21, 2020 @ 17:45 - 18:45

We are thrilled to present the July edition of our new Digital Diasporas series featuring Artists 4 Long Term Care! Artists 4 Long-Term Care (A4LTC) is a social action initiative co-founded by Kitra Cahana and Isadora Kosofsky that uses art and storytelling to raise awareness of the crisis facing residents and staff of long-term care facilities during the Covid-19 pandemic. A4LTC invites artists, photographers, writers, and filmmakers to create works that confront this issue, to be shared on social media…

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August 2020

Digital Diasporas with Sophia Hirsch and Johannes Mundinger

Wed August 26, 2020 @ 15:00 - 16:00

We are thrilled to announce the August edition of our Digital Diasporas series with invited international multidisciplinary artists Sophia Hirsch and Johannes Mundinger! Sophia and Johannes were originally invited by the Museum of Jewish Montreal to exhibit a newly created gallery installation Public Intimacy from May 2020 - August 2020, and to paint an outdoor mural during Montreal's 2020 MURAL Festival. Due to the COVID19 pandemic and related travel restrictions, we had to postpone Sophia and Johannes' exhibition and mural…

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September 2020

Digital Diasporas with FestivALT

Thu September 24, 2020 @ 17:00 - 18:15

Digital Diasporas with FestivALT Thursday September 24 at 5:00PM EDT We are excited to be hosting the artists, thinkers, and creators behind a new art-activism project from Kraków-based Jewish arts collective FestivALT for the September edition of our Digital Diasporas series! Join FestivALT co-director Magda Rubenfeld-Koralewska, cultural anthropologist and curator Erica Lehrer and artist Jaqueline Nicholls to discover their approach to a new critical intervention around Jewish subject matter in the Krakow Ethnographic Museum, and the ways it has changed…

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November 2020

Digital Diasporas with Joey Ramona and New Ways of Worship Zine Launch

Thu November 12, 2020 @ 17:30 - 18:30

As part of our collaboration with Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist Joey Ramona, the first featured artist of our contemporary arts cycle Permanence, we are thrilled to announce the November edition of our Digital Diasporas series. This session will feature not only an artist presentation, but the launch of a new zine publication! Join Joey and the curatorial team at the Museum of Jewish Montreal on Zoom to learn about Joey’s work as a Queer Jewish tattoo artist, their experiences with their practice through the pandemic, and…

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Zine-Making Workshop with Joey Ramona & Jess Goldman

Tue November 17, 2020 @ 17:30 - 18:30

Join tattoo artist Joey Ramona and writer Jess Goldman for a zine-making workshop hosted by the Museum of Jewish Montreal! This will be an interactive workshop over Zoom that, though online, will encourage us to be in our bodies and be present in our creative processes in the context of a virtual community. Joey and Jess will be teaching basic, accessible methods of zine-making - all are welcome from zine-making veterans to first-time chapbookers! Together we will learn how to…

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November 2023

Artist Talk with Sonia Bazar

Thu November 9, 2023 @ 18:00 - 19:00
McClure Gallery, 350 Victoria Avenue
Westmount, Quebec H3Z 2N4 Canada
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In collaboration with the McClure Gallery, artist Sonia Bazar will present a talk about their multimedia installation BACK RIVER at the Museum of Jewish Montreal. Sonia will be presenting with Dr. Anna Sheftel, Principal of the School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia University, with whom she is collaborating on a research project on the Back River cemetery. Their research explores erasure, time and death within the framework of the Back River Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Montreal’s oldest Jewish cemetery,…

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Vernissage | BACK RIVER

Thu November 23, 2023 @ 19:00 - 22:00
Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.
Montréal, Québec H2T 1S1 Canada
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On November 23, join us for the public vernissage of BACK RIVER by Montreal-based artist Sonia Bazar. The latest exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Montreal, BACK RIVER weaves together themes of loss, memory, community, and urban landscapes, contemplating what is forgotten, and how it can be remembered. Centred upon the Back River Cemetery – one of Montreal’s oldest Jewish cemeteries, located in Ahuntsic – this multidisciplinary body of work explores the burial ground’s peculiar and enigmatic place in our city’s…

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January 2024

BEHIND BACK RIVER: Gallery Tour with Sonia Bazar and Dr. Anna Sheftel

Thu January 11 @ 18:30 - 20:00
Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.
Montréal, Québec H2T 1S1 Canada
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Join us for a special tour of our current exhibition BACK RIVER, that reveals the ongoing research behind the exhibition and the many hidden stories of the Back River Cemetery. Led by researchers from Concordia University's Department of History, Dr. Anna Sheftel and Naomi Frost, alongside artist Sonia Bazar, participants will have the chance to learn about the process of and fascinating reciprocal relationship between research and art-making. The 45 minute walking conversation will conclude with a question and answer period.…

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