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SUMMARY:Exhibition Tour | The Past Is Before You
DESCRIPTION:On September 5\,  join our curatorial team for a guided tour of The Past Is Before You by Arnie Lipsey. If you’re curious to learn more about Lipsey’s process\, or to hear the stories behind the 18 paintings on view in our gallery\, this is an excellent opportunity to gain deeper insight on our ongoing exhibition. \nAdmission is free and all are welcome! This guided tour will take approximately one hour with time for questions throughout. Please note that this tour will take place in English\, but questions may be asked in French. \nClick here to reserve your free spot. \nAccessibility: Please note that our building is not currently accessible to visitors with limited mobility. This tour will take place on the third floor\, which is accessible via stairwell only.
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/exhibition-tour-the-past-is-before-you/
LOCATION:Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal\, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T 1S1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240111T183000
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SUMMARY:BEHIND BACK RIVER: Gallery Tour with Sonia Bazar and Dr. Anna Sheftel
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 45 minute walking conversation will conclude with a question and answer period. \nThis programme will run in English\, with bilingual questions and discussion. \n  \nABOUT OUR GUESTS \nDr. Anna Sheftel is Principal and Associate Professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia University. She has a DPhil in Modern History from the University of Oxford. She does oral history of genocide\, violence and migration\, and has published extensively on oral history practice and ethics. \n  \nNaomi Frost is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Concordia University and is currently appointed as Concordia University Library’s 2023-2024 Researcher-in-Residence. Her work centers on oral history\, transgenerational memory\, and storytelling in the Cambodian post-genocide diaspora. She also works as a research assistant for the “Cemetery as Metaphor” project. \n  \nSonia Halpern-Bazar Montreal-born and based artist\, who holds an MFA in Photography from Concordia University. Through sculpture\, photography and poetry\, their practice examines the notion of alien landscapes and how the body belongs to space. After having shown their work in Canada\, Germany\, and Spain\, BACK RIVER marks Bazar’s first solo exhibition in Montreal. \n  \nRegister for tickets here: https://jlive.app/events/6426 \n 
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/behind-back-river-gallery-tour-with-sonia-bazar-and-dr-anna-sheftel/
LOCATION:Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal\, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T 1S1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art
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SUMMARY:Vernissage | BACK RIVER
DESCRIPTION: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. \nCentred 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 landscape. Bazar’s work ruminates on the challenges of solving the puzzle surrounding the cemetery’s founding\, evolution\, and near-abandonment. With the artist’s own family members buried at the Back River\, piecing together knowledge of this space becomes an act of personal archiving and placemaking. However\, absence and scarcity of information about the Back River Cemetery remain a core part of its story and the memory of its occupants.Through research-creation using archival sources and oral histories\, Bazar invites us to become part of the cemetery’s contemporary archive as she reimagines its 140-year history through photography\, installation\, and sculptural work. \nOpening remarks by the curator and the artist will take place at 8:00pm. \nKindly note that pre-registration is required for all who wish to attend. Click here to register in advance. \nA bar (payable by card only) will be open with alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage options. Complimentary refreshments provided by Violet Bakehouse will also be available. \nACCESSIBILITY: Please note that the Museum of Jewish Montreal is currently not accessible to visitors with limited mobility. This exhibition takes place on the second and third floors of our building\, accessible by staircase. Our ground floor entrance is accessible by ramp.  \nSonia Bazar and the Museum of Jewish Montreal would like to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/vernissage-back-river/
LOCATION:Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal\, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T 1S1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk with Sonia Bazar
DESCRIPTION: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. \nSonia 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.\nTheir research explores erasure\, time and death within the framework of the Back River Memorial Gardens Cemetery\, Montreal’s oldest Jewish cemetery\, dating from 1880 and still in use today. This event will be held at the McClure Gallery at 350 Victoria Avenue in Westmount. \nNo sign-up required. Click here for more information.
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/artist-talk-with-sonia-bazar/
LOCATION:McClure Gallery\, 350 Victoria Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 2N4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201117T183000
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SUMMARY:Zine-Making Workshop with Joey Ramona & Jess Goldman
DESCRIPTION:Join tattoo artist Joey Ramona and writer Jess Goldman for a zine-making workshop hosted by the Museum of Jewish Montreal! \nThis 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! \n\n\nTogether we will learn how to make a one-sheet zine\, but also gain inspiration by exploring the wide variety of styles\, topics\, and aesthetics of zines – from text-based to image-based to collage and much more. All participants are encouraged to join in with supplies scavenged from home and/or the dollar store. Joey and Jess will also share their own creative processes\, and participants will be given the opportunity to meet other participants and share what they have created in breakout rooms at the end of the workshop (though not sharing is totally fine too!).\n\n\nWe hope you can join us for a fun\, creative evening\, to enjoy some community connection\, even if it might be through a screen! And remember\, finished products are not at all required: think process not product! \nAbout Jess & Joey \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJess Goldman (she/her) is a queer Jewish white settler writer from Tkaronto (Toronto) who is currently based in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). Her writing has been published in the CBC\, Room Magazine\, and Plasma Dolphin\, among others. She is also the recipient of the Research and Creation Grant from the Canada Council of the Arts\, which she was awarded to expand SCHMUTZ\, her collection of queered Yiddish folklore\, into a full manuscript of 10 stories. You can see what she’s up to @yentlthewriter. \nJess developed a chapbook version of SCHMUTZ under the Museum of Jewish Montreal’s Microgrant Program for Creative and Cultural exploration. Check it out here! \nJoey Ramona (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary artist from Toronto\, Ontario\, specializing in tattooing. They have been tattooing professionally for 13 years\, and graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2011 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. As well as tattooing\, Joey maintains a steady painting practice\, and has recently ventured into making Judaica\, like kippot and mezuzah covers. They also make zines and other DIY literature\, and their work has been featured in Jewish Currents\, Hey Alma\, and Inside Out. \nJoey is the first featured artist of the Museum’s 2020-2021 contemporary art cycle Permanence\, for which they developed a new zine publication\, New Ways of Worship\, on Jewish Queer identity\, celebrating Yiddishkeit\, and tattooing. \nAbout Permanence Art Cycle at MJM \nPermanence began as the theme for the Museum’s 2020-2021 art exhibition cycle. Reoriented and adapted for a socially-distanced and increasingly digital world\, this cycle invites artists to question and examine the many permutations of ‘forever.’ Through a series of artistic innovations and events\, we invite the public to consider permanence in a moment of flux\, whether in the ephemera of [in]stability\, the way we make lasting spaces for our communities\, the unseen but constant presences that shape us\, or the quiet\, determined mutability of the seemingly eternal. \nThis event is free and will be held via Zoom. Please register in advance by clicking this link. You will receive the Zoom link one hour before the event. If you wish to make a donation\, you’ll have the option to do so upon registration. Any amount is greatly appreciated. Thank you! \nThis event was made possible through the ROI Community Grassroots Events program.
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/zine-making-workshop-with-joey-ramona-jess-goldman/
LOCATION:Online via ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Art
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SUMMARY:Digital Diasporas with Joey Ramona and New Ways of Worship Zine Launch
DESCRIPTION: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! \n\n\nJoin 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 the creation of their new zine New Ways of Worship as part of their collaboration with the Museum of Jewish Montreal. As a self-identified Queer\, feminist Jewish artist\, Ramona uses tattooing to delve into deeper avenues of self-expression that relate not only to their identity\, but also to the Jewishness of their clients. Come learn about this new radical way of Jewish celebration and ritual with Joey Ramona! \nAttendees to this event will have the chance to receive a free copy of Joey’s zine shipped to their house. The first 80 registrants to Digital Diasporas with Joey Ramona will receive a bound\, colour copy of New Ways of Worship in the mail. Don’t forget to include your address when registering! Only attendees living in Canada with a Canadian shipping address are eligible for this free mail-out. \nAbout Joey Ramona \nJoey Ramona a multi-disciplinary artist from Toronto\, Ontario\, specializing in tattooing. They have been tattooing professionally for 13 years\, and graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2011 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. As well as tattooing\, Joey maintains a steady painting practice\, and has recently ventured into making Judaica\, like kippot and mezuzah covers. They also make zines and other DIY literature\, and their work has been featured in Jewish Currents\, Hey Alma\, and Inside Out. \nAbout Permanence Art Cycle at MJM \nPermanence began as the theme for the Museum’s 2020-2021 art exhibition cycle. Reoriented and adapted for a socially-distanced and increasingly digital world\, this cycle invites artists to question and examine the many permutations of ‘forever.’ Through a series of artistic innovations and events\, we invite the public to consider permanence in a moment of flux\, whether in the ephemera of [in]stability\, the way we make lasting spaces for our communities\, the unseen but constant presences that shape us\, or the quiet\, determined mutability of the seemingly eternal. \nAbout Digital Diasporas Event Series \nMuch 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 that forge new communities and connections despite geographic distance. In short\, it’s a series about being apart\, together. Join us each month as selected artists take us through their practice prior to the pandemic\, their innovations in response to social distancing\, and their visions for the future. \nThis event is free and will be held via Zoom. Please register in advance by clicking this link. You will receive the Zoom link one hour before the event. If you wish to make a donation\, you’ll have the option to do so upon registration. Any amount is greatly appreciated. Thank you! \nThis event was made possible through the ROI Community Grassroots Events program.
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/digital-diasporas-with-joey-ramona-and-new-ways-of-worship-zine-launch/
LOCATION:Online via ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Art,Digital Diasporas
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200924T170000
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SUMMARY:Digital Diasporas with FestivALT
DESCRIPTION:Digital Diasporas with FestivALT \nThursday September 24 at 5:00PM EDT \nWe 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! \nJoin 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 and evolved as a result of the global pandemic. \nThis event is free and will be held on Zoom. Click here to register via Eventbright. \nAbout the Project: Despite its location in a former Jewish school in the heart of the Jewish quarter in Kraków\, Poland\, and covering one of the richest periods of multicultural history in Galicia\, the permanent exhibit of the city’s historic Ethnographic Museum (MEK) barely addresses Jewish or other minority cultures. In July 2019 FestivALT initiated a public conversation with the Museum’s Director regarding the museum’s ethnic depictions and silences. MEK had no prior contact with Kraków’s Jewish community\, and the results of that conversation were surprising for all\, catalyzing a process of collaboration with the Jewish community and self-critique for the museum\, to consider how it might better exhibit Jewish and minority cultures going forward. \nIn 2020 FestivALT is collaborating with Professor Erica Lehrer (a Montreal-based cultural anthropologist with longstanding connections to Poland and MEK) and partnering with four artists working in mixed media (Jacqueline Nicholls\, Dorota Mytych\, Wiktor Podgórski and Edward Pasewicz) to design a large-scale multi-media installation responding to the museum’s problematic content. Due to COVID-19\, the works will be projected on the museum\, raising questions and offering curatorial dreams for after lockdown. \nJoin us to discuss this unfolding activist provocation! \nAbout the speakers \nErica Lehrer – cultural anthropologist and curator\, teaches at Concordia University\, Founding Director of the Curating and Public Scholarship Lab (CaPSL) http://capsl.cerev.ca/director/\nJaqueline Nicholls – visual artist\, educator and cultural events producer. Her art engages traditional Jewish ideas in untraditional ways. http://www.jacquelinenicholls.com/\nMagda Rubenfeld Koralewska – graphic designer\, social entrepreneur\, activist\, co-founder and co-artistic director of FestivALT. http://festivalt.com \n  \nAbout Digital Diasporas \nMuch 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 that forge new communities and connections despite geographic distance. In short\, it’s a series about being apart\, together. Join us each month as selected artists take us through their practice prior to the pandemic\, their innovations in response to social distancing\, and their visions for the future.
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/digital-diasporas-festivalt/
LOCATION:Online via ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Art,Digital Diasporas
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200826T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200826T160000
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SUMMARY:Digital Diasporas with Sophia Hirsch and Johannes Mundinger
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to announce the August edition of our Digital Diasporas series with invited international multidisciplinary artists Sophia Hirsch and Johannes Mundinger! \nSophia 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 until 2021. \nJoin us August 26th at 3pm on Zoom for an introduction to their collaborative artistic practice\, and what new projects they have been working on in these uncertain times. \nThis event is free and will be held via Zoom.  \nPlease register in advance by clicking here this link. You will receive the Zoom link one hour before the event. If you wish to make a donation\, you’ll have the option to do so upon registration. Any amount is greatly appreciated. Thank you! \nAbout the Artists \nSophia and Johannes have worked with institutions such as the Galicia Jewish Museum Kraków (2014)\, the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp Memorial\, Berlin (2018)\, painted a mural for the commemoration of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising in Berlin (2014) and another mural inspired by Polish Jewish artist Jankel Adler for the Museum of Lodz and Urban Forms Lodz (2017). \nIn 2013 they won the jury prize of the Berliner Kunstverein for their installation Kritische Masse and were invited as artists in Residence to UMI Art Center Uzupis\, Vilnius\, Lithuania (2014)\, The Art Cube Artists Studius\, Jerusalem (2017) or Yeobaek Seowon\, Gyenggi-Do\, South Korea (2019). \nThey painted murals for numerous institutions and cities\, mostly within Europe\, but also in Mexico\, Russia and Israel. In April 2020\, Sophia and Johannes completed a triptych mural commissioned by the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial and Museum to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the camp’s liberation. \nSophia Hirsch was born 1987 in Berlin and is based in Halle\, Germany and graduated from the Weißensee Academie of Art\, Berlin\, and has also studied at University of Art and Design\, Halle and Bezalel Academy of Art\, Jerusalem. Sophia Hirsch has been working as art educator at the Memorial for the former concentration camp Sachsenhausen\, Berlin\, since 2012. \nJohannes Mundinger was born 1982 in Offenburg\, Germany\, and is based in Berlin. He graduated from Münster School of Design\, his exchange studies led him to the Academy of Fine Arts\, Brussels. \nAbout Digital Diasporas \nMuch 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 that forge new communities and connections despite geographic distance. In short\, it’s a series about being apart\, together. Join us each month as selected artists take us through their practice prior to the pandemic\, their innovations in response to social distancing\, and their visions for the future.\n—
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/digital-diasporas4/
LOCATION:Online via ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Art,Digital Diasporas
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200721T174500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200721T184500
DTSTAMP:20260502T104506
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SUMMARY:Digital Diasporas with Artists 4 Long Term Care
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to present the July edition of our new Digital Diasporas series featuring Artists 4 Long Term Care! \nArtists 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 with the hashtag #artists4longtermcare. \nArtists are encouraged to create images of love\, appreciation\, resilience\, resistance and humour with an eye towards increasing the visibility of those inside long-term care facilities with the hope that many of these materials will be displayed on the walls of these facilities to boost resident and staff morale. \nAbout Digital Diasporas: 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 that forge new communities and connections despite geographic distance. In short\, it’s a series about being apart\, together. Join us each month as selected artists take us through their practice prior to the pandemic\, their innovations in response to social distancing\, and their visions for the future. \n— \nThis event is free and will be held via Zoom. Please register in advance using this link. You will receive the Zoom link one hour before the event. If you wish to make a donation\, you’ll have the option to do so upon registration. Any amount is greatly appreciated. Thank you! \n***Registration closes Tuesday\, July 21st at 4:45 PM EDT***
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/digital-diasporas-with-artists-4-long-term-care/
LOCATION:Online via ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Art,Digital Diasporas
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200616T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200616T183000
DTSTAMP:20260502T104506
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SUMMARY:Digital Diasporas with Sara Erenthal
DESCRIPTION:We are so thrilled to present the June edition of our new Digital Diasporas series featuring multi-disciplinary artist Sara Erenthal!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSara 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. \nAbout Digital Diasporas \nMuch 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 that forge new communities and connections despite geographic distance. In short\, it’s a series about being apart\, together. \nJoin us each month as selected artists take us through their practice prior to the pandemic\, their innovations in response to social distancing\, and their visions for the future. \nAbout Sara Erenthal \nBorn into an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family\, Sara Erenthal left home at 17 to avoid an arranged marriage and spent the next two decades creating art and traveling the world. She works across painting\, sculpture\, and performance\, often integrating everyday materials into her process. When not in her studio\, Erenthal can be found working on the streets\, reinventing discarded objects and painting provocative portraits. Within the past few years\, Sara’s murals have been featured in a range of local\, national\, and international street art festivals\, including the renowned Montreal Mural Festival. Erenthal’s work has also been presented in solo and group exhibitions in New York City\, Montreal and Tel Aviv. Her work has been reviewed and profiled in The New York Times\, The Jewish Week\, Haaretz\, Vice\, The Village Voice\, CBS New York\, Gothamist\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and Artnet among others. \nRegister through the Eventbrite link! \nThis event is free and will be held via Zoom. You will receive the Zoom link one hour before the event. If you wish to make a donation\, you’ll have the option to do so upon registration. Any amount is greatly appreciated. Thank you! \n***Registration closes Tuesday\, June 16th at 4:30 PM EDT***
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/digital-diasporas-with-sara-erenthal/
LOCATION:Online via ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Art,Digital Diasporas
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200514T133000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200514T143000
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SUMMARY:Digital Diasporas: Sala-Manca & The Museum of the Contemporary
DESCRIPTION:  \nAs 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. \nMuch 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 that forge new communities and connections despite geographic distance. In short\, it’s a series about being apart\, together. \nJoin us each month as selected artists take us through their practice prior to the pandemic\, their innovations in response to social distancing\, and their visions for the future. \n————- \nJoin the Sala-Manca Group‘s Lea Mauas (General & Artistic director of Mamuta Art & Research Centre) and Diego Rotman (Head of the Department of Theater Studies at the Hebrew University) for a discussion and presentation on the critical thought and approach behind their practice before\, during\, and after COVID-19. Their discussion will concentrate on some past key projects done through the Museum of the Contemporary\, among them the online event “Comment 13: Something is Rotten in The State of Denmark” that took place April 4\, 2020\, in the early days of COVID-19 restrictions. \nThe Sala-Manca group will share their tactics\, way of working and their experiences as founders\, directors\, guides\, guards and custodians of the Museum of the Contemporary. \nRegister here through Eventbrite!  \nThis event is free and will be held via Zoom. You will receive further information on how to connect through Zoom upon registration. \n————- \nThe Museum of the Contemporary was founded in December 2009 at the Mamuta Art and Research Center in the Ein Karem area of Jerusalem\, Israel – a physical and digital institution/framework that appears and disappears\, only to reappear elsewhere. The Museum of the Contemporary’s first physical home was at the Ethnographic Department of the Museum of the Contemporary\, opened on December 31\, 2014 in the basement space of the Hansen House\, the former leprosarium in Jerusalem. The Ethnographic Department inhabits the seam between art museum and ethnographic museum\, and between visual art and popular art\, exploring the tensions between the original\, the recreation\, the copy\, and the processed. \n  \nThe Sala-Manca Group is an independent group of artists that has been active in Jerusalem since 2000\, pursuing creative work in a wide range of fields\, including performance\, video\, poetry\, and public art. Sala-Manca’s works deal with poetics of translation (cultural\, mediatic\, and social)\, with textual\, urban and net contexts\, and with the tensions between low tech and high tech aesthetics\, as well as social and political issues. The group consists of two artists\, Lea Mauas and Diego Rotman. It works in collaboration with many artists\, curators\, and cultural institutions in Israel and abroad. Over the years\, over 500 artists\, curators\, filmmakers\, poets\, architects\, and artists from other fields have taken part in its various projects. Sala-Manca published Hearat Shulaym – (Note in the Margin): Independent Quarterly for Contemporary Art and Literature (2001-2007)\, and curates and produces Heara events – multidisciplinary and collaborative events independently organized with no commercial or official sponsors. In 2009 they founded the Mamuta Art and Media Center.
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/digital-diasporas-sala-manca/
LOCATION:Online via ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Art,Digital Diasporas
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SUMMARY:Artist talk with Dina Goldstein
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special afternoon with internationally-acclaimed contemporary Canadian artist Dina Goldstein.\n\n\n \n\n\nSunday\, March 8th 2020 from 4:00pm to 5:30pm at the Museum of Jewish Montreal (RC01-4040 boul. St-Laurent). \n\n\n \n\n\nDina 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.\n\n\n \n\n\nDina Goldstein’s artist talk is free and open to the public; pre-registration is encouraged due to limited capacity. To register\, please visit: http://bit.ly/ArtTalkGoldstein\n\n\n \n\n\nAbout the Artist\n\n\nDina Goldstein\, b. 1969\n\n\nDina began her career over 25 years ago as a photojournalist\, evolving from a documentary and editorial photographer into an independent artist focusing on large-scale productions of nuanced photographic tableaux. Her work is highly conceptual and complex\, incorporating cultural archetypes and iconography with satirical narratives inspired by the collective unconscious and the human condition. The vivid and provocative still imagery emerges through an entirely cinematic technique\, with Dina’s established methodology following a precise pre- to post production process. Leaning into the visual language of pop surrealism\, she stages narrative compositions that expose the underbelly of modern life\, challenging the notions of cultural influence and inherent belief systems.
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/artist-talk-with-dina-goldstein/
LOCATION:Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal\, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T 1S1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200518
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SUMMARY:Snapshots from the Garden of Eden - Dina Goldstein
DESCRIPTION:Image: Dina Goldstein\, The Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge\, 2017\n\nOnce upon a time… the wicked witch was Lilith\, Queen of the Demons\, the magical apple came from the Garden of Eden\,  \nand the first Rapunzel was Princess Keziah\, daughter of King Solomon\, locked in a tower waiting for true love… \n  \nThe Museum of Jewish Montreal invites you to its new exhibition Snapshots from the Garden of Eden by Canadian contemporary artist Dina Goldstein to discover the unexpected parallels between well-loved fairytales and the oft-overlooked but rich tradition of Jewish fables\, in relation to contemporary issues and themes. \nSnapshots from the Garden of Eden reimagines\, through a series of stylized photographs\, modernized versions of Jewish tales collected in the book Leaves from the Garden of Eden by award-winning folklorist Howard Schwartz. Known for her inventive reinterpretations of cultural symbols\, Goldstein’s Snapshots reframes Jewish fables both famed and overlooked. Through her work\, the history of Jewish folklore is catapulted into the modern era through a cast of characters and film noir-esque scenes that consider questions around technology\, desire\, death\, and identity\, exploring folk narratives and cultural symbols with clever allusions and irreverence. \nSnapshots from the Garden of Eden will be on display from February 20th to May 17th\, 2020 as part of the Museum of Jewish Montreal’s 2010/2020 contemporary art exhibition series Inside/Out. \n  \n[slide-anything id=”36676″] \nImage credits: Photography by Gabriela Opas and Maëlle André \nview exhibition guide \n❦ ❦ ❦ ❦ \nThe Museum of Jewish Montreal is an innovative place to connect with Montreal’s Jewish life and identify\, share our diverse heritage\, and create new cultural experiences. Our 2019/2020 contemporary art exhibition series Inside/Out\, examines what exists in the space between inside and out\, personal and public\, or real and imagined. The Inside/Out exhibition series has been made possible through the Shaping our Future Grant\, thanks to the generous support of the Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal\, the Nussia and Andre Aisenstadt Foundation\, and Federation CJA.
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/snapshots-from-the-garden-of-eden/
LOCATION:Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal\, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T 1S1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200123T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200123T210000
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SUMMARY:Patterns by Jonathan Rotsztain
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin 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.  \nThis event is free and open to the public. \nCash bar at fletchers \nArtist\, writer\, and cartoonist Jonathan Rotsztain’s visual narratives assert a contemporary\, cultural Jewish identity. Patterns is born out of Rotsztain’s autobiographical Self-Loving Jew comic series – which reclaims the “self-hating Jew” trope and honours Jewish tradition from a contemporary and intersectional perspective. Built around a triptych of self-portraits and a projected decorative-arts-inspired pattern\, Patterns subverts the traditional sequential comic format\, presenting itself as a non-linear collection of experiences where distance disappears and time becomes almost circular. \nIn daylight\, the series of life-size figures outwardly present moments of celebration\, reflection and torment\, which result from the cycle of processing identity\, privilege and inherited trauma. After sundown\, a motif of the artist’s neuroses appears\, much like subconscious fears emerging in dreams. This pattern mirrors textiles used for household items like curtains or wallpaper—used to adorn while camouflaging stains. It invites a closer inspection\, revealing thorny foliage evocative of a family tree\, intertwined with totems of Jewish cultural heritage (challah loaves\, tablets of the covenant\, hamsas\, serpents\, and Leonard Cohen’s unified hearts). \nThe vermiculated foliage surrounds oblong vignettes. Depictions of recurring childhood nightmares\, stirred by his grandparents’ experiences in the Holocaust\, are contrasted with dreams of longing for a sense of home and rootedness. Other depictions include the artist embracing a Havdalah candle\, which acts as the beam between scales–where icons of colonial-settler Canadiana are outweighed by a mound of earth with a tobacco plant. The artist clings to his Jewish immigrant heritage while adapting to contemporary secular values\, and acknowledging the complexity of rebuilding a life from the ashes of genocide in a country which is still working towards reconciling the erasure of Indigenous peoples’ presence and contributions. Rotsztain ultimately reveals his many faces through examining the inconspicuous root causes of inherited patterns of behaviour and thinking. \n  \n– About Jonathan Rotsztain’s “Self-Loving Jew” comic series – \nJonathan Rotsztain’s “Self-Loving Jew” comic series asserts a contemporary\, cultural Jewish identity. The work is a secular reclamation of the self-hating Jew slur. As published in the Canadian Jewish News\, The Forward and Koffler Centre of the Arts digital platform\, each comic book essay seeks to briefly explore a topic of religious significance while challenging and embracing the various contradictions of reconciling these practices with secular life. Self-Loving Jew comics are an engaging attempt to establish a new discourse that embraces a Jewish future based on knowledge and respect for Jewish religious practices while acknowledging an equal place for Jews of all orientations\, backgrounds and value considerations.  \n  \n– About the Artist – \nJonathan Rotsztain is an artist\, writer and graphic designer based in Toronto. He earned his MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont and has participated in the Yiddish Book Center’s TENT: Comics seminar and two Asylum Arts Jewish arts retreats. His artwork has recently appeared in the Zap! Pow! Oy! – Jews and the Comic Book Industry group show\, Gateways group show at the Toronto Island Jack Layton Ferry Terminal and in his debut solo show Patterns at Toronto’s FENTSTER Gallery. His comics have appeared in Metro\, Carte Blanche\, Noah Richler’s 2015 federal election memoir The Candidate: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail. \nAn earlier version of Patterns was commissioned by FENTSTER in Toronto.  \nThis event was made possible through the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation’s Grassroots Events program.
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/patterns-by-jonathan-rotsztain/
LOCATION:Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal\, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T 1S1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200210
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SUMMARY:Return to The Fortress by Julie Gladstone
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe 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. \nDuring 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 her family’s expulsion from the town of Béjar in 1492 during the Spanish Inquisition. Following this experience\, the artist is pleased to present an interdisciplinary body of work that considers the mythology of homeland and connection to ancestry. \nReturn to The Fortress —the first installment of the MJM’s 2019-2020 exhibition series Inside/Out— combines abstract painting and personal narrative to explore themes of identity\, belonging\, and reconciliation. By depicting motifs of protection and camouflage in her work\, Gladstone’s disguises reveal as much as they hide. Drawings\, textile work\, and an installation altarpiece further explore intersections between personal and ancestral healing\, and the duality of home as both physical place and internal space. \n  \n[slide-anything id=”35539″] \n  \nJulie Gladstone is a Canadian artist currently based in Toronto. Holding a BFA from Concordia University (Montreal)\, Gladstone has had solo exhibitions at Walnut Contemporary\, Navillus Gallery\, GN Contemporary\, Museo Judio David Melul de Béjar\, and her work has been included in group exhibitions across Canada and the US\, receiving media attention from CBC Arts\, The Guardian\, Toronto Life and Notable. \nGladstone is currently an MFA Candidate in the Interdisciplinary Studio Arts program at OCADU\, and is the recipient of the Artscape Award (2014)\, the CSCE Emerging Artist Award at the Art Gallery of Alberta (2016). She has participated in artist residencies at Artscape Gibraltar Point\, SIM International Artist Residency (Iceland)\, and MUSE (Montreal). Her work can be found in private collections in Canada\, the US\, Germany and England\, the City of Edmonton\, the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers\, The David Melul Jewish Museum\, and El Ayuntamiento de Bejar. \nIn 2019\, Gladstone was invited by the David Medul Jewish Museum and the City of Bejar\, Spain –the town from which her Sephardic ancestors were expelled over 500 years ago —to produce a body of work exploring themes related to diaspora\, belonging\, and mythologies of home. \n————————— \nThe Museum of Jewish Montreal is an innovative place to connect with Montreal’s Jewish life and identify\, share our diverse heritage\, and create new cultural experiences. Our 2019/2020 contemporary art exhibition series Inside/Out\, examines what exists in the space between inside and out\, personal and public\, or real and imagined. The Inside/Out exhibition series has been made possible through the Shaping our Future Grant\, thanks to the generous support of the Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal\, the Nussia and Andre Aisenstadt Foundation\, and Federation CJA. \nJoin us for the Vernissage on Thursday\, October 24 from 7pm to 9pm\, and again on Sunday\, October 27 for Tête-à-tête: Artist Julie Gladstone in Conversation with Emma Haraké
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/return-to-the-fortress/
LOCATION:Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal\, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T 1S1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190626
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190916
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SUMMARY:Darkroom by Edward Hillel
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe 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. \nThe Museum of Jewish Montreal\, a contemporary cultural hub and meeting point for the diverse communities that have lived and now reside along the Main\, is a fitting location for Hillel’s Chambre Noire/Darkroom. The Museum’s gallery space will be transformed into an imaginary darkroom production space\, bringing together large-scale black and white film strips\, never-before-seen contact sheets\, physical and virtual copies of The Main\, as well as a monumental participatory map that engages visitors to explore\, connect their own dots and share their own stories. At night\, the exhibition will come further to life as the red lights of the darkroom beckon mysteriously out from the Museum’s fourteen large windows towards the boulevard at the corner of St-Laurent and Duluth. \nHillel’s installation is further informed by site-specificity as he pays homage to the history and processes of analog photography\, and to this former factory building where MJM is located. After the end of textile manufacturing in the 60’s\, the building languished until it was purchased by a co-operative of creatives. Since then it has housed many photographers\, filmmakers and artists who make a vibrant contribution to the cultural life of the city\, the province as well as internationally. No doubt some dark rooms still thrive here. \n[slide-anything id=”37684″] \nBorn in Baghdad\, Iraq\, Hillel grew up in Montreal where he lived and worked as a community organizer in the Plateau neighbourhood between 1975 and 1990 while developing his artistic practice. His social activism and involvement in community life inspired him to document this transitional moment through photography and text. In 1990 Hillel moved from Montreal to Paris and is now based in New York. In 2017 the Société de Developpement du Boulevard St. Laurent commissioned him to revisit The Main and create a new body of work\, due to be published soon. \nChambre Noir/Darkroom is featured as part of the Museum’s 2018-2019 exhibition series Movement & Migrations\, which places importance on sharing stories different than our own\, while encouraging recognition of ourselves in the stories of others. In collaborating with Hillel\, the Museum of Jewish Montreal is fulfilling its goal in creating multiple entry points for visitors to engage with and find personal resonance in Montreal’s Jewish heritage and its diverse communities through art\, as well as creating an inclusive space for visitors of all backgrounds to learn\, participate and exchange ideas.
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/vernissage-darkroom/
LOCATION:Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal\, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T 1S1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190606
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190617
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SUMMARY:Miss Lanouch x MJM
DESCRIPTION: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 activities will be celebrating the ways we learn strength and empowerment from the women around us. \nMiss Lanouch is a Montreal based artist of Beninese and Franco-Algerian descent. Through the exploration of human relationships\, morphological diversity and body movement\, her work takes a unique and personal approach in illustrating the cultural diversity that surrounds her. At the crossroads of cultures\, Miss Lanouch redefines multiculturalism with the tip of her brush. Through her art\, Miss Lanouch strives to highlight under-represented faces and untold stories. She establishes what unites us and what divides us; what we are and what we believe ourselves to be. \n  \nCome by between June 6-16 to check out the progress on Miss Lanouch’s mural at the corner of St-Dominique and Duluth\, and while you’re here\, stop by our booth in front of the Museum\, where we’ll be serving refreshing snacks and drinks from Fletchers – Espace Culinaire and gifts from our boutique! \n \nIn conjunction with Miss Lanouch’s mural\, we are organizing two awesome events that are not to be missed! \nJune 11: Creative entrepreneurs talk-back at Autonomisation DIY Empowerment MJMxMissLanouch \nJoin us at the Museum to hear and invited local women creatives Emily Gualtieri of Parts+Labour_Danse\, Holly Gauthier-Frankel and Stephanie E.M. Coleman of Mezari Atelier & Boutique share their personal experiences and discuss the empowering aspects of their work. \n  \nJune 13: MJMxMissLanouch: fête Denina pop-up party  Join us at the Museum for a party to celebrate MissLanouch’s mural “Mother’s love” and Denina pop-up shop! \nDenina is a Montreal ready-to-wear brand that reflects the multicultural metropolis. This brand highlights the beauty that results from the mixing of cultures in the urban environment. DENINA is distinguished by its streetwear style with a touch of glamor\, vibrant colors\, soft materials and a versatile design.
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/miss-lanouch-x-mjm/
LOCATION:Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal\, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T 1S1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190302T210000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190303T010000
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SUMMARY:Encrypted Histories - Nuit Blanche at the MJM
DESCRIPTION:This Nuit Blanche\, join us for an evening of live performance and an immersive art experience playing with cultural identity\, visual language\, and communication. Inspired by our current exhibition\, The Ocean Between Us\, for one night our Museum will be transformed into an ethereal labyrinth\, designed by artist Jordanna Ibghy\, inviting visitors to immerse themselves completely in Yuula Benivolski’s work. Throughout the evening\, we will host a series of live letter-readings in English\, French\, and Russian\, where the performers will take turns translating each others words\, creating a chorus of spoken word. This experience brings us back to the original idea behind The Ocean Between Us\, which was first inspired by letters written to the artist’s family by a formerly imprisoned Jewish Trotskyist dissident poet and journalist on the KGB watchlist in the 1970s.
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/nb-2019/
LOCATION:Québec
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190623
DTSTAMP:20260502T104506
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SUMMARY:The Ocean Between Us
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe 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. \n***extended to June 22\, 2019!*** \nRussian-Jewish artist Yuula Benivolski has interviewed and photographed Jewish immigrants in Montreal from eastern Europe\, North Africa\, and the Middle East —documenting stories\, heirlooms\, letters and photos of their family members who never made it across the ocean. Touching on themes of diaspora\, inter-community connections and intergenerational folklore –The Ocean Between Us creates physical and psychic threads between those who left and those who stayed. By exploring collective memory and identity through a lens of perseverance and humour\, Benivolski’s work employs the immigrant narrative to break down stigma\, to build and strengthen intergenerational ties\, and to create a sense of belonging. \nIn the evenings\, projections of the ocean from the coast of St. Petersburg\, Russia will fill the Museum’s street facing windows\, accompanied by transcribed excerpts from the Museum’s oral history collection featuring stories of Montreal’s diverse Jewish immigrant experiences. Inside the Gallery of the Museum of Jewish Montreal\, Benivolski’s research will be installed\, which includes her photography\, documentation\, and collections of letters and heirlooms for visitors to explore. \n  \nThe exhibition will be on display from February 1 to May 5\, 2019; during which the Museum will be offering related story-telling events\, artist talks\, and educational programming inspired by and exploring the exhibition’s themes. \n  \n[slide-anything id=”34156″] \n— About the Artist — \n \nRussian Born Toronto-based Artist Yuula Benivolski’s multidisciplinary practice spans photography\, video and installation. Her work explores aspects of collective memory and identity using strategies of visual archiving\, storytelling and autobiography. She received an MFA from Concordia University in Montreal and has recently exhibited at Trinity Square Video\, Art Metropole and the Vancouver Art Book Fair. \n  \n  \n— About Movements & Migrations — \nThe Movement & Migrations exhibition series confronts local and global mobilities\, whether physical\, spiritual\, ideological\, or emotional. Where an exhibition is a story\, this series creates space for visual narratives that explore displacement\, transition\, loss\, and/or the (re)creation of belonging. Through Movement & Migrations\, importance is placed on engaging with stories different than our own\, but also recognizing ourselves in the stories of others – an increasingly important and necessary encounter in the current political climate. \n  \n— About the Museum of Jewish Montreal — \nThe Museum of Jewish Montreal (MJM) is a not-for-profit organization that explores and shares the diverse histories and experiences of Montreal’s Jewish community. Through innovative\, multidisciplinary programming\, our museum provides an accessible gateway for people across Canada to learn about and interact with Montreal’s Jewish culture\, art and heritage while also enabling the public to share their stories and experiences. \nfor up-to-date information on our events and programming\, visit our website at https://museemontrealjuif.ca/events/ or follow Musée du Montréal juif – Museum of Jewish Montreal 
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/ocean-between-us/
LOCATION:4040 St. Laurent blvd (corner Duluth)\, 4040 St. Laurent blvd\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2W 1Y8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181025T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190127T170000
DTSTAMP:20260502T104506
CREATED:20190109T215254Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190718T145802Z
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SUMMARY:ZEI GEZUNT // PORTE-TOI BIEN // KEEP WELL
DESCRIPTION:  \nZEI 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 day and tinkered in his workshop at night. \nThe exhibition bears an aesthetic echo of Duchamp’s readymades\, but with the emotion and immediacy of a rediscovered family album.  Each piece is paired with a handwritten quote from Lejb\, lending a sense of intimacy to each unique but oddly familiar object. As Sean describes\, “[l]ike physical manifestations of his resourcefulness and emotional resilience\, Lejb’s bold\, honest creations are full of originality and joy\, while never forgetting their past.” \nEntrance to the exhibition is free. \n \n\n  \nAbout the Artists \n \nLejb Pilanski\, the son of a tailor and handy-man\, was born in Poland in 1919. During World War Two\, Lejb was in the Russian Army. His entire family perished. After the war\, Lejb met Ester\, his future wife. They were smuggled into France where they had a daughter. In 1950\, they entered Canada through Montreal as Displaced Person Refugees. \nAt 99\, Lejb still lives in the modest Toronto home he bought in the 1960s. A former sweatshop tailor\, he constructed a sewing room and workshop in his basement. There he invents and innovates\, turning used objects into unique creations. \n \nThe proud grandson of Lejb Pilanski\, Sean Wainsteim is an award winning filmmaker\, writer and artist living in Toronto\, Canada. A graduate of OCAD\, Sean splits his time between commercial\, documentary and personal film projects. Sean often uses magic-realism to explore the spaces between history and memory. \nSean’s commercial work can be found at www.seanwainsteim.com. \nSean began assembling ZEI GEZUNT // PORTE-TOI BIEN // KEEP WELL shortly after his grandmother Ester\, Lejb’s wife\, passed in January 2017. Sean tried to approach the creation and curation of the show in the same exploratory whimsical spirit he finds in his grandfather’s objects. \n  \n  \n  \nAbout Movements & Migration Exhibition Series \nZEI GEZUNT // PORTE-TOI BIEN // KEEP WELL inaugurates the Museum of Jewish Montreal’s 2018-2019 exhibition series Movements & Migrations. The series confronts local and global mobilities\, whether physical\, spiritual\, ideological\, or emotional. Where an exhibition is a story\, this series creates space for visual narratives that explore displacement\, transition\, loss\, and/or the (re)creation of belonging. Through Movement & Migrations\, importance is placed on engaging with stories different than our own\, but also recognizing ourselves in the stories of others – an increasingly important and necessary encounter in the current political climate.
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/zei-gezunt-porte-toi-bien-keep-well/
LOCATION:Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal\, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T 1S1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181009T190000
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SUMMARY:Dislocation Vernissage
DESCRIPTION:Dislocation is a research based pop-up art exhibition featuring the work of Jordanna Ibghy and Darren Rabinowitz. \nOver 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 memory\, mythology\, history\, and culture. \nJordanna Ibghy is a Montreal-born architectural designer and artist whose work focuses on movement in urban space. \nDarren Rabinowitz is an educator and movement artist based in New York City. \nDislocation will be on display and open to the public at Musée du Montréal juif – Museum of Jewish Montreal from October 9 to 21\, 2018. \nView Facebook Event \nFREE
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/dislocation-vernissage/
LOCATION:4040 St. Laurent blvd (corner Duluth)\, 4040 St. Laurent blvd\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2W 1Y8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180607
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180618
DTSTAMP:20260502T104506
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SUMMARY:MJMxMural - Its' Complicated by Sara Erenthal
DESCRIPTION:  \nA 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. \n 
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/mjmxmural-its-complicated-by-sara-erenthal/
LOCATION:Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal\, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T 1S1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180426
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180723
DTSTAMP:20260502T104506
CREATED:20190718T153420Z
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SUMMARY:Moving On
DESCRIPTION:  \nAn 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 l’avant weaves a narrative at turn heart-wrenching and uplifting – the works themselves a testament to the finding of her Purpose\, the title of the final piece showing Erenthal painting her iconic watchful self-portraits. \n  \nSara\, named by ArtNet as #1 of 10 rising street artists of 2017\, has a multi-disciplinary art practice which focuses on themes of displacement\, survival\, and liberation. Born into an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family\, she left home at 17 to avoid an arranged marriage and has spent the next two decades creating art and traveling the world. She works across mediums such as painting\, sculpting\, and performance\, often integrating everyday materials into her process. Outside her studio practice\, Erenthal is also known for painting on discarded objects in the streets giving them a new life. Repurposing these objects into artworks has become an impulse as she ventures through cities. Erenthal’s work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in New York and internationally\, in addition to mural commissions and public art projects throughout New York City. For more information on Sara: https://www.saraerenthal.com/ \n 
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/moving-on/
LOCATION:Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal\, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T 1S1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180303T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180304T000000
DTSTAMP:20260502T104506
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SUMMARY:Nuit Blanche - Lueur dans la nuit
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Museum of Jewish Montreal presents: Lueur dans la Nuit\, in partnership with Nuit blanche\, Festival Montréal en lumière\, and Téo Taxi. \nFor 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. \nOn March 3\, the Museum space will be brought to life by dancer-choreographer Lucy Fandel’s piece Lueur dans la nuit\, performed with Liliana Argumedo\, Tamar Tabori and Xdzunúm Trejo. Join us for an evening of light and warmth for this Nuit Blanche special presentation\, happening one night only! \nThroughout the piece small candles and lights are gradually dispersed as the dancers occupy the space. The performances emphasize the rich sound design and visuals of the Scintillements | 1001 Lights video installation\, by Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer of Movement Perpétuel\, currently on exhibition at the Museum. The 15-minute video installation explores themes related to Sabbath candle-lighting rituals through hand gesture choreography and individually documented ceremonies. \n[slide-anything id=”35135″]
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/nuit-blanche-lueur-dans-la-nuit/
LOCATION:Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal\, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T 1S1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180423
DTSTAMP:20260502T104506
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SUMMARY:1001 lights
DESCRIPTION:  \nScintillements | 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 day\, the piece will be on display in an intimate projection room where visitors can experience the entirety of the piece while listening to the score on headphones \n  \nMarlene Millar and Philip Szporer comprise the Montreal-based independent film\, video\, and new media company Mouvement Perpétuel\, which produces impressionistic dance-media films\, arts documentaries and multi-channel video installations.
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/1001-lights/
LOCATION:Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal\, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T 1S1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180121
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CREATED:20190718T151711Z
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SUMMARY:Miss Mitzvah
DESCRIPTION:  \nMiss 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. \nAbout the Artist \nZoe Penina Baker is an emerging New York artist working with interactive installations to tell stories and explore themes of Jewish female identity. To explore her past and current work\, please visit www.zoepeninbaker.net
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/miss-mitzvah/
LOCATION:Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal\, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T 1S1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170928
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171111
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SUMMARY:Leonard Cohen: Rituals of Absence
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe 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 celebrate his life. \nJoin us for a night of stories and community as we look back at this moment of collective remembrance. \nTickets are 7$ in advance\, and 9$ at the door.
URL:https://museemontrealjuif.ca/event/leonard-cohen-rituals-of-absence/
LOCATION:Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal\, 5220 St. Laurent blvd.\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T 1S1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art
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