Rugelach-Making Workshop
Online via ZOOMIn celebration of Shavuot, join the Wandering Chew in a virtual baking class and learn how to make one of the very best sweet dairy treats: rugelach! More details to come soon.
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How not to kill your houseplants with Plantbaby studio
Online via ZOOMThe Museum of Jewish Montreal is thrilled to bring you Plantbaby studio’s “How not to kill your houseplants” workshop! If you didn’t get a chance to see our exhibition “Snapshots from the Garden of Eden” by Dina Goldstein you are in luck! This workshop will begin with a brief...
Storytime with Léo
Online via ZOOMJoin us Sunday, June 14th at 11 AM EDT for some arts and crafts fun and story time with Maggie Winston of Lost & Found Puppet Co. and her puppet friend Léo the artist! Maggie and Léo will be telling the stories: “The Art Lesson: A Shavuot Story” by Allison...
Digital Diasporas with Sara Erenthal
Online via ZOOMWe 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...
Digital Diasporas with Artists 4 Long Term Care
Online via ZOOMWe 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...
Digital Diasporas with Sophia Hirsch and Johannes Mundinger
Online via ZOOMWe 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,...
Date Night Tours
Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal 5220 St. Laurent blvd., Montréal, Québec, CanadaTired of staying in for dinner and a movie? We've got you covered! On September 9th, 2020, the Museum of Jewish Montreal is inviting you to our first ever Date Night Tours! Join us with your partner or BFF for a cozy evening tour ending with a picnic in the...
**SOLD-OUT**Queering Yiddish Folktales: SCHMUTZ Chapbook Launch in the Park
Parc Jeanne-ManceJoin us for the reading & launch of SCHMUTZ, a new chapbook of queered Yiddish folklore by Jess Goldman. In these days of pyjama-clad monotony, we'd like to invite you all to get fabulous and dress up as your favourite folkloric demon, or perhaps a demon of your own invention!...
Virtual Moroccan Rosh Hashanah Cooking Workshop with Wandering Chew & New York Shuk
Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal 5220 St. Laurent blvd., Montréal, Québec, CanadaRosh Hashanah is right around the corner and we want to help you create a memorable and delicious holiday table, no matter how many people are gathered around it. Alongside familiar staples, we love to include different food traditions as part of our holiday meals. In this spirit, we’re hosting...
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal 5220 St. Laurent blvd., Montréal, Québec, CanadaJoin us with our partners, the Jewish Public Library, for a discussion on How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish, with authors Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert. A momentous and diverse anthology of the influences and inspirations of Yiddish voices in America – radical, dangerous, and seductive, but also sweet,...
Red Light Walking Tour
Southeast corner of Boulevard René Lévesque and Boulevard St. LaurentJoin us in welcoming back Karen Herland for a special walking tour of Montreal’s historic Red Light District! Sex work, especially in its most visible forms, tends to be recognized as a problem, requiring intervention and eradication. As a major transportation hub and port city, many sectors of Montreal’s economy...
Digital Diasporas with FestivALT
Online via ZOOMDigital 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...
Virtual Klezmer Brunch with Ariane Morin & Yoni Kaston
Online via ZOOMThe wait is over - on October 18th, the Museum of Jewish Montreal and KlezKanada invite you to our second digital Klezmer Brunch! The event will consist of 1 hour of live Klezmer music by Ariane Morin and Yoni Kaston. They will perform their repertoire of classic klezmer tunes. A...
Virtual Brazilian-Jewish Cooking Workshop with The Wandering Chew and Mauricio Schuartz
Online via ZOOMJoin the Wandering Chew for a virtual Brazilian-Jewish cooking workshop on October 25th at 12pm EST. Mauricio Schuartz, who grew up and lives in São Paulo, will be joining us to share a family recipe that will be a mix of both Jewish and Brazilian food cultures. More details to...
Games I Don’t Want to Play: Horah Alone
Online via ZOOMMichelle Soicher and Joseph Glaser invite you to join them for an evening of Jewish existential dread and fun to launch the start of their project Games I Don’t Want to Play: Horah Alone. Michelle and Joseph have combined their theatre and music backgrounds to create Games I Don’t Want...
Songs of Salomon: Piano Concert with Alexandra Gorlin Crenshaw
OnlinePlease join us for Songs of Salomon, a multimedia performance by pianist/soprano Alexandra Gorlin-Crenshaw, based on the work of the German-Jewish painter, Charlotte Salomon Charlotte Salomon was born in Berlin in 1917 and perished in Auschwitz in 1943. She became known only many years posthumously for her multidisciplinary work Leben?...
Digital Diasporas with Joey Ramona and New Ways of Worship Zine Launch
Online via ZOOMAs 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...
Zine-Making Workshop with Joey Ramona & Jess Goldman
Online via ZOOMJoin 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...
Virtual Iranian Jewish Cooking Workshop
Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal 5220 St. Laurent blvd., Montréal, Québec, CanadaJoin us and the Wandering Chew for a virtual Iranian Jewish cooking workshop on November 22nd. We'll be joined by Tannaz Sassooni, a Los Angeles-based food writer who is working on a regional Iranian Jewish cookbook. Tannaz will teach us how to make chelo abgooshte gondi, a chicken soup with...
Virtual Hanukkah Cooking Class – Sweet Ricotta Latkes
Online via ZOOMWhat’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Hanukkah? Typically, we think of golden potato latkes frying in oil, right? Well, did you know that the first latkes were made with ricotta cheese? These delicious ricotta latkes were made by Jews living in Italy, and were...
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