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,...
Tired 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...
Join 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!...
Rosh 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...
Join 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,...
Join 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 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...
The 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...
Join 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...
Michelle 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...
Please 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?...
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...
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...
Join 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...
What’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...
Hosted in partnership with the Museum of Jewish Montreal, theatre dybbuk will present a virtual in-process presentation of its latest work-in-progress, breaking protocols. The approximately 60-minute event will be presented through Zoom and will include readings from the in-process script performed by the show’s ensemble, as well as a chat...
We are so excited to share the first instalment of Digital Diasporas for 2021 with multidisciplinary artist and performer Alessio Mazzaro. Mazzaro’s most recent project, La parole transmise (2015-20) is a trilogy of works which focus on the migration of Jews from Morocco to Paris and Montreal. In the lens...
Even though we’ve been told that they don’t, trans and genderqueer people have always existed in Judaism – in the origin stories of its sacred texts, in the extensive Rabbinic tradition of text commentary, in its poetry, and in its people. Come learn about the bigenderedness of the first human...
Join us for a live discussion and Q&A with multidisciplinary artist Lauren Prousky in our February edition of Digital Diasporas! As part of our collaboration with Kitchener-Waterloo-based multidisciplinary artist Lauren Prousky, the second featured artist of our contemporary art cycle Permanence, we are delighted to announce the February edition of...
February 17 from 7:00pm – 8:15pm EST Free Zoom Event - *Registration Required -- Click Here* Centered around a family’s pre-war life in Leipzig and the experience of their flight path to the Caribbean, Remaking Edgware is a video artwork that aims to rediscover and reimagine a history made quiet...
