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July 7, 2006
See international Jewish artists
Performances, shows and exhibitions worldwide highlight our global
talent for creativity.
KATHARINE HAMER EDITOR
OK, we're in the middle of a long, hot summer, and most of us are
probably thinking about hanging around at the beach. But if you're
taking an indoor break, here are some members of the tribe, performing
and exhibiting both locally and farther afield, that are worth checking
out.
Dancer and Chutzpah! festival regular Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg
appears this weekend in Mascall Dance's world première
of Bean Bar Zambuka at the Dancing on the Edge Festival.
The piece encompasses a wide variety of styles, from hip hop to
ballet to butoh and circus moves. Other performers at the festival
include Vancouver's Wen Wei Wang, London's sirenscrossing and Montreal's
Compagnie Marie Chouinard, with a recreation of both Stravinsky's
The Rite of Spring and Nijinsky's Prelude à L'après-midi
d'un Faune. For more information, visit www.dancingontheedge.org.
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Along with director Betsy Carson, Vancouver producer Dan Schlanger
helmed a CBC documentary on one of Canada's most beloved artists.
The Life and Times of Evelyn Hart airs on CBC Newsworld at
2:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 9. Carson and Schlanger spent two years
following Hart, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet star whose career as a
ballerina has spanned three decades. This documentary is a revealing
look at her life both on stage and behind the scenes.
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"You are the folk, this is your festival" is the tagline
for the Vancouver International Folk Festival, which runs over the
weekend of July 14-16 at Jericho Park. Among the dozens of performers
playing to the masses is Dan Bern, who grew up the only Jewish
kid in a small town in Iowa and now makes regular appearances on
the international festival circuit with his Bob Dylan-esque stylings.
Other artists of note playing at the folk fest this year are Canadian-born,
Paris-based Feist, Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq and dub poet
Clifton Joseph. For more information, visit www.thefestival.bc.ca.
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On at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York through Dec.
31 is the exhibition Ours to Fight For: American Jews in the Second
World War.
This award-winning exhibition explores the roles of Jewish men and
women who were part of the American war effort in Europe, the Pacific
and at home. Ours to Fight For honors Second World War veterans
who tell their stories through video testimony, artifacts, letters
and photographs. An interactive gallery presents the experiences
of other ethnic groups who contributed to the Allies' fight to preserve
democracy.
Visitors are invited to bring photos of themselves or their loved
ones in uniform during the Second World War to be scanned and eventually
displayed in the exhibition. For more information, visit www.
mjhnyc.org.
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Running until Feb. 25, 2007, at the Contemporary Jewish Museum
in San Francisco is The Jewish Identity Project: New American
Photography.
The exhibit explores the way multiculturalism is changing the face
of North American Jewry through the work of 13 up-and-coming artists
in 10 newly commissioned photographic, video and multimedia projects.
For information, visit www.thecjm.org.
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To mark 350 years of Jewish life in Britain, the Jewish Museum
in London is staging Identities 2006. The exhibit draws on filmed
interviews and photographs to illustrate the little-recognized diversity
of roots and experience among Jewish people in Britain and draw
parallels with the lives of other minority communities.
Over the summer, the museum is also mounting Life is Red –
an exhibition of miniatures, sculptures and textiles created by
students from Prague, London and Nürnberg, representing their
responses to the Holocaust – and presenting a series of lectures,
including Growing Up Jewish, featuring Canadian Jerry Cohen
on growing up in a Yiddish communist household in Montreal. For
more information, visit www.jewishmuseum.org.uk.
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