Yiddish Translation Workshop with
Tamara Micner
Sunday, November 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Jewish community centre of greater vancouver
Award-winning playwright and performer Tamara Micner will lead participants in an interactive workshop where they will learn how to translate popular songs into Yiddish!
As a Yiddish educator, Tamara knows tips and tricks to approaching the language, and is excited to share that with you! Bring a notebook and pen, and get ready to kvell with all the Yiddish you’ll learn.
Tamara Micner hails from Coast Salish land/Vancouver and now lives in London, England. Her previous shows at Chutzpah! include What You're Missing, Old Friends and Holocaust Brunch (nominated for two Jessie Awards). Other past projects & collaborations include A Secret Life, Wink the Other Eye, Fantasmagoriana, and Climate Grief Karaoke. She co-founded the London Shpilers - London's first Yiddish theatre company in decades - and leads Yiddish-theatre workshops around the world, in addition to teaching Yiddish to all sorts of mentshn.
This fun workshop is free for all; registration is required.
No Yiddish knowledge needed!
Tamara’s Panto Yankl and The Beanstalk will receive its North American Premiere at the festival on Saturday, November 14, 2026, at 7:30 PM, and on Sunday, November 15, at 3:00 PM at Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre.
