Jeremy Goldstein’s Truth to Power Café is currently seeking 8 community participants from across BC’s Lower Mainland to take part in the performance on November 3rd, 2024. We welcome participants of all ages, experiences and backgrounds with true and authentic stories to tell in response to the question:

WHO HAS POWER OVER YOU AND, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SAY TO THEM?

Selected submissions will be developed into short monologues of up to 500 words and presented by the participants in their own voice. Participants can elect to memorize their monologue or read it from the page or their phone as part of the performance event.

Questions? Contact Jeremy Goldstein or visit the Truth to Power Café website

The submission deadline is October 3rd, 2024 at 11:59 PM (Pacific Standard Time).

Following the special matinee performance for an intergenerational audience, Yamma Ensemble will share the beauty and rhythms of ancient Jewish music and Middle Eastern instruments.

Since 2010, the five members of the Yamma Ensemble have made their mark sharing Hebrew and Jewish music with international audiences. With influences including ancient traditions, tribal singing, sacred and secular Jewish chants, the ensemble brings virtuosic Middle Eastern and world instrumentation on unique instruments such as the dudek, ney, shofar, bansuri, didgeridoo, fujara, kopuz, and our.

Learn more about this marvelous instruments, their traditions, and the rhythms that bring them to life in an interactive workshop following the concert.

To book your group, for the concert, workshop, or both, contact the Box Office at 604-257-5415 or nrt@jccgv.bc.ca.

11am, November 4. $8 with concert ticket; $5.50 with group concert ticket

Join festival artists and old friends Mark Rubin (Jew of Oklahoma) and Michael Wex (Last Night at the Cabaret Yitish) for a brown-bag lunch and learn about their experiences growing up Jewish in rural communities in Oklahoma and Alberta.

Both Wex and Rubin are noted for their humour, warmth, and curiousity, and will share stories and insights as they compare notes on their youthful experiences and roots.

Bring your lunch and enjoy this conversation with two of North America's most celebrated Jewish raconteurs. Coffee and tea will be provided.

12 noon, November 6. $5 per person

Festival Video Director and accomplished documentarian and educator Flick Harrison has been creating video with Chutzpah since the Great Pandemic of 2020. Would you like to know his secrets? We’ll have fun together... and you might even make some new friends! The shy and the outgoing, the techies and the tech-averse, will get a chance to shine in their own way.

Bring a few photos or other visual materials to create a short social media video in your own voice, telling a story or character sketch of a person you know - or someone imaginary!

Combining pictures with spoken word, you’ll see how simple it is to get creative with video. Then you can share it (or not!) and watch the likes roll in!

Bring your cell phone with video capability or we can provide one of our own. Creating an Instagram or other social media account in advance will be useful. All ages and abilities are welcome!

1-4pm, November 10. Space is limited. $25 per person