Fraytik tsu Nakht Cultural Shabbes & Potluck

Fraytik tsu Nakht Cultural Shabbes & Potluck is open to all, beginning with our community's Secular Humanist Shabbes observance (songs and readings) followed by a potluck dinner and an engaging speaker to stimulate our after-dinner learning and discussion.

Friday, April 17, 2026 (6-9pm)

Gallia & Ben Chud Auditorium (Peretz Centre)

6184 Ash Street, Vancouver

➤   How to Get Here / Building & Accessibility Information

Free street parking and underground parking available (elevator access).

Doors close at 7pm: The front door and underground parking lot will be closed automatically at 7pm. If you are running late, please make sure you have a friend you can contact to come downstairs and let you in.

Admission: a contribution to the potluck OR pay $18.00 per person (children 13 and under are free).

Please register before Tuesday, April 14 so we can make sure there's enough food for everyone.

This community shabbes event is open to members and friends of all ages. There will be an alternative hang-out space for kids organized by the Peretz Kinder/Yugnt Committee.

This month's after-dinner topic:

Indigenous Sovereignty, Land Defence, and the Fight Against Ecocide

Indigenous sovereignty and land defence provides a bulwark in the fight against ecocide that benefits all humanity and so deserves, and requires, all our efforts. Guest speaker Bob Ages will highlight the ways that settler allies and co-conspirators can support Indigenous Nations in their efforts to protect and steward their unceded territories, and further, learning what it means to do so in a good way, with good hearts.

Speaking from his personal experience, Bob will share from lessons learned and the joys of being on the front lines of resistance and resurgence, including a photo reel from his personal collection.

Our Speaker: Bob Ages is a longtime union and social justice activist, now retired from work, but not the movement. Since 2014, he has worked with Wet'suwet'en land defenders and traditional chiefs in opposition to the Coastal Gaslink fracked gas project. He continues support for their efforts to "Heal the People, Heal the Land" while adding coordination with their Gitxsan neighbours and allies in the fight to stop the proposed US-owned Prince Rupert Gas Transmission project. He is also a member of Independent Jewish Voices and works with the Palestine solidarity movement in the lower mainland.

Image credit: From award-winning film Yintah (2024), a documentary on a decade of Wet’suwet’en resistance (watch on CBC Gem or Netflix).