Peretz Papirshnit Prep Party & Workshop for the High Holidays
Sat, Sep 27
|Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
Join us in preparing for the Peretz High Holidays on Sept. 28 with papercut art decorations and a workshop by Elijah Holstein
Time & Location
Sep 27, 2025, 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
Event Description
Join us in a papirshnit workshop where we will be learning about and carrying on the traditional Jewish art of papercutting. After a brief talk about the origins of the art form, we will be putting our scissors together to decorate the Peretz Centre for our community High Holidays (Combined/Condensed Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur) event the following day.
RSVP to learn, create, and spend a friendly afternoon together while we beautify our space to mark a new year.
Saturday, September 27th, 2025 (2-5pm)
The Peretz Centre (Schoolroom on the ground floor)
6184 Ash Street, Vancouver
➤ How to Get Here / Building & Accessibility Information
All ages are welcome to participate in the workshop and/or decorating!
Free street parking is available nearby (please contact us to arrange access to the parking garage).
🍎 Register for the Peretz High Holidays here 🍎
About Our Workshop Facilitator
Elijah Lake Holstein is a multi-(un)disciplinary artist and composer gratefully living and working on unceded Coast Salish territory. Drawing from traditional Jewish mediums and techniques such as paper-cutting, printmaking, protest music, and spontaneous improvisational melody, his body of work is a golem tasked with unsettling the settled and settling the unsettled.
You can see some of Elijah's art at Outsiders and Others Gallery.
Listen to Elijah's new album on Bandcamp (Exiliahu):
Image credit: Paper cuttings by Elijah Holstein