Shterna and the Lost Voice: A New Yiddish Folktale from the Magid Ensemble
Mon, May 19
|Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
A vivid, immersive storytelling experience exploring the interplay of sound, story, light, and shadow.
Time & Location
May 19, 2025, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
Event Description
“Extraordinary, Suspenseful, Mesmerizing” – Shterna and the Lost Voice transports audiences into the rich world of Yiddish folklore. This immersive storytelling production follows Shterna on an epic hero’s journey, accompanied by live original klezmer music and an exquisite papercut crankie.
“This performance went straight to my heart, travelled to my spirit and mind, and landed on a very special shelf reserved for precious memories of wondrous things.”
The Magid Ensemble (“magid” meaning “storyteller” in Yiddish) is a multidisciplinary group creating new work that integrates folk art, traditional oral storytelling and original klezmer music. The Ensemble consists of award-winning musicians and composers Mattias Kaufmann, Raffi Boden, and Rachel Leader, storyteller Weaver, and visual artist Kiah Raymond.
This original story, developed through rigorous research on Eastern-European Jewish folklore, unfolds along a backlit “crankie”, a long scroll wound onto two spools that illustrates the story as it unwinds. The work plays with shadow puppetry and is inspired by motifs from Jewish papercut art. The newly composed score accentuates moments of mystery and beauty, and brings the audience wholly into the world of the tale.
Monday, May 19th, 2025 (Victoria Day)
Doors open at 6:30pm (performance starts at 7pm)
Ben Chud Auditorium, Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
6184 Ash Street, Vancouver
Show is one hour, no intermission. All ages: children are very welcome here!
Show Tickets:
General admission: $33.50 per person
Youth tickets: Sliding scale from $5
Get two tickets for $54 until Sunday, May 11th (11:55pm) by selecting the "Double the Fun" ticket option! (One ticket = admission for two people)
Watch the Teaser:
Admission
Double the Fun
Sale ends
May 11, 11:55 p.m.
Get 2 tickets for $54 (before Sunday, May 11th at 11:55pm)
$54.00
+$1.35 ticket service fee
General Admission
$33.50
+$0.84 ticket service fee
Youth Admission
Pay what you can for this community-run event (minimum $5)
$+Ticket service fee
Total
$0.00