The Peretz Songbook Workshop: Shabbes Songs
Sun, Feb 09
|Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
For our 80th anniversary, learn and sing together the traditional (and some new!) Peretz songs
Time & Location
Feb 09, 2025, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
Event Description
You may have heard our shabbes songs at our monthly Fraytik tsu Nakht cultural shabbes dinners, but what do they mean? And how do you sing them?
As part of the Peretz 80th anniversary celebrations, we invite members and friends to learn and explore the "Peretz Songbook" together. The fun, interactive, and accessible song workshops will teach some mame-loshn classics, introduce the fascinating histories of some of these songs and the people who wrote them, and invite participants of all ages to enjoy the heimish (homey) experience of singing together in Yiddish.
The upcoming song workshop on Sunday, February 9th will focus on the songs we sing at our monthly Fraytik tsu Nakht Shabbes for Cultural Jews, just in time for the next gathering on Friday, February 21st (register here). A Secular Humanist shabbes (shabbat/sabbath) celebration, Fraytik tsu Nakht is a long-standing Peretz community practice that has grown and evolved over the decades to include a range of tunes that carry forward Jewish and Yiddish traditions of connection, gratitude, peace, and the human power to make a better and more beautiful world for all people.
All ages, voices, and levels of Yiddish are welcome! Song lyrics will be provided in Yiddish with transliteration and English translation.
Tea and hot chocolate will be provided for a cozy afternoon of music and culture. Invite friend or a loved one, bring a musical instrument of choice (if you like), and lomir zingen — let's sing!
Pictured: Marc Chagall's 1957 painting, Le joueur de flute (The Flute Player)