Upcoming Events

The Peretz Centre's Annual General Meeting (AGM) is where we reflect on the year, share updates, vote on resolutions, and elect new members to the Board of Directors.

Our monthly Secular Humanist Shabbes celebration, potluck dinner, and for January's after-dinner learning, David Catzel helps us rethink our relationship to the food systems that sustain us, and learn how colonization feeds off their destruction

Join a jam session of klezmer music (all instruments and musicians welcome)

For this special Fraytik tsu Nakht (Friday Night), we invite community members and friends to celebrate a culturally-vibrant, peacenik Khanike (Hanukkah) with food, games, live music, and dance

Molly Crabapple investigates the radical history and modern relevance of the Jewish Labor Bund

Or Shalom's Light in Winter & the Peretz Centre present two staples of NYC's vibrant klezmer and Yiddish music scene, playing klezmer classics and their original compositions that will surprise and delight you!

Prof. Amelia Glaser discusses her work on anti-fascist Jewish poetry emerging from the Spanish Civil War, an early literary front of the international struggle against fascism in the 1940s

Join a jam session of klezmer music hosted with KlezWest (all instruments and musicians welcome)

Our monthly Secular Humanist Shabbes celebration, potluck, and after dinner, a community screening of the new short documentary "Four Pillars of Peretz"

Dr. Alan Bern traces the centuries-old, rich cultural connections between Yiddish and Ottoman cultures through music

Our monthly Secular Humanist Shabbes celebration, potluck, and for October, a special evening of singing nigunim (tunes) together, led by Antonia Lassar (co-hosted by JQT)

Join a jam session of klezmer music and Yiddish dance (all instruments and musicians welcome)

Join us in this interactive workshop for a taste of the joys of learning and speaking the Yiddish language

Join us for the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture's High Holidays Observance as we mark the new Jewish year of 5786!

Join us in preparing for the Peretz High Holidays on Sept. 28 with papercut art decorations and a workshop by Elijah Holstein

Fiction writer, poet, and academic Aaron Kreuter offers an interactive workshop on Jewish diasporic fiction

Join a jam session of klezmer music (all instruments and musicians welcome)

A book talk presented in partnership with the Vancouver Public Library exploring issues of colonialism and belonging