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Upcoming Events

Past Events at the Peretz Centre

  • Peretz Centre AGM 2026
    Peretz Centre AGM 2026
    Sun, Jan 25
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Jan 25, 2026, 1:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    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.
  • Fraytik tsu Nakht Cultural Shabbes & Potluck
    Fraytik tsu Nakht Cultural Shabbes & Potluck
    Multiple Dates
    Fri, Jan 16
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Jan 16, 2026, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    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
  • KlezWest Monthly Klezmer Jam
    KlezWest Monthly Klezmer Jam
    Multiple Dates
    Sun, Jan 11
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Jan 11, 2026, 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    Join a jam session of klezmer music (all instruments and musicians welcome)
  • Khanike Fraytik tsu Nakht: Hanukkah Celebration!
    Khanike Fraytik tsu Nakht: Hanukkah Celebration!
    Fri, Dec 12
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Dec 12, 2025, 5:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    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
  • Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Labor Bund
    Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Labor Bund
    Dec 07, 2025, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. PST
    Online
    Molly Crabapple investigates the radical history and modern relevance of the Jewish Labor Bund
  • Light in Winter: Ira Khonen Temple and Michael Winograd in Concert
    Light in Winter: Ira Khonen Temple and Michael Winograd in Concert
    Wed, Dec 03
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Dec 03, 2025, 8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    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!
  • No Pasarán! Jewish Collective Memory in the Spanish Civil War
    No Pasarán! Jewish Collective Memory in the Spanish Civil War
    Nov 20, 2025, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. PST
    Online
    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
  • KlezWest Monthly Klezmer Jam
    KlezWest Monthly Klezmer Jam
    Multiple Dates
    Sun, Nov 16
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Nov 16, 2025, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    Join a jam session of klezmer music hosted with KlezWest (all instruments and musicians welcome)
  • Fraytik tsu Nakht Cultural Shabbes & Potluck
    Fraytik tsu Nakht Cultural Shabbes & Potluck
    Multiple Dates
    Fri, Nov 14
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Nov 14, 2025, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    Our monthly Secular Humanist Shabbes celebration, potluck, and after dinner, a community screening of the new short documentary "Four Pillars of Peretz"
  • Ottoman Musical Routes & Roots: Moldavian Yiddish Connections
    Ottoman Musical Routes & Roots: Moldavian Yiddish Connections
    Nov 02, 2025, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PST
    Online
    Dr. Alan Bern traces the centuries-old, rich cultural connections between Yiddish and Ottoman cultures through music
  • Fraytik tsu Nakht Cultural Shabbes & Potluck with JQT
    Fraytik tsu Nakht Cultural Shabbes & Potluck with JQT
    Multiple Dates
    Fri, Oct 24
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Oct 24, 2025, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    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)
  • KlezWest Monthly Klezmer Jam
    KlezWest Monthly Klezmer Jam
    Multiple Dates
    Sun, Oct 12
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Oct 12, 2025, 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    Join a jam session of klezmer music and Yiddish dance (all instruments and musicians welcome)
  • Adventures in Yiddish: An Introductory Workshop for Beginners
    Adventures in Yiddish: An Introductory Workshop for Beginners
    Wed, Oct 08
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Oct 08, 2025, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    Join us in this interactive workshop for a taste of the joys of learning and speaking the Yiddish language
  • High Holidays at the Peretz Centre
    High Holidays at the Peretz Centre
    Sun, Sep 28
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Sep 28, 2025, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    Join us for the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture's High Holidays Observance as we mark the new Jewish year of 5786!
  • Peretz Papirshnit Prep Party & Workshop for the High Holidays
    Peretz Papirshnit Prep Party & Workshop for the High Holidays
    Sat, Sep 27
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    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
    Join us in preparing for the Peretz High Holidays on Sept. 28 with papercut art decorations and a workshop by Elijah Holstein
  • Raging in Diaspora: A Writing Workshop with Aaron Kreuter
    Raging in Diaspora: A Writing Workshop with Aaron Kreuter
    Sun, Sep 14
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Sep 14, 2025, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    Fiction writer, poet, and academic Aaron Kreuter offers an interactive workshop on Jewish diasporic fiction
  • KlezWest Monthly Klezmer Jam
    KlezWest Monthly Klezmer Jam
    Multiple Dates
    Sun, Sep 14
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Sep 14, 2025, 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    Join a jam session of klezmer music (all instruments and musicians welcome)
  • Lake Burntshore: VPL Book Talk with Aaron Kreuter
    Lake Burntshore: VPL Book Talk with Aaron Kreuter
    Sat, Sep 13
    VPL Central Library (Downtown)
    Sep 13, 2025, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
    VPL Central Library (Downtown), 350 W Georgia St, Vancouver, BC V6B 6B1, Canada
    A book talk presented in partnership with the Vancouver Public Library exploring issues of colonialism and belonging
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