Upcoming Events

Join us for the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture's High Holidays Observance as we mark the new Jewish year of 5787!

Your favourite Yiddishist’s favourite folk ensemble performs songs of nature, labour, and love from their brand new album "Levyosn’s Dream"

The world’s leading Yiddish vocalists introduce singers of all levels to their bewitching mixture of contemporary and traditional folk singing

For this special summer community event, our monthly Secular Humanist Shabbes celebration and potluck dinner will be youth-led!

Watch the classic Yiddish film East and West (1923) with other Yiddish learners and shmooze afterwards!

Dr. Gabriella Safran asks how Jewish migrants around the turn of the 20th century used literature, plays, and songs to work through questions about caring for elderly family members they left behind

Local artist and scholar Sasha J. Langford asks how sound can open up possibilities for communal life in a time shaped by rising nationalism and ecological crisis

Open up a world of Jewish cultural stories for children! All kids age 6 and under are invited to join us for an hour of stories, songs, and a craft

Open up a world of Jewish cultural stories for children! All kids age 6 and under are invited to join us for an hour of stories, songs, and a craft

Mark 80 years of the Peretz Centre's illustrious history, support our youth programs, and experience an artsy and camp interpretation of shtetl wedding rituals, featuring live music from KlezWest's KlezJam, the Vancouver Jewish Folk Choir, and much more

An inclusive Shavuot workshop about the ways to make real change together

Local organizer Bob Ages outlines a multi-generational struggle against oppression that grounds his current solidarity work with Indigenous allies defending their land and sovereignty from some of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies

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

DJ Chaia and Dan Carkner present a sing-along introducing anti-authoritarian Jewish folk songs that are as relevant today as they were in 1905

All members of the Peretz community are invited to learn about the path-breaking work of the Jewish Anti-Racism Taskforce (J-ART) in an afternoon of workshops, good dialogue, food, and schmoozing

Co-author Janey Stone shares her new book on the long-neglected history of Jewish resistance to oppression, in conversation with local writer and artist Jess Goldman

Cynthia Ramsay tells the history of the 96-year-old Jewish Independent, British Columbia's Jewish community newspaper and the most continuous record of local Jewish communal life

Our monthly Secular Humanist Shabbes celebration, potluck, and for April's after-dinner learning, guest speaker Bob Ages shares from his experience working with Wet'suwet'en land defenders and what it means to be a settler ally in the fight against ecocide