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Upcoming Events

Past Events at the Peretz Centre

  • KlezWest Monthly Klezmer Jam
    KlezWest Monthly Klezmer Jam
    Multiple Dates
    Sun, Apr 20
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Apr 20, 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)
  • Peretz Community Seder
    Peretz Community Seder
    Sun, Apr 06
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Apr 06, 2025, 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    Secular Humanist hagaddah, Holocaust memorial service, traditional Pesach meal (vegan option), Vancouver Jewish Folk Choir
  • Peretz Passover Prep Party
    Peretz Passover Prep Party
    Sat, Apr 05
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Apr 05, 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 our April 6th seder festivities!
  • KlezWest Monthly Klezmer Jam
    KlezWest Monthly Klezmer Jam
    Sun, Mar 23
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Mar 23, 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)
  • Fraytik tsu Nakht Shabbes for Cultural Jews
    Fraytik tsu Nakht Shabbes for Cultural Jews
    Multiple Dates
    Fri, Mar 21
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Mar 21, 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 March, guest speaker Braden Russell will explore the ways in which queer Jews are forging new ways to engage with Jewish identity, tradition, and history through their art.
  • A 5785 Purimshpil: Hopeful Notes from the Hellscape
    A 5785 Purimshpil: Hopeful Notes from the Hellscape
    Thu, Mar 13
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Mar 13, 2025, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    Gliklekh in Goles is delighted to be partnering with the Peretz Centre to co-produce a Purim shpiel like you've never experienced. Satire! Solidarity! Jew-cy queer critique and so much more...
  • Fraytik tsu Nakht Shabbes for Cultural Jews
    Fraytik tsu Nakht Shabbes for Cultural Jews
    Multiple Dates
    Fri, Feb 21
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Feb 21, 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 dinner with a screening of the first film to document the American klezmer revival (and then it became part it!)
  • The Peretz Songbook Workshop: Shabbes Songs
    The Peretz Songbook Workshop: Shabbes Songs
    Sun, Feb 09
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    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
    For our 80th anniversary, learn and sing together the traditional (and some new!) Peretz songs
  • Peretz Centre AGM
    Peretz Centre AGM
    Sun, Jan 26
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Jan 26, 2025, 2:00 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 share updates and vote in the next Board of Directors.
  • Fraytik tsu Nakht Shabbes for Cultural Jews
    Fraytik tsu Nakht Shabbes for Cultural Jews
    Multiple Dates
    Fri, Jan 17
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Jan 17, 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 an engaging guest speaker!
  • Peretz Community Town Hall Meeting
    Peretz Community Town Hall Meeting
    Sun, Dec 15
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Dec 15, 2024, 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    Learn about what's going on at the Peretz Centre, ask questions, and get involved!
  • Vancouver Jewish Folk Choir Hanukkah Concert
    Vancouver Jewish Folk Choir Hanukkah Concert
    Sun, Dec 15
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Dec 15, 2024, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
    Candles, dreydls, latkes and miracles! The choir will perform songs for Hanukkah in Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino, and English
  • Fraytik tsu Nakht Shabbes for Cultural Jews: Hanukkah Singalong
    Fraytik tsu Nakht Shabbes for Cultural Jews: Hanukkah Singalong
    Fri, Dec 13
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Dec 13, 2024, 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 December, a Hanukkah/Khanike Singalong in Yiddish, Hebrew, and English!
  • Recovering Yiddish Women Writers: Shira Gorshman & the Making of Literary History
    Recovering Yiddish Women Writers: Shira Gorshman & the Making of Literary History
    Sun, Dec 08
    Zoom
    Dec 08, 2024, 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. PST
    Zoom
    Faith Jones examines the work of Yiddish writer Shira Gorshman and explores why she was forgotten, why a revival of interest in her is now underway, and how literary history is created.
  • The Critical Mythology of Yiddishland with Dr. Avia Moore
    The Critical Mythology of Yiddishland with Dr. Avia Moore
    Sun, Dec 01
    Zoom
    Dec 01, 2024, 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. PST
    Zoom
    Dr. Avia Moore, artistic director of KlezKanada, critically explores the complex and layered meanings of the term Yiddishland, designating at the same time a nation, a lost homeland, and a cultural space.
  • London’s Yiddish Pop Songs: Telling Secrets of the Immigrant Experience
    London’s Yiddish Pop Songs: Telling Secrets of the Immigrant Experience
    Sun, Nov 24
    Zoom
    Nov 24, 2024, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
    Zoom
    Yiddish Historian and Performer Dr. Vivi Lachs tells the fascinating story of the London Yiddish stage at the turn of the twentieth century, offering a glimpse into the experiences of Jewish immigration to Britain told from a grassroots perspective.
  • “Anarchism by Our Grandmothers”: Feminist Genealogies of Yiddish Anarchism
    “Anarchism by Our Grandmothers”: Feminist Genealogies of Yiddish Anarchism
    Sun, Nov 17
    Zoom
    Nov 17, 2024, 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. PST
    Zoom
    Dr. Anna Elena Torres presents the fascinating feminist histories of anarchist thought and poetry in Yiddish.
  • Fraytik tsu Nakht Shabbes for Cultural Jews featuring Yotam Ronen
    Fraytik tsu Nakht Shabbes for Cultural Jews featuring Yotam Ronen
    Fri, Nov 15
    Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
    Nov 15, 2024, 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 November, a speaker on the history of Jewish anarchists in New York City
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