Upcoming Events

Watch the classic Yiddish film The Dybbuk (1937) with other Yiddish language learners and shmooze afterwards!

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

Recover the revolutionary context of Jewish legal debates from antiquity, from urban poverty to the right to housing and the responsibility to protest

Revisit the political and social vision of the Torah in its historical context through a text-based seminar that can offer the tools we need to fight injustice and oppression today

Get a taste of the Vancouver Jewish Folk Choir as we start the 2026-27 season (open to all)!

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

A text-based seminar with Matthew Gindin to explore classical and modern philosophical Jewish perspectives on forgiveness during the High Holidays

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 led by students in this year's Zumershule arts program!

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