KK14-Brochure-Web-V2.Pdf
Founders FROM THE KLEZKANADA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Hy and Sandy Goldman Welcome anew and welcome back to the treasure of the KlezKanada Laurentian Retreat, our 19th. Artistic Director, Laurentian Retreat Together we adventure, teach, study, play, dance, sing, and jump in joy (and at the beach) – tantsn Frank London mir, shpiln mir, shpringn mir as we so often sing. Artistic Director, Montreal Jewish Music Festival With the passage of years and years, we renew our community and remember. We just lost our Jason Rosenblatt beloved Yaela Hertz Berkson, z”l, whose mastery of the violin and its instruction of so many musicians, has been an inspiration far beyond KlezKanada’s shores. We sense time’s march in so Founding Artistic Director and Senior Artistic Advisor many ways – the passage of elders, our seniors becoming elders, the boomers becoming seniors Jeff Warschauer (denial is futile), our children becoming adults, and the newly born generation. We take the places of our parents, reflecting and sustaining their experience and, here most especially, their Registrar Yiddishkayt in our lives. Once scholarship students, our younger masters travel the world, infusing Sandy Goldman Jewish and Yiddish art (in its fullest sense) into and with so many idioms. Board of Directors Our special welcome to Lorin Sklamberg, our third Adrienne Cooper Memorial Guest Artist. Robert Abitbol, Theodore Bikel (Honorary), Bob Blacksberg, Welcome to more than 70 scholarship students and, for the third year, the students from McGill Stephanie Finkelstein, Tzipie Freedman, Hy Goldman (Chair), University’s Department of Jewish Studies. Sandy Goldman, Dan Goldstein, Leo Hubermann, Robin Mader, Sandra Mintz, Janie Respitz, Bernard Rosenblatt, Roslyn At KlezKanada and throughout the world, each of us contributes to the living presence of Jewish Rosenblatt, Herschel Segal, David Sela, Robert Smolkin, Eric Stein, arts and culture.
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