PHOTOS BY CYNTHIA RAMSA CYNTHIA BY PHOTOS C E L E B R A T I O N = O F Y Arts & Culture ARTS & CULTURE Arts & Culture Gold Theatre’s Studio Series of staged read ings. The Comic Strip with Jewish community mem- June 21-23, Fri/Sat 7:30 p.m., Sat/Sun 2 p.m., Charlie Gallant and ber Jacob Samuel and Gina Harms, with headliner at PAL Studio Theatre. Tickets at jack.brownpa- Ghazal Azarbad co- pertickets.com or 604-363-5734. Jane Stanton. June 15, 9:30 p.m., at Tyrant star in Bard on the Studios. $18 at door or in advance from TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival, June COOPER EMILY Beach’s production of tickets.tyrantstudios.com. 21-July 1, includes Yonatan Gat and Eastern Med- Shakespeare in Love. icine Singers at David Lam Park on June 30, 7 On the BMO Ancient Women in Textile: The Jacquard Weav- Mainstage until Sept. ing of Ruth Scheuing. Exhibit runs until June 15 p.m. Free. coastaljazz.ca/event/yonatan-gat-east- ern-medicine-singers. 18, the show also at Il Museo, at Italian Cultural Centre. includes Jewish Queer Arts Festival marks 50 years since Accordion to Us! A concert of varied music fea- community members turing the Highs & Lows mental health choir and Stonewall. Includes visual art, performances, par- Mishelle Cuttler as ties, youth events. June 17-28 at Roundhouse and friends, including Sudanda, the Vancouver sound designer and Squeezebox Circle and a cappella group Quatro. Sum Gallery. queerartsfestival.com. musical director, Tara June 22, 3 p.m., at VESTA office, back door Anton Lipovetsky and Michelle Perkins-Zalik Cheyenne Friedenberg (2915 Commercial, at 13th). $20 at door, or as movement coach, in concert: jazz, blues and original compositions. whatever you can afford. Venue is accessible. June 17, 8 p.m., at Historic Theatre. $22 from Warren Kimmel in the tickets.thecultch.com. Suzy Birstein exhibits. Greek Day Art Tent (in role of Fennyman and Kitsilano on West Broadway) June 23, Sculptors’ Anton Lipovetsky as Itamar Erez CD release, Mi Alegria. Concert Society of B.C. Pop up on Granville Island June Frees and Lord with Hamin Honari, François Houle, James 25-29 and SSBC at Federation Gallery July 15- Wessex. Community Meger and Kevin Romain; the Giving Shapes Aug. 18 (facebook.com/sculptorsbc). members are also opens. June 20, 7:30 p.m., at the Annex. $20 involved in the other advance, $25 at door, $35 advance-ticket CD Bard on the Beach presents All’s Well That Ends Well (June 26-Aug. 11, Howard Family Stage), Bard productions this package (saves $5 on CD). Tickets: year: The Taming of caravanbc.com, 1-800-838-3006 and Highlife Coriolanus (Aug. 21-Sept. 15, Howard Family the Shrew, All’s Well Records. Stage), Shakespeare in Love (until Sept. 18, BMO Mainstage) and The Taming of the Shrew (until That Ends Well and Jack of Diamonds , about four retirement home Sept. 21, BMO Mainstage). Several Jewish com- Coriolanus. For more residents, swindled by Barney Effward (played by munity members involved on- and offstage. information, visit Jerry Wasserman), who attempt to exact their bardonthebeach.org. bardonthebeach.org. revenge and recoup their losses. Part of Western 2 0 JULY 19 TO 21 1 9 JERICHO BEACH PARK AND | AND THREE NIGHTS TWO DAYS FIVE DAYTIME TWO EVENING STAGES PLUS BEER AND WINE GARDEN, ARTS MARKET, KIDS ACTIVITIES, GOURMET FOOD VENDORS, SECURE BIKE PARKING! THE AERIALISTS | BLACK STRING | DANNY BOUDREAU BAND | MATTHEW BYRNE | CELEIGH CARDINAL ANDREW COLLINS TRIO | COPPERHEAD | THE DARDANELLES | DESIREE DAWSON TRIO | STEVE DAWSON | | | BROTHER TITO DELER DWAYNE DOPSIE & THE ZYDECO HELLRAISERS BOBBY DOVE RAMBLIN’ JACK ELLIOTT | | | MIKE FARRIS & THE FORTUNATE FEW LUCA FOGALE FRONT COUNTRY AMOS GARRETT & JULIAN KERR BASIA BULAT | THE HAMILTONES | DAVID HIDALGO | LARKIN POE SAM ROBERTS BAND | REBIRTH BRASS BAND CORB LUND | CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON | | | RAINE HAMILTON STRING TRIO ZAKI IBRAHIM ILLITERATTY KIRCHEN, COX AND MCRAE KITTY AND THE ROOSTER | JOEY LANDRETH | LA MEXCALINA | GEORGE LEACH BAND | LE VENT DU NORD | LOCARNO LONESOME ACE STRINGBAND | LOS PACHAMAMA Y FLOR AMARGO | DON MCGLASHAN PABLO MENENDEZ & MEZCLA | MIDNIGHT SHINE | IRISH MYTHEN | NAMGAR | TAL NATIONAL | OKTOPUS | | | MARIN PATENAUDE THE RAD TRADS JOHN REISCHMAN AND THE JAYBIRDS RIIT PHARIS AND JASON ROMERO | LUCY ROSE | ROSIE & THE RIVETERS | SARAH SHOOK & THE DISARMERS VIVEK SHRAYA/TOO ATTACHED | RUBY & SMITH | SON OF JAMES | NANO STERN TRIO EMILY TRIGGS | TSATSU STALQAYU (COASTAL WOLF PACK) | SUNNY WAR www.thefestival.bc.ca JUNE 14, 2019 • SH INDEPENDENT SH JEW UPCOMING CALENDAR DEADLINES: June 28 - June 19, 5 p.m. • July 5 - June 26, 5 p.m. 7 PHOTOS BY CYNTHIA RAMSAY CYNTHIA BY PHOTOS Arts & Culture Intimate Encounters: Botanical Symphony at Sunset, Vancouver Sym- Closeups, exhibit and sale of pho- phony Orchestra free open-air concert. tographs by Pamela Fayerman. Until July 7, 8 p.m., at Sunset Beach Park. It’s all about the diamonds June 27 at VanDusen Botanical Gar- vancouversymphony.ca. COURTESY WESTERN GOLD THEATRE GOLD WESTERN COURTESY dens Visitor Centre. estern Gold Theatre’s Studio Series Ensemble Theatre Annual Repertory Brides: Portrait of a Marriage. Featured Festival: Garson Kanin’s comedy Born of staged readings presents Jack of artists include Jewish community mem- Yesterday directed by Shelby Bushell and Diamonds at PAL Studio Theatre bers Lilian Broca, graphite drawings, Jewish community member Michael June 21-23. and Barbara Heller, tapestry, as well as Scholar Jr., in repertory with Michael WIn this play by Marcia Kash and Douglas E. Smith, Linda Coe, textile, and Grace Gordon- Healy’s The Drawer Boy and Superior Jack is a former jeweler, who made his living buying Collins, photography. In this series, cu- Donuts by Tony Award-winning play- and selling diamonds via late-night TV ads. He lives rated by Angela Clarke, the artists have wright Tracy Letts. July 10-Aug. 16 at in a rather luxurious, privately owned retirement home taken iconic images associated with mar- Jericho Arts Centre. $35.50-$40,50; along with his fellow residents: Rose, Flora and riage and endowed them with alternate $75 pass includes all three plays and Blanche. Unbeknownst to them, the man to whom meanings to shatter our preconceived brunches; $125 super pass also includes they have entrusted their life savings – a financial ad- notions about marriage. Opening re- The Importance of Being Earnest. ception: June 27, 7 p.m., at Il Museo. ensembletheatrecompany.ca. visor named Barney Effward (played by Jewish com- exhibit runs to Sept. 30. Poetry evening relating to the munity member Jerry Wasserman) – has been arrested Terence Kelly, left, Jerry Wasserman and Annabel Jerusalem, with Adam Henderson as exhibit Conjunction, the art of Ira for bilking his clients out of their savings through a Kershaw are among the Western Gold Theatre Johnny “Rooster” Byron, a gypsy squat- Hoffecker, and music. July 11, 7 p.m., Ponzi scheme. Studio Series performers presenting the staged ter, a wanted man, a folk hero to some at Zack Gallery. reading of Jack of Diamonds June 21-23. Faced with financial ruin, the four find themselves and a villain to others. Until June 30, confronting the author of their miserable fate when Effward is unexpectedly delivered among them – along Itamar Erez: Mi Alegria CD launch 8 p.m., except Sundays, when only 2 shows continue, with his quartet. July with several million dollars in diamonds. Pandemonium ensues as the four retirees use their talents to find a p.m. shows, at Jericho Arts Centre. $22- way to exact their revenge, recoup their losses and keep the authorities from discovering their plans. It’s all 11, 7:30 p.m., at Hermann’s in Victoria $28 from unitedplayers.com or at door. ($20 advance/$25 at door) and July 28, about diamonds and who gets them. Holocaust : In Focus, The Holocaust 8 p.m. at Frankie’s in Vancouver ($16). Directed by Anna Hagan and set by Glenn MacDonald, the cast features Wasserman, Joan Bryans, Tanja Through the VHEC Collection, fea- itamarerez.com/concerts. Dixon-Warren, Terence Kelly, Annabel Kershaw, Gerry Mackay and Colleen Winton. Unlike many readings, turing more than 80 artifacts, and Faces this one is blocked and rehearsed on a set, but the actors are still on book. Dancing on the Edge Festival includes of Survival: Photographs by Marissa Tara Cheyenne Performance in EDGE Jack of Diamonds will see four performances June 21-23: Friday/Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday/Sunday Roth, showcasing 40 portraits of Holo- Five, The Body Project (working title), at 2 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at jack.brownpapertickets.com or 604-363-5734. caust survivors. Both exhibits at Van- July 11, 9 p.m., and July 13, 7 p.m., at couver Holocaust Education Centre, – Courtesy Western Gold Theatre Firehall Arts Centre; and Alexandra M on-Fri 9 a.m.-4 p.m., until June Clancy July 12, 8:15 p.m., in Firehall 2019. By donation. 604-264-0499 or Arts Centre courtyard. $22-$28 single [email protected]. vhec.org. tickets, $85 EDGE 4-pack and $120 Judaica from Far and Near: A Gath- EDGE 6-pack. dancingontheedge.org ering of Treasures. Exhibit focuses on or 604-689-0926. the hamsa and the kippah, reflecting Strings for Peace World Première with a diversity of cultures and stories. Amjad Ali Khan, Jewish community Runs until the summer at Emanu-El member Sharon Isbin (direc tor of the in Victoria. guitar department at Julliard School, a Itamar Erez in Vancouver Interna- department she created in 1989), tional Guitar Festival June 29-30, Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Ban- 7 p.m., at A1-1888 Main St.