Jewish Community Centre Chanuka party
- CA JMABC A.1995.006, A.2011.024-001-28-L.11780
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- 1990
Part of Jewish Western Bulletin fonds
Photograph depicts people dancing to a live band.
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Jewish Community Centre Chanuka party
Part of Jewish Western Bulletin fonds
Photograph depicts people dancing to a live band.
Jewish Community Fund event - Strings in orchestra
Part of Jewish Western Bulletin fonds
Photograph depicts the string section of an orchestra.
Kazuyoshi Akiyama (VSO) and Joe Cohen with Wagner tubas
Part of Jewish Western Bulletin fonds
Photograph depicts Kazuyoshi Akiyama and Joe Cohen with tubas.
Noted on the verso of photograph: "Seated: Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Resident Conductor & Music Director of the VSO. Standing: Joe Cohen, Executive Vice-President of General Distributors Ltd."
Part of JHSBC Oral History Collection
Interview with Lauren Nackman for On The Record: The BC Jewish Queer & Trans Oral History Project in collaboration with JQT Vancouver. Interviewed by Carmel Tanaka via remote Zoom video call. Lauren (she/her) is a Jewish lesbian, born in Middletown, NY, and residing in Victoria, BC. Lauren retraces her family history from Eastern Europe to the Bronx in New York, and touches on the intergenerational legacies of immigrant life seen in her parents and grandparents. She talks about her siblings and memories of coming out. Lauren recalls going to university in Virginia where she realized she was gay in a place not safe to be openly out, prompting her to co-found a group for lesbians on campus. Lauren talks about moving to Oakland with her then-girlfriend, and working with a women’s need clinic, attempting teachers college, but ending up in LA working in the Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center which introduced her to gay activism. She talks about attempting to reclaim Judaism multiple times but not being inspired by the services and experiencing financial barriers to participating. She talks about moving to BC, and becoming active in lesbian Seders where the Klezbians were formed. She talks about marrying her partner Michelle when they moved to Canada. She talks about her parents growth in acceptance of her being gay. She talks about being thankful to be part of a history that aided present-day queer acceptance and closes with reflections on queer and Jewish community.
Part of JHSBC Oral History Collection
Oral history interview with Leila Getz. Leila Getz was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1940. Leila is a musician who helped develop the Vancouver Recital Society and had previously established the Vancouver Chamber Music Festival - defunct as of 2006.
Part of Jewish Western Bulletin fonds
Photograph depicts a young woman playing guitar onstage.
Part of JHSBC Oral History Collection
Oral History Interview with Mordechai (Robert) Edel for the JMABC Artists Scribe. Interviewed by Daniella Givon. Edel was born in England in 1949, but describes the life stories of him and his family spanning across Europe, North America and within Israel. These stories include his family's experience with the Holocaust and his growing up Jewish; they also detail his many professions before becoming an artist including musician or hazzan, hairdresser, and photographer. Edel's primary medium of art is oil painting which is in the impressionist style, and constantly informed by his Jewish faith and heritage. Edel tells anecdotes of some of the people he's met through his art within Canada and abroad, and his most memorable commissions along the way.
Opening celebrations for the Expo Centre
Part of Jewish Western Bulletin fonds
Photograph depicts the opening celebrations for the Expo Centre (now the Telus World of Science aka Science World). A marching band is prominently featured.
Written on the verso: "Jan. 30/86 JNF P. 10 80%. Expo Centre Opens. Marching bands, pipers, multi-cultural dancers, daytime fireworks, an aircraft flypast and the release of 10 000 helium-filled balloons marked the opening of the $25 million Expo Centre,...[rest cut off]
Performance - audience in JCC auditorium, accordion player on stage, photo 'B'
Part of Jewish Western Bulletin fonds
Photograph depicts an audience watching an accordion player at the Jewish Community Centre.
Performance of Heart at the JCC
Part of Jewish Western Bulletin fonds
Photograph depicts the band Heart.