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SUMMARY:KAILA online Wednesday Klezmer Workshops
DESCRIPTION:\nIf you have ever been to a Jewish wedding or bar/bas mitsve party and wished you could play the traditional Eastern European Jewish Music known as klezmer, then KAILA is for you! KAILA is the Klezmer Arts Institute of Los Angeles.\n\n\n\nLed by Gustavo Bulgach (leader of  the band “Klezmer Juice”), we are musicians of differing abilities and instruments, drawn together to play and learn the history, rhythms, scales and modes of klezmer music. \n\n\n\nCome join KAILA for the weekly Zoom workshops Wednesdays at 5pm Pacific Time (8 pm Eastern Time). \n\n\n\nClick on the link below to register. You will receive a confirmation in your email. Music will change every workshop and can be seen on the link in your registration confirmation email.  The room opens at 4:45pm Pacific Time.\n\n\n\nThere is no charge for this workshop, however in this time of economic uncertainty, especially for the arts, any contribution will be appreciated.\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://klezcalifornia.org/events/kaila-workshops-wednesdays/
CATEGORIES:Music,Workshops
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Flisik Yidish Salon, August 16, 2026
DESCRIPTION:\nA conversation Salon for fluent (flisik) Yiddish speakers.\n\n\n\nTayere Fraynt,Mir hofn az ir mit ayer gantser mishpokhe blaybn gezunt un shtark. Zuntik, dem nayntsnt yuli fun 2 biz 3 nokh mitog in Kalifornye veln mir hobn a Salon af Zoom. Bloyz di mentshn vos registirn az zey veln kumen veln bakumen dem veb adres. Look up your local time HERE ( https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html ).\n\n\n\nדערצײלט אונדז דרײַ זאַכן װאָס האָבן אײַך איבערגעפֿילט מיט פֿרײד. גיט צו פֿאַרשטײן פֿאַר װאָס.\n\n\n\nDertseylt undz dray zakhn vos hobn aykh ibergefilt mit freyd. Git tsu farshteyn far vos.\n\n\n\nShare with us three things that gave you joy last year. Explain why.\n\n\n\nREGISTRATION – ONLINE REGISTRATION ENDS FRIDAY, 8/14, AT NOON.\n\n\n\nTo reserve a space, scroll down and complete the registration form. As soon as you register, you will receive a confirmation. You will then receive sign-in information the morning of the Sunday of the Salon. Please let us know ( mailto:flisik@klezcalifornia.org ) in advance if you will be unable to participate.\n\n\n\nIf you are a potential new participant in the Flisik Salon, please contact co-host Rosie Kaplan ( mailto:flisik@klezcalifornia.org ) for a conversation in Yiddish to ensure your level of fluency is appropriate.\n\n\n\nFor general information about Salons, see https://klezcalifornia.org/yiddish-conversation-salons/.\n\n\n\nFill out my LGL Form! ( https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/ppVmXP0Pe-zbnIzFP3-EpQ )\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://klezcalifornia.org/events/flisik-yidish-salon-august-16-2026/
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LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260816T160000
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SUMMARY:Sharon Bernstein Album Release Concert and Party
DESCRIPTION:\nSunday, August 16, 2026, at 4:00 PMCongregation Sha’ar Zahav: 290 Dolores St., San Francisco and on zoomFree of charge\n\n\n\nPerforming live: Sharon Bernstein with Veretski Pass (Cookie Segelstein, Josh Horowitz, and Stu Brotman)\n\n\n\nIn celebration of the release of Sharon Bernstein’s new album: Forever in Our House: The Meir Noy Yiddish Song Project, published by the Jewish Music Research Centre (Hebrew University). From the archive of Meir Noy (1922–1998) — collected across a lifetime that spanned pre-war Galicia, the Red Army, a Cyprus refugee camp, and decades in Israel — come 17 songs, unusual and never before recorded: tender, funny, defiant, and devout, each one a window into a different life.\n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by The Jewish Community Library, The Workers Circle/Arbeter Ring of Northern California, and KlezCalifornia. This project has been fiscally-sponsored by KlezCalifornia.\n\n\n\n\nRegister »\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://klezcalifornia.org/events/sharon-bernstein-album-release-concert-and-party/
CATEGORIES:Featured,Music
LOCATION:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260817T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260823T180000
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SUMMARY:KlezKanada Summer Retreat
DESCRIPTION:\nEach year, KlezKanada’s Summer Retreat draws people from around the world. On the shores of a calm lake, nestled amongst the beautiful Laurentian mountains, participants gather to celebrate and study the living traditions of Yiddish arts and culture. Intergenerational, interdisciplinary, and international, KlezKanada’s Summer Retreat has grown into one of the leading Yiddish cultural events in the world.\n\n\n\nThe program features a world-class faculty of artists and scholars who are leading teachers, thinkers, performers, and creators in the current renaissance of Yiddish culture. Every day at KlezKanada’s Summer Retreat includes four class periods, each with multiple concurrent learning opportunities that range from beginner to advanced levels. There are hands-on workshops for instrumentalists, vocalists, dancers, theatre-makers, visual artists, language learners, translators, and writers, as well as workshops, talks, and discussions on literature, history, ethnomusicology, and more. In the late afternoon and evening, there are concerts and performances featuring KlezKanada’s renowned international faculty. KlezCal Board chair Dmitri Gaskin will be teaching.\n\n\n\nMore Information and Registration »\n
URL:https://klezcalifornia.org/events/klezkanada-summer-retreat/
CATEGORIES:Festivals,Music,Yiddish Language
LOCATION:Canada
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SUMMARY:Paris Portraits
DESCRIPTION:\nSFMOMA, 151 Third Street, San FranciscoThursday, Aug 27, 2026, 6 pm | Free with RSVP\n\n\n\nThis performance is in conjunction with SFMOMA’s exhibition Matisse’s Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal (now through September 13, 2026).\n\n\n\nWelcome to a Parisian salon. This staged dramatic reading brings to life a collection of stories from Paris Portraits: Stories of Picasso, Matisse, Gertrude Stein, and Their Circle, by Harriet Lane Levy (1867–1950), a celebrated San Francisco writer and theater critic.\n\n\n\nActress Laura Sheppard portrays the stories of Harriet Lane Levy, who moved to Paris in 1907 with her friend and neighbor Alice B. Toklas and suddenly found herself immersed in a strange and vibrant world. Levy tells of her initiation into the Parisian lifestyle and salons of the Steins (Gertrude and brother Leo, and brother Michael and his wife Sarah), the rivalry between Picasso and Matisse, wild nights in Montmartre, and her own discoveries as a single woman abroad, painting a picture of Paris that is simultaneously grand and intimate.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore Information and Tickets »\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis staged dramatic reading was originally developed for the exhibition, Seeing Gertrude Stein, featured at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Created and performed by Laura Sheppard and directed by Suzanne Stassevitch. Accompanied on piano by Dale Tsang.\n\n\n\nPresented by SFMOMA and Mechanics’ Institute\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Sheppard is artistic director of Yiddish Theatre Ensemble (YTE), a producer, and a professionally trained actor. She was producer for YTE’s productions including Di Megileh of Itzik Manger, God of Vengeance, and Between Worlds. She served as a cultural consultant for productions of Indecent at San Francisco Playhouse, which received six Bay Area Critics Circle Awards; Indecent at Center Rep, Walnut Creek; and Fiddler on the Roof at Contra Costa Civic Theatre. Laura’s solo theatrical work includes Still Life with (Gertrude) Stein which toured to the Edinburgh Fringe and international festivals. Paris Portraits was featured at the Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Marines’ Memorial Theatre for Humanities West. She is senior producer at San Francisco’s historic Mechanics’ Institute where she presents literary events and celebrations. She continues to create theatre and dramatic readings inspired by great writers.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDale Tsang earned her BM in piano performance from the University of Southern California, her MM from the University of Michigan, and her DMA from Rice University. Dale is a faculty member at Laney College and teaches an inspiring assortment of adult students.\n\n\n\nA winner of numerous competitions and an active solo and chamber musician, Dale frequently performs locally and internationally, including in France, Spain, Germany, Hungary, Poland, the Netherlands, China and Japan. As a core member of the Ensemble for These Times, she championed 20th and 21st century music and collaborated in many commissions, premieres and international performances. Her collaborative work on E4TT recordings resulted in a 2016 Silver Medal and a 2018 Gold Medal from the Global Music Awards. She enthusiastically continues to disseminate the music of living composers. Dale is married to her best friend and favorite composer David Garner, and is a mother to two wonderful college kids.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto Credits: Diane Sosnoski (Sheppard); Frogsong Photography (Tsang)\n
URL:https://klezcalifornia.org/events/paris-portraits-2/
CATEGORIES:Featured,Theater
LOCATION:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A Treasured Yiddish Book That Stayed Hidden for 75 Years
DESCRIPTION:\nYiddish Book Center, 7 pm ET / 4 pm PT, on Zoom\n\n\n\nYiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb is now celebrated in Canada, her adopted home, and Poland, the country of her birth. But in 1949, as a young Holocaust survivor and refugee, she faced an uncertain future. One evening in London changed everything. Invited over from Belgium to launch her new book, Rosenfarb was feted by London’s Yiddish writers and hailed as a promising new voice in Yiddish poetry.\n\n\n\nRosenfarb’s daughter, Goldie Morgentaler, has just found her mother’s treasured copy of that book, signed by everyone present that evening. Goldie and Yiddish Book Center chief curator David Mazower will share stories of Rosenfarb’s and London’s Yiddish writers and discuss what this tribute evening meant to the young writer.\n\n\n\nMore information and Registration » ( https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/events/upcoming-public-programs/conversation-treasured-yiddish-book-stayed-hidden-75-years )\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://klezcalifornia.org/events/a-treasured-yiddish-book-that-stayed-hidden-for-75-years/
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Classes
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Exile | Banishment | Home
DESCRIPTION:\nNovember 15, 2026 at Old First Concerts, 1751 Sacramento St., SF and livestreamed\n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to be home and yet not home?  E4TT explores explores this duality with Shostakovich’s From Jewish Folk Poetry, Op. 79 (selections), sung in the poetry’s original Yiddish language and the World Premiere of Skazka (fairytale), twisted Russian folktales reinterpreted and subverted by emerging composer Alex Malinas with images by Aria Nunez after Russian illustrator Ivan Bilibin, along with new music by Mary Bianco, Andrea Casarrubios, David Garner, and Stella G. Gitelman Willoughby. \n\n\n\nPerformed by E4TT with Carina Kahane, soprano, Melinda Martinez Becker, mezzo-soprano, Alex Malinas, narrator, Aria Shum, violin, Taylor Robinson, flute/piccolo, Zoe King, clarinet, and Eddie Virtgaym, percussion.\n\n\n\nMore Information »\n\n\n\nTickets »\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://klezcalifornia.org/events/exile-banishment-home/
LOCATION:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270124T170000
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SUMMARY:Hollywood Exiles & Modern Noir
DESCRIPTION:\nSunday, January 24, 2027, 5:00 p.m.In person at Piedmont Piano Company 1728 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, and online\n\n\n\nFilm noir meets E4TT’s much-loved Emigres & Exiles in Hollywood series! Featuring new tributes to film noir by modern movie mavens Germaine Franco (Encanto) and Lars Deutsch (The Passenger), paired with music by mid-century emigre composers.\n\n\n\nPerformed by E4TT (soprano Nanette McGuinness, cellist Megan Chartier, and pianist Margaret Halbig), and Jess Folson, violin.\n\n\n\nMore Information and Tickets »\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://klezcalifornia.org/events/hollywood-exiles-modern-noir/
CATEGORIES:Music
LOCATION:Alameda County
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