Celebrate the Winter Solstice with us Wednesday!

TDSB/TCDSB PA Day:
Storytelling and Dance from South Asia
&
After Care Session:
New Children's Opera Development Workshop

Friday January 13, 2023

Joseph J. Piccininni Community Centre
(1369 St. Clair Ave. W., Toronto)

PA Day Workshop: 9am to 3:30pm
After Care Session: 4pm to 6pm

Ages: 6 to 12

Talented Bharatanatyam and Bollywood dancer Sanskruti Marathe and Creation Warehouse Associate Producer, storyteller and playwright Jackson Nair lead our January PA Days, filled with exciting rhythm, exhilarating dance and joyful storytelling.

Presenting the arts and culture of South Asia, children will interpret a classic story through acting and with dramatic flair. Bollywood and Bharatanatyam music will inspire the children to find their own inner dancer, introducing them to the gestures, footwork, and movement that make South Asian dance so spectacular!

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We're delighted to also offer an exciting after care session to immediately follow the PA Day workshop. Theatre artist Liza Balkan and composer Njo Kong Kie are creating a new opera based on a very old tale about a child’s beloved doll that has suddenly disappeared - and the doll’s travels to places near and far.

The artists are looking for your help with this story!

Where might the doll travel? What do they experience? If YOU were able to travel all over, where would you go?!

This after care session will be filled with games and drawing and singing and sharing!

Calling all self-identifying queer and trans youth between the ages of 18- to 24-years-old in ‘Canada’, to participate in devising a theatre production online.

Collaborators will develop a digital theatre performance in which queer and trans youth can express, explore and advocate for their identities within the safety of fictionality of theatre-making, while being surrounded virtually by a supportive community. By creating a theatre piece together online, we hope to make an affirming virtual space that centres marginalized lived experiences to speak to our present and (re)imagine our future, especially during the time of chronic global crisis.

Collaborators will work alongside principal investigator, Kira Meyers-Guiden, and will be asked to engage in weekly two-hour rehearsals starting in January 2023 until June 2023, potentially culminating in a virtual performance for invited guests.

Interested collaborators please email Kira at kiramg@yorku.ca by Wednesday December 21 to apply or for more information.

Pottery Classes Now Open!

Registration is now open for the Miles Nadal JCC pottery classes winter term! Adults can take the wheel while the youth classes explore pinch pots, slab and coil techniques.

Learn to Speak and Read in Hebrew!

Have you been wanting to learn Yiddish in an easy, fun and interactive way? Would you like to speak some Mameloshn, but you don’t know how to read the alef-beys? Popular teacher Sharon Power uses transliterations, songs, proverbs and themes to help students build beginner-level Yiddish conversation skills. Join us virtually this winter starting Thursday January 19! For more information, e-mail lisar@mnjcc.org.

YOU'RE INVITED TO WINTERTIDE!

ANNOUNCING A PA DAY WORKSHOP DOUBLE BILL!

CALL FOR COLLABORATORS FOR YORK UNIVERSITY PROJECT!

FROM OUR FRIENDS AT THE MILES NADAL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE (JCC):