Unique Jewels

Celebrating Yom Haisha – International Women’s Day (IWD)

How Women Challenge and Change our Laws with Guest Speaker Dr. Sylvia Solomon Over the years, women have successfully challenged and changed laws, both in the United States and Canada. Explore three landmark human rights trials: - 1954: Brown v Board of Education - Concerning segregation in US Schools - 1969: Roe v Wade - […]

Art Together Apart © – Second Edition

Our lives have been altered over the past year. We are all in the same ocean, though not necessarily in the same boat, since we have been affected in various ways by the pandemic. This pleasant, whimsical, and gently- paced art workshop will present a series of progressive art exercises with a basis in art […]

A Pass Over Opera

From slavery to freedom, from lockdowns to our active and colourful lives – OPERA has it all. Starting from Nabucco’s Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves – who never lost their hope to be free people again, to Verdi’s Gilda – the young woman locked down her whole life in her father’s house, unable to have […]

The Printed Word Series – Blackout Poem Creation

Blackout poems are created on a page of a book, a newspaper, a magazine, etc. Using the pages of an existing text, blackout poets isolate words and then piece them together in single words or short phrases to create a lyrical masterpiece. Cost: $6 | Code: 7472 Register online below or by calling 403-253-8600, ext.0. […]

Yom HaZikaron: The Power of Jewish Peoplehood Through Personal and Collective Mourning

Calgary JCC and the JCC Association of North America invite you to join us on VirtualJCC.com for “Yom HaZikaron: The Power of Jewish Peoplehood Through Personal and Collective Mourning.” We’ll be listening to an intimate conversation about loss and collective mourning as shared by Israelis who know the heartache and anguish from their own experiences. […]