Events

Chanukah Line Dance Party

Calgary JCC 1607 90 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB, Canada

Everyone is invited to celebrate Chanukah at the Paperny Family JCC with family-friendly line dance Lessons, cookie decorating and crafts! Sunday, December 25 2:00-4:00pm | Paperny Family JCC Auditorium and lobby This event is free but registration is requires and numbers are limited due to COVID protocols. Proof of full vaccination (QR code) will be […]

JCC Literary Festival – Ayelet Tsabari

Author Ayelet Tsabari and her book, The Art of Leaving, in conversation with Dr. Angy Cohen, University of Calgary’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Israel Studies (pre-recorded in Israel). Ayelet Tsabari (צברי איילת) is the author of the memoir The Art of Leaving, winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards, a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ […]

JCC Literary Festival – Maddison Tory

Calgary JCC 1607 90 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB, Canada

Author / Youth Social Activist Maddison Tory and her book, Your Secret Superpower: Ignite Your Spark (in-person and virtual – subject to change). Maddison Tory is a Grade 12 Henry Wise Wood student from Calgary. She is a health advocate, children’s book author, international motivational speaker, and founder of her own social enterprise HUGS. Maddi […]

JCC Literary Festival – Paul Alster

Author / Journalist Paul Alster discusses his book, Kin or Country with writer-editor and Paperny Family JCC Literary Festival chair Danyael Halprin (pre-recorded in Israel). British-Israeli broadcast journalist Paul Alster decided to write a novel highlighting the expected two-thirds increase in the Israeli population over the next 30 years, most which will come from the […]