IGNITE! Tikkun Leil Chanukah : A New Festival of Jewish Culture & Learning

Ignite a new tradition for Chanukah. IGNITE! opens with a community-wide Havdalah for all ages, then breaks into a choose-your-own-adventure of arts-based workshops, performances, and Jewish study sessions. Some of the sessions will be available on Zoom for at-home viewers, but all of the hands-on workshops will take place in person only.

The centrepiece of the IGNITE! program will include a hybrid live/virtual variety concert curated by the Ashkenaz Festival, in which artists from around the corner and across the country (and beyond) will bring us fresh musical performances inspired by the themes of the season. The program includes: Allan Merovitz, Aviva Chernick, The Barrel Boys, Finjan, Mostly Kosher, Socalled, The Rosenblatt Family (Jason, Rachel and Abby), and Toronto Klezmer Society.

SESSION HIGHLIGHTS

• Songful communal, inter-generational Havdalah with Rabbi Yael Splansky, Cantor David Rosen, Cantor Sidney Ezer, Aaron Rotenberg, and Aviva Chernick
• Ask the Rabbi: part study, part game show – what will happen?!
• Instant Choral Ensemble with Cantor David Rosen
• Song Circle with Aviva Chernick and Cantor Sidney Ezer
• Put a Little Yiddish in Your Chanukah with Sharon Power
• Chanukah’s Biblical Backstory with Rabbi Ed Elkin
• Judith: Our Unsung Hero with cantorial intern Ella Martin Gladstone
• Hands-on Hanukkah: Holiday ASL Workshop with Arthur Gunter
• Dark Room, Bright Lights: Hand-Processed Film Developing Workshop with Aaron Rotenberg
• Sacred Darkness: mystical teachings with Aaron Rotenberg
• Chanukah Literary Salon with Congregation Shir Libeynu
• Table Drumming and Chanting with Rabbi Aaron Levy
• Blanket Tying Workshop for Ve’ahavta with Alan Gotlib and Sybil Berk
• And more to come!

Jointly presented by: The Holy Blossom Temple Centre for Arts and Culture, Annex Shul, Ashkenaz Foundation, Beth Tzedec Congregation, City Shul, Danforth Jewish Circle, First Narayever Congregation, Makom: Creative Downtown Judaism, Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre, Congregation Shir Libeynu, Temple Sinai Congregation, and the UJA Committee for Yiddish.