Paperny Family JCC

The Fiddler on the Field at 50!
2021-08-29 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Edmonton) | AB
We will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the film Fiddler on the Roof with a Chai Notes Tribute Concert
The event will take place on Sunday, August 29 from 6:30 – 8:30pm in the JCC field.
Tickets are $18 per person and can be purchased online or by calling 403-253-8600, ext. 0. Code 8170.
Bring your own picnic and blanket or pre-order from the menu below from Karen’s Cafe by email.

Israeli platter: Hummus, dolmades, pickles,Israeli salad, falafels, grilled pita, and tahini. Includes a chocolate chip cookie. $12
Israeli Salad Bowl: Greens, falafels, chopped pickles, Israeli salad, hummus, pickled radishes and lemony tahini dressing. Includes a chocolate chip cookie. $12
Asian Quinoa Bowl: Greens, quinoa, sweet potatoes, almonds, red peppers, cucumbers, edamame and orange honey vinaigrette. Includes a chocolate chip cookie. $12
Smoked Salmon Bowl: Greens, chopped eggs, diced tomatoes, cucumbers, pickled onions and creamy dill dressing. Includes a chocolate chip cookie. $12

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High Holidays
2021-09-03 10:00 - 12:00 | Calgary JCC, 1607 90 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB, T2V 4V7, Canada
Join us for Cartis Bracha (greeting cards) station, and honey market.

SUP & Tashlich
2021-09-12 17:00 - 18:30 | Carburn Park, 67 Riverview Dr. S.E., Calgary, Alberta
Join us for a unique Days of Awe experience. Cast away the previous year’s wrongdoings on a stand-up paddleboard. Cantor Russ from Beth Tzedec Synagogue will lead the Tashlich ceremony as we float on one of our city’s beautiful lagoons at Carburn Park in Riverbend SE. Bring your picnic for after the ceremony.
By donation.
Email Shula to register.

Open Sukkah
2021-09-20 10:00 - 20:00, 2021-09-21 10:00 - 20:00, 2021-09-22 10:00 - 20:00, 2021-09-23 10:00 - 20:00, 2021-09-24 10:00 - 20:00, 2021-09-25 10:00 - 20:00, 2021-09-26 10:00 - 20:00, 2021-09-27 10:00 - 20:00 and 1 more date | Calgary JCC, 1607 90 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB, T2V 4V7, Canada
Our beautiful sukkah is open for the community to enjoy sharing a meal or simply hanging out. Private functions and community agencies are welcome to book the sukkah by emailing Shula Banchik. Donations welcome.

Sukkah Decorating
2021-09-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Calgary JCC, 1607 90 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB, T2V 4V7, Canada
Join us for an afternoon of arts and crafts, and help decorate our beautiful community sukkah.
All ages are welcome for this free event. Refreshments provided.

A Day of Truth and Reconciliation - A Talk with Casey Eagle Speaker
2021-09-26 10:30 - 11:30 | AB
Paperny Family JCC Arts & Culture invites you to:
Day of Truth and Reconciliation
A Talk with Casey Eagle Speaker with introductory remarks by Cantor Russ Jayne from Beth Tzedec Congregation
Sunday, September 26
10:30am MDT | On Zoom
Free admission
Casey Eagle Speaker is the aboriginal resource co-ordinator at Hull Services, a Calgary non-profit agency that focuses on children’s mental and behavioural health.
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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
2021-09-30 09:00 - 14:00 | AB
September 30, 2021 marks the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
We honour the lost children and Survivors of residential schools, their families, and communities. Public commemoration of the tragic and painful history and ongoing impacts of residential schools is a vital component of the reconciliation process. All are encouraged to wear the colour orange to raise awareness of the very tragic legacy of residential schools and honour the thousands of Survivors.
Everyone is welcome to come by the JCC to participate in the creation of a giant dream catcher. Be part of making this communal Indigenous symbol while watching short videos, listening to testimonies of residential school survivors, and learning about this dark era of Canadian history.

Ability Arts Community Mural Exhibit
2021-10-17 - 2021-11-10 | Calgary JCC, 1607 90 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB, T2V 4V7, Canada
All are welcome to view our Ability Arts Community Mural Exhibit at the Paperny Family JCC.
Exhibit: October 17 to November 10, 2021.
Open House: November 10, from 2:00 to 6:00pm.
Join us to celebrate resilience, hope, and community!

JCC Literary Festival - Ayelet Tsabari
2021-12-07 19:00 - 20:00 | AB
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’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, and The Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature, and an Apple Books and Kirkus Review Best Book of 2019. Her first book, The Best Place on Earth, won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction. The book was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, Kirkus Review’s Best Debut Fiction of 2016, was nominated for The Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and has been published internationally to great acclaim.
Ayelet was born in Israel to a large family of Yemeni descent. She grew up in a suburb of Tel Aviv, and travelled extensively throughout South East Asia, Europe and North America. In 1998 Ayelet moved to Vancouver, Canada, where she studied film and photography in Capilano University’s Media Program. She directed two documentary films, one of which won an award at the Palm Spring International Short Film Festival. She wrote her first story in English in 2006. A graduate of Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio and the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph, Ayelet teaches at the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph, and University of King’s College’s MFA in Creative Nonfiction.

JCC Literary Festival - Maddison Tory
2021-12-08 16:00 - 17:00 | Calgary JCC, 1607 90 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB, T2V 4V7, 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 recently wrote and published a children’s empowerment book called Your Secret Superpower: Ignite your SPARK. The book encourages young people to find their spark and use it to ignite positive change in the world. The book has inspired students internationally to start gratitude and passion projects in their communities. It’s perfect for young philanthropists. Profits from the book are donated to children’s hospitals across Canada.

JCC Literary Festival - Paul Alster
2021-12-08 19:00 - 20:00 | AB
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 Ultra Orthodox and Haredi Jewish communities. This dramatic new demographic will significantly move the balance of power in Israeli society and change day-to-day living in the world’s only majority Jewish nation. The question Kin or Country poses (and that much of Israeli society is already asking itself), is whether or not such changes will lead to societal chaos? Is there a potential Jewish civil war in the offing?
Written as a political thriller revolving around a frenetic police investigation into a murder discovered just days before the referendum is due to take place, Kin or Country also reflects the geopolitical issues that would come to pass in such a situation. Both American and Iranian political interests are also on the line, but the thought-provoking storyline also focuses on the very human dilemmas and emotions facing one Jerusalem-based family that reflects both sides of the heated political debate. Where do their loyalties lie? With their kin or their country?

JCC Literary Festival - Bonnie Kaplan
2021-12-09 13:00 - 14:00 | AB
Author Bonnie Kaplan, professor at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine and her book, The Better Brain: Overcome Anxiety, Combat Depression, and Reduce ADHD and Stress with Nutrition (virtual).
Bonnie J Kaplan, PhD, is Professor Emerita in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. She has published widely on the biological basis of developmental disorders and mental health – particularly, the contribution of nutrition to mental health. Her efforts to include nutrition knowledge in the care of people with mental health challenges has earned her a variety of awards, including the Dr. Rogers Prize in September 2019; and in 2017 she was selected as one of 150 Canadian Difference Makers in Mental Health, in honour of Canada’s 150th birthday. Her recent book The Better Brain, is co-authored with Professor Julia Rucklidge (University of Canterbury, New Zealand).

JCC Literary Festival - Alan Scott Haft
2021-12-09 19:00 - 20:00 | AB
Author Alan Scott Haft and his book, Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano (virtual).
Alan Scott Haft was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950. He is a 1973 graduate of Queens College, New York. He received his J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law in 1978. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wife Gail. They have two children, Hartley and Jamie.
The story of Alan’s father Harry Haft, Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano was first published in hardcover by Syracuse University Press in 2006. Today the book is available in hardcover, paperback, and as an audio book. It has also been translated from English into German and Polish. A graphic novel based on the book, Der Boxer, by acclaimed German cartoonist Reinhard Kleist was published in Germany in 2006 and is available in 26 countries.
A major motion picture The Survivor, produced by BronStudios, directed by Barry Levinson, and starring Ben Foster premiered in September 2021 at the Toronto International Film Festival. HBO/HBO MAX has acquired the North American rights to the film.

JCC Literary Festival - Barb Brittain-Marshall
2021-12-10 11:00 - 13:00 | Calgary JCC, 1607 90 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB, T2V 4V7, Canada
Join Barb Brittain-Marshall, host of Letter Writing Socials for a unique, fun, and in-person typewriter event called, Kibitz and Type. Do you have a story blossoming in your imagination? Do you love the feel and click-clack sound of typing out your prose on a typewriter? If your answer is an enthusiastic, “Yes!” then this is the event for you. Come to the JCC and sit down at one of the typewriters to compose your poem, love letter, or short story.
Barb Brittain-Marshall is a scribbler, lover of all things snail mail, and host of Letter Writing Socials. When she isn’t hiking in the mountains or working on her children’s picture book, she can be found writing letters on her typewriters. She hopes to inspire others to discover the charm of letter writing, one mailbox at a time.

JCC Literary Festival - Kres Mersky
2021-12-11 19:00 - 20:00 | AB
Join actress and writer Kres Mersky (best known for her role in Revenge of the Nerds) for a 40-minute Q&A session to discuss her one-woman play she created: The Life and Times of A. Einstein. It is a hilarious and touching portrait of Albert Einstein as well as a humanizing look into the Nobel Laureate’s life, as seen through the people around him. Access Kres’ video-on-demand performance of her play (1hr, 15min) for $18. VIDEO-ON-DEMAND (use code: CALGARYJCC to receive special rate) | REGISTER for the free Q&A.

Tu B'Shevat Terrarium Workshop
2022-01-12 19:00 - 20:30 | AB
Join us at the JCC for our upcoming Tu B’Shevat Terrarium Workshop and celebrate the ‘New Year of the Trees’!
Beat the winter blues and create your very own low-maintenance mini garden to enjoy at home. Facilitated by Danielle Braitman.
Wednesday, January 12 | 7:00 – 8:30pm
$18 Members & Public (Code: 8498)
Call 403-253-8600, ext.0 to register for virtual or in-person option. COVID protocols will be strictly adhered to.
Package pick-up details for virtual participants will be given after registration.

Food for the Soul: Tu B'Shevat Seder
2022-01-16 12:00 - 13:30 | AB
Join the JCC, Kesher and Calgary Jewish Federation Inclusion for a beautiful Tu B’Shevat seder on Zoom.
This event, led by Cantor Russell Jayne, includes a wonderful lunch from Karen’s Café.
Sunday, January 16 | 12:00 – 1:30pm
$10 per adults and $5 per child for non Kesher members and free for Kesher members and their families.
Email registration is required by January 11 by email to Karina Szulc.
Join us on Zoom here.
Generously sponsored by The Lenny and Faigel Shapiro and Family Fund.

Community Drum Circle, Sing-Along & Conversations
2022-02-06 13:30 - 15:00 | AB
Celebrating JDAIM 2022 with music, wellness, and inclusion with Jennifer Buchanan of JB Music Therapy. Everyone is welcome but registration is required by February 4 via email to Karina Szulc.
PLUS! All attendees will be entered into a draw for the chance to win a copy of Jennifer’s book, Wellness, Wellplayed: The Power of a Playlist.
This WELLNESS FOR ALL program is generously supported by Lenny and Faigel Shapiro and Family.
In partnership with Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary and Inclusion powered by Calgary Jewish Federation.

See Me | Tire Oti | תראה אותי Virtual Photo Exhibit
2022-02-13 - 2022-02-28 | AB
Photographer Hilary Gauld Camilleri of One for the Wall shares her passion for truth in storytelling, weaving tales of individuality and relationships through impactful imagery. She has poured her boundless energy into creating an annual series of images for the Waterloo Region Down Syndrome Society. View her specially-curated exhibit on our website (coming soon).
Join Hilary on Tuesday, February 15 at 7:00pm for a virtual presentation of her exhibit. Register for free. If you require assistance with registration, please email Karina Szulc.
In partnership with Inclusion powered by Calgary Jewish Federation.

Exploring Adar: From Darkness to Light Painting Workshop
2022-02-13 10:00 - 12:00 | AB
SOLD OUT
Adar is known both as the month of darkness and a time of good fortune. Enjoy learning about this complex month while exploring your own duality through art. This workshop is offered in-person and virtually and is facilitated by Alan Briks, MA, ATR-BC.
Alan Briks is an art therapist and visual artist. He has an art therapy practice in Calgary, and is presently an instructor with the art department at the University of Calgary (UC). He was formerly an adjunct professor in the nursing department at UC, has several publications, and has lectured widely. As a multi-media visual artist, Alan has been represented by Calgary’s Inglewood Fine Arts and exhibits in many art galleries and public settings.
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Building an inclusive community is a priority. Contact us and we will make every effort to meet your needs.

Life on Kishor-Kishorit: An Inclusive Kibbutz in Israel
2022-02-27 10:00 - 11:30 | AB
Kishorit is a home for life, for adults with disabilities in Western Galilee. It is a supportive community that provides a continuum of residential, social, and vocational services. Kishorit members live full, independent lives – maturing and growing old with dignity. Life in Kishorit is driven by the principle that “each contributes to the community according to his ability and takes from the community according to his need.”
Register for free. If you require assistance with registration, please email Karina Szulc.
Presented by:
Shuki Levinger (CEO and Co-Founder of Kishorit)
Tamara Klinger Levi (Director – Resource Development of Kishorit)
Davina Simcha Samuels (Kishorit Member)
Marc Koppels (Kishorit Member)
In partnership with Kishorit and Inclusion powered by Calgary Jewish Federation.

Food for the Soul - Purim Edition
2022-03-13 12:00 - 13:30 | Calgary JCC, 1607 90 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB, T2V 4V7, Canada
Celebrate Purim with us followed by lunch at Karen’s. In person or on Zoom.
With Rabbi Leonard Cohen and live music by Fromage Chaud.
For those joining us virtually, pick-up your food at the JCC on March 13 between 10:00 and 11:30am and then join us on Zoom at noon.
Delivery is available • Donations are welcome
There is no charge for Kesher members and their families but registration is required by March 8 to Karina Szulc.
Generously sponsored by The Lenny and Faigel Shapiro and Family Fund. In partnership with Inclusion Powered by Calgary Jewish Federation, Calgary Jewish Federation, and the Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary.
