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This project is about women. Creative, strong, breaking social taboos, and in some ways... invisible. Join us during HEW for a beautiful, multi-media theatrical concert.
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SONGS OF THERESIENSTADT’S SECRET POETESS
This project is about women. Creative, strong, breaking social taboos, and in some ways… invisible. Award-winning performer Lenka Lichtenberg’s grandmother Anna Hana Friesová was a well-educated artist from an assimilated Czech family. Lichtenberg grew up unaware of her grandmother’s talent and it was only when her mother passed away that she discovered a treasure among her possessions: two worn notebooks filled with poems that Anna Hana wrote between 1940-1945, just before and during her incarceration in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Stunned by the intensity of her words, the erudite vocabulary, the raw and often disturbing honesty, Lichtenberg put her grandmother’s powerful words to music. The critically acclaimed album has risen to the top of the European World Music Radio charts. Join us during HEW for a beautiful, multi-media theatrical concert.
Created by award-winning musician, producer and composer Lenka Lichtenberg with Milli Janatková, Jessica Deutsch and others. Directed by Leah Cherniak. Performed by Lenka Lichtenberg (vocals, keyboards, harmonium); Aviva Chernick (vocals, narration); Jessica Deutsch (violin, bass, musical director); Auri Fell (vocals, ukulele, saxophone); and Fern Lindzon (piano, vocals). Visuals by Lumír Hladík.
Co-presented by the Holocaust Education Centre and the Ashkenaz Foundation. In association with Congregation Darchei Noam and the Consulate General of the Czech Republic.
Presented by:
A Kultura Collective Member
In Partnership with:
Prosserman JCC, Holocaust Education Centre
Start Date: November 10, 2022
7:30 PM
Midtown Toronto
Prosserman JCC - Leah Posluns Theatre
4588 Bathurst Street Toronto, ON M2R 3V2
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$25
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