Kultura Talks & Artist Interviews
August 16, 2024
Miriam Arbus is a Toronto-based curator focused on digital technologies and experiences.
June 5, 2024
Meichen Waxer is a queer visual artist, curator, and arts worker living in Toronto. Her installation I Will Relate to You is now on view in the FENTSTER window gallery space.
May 27, 2024
Rebecca Snow is a filmmaker, director and writer. Her new film The Boy in the Woods will be screening as part of the 2024 Toronto Jewish Film Festival.
April 15, 2024
Ruth Adler’s colorful work is on view in the exhibition DECADE: 10 Years of Creation at Youngplace at Koffler Arts.
April 12, 2024
Joseph Landau is a musician and plays with the Yiddish swing and folk band Yosl and the Yingels. On June 27 he will be performing at the Up on the Roof, a Yiddish Cafe on the rooftop of the Miles Nadal JCC.
April 11, 2024
Jordi Mand is a writer for theatre, film and TV. Her latest project, In Seven Days, will be staged with the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company.
March 12, 2024
Rachael Grad is a visual artist. Her abstract art practice incorporates collage, observational drawing and painting.
March 7, 2024
S. Bear Bergman is an author, storyteller, performer and the creator of The First Jew in Canada: A Trans Tale.
January 22, 2024
Likht (ליכט, “light”) Ensemble is Jaclyn Grossman and Nate Ben-Hori, a piano-vocal duo whose goal is to uncover and disseminate music by Jewish composers from the Holocaust.
September 27, 2023
Nika Teper is an architectural designer, illustrator, photographer, and educator working between New York and Toronto.
August 16, 2024
Miriam Arbus is a Toronto-based curator focused on digital technologies and experiences.
June 5, 2024
Meichen Waxer is a queer visual artist, curator, and arts worker living in Toronto. Her installation I Will Relate to You is now on view in the FENTSTER window gallery space.
May 27, 2024
Rebecca Snow is a filmmaker, director and writer. Her new film The Boy in the Woods will be screening as part of the 2024 Toronto Jewish Film Festival.
April 15, 2024
Ruth Adler’s colorful work is on view in the exhibition DECADE: 10 Years of Creation at Youngplace at Koffler Arts.
April 12, 2024
Joseph Landau is a musician and plays with the Yiddish swing and folk band Yosl and the Yingels. On June 27 he will be performing at the Up on the Roof, a Yiddish Cafe on the rooftop of the Miles Nadal JCC.
April 11, 2024
Jordi Mand is a writer for theatre, film and TV. Her latest project, In Seven Days, will be staged with the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company.
March 7, 2024
S. Bear Bergman is an author, storyteller, performer and the creator of The First Jew in Canada: A Trans Tale.
January 22, 2024
Likht (ליכט, “light”) Ensemble is Jaclyn Grossman and Nate Ben-Hori, a piano-vocal duo whose goal is to uncover and disseminate music by Jewish composers from the Holocaust.
September 27, 2023
Nika Teper is an architectural designer, illustrator, photographer, and educator working between New York and Toronto.
May 8, 2023
Naomi Daryn Boyd (they/them) is a multidisciplinary designer, maker, and facilitator from Toronto.
April 17, 2023
Marcia Kash is an award-winning, internationally produced playwright, actor and director based in Hamilton.
November 2, 2022
Shaina Silver-Baird is an award winning actor, musician, writer and songwriter based in Toronto. She stars as Chaya in Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story with the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company.
August 5, 2022
Avi Margolis (they/she) is a Master of Museum Studies candidate at University of Toronto and is currently completing an internship at the Ontario Jewish Archives.
May 27, 2022
David Hoffert’s documentary The Rhapsody will premiere at TJFF 2022.
May 9, 2022
Alix Sobler is the playwright behind The Great Divide, on stage with the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company.
May 2, 2022
Rob Shostak’s exhibition Parchment recently opened at the FENTSTER window gallery in downtown Toronto.
April 26, 2022
Miriam Borden is a doctoral student in Yiddish Studies and very active as a speaker, teacher and researcher in the field.
January 27, 2022
Marnie Salsky is a Toronto-based, award-winning photographer with an interest in storytelling centered around community.
December 8, 2021
We caught up with Sara Yacobi-Harris, the director and filmmaker of Periphery, to learn more about the project, her work with No Silence on Race, creating a documentary during the Covid-19 pandemic and who’s inspiring her in Toronto lately.
May 21, 2021
Watch the 3 finalists’ monologues below and vote for your favourite!
March 23, 2021
Both& is a site-specific mural installation created for the Miles Nadal JCC. We interviewed the artist to learn more about the project and her process.
August 19, 2020
Leaders from performing arts organizations will discuss how they adapted their programming for the pandemic, and what they see as the future of the performing arts.
July 29, 2020
Eight questions about her new role, her background, experience, interests and passions, and her vision for the future of the Koffler Centre of the Arts.
July 16, 2020
The FENTSTER artist and discusses his artistic process and his recent project What Will Remain.
July 8, 2020
Three Jewish arts, culture and heritage organizations share how they re-imagined their programming for a pandemic, and how they see the future of culture.
April 23, 2020
The name The Kultura Collective is inspired by the Kultur-Lige, an interwar collective that promoted Jewish culture and community across Eastern Europe.
