In partnership with the Bill Reid Gallery we proudly present Keeping the Song Alive.
The exhibit shares the mostly unknown story of the decades-long work between ethnomusicologist Dr. Ida Halpern and the late Kwakwaka’wakw Chiefs Billy Assu and Mungo Martin to document hundreds of sacred and traditional songs that otherwise would have been erased due to the Potlatch Ban and suppression of Northwest Coast Indigenous culture.
The dynamic rodeo photography of Ronnie Tessler, taken in 1976-1979 – an exhibit and short film.
A bombshell of photographic talent who took Buenos Aires and Vancouver by storm.
From the 1940s through the 1970s, the neighbourhood of Oakridge was the heart of the Vancouver Jewish Community. Read more…
Jewish Architects in Vancouver, 1955-1975
Since its founding in 1979, the Vancouver Jewish Folk Choir has kept Yiddish culture alive in Vancouver.