Chutzpah! Festival

Chutzpah! The Lisa Nemetz International Showcase of Jewish Performing Arts is the Lower Mainland's winter music, theatre, dance and comedy festival presenting international, national, and local artists. The 2010 Chutzpah! Festival delivers audiences work that is forward looking, multi-layered, and entertaining. Running March 4 - April 8, 2010 at the Norman Rothstein Theatre & Wosk Cabaret at the JCCGV, The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts and The Venue.

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History of Chutzpah!

Chutzpah! The Lisa Nemetz Showcase of Jewish Performing Arts was established in 2001 and addresses the need for the community to support Jewish artists and their collaborators to create and perform meaningful work that voices and/or celebrates their individual concerns and speaks to the myriad of issues facing their community and beyond.

An endowment generously donated by the David Levi Family in 2001 to honour the memory of Lisa Nemetz, who was a dancer, a lawyer, a lover of the arts and a tireless advocate for the treatment and care of women with breast cancer, has allowed Chutzpah! to ignite the imagination of the community by an outstanding caliber of art seen each year.


Past Highlights

Brave Old World
Emily Molnar
Simone Orlando
Aszure Barton
Daniel Conrad
 
Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg
Robbie Gringras
Boris Sichon
Kaeja d'Dance
Jennifer Gasoi
 
Orchid Ensemble
Kendra Fanconi's "The One That Got Away"
Max-i-Mime
Job: The Hip Hop Musical
 
The Sossy Mechanics
Sarah Edmondson
Nathan Schwartz
Josh Epstein
Josh Drebit
And so many more...



Proposals

Please contact Artistic Managing Director Mary-Louise Albert regarding proposals for the Chutzpah! Festival and other artistic programming.
 

Volunteers & Job Opportunities

Would you like to be a Chutzpah! Volunteer? Contact Valerie Coombes at valerie@jccgv.bc.ca