21st Annual Chutzpah! Festival: Win Tickets

The 21st Annual Chutzpah! Festival returns with concerts, comedy, new dance works, film, theatre, and storytelling, paired with stimulating conversations and opportunities to interact with creative artists. Audiences will have the opportunity to attend in-person performances, with safety protocols in place, or to enjoy digital streams from the comfort of their own homes. With an emphasis on artists from across Canada, the Festival will also present work from Israel, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

21st Annual Chutzpah! Festival

• When: November 4 to 24, 2021
• Where: Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre, Wosk Auditorium, Sidney & Gertrude Zack Gallery at the JCC, and online
• Tickets: Available now. Single tickets start at $18 (plus fees)

The Chutzpah! Festival opens on November 4th with an interactive concert by City Opera Vancouver at the Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre.

What better way to welcome audiences back to the Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre than with the pinnacle of Jewish comedy – a special screening of the Marx Bros. classic A Night at the Opera. To kick off the festivities, City Opera Vancouver will sing the operatic music parodied in the film, with fun and surprises in store. The 30s cinema experience will include festive treats, glamour, and a costume contest.  City Opera Vancouver singers Michelle Koebke (soprano) and Martin Renner Wallace (tenor) will be joined tonight by pianist Roger Parton.

More festival highlight include:

Comedy

Avi Liberman 
November 20 at 7:00pm
Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre – digital stream available

Ophira Eisenberg
November 10 at 7:00pm
Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre – digital stream available

Iris Bahr
November 23 at 7:00pm
Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre – digital stream available

Dance

Project inTandem – Deep END & moving through, it all amounts to something
November 6 & 7 at 7:00pm
Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre – digital stream available

Shay Kuebler/Radical System Art – world premiere of Momentum of Isolation 
November 13 & 14 at 7:00pm
Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre – digital stream available

Alexis Fletcher – Vancouver premiere of light in the rafters 
Ne.Sans Opera & Dance – world premiere of Solo for Orpheus 
November 16 & 18 at 7:00pm
Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre – digital stream available

Theatre/Storytelling

Lilach Dekel-Avneri & The Pathos-Mathos Company
The Eichmann Project – Terminal 1
November 8 at 7:00pm
Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre – digital stream available

The Flame – Home at Chutzpah! 
November 17 at 7:00pm, Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre

Surplus Production Unit
A Timed Speed-Read of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Trial Transcript 
November 21 at 6:00pm and November 22 at 11:00am & 7:00pm
Wosk Auditorium

Music

Josh “Socalled” Dolgin with Strings – Di Frosh 
November 19 at 7:00pm
Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre – digital stream available

Guy Mintus Trio – A Gershwin Playground 
November 24 at 7:00pm
Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre – digital stream available

Multimedia

Iris Bahr – Artist Conversation Series 
Throughout the Festival

Tamara Micner – Old Friends 
November 8-12
Theatre, Installation, Sidney & Gertrude Zack Gallery, By Donation

Enter to Win

I’m giving away a ChutzPack (value $99) to view/attend any 4 online events. Here’s how you can enter to win:

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I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Thursday, October 28, 2021. Update: The winner is Val!