The Canadian Jewish News, Friday, October 26, 1973 - Page;?
Childm^s Theatre at Colonnade
Audience enjoyment makes it worthwhile
By LYNN SLOTKIN
Life is hard under ordinary conditions, but it seems that it is. much more difficult for artists. Witness Bernard Aaron and Florence Ford.
Aaron is a painter, sculp-^ tor, composer and founder, with his partner, playwright Florence Ford, of a children's theatre company, Arts Renaissance. The company has a production on at the Colonnade, titled, Spind-lerion and the Princess.
Miss Ford writes the original scripts and sometimes directs the productions, while Aaron composes the music and designs the sets. They hope their Christmas production is as successful as the present one. In talking with these two artists, one sees hope is something they really cling to because sometimes that's all they iigve. It's hard doing successful children's theatre with a lot of hope and little
money. It's hard but somehow they manage. In spite of the fact that they have successfully produced six children's productions, they were refused a grant "on': the grounds that the company^ didn't have a business organization behind it," says Miss Ford.
They do have an anonymous patron who helps, but as she says, "he can only help so mucli, we have to do the rest/We don't want to be supported, we can do that ourselves, we just want the little extra help to do better productions."
To support themselves, Aaron teaches music and paints; Miss Ford teaches at a drama school. Her needs seem greater because she is the sole support of her three children.
In spite of the hardships and frustrations, both are happy. "It's marvellous to be doing one's own thing," she says. (They strongly believe in their worth and work.
Bemud Aaron
Aargn says, "writing for children is important because if they aren't brought to the theatre they rarely go as adults."
Both feel they are helping create a society of theatre going adults by providing children's theatre. Also they are creating an outlet for
Florence Ford
students in acting - the acting company is predominantly non-union. But the true test of whether they are a success or not is in the audiences.
The children seem to love the shows; they participate and generally have a great time. To Aaron and Miss Ford the enjoyment of the
young audiences makes the frustration worth while;
The Jewish community plays a great part in the success of the shows. Aaron says, "the Jewish communr-
L^ity has a far greater percentage of culturally oriented people." He said that if he advertised the show in a GejJtile paper with a large circulation (around 100,000) and then advertised in a Jewish paper with a small cir^ culation (around 20,000), the responses would be . the same. "The Jewish people
. are much more interested in the arts," says Aaron.
It is ironical then, that when he was growing up in England, (he came to Canada in 1967) his Jewish parents were opposed to his artistic learnings. He and his artis^ tic twin brother got no encouragement; their parents couldn't understand their artistic natures.
Aaron tells the. story of how he and his brother sculp-
ted animals from the age of four. The work they did at 21' is now in the World Wildlife museum in London, England. "My parents got so fed up with seeing these herds of elephants being made^ my father started4hrowlng them out. Everytime he threw, them out, we had to make another herd; and in a way he helped Us to get better." . Both Aaron and Miss Ford r haye-rfouhd their way of life - both are happiest iq art. One can only wish life be--comes a little easier.
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There's that old adage that if you want something done, ask a busy person. That's how Ethel Fahidy, full-time wife and mother, part-time librarian, choir singer, seamstress (she sews her own clothes) and do-it-her-self _ home decorator, became president of Temple Shalom in Kitchener.
Well, that's not exactly the only reason.
For one, she. felt there was a need for changes in the temple programing, especially in the area of the religious school "and it isn't fair to just sit back and criticize." For another, she had. been involved at the temple for some time. And for still another and most important of all, her love for Judaism runs deep. All good, solid attributes to be expected of a president of a congregation.
True, women synagogue presidents are Still somewhat of a rarity in Canada and that in itself would be interesting enough. But what makes this tall, energetic in-her-30s matron more unique, still is the fact that she wasn't always "a typical Jewish girl."
In fact, Mrs; Fahidy became Jewish during her student days at the University of Illinois. Her conversion to Judaism followed years of in-Umbo soul-searching. She had always done "a lot of thinking and reading about religion. She went the whole route from the Protestantism to which she wds born : to the "atheistic" bit."
"Through a gradual mental process, I became more and more convinced that Judaism was in tally with what I believed, "she said."I couldn't in good conscience'. be anything else,"
So much of Judaism, esr. pecially the moral teachings,: was basic % her upbringing that she felt at home with it and when she met-her husband Thomas and discovered he was Jewish, "it was_ as though someone had given
me a gift."
The Fahidys met at the university - she was study^ ing anthropology and he was working on his doctorate in chemical engineering.
They arrived in Kitchener , nine ago when Dr.
Fahidy joined the faculty of the University of Waterloo. Canada was more-or-less his home, as it was to Queens University that he had come following the 1956 uprising in his native Hungary.
Mrs. Fahidy first became active in the temple as a volunteer librarian. The Fahidy involvement has been a . family affair ever since. Dr. Fahidy was president four years ago arid now is one. of. a two-member committee'^' responsible for thereligious services. '
Presently, the synagogue is housed in ah office building in downtown Waterloo. The congregation is without a rabbi at the moment and . "everyone has to pull up his socks and pitch in."
Despite the fact that there is a membership of less than 2b families mostly . with young children, and a few single memberships, they have a thriving adult education program, a young adult education group, and a.re-ligious school which has engaged a full-time professional teacher for the first time.
Chanukah and Passover celebrations are home-based and the normal Jewish lite-cycle ceremonies - Brit
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Mrs. Fahidys personal thrust is to upgrade the religious school.
As for her presidential duties, Mrs. Fahidy finds that much of it can be handled on the telephone which gives her time for young David and John. She is ba-sical|3yiot^'oinan -organiza ■•' tioh^'orienterf" afthough she
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