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Canadian playwright and teacher John Lazarus will be guest speaker at the Jan. 18 meeting of the Jewish Business and Professional Women's Group.
The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Wall Centre hotel. Refreshments will be served.
LAZARUS
Lazarus' topic, "Culture and Correctness — Friends or Foes?", reflects his active involvement in Canadian cultural politics, according to meeting organizers.
His plays include Babel Rap, Dreaming and Duelling, Village of Idiots, The Late   Blumer, Genuine
Fakes. Homework and Curtains, The Nightingale and the one-man show Medea's Disgust.
His children's plays for Green Thumb Theatre have been produced worldwide and his newest. Night Light, will tour B.C. this spring.
Lazarus' play The Trials of Eddy Haymour, has recently been presented in Kamloopsand Kelowna. He is currently writing a comedy called Kiddie Theatre HelL sponsored by a Canada council grant, and is coordinating The Kiss Project, to be produced by Judith Marcuse Dance Company in February.
The playwright also teaches at Langara College Studio 58 and writes for television, radio and magazines.
JBPWG's meetings are open to all Jewish women who consider themselves to be business and professional women and who make an annual contribution to the Combined Jewish Appeal.
For more information or reservations, call the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver office at 257-5100.
Winner of the 1995 Syvi Krisman Memorial Competition is Vancouver sculptor, Merrell Eve Gerber.
An exhibition will be shown at Temple Sholom Gallery, 7190 Oak Street. The show is set to run from Jan. 13 to Mar. 8. Opening night celebration is Mon., Jan. 30, from 6:30-9 p.m.
Syvi Krisman was a Vancouver artist who supported young emerging visual artists. The Syvi Krisman Memorial fund was established T>y family and friends in her memory.
The l^yvi Krisman Memorial Competition is held anniially, administered by Jewish Festival of the Arts, and is awarded to a Jewish
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artist residing in the Lower Mainland, who has not had a solo exhibition in Vancouver.
Gerber, this year's winner, earned a MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and studied at Emily Carr College of Art and Design. Gerber has been involved in group exhibitions since 1975, well before her formal education began.
The artist's work has been exhibited in New Mexico, Rhode Island, Japan, Washington State and the Lower Mainland.
Her latest showing was in October's "Art for Life" exhibition and sale, a benefit in support of the Vancouver Friends for Life Society.
TEEN VOLUNTEERS pictured during last year's JNF Tu B'Shvat Tree-A-Thon.
The eighth annual Jewish National Fund Tree-A-Thon will be held on Sunday, Jan. 15 in celebration of Tu B'Shvat, the Jewish New Year for Trees.
JNF Tree-A-Thon co-chairs are Jacobo Kajom-ovit and Sara Ciacci. The pair are seeking volunteers for the event, which will be held from 9:15 a.m.-3 p.m. at 8268 Manitoba St.
All trees donated during this year's Tree-A-Thon will be planted in the Jerusalem Peace Forest. The co-chairs noted that the forest is readily accessible to both Israelis and Arabs in this year of long-hoped-for peace.
The New Year of the Trees is an expression of Israel's love for the land and its landscape, the Tree-A-Thon chairs said, noting that every forest in Israel is man-made. JNF has long been the leader in creating forests in Israel, they reported.
While it is a tradition for Israeli children to plant with their own hands. Diaspora Jews can take part in the mitzvah, the co-chairs said, by making a contribution for trees to be planted on their behalf.
For more information or to volunteer, call the JNF office at 257-5155.
VICTORIA — A kosher
dinner/dance at the Empress Hotel will launch Victoria Hadassah-WIZO's fourth annual Chocolate Sunday.
The dinner date is Saturday, Jan. 14. Chocolate Sunday follows the next day at the adjoining Victoria Conference Centre.
Convenor Stephanie Gilbert and coordinator Lisa Edgar, promise "A Night of Musical Memories" as Chris Millington and his 18-piece orchestra, with soloist Duncan Meikeljohn, re-create the sounds of the Big Band era. An exhibition of authentic ballroom dancing will open the dinner program.
To add to the atmosphere, "cigarette girls" will offer cigars — chocolate ones, of course — and there will be an auction with Eric Char-man wielding the gavel.
Chocolate Sunday has more than 35 exhibitors signed on to display their wares. And there will be special features such as talks by Vancouver's Susan Mendel-son of the Lazy Gourmet; the CBC's Urban Peasant, James Barber; Bernard Cal-lebaut and former Murchie's pastry chef, George Graham
A panel of pastry chets will critique the public's chocolate creations in the "Critics Corner" and advise how to improve taste, tev-ture and appearance. Tin* food will then be donated to the  Mustard  Seed Food
Bank.
Starting on Jan. 10 a group of sculptors and chefs will attempt to create — out of a ton of chocolate — a replica of a Ghengis Khan artifact to tie in with an
upcoming exhibit at the Royal Museum in Victoria. The sculptors will work publicly in the Palm Court of the Empress.
Chocolate Sunday events are organized by volunteers
of the two Victoria Hadas-sah-WIZO chapters, with proceeds supporting Hadas-sah-WIZO projects in Israel.
For more information and to make dinner reserva-.tions, call 604-658-0261.
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