She keeps on going and going
Pianist's career includes worl< with schools and Jewish organizations.
ALEX KUNER SOCIAL COLUMNIST
Joyce Cherry is someone whose hands "have to keep going." That somewhat explains her passion for crafts and her choice ofpamuhseh... vocation, that is ... which centres around the piano.
Bom in the Catskill Mountains... "right in the middle of the Borsht Belf ... Joyce first got her hands "going" on the 88s at age seven. This eventually led to two degrees and a Ufelong musiral career, primarily as teacher and accompanist.
Since arriving in Vancouver in 1974, Joyce has been with the Surrey School District as an elementaiy school music specialist, teaching music literacy and appreciation through music classes, student choral groups and musical productions.
A "going" community concern, Joyce accompanies the Vancouver Jewish Men's Choir, organizes music for Temple Sholom's Shabbat services, serves as Louis Brier Home pianist and for the Chcny Classics ("music for all occasions") group.
Crafts also keep Joyce's hands "going"... sewing, knitting, candle-making, designing and creating Native appliqu6d vests.
As for Joyce's feet... they're as "going" as her hands. She happens to be a dedicated long-distance walker.
★★★
Vancouver financier/philanthropist Sam Bclzberg is out to help identify and nurture potential young Canadian leaders. To this end, Sam's invested $850,000 in Action Canada, a five-year pilot project of his based at Simon Fraser University's Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue. Ages sought... mostly 25 to 35.
Listen Sam, my grandson Fisher is only two and a half, but he's astoundingly precocious!
Mike Wallace and Andy Rooney of television's 60 Minutes are both age 84. Morley Safer is in his 70s. At 61, co-host Lesley Stahl says she's referred to as "the kid."
Stahl was speaking at the Or-pheum as part of this year's Unique Lives and Experiences: North America's Foremost Women's Lecture Series.
Not exclusively for women, Elaine took me... naturally! TV
Joyce Cherry
star/producer/philanthropist/author/social activist Mario Thomas is Unique's next speaker. Her talk is Tuesday, April 8, 7:30 p.m. Naturally, I'm being taken again... happily!
Continuing at the Holocaust Education Centre until May 30 is Ravensbriick: Forgotten Women of the Holocaust. It's the first-ever centre exhibit to focus specifically on the unique victimization of women during the Holocaust. The exhibit explores the response of female inmates in Ravensbriick concentration camp, the largest Nazi camp established for women inmates.
Adam Pettle's Zadic's Shoes was the "surprise hit" of Toronto's 2000 theatre season. It had a sold-out run. One of the most critically acclaimed new Canadian plays of the last few years, Zadic tells the "comic and touching" story of a well-meaning gambler. It's at the Arts Club Granville Island stage April 4 to May 3. Details, 604-687-1644. Don't bet it doesn't sell out in Vancouver too.
★★★
Last month. New York City's Jewish Museum opened its "groundbreaking" exhibit Entertaining America: Jews, Movies and Broadcasting... a "wealth" of photographs and rare artifacts -vintage and contemporary film, radio and television clips, posters, movie programs, fan magazines and Hollywood novels - all exploring the relationship between Jews and the American entertainment media. Entertaining America continues imtil Sept 14.
★★★
Should also mention the NYC Jewish Museum's permanent exhibition. Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey... a thoughtful exhibit of art, artifacts and media installations that examines, Elaine and I found, the dynamic interaction between continuity and change within the Jewish culture. What's illuminated is the Jewish people's ability to revise tradition and recast identity, as it were, from antiquity to the present, while holding fast to its set of fundamental concepts and values.
★★★
It's been hailed as the "coolest, hottest, sexiest, most entertaining theatrical sensation to hit the stage"... an "international dance spectacular" where the waltz, cha-cha, samba, rhumba, lindy and swing "all get a thorough workout." Burn the Floor sachets into the Centre April 9-12. Wonderful! Tm already tapping my feet. But where's the hora here? Performance information, with or without the hora, 604-280-4444.
★★★
St. Paul, Minn., Rabbi Asher Zcilingold was called upon last month by Canadian PadiSc Railway to recover a derailed tank car full of kosher salad-grade oil in Karlsrad, Minn. No doubt the good rabbi thou^t to bring along a few heads of lettuce and a couple of tomatoes.
★★★
"As potent today as when it stunned the theatre world four decades ago." That's what's said these days about Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, a "dark comedy of non-communication" that "swept away" old theatre conventions. At the Vancouver Playhouse April 5 to May 3. Bring your own broom! Details, 604-873-3311.
★★★
The late Mel Blanc, the famous voice of carrot-munching Bugs Bunny, was himself actually allergic to carrots. Good thing Mel was Bugs Burm^s voice and not his seeing eye dog. □
Alex Kliner has a varied background in theatre, education and community service.
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