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IVIulti-facetecl one-woman show
Gabriella Klein is a teacher, writer, dancer, storyteller and entrepreneur.
ALEX KUNER SOCIAL COLUMNIST
Teaching English as a second language to earn a stable income. That's Gabriella Klein's practical side. She also has a creative side on lotsa levels.
Bom in Budapest, Hungary, Gabriella grew up in Toronto, but has called Vancouver home since 1985. Actually, she's lived in India, Switzerland, Central America and the United States. She speaks five languages.
Combining her two sides, Gabriella can legitimately call herself artist^entrepreneur on several counts. Designing clothes and jewelry while in India, she exported her creations throughout Europe and Canada. As impresario, she started a music promotion and management company to tour world music folk and jazz groups across North America.
Gabriella's a writer, dancer, performance storyteller and actress. Her one-woman show. Murdering Cinderella, which she wrote, is based, says Gabriella, "on personal life experiences as a child of Holocaust survivors, as single mother and on youthful follies." Her three Cinderella Chutzpah! perfonmanccs received standing ovations... including Elaine's and mine. As for your follies, Gabriella ... look what Ziegfeld's Follies did for him!
★★★
A post-Pesach Pesach story: "Let my people shop!" That, you might say, was Debbie Jacob's demand when she found no Pesach provisions available at the 10th and Sassamat Safeway in her West Point Grey neighborhood. Unlike ol' Pharaoh did to Moses, the store manager lent a sympathetic ear to Debbie's plea and the shelves were soon chock-full of Pesach goodies.
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The Bagel Club! It's a social club for Jewish adults with special needs, disabilities and challenges. It meets five times a month at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver. You nosh, you kibbitz, you shmooze and lots more. And ... there's no fee. How much better can a bagel get? Details, 604-257-5151.
★★★
At the "core" of her concerns, says the Hon. Sen. Sheila Fine-
Gabriella Klein
stone, are her Jewish values and the belief that "living in society goes beyond caring for yourself." Exploring such thoughts. Sheila will be "speaking irom. the heart" at this year's Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver-afiiliated Women's Endowment Fund evening Wednesday, May 8, at Temple Sholom, 8 p.m. Dessert reception, 7 p.m. ... I guess, a sort of nosh before nourishment idea. Evening information, 604-257-5100.
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Chutzpah! artistic director Brenda Leadlay tells me she's now accepting performer proposals for next year's Chutzpah!, which takes place Feb. 22 to March 9,2003. Deadline for performer applications to Brenda is May 20 at 6 p.m. Call 604-257-5111, ext. 235, or e-mail brenda® jccgv.bcca.
★★★
Touring caves in Israel... for me, too claustrophobic. Turned bade in two minutes. No such behavior from me, however, on the giant screen Journey into Amazing Caves, now at the CNIMAX Theatre at Canada Place. Beneath the earth I wiggled through tiny, twisting passages, dropped into subterranean labyrinths of ice, swam through underground vaults. And through it all, I imperviously munched popcorn. Aha! Popcorn cures claustrophobia. If only I'd known that in Israel!
For Amazing Caves details, call 604-682-4629.
★★★
When Cleveland-based prodigy Alisa Wcilerstcin first took
up the cello, "it was almost bigger than she was," says Vancouver Recital Society artistic director Leila Getz. Alisa's been performing since age five. Now a teenager, she can be seen as well as heard... and well worth hearing is the consensus of critics internationally.
Alisa's at the Vancouver Playhouse Sunday, May 5, 8 p.m. Details, 604-602-0363.
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■ Writer/broadcaster Bill Richardson's new novel Waiting for Gertrude is a comic fantasy involving the souls of Gertrude Stein and other deceased luminaries from, the world of literature and music interred in Paris's famous Pere-Lachaise cemetery.
Sunday, April 28,7:30 p.m., at the Norman Rothstein TTieatre, there's an evening that mixes music, images, words, cats and ghosts, all based on Bill's book. A unique mixture, I'd say! Leaves out ttie usual apples and oranges. Evening details, 604-257-5111.
★★★
Impactio... a new "revolutionary" 3-D system for billboard advertising has been developed at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The software achieves its effects without the familiar 3-D glasses. Still in search of a market, Im-pactio's business end. Human Eyes Technology, seeks soon to turn its 3-D advertising hopes into real 3-D dollars.
■ Vancouver Jewish Film Festival revision: Gloomy Sunday opens the festival May 9, and not Time of Favor. The festival continues to May 26, screening three world and six Canadian premieres. More information, 604-266-0245.
Comics Don Rickles, Red Buttons and Norm Crosby,
earlier this month, turned fellow comedian Milton Berle's funeral ceremony into an "impromptu celebrity roast." Comedian Jan Murray speculated to those gathered that he believed Berle's first act in heaven would be to organize a roast for Moses. Amen! □
Alex Kliner has a varied bach-ground in theatre, education and community service.