SingSong Shabbos Potluck

Schedule

Fri, 24 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture | Vancouver, BC

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Ticket link or bring a potluck dish: https://www.peretz-centre.org/event-details-registration/fraytik-tsu-nakht-cultural-shabbes-potluck-2025-october
Come lift your voice in community at a special evening of group singing led by songleader Antonia Lassar. We'll explore old Jewish melodies, new niggunim, and improvised harmonies, weaving our voices together in joy and connection. Whether you're a seasoned singer or just love to listen, this is a space to challenge yourself, open your heart, and discover deeper connections—to the music, to the tradition, and to each other. No experience necessary—just bring your voice and your curiosity!
This event is in partnership with the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, and is part of their monthly Fraytik tsu Nakht Cultural Shabbes & Potluck, which is open to all, beginning with a Secular Humanist Shabbes observance (songs and readings) followed by a potluck dinner and a special nigunim (group singing) workshop led by Antonia Lassar. If you haven’t experienced this kind of musical event before, nigunim are melodic and repetitive tunes sung in groups, usually without words (jus sounds like “dai-dai-dai”.
Admission: a contribution to the pot luck OR pay $18.00 per person (children are free).
Please register early to help us make sure there's enough food for everyone.
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This event is part of our JQT Mental Health Support Series, which was developed in partnership with JFS Vancouver, following the Twice Blessed 2.0: The Jewish LGBTQ2SIA+ Initiative’s community needs assessment, which identified a critical service gap: Call to Action #6 - Develop and provide funding for LGBTQ2SIA+ friendly Jewish mental health support.
For the most up-to-date details on this series, please visit: https://www.jqtvancouver.ca/jqt-mental-health
Covid policy - JQT strictly follows the recommendations of Vancouver Coastal Health and makes decisions accordingly. Mask wearing is optional, but encouraged in group settings and to protect those in our circles who are immunocompromised.
Accessibility info - Programming will take place at the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, located at 6184 Ash St, Vancouver. There is free street parking and underground parking available (closes at 7PM, elevator access). The Peretz Centre is wheelchair accessible directly off the sidewalk. There is an accessible washroom and accessible entry via elevator. There is one single stall washroom, but unfortunately it is not wheelchair accessible (there are stairs). All other washrooms at Peretz Centre are gendered. The event will take place in the Ben Chud Auditorium and there is an elevator (106cm/42 inches). If you need assistance, please email [email protected] well in advance!
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WHO ARE WE?
Antonia Lassar is a comedian/actor/hot person who blew up on The Jewish Internet with her viral TikToks. Her comedy has been featured by Just For Laughs, Glamour Magazine, USA Today, and, obviously, Hey Alma. You can catch her performing with the iconic UCB Theatre, co-hosting the Yenta Podcast, or crushing standup in LA and your mom’s synagogue. antonialassar.com
Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture was founded in 1945 to establish and conduct a school that provides students of all ages with a progressive and modern Jewish cultural education. Located in Vancouver, BC on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, we hold classes, lectures, exhibitions, concerts, holiday celebrations and similar gatherings in order to teach and advance the cause of progressive and modern Jewish learning, culture, and education and the Yiddish language. ​​Our doors are open to people of diverse cultures, beliefs, genders, and sexual orientation. www.peretz-centre.org
JQT Vancouver (pronounced J-Cutie) is a volunteer-run Jewish Queer and Trans charitable non-profit dedicated to "queering" Jewish spaces and "Jew-ifying" Queer spaces through education, dialogue, art, cultural celebration and partnerships in Vancouver, BC, on the traditional and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. www.jqtvancouver.ca
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