24th Annual Chutzpah! Festival - The Lisa Nemetz Festival of International Jewish Performing Arts. November 1 - 10, 2024

www.chutzpahfestival.com or 604.257.5145

The Chutzpah! Festival returns with a vibrant lineup of performances this November 1-10, 2024, presenting music, theatre, comedy, dance, and multimedia arts showcasing exciting international artists through a multicultural Jewish lens. For over two decades the Chutzpah! Festival has been an eagerly anticipated and annual highlight of Greater Vancouver's arts season. Artists will once again share their work and grace the stages of the Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre, our festival hub at the JCC, as well as Vancouver venues the Scotiabank Dance Centre and The Pearl. Single tickets and ChutzPacks are available online on September 18, 2024 at www.chutzpahfestival.com or by phone at 604.257.5145.

You can find the Program Guide Flipbook here

TRUTH TO POWER CAFE

Jeremy Goldstein in collaboration with community members
Part of the 24th Annual Chutzpah! Festival
November 3 at 7pm
Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre (Digital Streaming Option Available)

From Adelaide to Zagreb and now in Vancouver for its Canadian premiere, Renowned HIV+ theatre maker and queer arts producer Jeremy Goldstein's Truth to Power Café is a profound theatrical reflection on loss, hope, and resistance. This internationally acclaimed award-winning performance event is told through memoir, image, film, poetry, music, and true and authentic stories from the people of Vancouver in response to the question: who has power over you and what do you want to say to them?'

Personal, professional, political - speaking truth to power is a non-violent means of conflict resolution, the origins of which lie in the anti-war movement. Is it to your parents, a sibling, politician, landlord, neighbour, banker, boss, or simply your best friend? It's time to tell them the truth before it's too late.

Truth to Power Café is inspired by the political and philosophical beliefs of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter and his inner Jewish circle “ The Hackney Gang ”, who included Jeremy Goldstein's late father, Mick Goldstein, and poet and actor Henry Woolf.