Special Events

August Events

All Our Voices: Celebrating Diversity through Storytelling.

A unique multi-cultural festival featuring storytelling performances, informative and interactive workshops, and community story swapping. Explore the richness of our diverse voices while hearing Jewish, Latino, Asian, African American and Native American stories come to life. Develop the skills to tell your own stories, learn new storytelling techniques or delve into stories that reflect the wealth of cultural life that surrounds us.

Don't miss this opportunity to experience the stories that shape our multi-cultural society, enrich our community, and bring us together to learn from each other and to share the joy of storytelling.

Sunday, August 28; 10:00 am - 5:00 pm;
Fee: $40 adults, $20 ages 12-19
Tickets purchased day of the event add $5
To order tickets call 510-444-4755

September Events

Ascension: A Photography Opening with Shoey Sindel

Shoey Sindel’s, evocative photography exhibit Ascension, vividly captures the abstractions of staircases, allowing the viewer to see stairways from a different perspective – one that transcends to another worldly, spiritual place

Shoey Sindel is a local photographer specializing in fine art and portraiture. She has shown in art shows at UC Berkeley, Nexus Gallery, Grant Street Gallery and Laney College. She is married and is the mother of two boys who attend the JCC. Light refreshments
Sunday, September 11; 4:00 pm; Fee: FREE

"KlezCalifornia" Klezmer Concert and Dance Party"

KlezCalifornia’s fabulous celebration of Eastern European Jewish Culture kicks off with a concert and dance party featuring the renowned band, Veretski Pass, other local klezmer bands and Chicago-based dance teacher Steve Weintraub. Experience the joy, depth and power of Klezmer music as you dance the night away.
child care available for children t under 5 by pre-registration only. All ages welcome

Saturday, September 17; 7:00 pm;
Fee: BRJCC members and seniors: $12; Kids up to 17: No charge; General: $15
• For more information call 415-789-7679 or email info@klezcalifornia.org
KlezCalifornia is being produced in association with the Jewish Music Festival and in collaboration with the BRJCC

A Day in Yiddishland

A full “Day in Yiddishland" with participatory workshops in:

—Klezmer music for all levels (bring instruments!),
—Yiddish literature, language, popular phrases, and humor
—Eastern European Jewish history
—Sing-alongs and dancing
—Special teen workshops
—Youth program for ages 5 and up

Sunday, September 18; 9:30am – 5:30;
Fee: BRJCC members and seniors: $18; Kids up to 17: No charge; General: $20
• For more information: 415-789-7679 or info@klezcalifornia.org
KlezCalifornia is being produced in collaboration with the BRJCC

Hollywood Hats

An entertaining and fun filled event about classic Hollywood, the great stars and their hats. Don’t miss this one woman show performed by Gloria Heidi, once a protege of the legendary Hollywood designer Edith Head. She combines tinseltown lore, insider stories, songs and more - taking the audience on a rollicking trip to the sound stages, the costume closet and the dressing rooms of Movietown's leading ladies. Light refreshments
Sunday, September 25; 2:00 pm
$8 BRJCC members and co-sponsors; $10 public,
Co-sponsored with Congregation Beth El

Klezmer on the Bay

Enjoy an evening cruise on the Bay while dancing & listening to great music by Bay Area's best - Klez-X (aka San Francisco Klezmer Experience) while dining on a delicious vegetarian buffet of Jewish cuisine from Eastern Europe to the Middle East.

Sunday, September 25; $55 Members/$65 Public; Children 14 an up welcome
Early Bird Special: Buy your tickets by September 7 and save $5.

One alcoholic / 2 non-alcoholic drinks on the house
Pickup in Sausalito:
at 6:00 pm and return approx. 8:30 pm
Pick up at San Francisco Pier 41:
at 6:30 pm and return approx. 9:00 pm
(Pier 39 parking structure with validation available on the boat: $6)
Bus transportation available from BRJCC to Sausalito dock.

• For bus information and reservations, call 510 848 0237 x127
• For tickets and information call Osher Marin JCC at 415.444.8000

This event is part of the Bay Area JCCs’ Jewish Culture Collaboration funded by a grant from the Jewish Community Endowment Fund. Additional support from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.

Writers of the Storm:
Fake News, and Public Decency, in the Age of Terror"

A Writers-at-Large Panel Discussion featuring Bay Area artist, and president of The First Amendment Project, moderator, Clinton Fein, and panelists Floyd Salas, author, and president of PEN Oakland, playwright Scott McMorrow, journalist and author, David Ewing Duncan, journalist, author, and speech writer for Mario Cuomo, Jeff Gillenkirk, novelist, and social commentator, Stephen Elliott, and radio journalist, Noelle Hanrahan.

Don’t miss this informative and timely panel discussion exploring the writer’s role in relationship to what the concept of decency means, who gets to decide that, and whether that decision diminishes the power of pen, the dignity of writers, as well as the importance of diversity of opinion.

Writers of the Storm is presented in collaboration with Writers-at-Large, a California-based writers’ advocacy group which operates under a small grant from the California Arts Council. Co-sponsored with American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, in New York, and City Lights Book Store.

Wednesday, September 28; 7:30 pm
Fee $15; $10 students with ID

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