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Oh Canada Ten double passes to give away

Arts Editor — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:23:52 +0000

Thanks to Transmission Films, we have 10 double passes to give away to OH, CANADA, a film starring Richard Gere, Uma Thurman and Jacob Elordi, opening nationally in cinemas on 27th March. Fiery but feeling his years and his illness, ailing filmmaker Leonard Fife (Richard Gere) wants to tell his life story, unfiltered, before it’s too […]

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Win tickets for Spit starring David Wenham

Arts Editor — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:11:33 +0000

Thanks to Transmission Films, we have 10 double passes to give away to SPIT, a film starring David Wenham, opening nationally in cinemas on 6th March. After 20 years on the run overseas, small-time ex-criminal Johnny Spitieri (Spit) slips back into Australia on a false passport only to find himself locked up in an Immigration Detention […]

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Bach to Bossa and Beyond

Arts Editor — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 04:28:56 +0000

Conductor and pianist Vladimir Fanshil presents the first concert this year in the Live at the Great series featuring the world-renowned Grigoryan Brothers. Joining them for two concerts at Sydney’s Great Synagogue will be Andrew Blanch and Vladamir Gorbach on February 28 and March 1. Bach to Bossa and Beyond is the first of five […]

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Damon Galgut on zoom with the Sydney Jewish Writers Festival

Arts Editor — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 04:22:37 +0000

Acclaimed South African playwright and novelist, Damon Galgut, will be on Zoom in conversation with Joanne Fedler on Thursday. Galgut is the author of The Promise, a multi-voice, multi-generational saga set on a farm outside Pretoria, where Galgut was raised. The Booker Prize-winning book begins with a Jewish woman’s dying wish for the family’s Black […]

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Jewish content at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival

Arts Editor — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 01:33:44 +0000

The 31st Melbourne Queer Fim Festival starts this week and will screen four productions of interest to Jewish patrons. The Swimmer (Israel) Erez, a rising star in the Israeli swimming scene arrives at a godforsaken training camp held in a boarding school where the winning athlete gets a coveted ticket to the Olympics. There […]

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Ridley Road: a new ABC series

Arts Editor — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 03:11:26 +0000

Based on a true story, this four-part thriller series is set in 1962 and sees Vivien (Agnes O’Casey) a young Jewish hairdresser from Manchester, join an underground movement trying to stop the rise of the far-right. Inspired by the struggle of the 62 Group, a coalition of Jewish men who stood up against rising neo-Nazism […]

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Laugh outta lockdown with Robyn Reynolds

Arts Editor — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 02:02:59 +0000

Join British comedian Robyn Reynolds for her hilarious "fish out of water" debut solo show in November at the Factory Theatre in Sydney.

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Jewish streaming

Arts Editor — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 06:31:22 +0000

ChaiFlicks, the first streaming service devoted to Jewish and Israeli entertainment and culture, is now available throughout Australia and New Zealand.

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We all bleed the same

Arts Editor — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 06:26:56 +0000

Sydney Jewish community personalities Ernie Friedlander and Jeremy Jones are among the Australians of diverse backgrounds whose portraits are included in the exhibition “We All Bleed the Same”, a series of 39 photos by leading Sydney photographer Tim Bauer .

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Concerts continue at The Great Synagogue

Arts Editor — Fri, 14 May 2021 03:48:04 +0000

Pianist Simon Tedeschi and violinist Andrew Haveron, concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony will be the featured musicians at the upcoming concert at The Great Synagogue.

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