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Become a Classi Member The Best Deal in Town! Join any lecture. All Lectures* to April 30th $100 Art, History, Authors, Music, and much much more! (*excluding Opera)
The Great Personalities Golda Meir 1898 - 1978 Prime Ministers of Israel - did they share the same vision of leadership? In each lecture, Trudy Gold will discuss inspirational leaders who influenced the world we are in today. How did their background influence their ideas? With her amazing knowledge and stories she will bring their […]
Edouard Manet Manet’s debut as a painter met with a critical resistance that did not abate until near the end of his career. Although the success of his memorial exhibition and the eventual critical acceptance of the Impressionists—with whom he was loosely affiliated—raised his profile by the end of the 19th century, it was not […]
Jonathan Crow in Conversation with Barry Shiffman The Many "Hats" (Bows?) of Jonathan Crow Jonathan Crow began his career in Prince George learning violin at age six. Within ten years his hard work and prodigious talent were earning multiple awards from local and provincial festivals. At age 19 he joined the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, then […]
Free Event Co-sponsored by Classi Lectures in partnership with Beth Tikvah Synagogue in Honour of Yom Hashoah Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett will talk about the history and memory of Polish Jewish life as depicted in the POLIN Museum. The POLIN Museum is a modern institution of culture - it is a historical museum which presents the 1000 […]
Europe To America: How Jewish Emigres Influenced American Movies & Popular Music In Commemoration of Yom Hashoah The first half of the 20th century was a terrible time for Europe with two world wars and many revolutions. Many talented composers, particularly Jewish composers, fled in order to save their lives and the lives of their […]
In Commemoration of Yom Hashoah Mordechai Anielewicz 1919 - 1943 Mordechai Anielewicz was the leader of the Jewish Fighting Organization, which led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; the largest Jewish insurrection during the Second World War, which inspired further rebellions in both ghettos and extermination camps. His character was engraved as a symbol of courage and […]
Patrick Bade will explain "Degenerate art" or "German Entartete Kunst", the term used by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe art that did not support the ideals of Nazism. It was also the title of a propagandistically designed Nazi exhibition of modern art held in Munich in 1937. With Hitler’s rise to power in […]
Vienna - Music, Life, and Opera with Iain Scott Iain Scott will celebrate the centenary of Kitty Schafer (1921-2019) and honour her memory by exploring the musical, artistic, and intellectual glories of her birthplace, Vienna. From her parents, Sue, the Founder of Classi Lectures got her passion for Opera & Culture!
Cathy Tile, fantastic book reviewer will "unpack" this book on Zoom and make time for a general Q&A and discussion. Handouts will be provided together with the zoom link info prior to the meeting. Lecture is on Zoom April 12, 2021 7:30 - 8:30pm EST About Cathy Tile: Cathy came to reviewing books via a short […]
Felix Mendelssohn Felix Mendelssohn was the grandson of Moses Mendelssohn, one of the great Jewish philosophers in Age of Enlightenment. Felix became a remarkable composer who, unfortunately, lived a very short life. However, he did leave us a legacy of some great music that describes a variety of situations – scenes of nature, the beauty of […]
Adolf Hitler 1889 – 1945 Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming Chancellor in 1933 and then assuming the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. During his dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, […]
Commemorating Yom Hazikaron & Yom Ha'Atzmaut Another wonderful FREE Virtual Event brought to you by Classi Lectures in Partnership with Beth Tikvah Synagogue The new exciting discoveries of Dead Sea Scroll fragments has renewed interest in our past and what we know. Professor Lawrence H. Schiffman is a world expert in this area and an […]
Do you love Murdoch Mysteries? Robert Rotenberg has co-written two of the scripts! Robert Rotenberg is the criminal lawyer and novelist who’s made his fictional Toronto detective, Ari Greene, one of the top homicide sleuths in the world of contemporary mysteries. " Downfall" is his latest crime thriller. A page turner filled with references to […]
Classi Lectures in Partnership with the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre Presents Iain Scott for a Sunday Series Join Iain Scott on this virtual journey as we revisit the history of “the city of lights” from Louis XIV’s court at Versailles to the present day in five vignettes. Each week, we will combine a short […]
Family Talent - a daughter and great granddaughter's pride in their ancestor's achievements. This moving collaboration between father and daughter is at once a labor of love, a tribute to a distinctive imagination, and a brilliant portrait of life in one Jewish home town. Mayer Kirshenblatt (July), born in Opatów (Apt in Yiddish) in 1916, […]
Join Iain Scott on this virtual journey as we revisit the history of “the city of lights” from Louis XIV’s court at Versailles to the present day in five vignettes. Each week, we will combine a short history lesson with some examples of the art of that period. And - we will explore a number […]
Prince Philip and European Royalty Cousins controlling Europe FREE LECTURE! Prince Philip: The foreigner consort, whose ancestry spanned all of royal Europe Though his ancestry could be traced back to Queen Victoria, Prince Philip’s family was in fact spread out over all of Europe and was testimony of widespread intermarriages between royal families in the […]
Part of Villains and Heroes with Trudy Gold The slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust intensified Jewish demands for a homeland in Palestine, which was treated with some sympathy after the suffering they had undergone. Various plans were proposed for dividing the land between the Arabs and the Jews, however all were rejected by one […]
Paul Cézanne 1839 - 1906 French painter, Paul Cézanne, was one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists, whose works and ideas were influential in the aesthetic development of many 20th-century artists and art movements, especially Cubism. Cézanne’s art, misunderstood and discredited by the public during most of his life, grew out of Impressionism and eventually […]
Lesley Wyle in Conversation with Helen Fry on Becoming Lesley At the age of 100, Lesley Wyle published her amazing memoirs. She grew up in Vienna and after making it to the UK, worked for the BBC. At the end of the war she worked for the Americans in Germany before coming to Canada and becoming an […]
Classi Lectures in Partnership with the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre Presents Iain Scott for a Sunday Series Join Iain Scott on this virtual journey as we revisit the history of “the city of lights” from Louis XIV’s court at Versailles to the present day in five vignettes. Each week, we will combine a short […]
Join Iain Scott on this virtual journey as we revisit the history of “the city of lights” from Louis XIV’s court at Versailles to the present day in five vignettes. Each week, we will combine a short history lesson with some examples of the art of that period. And - we will explore a number […]
Crossing the Ocean: English exploration and settlement of Canada and America Lecture on Zoom Tuesday, April 27, 2021 2:30pm EST Also in this series... Britain v France: A two-way fight for North America (Canada and US) Tuesday, May 4, 2021 2:30pm EST About William Tyler: William spent his whole professional life in adult education, beginning at […]
Culture & Cuisine.. Rose Reisman is back ..with healthy French Cooking Lecture on Zoom Wednesday, April 28 1:00pm Paris in the spring... what could be better? A French spring meal that is light and healthy & easy, inspired by the art, cafes and history of Paris. Learn a little about the culture & have fun cooking with […]
Varian Mackey Fry 1907 – 1967 Varian Fry was an American journalist. Fry ran a rescue network in Vichy France that helped approximately 2,000 to 4,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to escape Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. He was the first of five Americans to be recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations", an honorific given […]
Georges Seurat - 1859-1891 Georges Seurat was founder of the 19th-century French school of Neo-Impressionism whose technique for portraying the play of light using tiny brushstrokes of contrasting colours became known as Pointillism. Using this technique, he created huge compositions with tiny, detached strokes of pure colour too small to be distinguished when looking at […]
Classi Lectures in Partnership with the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre Presents Iain Scott for a Sunday Series Join Iain Scott on this virtual journey as we revisit the history of “the city of lights” from Louis XIV’s court at Versailles to the present day in five vignettes. Each week, we will combine a short […]