The 19th Annual Cherie Smith
JCC JEWISH BOOK FESTIVAL BROCHURE

OPENING NIGHT CELEBRATION
The Cherie Smith Memorial Lecture Evening
Vancouver’s award winning author, Nancy Richler in conversation with New York novelists, Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Aryeh Lev Stollman

At first glance, the writing styles of Nancy Richler, Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Aryeh Lev Stollman seem worlds apart. Yet the common thread that binds their writing is the way they weave the religious beliefs and traditions of their ancestors into their novels. All three authors grapple with the issues of the traditional Jewish soul in confrontation with the influences of a more contemporary world.

NANCY RICHLER ’s Your Mouth is Lovely is an epic story of a family caught between the rich yet rigid traditions of the past and the unfamiliar and often frightening ways of a society trying desperately to reinvent itself. It has garnered glowing reviews and international interest and won the Canadian Jewish Book Award in 2003. Richler’s first novel, Throwaway Angels, was short-listed for the Arthur Ellis First Novel Award.

LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN, co-founder of Ms. Magazine, is an acclaimed columnist, editor, lecturer and author of eight books of non-fiction, including, Getting Over, Getting Older and Deborah,Golda and Me. Three Daughters, her first attempt at fiction, is about a trio of sisters, each very different but closely entwined. Family secrets, shifting loyalties, and the complex relationships of families are some of the themes that Pogrebin explores in this gripping family saga.

A neuroradiologist by profession, ARYEH LEV STOLLMAN is the winner of the inaugural Chaim Potok Literary Award. The prize is meant to honour "a next-generation North American Jewish author of fiction whose work carries forward the Jewish experience with exceptional creativity and originality, speaking to contemporary Jewish life and resonating with universal themes." He has written two novels, The Far Euphrates and The Illuminated Soul and a collection of short stories, The Dialogues of Time and Entropy. Both his novels explore the links between memory and the present as they interweave childhood and adult experiences with Jewish lore and mysticism.

Refreshments to follow in the Atrium.
Advanced tickets: General admission-$20; JCC members / students / seniors-$18. Advanced tickets can be purchased at JCC front desk or by calling 604 257 5111. Tickets at the door: General admission-$22; JCC members / students / seniors-$20.

Location: Norman Rothstein Theatre

BRUNCH WITH THE CRITICS
11:00 am

If you haven’t broken bread with a critic before, you haven’t experienced gastrointellectual life. Enjoy a flavourful meal of conversation and food with five columnists, sharing anecdotes from their lives as critics. Listen to their humourous and stimulating stories and chat with them over a bagel and lox. CBC Radio One's Afternoon Show's Theatre Critic, Jerry Wasserman will moderate the panel and discussion.
Peter Birnie has been Vancouver Sun's theatre critic for five years. He previously reviewed films for the Sun. His 25-year career in journalism has been centered in the arts, although there have been stints as education reporter and on the cop beat. He's covered theatre, film, dance, television and other facets of arts journalism for the major dailies in Edmonton and Calgary. He moved to Vancouver in 1989.

KERRY GOLD has worked as the Vancouver Sun's music critic for the last six years. Prior to that beat, she wrote an arts & entertainment column at the Vancouver Sun for one year, covering music, the arts, film and theatre news. She's also written feature pieces for L.A. Weekly, the Globe and Mail, TV Guide, New York's Real People, Vancouver Magazine; and short stories for Fashion magazine and Homemakers.

Vancouver Province movie critic DAVID SPANER is author of Dreaming in the Rain: How Vancouver Became Hollywood North by Northwest, a challenging look at the current state of movie-making in the city and its history, including everyone from Errol Flynn to Molly Parker. David Spaner has worked as a reporter, editor and award-winning feature writer for numerous publications. He is currently working on a screenplay.

REBECCA WIGOD has been a writer and editor at the Vancouver Sun for 15 years. For the past three years, she has been Vancouver Sun's Book Editor bringing the work of mostly Canadian and West Coast authors to the reader's attention. She edits the books pages that appear in the Mix section of the Vancouver Sun each Saturday, writes author profiles and book reviews.

Tickets for the brunch ($12 plus gst per person) should be purchased by Wednesday, November 12 at JCC's front desk reception or by calling 604 257 5111. A limited number of seats are available.

Location: L'Chaim Adult Day Centre Lounge

CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
10:00 - 12:00 pm
Getting the Creative Juices Flowing 1210
Instructor: Karen X. Tulchinsky

All writers get blocked at some point in the process of writing and find themselves staring at a blank computer screen or blank page, instead of writing. This hands-on workshop will teach participants how to overcome writers' block and keep writing. There will be warm up and in-class writing exercises to help get the creative juices flowing. Please bring paper and pen.

$25.00 JCC members; $36.00 non-members. Space is limited. Sign up early. Deadline for registration, Monday, November 10, 2003. Come to JCC reception or call 604 257 5111.

KAREN X. TULCHINSKY’s novel, The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky, was launched in August to rave reviews. Tulchinsky is the award-winning author of Love Ruins Everything, a novel which was named one of the Top Ten Books of 1998 by the Bay Area Reporter; its sequel, Love and Other Ruins; and In Her Nature, a collection of short stories which won the VanCity Book Prize.
She is a graduate of the prestigious Canadian Film Centre, founded by Norman Jewison, where she wrote two feature length screenplays and a short film called, Straight in the Face, which has screened at numerous film festivals around the world, including the Toronto International Film Festival and at Vancouver's Out On Screen Film Festival. She was awarded a B.C. Film Screenwriter's Fellowship to write a feature length screenplay. She also wrote an episode of Keys Cut Here, a drama series in development at CTV. Tulchinsky teaches creative writing workshops at Langara College and Screenwriting at SFU.

Location: room 101

CHILDREN’s ACTIVITIES
11:00 am - 1:00 pm

• Bookmark Making
• Illustrate Your Own Book Cover
• Create Your Own Story
• Storytelling

Location: Adult Arts and Crafts and Children's Bookstore

8th ANNUAL YOUNG AUTHORS' TEA
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

This year's theme for the Young Authors is Israel and Me. Participants, grades 2 to 5, are asked to write a real or imagined story about, or set in, Israel. All submissions will be printed and all the students who attend the Tea will be coached in how to present their writing out loud. The 8th Annual Young Authors Tea book, published in association with The Grand Casino, should be ordered prior to the tea as only limited numbers will be available for sale at the tea. If your child has not brought a form home from school, ask for entry and order forms from JCC reception. Deadline for submissions and advanced book orders is Thursday, November 4, 2003 at 5 pm.

Guest children’s author, DAN BAR-EL will give a brief talk on writing and will read a short excerpt from his newly released children's book, Things Are Looking Up, Jack. One day Dan Bar-el began to wonder why so many things and people fall to the ground in children's stories and nursery rhymes. In Things Are Looking Up, Jack the reader finds that all is not right in the land of Mother Goose. People and things keep falling down and it is not merely coincidental. There is trouble afoot and it is up to King Jack and his sister Princess Jill to get to the bottom of this mystery. Dan lives, writes, and works as a preschool teacher in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The reading and tea are open to the general public. Admission is free. Everyone is welcome.

Location: Wosk auditorium

Young authors gather for coaching at 1 pm sharp. Audience members are welcome to attend the coaching session, browse in the festival bookstore or pick up pre-ordered Young Authors' Tea books until 1:30 pm.

CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS
1:30 to 3:30 pm

Getting Published 1220
Instructor: Karen X. Tulchinsky

In this informative workshop, learn the basics of how to get your writing published. Topics will include finding the right markets for your work, formatting your work to industry standards, how to approach publishers and editors, getting an agent, publishing contracts, royalties and more. Bring your questions and a pen and paper.

$25.00 JCC members; $36.00 non-members
Space is limited. Sign up early. Deadline for registration, Monday, November 10, 2003. Come to JCC reception or call 604 257 5111.

Location: room 101

4:00 to 6:00 pm
Introduction to Screenwriting 1230
Instructor: Karen X. Tulchinsky

Learn proper film script structure, how to develop character, write good dialogue and more. No screenwriting experience necessary. This workshop is geared for writers who are interested in writing for film or television, or who have recently begun writing scripts and would like to learn more about the craft. There will be in-class writing exercises. Please bring pen and paper.

$25.00 JCC members; $36.00 non-members. Space is limited. Sign up early. Deadline for registration, Monday, November 10, 2003. Come to JCC reception or call 604 257 5111.

Location: room 101

BOOK LAUNCH
7:00 pm

Tapestry of Hope is the first Canadian anthology of Holocaust Writing for Young People. Through poetry, drama, prose, and first hand accounts, the contributors address different aspects of the Holocaust. Some write about hiding from the Nazis, and others record the misery of life in the ghettos, the struggle for survival in the camps, resistance and life after the Holocaust. Although the selections encompass the terror and evil of the times, they also reflect the resilience of the human spirit.
Contributors include Mordecai Richler, Leonard Cohen, Jean Little, Karen Levine, Kathy Kacer, Carol Matas, Eva Wiseman, Jack Kuper, Judith Kalman, Claudia Cornwall, Martha Blum and Leo Lowy. On Sunday November 16th join creators, writers and editors, Lillian Boraks-Nemetz and Irene N. Watts; Tundra Books' publisher, Kathy Lowinger; and contributors Robbie Waisman, Seymour Levitan and Claudia Cornwall for the launch of Tapesty of Hope.

LILLIAN BORAKS-NEMETZ is a child survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto. Her experiences are reflected in her poetry collection, Ghost Children, and in her Slava trilogy for young readers: The Old Brown Suitcase, The Sunflower Diary, and The Lenski File. She received her BA and MA in Comparative Literature from UBC and has been teaching Creative Writing at the UBC Department of Continuing Studies since 1980. She was chosen in 2002 by the Fraser Valley Regional Libraries as Author of the Year. The Sunflower Diary was short listed for the Red Maple award. The Old Brown Suitcase received the The Sheila A Egoff , BC Award and was short listed for the Bilson prize.

IRENE N. WATTS arrived in England by Kindertransport from Berlin, Germany in 1938. Since coming to Canada in 1968, she has been active in many aspects of theatre, writing and education. She is the author of the trilogy of young adult fiction, Good-bye Marianne, Remember Me, and Finding Sophie, as well as the beautifully illustrated storybook, One for Day, One for Night. She received BC's Chocolate Lily Award, the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People in 1998, the Isaac Frischwasser Memorial Award and the Toronto Jewish Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction.

The book launch of Tapestry of Hope is presented in association with Tundra Books and the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre. Admission is free. Audience members are invited to a food reception following the presentation in the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre on the lower level of the JCC.

Location: Esther and Ben Dayson Board Room

LITERARY READINGS

10:00 am

Author AUBREY DAVIS will tell deliciously delightful and thought provoking tales from the treasure trove of Jewish tradition. Davis is a Toronto storyteller and oral language teacher for primary and special needs students. His books include Bone Button Borscht (IBBY Honour List), Sody Salleratus and The Enormous Potato (Communication-Jeunesse, Winner of Palmares des livres preferes des jeunes - Children's Favourite Books).
‘Every Friday Benny puts a bag of bagels in the synagogue. By Saturday morning, the bagels have disappeared. Has the King of the Universe eaten Benny's bagels?’ A heartwarming quest by a small child, to thank G-d in the only way he knows how. Bagels from Benny raises valuable questions about belief, generosity and hidden possibilities.
"Pure charm and whimsy" (Reesa Cohen, CM Magazine Sept 2003)
The target audience is grades 2 to 5.
The reading is open to the general public. Admission is free. Everyone is welcome.

Location: Isaac Waldman Jewish Public Library

1:00 pm

ROBYN SARAH was born in New York City to Canadian parents, and grew up in Montreal as a Jewish Anglo-Quebecer. Already no stranger to ambivalence, she switched her major at McGill from music to philosophy, went on to graduate studies in English, and taught college English for 20 years. Author of several poetry collections, including the recently launched A Day's Grace: Poems, 1997 - 2001, she has also published two collections of short stories: A Nice Gazebo (Vehicule Press, 1992) and Promise of Shelter (Porcupine's Quill, 1997). Since the mid-1990's she has been a frequent contributor to Canadian newspapers, writing on education, literacy, poetry, and a variety of other topics. Her poems, stories and essays have appeared widely in Canada and the U.S. To offer something for everyone, Robyn Sarah will read in all three genres, beginning with Connections, a personal essay on Israel from the perspective of a North American Jew born within a year of its founding.
This reading is presented in association with Congregation Beth Israel and the JCC Seniors Department. Everyone is welcome. Admission is free.

Location: Jack Aceman Seniors' Lounge

LITERARY READING
7:00 pm

Guns and Bandages: A Combat Medic in Israel's Army, 1961 - 1978, is a true story describing DAVID MENDELSOHN’s life both on active service and as a reservist. In June, 1961, a 17 year old boy from Johannesburg arrives in Israel, joins the army, and serves for the next 17 years as an infantryman and combat medic, finding himself on the front lines of The Six Day and Yom Kippur Wars. Through his acute human observation, his stories - some hilarious, some poignant, several unique but all too many painfully tragic - impart the very flavour of life in the Israeli army. His soldier years behind him, David is currently a professor of Applied Linguistics at York University in Toronto.
This reading is presented in association with Congregation Schara Tzedeck.
It is open to the general public. Everyone is welcome. Admission is free.

Location: Esther and Ben Dayson Board Room

POETRY & JAZZ
8:00 pm

Sultry fusion of the spoken words of Leanne Averbach and original jazz accompaniment by her local band Indigo, with Astrid Sars on flute, saxophone and vocals; Glenna Powrie on keyboard; and Danny Parker on Double Bass...inspired by the classic sounds of Gershwin, Chet Baker, Peggy Lee and others...erotic, compelling & new.

Leanne Averbach is a Vancouver born Canadian poet. She has been a political activist, nightclub flower seller, factory worker, trade union organizer, stained-glass artist and for the last 20 years, English instructor at UBC and Langara College. Her work is inflected with her experiences as a left-wing activist in the 70's including some indelible moments spent in factories or incarcerated in prisons for political activity. She has read and performed her poetry in Vancouver, Banff, St. John's, New York City and Italy. Her writing has been published in numerous literary magazines in Canada, Italy, New Zealand and the U.S. She currently resides in Vancouver and New York City.

Location: L’Chaim Adult Day Centre Lounge

LITERARY READINGS

1:00 pm

MAURITS VAN DER VEEN's book, Uriel's Legacy is a biographical history spanning more than 300 years. The book begins with the tumultuous life of Uriel da Costa in 17th century Amsterdam. Uriel da Costa's parents were forced to convert to Christianity, yet he decides to convert back to Judaism. His differences however, create controversy and lead to his excommunication from the synagogue. Uriel manages to keep his Judaism alive, and the generations that follow continue to honour the traditions whether they are living in Holland, Shanghai or Vancouver. Through the themes of courage, defiance and spirituality, the reader is left with a renewed faith in the strength of family and humanity.
Maurits Van der Veen, born in Shanghai, China, spent his early teens in a Japanese Internment camp and was repatriated to Holland after the surrender of Japan. After immigrating to Canada, he attended the UBC School of Social Work, worked as a field social worker and became the Director of Welfare for the Yukon Territory. He worked for the Federal Department of Corrections and eventually retired as warden of a Federal penitentiary. Maurits Van der Veen lives in California and Vancouver.
This reading is open to the general public. Admission is free. Everyone is welcome.

Location: L’Chaim Adult Day Centre Lounge

1:00 pm

Meet award-winning Toronto author KATHY KACER as she reads from her new books, The Night Spies and Margit: Home Free.
Kathy's previous books include The Secret of Gabi's Dresser, winner of the Silver Birch Award, Hackmatack Award and Canadian Jewish Book Award; and Clara's War, winner of the Red Maple Award and a notable book in the Sydney Taylor Book Award. Her novels have received rave reviews as moving, insightful, and educational works of historical fiction for young people. Reading from her books, and using historical slides, Kathy will weave her stories around the historical events of the Second World War and the Holocaust. Kathy Kacer is a psychologist who worked with troubled teens before becoming a published author in 1999. She is dedicated to writing about the Holocaust in a way that is sensitive to the age and stage of development of a young reader.
This reading is open to the public. Admission is free. Everyone is welcome.

Location: Esther and Ben Dayson Board Room

VISUAL ART SIGNING
7:00 pm

Artist MORDECHAI ROBERT EDEL inspires his viewers to discover hidden blessings via his joyful "impressiomystic" oil paintings. The music of his brush and song of his soul strive to counter adversity, to marry in holiness the opposites of heaven and earth, fire and water, spiritual and secular. Mordechai's paintings have been exhibited locally, nationally and internationally in Montreal, Seattle, L.A., New York, England and Israel with an upcoming exhibit in Paris in 2004.
Join visual artist Mordechai Robert Edel in the gallery/bookstore where his paintings are exhibited in A Time for Blessings from October 16 to November 30 2003. His paintings and prints are for sale. Mordechai will be signing prints from 7 to 7:30 pm.

Location: Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery/Festival Bookstore

LITERARY READING
7:00 pm

With her extraordinary intelligence, keen insight and commitment to excellence, KATE TAYLOR has emerged as one of the most respected arts commentators in Canada. Last winter, Taylor turned her remarkable talents to fiction with a debut novel of great power and passion. Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen is the haunting and heartbreakingly beautiful tale of three women struggling to come to terms with the demands of history and the obligation of memory. It is a profound and moving novel that explores the past and its legacy in shaping the lives of those who carry its burden. Kate Taylor is a Toronto writer and cultural journalist, born in France and raised in Ottawa. She served as theatre critic at The Globe and Mail, winning two Nathan Cohen Awards for her reviews, and is currently an arts columnist with the paper. She has also contributed to Canadian Art, Applied Arts and The Arts Today on CBC Radio. In 1989, she published Painters, a biography of Canadian artists written for children.
This reading is open to the general public. Admission is free. Everyone is welcome.

Location: Esther and Ben Dayson Board Room

A MINI-POETRY BASH
8:00 pm
Three Jewish women go undercover, give their bodies to science and take root.

WENDY MORTON, WestJet's Poet of the Skies and Chrysler's Poet of the Road, has written two books of poetry, Private Eye and Undercover. Her poems reflect her 20 years as an insurance investigator; they capture the world with clear-sighted focus-snapshots from the hidden camera of a spy into the heart of all things. Morton is the co-ordinator and host of the Macombopo Coffee Reading Series in Victoria, British Columbia.

RACHEL ROSE was born in Vancouver, and has finally come home after many years of living in Montreal, the U.S., and Japan. Her first book of poetry, Giving My Body To Science, (McGill Queen's University Press) was a finalist for The Pat Lowther Memorial Prize, The Gerald Lampert Memorial Prize, the Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal, and won the 2000 Quebec Writers' Foundation A.M. Klein award.

LIZ ZETLIN is a visual artist and award winning nature poet with a twist. She plants garlic to form poems in her garden, carves words on ornamental gourds as catalysts for poems, and grows punctuation marks in her hay field. With her poetry, she distracts us from grief in the garden of good and evil. Her most recent book, Taking Root, was published by Seraphim Editions. Zetlin's poetry has won a Stephen Leacock Poetry Award and has been published in many literary magazines throughout Canada.

The readings by these three poets are being supported by the League of Canadian Poets. This reading is open to the general public. Admission is free. Everyone is welcome.

Location: Esther and Ben Dayson Board Room

SCHOOL FIELD TRIP
1:00 pm

SALLY ROGOW will read from Faces of Courage: Young Heroes of World War II, in which she depicts the struggle for survival by brave young people who risked their lives to defy the Nazis. Her heroes include Kirsten, a young Danish girl who helped save a group of Jewish children from the clutches of the Nazis; Yojo, a Gypsy teenager who guided downed British pilots over the Pyrenees Mountains to freedom in Spain; and Jacques, a blind French teenager, who organized a student resistance group called Volunteers of Liberty.
Sally Rogow is an educator and author. Her books for young people include Lillian Wald: The Nurse In Blue (Jewish Publication Society) and Rosa Minoka Hill: Native Woman Physician. She is a Professor Emerita of the Faculty of Education of the University of British Columbia and has written several books and articles for teachers on literacy, language development, play; and social and emotional development.
This reading is open to the general public. Admission is free. Everyone is welcome.

Location: Esther and Ben Dayson Board Room

CLOSING NIGHT BOOK LAUNCH
7:00 pm

First published in 1997 and republished in 2003 by Raincoast Books, ELANA DYKEWOMON's award winning novel, Beyond the Pale, resonates with today's issues of racial and economic injustice and stands as a powerful plea for peace. In her new preface she writes, "As I wrote this book, I realized I was writing our ancestors into being: the documented ones, those Progressive Era settlement-house and labor visionaries; and the imagined ones, the women who left no record... These women fought for sexual, economic and racial justice before we were born…I envy them their strikes on every street corner, their late night debates on the merits of socialism over anarcho-syndicalism, their passion."
Elana Dykewomon’s new book of stories, Moon Creek Road came out in May 2003. She has been a cultural worker, editor and social activist since the 1970's, and currently lives in Oakland writing and teaching.
This book launch is presented in association with Raincoast Books. Admission is free, but tickets are required. For ticket information see page 14.

Location: Norman Rothstein Theatre

CLOSING NIGHT CELEBRATION
8:00 pm
Bringing Jewish Humour to Political Satire

Toronto author ALLAN GOULD has written over 30 books including the best selling and widely admired humourous books, The Unorthodox Book of Jewish Records and Lists, Canned Lit, Letters I've Been Meaning to Write, and the anthology, The Great Big Book of Canadian Humour. His most recent, Anne of Green Gables Vs. G.I. Joe-Friendly Fire Between Canada and the U.S., (ECW Press, 2003) is a hard-hitting and very funny satire of two neighbours who share this continent.

Gould, who has a Doctorate in English, has written (both credited and ghosted) many books on business and finance including The New Entrepreneurs: 80 Canadian Success Stories; award-winning cultural studies, First Stage-The Making of the Stratford Festival; travel guides, Fodor's Toronto and over a thousand major magazine articles for every Canadian periodical from Chatelaine to Saturday Night, Good Times to Canadian Business.

Dr. Gould is perhaps proudest of What did they Think of the Jews? his 600-page anthology of what gentiles through history have written and said about Jews. He has been on most of Canada's national radio and TV networks and may be remembered for his years on Don Harron's Morningside, Take 30 and Canada AM. As he reads from his latest opus, he hopes to have you both rolling in the aisles and seriously thinking about how comedy and satire have a Jewish core.

Following Gould's presentation there will be author signings in the book festival bookstore and a food reception in the atrium of the JCC to honour the volunteers in our community. Everyone is welcome to attend.

This event is presented in association with Hadassah-Wizo Council of Vancouver.

Admission is free. Everyone is welcome. However, please reserve your tickets for the closing evening events, by calling the Hadassah office 604 257 5160. Please note whether you will be attending the 7 pm, 8 pm or both literary events.

Location: Norman Rothstein Theatre

LOCATION: All events take place at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver, 950 West 41st Ave. (east of Oak).

The Jewish Book Festival's main bookstore is located in the gallery; the children's bookstore is located next door, in room 103.

TEMPLE SHOLOM SISTERHOOD GIFT SHOP, located in room 103, will be selling products to help the community celebrate Chanukah. Merchandise will include games, puzzles, dreidels, chocolate gelt, menorot, candles, decorations and other holiday specials.

ISAAC WALDMAN JEWISH PUBLIC LIBRARY’S USED BOOK STORE
Titles too good to miss...Jewish books, popular fiction, children’s books, art books, history, record albums & lots more...Located in room 102

BOOKSTORE HOURS OF OPERATION
Saturday, Nov. 15 - 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Sunday, Nov. 16 - Thursday, Nov. 20
10:00 am to 9:00 pm

The CHILDREN's and USED BOOKSTORES will NOT be open on Saturday night.

The CHILDREN's BOOKSTORE will close at 7 pm from Sunday to Thursday.

STORYTELLING SESSIONS, located in the Children's Bookstore.
Monday, Nov. 17 - Thursday, Nov. 20
11:30 am to 12:30 pm
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm.

ADDMISSION TO READINGS
Please note all events are open to the general public. Admission is FREE to all events except for those listed below.

Tickets are required for the following events:
Nov. 15-Opening Night, see inside front cover.
Nov. 16-Brunch with the Critics, see page 1.
Nov. 16-Writing Workshops, see pages 2 & 4.
Nov. 20-Closing Night, free admission, but tickets required, see pages 13 & 14.

The opening night of the Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival, The Cherie Smith Memorial Lecture Evening is partially funded by the Cherie Smith Memorial Lecture Fund. The Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival is partially funded by The Cherie Smith Memorial Endowment Fund

A genuine thank you
To Julian Smith and Annette Rothstein and their families, Rabbi Yosef Wosk, Barb & Herb Silber, Jody & Harvey Dales and Granville Island Publishing for their generous contributions; to Annette de Faveri, Vancouver Public Library; Bryan Silverberg, Joan Stuchner, Rahel Halabe, Birgit Westergaard, Kathy Evans and Nicole Nozick for their support and assistance, to Selma Ramovic, Paisley Aiken and Emiko Morita of Ballyhoo Promotions for publicity, to Debby Koffman, Director of the Shalom BC Volunteer Centre, to the volunteers who helped to organize and operate the literary readings, storytelling sessions, the Young Authors' Tea and the new and second hand book stores, to the staff and volunteers of the Isaac Waldman Jewish Public Library and to the staff of the JCC. A special thanks to the Cultural Arts Committee, Book Festival Committee and Young Authors' Tea committee members for their valuable assistance, to Anna Gelbart and Alla Elperin for collaborating on the design of the poster and program brochure.
Without all of your help this literary event would not be possible.

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