Jewish Community Center of San Francisco Events
Martha Graham Dance Company: Dance is a Weapon
Tomorrow @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
The Martha Graham Dance Co. is the oldest in the country, and what else can be said about America's legendary pioneer...
Fear & Hope in Zimbabwe With Peter Orner & Peter Godwin
Monday 2/13 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
Peter Godwin’s The Fear chronicles the violence, suffering and chaos of his native Zimbabwe under the rule of Robert Mugabe. In...
Nathan Englander: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Tuesday 2/14 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
A regular contributor to the New Yorker, Nathan Englander won the PEN/Malamud award for his first collection, For the Relief of...
Super Chef Gabrielle Hamilton In Conversation with Barbara Lane
Thursday 2/16 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
In Blood, Butter and Bones, Gabrielle Hamilton charts her unorthodox trajectory to becoming a top chef and owner of the renowned...
KlezCalifornia Yiddish Culture Festival
Saturday 2/18 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
Enjoy three full days in Yiddishland with music, food, dancing and more than fifty workshops in klezmer and Yiddish culture. Three...
The Klez-X: Concert and Dance Party
Saturday 2/18 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
Michael Tilson Thomas calls The Klez-X “extraordinary” for a masterful and imaginative combination of Klezmer music, Yiddish folk and art song...
Up From the Stacks: New Music-Theater from Ben Katchor and Mark Mulcahy
Thursday 2/23 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
Cartoonist Ben Katchor and composer Mark Mulcahy return with a new multimedia pop opera blending animation and big-screen projection with live...
Miranda July in conversation with Peter Stein
Saturday 2/25 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
The idiosyncratic writer, filmmaker and performance artist is best known for her quirky films Me and You and Everyone We Know...
BookFest 2012 Keynote Lecture: Nicole Krauss in conversation with Elizabeth Rosner
Sunday 2/26 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
The characters Nicole Krauss creates, and the emotional journeys we experience with them, live on in the reader's imagination long after...
Word for Word's Off the Page Series: Selections from Peter Orner's Esther Stories
Monday 2/27 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
The New York Times praises local author Peter Orner as a writer who “doesn’t simply bring his characters to life, he...
Legendary Filmmaker Claude Lanzmann: The Pritzker Family Lecture
Tuesday 2/28 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
There are films that mark the history of cinema; a few, rarer ones mark history itself. Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah, from 1985,...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
Concert One Thursday, March 1 Featuring the Norwegian ensemble asamisimasa compositions by Øyvind Torvund and Simon Steen-Andersen The palindromic Norwegian ensemble...
The Whole Megillah: Purim Sketch Comedy w/ Killing My Lobster
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
Directed by The Hub's Dan Wolf Comedy troupe Killing My Lobster and The Hub at the JCCSF return with their...
Sunday 3/ 4 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
In its heyday, Tin Pan Alley flourished thanks to the fertile contributions of Irish and Jewish songwriters, producers and publishers. Join...
The Voice of Conscience With The Nation’s Eyal Press
Monday 3/ 5 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
What impels ordinary people to defy authority and convention, sacrificing safety for the fierceness their convictions? Through dramatic stories and groundbreaking...
