JW3 Launch Programme

Launch Season 2013 Features & Listings

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The new postcode for Jewish life

Take your pick from more than 1,300 great events, activities, classes and courses, as JW3 opens its doors.

Arts & Culture

Cinema

Classes & Courses

Restaurant, Café & Bar

Kevin Spacey

Jason Solomons The Observer film critic on his hopes for the cinema at JW3

Marc Chagall’s Jewish Jesus

Zest

The Hollywood star on arts and community

Aaron Rosen on Chagall’s most provocative work

Jewish cooking remixed by chefs Josh Katz and Eran Tibi

In the beginning, the people were offered a special membership deal.

And they saw that it was good.

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- Single membership: £45

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Visit the membership page on our website www.jw3.org.uk, pop into JW3 the next time you’re nearby or call 020 7433 8989

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CONTENTS

Launch Season 2013 Features & Listings

In the beginning: JW3’s CEO, Raymond Simonson

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7 days of creation...

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Mixing it: Zest restaurant, café & bar

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Arts & Culture: Listen, We’re Family

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Books 12 Comedy 14 Music 15 Performance 17 Talks & Conversations 20 Theme Nights 22

Food & Drink: Kosher Roast

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Demonstration Kitchen

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Health & Fitness: Krav Maga Yoga & Pilates Dance Cardio Alternative Health Krav Maga Classes & Courses: Aaron Rosen on Art & Interfaith Dialogue

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Adult Learning Courses 72 Adult Arts & Crafts 77 Languages 82

Venue hire

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Social Action: Raymond Simonson with Jude Williams

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Cinema: Wisdom of Solomons

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Youth Centre

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Film Clubs Families: Fresh Talent & Family Fun

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Family Fun Sundays 32 Bumps 38 Postnatal 39 Pre School 41 Nursery 43 Primary 44 Parenting 48 Seniors 49

Youth: 11-13 BBYO Youth Plus: 14+ The Jewish Year

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The End Of The Beginning: Outgoing CEO, Nick Viner

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our new building

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Donors

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Inside JW3

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How to book tickets

Concessions

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An appropriate card will need to be shown.

Please note discounts cannot be combined.

Membership discounts are automatically applied when booking via our website. We do not charge an online booking fee.

www.jw3.org.uk

020 7433 8988

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All our ticket prices for Seniors and Youth activities are subsidised.

With thanks to: Editorial Team: Jeremy Rosenberg, Sue Shefras, Tal Szlenski, Zoe Kindler Design & Production: Hype! Commissioned Photography: Blake Ezra Photography ©JW3 2013 All material is strictly copyright and all rights are reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without the written permission of JW3 is just not on. The greatest of care, more hours than we care to count and plenty of blood sweat and tears have been poured into the making of this magazine and ensuring its accuracy at the time of going to press. But (yes, there’s a but), we accept no responsibility for omissions and errors.

We’re only human. We really do like everything in the magazine but not all the views expressed are those of JW3.

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he words “In the beginning…” have always grabbed my attention. The words themselves, the concept, the promise contained at the very start of a sentence. Used in a historical setting, they open a gateway to the past which makes me eager to know more. In a literary framework, they at once both conjure up childhood images of “once upon a time” and shine a light along the path which I am about to explore. And in a Jewish context they signal the start of the Jewish year and the very first words written in the first book of the Hebrew Bible (the Torah), the book of Bereishit (known in English as Genesis, though translated literally as “In the beginning”).

When the doors of JW3 finally open to the public on September 29th, at the same time of year that Jews all over the world will be reading the words “In the beginning…”, we will have finally reached our very own beginning, a mere ten years after we started.

No, you didn’t misread that. As Mary Shelley – one of the greatest writers to have come from London – explained in her 1831 introduction to Frankenstein:

“ Everything must have a beginning... …and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.”

JW3 grew out of the vision of the remarkable Dame Vivien Duffield DBE, inspired by her visit a decade ago, to JCCs in New York. She was bowled over by what she encountered taking place in these centres of arts, culture, fitness and community. Part of me likes to imagine that, stung by Bette Midler’s taunt “when it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London”, Dame Vivien vowed to bring London’s Jewish community into the 21st century, and set in motion the wheels that have driven us to this point.

Our new beginning.

As we prepare to open our doors and turn the page on the new chapter, I am inspired by our clear vision,

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which is for JW3 to be at the heart of a vibrant, unified, diverse community, inspired by and engaged in Jewish arts, culture, learning and life. I am excited that London has been gifted a beautiful, exciting and contemporary community centre and arts venue, decked out with stateof-the-art facilities; a house which the multi-talented JW3 team will turn into a home for all. I am certain that JW3 will be a welcoming, inviting venue, in which Jews of every age, background, and persuasion will be able to gather, meet, and feel comfortable and at home. I am confident that as a vibrant arts and cultural destination, showcasing a rich, diverse and inspiring range of events and activities, we offer you the very best of Jewish and

in the beginning

JW3’s new CEO, Raymond Simonson, says this is the start of an exciting chapter in our community’s story.

mainstream programming that London, indeed that the UK, has to offer. I am positive that it will quickly become a place where anyone interested in Jewish life or culture can walk through the doors, receive a warm welcome and participate in a myriad of ways – through the arts, education, food, recreation, or just conversation.

I truly believe that this centre has the potential to be a catalyst for the continued revitalisation of London’s Jewish community, filling it with a fresh sense of unity, focus and purpose, and increasing the quality, variety and volume of Jewish conversation in London and beyond.

In 20 years from now we’ll be wondering how we ever managed without it at the heart of our community.

Our “In the Beginning” 2013 Launch Season kicks off with two days of free activities on 29 and 30 September, to which you are all invited, and continues throughout October, November and December. With over 1,300 events, activities, courses, classes, workshops, performances, films, demonstrations, parties and talks that you will find inside this magazine represent our aim to programme a slimmer, lighter season than we will offer you in the future, once we have your feedback and input into what you want to experience at JW3. The more you engage, participate and tell us what you think, the better we can mould future seasons around your interests.

Remember, this is just the beginning…

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The Big Bang In the beginning… there was a Big Bang. All creativity and knowledge began with fire. Please join us here at JW3 for an amazing first evening of science, magic and wonder with candle-lit life-drawing, blow-torch cooking, science demonstrations and stories.

Theme Nights, Saturday 5 October, 7.30–11pm, p22

7 days of creation...

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In The Beginning: JW3 Launch Days Here are just seven of the amazing events, activities, classes and courses that will be taking place at JW3 in our opening season.

Come and join us. You’ll be very welcome.

Join us at JW3 for our very own beginning. Be one of the first to taste the many events, activities, classes and courses available at JW3 as we open our doors on our launch days.

On Sunday enjoy bite-sized samples of the best of JW3 and surprise entertainment for the whole family, set in a magical Garden of Eden. On Monday book into any of the full-length classes and activities for free.

Sunday 29, Monday 30 September, All Day

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It started here: introduction to Jewish graphic novelists & Jewish comics Presenter Sarah Lightman We’ve long told our life stories with words and images.

In this session, we’ll discuss the history of Jews and comics, and get you drawing too. Create your own comic, then upload it to our website and Facebook page.

Classes & Courses, Wednesday 2 October, 6–7.30pm, p77

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IN CONVERSATION WITH KEVIN SPACEY

Sounds Jewish Live Listening Party

In a first, the legendary Hollywood actor and Artistic Director of The Old Vic comes to JW3 to discuss the place of the arts in the community and community in the arts.

Presenter Sarah Peters On 16 October, Sounds Jewish producer Sarah Peters hosts an evening inspired by the theme of “In the beginning”. Then on 30 November, Sarah presents a live listening party exploring the themes of light as part of our Chanukah celebrations.

Arts & Culture, Performance, Wednesday 16 October & Saturday 30 November, 7.30pm, p20

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Arts & Culture, Talks & Conversations Members will be notified first of the confirmed date as part of the JW3 members priority booking service, p20

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Creation Stories: After School Art Workshop

The Sixth Day Farm @ JW3

People have always questioned how the world came into being. To celebrate interfaith week we’ll be exploring creation stories from different cultures and faith groups, and creating visual art to reflect the different narratives. Join us for a fun after-school drop-in session. You’ll take away your own creation as well as contribute to a large-scale collaborative work of art.

To celebrate the creation of JW3 we’re turning our Piazza into a mini-farm – from spinning wool to providing food, protection and companionship – where would we be without our animal friends?

Come pet the goats, bottle-feed the lambs and get acquainted with chickens and rabbits as we explore the Jewish relationship with animals.

Families, Thursday 21 November, p42 & p47

Families, Sunday 13 October, 12noon–4pm, p33

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MIXING IT Josh Katz and Eran Tibi – one an Ashkenazi Londoner, the other a Sephardi Israeli – explain how they’re blending culinary cultures and the Tel Aviv vibe to create Zest at JW3, a far more contemporary approach to Jewish cooking.

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EST is the new restaurant, café & bar at JW3 led by chefs Josh Katz & Eran Tibi, and General Manager Davina Sasha.

Josh and Eran forged a successful partnership at Ottolenghi and went on to set up Made in Camden at the Roundhouse. The two have joined with Davina to pour their creative energy into Zest, paying meticulous attention to every detail from sourcing the ingredients, perfecting their take on “Modern Jewish Cooking”, styling the cool, contemporary bar and selecting the handcrafted crockery made to order by artisans in Israel.

British-born chef Josh Katz explains their underlying philosophy: “We’re not just making good, wholesome food, we’re serving up a memorable experience.”

Eran Tibi, the Israeli half of the duo, expands on Katz’s statement: “We aim to stimulate all the senses. Zest is about the vibe, the colours, the smells, the noise and the warmth as well as the food.”

The chefs have drawn their inspiration from the thriving restaurant scene in Tel Aviv where, Tibi explains, “All the most successful restaurants are noisy, vibrant places run by chefs with big personalities and a sense of theatre as well as a genuine ability to cook.”

Katz and Tibi certainly have the latter, having both graduated from Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Institute, notched up a Bib Gourmand in the Michelin 2013 guide for Made in Camden and received a rare four-star review from AA Gill in the Sunday Times.

So, in addition to a slice of the Tel Aviv vibe, what else will diners find on offer? “It depends on the time of the day,” answers Katz. “We’ll be open from breakfast through to dinner. In the morning there’ll be excellent coffee, teas and juices along with our home-made pastries and favourites like shakshuka. Later there’ll be warming vegetable soups, lots of mezze, salads that are a feast for the eyes, tasty fish dishes, a range of nibbles and ‘small plates’ and an abundance of our own cakes and desserts.”

Tibi sums up their goal – “We want Zest to prove that kosher food can compete with the best in London by making the food and drink a major reason for people to visit JW3 and keep coming back.”

OPENING HOURS: Sunday 10am-11pm Monday-Thursday 7.30am–11pm Friday 7.30am–2.30pm Saturday Closed

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Arts & culture Welcome to your new favourite Arts & Culture Centre. You will find home-grown theatre productions, gigs from some of the hottest international music acts and top-notch conversation with some of the UK’s best loved cultural icons. Plus a monthly comedy night, a selection of cutting edge one-person shows and theme nights where we take over the whole building. You’ll be spoilt for choice.

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Listen, We’re Family Actor Kerry Shale introduces us to JW3’s first theatre commission

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om and Dad met at High School in Winnipeg and that’s where I grew up. It’s an old story: my mother’s family fled a Polish shtetl. My father’s side came from Odessa. Bubbe and Zayde were Orthodox and Dad’s side were High Holiday Jews. I was bar mitzvah and have rarely set foot in a synagogue since. But I’m still close to my folks. Family is family.

My English wife Suzanne is not remotely Jewish.

Or she wasn’t before she met me. Now she says oy veh, chutzpah and feh with delightful frequency. But the first time she visited Winnipeg, she was confused.

“Are you OK?” I asked, when the first big family meal had adjourned.

“They’re... your family…they are…” (we were politer with each other 20 years ago) “Go on...” I encouraged. “They’re so... intense!”

Last year, I acted in a verbatim theatre play at Wilton’s Music Hall. It was compiled, written and directed by Matthew Lloyd. In a theatre form pioneered in this country by the actress Alecky Blythe, the actors listened to recorded interviews on our iPhones and spoke almost simultaneously, including all the false starts and groping for words that real dialogue contains. The results were electric.

When JW3 asked me to suggest their first-ever theatre project, I was stumped. But Suzanne, who knows me better than I know myself, came through again. “How about a piece of verbatim theatre about Jewish families?”

Verbatim theatre practitioners have made plays about politicians, about prostitutes and punters, soldiers and terrorists, civil servants and diplomats. Early this summer, we put out the call to London’s Jewish community.

We wanted honest and unexpected stories about Jewish families. To this end, we’ve talked with and recorded dozens of brave volunteers. The actors in Listen, We’re Family will wear earphones and reproduce their words exactly as originally spoken.

“ Verbatim theatre includes all the false starts and groping for words that real dialogue contains.

The results can be electric.”

Actually, when meeting up, our two families are both pretty intense. Suzanne’s will talk intensely about various driving routes they took to get to the gathering.

Mine will talk intensely about the state of their bowels.

Jewish families can be noisy and compulsively selfdramatising. They can also be mute and miserable.

As Shakespeare admitted, we’re as human as humans can be, maybe more so. I’m fascinated by the dynamics of family life.

Don’t miss your chance to experience the UK’s first Jewish Verbatim Theatre production – JW3’s first ever commission.

Limited run.

Matthew and I have no idea exactly how our project will turn out. All we know is that it’s the first Jewish verbatim play staged in the UK. And it’ll probably be... intense.

Sunday 10 to Thursday 14, Saturday 16, Monday 18 to Thursday 21, Saturday 23, Sunday 24 November 2013 The Hall, 7.30pm, £15

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ARTS & CULTURE

Arts & Culture Books

Books Wednesday 9 October 2013

Wednesday 16 October 2013

Thursday 17 October 2013

Hanns and Rudolf

Almost English

The Hall, 7pm

7.30pm

£8

£7.50

BOOK LAUNCH – THE BAREFOOT BOOK OF JEWISH TALES The Hall, 7pm £8 Shoshana Boyd-Gelfand & Amanda Hall

Thomas Harding & James Harding A unique synthesis of biography, history and investigative journalism, Hanns and Rudolf chronicles the untold story of the Jewish investigator who pursued and captured one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious war criminals. The book’s author Thomas Harding talks to his cousin, James Harding, former Editor of the Times, and the BBC’s new Director of News and Current Affairs, about a piece of their own family history, an exhilarating account of Höss’s capture.

Moving from the Middle-Eastern campaigns of the First World War to bohemian Berlin in the 1920s to the horror of the concentration camps and the trials in Belsen and Nuremberg, it tells the story of two German men – one Jewish, one Catholic – whose lives diverged and intersected in an astonishing way.

Charlotte Mendelson Charlotte Mendelson’s hugely anticipated follow-up to Orange Prize shortlisted, When We Were Bad, is the Man-Booker longlisted Almost English, a captivating portrait of not quite fitting in.

Sixteen-year-old Marina and her mother live with a collection of ancient Hungarian relatives, which compels both to seek different ways of escaping.

Sunday 20 October 2013

Flash Bang – Flash Fiction Writing Workshop 12–5pm (including one hour for lunch)

Join us for a discussion about class, disastrous affairs, family secrets and half-foreign identities that promises to be frank and funny.

Launch season offer: £22.50

‘Mendelson’s novels are perfectly balanced observations of human nature captured in all its hideous glories. As intelligent as it is funny, her writing is brilliant…A joy.’

The Observer.

Tania Hershman

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I took a speed reading course and read War and Peace. It involves Russia.

WOODY ALLEN

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Why do bad things happen to good people? Is it more important to be kind or clever? Is truth the highest value? A few of the questions explored through story. Written by Shoshana Boyd Gelfand, Jewish educator and storyteller, and illustrated by Amanda Hall with an unabridged audio recording by Debra Messing, this book is primarily for children, though its wisdom will speak to readers of all ages. Join us to celebrate its publication and to hear the author and illustrator give an exclusive insight into its creation.

including light lunch at the Zest café

The essence of the universe before the Big Bang was compression: matter packed very densely into a minuscule space – which is also a description of one of the most exciting trends in fiction: flash fiction, the shortest short story.

Join Tania Hershman, writer-inresidence in the Science Faculty at Bristol University, for a Big-Banginspired creative writing workshop where you’ll learn to craft your own explosive microfictions.

Arts & Culture Books

Sunday 3 November 2013

Thursday 21 November 2013

Wednesday 27 November 2013

Untold Histories The Hall, 4.30pm

5am london – writing workshop

Battle of the Book Groups

£8

7-9.30pm

The Hall, 7.30pm

Launch season offer: £15 including

£7.50 per person

Lucy Lethbridge & Rachel Lichtenstein Join historian Lucy Lethbridge and artist-archivist Rachel Lichtenstein as they share accounts of Londoners written out of history. Lethbridge’s book, Servants, offers a fresh and intimate insight into an invisible population over the course of the 20th century. Lichtenstein’s trilogy, On Brick Lane, Diamond Street: The Hidden World of Hatton Garden and her forthcoming book on Portobello Road, reveal the hidden topography of Jewish history in the capital.

Thursday 14 November 2013

Arab Israeli Book Club 7.30pm £10 ARIEL KAHN, SHAHIDHA BARI

a complimentary drink (hot drink, beer, wine or soft drink from the Zest café) Gemma Seltzer You’re invited to join writer Gemma Seltzer for an invigorating writing workshop that will focus on the theme of 5am in the city. In advance of the session, you’ll be guided through creative exercises to produce your own piece of early morning fiction or poetry. During the workshop, you’ll discuss work from a range of very late night poets and authors scribing at sunrise.

You’ll also discover ways of writing that brings night buses, foxes and the first light of dawn to the page.

Suitable for writers at all levels.

Here’s Gemma’s 5am London: http://5amlondon.com. Will you be ready to write yours?

William Sutcliffe & Selma Dabbagh Now at JW3: London’s only book review club bringing together Arab and Israeli literature.

Two recent novels help us discover the reality of life “on the other side”.

Selma Dabbagh’s debut novel Out Of It brings us the lives of youthful Gazans in all their vibrant complexity.

In William Sutcliffe’s new novel The Wall, we follow Joshua, who chases a football through a tunnel into a world different from any he has known before. Join Will Sutcliffe, Selma Dabbagh, lecturers and writers Ariel Kahn and Shahidha Bari for what promises to be a fascinating and challenging discussion.

YOu and your book group Nothing compares with the pleasure of reading a good book. Apart from the pleasure of proving that you know more about it than anyone else. So come and find out if your book group is best. Bring your friends to JW3’s Battle of the Book Groups and pit your wits against other readers in our big literary quiz, hosted by writer, comedian and podcaster Helen Zaltzman, and Matthew Crosby, comedian and member of sketch comedy group, Pappy’s.

Book a table (up to ten people) and let the battle begin.

If you would like to read William Sutcliffe’s The Wall and Selma Dabbagh’s Out Of It before you come, it may add to your enjoyment of the group, but it is not a pre-requisite.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

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Arts & Culture Comedy

Comedy Monday 30 September 2013

Ronna & Beverly The Hall, 7.30pm £10 What could possibly be funnier: a self-help chat show presented by two 50-something Jewish mothers? Like Jeremy Kyle with more kvetching and more laughs, Ronna & Beverly is the cult LA talk show created by US comedians Jamie Denbo and Jessica Chaffin. During the show, they interview real celebrities on stage, dole out advice and push their self-help book. You may have seen them on BBC2 or Sky Atlantic; now you can see them live at JW3. “ Hysterical chat show hosts from hell. Oi vey – they’re to die for!’’ – Time Out “Relentlessly entertaining.” – Metro

Saturdays 19 October, 9 November, 14 December 2013

HAVANAGIGGLE COMEDY CLUB 8pm Launch season offer: £10 including your first bottle of beer or glass of wine from the Zest bar Gareth Berliner Hosted by our resident MC, Gareth Berliner, London’s newest monthly comedy club, HavaNaGiggle brings you top acts from the UK Comedy Circuit.

Each month we’ll offer three engaging, talented and downright hilarious slices of comedy.

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Here’s the first night line up:

Saturday 14 December 2013

MC Gareth Berliner – “a natural storyteller with more soul than 100 other comedians” (Metro). Performs around the world including in Israel, New York, Sydney, Adelaide, Dublin, and appropriately, Berlin.

YiSRAEL CAMPBELL LIVE & UNCIRCUMCISED

Adam Bloom – “A light-speed wit” (Chorlte). He’s a multi award-winning comedian who sells out theatres all over the world. Ricky Gervais calls him “one of my favourite stand-ups”.

wine from the Zest bar

Joe Bor – “a must see” (Alan Carr).

Observational character comedian, actor and writer. Warm-up comedian for The Graham Norton Show and Mock The Week.

Kiruna Stamell – “outstanding” (The Guardian). Actress, dancer and comedian. Starred in Life’s Too Short and Moulin Rouge.

The Hall, 7.30pm Launch season offer: £15 including your first bottle of beer or glass of Yisrael Campbell claims to be “just your average Irish, Italian Catholic kid from Philly. Comic actor, sober alcoholic, recovering drug addict, husband, father, Reform, Conservative, Unorthodox, Orthodox Jew”.

The first born son of a manic depressive Italian woman and a pathologically silent Irishman, Yisrael left his Catholic upbringing to convert to Judaism, not once, not twice but three times – each with its own circumcision! No surprise the acclaimed documentary feature film in which he starred is entitled Circumcise Me! He lives in Israel where he formed the IsraelPalestinian comedy tour and spends his time making people laugh – an awful lot.

Arts & Culture Music

MUSIC Sundays 13 October, 3 November, 1 December 2013

Jazz at JW3 Jazz at JW3 is a monthly Sunday evening jazz event, with some of the world’s biggest and brightest jazz talents performing live in our hall. Who needs to schlep into Soho when singers, instrumentalists, solo artists, groups and big bands, fresh new talent and musical legends, will all be blowing their horns for us? Our first season has shows from three of the country’s greatest jazz vocalists – so why not come down to JW3 for the swingingest Sunday night around?

13 October – Ian Shaw

3 November – Tina May

1 December – Liane Carroll

We kick off as we mean to carry on, with a performance by one of the world’s leading jazz singers, Ian Shaw. A double winner of the BBC’s Jazz Awards Best Vocalist, Ian moves effortlessly from swinging jazz to powerful ballads, and his collaborators include the very best in the worlds of pop and soul, from Quincy Jones to Jamie Cullum. Ian is joined by his trio: Barry Greene on piano, Geoff Gascoyne on double bass and Dave Ohm on drums.

Having served her musical apprenticeship in Paris, Tina May has gone on to become one of our most beloved jazz vocalists, touring extensively across Europe and the Far East. In 1998 Tina was presented with the vocal jazz award at the BT Jazz Awards. Come and enjoy a night of standards with a twist.

Tina is joined by her trio: long-time collaborator Nikki Iles on piano, Mark Hodgson on double bass and Stephen Keogh on drums.

We’re delighted to welcome Liane Carroll. Another two-time BBC Jazz Award winner, Liane’s a musical force of nature, who’s played to audiences across the world, collaborating with Sir Paul McCartney as well as leading figures from the jazz world.

London fans will know her from her residencies at Ronnie Scotts and the 606 Club. She’ll be playing piano and singing tracks from her solo albums including her latest, Ballads, with Roger Carey on electric bass and Mark Fletcher on drums.

It’s All About the Music We’ve invited some of the world’s leading music-lovers to share their favourite recordings with you and tell you some of the stories – and secrets – behind the tunes they love.

Tuesday 15 October 2013

Radio Academy Hall of Fame inductee Paul Gambaccini

Thursday 17 October, Thursday 14 November 2013

Alf KEILS 1-2pm

The Hall, 8pm

Launch season offer: £5 includes

£7.50

complimentary hot or cold drink

Since he first spun a record on radio in 1968, Paul Gambaccini has amassed more experience of pop music than almost any other individual. Tonight, the man they call the ‘Professor of Pop’ reveals everything you’ve always wanted to know about it – from the 70s right up to the present day.

from the Zest bar This lunchtime, Alf Keils invites you to listen to the best examples of big band and jazz music from his legendary collection of more than a million recordings spanning 80 years of music from shellac and vinyl to digital. He’ll also be revealing some Jewish links that might surprise you.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

Thursday 12 December 2013

David Hockman 7.30pm £7.50 Tonight, David Hockman, former CEO of Polygram International will reveal some of the highlights from his 40-year career in the music business. So if you’ve ever wondered what it was like to work with stars such as Bob Marley, Elton John and Abba, this is one event you should not miss.

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Arts & Culture Music

Saturday 19 October 2013

Tuesday 26 November 2013

TLV Live in LDN: The Apples

Ear to the Ground: Gone Solo

The Hall, 7.30pm

The Hall, 8pm

£15

£12.50

Israeli post-funk nine-piece instrumental outfit, The Apples, bring their unique sounds to JW3 this autumn. Blending a composition of decks, horns, double bass, drums and electronic effects, The Apples create a big band vibe mixed with their Middle Eastern influences, and constantly wow crowds at their sellout gigs across the world. Mixing big band jazz, funk and scratching into their beatsy Klezmer soul, along with their covers of ‘Killing In The Name Of’ and Snap’s ‘The Power’, you can guarantee that standing still is not an option!

Sam Lee, Lemez Lovaz Spend an intimate evening in the company of Mercury Prize shortlisted folk singer and song collector Sam Lee: just him, his guitar and an armful of stories.

Joining Sam will be two other fantastic folk and world musicians ‘playing away’ from their normal bands: Lemez Lovaz (Oi Va Voi, The Yiddish Twist Orchestra) and a third special guest will perform some of the songs they love, the songs they’ve written and the songs they’ve found, telling the stories behind them.

Produced by YAD Arts

Tuesday 29 October 2013

Thursday 19 December 2013

Ear To The Ground: Ana Silvera

TLV Live in LDN: Cooloolosh

The Hall, 8pm

£15

The Hall, 7.30pm

£10 Singer songwriter Ana Silvera’s stunning debut album, ‘The Aviary’ received wide acclaim on its release in 2011 (via the Karamel Music Collective). Join us for a performance with a backing choir, featuring an exclusive preview of works from her forthcoming album. She’ll also be reprising songs from her British Composer Award-nominated choral song-cycle, Oracles.

“Stunning...operatic and folk elements with magical storytelling.”

– The Guardian

TLV Live in LDN is a series of gigs showcasing the hottest talent from Israel, spanning jazz, funk, pop, hip hop and lots more.

Formed in Jerusalem in 2003 by five extremely talented musicians, Coolooloosh regularly perform around the world with their intelligent blend of genres, mixing Middle Eastern sounds with Hip Hop,

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Funk and Balkan styles. They’ve been hailed as one of the most diverse, innovative and successful bands to emerge from Israel to the international music scene.

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Arts & Culture Performance

performance Sunday 6 October 2013

Cocked and Locked: an Etgar Keret show

Sunday nights beginning 6 October to 15 December 2013

Spielers

6pm

7-10pm

£10

£90 for the complete

Performed by Merryn Owen, Directed by Vanessa Ackerman A magical-realist, funny and touching show, Cocked and Locked is a stage adaptation of the stories of award-winning Israeli writer Etgar Keret.

First devised in 2005 as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company Fringe Festival, in 2008, the show was invited by Keret to the Crossing Borders Festival in Holland. In its London premiere, actor Merryn Owen performs ‘Missing Kissinger’, ‘Crazy Glue’, ‘Cocked and Locked’ and ‘Hat Trick’.

The stories explore daily life in Israel with Keret’s unique blend of humour and pathos, presenting a view of Israeli society not often portrayed by the media.

Wednesdays 9 October, 6, 27 November, 18 December 2013

Sunday 10-Thursday 14, Saturday 16, Monday 18 to Thursday 21, Saturday 23, Sunday 24 November 2013

LISTEN, WE’RE FAMILY The Hall, 7.30pm £15

11-week season Debbie Chazen & You Let us put you centre stage, or backstage if you’d prefer making costumes or designing sets.

Spielers is the brand spanking new JW3 Amdram group which will be harnessing a whole lot of untapped talent. The group will mount a different production every season which will be performed in our theatre. The Artistic Director of the troupe is Debbie Chazen (Calendar Girls, The Smoking Room, Tittybangbang, Topsy Turvy) and initial auditions take place on 8 September and 15 September.

If you’re interested email us at spielers@jw3.org.uk with brief answers to the following questions: 1. Do you want to perform or be part of the crew?

2. What relevant experience do you have? (you don’t need any to apply) 3. Who would play you in a film of your life?

The Round Table Readings 4.30pm £7 Our regular round-table play readings will be facilitated by a different leading actor or director each week, and promise to be a great way to get to know new friends and new drama. It might be a film, it might be a play or even a soap, but you won’t know until you arrive and you are handed the script.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

A verbatim play, commissioned

by JW3. Written by Kerry Shale and Matthew Lloyd, from an idea

by Suzanne Shale. Directed by Matthew Lloyd.

Listen, We’re Family is a dissection of Jewish family life – exactly as it’s lived – told through the medium of verbatim theatre. It’s played by actors using earpieces, recreating real people – exactly as they sound. Interviewees of all generations speak from the heart about hilarious and traumatic events within their families. Classic and contemporary conflicts: love and sexuality, divorce and death.

Fathers, mothers, daughters, sons – everyone has their own version of the truth.

Like Rashomon. But more Jewish.

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ARTS & CULTURE Sunday 20 to Tuesday 22 October 2013

Santa’s Story The Hall, 7.30pm £20 Aviva Pelham At the age of 90, Santa Pelham was persuaded to write her life story. She told a tale full of intensity that took her on a journey first from Germany to Spain, then to France and finally to Africa.

What was intended as a family memoir proved such a powerful story that Santa’s daughter, award-winning opera diva Aviva Pelham – one of South Africa’s most celebrated performers – was moved to turn it into a one-woman show, punctuated by wonderful live Klezmer music, and directed by the acclaimed Janice Honeyman.

“A poignant and resounding piece of theatre.” Monday Missile Review (S.A.)

Arts & Culture Performance

Wednesday 23, Thursday 24, Saturday 26, Sunday 27 October 2013

Wot? No Fish!!

The Hall, 4.30pm £10 bread & circuses Direct from the Edinburgh Fringe, Danny Braverman’s touching and heartfelt solo show tells the story of Ab Solomons and his wife Celie’s life and love. Every week from 1926, Ab gave Celie his wage packet. Every week, he drew a picture on the packet to capture a moment of their family’s time together.

A chronicle full of humour and sadness, Ab’s cartoons draw you into the extraordinary lives of ordinary people; coping with life, death, catering, parenting, making ends meet, wartime and even more catering.

Ab’s remarkable art is brought back to London by a storyteller with a unique connection to the story.

BSL interpreted performance 24th October.

Wednesday 30 October 2013

Saturday 2 November 2013

Out Of Her Mind

Purge

The Hall, 7.30pm

7.30pm

£18

£10

Written and Performed

by Ruby Wax

Devised and performed

by Brian Lobel

Comedian, writer and TV star Ruby Wax is known for her humour. Less well known is the fact that she is among the one in four of us affected by mental illness. In Out Of Her Mind, Ruby uses her distinctive wit to tell us how it has shaped her.

What price is friendship in our digital age? Brian Lobel decided to find out. He asked complete strangers to choose which of his Facebook friends he should keep or unfriend.

Purge documents the whole process.

It’s an everyday story of envy, fame, TV, the insatiable drive to win, getting rich, getting the perfect body, marriage, kids, careers, and, above all, staying busy while looking like you’re having a nice day.

The product of 50 hours of performance and 800 emails from angry, amused and intrigued friends and former friends, this compelling stage show explores how we interact emotionally and socially with digital media, and what exactly friendship means nowadays.

Developed with support from Arts Council England.

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Arts & Culture Performance

Sunday 3 November 2013

Thursday 28 November 2013

Sunday 1 December 2013

Ruach

Lucky Me

3pm & 5pm

The Way You Tell Them

£10

9pm

£10

Devised and performed by Brian Lobel – with your help Socialisation is like a folk dance lesson: seemingly innocuous, potentially traumatising, mandatory.

Join Brian Lobel for an interactive dance lesson that tours the highs and lows of childhood religiosity.

Using his extensive experience as a certified folk dance instructor and camp counsellor, Brian will lead you in a celebration of ruach (spirit), but be warned he may have you questioning your faith. Oh! and be prepared to dance!

Launch season offer: £10 including your first bottle of beer or glass of wine from the Zest bar

2-4pm

Sophie Nathan This workshop may change your life.

Artist Sophie Nathan takes you on a journey exploring what success, status and identity mean to us today.

Under Sophie’s guidance, you will delve into your unfulfilled dreams and potential in order to create your alter (and probably more successful)-ego. Like life-coaching, but more surreal.

Thursday 12 December 2013

Queer As Folk Tales

Developed with support from Arts Council England.

The Hall, 7.30pm £8

Wednesday 6 November 2013

Address Unknown The Hall, 7.30pm £15 Soho Theatre Two friends in 30s Germany are torn apart as the Nazi regime infiltrates their friendship and families to devastating effect.

Address Unknown is an exciting and provocative hour of theatre about loyalty and betrayal, based on the bestselling book by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor.

Written as an anti-fascist call to arms and banned in 30s Germany for exposing the threat of Nazism, this is a timely warning of how humanity can all so easily fail in the face of extreme ideology. Coming to JW3 after a hugely successful run in the spring at the Soho Theatre. “a welcome rediscovery” – The Telegraph

Rachel Mars Rachel Mars has always relied on humour. Now she’s going in search of what is beyond the gags.

Turning the spotlight on the inner workings of comedy, The Way You Tell Them interrogates the desire and – sometimes uncontrollable – compulsion to be funny. Using real-life material, classic oral sex jokes and a wolf suit, Rachel weaves a thoughtful and provocative story that questions how we use and abuse humour.

Commissioned by The Basement, Brighton. Developed with CPT, London.

Developed with support from Arts Council England.

Following sell out runs at Gay’s The Word, our Queer True Story Night makes its premiere at JW3.

With funny, provocative, moving tales from six brilliant talkers, including artist Lisa Gornick, New Statesman columnist Eleanor Margolis, and Maxwell Wachs of ‘My Transsexual Summer’.

“Rachel Mars is electrifying” – The Guardian

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

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TALKS & CONVERSATIONS Members will be notified first of the confirmed date as part of the JW3 members priority booking service

Monday 14 October 2013

IN CONVERSATION WITH KEVIN SPACEY

The Hall, 7.30pm

Facing The Modern £15

Sounds Jewish: Live Listening Party

The Hall, 7.30pm

Cinema, 7.30pm

£15

£10

In a first, the legendary Hollywood actor and Artistic Director of The Old Vic comes to JW3 to discuss the place of the arts in the community and community in the arts.

Sounds Jewish

Gemma Blackshaw

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“Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane” Kevin Spacey

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Wednesday 16 October & Saturday 30 November 2013

Gemma Blackshaw discusses the latest exhibition at the National Gallery: Facing The Modern; The Portrait in Vienna 1900 and turns her attention to the paintings of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoshka, whose continued focus on the art of portraiture in an era still dominated by individual patrons helped define the shape of modern art in fin-de-siècle Austria.

Sounds Jewish audio producer Sarah Peters picks out magical soundscapes from podcasts and documentaries. On 16 October, she curates an evening inspired by “In the beginning”: from the madness of the school run to the writer’s terror of the blank page; from the Book of Genesis to anxious new relationships.

Then on the 30 November, as part of “The Fourth Night” Chanukah event, Sarah presents a live listening party exploring the themes of light.

Close your eyes and be transported.

Arts & Culture Talks & Conversations

Monday 9 December 2013

IN CONVERSATION WITH NICHOLAS Hytner The Hall, 7.30pm £15 The Director of the National Theatre – responsible for such hits as The History Boys and One Man Two Guvnors – reveals the highlights and lowlights of his career so far, from his Jewish beginnings in Manchester to one of the top theatre jobs in the world. In conversation with Alan Yentob, the BBC’s Creative Director and host of BBC arts series Imagine.

Sunday 15 December 2013

JDOV: Jewish Dreams, Observations, Visions The Hall, 7.30pm £7.50 Yisrael Campbell, Tim Franks, Judith Van Der Velde & others Ever wondered what it would look like if you crossed JW3 with TED (the popular conference which brings inspiring speakers together to give “the talk of their life”)?

Here is your chance to find out.

Launched by JHub in 2011, JDOV talks are now happening in New York, South Africa, Israel and beyond. At this London event, speakers will include Comedian Yisrael Campbell, BBC Correspondent Tim Franks, the Jewish Museum’s Judith Van Der Velde and more. Our host is Shoshana Boyd Gelfand.

Existing talks can be found at www.jhub.org.uk/jdov

OUT OF THE BOX Out Of The Box is a new format, which allows you, the audience, to be part of our most scintillating conversations with leading figures.

You ask the questions; we simply read them out. All you need to do is tweet, text or email your questions to us before the event. Then our presenters will pull them out of the box at random and ask them on your behalf.

The Hall, 7.30pm £12

Thursday 28 November 2013

Michael Grade & Dan Patterson Dan Patterson (creator and producer of Whose Line is It Anyway, Mock the Week and more) and Michael Grade CBE (former Chair of the BBC, Exec Chair of ITV, Chief Exec of Channel 4) , two very old friends who are responsible for some of the finest TV comedy in recent years, discuss, digress and divulge their thoughts, with the help of your questions.

Tuesday 8 October 2013

Thursday 5 December 2013

David Puttnam & Jason Solomons

Zoë Wanamaker & Jeni Barnett

Renowned film critic, broadcaster and Chair of the London Film Critics’ Circle Jason Solomons, talks to the legendary, multi-award winning film producer David Puttnam.

Two-time Olivier Award winning actress Zoë Wanamaker talks to TV and radio presenter Jeni Barnett about the highlights of a 40-year career taking in the classics and a hugely successful sitcom. Don’t forget to tweet, text or email your questions ahead of the event for Jeni to ask.

Thursday 10 October 2013

Lynne Franks & Josh Howie

Zoë Wanamaker

Legendary PR guru and inspiration for the character of Edina in Absolutely Fabulous Lynne Franks talks to stand-up comedian (and her son), Josh Howie. They will talk about pride, disappointment, Jewish mothers and anything else you ask them.

Josh Howie

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

Jason Solomons

Jeni Barnett

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Arts & Culture Theme Nights

THEME NIGHTS Theme Nights will be big events at JW3. Blending a number of activities together to celebrate different cultural happenings, the atmosphere at JW3 will be electric on Theme Nights.

Saturday 5 October 2013

Saturday 30 November 2013

Saturday 21 December 2013

The Big Bang

The Fourth Night

into the dark...

7.30pm

6.30pm

6.30pm

£20

£20

£25

JW3 begins with a Big Bang. An evening of science, magic and wonder. Candle-lit life-drawing, blow-torch cooking, science demonstrations and stories of discovery. Knowledge and creativity began with fire, and according to legend fire was given to Adam and Eve as the last act of creation.

Join us at JW3 as we celebrate the fourth night of Chanukah, halfway through the eight-night festival.

Mixing up Chanukah traditions from across the Jewish world, the Fourth Night will be an evening of global stories, live music and food.

After the sun goes down the world is a dark black canvas. Things reveal themselves: our dreams and nightmares, our deepest wishes and hidden fears.

So join us as we play with fire, expand our minds and dance into the night.

Listen to stories in the dark with the Listening Party curated by Sounds Jewish. Light the candles with Half-Told Tales from Malika Booker, Chris Meade, Rachel Rose Reid and Lazlo Pearlman, culminating in the haunting Sephardi beats of Los Desterrados.

With a taxidermy demonstration

by Shannon Harmon, Talmudic dream interpretations with Michael Pollak, heavenly combinations of nightmare food with chef David Mendes, glimpses at your alternative selves in Sophie Nathan’s Lucky Me performance and music inspired by the Song of Songs from mesmerising Israeli musician Mika Karni.

Revel in the possibilities of what could be, and dread what might come next.

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Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

VENUE HIRE If you are looking for a truly landmark venue may we suggest our brand-new building situated on the Finchley Road close to Swiss Cottage and Hampstead Village.

Designed by award-winning architects, Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, it offers outstanding facilities and the highest levels of disability access. And, as you’d expect, a friendly, attentive and professional service is simply part of the package.

Corporate Events For corporate events, you might consider office ‘away-days’ designed around our fully-equiped Demonstration Kitchen, intimate 60-seat Cinema and air-conditioned, sprung-floor Dance Studio.

Our Conference and Exhibition options include a 270 seater Hall, in auditorium layout, and our outdoor Piazza.

We can also provide multiple breakout rooms with high-specification audio-visual equipment and trained technicians to make sure everything runs smoothly.

Charity Events We’re always keen to welcome people involved in charity events who may want to make use of our Demonstration Kitchen, Cinema, Hall, Zest – our restaurant, café & bar – or our many other facilities.

We understand the needs of charities and are ready to help you and your team plan how best to use the many spaces within our building for your events.

Private Events If you are looking for a stylish and contemporary building to host your family celebrations, then we have a beautifully designed Hall that comfortably seats 200 or 150 including a dance floor, together with various Reception spaces including our outdoor Piazza, which itself has space for a 400-seat marquee. In addition, the Cinema is available for private screenings and parties. And the Demonstration Kitchen, Drama Studio and Youth Centre are also available to hire.

Finally, if you are an event organiser our facilities are available for hire for a wide range of your activities.

Please contact our General Manager, Davina Sasha at davina@jw3.org.uk or call her on 0207 433 8989

CINEMA Welcome to London’s newest cinema, and the UK’s only Jewish cinema: a stateof-the-art and rather plush 60-seater.

Join us for a weekly mix of new releases, old classics, and we are delighted to announce our new partnership with UK Jewish Film to bring you the very best of Jewish cinema from around the world.

Also: Silver Screenings, Q&A’s, Kids Films (including the Edible Cinema), four Film Clubs, and Special Screening Events. The full programme will be available online monthly – in the meantime here’s a taster.

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Wisdom of Solomons Observer film critic Jason Solomons tells us about his love of film and his hopes for the cinema at JW3

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What keeps you awake at night?

Worrying I’ve been too mean about a film. And worrying I’ve been too gushing about another film.

ho’s your favourite Jewish character in film?

Alvy Singer, Woody Allen’s character in Annie Hall.

He’s very romantic, very funny and wears his Jewishness very comfortably – it’s a key part of him, his personality and philosophy. Maybe it’s his most endearing part.

What cinema did you love to go to as a child?

I grew up opposite the Screen on the Hill, in Belsize Park. My Dad’s hair salon was right over the road and I’d work in his shop in the school holidays and watch the letters go up to spell out the new films on a Friday across the street. Then I’d pop over during lunchbreak to read the reviews they put up outside the cinema, from Alexander Walker in the Evening Standard or Derek Malcolm in The Guardian, usually, sometimes Geoff Andrew from Time Out. It’s a source of great pride and joy to me that I’ve since met and known those critics and counted them as colleagues and, even better, held my own events in that cinema and had my reviews up on the walls outside.

Worst job you ever had?

Luckily, I haven’t really hated any jobs – I was pretty useless at being an accountant at my Grandpa’s office when I was 15, and I still am rubbish at finances. Other than that, my worst ‘gig’ was hosting two sessions on Avatar at the British Comic-Con event, full of Hobbits and people dressed as blue creatures and Star Wars characters and a general mass of sci-fi geeks, really my worst nightmare. I don’t know how I got roped into that one. Whatever they paid me, it can’t have been enough, in any galaxy.

“ I’d love to see packed houses of generous, young audiences giving new films a try and talking about them buzzily afterwards.”

Who would play you in a film of your life?

I’d like George Clooney but the script wouldn’t be interesting enough for him or for Hollywood, so I’ll take a nice chap like Eddie Marsan and go for a sweet British comedy feel.

What would be the kind of thing you’d love to see at the JW3 cinema?

I’d love to see packed houses of generous, young audiences giving new films a try and talking about them buzzily afterwards, in Q&A sessions and outside, over delicious cakes and wine. I’d like to see actors and film makers there. I’d love a regular programme of loosely Jewish classics, too, such as a Billy Wilder season or a run of Nora Ephron movies, so that going to the movies becomes a treasure again. I’d like people to fall in love there.

What phrase do you use when you hate a film but you don’t want to say that explicitly?

Well, that’d only be when the person who made the film, or starred in it, was in the room with me, which they often are. Then I say something like: “You know, under the circumstances, you did a fine job.” Or a simple, classic get-out is: “Congratulations, you did it.”

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The Comedy Film Club Comedies that changed comedy To launch our partnership with The London Comedy Film Festival, we present the monthly series ‘Comedies That Changed Comedy’. Each film is introduced with a talk from a leading comedy film expert who will argue why it deserves such an accolade.

Monday 7 October 2013

Monday 11 November 2013

Monday 23 December 2013

Harold and Maude

Coming To America

(1971, US, Dir: Hal Ashby, 91 mins)

(1988, US, Dir: John Landis, 116 mins)

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Cinema, 8.30pm £10 Harold (Bud Cort) is a teenager who is obsessed with death, spends his time in cemeteries and drives a hearse. At a funeral, he meets his polar opposite Maude (Ruth Gordon), a life-loving 79-year-old.

The result is an odd sort of love affair and a cult classic.

Cinema, 8.30pm £10

(2006, UK, Dir: Larry Charles, 86 mins) Cinema, 8.30pm £10

Pampered Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy) of Zamunda comes to Queens, New York with his royal sidekick (Arsenio Hall) to find a bride and true love.

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Sacha Baron Cohen’s caricature of a central Asian ingenu won two Golden Globes and was banned in countries all over the world.

Cinema Film Clubs

The Misogynist Film Club Mondays 14 October, 25 November, 16 December 2013

Monday 16 December 2013

Cinema, 8.30pm

Henrietta Foster Presents ‘The Women’

£10 In partnership with Underwire Film Festival, JW3 proudly presents the UK’s only Misogynist Film Club – a feminist celebration of the terrible portrayal of women in cinema.

(1939, US, Dir: George Cukor, 133 mins)

Each evening will feature a brilliant film that we love despite its poor representation of women, a great woman talking about why she loves it and a specially selected short film curated by Underwire.

Monday 14 October 2013

Monday 25 November 2013

With special guests

Isy Sutti presents ‘The Three Amigos’

Please see website for full details.

(1987, US, Dir: John Landis, 104 mins) Three “resting” actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to replay their bandit fighter roles, unaware that they won’t be acting this time. Isy Sutti is an awardwinning comedian, writer and musician and star of Peep Show.

Be careful what you say in private. It could become a movie. Some gossip overheard by Clare Boothe Luce in a nightclub powder room inspired her Broadway hit that’s wittily adapted for the screen in The Women.

George Cukor directs a catty tale of battling and bonding which stars 130 women and no men – even the dog is female.

Keshet Israeli TV Club Arab Labour (Hebrew, with English subtitles)

Cinema, 7.30pm £5 per person Some of the most acclaimed television in the world these days is coming out of Israel. Here we screen whole series in bite-sized chunks and in the comfort of our cinema. We begin with Arab Labour, Sayed Kashua’s multi award-

winning sitcom which brought Arab characters onto Israeli primetime TV for the first time. Influenced by both Seinfeld and Goodness Gracious Me, the show examines cultural divisions through the prism of one family. It’s smart, sophisticated and phenomenally funny.

Monday 21 October – Episodes 1-3 Monday 4 November – Episodes 4-6 Monday 9 December – Episodes 7-10

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

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The Foodies Film Club Mondays 28 October, 18 November, 2 December 2013 Cinema, 8.30pm £10 Join us for evenings of good food and good films! JW3 takes you on a celebratory journey to discover the finest in cinematic food experience.

Each week we will be serving up a mouth-watering feast for the eyes, featuring films such as the delectable Ang Lee classic Eat Drink Man Woman and the aptly titled Babette’s Feast, an Oscar winning foodie ‘must.’ Each film will be accompanied by a delicious dish, mirroring the film’s theme, prepared by our world-class chefs at Zest.

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Monday 28 October 2013

Monday 18 November 2013

Monday 2 December 2013

Eat Drink Man Woman

Babette’s Feast

What’s Cooking?

(1995, USA/Taiwan, Dir: Ang Lee, 124 mins)

(1987, Denmark, Dir: Gabriel Axel, 102 mins)

(2000, UK/USA, Dir: Gurinder Chadha, 109 mins)

A richly layered look at the complex interactions between a widowed chef and his daughters, Ang Lee’s celebrated generational comedy Eat Drink Man Woman has sumptuous meals at its centre, and leaves you hungrier than most other films.

A woman flees the French civil war and lands in a small seacoast village in Denmark, where she comes to work for two spinsters, devout daughters of a puritan minister.

From the director of Bhaji on The Beach, the film details the lives of four ethnically diverse families – Black, Latino, Jewish, and Asian – during one frantic Thanksgiving.

After many years, Babette decides to create a real French dinner – which leads the sisters to fear for their souls. An Oscar-winning foodie classic.

Food, fights, family and secrets combine in this touching comedy.

Cinema Special Screenings

Special Screenings Sunday 3 November 2013

Sunday 8 December 2013

THE GATEKEEPERS

Score! Hungry Hearts. Silent Film with Live Score

(2012, Dir: Dror Moreh, 95 mins, Hebrew with English subtitles) Cinema, Evening screening

In Association with Jewish Book Week The Hall, 2.30pm £15 Robin Harris & Laura Anstee

Nominated for Best Documentary at the 2013 Academy Awards, this fascinating and moving film opens a window onto 50 years of Israeli history as seen through the eyes of the Shin Bet, the state’s security agency.

moments in Israel’s history. As they reflect on their successes and failures to maintain security, these men individually and as a group have come to reconsider their previous positions in the context of the ongoing conflict in the region.

Constructed around intimate, frank and revealing interviews with six surviving former heads of the agency, blended with archival footage and computergenerated dramatic reconstructions, The Gatekeepers explores key

Screened as part of our marking of the anniversary of the murder of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and in association with Seret, this is an essential documentary for our times.

Hungry Hearts is spoken of as one of the greatest-ever Jewish films.

A silent movie from 1922, it is adapted from Ania Yezierska’s story of a Jewish family who escape Tsarist Russia for a better life in America. Hungry Hearts is a tragic and comic portrait of a defining era, shot on location on New York’s Lower East Side. Enjoy the film accompanied by a new film score: a fusion of original compositions, Klezmer melodies and improvised selections, performed live by Robin Harris and Laura Anstee.

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If we didn’t catch them in the act, we’d never catch them.

Yaakov Peri – The gatekeepers

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FAMILIES

From pregnancy to primary school, we have a whole range of fun and educational activities for whatever stage of family you’re at.

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Fresh talent & family fun Liat Rosenthal interviews Alex Kanefsky and Oliver Hymans

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o create a genuinely enticing programme of activities and events for families we went in search of fresh talent. Let us introduce you to just two of the people who will be entertaining and educating families at JW3 this season.

Alex Kanefsky is a writer and performer with a love of all things storytelling. He is also the co-artistic director of the Paper Balloon theatre company.

How did you begin working with young people and families?

I worked at the Pegasus Theatre straight after university, where I studied drama. I especially enjoyed creating performance with and for young people – they have such great imaginations and I find working with them equally inspiring and rewarding.

So much so that I set up a theatre company called Paper Balloon to create fresh, exciting live theatre for family audiences.

What are you most excited about for the launch?

I am delighted that Paper Balloon will be touring our first performance The Grumpiest Boy In the World at JW3 during the launch season, as part of the Family Sunday series! It’s a brilliant piece of new writing by Finegan Kruckemeyer, an up-andcoming writer for young audiences.

The play is about a boy who is very

frustrated with being average – and, as a result, embarks on a magical journey.

Oliver Hymans is a theatre maker and educator who specialises in puppetry and scenography.

How did you begin working with young people and families?

I started creating family theatre in 2005, when I directed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Lakeside Arts Centre and then co-directed a show called the Shoe Stories for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Working with schools and teachers to co-create artistic work, and enrich curriculum teaching is a real passion of mine.

What are you most excited about for the launch?

I will be working with local schools on the ‘Let’s Begin: Page to Stage Project’ – we’ll be looking at the theme of “beginnings” and creating our own scripts. And a selection of these will be performed by professional actors at JW3!

I am really looking forward to working with young people, helping them to develop their ideas and then seeing the result of their imaginations on stage. It’s going to be exciting for them to see their scripts performed in such a great space – it really honours their efforts.

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Family Fun Sundays Join us at JW3 for a fun-filled Sunday. Each Sunday has a different theme and is packed with a huge variety of activities to keep your family entertained, amused and inspired.

Sunday 6 October 2013 – Happy Sunday Join us when we celebrate happiness and… grumpiness and lots and lots of other mood swings!

Family film – Happy Feet

The Grumpiest Boy in the World

Crafternoon

Cinema, 10.30am

The Hall, 1–2pm and 4–5pm

Free

Launch season offer: £7.50 adults;

Launch season offer: £7.50 adults,

£4.50 children; or £19.50 for a

£5.50 children

Family Ticket (four tickets, maximum two adults) It’s Happy Sunday, so here comes Happy Feet. The film tells the everyday story of Mumble, a young penguin with a talent for tap dancing, something none of his penguin friends can do. This leads to mistrust and suspicion: at one point Mumble and his new-fangled moves are blamed for the shortage of fish in the sea. But it turns out all right in the end, as our little penguin outsider finally achieves the acceptance he craves. Sweet feet.

Miss Art and her cart Looking for something a little different to do on a Sunday afternoon? Want to get your youngsters’ – and your own – creative juices flowing?

Come along and give our Craft for Kids: Drawing Activity a try.

For three fun-filled, absorbing and fulfilling hours, we’re going to be creating happy, positive art, inspired

by Roger Hargreaves’s amazing Mr Men books and the paintings of New York’s legendary Keith Haring.

You’ll all leave feeling brighter, lighter and ready for the week to come.

Paper Balloon In Zachary Briddling’s class, everyone’s interesting – except Zachary. He’s sick of being average.

So he grumbles. And his mum reminds him of the places – filled with giants, and flying things – where Zachary wouldn’t be middling at all. He sets out… to stand out.

Using physical theatre, storytelling, and live music, The Grumpiest Boy In The World tells the story of a grumpy 7-year-old, who journeys into a fantastical world to discover what makes him special. Great for everyone over four.

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Lounge, 2-5pm

Families Family Fun Sundays

Sunday 13 October 2013 – Animal Day It’s animals, animals, animals at JW3 this Sunday. Come watch them, make them and, even better, play with them at JW3.

Family Film – Madagascar

The Sixth Day Farm

Crafternoon

12noon-4pm

Lounge, 2-5pm

Cinema, 10.30am

Adults £10, child £5 (children under

Free

Launch season offer: £7.50 adults;

2 go free), Family ticket (4 people,

£4.50 children;

min 2 children) £20

or £19.50 for a Family Ticket (four tickets, maximum two adults) Life is good in New York’s Central Park Zoo, where a lion, a zebra, a giraffe, and a hippo are stars of the show. Then one of them goes missing, and the animals’ world is turned upside down. The other three escape to find him, only to find themselves on a ship to Africa. And when their vessel is hijacked, the friends, who have all been raised in captivity, learn first-hand just how tough life in the wild can be.

To celebrate the creation of JW3 we’re turning our Piazza into a mini-farm. Providing us with wool, food, protection and companionship - where would we be without our animal friends? Come pet the goats, bottle-feed the lambs and get acquainted with the chickens as we explore the Jewish relationship with animals.

Miss Art and her cart It’s Animal Day at JW3, so today we’ll be using our crafting skills to make some animals of our own. We’re going to celebrate the amazing diversity of life on Earth by creating our own Noah’s Ark, filled with origami animals, all going in two by two.

Sunday 20 October 2013 – The Turnip Prize Have you ever thought that your child could come up with something as good as an entry for the Turner Prize? We’ll now here’s your chance to prove it! Join us at JW3 to celebrate the Big Draw, children’s creativity and the wonderful world of conceptual art!

Family film – Bean

The Turnip Prize

Crafternoon

Cinema, 10.30am

2-5pm

Lounge, 2-5pm

Launch season offer: £7.50 adults,

Launch season offer:

Free

£5.50 children

£2.50 adults; £4.50 children;

The hapless Mr Bean is working at the National Gallery, where his bosses want to fire him because he sleeps all day. The chairman of the board has no other ideas, so they have to get rid of Bean another way.

They send him to a small gallery in Los Angeles, where he’ll have to officiate at the opening of an exhibition of the greatest American painting of all time. What could possibly go wrong?

or £17 for a Family Ticket (five tickets, maximum two adults) With The Turnip Prize, children can give Turner Prize winners a run for their money. There’ll be a “Mr Maker” workshop, a doodle-athon with Ms Doodle and her poodle, and action painting for the little Jackson Pollocks. We’ll be showing Chagalls to feed the imagination, and there’ll be an Art-Attack Family Challenge that you can join in too.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

Miss Art and her cart To celebrate the Big Draw, we’re turning the whole of JW3 into a massive art studio and gallery hosting our very own Turnip Prize.

Our crafternooners will be taking part in activities throughout Sunday afternoon. So pop in and get your little artists to help make moving spiral op art inspired by 2006 Turner Prize winner artist Mark Titchner.

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Families Family Fun Sundays

Sunday 27 October 2013 – Musical Sunday Bring a little more harmony to your Sunday this weekend and join us at JW3 to explore all things musical.

INTERACTIVE CINEMA: Mary Poppins Cinema, 10.30am £9 per person

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust: Interactive Concert for kids

Crafternoon Lounge, 3-5pm Free

3pm £5 per child, Suitable for ages 4+

Warm-up your vocal cords for Sing-along Sunday, with this extra special screening of Mary Poppins.

You’ll be given an ‘interactive pack’ to help you immerse yourself in the film – feed the birds (tuppence a bag), have a tea party on the ceiling, march with the suffragettes, jump into a painting and join the chimneysweeps’ mischief. It will be very SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPEALIDOCIOUS!

Sit and enjoy classical music in a relaxing and welcoming atmosphere.

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust is bringing chamber music to young people through interactive concerts, giving them a taste of some of the most beautiful music in the world, played by first class musicians. As well as listening to fantastic pieces of chamber music, audiences are encouraged to take part in games, making the total experience a delight both for those who are and are not familiar with chamber music.

Miss Art and her cart Make musical instruments in our creative crafternoon sessions. We’ll be making dazzling drums and fabulous flutes. Decorate them as you want and make marvellous music wherever you go.

Sunday 3 November 2013 – Foodie Families We have a feast of activities to whet your appetite this Sunday at JW3 as we go all “Willy Wonka” about food. Well, we say food. Chocolate, sweets and treats are food aren’t they? Of course they are…!

Edible Cinema: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Chocolate-making session

Crafternoon: Foodie Families Craft

Demonstration Kitchen,

Lounge, 2-5pm

Cinema, 10.30am-12noon

12.30-1.15pm

FREE

Launch season offer: £9.50 adults;

£5 per child, children must be

£6.50 children; or £27.50 for a

accompanied by an adult

Family Ticket (4 tickets, maximum 2 adults) Come and see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in this edible cinema treat. There will be goodie bags to munch through and your own golden ticket to take away. Join Charlie on a magnificent tour through Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. Give record-breaking gum chewer, Violet Beauregarde, a run for her money.

Find out whether you’d be judged as a ‘bad nut’. Eat treats from Oompa Loompas. And try some of Wonka’s strange chocolate experiments!

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Steph Saffer Wouldn’t life be simply perfect if you could make your own chocolate?

And then keep it all for yourself?

(Sorry, we meant to say “share it with the people you love?”). In this session, artisan chocolatier Steph Saffer will share some of her secrets, and teach you how to conjure up delicious chocolate lollipops to your own individual design. Then you’ll decorate your creations with a variety of colourful toppings, and package them up beautifully, ready to take home. Yum.

Miss Art and her cart It’s Foodie Families Day at JW3, so today we’ll be using our crafting skills to make some fantastic necklaces and bracelets from pasta jewellery. Colour in different patterns to decorate – be inspired by different prints and textures – and celebrate food and culture from around the world.

See page 47 for information on Food Explorers Workshops with Fabienne

Families Family Fun Sundays

Sunday 10th November 2013 – Kids Comedy Sunday My child a comedian? You’re havin’ a lauf! Well they could be if you join us for Kids Comedy Sunday at JW3. A guaranteed gaggle of giggles. (Try saying that quickly without laughing!)

CHICKEN RUN Cinema, 10.30am-12noon

School of Slapstick: Comedy Workshop

Crafternoon: Make ‘em laugh

Launch season offer: £7.50 adults,

3-5pm

Lounge, 2-5pm

£4.50 children or £19.50 for a

Launch season offer: £8.50

FREE

Family Ticket (4 tickets,

per child, ages 6-11, drop-off event

maximum 2 adults) It’s a laugh a minute down on the farm – especially if you are a chicken with grand ideas! Join Rocky the rooster and Ginger the chicken as they rebel against their owners and start their great escape. This film is guaranteed to get everyone giggling in their seats!

The School of Slapstick What’s the secret of great comedy?… Timing. And this workshop, of course. Join the School of Slapstick for this one-off, hands-on, tip-filled practical session in how to create great visual gags.

Inspired by classic comedy movies, you’ll learn the basic techniques of slapstick and hone your drama skills.

Then you’ll be given costumes and props and get the chance to star in and direct your own short film within the session. Create a movie to enjoy with your friends and family.

Miss Art and her cart It’s Kids Comedy Day at JW3, so today we’ll be using our crafting skills to make some laughs of our own.

Comedians have always made funny faces – from clowns’ noses to limbs that fall off to wigs and make-up. On our Comedy Sunday you’ll get the chance to take home some craft that will make friends and family giggle…

Take home the laughs: make googly eyes glasses to remember the day or a funny mask!

Sunday 17 November 2013 – Mitzvah Day This Sunday, meet up at JW3 and spend an afternoon helping others in the community, as part of Mitzvah Day.

Family Film: FernGully – the Last Rainforest Cinema, 10.30am £5 The fairy people of the magical rainforest of FernGully believe that humans only exist in stories. Then one day a human arrives in the forest and reveals that he is working for an evil organisation that is determined to destroy FernGully forever.

Behind this scheme is a villain called Hexxus, who was long ago turned into a tree for his wickedness and is now seeking revenge on the rainforest. Will the fairies save their enchanted home in time?

Mitzvah day The Hall, 2-5pm Free On Mitzvah Day meet up at JW3 and spend an afternoon helping others in the community. We’ll be leaving the building to take part in community clean-ups, visiting the elderly and helping with other local community causes.

Come along and give – we’ll be collecting food and clothes. Little ones can make gratitude cards to express thanks, or decorate gift boxes.

you want to help out there will be something for you to get stuck into!

There will also be a special interfaith story-telling session for families which explores the theme of ‘good deeds’ from different cultural backgrounds.

We’ll be hosting a wide range of partners and projects – so however

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

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Sunday 24 November 2013 – JW3 Baby Fair Come to JW3 this Sunday for everything and anything you need or want for your baby.

Family Film: Baby’s Day Out

‘In the beginning’ – JW3 Baby Fair

Crafternoon: Baby Craft

Cinema, 10.30am

10am–4pm

Lounge, 2-5pm

£5

Adult ticket £8 advance, £10 door

FREE

Baby Bink has it all: adoring parents, a huge mansion, and a planned appearance in the social pages of the newspaper. Unfortunately, not everyone is as nice as Baby Bink’s parents; especially the three wouldbe kidnappers who pretend to be photographers from the newspaper.

But snatching Baby Bink is only the beginning of their problems, as the little rascal not only keeps one step ahead of them, but generally seems more than a little smarter than the three bumbling criminals.

Children free ‘In the beginning…’ was a very long list of things you absolutely had to have and do from a million different places. We’ve tried to imagine that list and provide everything you and baby need, all under one roof.

We’ll have stalls from a wide variety of businesses and charities, and you’ll be able to try taster sessions from many of the partners who are offering classes and courses at JW3 – like nutrition, baby massage, sleep workshops and baby yoga.

Miss Art and her cart We’ll be using our crafting skills to make some my lovely frames of our own for our baby pics. Everyone loves to take photos of babies – they are just so cute! We’re going create original handmade frames for our beloved baby memories – why not decorate them with large and colourful materials such as pompoms or felt and foam cut-outs, and maybe even try to create a funky fonts to write your family name on the frame.

Sunday 1 December 2013 – Chanukah Celebration Please see details in The Jewish Year, on page 92.

Sunday 8 December 2013 – Superhero Sunday Calling all superheroes. Grab your cape, don your mask and top-up your superpowers at Superhero Sunday.

Family Film: THE INCREDIBLES

SuperHero Sunday workshop

Crafternoon: Superhero Sunday

Cinema, 10.30am

3.30pm

Lounge, 2-5pm

£5

£12.50 per child, suitable for ages 6-11. Drop-off event

FREE

To become a superhero, you usually have to be bitten by a radioactive animal or exposed to dangerous chemicals. But all you need to do now is come along to our workshop.

First you’ll choose your name, then your super powers.

Mr Incredible and his wife Elastigirl are the most famous crime-fighting superheroes in Metroville, saving lives on a daily basis. Then they have children, and are forced to retire.

Until the world needs a whole family of superheroes to rescue it, that is.

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After that, you’ll create your super outfit – including your mask, cape and your all-important logo. Then you’ll learn some crucial superhero stunts, before the pièce de résistance: creating a short film to show off your super human powers.

Miss Art and her cart It’s Superhero Day at JW3, so today we’ll be using our crafting skills to make heroes of our own.

This is your chance to make your hero’s hand-made mask and accessories and find your super powers! Would your superhero fly or become invisible? Could you breathe fire or save lives?

So come join us, let loose your imagination and let your creativity spread wings.

Families Family Fun Sundays

Sunday 15 December 2013 – Fairy Tales and Hairy Tales Join us this Sunday for a magical day of story-telling and make-believe as we enter the world of Fairy Tales and Hairy Tales at JW3.

Family Film: Peter Pan

Tall Tales from the bearded ladies

Crafternoon: Fairy Tale Craft

Cinema, 10.30am

1.30-2.15pm

Lounge, 2-5pm

£5

£3

FREE

Story-telling that will put hairs on your chest! Join the comical bearded ladies for this session of tall tales!

What happens when Little Red Riding Hood meets The Big Bad Pig? Join their adventures in the wood – who will they meet? What do they see? Join the story-telling adventure to find out.

The Gingerbread Man show 3pm Launch season offer: £6 per person or £18 for a family ticket (4 people, maximum 2 adults) Some stories never get old. In this animated version of the tale about the boy who refuses to grow up, Peter Pan and his fairy sidekick Tinkerbell visit the nursery of Wendy, Michael, and John Darling. With a sprinkling of pixie-dust, Peter and his new friends fly out of the nursery window and off to Never-Never Land. They experience wonderful and exciting adventures with the Lost Boys, Tiger Lily’s Indian tribe, and Peter’s arch-enemy, the dastardly pirate Captain Hook.

Aesop’s Theatre Join our ginger-and-doughbased hero as he sets off on an adventurous journey in search of somewhere better. Together, you’ll encounter some rather amusing characters on the way. But beware, not all of them are quite as friendly as they appear, and you may need to run, run as fast as you can to get away. Finally, our champion learns that there is no place quite like home. Songs, music and lots and lots of laughter abound in this interactive production.

Tinkerbell: Make fairy craft 12noon

Miss Art and her cart We love stories! Crafternooners will get a chance to create their own pop-up books. Learn different techniques to make your story jump off the page – decorate your tall tales to your heart’s content.

Pick your favourite characters from different stories and bring them to life in a fun-filled afternoon making session at JW3.

Free You’ll get to meet and play with a real-life Tinkerbell in this magical crafty session at JW3.

This event is supported by Mystical Fairies.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

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Families Bumps

bumps Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November, 3, 10, 17 December 2013

Speed bumps 7–8.15pm Launch season offer: £10 per week or £99 for the whole season (12 sessions) Emma Bloom Pregnancy is more fun with friends.

So come along to our weekly sessions that give you space and time to indulge in your pregnancy, meet like-minded women and make something lovely for you, your family or your baby. They are run by Emma Bloom, a former NCT teacher and professional creative, who will answer questions and facilitate chats about all things pregnancy and baby-related. You are welcome at any stage of pregnancy, whether it’s your first, second, third or eighth.

Everything you need to know about having a baby but didn’t know who to ask – Antenatal Information Workshops 8.30–9.30pm Launch season offer: £6 per session or £25 for whole season (5 sessions) 8 October: Jessica Overlander Kaye – Jewish naming/initiation ceremonies 22 October: Bonnie Joseph – Aim High Training – first aid for parents and carers 5 November: Lisa May – employment and maternity rights and expectations 19 November: Maryanne Taylor – Child Sleep Works – sleep workshop 3 December: Rachel Davies – Rachel’s Kitchen – cooking for new parents – easy meals to make and freeze How do you find out all the stuff around having a baby that isn’t about having a baby? How do you find out about your rights to maternity leave? How do you get your baby to sleep through the night? What’s the best way to buy a buggy – and when? Can I prepare food for my baby in advance so I can have some time off, please? These fortnightly sessions will give you the information and the confidence you need.

Sunday 24 November 2013

As per demand

‘In the beginning’ – JW3 Baby Fair

NCT antenatal class

10am–4pm

accompanying grown-ups

Adult ticket £8 advance, £10 door Children free ‘In the beginning…’ was a very long list of things you absolutely had to have and do from a million different places. We’ve tried to imagine that list and provide everything you and baby need, all under one roof.

We’ll have stalls from a wide variety of businesses and charities, and you’ll be able to try taster sessions from many of the partners who are offering classes and courses at JW3 – like nutrition, baby massage, sleep workshops and baby yoga.

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Tuesdays 8, 22 October, 5, 19 November, 3 December 2013

£250 per bump and

Jessica Overlander Kaye Give your baby the best start in life, and the best start in Jewish life too. JW3’s antenatal classes guide couples through the maze of birth and early parenthood – with a Jewish focus. We cover a wide range of topics to help you get ready for a confident birth. We also help you to learn about Jewish rituals and construct your own baby blessing.

Courses run regularly. To find out more, please email us with your due date at info@jw3.org.uk

Families Postnatal

POSTNATAL

Wednesdays 2, 9, 16, 23 October, 6, 13, 20, 27 November, 4, 11, 18 December 2013

Course 1: Thursdays 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 October 2013 Course 2: Thursdays 21, 28 November, 5, 12 December, Tuesday 17 December 2013

Hartbeeps Babybeeps™

JW3 postnatal course

SITTING TO WALKING 11-11.45am £82.50 for the whole term (11 sessions) or £8.50 for one-off class Hartbeeps Babybeeps™ classes are very rich in language development, as we take a sound journey through ‘Babyland’; a squishy-squashy place with no sharp edges, where everyday activities and routines are turned into ‘sing song’ events. Baby babbles are the important beginnings of baby’s developing language and full of music and rhythm. We celebrate these wonderful sounds by turning them into songs, happy claps and puppet characters. We regularly witness lots of babies captivated by our rhythmic babble raps, claps and songs.

11am–12.30pm £10 per week or £40 for five-week session Course 1: 3 Oct Baby first aid 10 Oct Baby massage taster 17 Oct Sleep shaping 24 Oct Nutrition and weaning 31 Oct Bring your baby art therapy session for new parents Course 2: 21 Nov Baby first aid 28 Nov Sleep shaping 5 Dec Baby massage taster 12 Dec Nutrition and weaning 19 Dec Bring your baby art therapy session for new parents Well, it seems that these precious new arrivals don’t come with manuals.

But there’s no need to panic. We’ve found some really experienced and inspirational people to help you. They’ve created a whole series of practical courses at JW3 that will help you build up your skills, knowledge and confidence as new parents, get some much needed coffee and support, and meet new people and their babies. Last but not least, you may actually have some fun while you’re learning. Please contact us with your due date at info@jw3.org.uk

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

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Families Postnatal

Thursdays 3, 10, 17, 24 October, 7, 14, 21, 28 November, 5, 12, 19 December 2013

Thursdays 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 October, 7, 14, 21, 28 November, 5, 12, 19 December 2013

Yippeeyoo Pre-crawlers

Relaxed film screening

10.30–11.15am

Cinema, 11.30am-4pm

£99 for the term (11 sessions)

£6

£55 for 6 weeks. Trial class £10

Enjoy watching films on the big screen but struggle to find a cinema that fits the bill? Try our relaxed film screenings. The clue is in the name: they’re relaxed. Come and go as you like; no one will shush you if you make a noise. Ideal if you have a crying baby, a toddling toddler, you want to breastfeed, or if you are – or you’re with – someone who needs to vocalise (perhaps a child with autism). All are welcome.

Fridays 4, 11, 18, 25 October, 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 November, 6, 13, 20 December 2013

JW3 playgroup 11am–12.30pm Launch season offer: £3.50 per session including a free hot drink from Zest café Donna Osher

The Yippeeyoo pre-crawler class is a specialised session that helps with core physical development for your baby and provides upper and lower body exercises for you.

It’s a fun and sociable experience too, delivered by an experienced and expert instructor in this field.

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FEEDING BABIES: A 5-WEEK COURSE 10.15-11.45am Launch season offer: £60 for the course (five sessions) Julia Wolman – Teeny Tummies The Baby E.A.T. Programme builds confidence in introducing the variety of tastes and textures that are so important in the first year. Learn about baby’s nutritional needs and introducing different textures; get healthy cooking and shopping tips; share and try out new recipes, and feel good about feeding. The first hour covers each week’s dedicated topic, with time at the end for questions, socialising and baby’s lunch. Week Four is a practical demonstration session: introducing spices to your baby’s diet.

Mondays 7, 14, 21, 28 October, Monday 4 November 2013

Baby massage 10.30-11.30am £50 for the course Ruth Kay

How can you and baby get fit?

Come to JW3 and find out.

It also generates increased sensory stimulation – good for the development of baby’s neural pathways – encourages bonding and builds confidence for parents and their newborn.

Tuesdays 5, 12, 19, 26 November, 3 December 2013

Our playgroup is ideal for underfives and their grown-ups. We love to meet new people and make new friends, so you’ll find a warm welcome at JW3 at 11 o’clock every Friday morning. We’ll have play, songs, games and activities for the little ones. So why not drop in for an informal play and chat – and of course that all-important cup of tea?

Every week, we’ll also be holding a mini Shabbat service at the end of the session.

Ruth is an occupational therapist but now spends most of her time being mum to two lovely little boys who are five and three. When she has a moment free, she teaches fun and friendly baby massages. They are a great way to help with bonding, relaxation, improved sleep, reduced colic, constipation and teething pain, as well as getting to understand your baby better. And there’s always time for a chat and a drink and to meet other parents too.

Families Pre School

PRE SCHOOL Free taster session Monday 30 September, weekly sessions on Mondays 7, 14, 21 October, 4, 11, 18, 25 November, 2, 9, 16 December 2013

YOGABUGS MIGHTYBUGS (ages 2–4, children must be accompanied by an adult) 3.45–4.30pm £10 for drop-in class or £80 for the term (10 weeks) Alison Batley

Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November, 3, 10, 17 December 2013

Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November, 3, 10, 17 December 2013

The Creation Station

Sha’at Sipur – storytelling in Ivrit

(ages 1-5, children must be accompanied by an adult) 10.40–11.30am

(Ages 3-6, children must be accompanied by an adult)

£93.50 for the whole term

4–4.45pm

(11 weeks)/ 6 vouchers for £10 each

Launch season offer: £5 per session

(vouchers can be used throughout

or £44 for 11 sessions (term)

the term subject to availability)

MightyBugs follows a fun story style format which also includes songs and nursery rhymes. Children are encouraged to develop their imagination in a safe environment.

They will gain self-confidence as we encourage them to express themselves and interact with each other. Children will start to develop their independence and realise their own abilities through our specially designed moves inspired by yoga.

Journey with us on a series of story-telling adventures, revisiting classic tales and new narratives - all in Hebrew. We will focus on enriching children’s vocabulary and developing their language skills.

Wednesdays 2, 9, 16, 23 October, 6, 13, 20, 27 November, 4, 11, 18 December 2013

Hartbeeps Happy House™

Free taster session Monday 30 September, weekly sessions on Mondays 7, 14, 21 October, 4, 11, 18, 25 November, 2, 9, 16 December 2013

JW3 puppet tales (Ages 2-5) 10–10.45am £6 per class Alice Kristina Rose Tiger Boat Theatre Children love puppets and the enchanting worlds they take us to. So why don’t you join us for a magical morning full of stories, fun and laughter? Each week the children will discover a different tale and get to see its characters coming to life with the help of our puppets and our lovely puppeteer, Alice Kristina Rose. Through this session, children will develop their imagination, vocabulary and get to socialise with their friends.

That’s the way to do it.

Elinor Honigstein

10-10.45am £82.50 for the term (11 sessions) Nina Lozdan at The Creation Station We all want our children to explore their creativity, but the mess and stress of doing it yourself at home can be tricky. These classes provide the perfect solution for all your child’s creativity needs; inspiring their imaginations while helping you to have fun with them too. Your child will build essential and desirable life skills, while doing something that they absolutely love. Classes follow the early years Foundation Stage.

Each class is themed around colour, texture and shape. We use a wide range of arts and crafts tools and materials. And you’ll enjoy doing something lovely alongside your little one, while they draw, paint and make.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

or £8.50 for one-off class Hartbeeps Happy House™ is the imaginary place where our musicbased development programmes for pre-school children begin. Your little ones will recognise and enjoy the rituals of entering our make-believe house, looking and listening for our house cat and ultimately taking a magical sound journey in the world of their imagination. Each session features specially composed and recorded music and its own magical and stimulating ambience. Hartbeeps Happy House™ will engage and captivate your busy young children from start to finish.

Walking and younger siblings are welcome.

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FAMILIES Thursdays 3, 10, 17, 24 October, 7, 14, 21, 28 November, 5, 12, 19 December 2013

Yippeeyoo Confident Crawlers 11.30am-12.15pm £99 for the term (11 sessions), £55 for 6 weeks

Families Pre School

Fridays 4, 11, 18, 25 October, 8, 15, 22, 29 November, 6, 13, 20 December 2013. Free taster session on 29 September 2013

MUSIC WITH MONOOKA AND FRIENDS 10-10.45am 3-15 months Launch season offer: £8 per session

Donna Osher

Monooka Music

Watch out, there’s a rugrat about.

The Yippeeyoo confident crawlers class is for babies who are already on the move. These classes focus on core development skills, helping your little one with his or her spatial awareness, balance and hand-eye coordination, gross and fine motor skills. It will help them get ready for the next great challenge in their life: getting around safely. We use specially designed equipment to help enhance your baby’s movement and physical development.

Monooka Music has been specially commissioned by JMI and JW3 to introduce the youngest members of our community to the magic of live music and performance. It will inspire them to listen, learn and interact. Each week, Monooka, her puppet friends Micah and Maya, and her trusty guitar bring a traditional Jewish folk story to life through music and song. And of course, no session would be complete without Monooka’s magical bubble machine and her colourful parachute. We’ll be celebrating Shabbat with some delicious Challah!!

Demonstration Kitchen, 2–3pm £132 for term (11 weeks)

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10.30-11.15am

Ema Ritchie at Imagination Station Why have a lie-in, go for (another) walk or try to read the paper, when you can easily turn your Sunday morning into an extraordinary musical adventure for all the family?

Join us at JW3 for family fun time with Imagination Station. It’s an original and exciting music and movement session for adults and children using instruments and specially selected equipment.

From a fibre-optic space scene to a thrilling underwater expedition, you’ll all really enjoy our cuttingedge adventure musical activities.

Sundays 6 October, 27 October, 24 November 2013

Thursdays 3, 10, 17, 24 October, 7, 14, 21, 28 November, 5, 12, 19 December 2013 (Ages 2-5, children must be accompanied by adult)

Imagination Station – family music time £8 per class

11-11.45am 16 months-4 years

Trial class £10

Cooking together

Sundays 6, 13, 20, 27 October, 3, 10, 17, 24 November, 1, 8, 15 December 2013

K’MO B’BAYIT Thursday 21st November 2013

10.30-11.15am

Creation Stories from Around the World

£5 per person. Adult ticket includes a complimentary hot drink from Zest and child ticket includes

(Early Years)

complimentary hot chocolate (choko)

Chaya Gorman

10.30am and 11.30am

Avivit Caspi

Cooking is a really great way to help toddlers learn about numbers, colours, shapes, and discover different cultures and stories along the way. Every week, the children (and you) have fun with hands-on recipes and are encouraged to learn about good food and to explore new flavours in an educational and fun way. Every recipe will be put into the context of a story or a song. At the end of each class, everyone feasts on the tasty final product.

£3

Join the JW3 story time circle to hear creation stories from around the world. Hear Hopi tales, and journey from China to Hawaii.

During all of our history we’ve asked questions about how the world was created. Where do the stars come from? How was the Earth formed?

It can sometimes seem a long way from Israel to London, and JW3 is a place that should feel like home to all members of the Jewish family.

So one Sunday every month, we’ll be putting on a proper Israeli gettogether, k’mo b’bayit (just like home). And everyone’s invited. We’ll sing the Israeli children’s songs we grew up with, tell stories and plays in Ivrit. We’ll be meeting old and new friends, enjoying some family time and feeling at home. Come one, come all.

Sessions will be entirely in Hebrew.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

The nursery at JW3 Active Learning – a fresh approach to nursery education

JW3 is delighted that the nursery, which occupies the whole of the third floor of our new building, is being run by Active Learning. As one of the UK’s top providers, Active Learning offers a unique, innovative approach to nursery and childcare, which allows children to maximise their full potential in the early years of education. Active Learning believes that helping a child to be confident, happy, healthy and adventurous is key to their future success. Here they outline their approach:

Our purpose-built Active Studios provide endless opportunities for your children to have fun, learn, experiment and explore, and are designed to help your children develop a natural joy in discovery and learning. We offer the highest quality childcare and education, provided by only the very best staff, additional specialist teachers, mentors and nursery nurses. We also have an all-inclusive extracurricular programme.

The curriculum reflects the community at JW3 and hence there is an overlay on the pre school programme of Jewish ethos and cultural traditions.

However, the JW3 nursery is non-religious.

For all enquiries, please contact Active Learning directly on 020 3031 4700; info@activelearningchildcare.co.uk or visit www.activelearningchildcare.co.uk

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PRIMARY

Free taster session Monday 30 September followed by 10 payable sessions: Mondays 7, 14, 21 October, 4, 11, 18, 25 November, 2, 9, 16 December 2013

Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November, 3, 10, 17 December 2013

Wednesdays 2, 9, 16, 23 October, 6, 13, 20, 27 November, 4, 11 December 2013

Drama Club (Ages 8-11)

Little Chagall (ages 6-8)

YOGABUGS MEGABUGs

4–5pm

4–5pm

Launch season offer: £7.50

Launch season offer: £8 per course

per session or £60 for the term

or £60 for the (10 sessions)

(Ages 4-7, drop-off) 4.30–5.15pm £10 for drop-in class or £80 for the term (10 sessions)

Liat Rosenthal

Alison Batley

Could you be on stage? Love being the star of the show?

YogaBugs classes bring stories to life through specially developed moves inspired by yoga.

Combining fun with exercise, children go on wild adventures and roar like a lion, fly like a bird or blast into outer space. Children are encouraged to be vocal and express their emotions physically.

Through creative visualisation techniques we help children understand that they are unique and special. And of course, we help them to learn how to co-ordinate and balance better and to focus their minds.

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(11 sessions)

Develop your creative skills and imagination in these drama sessions.

We’ll explore performance through music, movement and games and work together to create a special end of term show.

The focus of this course is about performance making, so each week we’ll be developing a story inspired by the launch season’s theme ‘In the Beginning’.

Make friends, relax and enjoy through drama at JW3.

A fun creative learning experience with a variety of materials and forms. Children will learn both art techniques and about iconic Israeli and Jewish art, which will contribute to the development of their imagination, technical and motor skills.

Little Chagalls will get creative making sculptures inspired by artists such as Eva Hesse and will experiment with different kinds of printing after seeing the works of Miriam Schapiro.

Families Primary

Wednesdays 2, 9, 16, 23 October, 6, 13, 20 27 November, 4, 11 December 2013

Tuesdays starting 1 October-17 December 2013

Da Vinci Junior

Dance Studio, 4-6pm

(ages 8-11)

The Susan Zalcman School will be offering Ballet, Jazz and Tap classes in JW3’s outstanding purpose-built Dance Studio. All children (aged 2½ years to 16) are offered expert tuition, and from 6 years old they have the opportunity to prepare for Royal Academy of Dance exams.

5–6pm Launch season offer: £8 per course or £60 for the term (10 sessions)

THE SUSAN ZALCMAN SCHOOL OF BALLET

Susan Zalcman has danced professionally in internationally acclaimed companies including the Israel Ballet, Bat Dor, Northern Ballet, Ballet de Nice and in New York. Since 1989, she has been a leading ballet teacher at the celebrated Pineapple Studios in Covent Garden.

This course can only be booked directly with the school.

For information and registration: susanzalcmanschoolofballet.co.uk, suzal1869@aol.com, 07929 586887

Children will learn about both art techniques and iconic Israeli and Jewish art, which will help to develop their imagination, technical and motor skills.

Da Vinci Juniors will use work from a wide variety of cultural influences as inspiration. As well as looking to visual artists, we will explore the work of Jewish poets, writers and musicians. For example, inspired by Judy Hoffman we will build and sew our own artist’s books.

We will experiment with making paper, creating visual poetry and making pop-up paper sculptures.

Using poetry by writers such as Danny Maseng we will visually interpret lines such as “Make fire water dance! Walk gently on the coals... ” to tell stories and make beautiful pictures.

Thursdays 3, 10, 17, 24 October, 7, 14, 21, 28 November, 5, 12 December 2013

Fusion Dance This is a chance to be part of a dance company from the get-go.

Discover and perfect a fresh fusion of dance moves from contemporary, to swing, hip-hop and jazz. Then work together as a dance company, with your very own professional to help you create your own distinctive choreography.

It doesn’t matter if you’ve never danced before or if you’re a dancing queen.

We’ll help you get the moves.

5–7 year olds

8-11 year olds

Dance Studio, 4–4.45pm

Dance Studio, 4.45–5.30pm

£7 per session

£7 per session

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

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Families Primary

Thursdays 3, 10, 17, 24 October, 7, 14, 21, 28 November, 5, 12, 19 December 2013

Sundays 6, 13, 20, 27 October, 3, 10, 17, 24 November, 1, 8 December 2013

Mondays 7, 14, 21 October, 4, 11, 18, 25 November, 2, 9, 16 December 2013

COOKING MASTER CLASS: SHABBAT KALLAH

Musicianship course

Drama Club (Ages 6-8)

2–3pm

4-5pm

£75 per term

Launch season offer: £7.50

(Ages 6-8, drop-off class)

per session or £60 for the term

Demonstration Kitchen, 4–5pm

(10 sessions)

£165 for the term (11 weeks)

Liat Rosenthal

Chaya Gorman Getting ready for Shabbat? Drop your children off at JW3 and we’ll help them learn to cook traditional Jewish food that they can proudly present on the Friday night table.

Songs of Shabbat will be playing in the background, with the lovely smell of home-made traditional dishes in the air. Of course, by helping them learn to cook traditional Jewish dishes before Shabbat, our teacher Chaya Gorman will be enhancing your children’s cultural knowledge as well as their cooking expertise.

Take home a recipe scrap book full of your delicious creations!

Debbie Diamond Debbie is a professional violinist and over the past several years, has developed a music class to take children ages 4-6 from complete scratch to joyfully singing and, ultimately, reading and composing rhythmic notation and basic pitches.

Every class begins with a warmup that includes clapping and singing, some action songs, and then progresses to playing primarily percussion instruments. Elements of Kodaly singing and Dalcroze Eurhythmics are built into the structure of the class. Dynamics, pulse, rhythm, pitch, and melody are subtly incorporated, all through songs and games. The children absorb everything without anything being formally taught.

The specific songs change with each term, often based around a theme, with the goal that by the end of each term, the children can all sing the songs confidently and take turns with leading and singing solos. Longer term, the goal is to have the children progress to learning an instrument, so that by the time formal instrumental lessons begin, the basic principles of music are already a natural part of their language.

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Confidence, communication skills and empathy don’t happen by magic. But these drama classes can help your children develop them.

We’ll be learning different skills – from how to use voice, to gesture and movement – and thinking about how we can entertain audiences.

There will be lots of games, so that everyone is relaxed and we learn in an inclusive and creative environment. And at the end of term, we’ll be sharing some of the highlights of our work with parents.

Mondays 7, 14, 21 October, 4, 11, 18, 25 November, 2, 9, 16 December 2013

Street Dance (Ages 5-7) Dance Studio, 4–4.45pm £7 per session

SPENCER STAGE SCHOOL You’ll get the chance to try popping, locking and hip-hop moves in this super cool class. Street Dance is fashionable, it’s got great beats and it’s fantastic fun for 5-7 year olds.

Families Primary

Mondays 7, 14, 21 October, 4, 11, 18, 25 November, 2, 9, 16 December 2013

Sunday 3 November 2013 – Foodie Families

Monday 28 October -Friday 1 November 2013

JW3 Half term club

Dance Studio, 4.45–5.30pm

Food Explorers Workshop with Fabienne

£7 per session

Demonstration Kitchen, 3–4.30pm

or £100 for the week

Street Dance (Ages 8-11)

SPENCER STAGE SCHOOL You’ll get the chance to try popping, locking and hip-hop moves in this super cool class. Street Dance is fashionable, it’s got great beats and it’s fantastic fun for 8-11 year olds.

27 October, 3 November 2013

Enable – sports activity day 10am-1pm Free Event Advance registration compulsory: simone@maccabigb.org 020 8457 2333

£20 per child. Suitable for ages 6-11, this is a drop-off session Fabienne Viner Luzzato Fabienne Viner Luzzato has been cooking professionally for many years now: you may have seen her regular recipe column in the Jewish Chronicle. In this workshop, she explores what exactly happens when the savoury part of a dish transforms into sweet and the sweet into savoury. Come along and experience the pleasure of experimenting with food with an expert guide in a kitchen. You don’t have to clear up afterwards. Guaranteed to enrich your cooking experience and develop your tastebuds.

Maccabi Great Britain

10am-4pm (2pm on Friday) £25 per day (Friday only £20)

This half term, there’s an easy way to keep the kids happy. Bring them to JW3 – it’s the place to be. We’re running brilliant half-term and holiday play schemes for children aged between 5 and 11. Our specially trained play leaders will be offering a wide range of activities including art, drama, cooking, sport, craft and design, games, film, quizzes, circus, and junk orchestra. Beware: your kids might not want to come home at the end of the day. Please note that Wednesday will be an outing to an outdoor activity centre.

Monday 30–Tuesday 31 December 2013, Thursday 2 –Friday 3 January 2014

Enable is part of Maccabi GB’s ‘Ability, Not Disability’ Programme, providing sporting and physical activity to members across the community with special needs and disabilities.

Thursday 21 November 2013

JW3 winter club

Creation Stories: After-School Art Workshops

10am–4pm

These specialised fun sports taster activities for children with learning and physical difficulties at JW3 are delivered by the professional coaching team from Maccabi GB. The activities are designed to engage participants in sports and allow everyone the opportunity to learn new skills. These sessions are great whether you are sports mad or have never played sport before.

£3

Sessions will include equipment play, team games, healthy living and healthy eating with lots of fun activities thrown in as well!

Suitable for ages 6 to 11 (can be flexible on request via Maccabi GB).

4-6pm, Drop in any time.

£25 per day or £80 for all 4 days Now you can keep the kids busy and happy in the Christmas school holidays. Just bring them to JW3 – it’s the place to be. We’re running brilliant holiday play schemes for children aged between 5 and 11.

Our specially trained play leaders will be offering a wide range of activities including art, drama, cooking, sport, craft and design, games, film, quizzes, circus, puppetry and much more. Beware: your kids might not want to come home at the end of the day.

People have always questioned how the world came into being – to celebrate interfaith week we’ll be exploring creation stories from different cultures’ faith groups, and creating visual art in response to the narratives. Join us for a fun after-school drop-in session. You’ll take away your own creation as well as contribute to a larger scale collaborative art piece.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

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Families Parenting

Parenting Monday 4 November 2013

Raising happy brothers and sisters 8–10pm Launch season offer: £15 Miriam Chachamu Since the first-ever family, sibling relationships have been a focus for tension. This session looks at what it means to be a brother or sister and how sibling relationships affect the family as a whole. It will be led

by Miriam Chachamu, who has great hands-on experience as a parenting consultant, author and family therapist. Miriam will also look at tried-and-tested techniques for managing challenging behaviour so that you can enjoy your time together as a family much as possible.

Taster session: Friday 8 November 2013 Classes: Fridays 8, 15, 22, 29 November, 6, 13 December 2013

The Parent Gym 10am–12noon Free The Parent Gym

Wednesday 16 October 2013

Parenting – Homework workshop 8–10pm Launch season offer: £15 Rachel Vecht – Education Matters All kids get homework, precious few want to do it. How can parents help them see why it matters and get more out of it? This workshop will help you understand what homework’s for and what your role is. It will enable you to establish rules and routines that ensure your children do their homework, and give you guidance and tips on how to support them. You’ll also leave with a set of key study skills, useful websites and resources.

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Nobody said bringing up kids was easy. No one ever said how hard it could be. We’ve all been there, but how can we get help? Parent Gym is a series of five free workshops proven to increase your skills and confidence and help you bring up happier, better-behaved children.

Good parents make it seem effortless, but everyone has to learn it. And great parenting is one of the most effective ways to give children the best start in life.

This event is subsidised by the Parent Gym.

Seniors 60+

Seniors 60+ Wednesdays 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 October, 6, 13, 20, 27 November, 4, 11, 18 December 2013

Wednesdays 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 October, 6, 13, 20, 27 November, 4, 11 December 2013

Thursdays 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 October, 7, 14, 21, 28 November, 5, 12 December 2013

Zumba Gold®

TANACH, TEXT AND TEA

Dance Studio,

Film screenings – Golden Oldies

12noon–1pm

Cinema, 2–4pm

Launch season offer: £6 per session

£6 per class

£5

or £55 for the term (11 sessions).

Patrick Borja

Enjoy the classic days of cinema in style – revisit some of your favourite scenes in this weekly afternoon screening. Golden oldies to warm your heart and nostalgic cinema programming for film lovers.

If you’re not completely confident about dance exercise, this is an easyto-follow programme that lets you move to the beat at your own speed.

It’s an invigorating, communityoriented dance-fitness class that feels fresh, fun, and most of all, exhilarating. Zumba Gold® provides modified, low-impact moves and easy-to-follow pacing for a healthy, active lifestyle. Zumba is a breath of fresh air for the world of dancing and workout and your teacher Patrick Borja will enjoy sharing this new energy with you.

Wednesdays 2, 9, 16, 23 October, 6, 13, 20, 27 November, 4, 11, 18 December 2013

Feldenkrais Method: Move with Ease Wednesdays 10–11am Drop-in: £12 per class Eleven weeks: £99; Orna Dale Eliashiv We don’t subscribe to the idea that pain is gain at JW3. That’s why this class is based on the Feldenkrais method, which is designed to be a pleasant and positive experience for everyone who tries it. It can help you make really noticeable improvements in your posture, flexibility, relief from muscular tension and associated pain. Each class is taken on floor mats under verbal instructions.

Every one is different and addresses a particular aspect of movement, balance and co-ordination.

11–12noon

Includes complimentary hot drink from Zest café

Thursdays 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 October, 7, 14, 21, 28 November, 5, 12 December 2013

I remember it well 2–4pm A FREE taster session will be offered Monday 30 September 2-4pm. Launch season offer: £10 per session or £95 for the term (11 sessions). Includes a free hot drink from Zest café Helen Harris I remember it well… So many of us want to write our life story, but why do so few of us ever get round to it? Now here is a place where you can find help and guidance.

This warm and supportive course will stimulate memories and help preserve your unique and valuable personal history. Weekly meetings, a series of memory-jogging questionnaires and the guidance of a professional tutor together provide a supportive framework for would-be autobiographers. Lest we forget.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

Interested in seeing the weekly parasha (Torah portion) and other Jewish texts through the prism of more mature adults’ life-experience?

This is an opportunity to examine them and a host of Biblical characters, events, concepts and stories, all focussed through the lens of later years. Led by some of the best of London’s Jewish textual teachers from across the broad spectrum of the community – rabbis and educators – these sessions will give you a chance to learn, share, be surprised and stimulated, in a relaxed atmosphere, with a complimentary cuppa.

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Seniors 60+

Seniors 60+

Mondays 7, 14, 21, 28 October, 4, 11 November 2013

Wednesdays 23, 30 October, 6, 13 November 2013

Wednesdays for 8 weeks, starting 23 October 2013

MBE: Mind and Brain Exercise

A Morning at the Opera

1–2pm

10-11am

Launch season offer: £6 per session

Launch season offer: £8 per session

or £30 for the course (6 sessions)

or £24 for all four

Eva Burke

Dr John Lazarus

HavaNaGiggle Presents: Stand-Up Comedy for SitDown Comedians – Comedy writing and performance for the over 60s

Did you ever want to get an MBE? Here is your opportunity to get an even greater honour by sharpening your Mind, your Brain and by Exercising your intellect. We need to give our brains a regular workout, just like our bodies. Our Seniors programmer at JW3, Eva Burke, will take you through six stimulating sessions, all chock-a-block with brain exercises, memory games, word games, brain teasers and puzzles.

We guarantee this is one course that you will never forget.

Get ready for the 2013 autumn/ winter season at London’s great opera houses – without even having to buy a ticket. Let Dr John Lazarus take you on a voyage of discovery into four great operas in the repertoire: Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’, Berg’s ‘Wozzeck’, Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’ and Bizet’s ‘Carmen’.

John’s credentials as your guide are beyond dispute: a former Principal of the Yehudi Menuhin School, he also wrote ‘The Opera Handbook’, reprinted five times in the UK alone.

Mondays 7, 14, 21, 28 October, 4, 11, 18, 25 November, 2, 9 December 2013

Gentle Movement Class 2–3pm £75 per term (10 sessions)

7.30-9.30pm Launch season offer: £100 for the course (8 sessions) Ivor Baddiel Comedy writer Ivor Baddiel insists that even if your liver spots have got liver spots and you’re never quite sure what day it is, you’re never too old to be funny. In this eight-week course for people over 60, he sets out to prove himself right. It covers gag writing and performance, and culminates in a live comedy showcase night (well, early evening) that will have young and old alike in stitches.

Thursdays 31 October, 7, 14 November 2013

Touring Israel through Poetry, Music, Art and its Architecture 4-5pm

Paul Silk

Launch season offer: £8 per session includes complimentary hot drink

Some people say that you’ll appreciate this gentle class because it combines movements and stretches from Chi Gung, Tai Chi and Western sports therapy. We say it’s because it will loosen your joints, improve your mobility and even teach you clever ways to look after yourself at home. You’re the only one who can decide which argument is more persuasive. All that matters is that you come. And wear loose comfortable clothes. Suitable for all ages and levels of fitness.

and cake from Zest café after the session

Take a tour through the art and culture of Israel in the company of two expert guides: pianist and lecturer Yaron Shavit and architect Lisette Khalastchi.

Yaron’s unique lecture concerts draw on the personal, cultural and historical context of music in Israel, and incorporate an exploration of relevant literature and art. Lisette will take you back in time to the early days of the birthing of Tel Aviv – its Bauhaus architecture and how it travelled from Weimar to Israel.

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Seniors 60+

Tuesdays 12, 19, 26 November, 3 December 2013

Wednesday 13 November 2013

Thursday 5 December 2013

Tea Dance with a Twist!

session or £25 for the term

The Question of Zion Being Jewish… feeling Jewish… and figuring out how to feel about Israel

(4 sessions)

2–3pm

and cake or pastry from Zest café

Vatikim 1–2pm Launch season offer: £7.50 per

Launch season offer: £9 – includes a complimentary cake or pastry from Zest café before the session Ned Temko

Vatikim is the Hebrew word for elders. JW3’s Vatikim are experienced professionals who give you the benefit of their expertise, sharing their trade secrets and skills: Respected therapist Francis Treuherz (12th November) in private and NHS practice since 1984, journal editor and international lecturer will talk to you about the benefits of homeopathy.

British Jews have become increasingly diverse in the way they live, worship, and identify… and increasingly self-confident in asserting those identities. Yet according to all studies, most also identify on some level with Israel – especially when under attack – many struggle with the question of how to feel about specific Israeli issues or government policies, and how, if at all, to air those concerns.

With Ned Temko – writer, journalist, former JC editor and regular panellist on Question Time and BBC World – in the hot seat, expect a lively and challenging discussion and debate.

Reiki practitioner Amanda Dwek (19 November) will help you learn relaxation techniques in her introduction to meditation.

Faye Layton-McCann (26 November) from Skin 3 and the Institute for Anti-Ageing will give you insider tips about keeping your skin young and supple.

Can I make my money work for me? Guido Rauch, (3 December), worked in Senior Management positions at UBS, BNP Paribas, and Alliance Bernstein. Today Guido heads his own company, IST Asset Management, advising High Net Worth Individuals how to manage their investments.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

The Hall, 3–5pm Launch season offer: £9 includes a complimentary hot drink

Live Music with Stuart Curtis and Friends Let’s turn JW3 into a Palais de Danse from the 40s and 50s! Just like in the good old days, you can swing to the beats of Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington, with live music, coffee and cake. Volunteer dance instructors will help you polish up your best moves.

We warmly invite you to tune up, show up and dress up for the occasion. And of course, ‘Bei mir bist du scheijn’ will be played.

Tuesday 10 December 2013

How to Age 5-6pm Launch season offer: £10 includes a complimentary cake or pastry from Zest café before the session Anne Karpf Award-winning journalist and sociologist Anne Karpf gives us a preview of her forthcoming book, How To Age. As more of us live longer, and this is increasingly the case, should our attitude towards getting older be changing?

Is ageing purely a time of degeneration and loss? Is the only alternative to deny it? Or is there a third way – as Anne suggests – of age-acceptance, which gives us the opportunity to become more fully ourselves, and enjoy our greater maturity?

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FOOD & DRINK We have a smorgasbord of food workshops and demonstrations this season at JW3.

Whether you would like to learn how to cure your own salmon, make choux pastry, or simply put a chicken in the oven, we have a course for you.

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Kosher Roast Amy Beilin and Lindsey Bennett

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n the beginning… there was a pop-up Kosher restaurant in Kensal Rise in Winter 2011. Since then, Kosher Roast has been challenging the Kosher establishment, pushing boundaries and creating a dining experience that’s all about great food and fun.

What’s your earliest food memory?

Amy Beilin: Refusing to eat anything but tuna.

Lindsey Bennett: Refusing to eat anything but grated carrots and chips.

Both: We were very fussy eaters.

“ There was no variety in Kosher cuisine. Then popups started. It allowed us to create a fusion of great food with a great experience.”

What made you fall in love with cooking?

Amy: I used to pretend I was on a TV cookery programme, putting the ingredients out, speaking to the ‘audience’. Later, it was bringing people together and making them happy. And the endless creative opportunities.

Lindsey: For me the communal experience is key.

And creating something new.

The Perfect Roast 27 October, 11am–2.30pm, Demonstration Kitchen, £50 Sausages & Scotch Eggs 28 November, 8–10pm, Demonstration Kitchen, £30

What inspired you to start Kosher Roast?

Amy: We love shwarma and falafel, but there was no variety in Kosher cuisine. Nowhere offered the emerging Classic British Menu. Then pop-ups started. It allowed us to create a fusion of great food with a great experience.

What’s your most embarrassing Kosher Roast moment?

Lindsey: During our first KR private catering event, we said we’d serve two roulades for dessert, a classic lemon and chocolate and strawberry. We ran out of prep time and ended up trying to roll the roulades in front of the guests in an open plan kitchen. Luckily, the host was very understanding, and she thought it tasted amazing.

What’s next for KR? Amy: Right now, we’re running a café at the Oval Space in Bethnal Green. Then in the winter we’re heading north to roast in Manchester and Liverpool. We are broadening the range of meat we offer. And of course, we’re superexcited about our workshops as part of the first season at JW3.

BEET, BABY LEAVES & SEED SALAD Quick recipe for a delicious salad whatever the season.

Serves eight Ingredients 1: Two packets cooked beetroot 2: One large red onion 3: Bag of mixed leaves of your choice 4: Pumpkin seeds (or pine nuts) Dressing Mix to your taste – but approx.

2 tbsp honey 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar Fine ground sea salt and white pepper Coleman’s English mustard, to taste Feta cheese (optional, as desired)

Method Dice the beetroot.

Halve the red onion and finely slice.

Combine in a bowl.

Meanwhile toast the pumpkin seeds in a dry pan until you hear them start to crack. Shake the pan and turn the heat off.

Now mix the dressing.

Combine the balsamic vinegar and honey with a balloon whisk or fork, then add the olive oil. Taste and adjust accordingly.

Add the salt and pepper. Combine all your ingredients.

Add seeds and leaves to beetroot and red onion. Mix thoroughly and add the dressing. Mix again.

Transfer to a serving bowl. Using a fork, take some mustard from the jar and flick over the salad. Serve.

You can add crumbled feta cheese over the top of the salad to accompany fish or veg.

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Demonstration Kitchen Wednesday 9 October 2013

macaroons Demonstration Kitchen, 7.30–10pm £35 Sarah Magnus Small, but perfectly formed, macaroons are the pastel-coloured queens of confectionery. Reputedly invented by Catherine de Medici’s pastry chefs to help her get over the shock of moving to France, they remain hugely popular and extremely fun to make. You can learn how to make your own in a variety of flavours and colours on this course, led by Sarah Magnus, a Cordon Bleu trained pastry chef who has worked at The Bread Factory, The Berkeley Hotel and The Savoy.

Wednesday 9 October (Fish), 16 October 2013 (Chicken)

Fish & chicken: the basics Demonstration Kitchen, 10.30am–1pm Launch season offer: £35 per class or £60 for both Fabienne Viner Luzatto Fabienne is a Cordon Bleu trained chef, who has noticed that it is much easier to find courses that teach you how to cook difficult, ‘sophisticated’ food than ones where you can learn the basics of honest-to-goodness home cooking.

So don’t worry if you don’t know your head from your tail or your fleigel from your pupik. Come and learn the basics of cooking fish and chicken from Fabienne, so you can make great meals for you and your family.

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Food & Drink Demonstration Kitchen

Thursdays 10 October, 7 November 2013

Chocolate workshop Demonstration Kitchen, 10.30am–12.30pm £45 Steph Saffer Where does chocolate come from?

How is it grown, what makes it taste so good, and most importantly of all, how do you turn it into delicious tasty morsels? These are just some of the questions that will be answered by artisanal chocolatier Steph Saffer. She’s a regular teacher at the Islington Make Lounge, and will tutor you in the art of chocolate tasting and help you make your very own boutique chocolates to take home. Yum, yum.

Wednesday 16 October 2013

Wednesday 23 October 2013

Choux Pastry Demonstration Kitchen,

Workshop: handrolled truffles

7.30-10pm

Demonstration Kitchen,

£35

7.30–9.30pm

Sarah Magnus Wouldn’t life be perfect if you could conjure up those wonderful airy confections that you long for in patisserie windows?

One of the secrets of their magical appeal is choux pastry – the starting point for éclairs and profiteroles – that is then filled with cream or a dairy-free mixture. You can learn to make it at this workshop led

by Sarah Magnus, a Cordon Bleu trained pastry chef who has worked at The Bread Factory, The Berkeley Hotel and The Savoy.

£35 Sarah Magnus Chocolate truffles always make a great impression, whether as a gift to someone you care about, or as part of a dinner party. There’s something tremendously sophisticated about these little spheres of ganache, delicately dusted with cocoa powder.

Yet for all their cosmopolitan appeal, hand-rolled truffles are actually quite simple to make to a very high standard, as you will find at this workshop with Sarah Magnus, Cordon Bleu trained pastry chef. You’ll want to keep some for yourself, too.

Tuesday 15, 22 October, 5 November 2013

Tagines & Couscous

Thursday 17 October 2013

Demonstration Kitchen,

Cakes become desserts

10.30am–1pm

Demonstration Kitchen, 8–9.30pm

£40 per class

£25

Fabienne Viner Luzatto It would take a whole lifetime to master all the hundreds of tagines and couscous in North Africa, where Fabienne’s family originally comes from. But in this short course, she will show you how to make three of her all-time favourites like an expert. You will learn how to create the couscous recipes she grew up eating: traditional chicken and vegetables, cumin meat and beans, and fish couscous. It’s a hands-on session that is guaranteed to make your mouth water.

David Mendes You’ll discover some insider tricks that never normally escape the confines of the kitchen during this demonstration from David Mendes. David will be showing you how to create the most fabulous desserts from cakes. David is a highly experienced pastry chef, formerly of The Savoy, who has now founded his own organisation, Baking Dreams Together, whose skills in the kitchen never fail to astound. So relax and let him show you how to dazzle and impress your guests every time.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

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Food & Drink Demonstration Kitchen

Thursday 24 October 2013

Monday 4 November 2013

Make your own salt beef and brisket

Fresh pasta

Demonstration Kitchen,

£40

Demonstration Kitchen, 10am–12.30pm

8–10pm Launch season offer: £22.50 Anthony Silverman Brisket is a cut of beef that tastes best when cooked low and slow. Salt beef isn’t the only way to eat it, but it’s a damn fine way. You’ll learn how to make your own salt beef from the brining to the slicing, along with the wonders of roasting and eating brisket. Tasting and recipes will be available on the evening. Anthony Silverman loves cooking so that he can feed others (and himself).

Follow him on Twitter at @Silverbrow.

Silvia Nacamulli Sunday 27 October 2013

The Perfect Roast Demonstration Kitchen, 11am–2.30pm £50

Once your family has tried your own home-made fresh pasta, they may never want dried shop-bought noodles again. And if you think it’s fun to eat, then it’s a whole lot more fun to make, as you’ll find out in the very safe – and skilled – hands of pasta chef and teacher Silvia Nacamulli. Silvia regularly conducts classes on Italian Jewish cooking around London including the Divertimenti Cookery Schools in Marylebone and Brompton Road, and Books for Cooks in Notting Hill.

Amy Beilin & Lindsey Bennett The girls from Kosher Roast have really shaken up the kosher food scene: with pop-up restaurants in Kensal Rise, kosher scotch eggs and a 21st-century spin on traditional British classics.

So roll up your sleeves, sharpen your knives and join them for a hands-on workshop where you’ll learn how to make the perfect British roast – complete with Yorkshire puddings and all the trimmings. And, at the end of the workshop, you’ll get a chance to eat, drink and be merry.

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Monday 11 November 2013

Pizza and Focaccia Demonstration Kitchen, 10am–12.30pm Launch season offer: £35 Silvia Nacamulli Pizza and focaccia are such delicious dishes, and they’re easy to make at home once you know how. Today, Silvia Nacamulli will share some of the secrets she has learned, as well as the tricks of the trade that will guarantee perfect pizza and fantastic focaccia every time.

Good news for you and your family; bad news for your local pizzeria.

Silvia regularly conducts classes on Italian Jewish cooking at locations around London. She also runs cookery courses in Italy.

Food & Drink Demonstration Kitchen

Monday 11 November 2013

Thursday 14 November 2013

Wednesday 20 November 2013

Winter blues busters in the kitchen

Workshop: Biscotti Demonstration Kitchen, 8-10pm

Rice: Risotto & Arancini

Demonstration Kitchen, 6.30–10pm

Launch season offer: £25

Demonstration Kitchen,

£65

Rachel Davies Good food can do more than just feed us. It can keep us warm and keep us happy in winter too. Find out how you can beat the blues in the coming months with nutritious, delicious and unusual dishes. Your host is trained rising star Rachel Davies. After graduating in Cuisine and Patisserie from Le Cordon Bleu, Rachel went on to work with some of London’s most inspiring chefs.

She set up Rachel’s Kitchen, her professional cookery school, in 2010.

Sarah Magnus Home-made biscotti make a truly elegant accompaniment whenever you’re serving coffee at the end of a dinner party, and a gift with a personal touch on almost any occasion. You can even add a wide variety of your favourite fruit and nuts to make every batch you bake unique. Cordon Bleu trained pastry chef Sarah Magnus will help you to create biscotti like a professional at this workshop. She’s worked at The Bread Factory, The Berkeley Hotel and The Savoy.

£40

Wednesday 20 November 2013

Workshop: Chocolate Mousse Demonstration Kitchen, 7.30-9.30pm £35

Wednesdays 13 November, 11 December 2013

Silvia Nacamulli

Pressure cooking

When it comes to traditional Italian cookery, rice is often the poor relation.

Demonstration Kitchen, 13 November: 10.30am–12.30pm 11 December: 1.30–3.30pm £40 per class

Sarah Magnus

Fabienne Viner Luzatto

Seemingly lighter than air, a professionally made chocolate mousse is always the centre of attention on the dining table.

But in this demonstration, Sarah Magnus will show you how to make a three-tiered wondermousse that will astound and amaze everyone who sees it, let alone anyone lucky enough to taste. A regular speaker at JW3, Sarah attended the Cordon Bleu school in Marylebone. She has since worked at The Bread Factory, The Berkeley Hotel and The Savoy as pastry chef.

Would you love to cook the kind of meals your mother used to make, but don’t have the time? Then pressurecooking could be the answer. It’s a great tool for anyone who wants fantastic-tasting home-cooked food but doesn’t want to slave over a hot stove for hours. Fabienne will take your meat from tough to tender in a fraction of the time it would normally take. A pressure cooker will revolutionise the way you cook your soups, chicken and meat.

10.30am–12.30pm

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

Pasta is such an overwhelming force when we are cooking Italian that we can completely forget about the simple pleasures that come from making risotto, and its cousin, arancini – or fried risotto balls. In this session, Italian Jewish cooking expert Silvia Nacamulli will demystify the art of making risotto and arancini. She will also explore some great autumn flavours to bring variety to your table. Va bene.

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FOOD & DRINK Thursday 28 November 2013

Wednesday 4 December 2013

Sausages & Scotch Eggs

Modern Vegetarian Class

Demonstration Kitchen,

11am–2.30pm

8–10pm

£65

£30 Amy Beilin & Lindsey Bennett Join the Kosher Roast chefs in their world of sausages as they make their own kosher bangers and scotch eggs from scratch. And then get greedy, tasting the goods. It’s certainly a very good way to usher in the winter.

Tuesday 3–Thursday 5 December 2013

Go Pro Demonstration Kitchen, 10.30am–12.30pm £120 for the course David Mendes Where do you go if you’re already a good cook, but want to be even better? JW3. This is a workshop for people who want to take their baking and presentation skills to the next level. Over three days, you’ll learn how to create a whole assiette of delicious desserts, including alcoholic jellies, ice cream and tuilles, and how to present them professionally and exquisitely. Your guide is David Mendes, formerly of The Savoy, now founder of Baking Dreams Together.

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Food & Drink Demonstration Kitchen

Demonstration Kitchen,

Rachel Davies Vegetarian food has an undeserved reputation for being dull. In this threeand-a-half hour modern vegetarian class, we’ll introduce you to – and make – delicious food that will introduce fun, new ingredients and even leave meat-eaters satisfied and inspired. Sample menu includes Mini Pancakes with Pomegranate & Aubergine Caviar; Glass noodle, Edamame & Peanut Salad; Miso Aubergine; Chinese Five Spice Tofu with Soy Dipping Sauce, and Mango & Chilli Crème Brûlée. Your host is rising star and cookery teaching sensation Rachel Davies.

Food & Drink Demonstration Kitchen

Thursday 5 December 2013

Sunday 8 December 2013

Wednesday 11 December 2013

Cure Your Own Salmon

Jewish Flavours of Tripoli

Demonstration Kitchen,

Workshop: “So you want to be a food writer?”

8–10pm

Demonstration Kitchen,

£40

Launch season offer: £22.50

10am–4pm

Anthony Silverman Cured food plays a big part in Jewish cooking. Whether it’s smoked, pickled or brined, we like our food when it’s preserved. For many, salmon sits at the very top of the list. Tonight, you’ll learn how to cure salmon a couple of ways: one preserved in whisky and one in herbs and spices. By the end of the session you will know how to make your own version of gravadlax. Tasting and recipes will be available on the evening.

Demonstration Kitchen, 7–10pm

£35

Clarissa Hyman In these days of blogging, Twitter and Facebook, there are more people than ever writing about food, but how many of them can say that they are genuinely food writers?

If you love food, and love writing, and would like to combine the two, then this all-day workshop with world-renowned expert Clarissa Hyman can help you prepare to take the next step. Clarissa has written numerous cookery books, and taught at leading cookery schools all over the country.

Silvia Nacamulli Wednesday 11 December 2013

North African tapas, Kemia & salads Demonstration Kitchen, 10.30am–1pm £40 Fabienne Viner Luzatto

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“They Tried to Kill Us, We Survived, Let’s Eat” Old Jewish Joke

Kemia are delicious ‘tapas’ that make a trip to North Africa so special.

Each one’s a dainty mouthful of exotic flavours that remind you of the desert, the mountains and the clear blue sky. But you don’t have to fly south for this taste of sunshine.

Come to Finchley Road, where Fabienne Viner Luzatto will show you how to create tasty and spicy dishes and salads perfect for starters at Friday night dinner or for sharing at a dinner party.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

Tripoli boasts one of the finest cuisines in the Jewish world. Fusing elements of the Maghreb – cumin, chilli, garlic, couscous – with the influence of Italy, it’s the inspiration for Silvia Nacamulli’s demonstration.

Recipes include Couscous served with Lubia bel cammun (braised beef with white beans & cumin) accompanied by Tuershi (pumpkin dip), a spicy M’rduma and a rich, aromatic Safra (semolina dessert with orange-&-honey-glazing).

Silvia is an authentic Tripoli Jewish cook and a regular teacher at Marylebone’s Divertimenti.

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HEALTH & FITNESS Whether you’re a seasoned Yogi or a Zumba fanatic... or you’ve never taken a gym class in your life, we have a class for you that will make you feel fantastic.

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KRAV MAGA

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rav Maga ( ) literally means “contact combat” and is widely recognised as one of the most effective self-defence disciplines in the world. It was created by Hungarian-Israeli Imi Sde-Or (Imrich Lichtenfeld) who grew up in Bratislavia. In the 1930s, daily violence and intimidation threatened the Jewish population and he led the defence against fascist gangs. He adapted his wrestling and boxing skills acquired in sporting competition to the realities of street fighting. In 1940, he escaped Europe and the Shoah and eventually made aliya to Israel where he provided training to the Hagannah and Palmach, precursors to the IDF, and went on to develop the system that became known as Krav Maga. He served in the IDF for 20 years where he was the Chief Instructor of Combat Fitness.

Krav Maga is a tactical self defence system that is unique. It contains training methods and skills to prepare the practitioner mentally, physically and technically to deal with stress and violent confrontations. It places great importance on realistic street-fighting scenarios, with emphasis on avoidance of confrontation, threat-neutralisation and rapid, wellfocussed counter-attack. The system also teaches how to protect others such as family members and friends if the need arises.

JW3 is delighted to be working in partnership with London Krav Maga, an affiliate of the official Krav Maga Global (KMG) based in Israel. Eyal Yanilov is the world chief of Krav Maga Global and was Lichtenfeld’s closest assistant for 20 years: “We are tremendously proud to have a KMG school at JW3 and we look forward to welcoming JW3 students to train with us.” The team teaching at JW3 are all trained to the highest standard in Israel, with specific training for civilian, combat, women and children’s applications.

London Krav Maga has also developed a new fitness programme called Krav Fit, offering the health benefits of Krav Maga without the contact!

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YOGA & PILATES Wednesdays 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 October, 6, 13, 20, 27 November, 4, 11 December 2013

Yoga Flow 7.30–8.30am £110 for 11 weeks or £12.50 per class Clive Fogelman Did you know that the way you breathe can affect the way you feel?

And that breathing properly can lead to a massive increase in wellbeing?

This class encourages students to link breath with movement while flowing dynamically throughout a creative series of poses. All poses come from the practice of Hatha Yoga, and help to develop core strength, flexibility and balance.

Classes are mindfully structured to give a supportive workout for the muscles, joints, organs, glands and nervous system.

Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November, 3, 10 December 2013

Restorative Yoga & Meditation

Wednesdays 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 October, 6, 13, 20, 27 November, 4, 17 December 2013

Pilates

11am–12noon

7.30–8.30pm

9.45–10.45am

£12.50 per class or £110 for 11 weeks

£144 per 12 week course

£132 for 11 weeks or £15 per class

Clive Fogelman

Rhiann Keys

Forget the hippy-dippy claptrap: yoga really is a brilliant way to relax yourself and get rid of all that horrible stress.

This is an ideal class if you are one of the far too many of us who suffer from back pain or recurring injuries that make you anxious about doing conventional exercise.

In this class, you will be holding postures for a longer period of time to harness the release of tension in the body. It will provide you with a space to relax your body and your mind, which helps to cultivate a sense of inner calm and peace. As well as postures there will be guided visualisations and meditations.

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Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November, 3, 10, 17 December 2013

It will help you strengthen your body from the inside out with a series of mat-based exercises using small, light equipment to train the deep, stabilising core muscles of the body.

Emphasis is placed on precise execution of each exercise to avoid injury or to rehabilitate existing ones.

Health & Fitness Yoga & Pilates

Thursdays 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 October, 7, 14, 21, 28 November, 5, 12 December 2013

Fridays 4, 11, 18, 25 October, 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 November, 6, 13 December 2013

Mondays 7, 14, 21, 28 October, 4, 11, 18, 25 November, 2, 9 December 2013

Iyengar Yoga

Latin American dance & Pilates Fusion DROP-IN

Latin American dance & Pilates Fusion

9-10am

£80 for any 6 sessions

12noon-1.30pm £15 per class or £150 for 11 weeks

9-10am

£16 per class or £154 for 11 weeks

Darren Bloom An introduction to Iyengar yoga that allows everyone to develop at his or her own pace. This class allows beginners to work in a basic way on simple postures according to their capabilities. When necessary, we use supports called ‘props’ that allow students to practise the postures they’re comfortable with safely, to suit their own body. As students develop they can challenge themselves to more demanding intermediate classes which offer more refined ways of working, leading to more varied postures.

Fridays 4, 11, 18, 25 October, 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 November, 6, 13 December 2013

Sophie Contreras APPI Improve your core strength, posture, mobility and coordination through this fusion of Latin Dance and Pilates. In this class you will exercise to rhythms such as Salsa and Samba without having to worry about a partner.

These drop-in classes are suitable for those with some experience in dance or exercise to music. The class will be a fusion of latin dance moves and matwork Pilates exercises. Suitable for healthy, injury-free individuals who have completed the Latin Dance & Pilates intro course or who have had previous Pilates and dance experience.

Mondays 7, 14, 21, 28 October, 4, 11, 18, 25 November, 2, 9 December 2013

Cardio Pilates 8–9am £80 for any 6 sessions, £145 for the course Sophie Contreras APPI This class will combine matwork Pilates with cardio intervals.

Using Pilates matwork exercises, general conditioning exercises and aerobic moves, this class provides a whole body workout whilst increasing heart rate. Enjoy the mind, body, toning and cardiovascular benefits of Cardio Pilates.

This class is suitable for healthy, injury-free individuals with experience in exercise and fitness.

Fundamental Pilates exercises will be taught in the first class and movements built upon in the subsequent sessions.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

Mondays 7, 14, 21, 28 October, 4, 11, 18, 25 November 2, 9 December 2013

Post-Natal Pilates 10–11am £80 for any 6 sessions APPI APPI (Australian Physiotherapy and Pilates Institute) is a leading provider of private healthcare and education in the UK today.

The APPI developed its world leading Rehabilitation based Pilates programme over 10 years ago. Since then, we have been the leaders in the development of Pilates within the Physiotherapy and allied health world.

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HEALTH & FITNESS Fridays 8, 15, 22, 29 November, 6, 13 December 2013

Kavanah Yoga 10.30–11.30am £12 per class or £60 for 6 weeks

Health & Fitness Yoga & Pilates

Sunday 10 November 2013

JW3 with JEWISH YOGA NETWORK Presents: A GREAT DAY OF YOGA 10am–4.30pm £25 for the day £15 half-day Wonderful, exhilarating, liberating yoga with first-rate teachers and the opportunity to explore how Judaism can blend with and enhance the practice of both.

10-11.30am – Yoga Session Level One: A gentler class – mixed ability Warming the body for the day of yoga, gentle floor asanas building to stronger work.

Roslyn Anderson has a diploma from the British Wheel of Yoga.

For the last 40 years yoga has been her passion. She teaches at many local venues.

Level Two: Yoga for the more experienced Postures to build strength and increase vitality.

Maxine Levy and Mark Goldsmith A meeting of body, mind and spirit.

Led by Mark Goldsmith and British Wheel of Yoga teacher Maxine Levy.

Kavannah means ‘intention’.

Experience a fusion of yoga techniques and Jewish meditation practices as Mark takes us on a journey from Bible to Midrash, Talmud to the Piyuttim, and Maxine interweaves this with mindfulness, pranayama (breathing) and asana (postures) to create a space for reflection, questioning and complete wellbeing.

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Lisa Morris is an enthusiastic , energetic and careful teacher teaching Iyengar yoga to all, including beginners, over 50s, men, young and more mature.

Qualified recently as Junior Intermediate 1 level via the UK Iyengar Yoga Association.

11.30am-12.30pm Kavannah Yoga Explore the fusion of Yoga techniques and Jewish meditative practice. Full rehearsal space.

Mark Goldsmith is Rabbi at Alyth Gardens synagogue and Maxine Levy is British Wheel of Yoga and Birthlight teacher. She is passionate about teaching hatha yoga as a tool for total wellbeing and runs classes and workshops in London and abroad.

12.30-1.30pm Lunch 1.30-2.15pm Everyone TriYoga Jonathan Sattin – Jonathan will talk about the history and founding and experiences of this amazing vibrant Centre and how this ex-lawyer got ‘into’ yoga.

2.30-4pm Yoga A class for everyone – to rebalance the connection between mind, body and breath.

Richard Kravetz is the elected London representative of the British Wheel of Yoga and holder of its teaching diploma. Trustee of The Special Yoga Centre.

4-4.30pm Socialise and Forum A chance for everyone to get together to share their enthusiasm with Estelle Eugene, co-founder of The Jewish Yoga Network, who will host the forum on ways of evolving and enhancing our lives with yoga with the extra special Jewish element to enthuse and enlighten.

There are some mats available but if you have your own, please bring it.

Health & Fitness Dance

Dance

Fridays 4, 11, 18, 25 October, 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 November, 6, 13 December 2013

Dance for the Soul – women

Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November, 3, 10 December 2013

Dance Studio, 10–11am

BalletFit

Dance for the Soul – seniors

Dance Studio, 6–7pm

Dance Studio, 11am–12noon

£15 per class

£12 per class or £110 for 11-week term

£12 per class or £110 for 11-week term

or £132 per 11-week term

Rhiann Keys It’s official: ballet is good for you.

This mat-based workout to music combines principles from ballet with exercises from Pilates to develop core strength, good posture and healthy movement patterns. After just one hour, you’ll feel longer, leaner and stronger.

Rhiann is a former ballet dancer and a qualified Pilates teacher. She has taught clinical pilates, worked for the learning department at English National Ballet, pioneered a Back Care Scheme for city-based workers and taught ballet to children and adults.

Hagit Yakira Stretch yourself with these new contemporary classes, especially for women and seniors, that help you stay fit, strong and flexible through uplifting dance and movement exploration. These classes combine contemporary approaches, Limon technique and elements of yoga. Throughout the classes, you will move from taught material to improvisational tasks and explorations; developing through the classes a sense of maturity in your movement, articulation and spontaneity.

This approach will help develop a greater understanding of your movement and physicality, space, energy, and self-expression.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

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Health & Fitness Cardio/Alternate Health

Cardio Wednesday 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 October, 6, 13, 20, 27 November, 4, 11, 18 December 2013

Thursday 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 October, 7, 14, 21, 28 November, 5, 12 December 2013

Zumba®

Zumba®

9.45–10.45am

8–9pm

£7 per class

£8 per class

Patrick Borja

Patrick Borja

Are you ready to party yourself into shape? Forget the lonely workout or the aerobics class, just lose yourself in the music and find yourself in shape at the original dance-fitness party: Zumba®.

Our classes feature exotic rhythms set to high-energy Latin and international beats. Before you know it, you’ll be getting fit and your energy levels will be soaring, along with the endorphins that improve your feeling of wellbeing.

It’s easy to do, effective and totally exhilarating. Everybody Zumba®.

alternate health Mondays 7, 14, 21, 28 October, 4, 11, 18, 25 November, 2, 9, 16 December 2013

Acupuncture Drop-in 2–3pm £10 per session Paul Silk We understand that you’re very busy, but if you happen to have 15 or 20 minutes spare one lunchtime (or any time), why not de-stress with Ear Acupuncture?

Ear Acupuncture is widely recognised as an excellent way to relax as well as an effective aid to addiction cessation. So if you’re looking to smoke less, eat less or just feel more chilled out, drop-in any time on Mondays between 2pm and 3pm. Acupuncture is administered with the client fully clothed and seated.

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KRAV MAGA

Krav Maga is based on the belief that we all have the right to walk in peace – our Israeli-trained and registered instructors will give you the skills and confidence to do just that. It is quick to learn and easy to retain. It is widely recognised as the world’s most effective form of self-defence. It is particularly useful in practical situations, fun to learn and will keep you fit.

All courses are booked per season, with the exceptions of the one-off Inductions and the drop-in Sunday classes.London Krav Maga (established 1996) is affiliated to the official Krav Maga Global (Netanya, Israel) and only uses Israeli-trained and registered instructors. For all of these courses, please register and pay London Krav Maga via their website: www.londonkravmaga.com/JW3 Email queries to info@londonkravmaga.com

Sunday 15 September 2013

Krav Maga Induction Course – Adults 4–7pm £30 per class Sunday 15 September 2013

Krav Maga Induction Course – Youth (11-13 year olds) 11am-1pm £20 per class Sunday 15 September 2013

Krav Maga Induction Course – Youth PLUS (14-16 year olds) 1.30–3.30pm £20 per class

Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November, 3, 10, 17 December 2013

Wednesdays 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 October, 6, 13, 20, 27 November, 4, 11, 18 December 2013

Krav Fit – Adults Drama Studio 1

Krav Maga – Women only

9.30–10.30am

Drama Studio 1

£13 per class

11am–12noon

Krav Fit is Krav Maga without the fighting. It is high-energy, intense, fast-moving and fun, based on learning Krav Maga moves without direct contact.

It’s open to everyone, at any level of fitness, and is specially designed to help you become fitter, shed unwanted pounds, and significantly improve your co-ordination and flexibility.

Like all courses from London Krav Maga, these sessions will be taught

by Israeli-trained and registered instructors. They also promise to be a whole lot of fun.

£13 per class If you’re a woman over 16, let us teach you how to defend yourself against all manner of attacks and threats, as well as how to fight back. Our unique methods simulate the stress of a real attack without compromising your safety.

It will also improve fitness and endurance levels, as well as flexibility and co-ordination, improving your sense of wellbeing and confidence.

We only use Israeli-trained and registered instructors, specifically qualified to teach women, using gender-appropriate methods and material.

If you are new to Krav Maga, haven’t practised for a while, or would simply like to find out if our approach is right for you, these one-off induction session will give you a taste.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

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Health & Fitness Krav Maga

Mondays 7, 14, 21, 28 October, 4, 11, 18, 25 November, 2, 9, 16 December 2013

Krav Maga – Intermediate Level 1, Adults 7–8.30pm £13 per class Open to anyone who has taken the Foundation level course or has a background in Krav Maga (subject to verification). Here you will take your previous training to the next level and prepare yourself for formal testing (provided that’s something you wish to do).

Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November, 3, 10, 17 December 2013

Thursdays 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 October, 7, 14, 21, 28 November, 5, 12, 19 December 2013

Krav Maga – Foundation Level, Group 1, Adults

Krav Maga – Foundation Level, Group 2, Adults

7–8.30pm

7-8.30pm

£13 per class

£13 per class

Krav Maga is often described as the best self-defence system in the world and is easy to learn and retain. On this course, Israeli-trained and registered instructors teach you how to defend yourself against all manner of attacks as well as how to fight back.

Our unique methods simulate the stress of a real attack without compromising your safety. It will also improve fitness and endurance levels, as well as flexibility and co-ordination, improving your sense of wellbeing and confidence.

Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November, 3, 10, 17 December 2013

Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November, 3, 10, 17 December 2013

Krav Maga – Foundation

Krav Maga – Foundation

(11-13 year olds)

(14-16 year olds)

5–6pm

6–7pm

£11 per class

£11 per class

Krav Maga is easy to learn and retain. On these courses Israeli-trained and registered instructors with special qualifications for educating children and teenagers will teach you how to defend yourself against all manner of attacks as well as how to fight back.

Irrespective of your goals the course will broaden your repertoire of skills, develop your fitness and endurance levels still higher, as well as your flexibility and co-ordination, leading to an all-over feeling of wellbeing and confidence.

Sundays 6, 13, 20, 27 October, 3, 10, 17, 24 November, 1, 8, 15, 22 December 2013

Krav Maga – Open, Adults 17+ 9.15-10.45am £13 per class A ‘drop-in’ for all participants who are 17 or older in any Krav Maga courses currently being held at JW3 or other London Krav Maga venues (younger participants subject to agreement). It’s an opportunity for you to supplement your skills and fitness levels.

Like all our courses, it will be taught

by Israeli-trained and registered instructors. And while self-defence is a serious topic that we take very seriously, this is an excellent opportunity to meet and train with different people.

Our unique methods simulate the stress of a real attack without compromising your safety. It will also improve fitness and endurance levels, as well as flexibility and co-ordination, improving your sense of wellbeing and confidence.

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Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

Th e W e l l i ng t o n H o sp i ta l AT jw3

The Wellington Hospital is delighted to partner JW3.

Our Consulting Rooms are housed within the JW3 building from where we will be offering fast access to consultants and doctors by way of private appointments. Full details are available directly from the Wellington Hospital or via the JW3 website.

Opened in 1974, the main Wellington Hospital complex is situated in St John’s Wood in North West London, near picturesque Regents Park, with an additional outpatients centre located in Golders Green.

The Wellington is known for treating patients from both the UK and around the world, and has an international reputation for excellence, offering

specialist treatments covering the full medical spectrum – from cardiac care and gastroenterology through to breast care and orthopaedics.

The Wellington Hospital believes that new technology is vital to achieving continuous improvements in the health outcomes of patients, and therefore invests in state-of-the-art technology as a priority. It was one of the first private hospitals to invest in the da Vinci Si robot, the world’s most advanced surgical robot.

Throughout The Wellington Hospital’s 38 years of service, one constant has always remained – to provide patients with the very best in healthcare.

For all enquiries, please contact the Wellington Hospital on 020 7483 5148.

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CLASSES & COURSES

From Middle East analysis to Talmud and taxidermy we have a class that should get your brain cells revving.

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An Interfaith Dialogue Marc Chagall’s Jewish Jesus Jews In Abstraction: Mark Rothko and the Abstract Expressionists Picturing Abraham: An Interfaith Dialogue Aaron Rosen

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’m a Jew from the backwoods of Maine.

Imagine the middle of the middle of nowhere. When I was young I was the only Jew in my school, so I went around the other classrooms singing songs for Chanukah.

Needless to say my peers learned very little about Judaism.

I went on to study at the University of Cambridge and then teach at Columbia, Oxford, and Yale, before settling down as a lecturer in art and religion at King’s College London. My job allows me to blend my interests in art and religion.

I still do a lot of lecturing and teaching to non-Jews— but no singing!

Growing up in a non-Jewish environment made me very interested in interfaith dialogue, in both explicit and subtle ways. In my first book—Imagining Jewish Art — I looked at how modern Jewish artists have related to the art of the Christian past. Among other questions, I wanted to think about how Jews have found Jewishness in unlikely places, even in images of the crucifixion. My interests in interfaith dialogue have widened and one of my current projects looks at possibilities for dialogue in the work of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim artists. I also practise what I preach. Or more accurately, I practise what my wife preaches! She’s studying to become an Anglican priest.

In this season at JW3, I’ll be lecturing on themes from both my past and present research. I’ll talk about Chagall in the first lecture, and then widen the scope in the second to talk about how modern artists (of various faiths and none) have depicted Abraham, and challenged our understanding of the patriarch. Lastly, I’ll talk about Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, and the other Jewish Abstract Expressionists. Come along, it’ll be fun and casual.

I promise not to sing.

“ I wanted to think about how Jews have found Jewishness in unlikely places, even in images of the crucifixion.”

Tuesday 15 October – Marc Chagall Tuesday 12 November – Artistic Responses to Abraham Tuesday 3 December – Rothko

Left: Stained glass window by Marc Chagall, Lucerne, Switzerland

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ADULT LEARNING COURSES Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November, 3 December 2013

Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November, 3, 10, 17 December 2013

Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22 October 2013

Nine Talmudic Narratives

Bridge classes – Beginners

8–10pm

10–11.30am

11am–1pm

Zahavit Shalev

Launch season offer: £99 per course

£5 per class

Elie Jesner

Barbara and Allen Kaye

More than the Bible, the Talmud has shaped and formed the Judaism we know, in all its different varieties.

Though often approached as a legal work, it is actually better considered as a work of literature, exploring complex themes through stories and parables.

Bridge is one of those games that everyone wishes they’d learned when they were young. Now you don’t have to wish any more, just come along and learn bridge with friends at JW3. It’s more sociable than chess, more strategic than backgammon, and a perfect way to spend a couple of hours with old friends and new. Come as a couple, come on your own, you’ll learn everything you need from two of London’s finest teachers, and have fun too.

It may surprise you, but occasionally people find themselves unexpectedly becoming Jewish. This short course is aimed at people who find themselves accidentally leading a Jewish life or living with other people who are Jewish. It will mix some teaching with some light entertainment. The sessions will be led by Zahavit Shalev, rabbi’s assistant at New North London (Masorti) Synagogue. Zahavit has worked with many mixed-faith and converting couples and is married to David who is a sort-of-but-not-quite accidental Jew.

We will investigate and explore these tales and the characters who inhabit them, discovering the compassionate and argumentative spirit of Judaism, which underpins all of its legalities. Presented by Elie Jesner, educator, writer and former derivatives trader.

Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 October, 5 November 2013

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The Accidental Jew £35

Tuesdays 1, 15, 29 October, 12, 26, November, 10 December 2013 Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November, 3, 10, 17 December 2013

Six-and-a-half Decades of Israeli Art: a series of lectures

Four great British Broiguses

Bridge classes – Intermediate and Advanced

about Israeli art, its history and its relation to Jewish identity

7.30–9pm

2–4pm

6–7.30pm

£75 for the course

£5 per class

Launch season offer: £75

Jonathan Wolfson

Barbara and Allen Kaye

It has often been said that there’s nothing the Jewish community likes more than an argument. This course takes a look at some of the broiguses that have shaken and stirred the British Jewish community over the ages. It will cover: The Nieto and Sabbatean controversy; The Board of Deputies and the Rise of Reform Judaism; Zionists and Anti-Zionists at the time of Balfour Declaration; The Battle of Cable Street; The Louis Jacobs Affair; Anglo-Jewish historiography.

If you’re not feeling vulnerable, know your three no trumps from your ACOL, and are always aware of your score above and below the line, then you need to come along and improve your bridge game at JW3.

We want to create a friendly, social bridge community here and we’re looking for players who already have some basic skills under your belt to join us. We promise good fun, good company and two of the best bridge teachers in London.

Vik Jacobson-Frid & Lee Weinberg You can tell a lot about a country by the art exhibitions it stages and the things the curators of those exhibitions say. By examining art practices in Israel since the state was founded six-and-a-half decades ago, we can explore some of the main issues in the construction of Jewish identity, as well as the status of Israel in the international community. This series of lectures will be accompanied by slide shows and videos exemplifying central tendencies in Israeli art.

Classes & Courses Adult Learning Courses

Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 October, 5, 12 November 2013

Wednesdays 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 October, 6 November 2013

Europe & her Jews

The prophets

7.30–9.30pm

10.30am–12noon

£80

Launch season offer: £60 for the course Clive Lawton

Richard Goldstein

Based on Clive’s Radio 4 series on the prophets, this course will look at a variety of prophets, trying to understand what made them tick, what was so remarkable about the institution of biblical prophecy and why their words have reverberated through the ages.

No one can understand the contemporary Jewish world without being aware of the history and achievements of Jewish communities throughout Europe. Through the sights and sounds of European cities, we will attempt to remember both the highpoints in Jewish life in Europe, as well as some of its darkest moments. Week by week, we will travel through Prague, Budapest, Berlin, Cordoba and Seville, Barcelona and Girona, then to Polin and London.

Each step will be a fascinating multimedia historical tour.

We’ll discover a variety of types, from the frankly bizarre to the tragic, majestic, politically astute and really quite weird. An overview of prophetic books and personalities with one of the world’s most influential Jewish teachers.

Wednesdays 2, 9, 16 October 2013

Wednesdays 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 October, 6 November 2013

Rabbinic responses to early Christianity

Thursdays 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 October, 7, 14, 21, 28 November, 5th December 2013

Psychoanalysis and Judaism 10–11.30am Launch season offer: £99 Elie Jesner How has Judaism influenced psychoanalysis? How has psychoanalysis influenced Jews?

A look at the key psychoanalytic thinkers through a Jewish lens.

When a revolutionary way of seeing mankind emerges, perhaps it’s not surprising that religious culture feels threatened and defensive.

We’ll explores the tensions between these viewpoints, carefully considering their apparent incompatibility before thinking about ways they might enrich one another. We’ll consider Freud and his followers, alongside key Jewish texts, while wondering about the Jewish origins of this discipline.

Thursdays 3, 10, 17, 24 October 2013

War and Peace in The Middle East: Israel and the Palestinians 10.30am–12noon Launch season offer: £48

Women of the Tanach

Hagai Segal

8–9.30pm

10–11.30am

Launch season offer:

Launch season offer: £60

£33 for the course

Suzanne Weiniger

Michael Pollak

What can women from the history of Judaism tell us about the world we live in? What lessons can we learn from them? Spend six weeks studying six biblical women whose lives are as relevant today as they were when they were first recorded; from Eve to Esther the women of the Bible inspire, enlighten and empower us. This course aims to share with you some important ideas about leadership, ethics and character that can be learned from these six women.

Over 20 years since the famous Rabin-Arafat handshake on the White House lawn that was supposed to have heralded a lasting peace, conflict remains between Israel and the Palestinians. Yet, despite the current instability, opportunities for peace have emerged as the region is reformed by the ‘Arab Spring’. Renowned analyst Hagai Segal explores the current dynamic, examining the challenges and opportunities and whether the near future will be dominated by tensions and conflict or a return to the negotiating table.

What did contemporary rabbis think about the emergence of Christianity? How did they react to its inception and the threat it presented to Judaism? Join renowned Jewish educator and Talmudist, Michael Pollak, on an exploration of this topic.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

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CLASSES & COURSES Thursdays 14, 21, 28 November, 5 December 2013

War and Peace in The Middle East: The arab spring 10.30am–12noon Launch season offer: £48

Classes & Courses Adult Learning Courses

Mondays 7, 14, 21, 28 October, 4, 11, 18, 25 November, 1, 8 December 2013

Creative writing: Poetry – In the beginning 7–9pm Launch season offer: £100 Aviva Dautch In the Beginning...

Hagai Segal A look at the Arab Spring, its causes and a new reality it forms, with Hagai Segal, a renowned Middle East analyst.

Instability and uncertainty remains across the Middle East and North Africa, over two years into the ‘Arab Spring’, with war raging in Syria and the conflict spreading to neighbouring states. Hagai will explore current events and likely developments.

Mondays 7, 14, 21, 28 October, 4, 11, 18, 25 November 2013

What does Judaism say about...

10.30am–12noon Launch season offer: £80 Jackie Tabick How can we make informed decisions about the big social issues that affect us today? The right to die; surrogacy; beggars on our streets; asylum seekers or economic migrants. Our rich tradition and history has provided us with many texts that can offer insights on how we should judge ethical issues in our society. We will study both traditional and more modern texts together and see if we can come to some conclusions that can help us address these complex issues.

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In this creative writing course we will use the Bible, Midrash and modern Jewish literature as a starting point for writing our own prose and poetry. With creative exercises, expert tips for redrafting, and opportunities to get feedback, on your work, the class will encourage you to generate new pieces and work through the editing process. A journey that should prove to be equally useful for the beginner and the advanced writer. Presented

by Aviva Dautch, poet, reviewer and academic.

Mondays 7, 14, 21, 28 October, 4, 11, 18, 25 November 2013

Eight philosophers who changed the Jewish World 8–9.30pm Launch season offer: £99 Matt Plen Which philosophers have had the greatest impact on Jewish thought throughout the history of our religion? How have they changed the way we think about Judaism and practise its laws? This course focuses on: Aristotle, Maimonides, Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Kant, Ahad Ha’am, Sartre and Rozenzweig, covering two-and-a-half thousand years of thinking in ten sessions. Presented

by Matt Plen, holder of an MA in Jewish Thought, PhD candidate at the Institute of Education and CEO of Masorti Judaism in the UK.

Classes & Courses Adult Learning Courses

Mondays 7, 14, 21 October, 4, 11, 18 November 2013

Tuesdays 8 October, 12 November, 10 December 2013

LJCC AT JW3

London School of Jewish Studies AT JW3: Because God Loves Stories

ZINGT! THE PEOPLE’S YIDDISH CHORUS

Mondays 4, 11, 18, 25 November, 2, 9 December 2013

8–9.30pm £12 per session or £60 for the course (6 sessions)

1.30–3pm Launch season offer: £8.50 Polina Skovoroda-Shepherd JW3 has partnered with JMI to bring you our all new Yiddush choir, exploring traditional songs in this 1000 year old language. Embark on an inspiring journey, learning to sing in Yiddish and breathing life back into a fascinating fading language and a rich musical genre. You will learn a wide variety of traditional songs from lullabies and folk ballads to protest songs and Shabbat prayers, as well as wordless nigunim.

Led by Polina Skovoroda-Shepherd, renowned Yiddish singer, performer and choirmaster, this group is open to all singers.

Current Affairs 7–8pm £60 Paula Kitching We may well see what’s going on in the world around us in the news every day, but do we know what it actually means? Every week at JW3, Paula Kitching will lead a roundup of the topics in the news, helping to explore some of the issues and history behind the stories, and discuss what it might mean to the audience. Lively debate is encouraged and an opportunity to think about domestic and world events from a different angle.

Thursdays 7, 14, 21, 28 November 2013

Thursdays 17, 24, 31 October 2013

33 Revolutions Per Minute LSJS lecturers – including Raphael Zarum, Julie Apfel, Maureen Kendler and Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz Six stories, six key biblical characters.

All explored by some of London’s best-known Jewish educators. The characters of the Bible are not saints or sinners. They are a complex balance of strength and weakness that reminds us how real and how relevant these men and women are to our lives today. Never dull, always dramatic, the Bible is overflowing with people struggling to cope with extraordinary experiences.

This course will help you uncover a deeper understanding of these ancient players.

8-9.30pm

From Offenbach to Sondheim – Jewish composers and the Lighter Muse 6.30–8pm £60

Launch season offer: £15 per session

Patrick Bade

or £33 for all 3 (see what we did

Jewish composers have often been most comfortable and creative in the space between classical and popular music, inventing and developing new musical genres such as operetta, film music and the musical. This course explores Jewish contributions to these genres, using historical, modern recordings and visual material. We’ll cover Offenbach, Leo Fall, Emmerich Kalman, Oscar Straus, Reynaldo Hahn, Broadway musicals from Jerome Kern to Stephen Sondheim and the Hollywood film score – Max Steiner, Erich Korngold, Franz Waxman and Bernard Herrmann.

there?) including a complimentary bottle of beer or glass of wine from the Zest bar Dorian Lynskey Based on his acclaimed book 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, this course will explore the art of protest songs from the 1930s to the present day.

Each installment will address a key theme or songwriting style and will examine the different ways in which musicians can express political ideas in song. The course will discuss the artistic and practical value of a range of protest songs and investigate the specific challenges facing politically engaged songwriters in the 21st century.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

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CLASSES & COURSES Tuesday 22 October 2013

Extortion And The Church Of England 8–9.30pm £8 Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner Join the Rabbi to the Movement for Reform Judaism for an interactive, frank and open session.

The Church of England recently took a bold stand against pay-day loans, condemning their potentially toxic economic and social effects.

Should religion take a stand on such matters? And what do Jewish sources have to say about money, debt and loans?

Classes & Courses Adult Learning Courses

Wednesday 23 October, 27 November, 11 December 2013

Daf Yomi: A monthly summary of Daf Yomi learning 8–9.30pm £10 Michael Pollak & Jacqueline Nicholls Every day, from synagogues around the world to the last car of two commuter trains from Far Rockaway to New York City, thousands of people study the same page of the Talmud as part of the Daf Yomi regimen. Now you can get a taste of the Daf Yomi experience without having to make the sevenyear-commitment.

Join the lively Talmudic conversation between the Rabbi and artist.

What should we think about Israel?

8–9.30pm £10 Clive Lawton A lecture marking the anniversary of the 1917 Balfour Declaration, in which the British government committed to supporting Jewish aspirations for a homeland. We’ll explore what we mean by “Israel”, what we want from it, and why it’s unlikely that it’ll ever succeed in being everything that everyone wants it to be. We’ll discover how contested the idea of Israel has always been and bring things up to date on one of the most contentious territories for the Jewish people.

Tuesday 22 October 2013

Tuesday 12 November 2013

Tuesday 3 December 2013

Marc Chagall’s Jewish Jesus 7.30–9pm

Artistic Responses To Abraham In Interfaith Dialogue

£10

7.30–9pm

Jews in Abstraction: Mark Rothko & the Abstract Expressionists

£12.50

7.30–9pm

Aaron Rosen How did a Lithuanian Jewish artist born in Vitebsk, Belarus, from a Hasidic background become one of the greatest Crucifixion painters of the 20th century? Who exactly was this Jesus that Marc Chagall painted again and again for more than 60 years? And how might he come to speak to both Jews and Christians?

This lecture takes the audience through some of Chagall’s most celebrated and iconic works in search of new theological insights and new avenues for interfaith dialogue.

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Thursday 14 November 2013

Aaron Rosen Calls for interfaith dialogue usually begin by insisting that what binds Jews, Christians, and Muslims together is their common identity as “People of the Book”. Despite common assumptions to the contrary, these faiths are also people of the image. Taking modern images of Abraham as our test case, we’ll look at how art might function as a tool for dialogue between the Abrahamic religions. Presented by Dr Aaron Rosen, scholar and writer, educated at Yale, Oxford, Cambridge and Columbia.

£10 Aaron Rosen Before he was a famous Abstract Expressionist, painter Mark Rothko was Marcus Rothkowitz from Dvinsk, whose father hoped he’d become a rabbi. Philip Guston was originally Philip Goldstein, whose parents came to America from Odessa.

Many of the greatest abstract painters of the mid-century were Jewish.

Why does it matter?

From Barnett Newman’s Kabbalahinspired ‘zip’ paintings, to Rothko’s Chapel, to Guston’s ‘golems’, this lecture will explore how these artists’ Jewishness influenced their lives and works in subtle, often unexpected ways.

ADULT ARTS & CRAFTS Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November 2013

Drawing and seeing the body as sacred 7.30–9pm Launch season offer: £15 per class Benedict Romain When we talk about life-drawing, how many of us are aware of what exactly it is that we are drawing? This class explores the many ways to see the human figure, including rising to the challenge of how as artists we can relate to the model not as an object to draw, but a sacred life. Benedict Romain is a sculptor and experienced teacher who encourages students to use different media and approaches as well as an inspiring range of models.

Wednesday 2 October 2013

Photo: Louise Beecham

It started here: introduction to Jewish graphic novelists and Jewish comics

Wednesdays 9, 16, 23, 30 October 2013

Jews, visual memoirs and autobiographical comics

6–7.30pm

6–7.30pm

Launch season offer: £12.50

Launch season offer: £45

Sarah Lightman

Sarah Lightman

For decades, Jews have used words and images to tell their life stories.

What’s the best way to tell your life story? This drawing course will introduce a variety of different comics and visual narratives. We will examine why it is that when drawings and words work together that they can be such a powerful medium in communicating reallife experiences. We won’t be talking about caped crusaders, just the ordinary superheroes and superheroines of everyday life.

Presented by Sarah Lightman, diary artist, comics scholar and curator.

In this introduction session, we’ll talk about the history of Jews and comics, and get the audience drawing comics too. We’ll discuss notable figures – including Will Eisner and Art Spiegelman – and explore technique. You will create your own comic story and will be encouraged to first write a narrative and then decide how to illustrate it.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

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Classes & Courses Adult Arts & Crafts

Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November 2013

Watercolour Techniques for Beginners 7.30–9pm £15 per class Rutie Borthwick There’s something amazing about a watercolour image: something apparently effortless, yet perfectly concentrated.

Watercolour is a relatively quick way to draw, and has long been used by artists for sketching out ideas as well as for concentrated studies.

This course will teach the basics of watercolour, a delicate technique that is perfect for the beginner student. The course is led by Rutie Borthwick, a fine artist and trained art therapist who paints on unusual surfaces as well as traditional canvases.

Wednesdays 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 October, 6, 13, 20, 27 November, 4, 11, 18 December 2013

Stitch and Kvetch Circle 10.30am–12.30pm Launch season offer: £3.50 per session – includes a hot drink from Zest café Ruth Simmons What could be more fun than sitting, knitting, and putting the world to rights? It’s one of life’s great pleasures and it’s better when you do it with company. So come along to our casual knitting group, bring old friends or meet new ones.

Everyone is welcome, from absolute beginner to completely expert knitter. We’ll even give you ideas if you’re in need of inspiration. All you have to bring is your materials, your needles and your sense of humour.

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Tuesdays 8, 15, 22, 29 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November, 3, 10 December 2013

Drawing and painting class for adults 10am–12.30pm Launch season offer: £100 for the course (10 classes) Vik Jakobson-Frid This course is for experienced participants who want to develop their technique and deepen the conceptual aspect of their work. The objective of the course is to encourage students’ self-confidence and give them a platform to express their talent. Teaching will emphasise the inner world of each participant and leave them the freedom to choose their own subjects and topics. The course will also include painting and drawing outside the studio, and participants will be part of group feedback sessions.

This course is not for beginners.

Classes & Courses Adult Arts & Crafts

Wednesdays 2, 9, 16, 23 October 2013

Hebrew Letters in their Graphic Form 10.30am–12noon Launch season offer: £48 for the course Stephen Games It began as an ox’s head. This course traces the origin story of the contemporary Hebrew alphabet, its development from ancient, medieval to modern. Using the principles we discover, participants will be able to experiment with the graphics and create their own individual alphabet.

Stephen Games is a critic, writer and designer.

Wednesdays 2, 9, 16, 23 October 2013

BOOK INFUSED ART 7.30–9pm £60 for the course

Goldie Graham

Thursdays 17 October, 7 November, Sunday 8 December 2013

As ever more of our knowledge is to be found only in virtual, digital forms, as opposed to ‘real’ physical manifestations, the book as an artefact is becoming an art object in its own right.

Henna Body-Painting Workshop

This course will teach various forms of handmade books and explore the symbolism of The Book for us, the People of The Book. Visual artist and photographer Goldie Graham will be combining these hands-on workshops with an online blog and forum for resources and discussion.

Launch season offer: £18

17 October 7.30–9.30pm 7 November 7.30-9.30pm 8 December 6-8pm Please note: this is not a course but separate workshops Hannah Habibi Hopkins

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

Henna has been used to decorate the human body for many thousands of years and across many cultures, from Ancient Egypt to contemporary India. It combines the apparent permanence of a tattoo with the transitory nature of body painting. This practical workshop, led by Hannah Habibi Hopkins, will teach you both how to apply henna and the meaning of traditional patterns and symbolism from some of those cultures. Please note that henna stains so participants need to wear appropriate clothing.

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Classes & Courses Adult Arts & Crafts

Sunday 20 October 2013

Sunday 27 October 2013

Principles of Portraiture Masterclass

Text in Textile

10am–1pm

7–9pm

Launch season offer: £15

£15

Suzi Malin Portraits are most powerful when the image depicted reveals the character.

This class will train the eye to perceive what is “written” on a subjects face, and to read shape and proportion, to describe the nature of another. It is fun, suitable for any age and level of experience. Once you have learnt the principals, you will never look at a face the same way again. Suzi Malin’s art is part of the National Portrait Gallery and other significant collections.

Jacqueline Nicholls Using cross-stitch, as used in traditional samplers, or embroidery that follows your handwriting, and turn your favourite song lyric, quotation, or traditional text into a piece of needlework.

Jacqueline Nicholls is a visual artist and Jewish educator. She engages with texts and uses a variety of craftbased techniques within her art.

Mondays 4, 11, 18, 25 November 2013

Documentary photography 7-9pm £80 for the course Hagai Frid Celebrated Israeli photojournalist Hagai Frid introduces contemporary documentary photographers with an emphasis on Israeli and Jewish artists, such as Alfred Stieglitz, Robert Capa, Oded Balilty, Joel Meyerowitz, Micha Bar-Am, Alex Libak and Annie Leibovitz.

You will have the opportunity to learn key aspects of documentary photography with hands-on experience to produce your own original photography series. Whilst on location, participants will be given practical assignments and work reviews with a feedback process that will develop skills, style, talent and confidence.

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Classes & Courses Adult Arts & Crafts

Wednesdays 6, 13, 20, 27 November 2013

Hebrew Calligraphy Workshop 10.30am–12noon £60 for the course Avielah Barclay Calligraphy turns words inscribed by the hand into something beautiful to the eye. This course, taught by the first female Jewish ritual scribe for 250 years, will teach the essence of each letter of the Hebrew aleph-bet, also known as The Flame Alphabet.

Students will learn the technical basics of Hebrew lettering and traditional writing tools, and discover the meanings of this ancient craft that give our sacred texts their beauty and form.

Sundays 10, 17, 24 November, 1 December 2013

Silkscreen Monoprinting Workshop 10am–12.30pm Launch season offer: £20 per class or £60 for the course (4 classes) Judith Devons JW3 gives you a chance to follow in Andy Warhol’s footsteps with silkscreen prints. In this four-week course, students will learn traditional and experimental techniques of screen-printing – an exciting and easy-to-learn method of printmaking. Suitable for all levels, this course enables students to transform simple designs and images into a series of unusual and colourful screen-prints on paper or fabric.

We’ll be making artists’ books, greeting cards, and designs for fabric wall-hangings and T-shirts.

All basic materials will be provided.

Sunday 10 November 2013

14 November 2013

Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy

JEWISH WOMEN ARTISTS: EVA HESSE, SOPHIE CALLE AND CINDY SHERMAN/ REBECCA HARRIS

6.30–10.30pm Launch season offer: £40 Shannon Marie Harmon Fairytales are full of animals that behave like humans, and animating non-human forms to represent human activity has played an important part in taxidermy. All materials – including, of course, a mouse for each student – will be provided, and everyone will leave at the end of the day with their very own posed and taxidermied mouse.

Some props and miniature clothing will be provided, but students are invited to bring miniature items with which they might like to dress their mouse.

Shannon Harmon trained at the London Taxidermy Academy, where she now teaches.

11 November 2013

PHOTOJOURNALISM WORKSHOP 10am–1pm £45 JUDAH PASSOW Sometimes, knowing why your photograph doesn’t work can be as important as knowing why it does.

Can the photographer articulate what they wanted to say with their photograph, and why they succeeded or failed?

Three-hour photojournalism workshop designed to teach the participants how to take a photograph that tells a powerful story.

We’ll be looking at some examples of stories Judah Passow shot and discussing with the group what makes a compelling photojournalistic image different from other types of photography.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

8–9:30pm £15

REBECCA HARRIS How do we define when something is Jewish, and how do we define Jewish art? And how might we consider this definition in the light of work by European and American Jewish female artists? Rebecca Harris will present a number of major themes that relate specifically to Jewish history, culture and religion, together with works by the three artists Eva Hesse, Sophie Calle and Cindy Sherman, in order to find out how their Jewish identity is reflected in their art.

Wednesday 18 December 2013

Show and Tell: End of Season Exhibit and Party 7.30pm Free Here is a chance to grab a drink, mix, mingle with and meet the other people who have been part of the Art Studio. Bring a friend and show off all the wonderful things that have been created during this launch season, and find out what’s in store for 2014. (Includes free drinks and refreshments).

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languages

We’re delighted to welcome the preeminent language institute, Spiro Ark to JW3, where it will now be delivering a substantial part of its language teaching.

You’ll enjoy effective and enjoyable language learning with world-renowned Spiro Ark teachers.

For all Spiro Ark courses, registration takes place through their office, and payment is made directly to Spiro Ark either online or via phone (credit/debit cards) or cheque (please make all cheques payable to ‘Spiro Ark’, and send to 788-790 Finchley Road, Temple Fortune, London NW11 7TJ). www.spiroark.org/classes Spiro Ark is responsible for all matters relating to their courses. For consultation on appropriate level, please phone 0207 289 6321 All Hebrew classes will be taught by Nitza Spiro.

Hebrew Total Beginners Total Beginners is ideal for students who have no basic knowledge of Hebrew. Even if you know a few words and recognise the Hebrew alphabet (printed and script), we still recommend you start here. It will help you secure a good foundation that will pay dividends later on.

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Mondays 7, 14, 21, 28 October, 4, 11, 18, 25 November, 2, 9, 16 December 2013

Mondays 7, 14, 21, 28 October, 4, 11, 18, 25 November, 2, 9, 16 December 2013

Hebrew Total Beginners Group 1

Hebrew Total Beginners Group 2

6–8pm

8-10pm

£177

£177

for the season

for the season

Classes & Courses Languages

Tuesdays 8, 15, 22, 29 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November, 3, 10, 17 December 2013

Tuesdays 8, 15, 22, 29 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November, 3, 10, 17 December 2013

Thursdays 10, 17, 24, 31 October, 7, 14, 21, 28 November, 5, 12, 19 December 2013

Hebrew Not Quite Beginners

Hebrew Beginners 1

Hebrew Beginners 2-3

8–10pm

6-8pm

6-8pm

£177

£177

£177

for the season

for the season

You should be at this level of learning Hebrew if you’re already confident enough to have a short conversation.

This is the ideal level for you if you’ve already studied Beginners 1 and want to take a step up in your language skills. It’s also suitable if you’re on a similar level but wish to gain more confidence in your skills and a little more knowledge.

for the season You’re at Not Quite Beginners level if you can already ask and answer simple personal questions (names, addresses, family status, and daily activities such as restaurant ordering).

If you’re familiar with infinitives, feminine and masculine nouns and with the right form of adjectives for them, then this is the right level for you.

We’ll work together as a group to improve our conversational skills and introduce and enhance the past tense of all forms of the Hebrew verb. As well as improving your spoken Hebrew, you’ll also gain better understanding, reading and writing skills. You’ll learn songs to provide a musical hook and watch – and discuss – films to improve your memory.

Thursdays 10, 17, 24, 31 October, 7, 14, 21, 28 November, 5, 12, 19 December 2013

Wednesdays 9, 16, 23, 30 October, 6, 13, 20, 27 November, 4, 11, 18 December 2013

Wednesdays 9, 16, 23, 30 October, 6, 13, 20, 27 November, 4, 11, 18 December 2013

Hebrew Higher Intermediate

Hebrew Advanced 10am–12.30pm

Arabic Total Beginners

8-10pm

£177

8–10pm

£177

for the season

£177

for the season This level is suitable for students who have a larger Hebrew vocabulary and who are prepared to invest more time and effort in order to make quicker progress in their language learning.

We’ll be listening to daily news, reading the papers, and learning songs and a bit of history along the way. Every week, two students will make a presentation on a range of subjects such as politics, science, education and life in general, which we’ll then discuss as a group.

This level is designed for you if you’ve lived in Israel, are planning Aliyah, or you have family there who you talk to regularly. It’s also suitable for people who’ve taken formal qualifications like A-level Hebrew.

We’ll be studying a varied and challenging curriculum, opening up a wide range of learning opportunities. We’ll enjoy debates and students’ presentations on any topic under the sun, watch films and TV programmes, using the latest imaginative and stimulating methods.

As well as improving your spoken Hebrew, you’ll also gain better understanding, reading and writing skills. We’ll be introducing the future tense, along with songs, proverbs and useful expressions (including cool ones).

for the season MOhamed Yehia (Spiro Ark) Arabic Total Beginners is ideal for students who have no basic knowledge of Arabic.

Even if you know a few words and recognise a little of the Arabic alphabet (printed or script), we still recommend you start here. It will help you secure a good foundation that will pay dividends later on.

Tickets for Spiro Language Courses 020 7289 6321 www.spiroark.org

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Social action Raymond Simonson puts the questions to Jude Williams, CEO of Tzedek

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ude Williams is the Chief Executive of Tzedek, an organisation that provides direct support to some of the poorest communities in the world, regardless of race or religion, helping local people help themselves. She kindly agreed to answer some of our questions about social action.

Q: What does “social action” mean for a 21st-century Jewish community centre in London?

Jude: To me, social action involves us bringing our hands, hearts and minds to the problems that exist in our community, the society in which we live and the wider world in which we are ever more interdependent.

JW3 offers the opportunity to bring like-minded people together – people who care – to both learn and do. When Jews do social action, we learn AND do.

Rabbi Tarfon and some elders were reclining in an upper chamber in the house of Nitza in Lod when this question came up: Which is greater, study or action?

Rabbi Tarfon spoke up and said: Action is greater. Rabbi Akiva spoke up and said: Study is greater. The others then spoke up and said: Study is greater because it leads to action. (Babylonian Talmud, Kiddushin 40b).

To me, engaging in social action in the context of JW3 means spending time figuring out what’s going on, bringing wisdom to the problems, ensuring a sense of justice and purpose are part of the solutions, then getting involved in those solutions.

Q: What excites you about JW3’s commitment to social action?

Jude: JW3’s full programme of workshops, sessions, and activities is another way for us to learn and figure out what’s happening beyond our familiar boundaries.

We can strengthen our own identities, and we can learn and decide what we value. When we extend this to social action we can use this knowledge and our values to grapple with how to respond – Jewishly – in order to bring an end to suffering in the world. For one place to offer opportunities for both the thinking and the doing, well that just opens up a huge amount of exciting possibilities.

Q: How will you be involved with JW3’s Social Action programming?

Jude: At Tzedek we have been working overseas for more than two decades, with some of the poorest people of the world, regardless of race or religion. We are driven by the Jewish approach to ending injustice: through listening and understanding the needs of real people and responding by offering partnership and empowering people to help themselves. We’re excited to be working in partnership with JW3, using the fantastic facilities the centre has to offer to devise creative social action events and projects. It’s great that JW3 are including a few simple projects in the Launch Season to whet people’s appetite for what’s to come.

The wonderful monthly Challah for Hunger programme is a great example of how together we can combine fun activities with doing real good. I can’t wait for more to come!

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Sunday 17 November 2013

Mitzvah day The Hall, 2-5pm

mongst JW3’s core values, we believe that we have a responsibility to the world around us – locally, nationally, and globally. Over the coming years we will invest resource in developing an outstanding Social Action programme, working with key partners, to offer a myriad of opportunities for you to get involved. Whatever your age, background or previous experience of social action, social justice or tikkun olam (Hebrew: repairing the world), we want you to get involved and be part of our efforts to make our local community and the wider world a better place for everyone.

Free

And it’s really important to us that JW3 Social Action programming isn’t top-down, decided, planned and run only by our professional team.

We know that the most successful, highest impact projects are usually developed from the grassroots, grown organically, and owned by the people who believe in the causes. So, we will contribute facilities, resources, professional programmers, teachers, partnerships, time and much more; and we need you to bring your passion, enthusiasm, ideas, energy, time, head, heart and hands – and together we will develop an outstanding year-round programme of Social Action events, activities, classes and projects.

We’re getting the ball rolling with a few taster projects for Launch Season (see below), all of which are in conjunction with great partners.

Thereafter, we want you to be our partners too – in the thinking, deciding, creating and running of the ongoing JW3 Social Action programme. To get involved, see www.jw3.org.uk and contact us at socialaction@jw3.org.uk

Fridays 11 October, 8 November, 13 December 2013

Thursday 7th November 2013

Challah for Hunger

Cocktails with a cause

Demonstration Kitchen,

7pm

10am–12noon

£10 (donation to Guy’s Trust),

£5

plus half of the price of all cocktails

Debbie Rosenthal

sold on the night will be donated to

We knead you. Challah for Hunger is a global movement that brings together volunteers who bake challah and then sell them. The money that is raised then goes to causes that strive for social justice.

So you’re baking and doing good all at the same time. Come along roll up your sleeves, learn to make challot, and then get out and sell. You’ll be helping JW3 to work together with Tzedek to support their projects in the developing world.

the charity Come and have a drink for a good cause! At the JW3 bar! Buy a specially designed cocktail, meet new people and hear about the work of Guy’s Trust, a charity that provides opportunities for young people across the world.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

On Mitzvah Day meet up at JW3 and spend an afternoon helping others in the community. We’ll be leaving the building to take part in community clean-ups, visiting the elderly, helping with local community causes.

Come along and give – we’ll be collecting food and clothes.

Little ones can make gratitude cards to express thanks, or decorate gift boxes.

We’ll be hosting a wide range of partners and projects – so however you want to help out there will be something for you to get stuck into!

There will also be a special interfaith story-telling session for families which explores the theme of ‘good deeds’ from different cultural backgrounds.

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Youth centre We’re looking forward to welcoming you to our brand-new, dedicated Youth Centre. There you will find a wide range of activities from theatre to dance, photography to social action and Krav Maga. We will also be partnering with a number of Jewish Youth Movements, including BBYO – who have set up a Chapter at JW3 – and Habonim Dror.

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Inspiring Youth Sara Levan interviews Nick Cassenbaum, Rachel Davies, Paula Glassman and Ben Farleigh

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dynamic team of emerging creative individuals is the not-so-secret ingredient in JW3’s Youth programme of activities. Youth Events Coordinator, Sara Levan asked four of them about how they got started and their thoughts on the launch of JW3.

Nick Cassenbaum is a playwright who specialises in creating live theatre installations in unconventional spaces. With inspirations as diverse as clowning and Yiddish, he will be leading the youth playwriting workshop.

How did you start out working with young people?

I started out as a Cheder teacher at the age of 13 and after graduating from university, I became a mascot for the local adventure park! From there it was obviously a natural progression into theatre and education work!

What are you most excited about for the launch?

To see what people are able to create from nothing – where their imagination takes them and what we can do together with the material we generate.

Rachel Davies has a degree in theology, but discovered the joys of African cooking having completed her training at Cordon Bleu. She worked in a variety of restaurants and patisseries in London and Italy before starting her own business.

How did you start out working with young people?

I was a madricha (leader) with Noam from the age of 16 and continued as a movement worker.

What are you most excited about for the launch?

Remember what it was like when cooking was a mystery – looking forward to unravelling that mystery and of course, eating together!

Paula Glassman is a photo journalist and has worked as a magazine photographer. She is also developing her skills as a bookbinder.

How did you start out working with young people?

I volunteered at an intergenerational arts project in Bethnal Green, which saw people from age 13 to 80 collaborating on an intergenerational photography project.

What are you most excited about for the launch?

Working with a new community in a beautiful new building which will inspire the work we will create.

Ben Farleigh is a designer and artist. Much of his time is spent running his street wear clothing label, Yes No Maybe Ltd and creating artwork.

How did you start out working with young people?

I was a member of Habonim Dror for many years and have lots of experience working with youth and teaching creative activities.

What are you most excited about for the launch?

I am excited to be running workshops at the shiny new JW3 building and meeting new students!

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YOUTH CENTRE

Youth

FOR ages 11-13

Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November, 3, 10, 17 December 2013

Krav Maga 5-6pm £11 per session

Theatre club Youth Centre, 5–6.15pm Launch season offer: £48 for the course (4 sessions)

Course 1: Mondays 7, 14, 21 October, 4. 11 November 2013 Course 2: Mondays 18, 25 November, 2, 9, 16 December 2013

Design Workshop 5–6.15pm Launch season offer: £10 per

LONDON KRAV MAGA

Nick Cassenbaum

session or £40 for the course

Krav Maga is easy to learn and retain. On this course for 11-13 year-olds, Israeli-trained and registered instructors with special qualifications for educating children and teenagers will teach you how to defend yourself against all manner of attacks as well as how to fight back. Our unique methods simulate the stress of a real attack without compromising your safety. It will also improve fitness and endurance levels, as well as flexibility and coordination, improving your sense of wellbeing and confidence.

We’re getting our act together at JW3, because there’s no better way to make theatre than by doing it.

(5 sessions)

Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November, 3, 10, 17 December 2013

Sundays 6, 13, 20 October, 3, 10, 17, 24 November, 1, 8, 15 December 2013

Social Action Baking Club

Participants will play games, play with ideas and play off each other, creating and telling stories in an environment of trust and openness.

After exploring different ways of making theatre, we will then take a number of our ideas and work towards a performance. This course will be challenging, fun and push the participants into engaging with material in different ways.

JW3 Instrumental groups Youth Centre, 3–4pm

Demonstration Kitchen, 5.30–7pm

Launch season offer: £5 per session

£5 suggested contribution

or £40 for the term (10 sessions)

for ingredients Habonim Dror Want to learn to bake? In school year four to eight? Rise to the challenge with Habo Dror. You’ll be baking for a good cause as well as for your own enjoyment. Of course, there’ll be plenty of chopping, weighing, sifting, mixing, slicing and dicing (and maybe even a little bit of tasting), but every session will end with a short activity highlighting the importance of everyone taking social action to help people who are less fortunate than we are.

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Wednesdays 2, 9, 16, 23 October and 6, 13, 20, 27 November 2013

Debbie Diamond Calling all young musicians. We need you to join us. We’re looking for young people of all ages who can play an instrument and read music to take part in one of our musical ensembles – string, brass, and woodwind. Repertoire will encompass a variety of styles, including classical. Experienced professionals will provide weekly coaching, culminating in an end-ofterm concert. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn how to communicate musically, to expand your repertoire, and to meet other young musicians.

Ben Farleigh Let Ben Farleigh help you expand your creative horizons with this fiveweek art and design course where you will create original artwork, design T-shirts, paint caps, customise a rucksack, cut stencils and spraypaint a canvas.

Guided by his experience, as a professional artist and fashion designer, Ben will help to nurture your skills, turn your ideas into reality and produce cool stuff that you are proud of.

Youth Centre Ages 11-13

Thursdays 3, 10, 17, 24, 29 October, 7, 14, 21, 28 November, 5, 12, 19 December 2013

Fusion dance company 5.30–6.30pm

Thursday 31 October 2013

Half-term Art workshop 10am–4pm £35

Launch season offer: £7 per session or £60 for the term (11 sessions) This is a chance to be part of a dance company from the get-go.

Discover and perfect a fresh fusion of dance moves from contemporary, to swing, hip-hop and jazz. Then work together as a dance company, with your very own professional to help you create your own distinctive choreography. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never danced before or if you’re a dancing queen, we’ll help you get the moves. Ideal for people between the ages of 11 to 13.

Mondays 7, 14, 21 October, 4, 11, 18, 25 November, 2, 9, 16 December 2013

Street dance 5.30–6.30pm Launch season offer: £7 per session or £60 for the term (11 sessions) SPENCER STAGE SCHOOL You’ll get the chance to try popping, locking and hip-hop moves in this super cool class.

Street dance is fashionable, it’s got great beats and it’s a fantastic workout for your heart, your lungs and all your muscles.

There’s nothing like street dance to keep you fit, on your toes and off the street. And like all exercise, it will increase your energy levels.

Tuesday 29 October 2013

Half-term drama workshop 10am–4pm £35 Nick Cassenbaum This half term, we’ll explore the power of an ensemble within theatre, by delving into how its members can create place, space and theatrical environments using nothing but their own bodies.

Everyone will be encouraged to work together to make sound collages, physical motifs and fun vignettes. We’ll play games that encourage people to think creatively about how they look, form and perform as a group. We’ll be creating short performances.

This will be a relaxed, fun and focussed workshop.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

VIK JACOBSON FRID Bring out your inner Picasso with a day-long workshop with our in-house art team. Learn new techniques and develop your creativity and personal style.

Thursdays 7, 14, 21, 28 November, 5 December 2013

Participatory Photography workshop Youth Centre, 5.30–7pm Launch season offer: £100 for the course (5 weeks) Paula Glassman Photography courses for young people... Come and learn how to make great pictures. Learn basic photographic techniques such as ISO, focus, zoom and composition, and have great fun too!

Paula Glassman is a photographer and Liane Harris is an artist educator. They will lead this course for five weekly sessions and help you to put your new skills into practice.

The workshop theme explores the architecture of the building and making collages.

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YOUTH CENTRE

Youth Centre BBYO/14 Years+

BBYO Sundays 6, 13, 20 October, 3, 10, 17, 24 November, 1, 8, 15 December 2013

BBYO – weekly chapter meeting 7–9pm Contact BBYO for more information on jw3chapter@bbyo.org.uk £1 for BBYO members/£3 for non-members BBYO is the world’s largest Jewish youth movement, welcoming 13-18 year olds from all or no denominations. We believe in inspiring, developing and empowering young people to prepare them to be future leaders of a united community. ‘Mercaz BBYO’ is our newest chapter, meeting weekly at JW3.

Our unique, peer-led structure allows young people to take unprecedented levels of responsibility while benefitting from excellent training and support from a movement that has been empowering Jewish teenagers for almost 75 years. Come along to any of the meetings this term for a fun and interactive session run by BBYO members!

Youth plus Tuesdays 1, 8, 15, 22 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November, 3, 10, 17 December 2013

Course 1: Wednesdays 2, 9, 16, 23 October 2013

Tuesdays 5, 12, 19, 26 November 2013

Krav Maga

Course 2: Wednesdays 6, 13, 20, 27 November 2013

Learn to cook!

6-7pm

Playwriting

£11 per session

Youth Centre, 6.45–8pm

Launch season offer: £18 per

LONDON KRAV MAGA

Launch season offer: £48 for the

session or £60 for the course

course (4 sessions)

(4 sessions). Includes all ingredients

Nick Cassenbaum

Rachel Davies – Rachel’s Kitchen

Krav Maga is easy to learn and retain. On this course for 14-16 year-olds, Israeli-trained and registered instructors with special qualifications for educating teenagers will teach you how to defend yourself against all manner of attacks as well as how to fight back. Our unique methods simulate the stress of a real attack without compromising your safety. It will also improve fitness and endurance levels, as well as flexibility and coordination, improving your sense of wellbeing and confidence.

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14 years+

This is a practical course where everyone will be given a chance to discover his or her own voice. We’ll explore how a play is constructed and discover its key elements.

Everyone will be encouraged to write and have their pieces read throughout, which will help them to be constructively critical of their own work and the work of others.

This will be a focussed group where participants will experiment, express themselves and most importantly of all, have fun.

Demonstration Kitchen, 7.30–9pm

Rachel Davies has taught thousands of people how to create mouthwatering meals at her cookery school. Now she’s bringing her batterie de cuisine, her joie de vivre and her je ne sais quoi to JW3. In just four weeks, you will learn to cook four show-stopping dishes, and, even better, enjoy eating them together at the end of the class.

You’ll have oodles of fun and gain an amazing life skill as well. Ingredients included. No previous cooking knowledge necessary.

Youth Centre 14 Years+

Course 1: Mondays 7, 14, 21 October, 4. 11 November 2013 Course 2: Mondays 18, 25 November, 2, 9, 16 December 2013

Design WorkshopS 6.45–8pm Launch season offer: £10 per session or £40 for the course (5 sessions) Ben Farleigh We live in a designed environment and wear designer clothes, but how do you get into design?

Let Ben Farleigh help you. He will expand your creative horizons with this five-week art and design course where you will create original artwork, design T-shirts, paint caps, customise a rucksack, cut stencils and spray-paint a canvas. Guided by his experience, Ben will help and nurture your skills and turn your ideas into reality and produce cool stuff that you are proud of.

Sundays 6, 13, 20 October, 10, 17, 24 November 2013

Thursdays 7, 14, 21, 28 November, 5 December 2013

JW3 leadership programme Youth Centre, 11am–1pm

Participatory Photography workshop

£50 for the course

Youth Centre, 7–8.30pm

Sara levan We’re already looking for the next generation of JW3 leaders. This course for people aged 15+ will enable them to staff JW3 events and play-schemes for younger children.

It covers areas including models of leadership, how to plan and run successful activities, personal development, self-awareness and Jewish literacy. Participants will learn about groups and group dynamics, assertive listening and feedback.

There will also be modules for first aid, health and safety and child protection. The future of JW3 starts here.

Launch season offer:

Tuesdays 8, 15, 22 October, 5, 12, 19, 26 November, 3, 10, 17 December 2013

Young van Gogh 4–5pm Launch season offer: £75 for the course

£100 for the course (5 weeks)

(10 sessions)

Paula Glassman

Vik Jacobson Frid

Come down to JW3 and learn how to take great pictures and make new friends. You’ll learn basic photographic techniques such as ISO, focus, zoom and composition, and how to take the sharpest of pictures, both literally and metaphorically. Your leaders will be professional photographer Paula Glassman and artist educator Liane Harris. Over this five-week course, they’ll help you to develop the practical and artistic skills. We will be exploring the theme of identity through the photographic subjects of home, family and friends.

We all want to be creative, but can it be taught? The aim of this art class is to help develop your creative thinking skills. We’ll get to know – and draw inspiration from – a variety of well-known artists and their work, including Jewish and Israelis.

Participants will learn basic art techniques and major themes in art history. And get to put that knowledge into practice, using a variety of materials and working with both two and threedimensional medium.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

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THE Jewish Year

THE JEWISH YEAR Thursdays 3, 10, 17, 24 October 7, 14, 21, 28 November 5, 12, 19 December 2013

COOKING MASTER CLASS: SHABBAT KALLAH Demonstration Kitchen, 4–5pm £165 for the term (11 weeks) (Ages 6-8, drop-off class ) Chaya Gorman

Monday 18 November 2013

Friday Night Supper Club – Fabulous Food and Nigguns with Attitude

10.30am–1pm

Zest restaurant, 8pm £25

An Italian ChanukaH Demonstration Kitchen, £40 Silvia Nacamulli Not everyone eats latkes at Chanukah. In this session, you’ll discover the Italian culinary tradition for the festival. Join Silvia Nacamulli and learn how to make mini fried mozzarella balls, melanzane alla parmigiana and precipizi, an old Chanukah recipe from Ancona.

They’re made of dough, with a slight tang of olive oil, and glazed in honey that hardens as it cools. Silvia regularly conducts classes on Italian Jewish Cooking at locations around London. She also runs cookery courses in Italy.

Drop your children at JW3 and we’ll help them to cook traditional Jewish food that they can proudly present at the Friday night table. Songs of Shabbat will be playing in the background, with the smell of homemade traditional dishes in the air.

By teaching them to cook traditional Jewish dishes, you’ll enhance your children’s cultural knowledge as well as their cooking expertise.

Take home a recipe scrapbook of your delicious creations!

Join us for a slap-up Friday Night Dinner as we take over our inhouse restaurant. In this first sitting in October, food is served with melodies from Rachel Weston, one of the top young performers of Yiddish Songs, and stories from the brilliant storyteller Rachel Rose Reid.

For our December Supper Club you can enjoy the beautiful voice of Mika Karni, one of Israel’s favourite female vocalists. These evenings are 100% Shabbat friendly (however you observe Shabbat).

Sunday 1 December 2013

Sunday 1 December 2013

Sunday 1 December 2013

ChanukaH Film Screening: Shalom Sesame: where is my menorah?

ChanukaH Cooking with Fabienne

Crafternoon: Chanukah Craft

Demonstration Kitchen, 12.30–2pm

2-5pm

Launch season offer: £9.50

FREE

Cinema, 10.30am £5 Shalom Sesame: It’s Chanukah in Israel with our friends from Sesame Street. Grover’s bringing the latkes and all is well until Anneliese gets caught in a game of tag with a chicken and loses her special menorah! Can her Muppet friends find the missing menorah in time to celebrate Chanukah?

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Friday 11 October 2013 – Rachel Rose Reid & Rachel Weston, Friday 20 December 2013 – Mika Karni

Ages 6-11, drop off session Fabienne Viner-Luzatto Join our expert cook Fabienne in the kitchen to discover delicious recipes for the festival with your children. She’ll show you and your little ones just how easy it is to create Chanukah dishes that are both traditional and just a little bit exciting. So get ready to roll your sleeves up and get chopping and mixing. We’ll be making rainbow latkes from beetroot, carrots, potatoes, and zucchini, as well as the highlight of our culinary Chanukah: an edible menorah.

Miss Art and her cart It’s Funukah Chanukah Day at JW3, so today we’ll be using our crafting skills to make some dreidels of our own. Get your spin on and come and play! Decorate and design your spinning top with different colours – when it starts to spin really fast the colours will merge to create a wonderful rainbow!

The Jewish Year Chanukah

Monday 25 November 2013

Lecture & Workshop: Deconstructing the Latke

Chanukah: Light Up

FREE Come down to JW3 and celebrate this Chanukah with the whole community. Try your hand at one of our crafting activities, then join us for the lighting of the candle. For our sixth candle activity, we’ll be creating our own chocolate coins and sweets and decorating them with brilliant wrappers. We’ll also be making dreidels that you can give to your special friends.

7.30–9.30pm Launch season offer: £25

Wednesday 27 November 2013

First Candle 4-5pm FREE

Food, with food for thought.

Where does the latke come from?

How have communities prepared them in the past? What were they made of before the introduction of the potato from the Americas?

What does their name mean? And why do we eat them at Chanukah?

Clarissa Hyman will reveal some of the rich and tasty traditions around the latke and then, in the workshop, she will help you prepare some great latkes for Chanukah in the kitchen.

Sixth Candle 4-5pm

Demonstration Kitchen,

Clarissa Hyman

Monday 2 December 2013

Join us at JW3 for the first candle light-up celebrations. Come out of your warm and comfy homes and celebrate Chanukah as a community with us. We’ll be enjoying a range of family-friendly crafts, as well as doughnuts and live music. Try your hand at crafting skills. Then join us for the lighting of the candle. For our first candle activity we’ll be decorating our own Chanukah jugs that light up.

Tuesday 3 December 2013

Seventh Candle 4-5pm FREE This Chanukah, you’re invited to join the celebrations with the whole community at JW3. We’ll be trying out craft activities then coming together to light the candle. For our seventh candle activity, we’ll be helping you to decorate your own dreidel. Spin it, twist it, make it dance.

Wednesday 4 December 2013

Eighth Candle 4-5pm

Thursday 28 November 2013

Second Candle 4-5pm FREE This Chanukah, come down to JW3 and celebrate with the whole community. Have a go at one of our crafting activities, then join us for the lighting of the candle.

Our second candle activity will be creating Chanukah cards for our families. Discover really cool crafty techniques to illustrate your cards and make them totally personal.

Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk

FREE For the last night of Chanukah, we’ll be taking part in some fun craft activities before we light the candle together. Why don’t you come down to JW3 and join us? We’ll be learning how to create our own pop-up Chanukah books. You’ll discover lots of useful new techniques that will help you to bring the page to life and make your version of the Chanukah story truly magical.

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The end of the beginning Outgoing CEO Nick Viner looks at JW3’s journey from a fledgling idea to a stunning addition to London’s Jewish and cultural landscape.

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y chance, I was invited to a breakfast

event at Bevis Marks Restaurant in 2003 when the notion of a Jewish Community Centre for London was first mooted. Instigated by Dame Vivien Duffield, a cross section of the community heard from the leaders of the newly opened JCC Manhattan. Why not something similar in London, challenged Dame Vivien – underpinning her words with an unprecedented level of funding.

It became serious for me when I was approached in 2006 to help take the project from its infancy to early maturity. So many aspects appealed: the people already involved, the ambition (the chutzpah!), the prospect of a magnificent, purpose-built Centre, the opportunity to build an organisation that could transform Jewish life in London.

Drawing on Jewish values, recognising the importance of creativity, of professionalism, and of being inclusive, we set about fashioning a space that would come alive with an unparalleled cultural programme and a rich set of community activities.

Alex Lifschutz, our architect, selected in an international competition, aimed to create a place where Jewish culture is made rather than just experienced.

“ We set about fashioning a space that would come alive with an unparalleled cultural programme and a rich set of community activities.”

To enable this, we sought to deliver a light and airy building with a sense of serenity and generosity of space, with bright open areas and an enclosed, tree-lined piazza – our contribution to greening the urban desert of the Finchley Road.

The last seven years have been about creating this platform or the stage on which anything and everything can happen, where we can push boundaries and exceed our expectations.

Now, thanks to an amazing project team, to the Clore Duffield Foundation and many other extremely generous donors, JW3 exists. Its success will depend on how much culture you choose to make within its precincts and above all, how much you enjoy it.

Over to you!

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The Hall – Our main performance and events hall seats 270 in comfort, surrounded by the latest in audio-visual high-tech. And when the seating is retracted, it is a great flexible space for events and functions.

The Piazza – A wonderful, large outdoor space right in the middle of JW3, for a myriad of different activities as well as al fresco eating and drinking.

Demonstration Kitchen – Where our workshops and hands-on cookery classes are led by innovative chefs and top-notch food and drink experts.

Learning Rooms - Fully equipped to support the diverse range of adult education courses, creative learning classes, discussions and debates that lie at the heart of JW3.

Cinema – We’re very proud of our plush, 60-seat cinema, where you can watch cine-definition films in absolute comfort.

Youth Centre – An area with an identity of its own for an audience with the same.

Dance Studio – Sprung floor, fulllength mirrors, barres, changing rooms and showers – just bring your energy and rhythm.

Arts & Crafts Studio – The place to master the intricacies of fine art, channel your creative energy or simply be inspired by a new take on the old masters.

Resource Centre – We’ve created this very special area specifically to read, to think, to learn, to relax and, above all, to be inspired.

Zest – Jewish cooking with a twist.

Zest, our restaurant, café & bar, brings the eclectic mix of flavours and textures of Modern Jewish Cooking to London.

The Nursery at JW3: Active Learning – Our purpose-built day care nursery, with places for 85 children.

Photo: Ben Hopper

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With huge thanks to the following donors for helping to bring JW3 to life

Foundation Benefactor Clore Duffield Foundation

Major Benefactors

Benefactors

Anonymous

Bank Hapoalim B.M. London Branch

Sir Trevor Chinn CVO & Lady Susan Chinn CBE

Patricia and Richard Beecham

City Bridge Trust

The Black Family

Dr Naim Dangoor CBE

Sharon and Toby Coppel

Barbara and Mick Davis

The J Isaacs Charitable Trust

The Dorfman Foundation

Richard and Patricia Millett

Andrew Franklin and Caroline Elton

The Nohr Family

Garfield Weston Foundation

Outset Contemporary Art Fund

Alan and Sabine Howard

Shoresh Foundation

International Charitable Fund

UJIA

Pamela and Richard Jacobs Denise and David Joseph

Patrons

Clive and Helene Kahn

Community Development Foundation

Debbie Klein and Max Cantor

Diane and Roy Dantzic

The Morris Leigh Foundation

Dwek Family Charitable Trust

Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands

Clare and David Kershaw

Nicola and Harold Pasha

Lord and Lady Kestenbaum

Pears Foundation

In memory of Pauline and Lennie Lander

The Rayne Trust

The Jonathan Levy and Charles Rifkind Charitable Settlement

David and Alex Rhodes Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe Family of Mr Basil M Sandelson Nick Viner and Victoria Boyarsky

Philippa and Richard Mintz Edna and Mandy Moross The Wigoder Family Foundation Derek Zissman

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Level 0 Cinema Piazza The Hall Youth Centre Zest Restaurant, CafĂŠ & Bar

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Nursery Terrace Arts Studio Language Science Lounge Discovery & IT Studio

Level 1 The Hall Balcony Reception & Lounge Resource Centre JW3 Offices

Level 2

Performing Arts Studio

Kitchen & Laundry

Arts & Crafts Studio

2 Changing Rooms

Arts & Crafts Studio Science & Discovery Room Dance Studio Demonstration Kitchen Drama Studios 1 & 2 Learning Rooms 1, 2 & 3 Wellington Hospital Consulting Rooms

Staff Room Under 2s room 1

Science & Discovery Room

Sleep Room

Dance Studio Drama Studio 1

Demonstration Kitchen

Drama Studio 2

Learning Room 1

Learning Room 2

Level 3 Active Senses Arts Studio Kitchen & Laundry Language Lounge Nursery Terrace Nurseries 1 & 2 Performing Arts Studio Science Discovery & IT Studio Sleep Room Staff Room

Learning Room 3

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Wellington Hospital Consulting Rooms

Hall Balcony

Resource Centre

JW3 Offices

Male & Female Toilets

Baby Change

Main entrance via pedestrian bridge from Finchley Road

Reception & Lounge

Amenities

Disabled Toilet

Under 2s room 2

Active Senses

Youth Centre

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The Hall

Lift & Stairs to all floors

Changing Rooms/Showers Piazza

Changing Places Facility Cycle Racks

PARKING

Cinema

Inside JW3 Returns policy Tickets cannot be refunded or exchanged, except where an event is cancelled or abandoned.

Arriving late We will do our best to seat latecomers to performances at a suitable break, but our priority will be to ensure that the performance is not disrupted.

Photography, video and recordings The use of cameras (including mobile phone cameras) or sound recording equipment is strictly prohibited during performances and concerts. JW3 may take pictures during your visit to the building to use for promotional purposes.

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Opening Hours

Access

Sunday 8.30am-11pm Monday-Thursday 7.30am-11pm Friday 7.30am-2.30pm Saturday Evening only (check website for details)

The building is fully accessible and parking for disabled visitors is available. Please call in advance to reserve a space.

Contact

Overground Finchley Road & Frognal and West Hampstead

341-351 Finchley Road London NW3 6ET Tel. +44 (0)20 7433 8989 info@jw3.org.uk www.jw3.org.uk

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Underground Finchley Road (Metropolitan, Jubilee) and West Hampstead (Jubilee)

Buses 13, 82, 113, 187 and 268 Trains West Hampstead Thameslink Paid parking is available at the O2 Centre, 400 metres away. On-street parking is unrestricted on Sundays and after 6.30pm Monday-Saturday.

JW3 is a Jewish community centre with a kosher restaurant, café and bar – only food bought at JW3 can be eaten on the premises. When we are open over Shabbat or Jewish holidays, we will run a reduced “JW3 Unplugged” programme and the Cinema and Zest will be closed.

Further details available on request.

Registered Charity No; 7686352

The new postcode for Jewish life

JW3 Trading Limited registered no. 7686352 (England and Wales) at 341-351 Finchley Road, London NW3 6ET