BY YOU, FOR YOU September-December 2014 www.jw3.org.uk
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BY YOU, FOR YOU
Be Part of the JW3 Community: By You, For You At JW3, we know that you, our members and extended community, are a multi-talented bunch with wideranging interests and experiences. ‘By You, For You’ is a platform for sharing your interests, skills and passions with others, meeting each other and for making a difference in the wider community.
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From this season and beyond, it’s up to you – get involved. Feel free to send your ideas for sessions, community kitchens or events – age-specific or for everyone – to volunteering@jw3.org.uk. We won’t be able to do everything, but we’ll consider all ideas and see what we can put in our programme. You can also volunteer at JW3 all year round, whether as a one off or more regularly. Join Team JW3 to help make and shape our community. Find out more on www.jw3.org.uk/ volunteering
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This season, we have supper clubs, meditation, community-led talks and social action, including Mitzvah Day. We look forward to meeting you at events.
HELP JW3 is a non-profit charitable community centre and arts venue, reliant on the generosity of donors. For further information on how to support us, please contact our development team at info@jw3development.org.uk or call 020 7433 8962
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Monday 15 September | Tuesday 14 October
MEDITATE AND CAKE 10am (15 September) 7pm (14 October) £3 Learn a meditation technique, spend time meditating together, then relax with tea and cake. Suitable for all levels.
Saturday 20 December
RELISH – YOUNG PROFESSIONALS CHANUKAH SALON 5.30pm, £5, Young Professionals Meet other young professionals over a mystery cocktail, fresh latkes and a tasty range of homemade relishes to warm you up for JW3’s Chanukah party (see our Arts and Culture brochure for details about the party).
Tuesday 16 September
YOUR MUM WILL LOVE IT… 6.45pm, £5 Rosh Hashanah card-making workshop – get crafty over a glass of wine and create cards for special people in your life.
Wednesday 17 September
ENTREPRENEUR CLUB 6.30pm, £10 Serial entrepreneur Dan Jacobs hosts a round table discussion on issues around starting your own business. Bring questions of your own and support fellow entrepreneurs with your advice drawn from your experiences. Suitable for people starting a new business or social enterprise through to those who have been up and running for up to three years. Drinks and nibbles provided.
Tuesdays 28 October | 18 November | 9 December
BUSINESS NETWORKING 6.30pm, £10 We know you like to talk business, so please join us at JW3. At each session there will be an engaging guest speaker, drinks and nibbles, as well as time for networking.
Saturday 20 December
CELEBRATION OF OLIVES – CHANUKAH SALON 5.30pm, £5, Ages 30-50 Without the olive, there might have been no Chanukah miracle. This Chanukah, take a break from latkes and sample olives homeinfused with a range of flavours. We’ll provide a welcome drink or two and get you in the mood for JW3’s Chanukah party (see our Arts & Culture brochure for details about the party).
challah for hunger Friday 19 September | Thursday 2 October, Thursday 23 October | Friday 7 November, Friday 21 November
Friday 12 September | Sunday 12 October
BRAID AND BAKE
10am (12 September) 11am (12 October) Price per child £3, Price per adult £6
Thursdays 6.30pm, Fridays 9.30am, FREE
Volunteer with Challah for Hunger, which brings people together to bake a difference through baking and selling challah in aid of charity. All welcome, no prior skill required.
FRENCH TOAST BRUNCHES
Schmooze and socialise over a tasty brunch of Challah for Hunger French Toast in aid of charity. Delicious!
Community Kitchen Tuck into a communal meal, cooked by volunteer foodies. These are designed to be small events where we share what we love best – food. As everything is being organised and made by volunteers, we ask that you muck in with the clearing and washing up as part of your experience. If you’d like to help cook dinner, register your interest at volunteering@jw3.org.uk
Wednesday 22 October
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS 7pm, £15, Young Professionals Traditional Mexican food, Mexican Jewish culture and tequila with Claudia Prieto Piastro. The evening will include the traditional ghoulish ritual of making a model of your own skull for your table setting!
Sunday 9 November Thursday 4 September
AMORE IN CUCINA
TASTE OF PURPLE
7pm, £15, Ages 30-50
7pm, £25
Italian and Egyptian influences flavour this buffet supper, hosted by Manuel and Camilla Kanah, creators of Italian Jewish food blog www.labna.it, from Milan.
Local art curator Eva Karapou loves crafting colour-inspired dining experiences with a twist. Enjoy three courses in purple.
Mitzvah Day Sunday 16 November
Mitzvah Day is a Jewish led day of social action – give your time, not your money and make a difference! JW3 is extremely proud to be part of this project, contributing to the local and wider community and we encourage you to join us. Advance booking is essential, so that we know who’s on the team and can be confident we can make a difference for our charity partners. At the end of the day, we invite you to meet everyone involved, to celebrate and share the successes of the day at JW3.
FOOD COLLECTATHON
COMMUNITY GARDENING
1-5pm (hourly slots), FREE
1-4pm, FREE
Join a team of volunteers collecting food for local food banks from shoppers at Waitrose.
Get your hands dirty and help improve a local community green space.
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SUPPORT THE WINCH
10am-4pm, FREE
12noon-5pm, FREE
Help The Bike Project refurbish donated bikes for use by refugees and asylum seekers.
Support The Winchester Project, making a difference for local children and young people and families.
SINGALONG SPRING GROVE
CHALLAH FOR HUNGER
12noon-5pm, FREE
11am-2pm, FREE
Sing and chat with elderly residents at Spring Grove as we throw them a party to remember. Family friendly.
Make Challah on Mitzvah Day and bake a difference for a local food bank.
VISIT US ACCESS JW3 is an accessible building for people with physical impairments. Wheelchair accessible. The cinema and hall have a hearing loop. For further details regarding access requirements and bookings, please visit www.jw3.org.uk Underground Finchley Road (Metropolitan, Jubilee) and West Hampstead (Jubilee) Overground Finchley Road & Frognal and West Hampstead Buses 13, 82, 113, 187 and 268 Trains West Hampstead Thameslink Paid parking is available at the O2 Centre, 400 metres away. HOW TO BOOK TICKETS
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Tickets may be booked via our secure website 24 hours a day, by phone, or in person at JW3 during opening hours. We do not charge a booking fee. All listings are correct at time of going to press and may be subject to change. Check the website for more information. Tickets cannot be refunded or exchanged, except when an event is cancelled or abandoned.
Our priority is to ensure that performances are not disrupted and we cannot guarantee entry to latecomers, but we will do our best to seat them.
CONCESSIONS We offer discounts on many of our ticket prices for recipients of Universal or Pension Credit, Registered Disabled and full-time students. An appropriate card will need to be shown. Please note discounts cannot be combined. All ticket prices for 60+ events are subsidised, therefore concessions are not available. DISCOUNTS Become a JW3 Member to receive 10% discount on tickets. Visit: www.jw3.org.uk/become-member Buy nine tickets, get the tenth one free. Please call the Box Office to book. Terms and conditions may apply.
PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO AND RECORDING 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 for promotional purposes. OPENING HOURS Sunday 8.30am-11pm Monday-Thursday 7.30am-11pm Friday 7.30am-Various Saturday Various (check website for details) CONTACT JW3 341-351 Finchley Road London NW3 6ET
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Box Office +44 (0)20 7433 8988 info@jw3.org.uk www.jw3.org.uk
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THE NEW POSTCODE FOR JEWISH LIFE 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. JW3 Trust Ltd is a registered charity, No. 1117644. JW3 Trading Ltd, registered company No. 7686352 (England and Wales), is a wholly owned subsidiary of JW3 Trust Ltd. Latke illustration: Lisa Brown Icons: Noun Project