Arts & Culture

Songs from the kitchens and courtyards of Sephardic life. The Qadim Ensemble performs Ladino music from their new album Entre Las Huertas, an orchard of memory. Buy tickets here.

The New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast has spent 45 years drawing our anxieties, neuroses, and everyday absurdities into over 1,000 cartoons. Join Roz with local KQED Forum host Alexis Madrigal for an evening of laughs, honesty, and sharp observation. Buy tickets here.

Comedians Tehran Von Ghasri (Comedy Central), Leah Bonnema (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert), and Erik Angel (Comedy for Peace founder) share a stage and plenty of laughs in an evening that will prove humor can bridge divides and bring people together. Buy tickets here.

Performers Anthony Russell, Heather Klein, and Uri Schreter are joined by Professor Amelia Glaser to bring Yiddish poets’ furious, defiant responses to the 1931 Scottsboro trials to life in song. Buy tickets here.

Join Ethiopian-Israeli sensation Gili Yalo for a triumphant collision of traditional Ethiopian melodies with soul, funk, and jazz — and come ready to dance. Buy tickets here.

Flutist Ellie Falaris Ganelin, Ladino vocalist Sarah Aroeste, and pianist Shai Bachar come together for a multimedia evening of traditional and original songs, celebrating the music of the Sephardic Jews of Greece.  Buy tickets here.

Lior Ben-Hur and his eight-piece roots-reggae band, Sol Tevél, set Jewish texts and melodies to high-energy grooves, creating a joyful celebration of global Jewish culture.  Registration to come.

Spend Tu B’Av meeting your favorite Jewish romance novelists in a first of its kind festival. Join writing workshops, arts & crafts activities, and more. Coming August 2027