Festival
The Balloon Spectacular is a highlight of Canberra's Enlighten Festival.
September 4, 2023, 6:45 am
Festivals bring music to your ears
The line-up of performers for 2024 – being announced progressively over coming months – includes veteran singers Tom Jones and Elvis Costello.
By Danny Gocs
October 11, 2021, 3:00 pm
Reimagining the festival
The 2021 Victorian Seniors Festival has been brought into your homes with a great line-up of song, dance, insightful talks and plenty of fun, all available digitally and on radio.
Young dancers entertain at a previous In One Voice. Photo: Peter Haskin
March 18, 2021, 3:55 pm
In One Voice is back
In One Voice is presented by SKIF and the Kadimah Jewish Cultural Centre. For more information, visit inonevoice.org.au.
By AJN STAFF
Student performers from The King David School at the 2019 In One Voice festival. Photo: Peter Haskin
February 23, 2021, 11:25 am
In One Voice set to return
In One Voice is presented by SKIF and the Kadimah Jewish Cultural Centre. For more information, visit inonevoice.org.au.
By Danny Gocs
Rachel Sennott stars as college student Danielle in Shiva Baby, the debut film by Jewish director Emma Seligman.
August 7, 2020, 3:45 pm
Film festival moves online
This year’s Melbourne International Film Festival is going ahead, but movie fans will enjoy the line-up in their own homes due to COVID-19.
By Danny Gocs
Scene from I Want to Make a Film About Women.
June 4, 2020, 12:05 am
‘New ideas and worlds’
This year’s special 67th Sydney Film Festival: Virtual Edition and Awards presents a distilled essence of Sydney Film Festival, and runs from June 10-21.
By AJN STAFF
Holocaust survivor Marysia with the blanket with her heartfelt messages.
June 4, 2020, 12:00 am
Survivor’s celebration of life
A short film by Melbourne performance artist Jane Korman about her 96-year-old mother Marysia was highly commended in the inaugural Isolation Film Festival.
By Danny Gocs
FOJAM artistic director Lior Albeck-Ripka (left) and festival producer Jesse Lubitz.
May 28, 2020, 3:00 pm
Festival shelved, but monthly treats on the menu
This year’s Festival of Jewish Arts and Music (FOJAM) has been postponed due to the impact of COVID-19, but the festival organisers are excited about moving some events online.
By Danny Gocs
Yehuda Nahari stars as Yigal Amir in the movie Incitement, set around the 1995 assassination of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.
April 6, 2020, 12:10 pm
Jewish film festival takes shape
The coronavirus pandemic poses special challenges for JIFF artistic director Eddie Tamir’s preparation for this year’s festival.
By Danny Gocs
In One Voice will return to Melbourne this weekend. Photo: Peter Haskin
March 9, 2020, 1:04 pm
Get set for In One Voice
The annual In One Voice festival will take place in Selwyn Street, Elsternwick this Sunday, March 15, offering music, dance, food, art and an array of fun activities.
By Rebecca Davis
Singer Alma Zygier performs her jazz favourites at the Festival of Jewish Arts and Music (FOJAM) at the Melbourne Recital Centre. Photos: Peter Haskin
September 12, 2019, 2:06 am
New-look arts festival with a wild side
The Festival of Jewish Arts and Music took over the Melbourne Recital Centre with a day-long celebration of music, performance and storytelling.
By Danny Gocs
Jazz pianist Tal Cohen will perform at the inaugural FOJAM in Melbourne in September.
July 25, 2019, 12:26 pm
Raw edge to new arts festival
The line-up of local and international artists performing at the inaugural Festival of Jewish Arts and Music (FOJAM) has been announced, writes Danny Gocs.
Galit Klas strides centre stage as she is watched by fellow performers in Yiddish Divas.
Photo: Jon Moss
June 5, 2019, 10:57 am
Yiddish flavour to cabaret festival
This year the Melbourne Cabaret Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary with highlights including Yiddish Divas and a tribute show to Amy Winehouse.
Animated action in the Danish hit, Checkered Ninja.
May 2, 2019, 2:12 pm
Festival of films just for kids
From adventure to animation, children aged four to 14 can delight in some of the world's best movies and shorts in the Children’s International Film Festival.
Evelyn Krape stars in Can You Hear Me
February 13, 2019, 11:42 am
Winning feeling at Tropfest
Seasoned stage and screen performer Evelyn Krape was thrilled at being selected joint best actress at the Tropfest short film festival for the seven-minute dark comedy Can You Hear Me?
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