Bringing Light and Hope: Dorot Chanukah Program
with JUNO award-winning artist Lenka Lichtenberg
Tuesday, December 12, 11:30 am
The Dorot Committee is pleased to announce and embark on a very special collaboration with Concerts in Care, bringing concert-hall quality music to the Dorot program for our Wisdom Generation!
Our Chanukah celebration marks the launch of a new collaboration that will bring four terrific concerts to the Dorot program at Holy Blossom Temple.
Concerts in Care Ontario will coordinate with Barbara Glaser Chairperson of the Dorot Committee, to curate a program that offers excellence, variety, and fun!
Lenka Lichtenberg will imbue light to brighten our day with a thoughtful selection of Chanukah songs, Yiddish and cantorial selections and even songs from her JUNO-award-winning album Thieves of Dreams. Followed by lunch catered by Holy Grounds Cafe.
Concerts in Care Ontario enriches the lives of seniors, offering them the best quality live music performed by distinguished professionals. Concerts in Care brings joy to seniors wherever they live and strengthens community by creating shared experiences for residents, their families, and caregivers. This year they will perform 440 concerts from Ottawa to Elliot Lake to London and all points in between.
Cost: $15 for Members, $18 for Non-Members.
The Dorot program is generously sponsored by Carole and Jay Sterling and Family.
Lenka Lichtenberg was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Once in Canada, she received her B.Ed. from the University of British Columbia and a Master’s Degree in Ethnomusicology from York University. Lenka tours internationally; this year, she performed in five countries in Europe in June, and in Brazil and Argentina in November.
Lenka has released seven solo albums and several international collaborations. She has received multiple awards and nominations, including two Canadian Folk Music Awards, an Independent Music Award and Global Music Award.
Lenka’s latest project Thieves of Dreams has brought her work international attention and the 2023 JUNO Award for Global Music Album of the Year. Thieves of Dreams is based on recently found booklets of poetry that her grandmother wrote while imprisoned in the concentration camp Theresienstadt for two and a half years during WW2. Lenka presents this intimate yet powerful project in venues in Canada and abroad, both with an ensemble and as a multimedia one-woman show, and is preparing to publish a book of her grandmother’s poems in English translation.
Since 2020, Lenka lives on a farm near Rice Lake in Eastern Ontario with her husband and two lovable rescue dogs, growing vegetables and feeling gratitude.
