Ashkenaz Festival

The Ashkenaz Foundation is best known for producing the biennial Ashkenaz Festival at Harbourfront Centre in downtown Toronto. This amazing festival, held every two summers, is North America's largest festival of global Jewish music, art and culture. Join us over Labour Day weekend 2014! We also present a slate of high-quality year-round programming. Details at www.ashkenazfestival.com Founded in 1995, the Ashkenaz Foundation is dedicated to increasing awareness and appreciation of Yiddish and Jewish culture through the arts. Through its internationally-renowned, biennial “Ashkenaz Festival,” and an expanding slate of year-round programming, Ashkenaz showcases the work of leading contemporary artists from Canada and around the world working in all artistic disciplines. Ashkenaz’s mandate and programming encompasses the entire array of pan-Jewish music and art, including Sephardic, Ladino and Mizrachi traditions, and also strongly emphasizes fusion and cross-cultural exchange with artists from outside Jewish cultural traditions. Ashkenaz places a strong emphasis on local and emerging talent, as well as on education and community outreach. Ashkenaz forges partnerships with other entities and like-minded organizations in areas of overlapping interest or cause.