JQT Vancouver’s 2021 Hanukkah Hotties share holiday traditions via livestream, November 28 to December 5
The Jewish Queer & Trans non-profit organization hosts live chats with artists and activists while Hanukkah candles burn for each night of the holiday
The Klezbians.
JQT Vancouver presents 2021 Hanukkah Hotties from November 28 to December 5 streaming via Facebook.
JQT VANCOUVER HAS assembled a sizzling lineup of Hanukkah Hotties this year for its daily Facebook livestreams, where each guest will light their chanukiyah or share another tradition while chatting about their life, art, activism, and intersecting Jewish, queer, trans identities for the duration of the candles’ burning.
Carmel Tanaka, founder and executive director of JQT (pronounced “J-cutie”) Vancouver, who identifies as a queer, neurodivergent, Jewpanese woman of colour, hosts.
“We have lined up an impressive guest list of intergenerational queer/trans Jews who hold intersecting identities that include but are not limited to Indigenous, autistic, ADHD, Jews of Colour (Black, Asian, Persian, Latinx), polyamorists, subsistence farmers, drag performers, musicians, authors, illustrators, animators, comics—all queering Jewish space and Jewifying queer space with their art and activism, which aligns with JQT's mission,” Tanaka tells Stir.
The event is sponsored by CANBC (Creating Accessible Neighbourhoods), a local non-profit advocacy organization for the disability community.
Here’s the lineup:
Candle 1 (November 28, 7 pm): Karen Newmoon, an Indigenous Jew-ish subsistence farmer in Johnsons Landing, B.C.
Candle 2 (November 29, 7 pm): Jersey Noah, a Jewish (Sephardi/Ashkenazi) transgender, autistic stoner in Oakland, Calif.
Candle 3 (November 30, 7 pm): Adam W. McKinney / LaShawnah Tovah, a gay, Black, Native Jewish artist, and co-director of DNAWORKS in Fort Worth, Tex.
Candle 4 (December 1, 1:30 pm): Aviva Chernick, a queer, Jewish artist, and voice and meditation teacher in Toronto, Ont.
Candle 5 (December 2, 7 pm): The Empress Mizrahi, a nonbinary/queer Persian Jewish Instagram content creator and activist in Los Angeles, Calif.
Candle 6 (December 3, 7 pm): The Klezbians, a band of unruly, chutzpah-licious musicians from the Isle of Klezbos in Victoria.
Candle 7 (December 4, 7 pm): Saul Freedman-Lawson and S. Bear Bergman. Freedman-Lawson is a student and illustrator in Toronto and Bergman is trans writer and educator from Toronto.Shamash candle (December 5, 9 am): Tikva Wolf, a cartoonist in Asheville, N.C. (Cherokee territory).
Candle 8 (December 5, 7 pm): Ari Fremder, a nonbinary, autistic, Latinx artist/animator and JQT Dream Team member in Vancouver.
Closed captioning will be provided, and JQT volunteers aim to post edited closed-captioning videos on Facebook and YouTube two to three days after each interview.
JQT Vancouver’s origins go back to the summer of 2018, when grassroots committee of Jewish LGBTQ2SIA+ community representatives and Jewish organizations came together to celebrate the inaugural community-wide Jewish Pride initiative. They put on the Shabbat Dinner with Pride Colours and the Jewish Community Tent at Pride Sunset Beach Festival. Filling a gap when it came to events for LGBTQ2SIA+ Jewish people all year round JQT Vancouver came to be that fall.
For more information, visit JQT Vancouver.
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