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KlezKanada was founded in 1996 to teach, nurture and present to a broad public the best of Jewish traditional arts and Yiddish/Jewish culture. Its goal is to foster Yiddish and Jewish cultural and artistic creativity worldwide as both an ethnic heritage and a constantly evolving contemporary culture and identity. From its start as a small summer festival, KlezKanada has become one of the leading Yiddish/Jewish cultural organizations in the world. KlezKanada is an incubator for many of the most exciting international developments in the Jewish world, providing programming that includes music, dance, drama, visual arts, language and literature, film and other forms of expressive culture.

We hope you will join us for our world-renowned KlezKanada Summer Institute and year-round programming.