Early start!: Shabbat night in Quality Hotel Augustin. Gerard Edery, American cantor, opera singer and artist, will guide us through this Shabbat evening with songs and music from the Sephardic tradition. There will be a sample of several of the festival’s artists and a three-course dinner from the Jewish kitchen. (New menu this year)

Popular event that is quickly sold out due to a limited number of places.

Tickets including a three-course meal: 530 NOK. Beverages charged separately.

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Family performance: Queen Esther. Storytelling theatre for families with children from three years onwards. Queen Esther is the history from the Old Testament about the brave queen who saved her people. Esther invites the king to dinner and dares to ask for something that can be scary for herself. Esther is very brave and rescues, not only herself, but her entire people. Also played on Sunday, September 1st at 11:00. With Madeleine Brandtzæg Nilsen and Ibrahim Fazlic. Director and script, Rita Abrahamsen – costumes, Jenny Hilmo Teig.

Actors: Madeleine Brandtzæg Nilsen and Ibrahim Fazlic
Direction and adaptation: Rita Abrahamsen
Costume: Jenny Hilmo Teig

Tickets. Children free. Adults: 150 NOK. Students and pensioners: 100 NOK. Family ticket: 200 NOK.

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The festival’s traditional opening performance with speeches, interviews and performances with festival artists. Minister of Education and Integration Jan Tore Sanner opens this year’s festival. Location: Synagogue, Architect Christies gate 1B.

Ticket price: NOK 90, – when buying online. NOK 120, – when buying a ticket at the counter.

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Blues in Yiddish is the trademark of French-Jewish vocal artist Talila. She sings many of the classic songs, such as Mein Yiddishe Mame, Bei mir bis du shein, and many more in her very personal French chanson-like style. Talila was born in France by Polish parents, and what was their world is strongly present in Talila’s artistic expression. On the repertoire, she also has several American Yiddish songs we know from the 1930s and later. Teddy Lasry, clarinet, Jeremy Lasry, guitar, percussion, piano, accordion, Pierre Mortarelli, double bass.

Tickets. Children free. Adults: 250 NOK/100 NOK (Students )/200 NOK (Pensioners)

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Concert / lecture. The Sephardic tradition presented by cantor, musician and artist Gerard Edery. Double bass: Sebastian Wypych. Gerard Edery brings together different Jewish traditions both musically and linguistically. Edery is an experienced musician and artist and in this concert he explores folk music with emphasis on the Sephardic culture, which originated from the Jews of Moorish Spain before the year 1400.

Tickets. Children free. Adults: 250 NOK/100 NOK (Students )/200 NOK (Pensioners)

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Dance course in Jewish folk dance / ring dance. Dance teacher: Heléne Don Lind. The London Klezmer Quartet plays for dance.

Tickets: 50 NOK

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Lecture and introduction to the exhibition by curator and historian Tor Einar Fagerland. The exhibition allows visitors to meet the stories of a selection individuals from Trondheim and who became victims in Holocaust during World War II. The exhibition also includes a newly developed app. In collaboration with the Jewish Museum Trondheim.

Ticket price: NOK 90, – when buying online. NOK 120, – when buying a ticket at the counter.

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Exhibition opening. Kabbalah! An exhibition on the Jewish theological philosophy of Kabbalah. Introduction by historian of religion Gabriel Levy and rabbi Avi Roitman. The lectures are held in English language.

Ticket price: 90, – when buying online. NOK 120, – when buying a ticket at the counter.

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Pop-rock klezmer band from Gothenburg. The group is playing rock-inspired, modern klezmer music – based on Jewish traditional music. Zimmes blends elements of rock, punk and pop. Welcome to a playful and great atmosphere. With the musicians: Max Wulfson – violin / vocals, Klas Richardsson, drums, Nils Kristensson, bass, Martin Holmund, guitar.

TIckets: 320 NOK/ 100 NOK (student)/ 265 NOK (pensioners)

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Evening chill with Talila and her band. The French singer takes us on a jazz-inspired musical journey in an intimate bar concert at the festival hotel.

Tickets: 150 NOK/100 NOK (students/pensioners)

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Family performance: Queen Esther. Storytelling theatre for families with children from three years onwards. Queen Esther is the history from the Old Testament about the brave queen who saved her people. Esther invites the king to dinner and dares to ask for something that can be scary for herself. Esther is very brave and rescues, not only herself, but her entire people. Also played on Sunday, September 1st at 11:00. With Madeleine Brandtzæg Nilsen and Ibrahim Fazlic. Director and script, Rita Abrahamsen – costumes, Jenny Hilmo Teig.

Actors: Madeleine Brandtzæg Nilsen and Ibrahim Fazlic
Direction and adaptation: Rita Abrahamsen
Costume: Jenny Hilmo Teig
Tickets. Children free. Adults: 150 NOK. Students and pensioners: 100 NOK. Family ticket: 200 NOK.

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On the basis of her book “What Did the Resistance Movement Know? The Holocaust in Norway: The Warnings, the Evations, the Secrecy,” author and journalist Marte Michelet will speak about the period after the book was published. In conversation with cultural historian Anette Homlong Storeide, NTNU

Ticket price: 90, – when buying online. NOK 120, – when buying a ticket at the counter.

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In this year’s panel conversation we ask a number of questions concerning how Holocaust should be passed on to new generations. In the panel we meet writer and journalist Marte Michelet, director Christian Wee at the Falstadsenteret, historian Ingjerd Veiden Brakstad and Roar Ræstad, author and high school teacher. ​Snorre Valen leads the panel. Tickets: NOK 90, – buy online. NOK 120, – when buying a ticket at the counter.

Ticket price: 90, – when buying online. NOK 120, – when buying a ticket at the counter.

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Among the UK’s best klezmer bands, which has performed with old and new material since 2009. The group wants to bring the audience from joyful dance in one moment to tears in the next. Klezmer is a music genre rooted in Eastern European Jewish folk music. Ilana Kraviz, violin Susan Evans, clarinet Carol Isaacs, accordion, Indra Pilskalne, double base.

Tickets: 290 NOK/ 100 NOK (Students)/ 240 NOK (Pensioners)

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The festival’s annual city tour. ​Featuring religious leader of the Jewish Community in Trondheim Ralph Buchmann.

Ticket price: 90, – when buying online. NOK 120, – when buying a ticket at the counter.

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Visitors will receive a guided tour of the museum’s exhibition “From Shtetl to the City of Foundation”, about Jewish immigration, and this year’s new exhibition “Home. Gone. Holocaust in Trondheim”.

Ticket price: 90, – when buying online. NOK 120, – when buying a ticket at the counter.

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Kabbalah is an ancient interpretation of the Torah, the Hebrew Bible. Kabbalah is one of the main traditions of Jewish theological philosophy. Lecture by rabbi and conveys in Kabbalah, Avi Roitman. The lecture is held in English.

Ticket price: 90, – when buying online. NOK 120, – when buying a ticket at the counter.

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Lecture by the Norwegian author and long-time correspondent in Paris, Vibeke Knoop Rachline.Arraneged I collaboration with The House of Litterature, Trondheim.

Ticket price: 90, – when buying online. NOK 120, – when buying a ticket at the counter.

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For the first time in Trondheim we get to experience the legendary clarinetist and klezmer virtuoso Giora Feidman. Feidman is known for being a “grand old man” in klezmer music, which has also become the hallmark of this festival. Together with his trio, Giora Feidman is still touring at the age of 83. The trio’s repertoire is very varied. The core of the program is traditional klezmer, arranged by Giora Feidman. We also get to hear classical pieces, jazz and folk. With Giora Feidman, clarinet, Guido Jaeger, double base, Michael Leontchick, cymbalom, Enrique Ugarte, accordion, Arranged in collaboration with Trondheim World Music Festival

Tickets: 350 NOK / 100 NOK (Students) / 290 NOK (Pensioners)

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