Jewish Senior Citizen’s Centre

Young At Heart Choir Rehersals
2025-10-27 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-03 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Edmonton) | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Will start rehearsals on Mondays at 10am.
Join our wonderful choir!
Choir fee is $50 for the Fall-Winter period (you will receive a $25 tax receipt). All choir participants must be paid members of the Centre.
All choir participants must be paid members of the Centre.

Lunch Menu | October 28
2025-10-28 00:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Birthday Lunch

Birthday Tuesdays
2025-10-28 12:00 - 13:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Every last Tuesday of the month join us to celebrate your friends’ birthdays with music, special lunch and fun! Sponsor cake or entertainment, order a special card from the office or create a unique Power Point presentation to surprise your friends!

Lunch & Learn
2025-10-28 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-30 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-04 12:00 - 13:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Every Tuesday & Thursday 12p.m. – 1:00p.m. join us for Lunch & Learn program. Our lunch-and-learn program is a fantastic way to receive important information. All speakers are invited based on members’ requests for essential topics.

Lunch Menu | October 29
2025-10-29 00:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Special Lunch

Conversational Russian Club
2025-10-29 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-11-05 13:00 - 14:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Practice your conversational Russian with Russian-speakers. Have fun and enjoy new experiences!

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
2025-10-29 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-11-05 13:00 - 15:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Instructor: Prof Emeritus Michael Roeder Fee: Members $75 Non-members $95
Leopold Mozart (1719-87) took his prodigy children, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-91) and Maria Anna (“Nannerl” 1751-1829), on tour to display and exploit their gifts and to expose the boy to music and musicians in important musical centres of Europe. We will join W. A. Mozart on some of his journeys to discover various influences on his developing compositional style. By the time of his move from his birthplace in Salzburg to Vienna in 1781, Mozart had assimilated and merged these diverse musical influences into a remarkable personal style.
Mozart was the master of every medium and musical genre current in his time. His music, along with that of Haydn (1732-1809) and Beethoven (1770-1827), represents the height of the Viennese Classical style.
Mozart’s music runs the gamut from light entertainment music (divertimenti and serenades) to the most profound and deeply moving chamber music, symphonies, concertos, choral music, and, above all, operas, which were his passion. We will explore examples from each category in varying degrees of depth. Some works, like Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550, Piano Concerto in B-Flat, K. 456, String Quintet in G minor, K. 516; Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola in E-flat Major, K. 364, and the opera Don Giovanni, will be studied in greater detail. Excellent audio and video recordings will enhance our experience.
Please join in this remarkable musical journey!

From Page to Screen: Film Adaptations of Jane Austen’s Masterpieces
2025-10-29 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-11-04 13:00 - 15:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Instructor: Professor Emerita Nora Foster Stovel, Ph.D. | Fee: Members $75 | Non-Members $95
Please Join Prof. Stovel, from the University of Alberta’s Department of English and Film Studies, in viewing one of the most appealing film adaptations of each of Jane Austen’s literary genius, and finish with a vote on the success of each adaptation and a final ranking by you, the audience, of the six recent movies.

Chess Club
2025-10-29 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-11-05 13:00 - 15:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Join our experienced players to enhance your skills in this strategic game. We have enough chess sets. Come and find new partners for this game.

Whimsical Wednesdays
2025-10-29 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-11-05 13:00 - 15:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Join a day of Fun, Friendship & Craft!
Do you play or want to play Canasta, Cribbage, Scrabble, Mah Jongg or other card/board games?
This is a day when you can do whatever your heart desires!
What’s more?
We offer a special light lunch that day for $10 only.
Please inform the Office about your game of choice!

Mamaloshen – Yiddish Club
2025-10-29 13:30 - 15:30, 2025-11-05 13:30 - 15:30 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
All interested in conversational Yiddish, regardless of level, are welcome. Great atmosphere and a lot of fun!
Please register with the Office to receive the Zoom link for meetings.

Emilio De Mercato performs for You at the Centre with Bert Malo as MC
2025-10-29 18:00 - 19:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Wednesday, October 29th at 6:00p.m. Fee: $40 (including a glass of Sangria (red or white) & hors d’oeuvre)
Program
L. V. Beethoven
Sonata Quasi una Fantasia in C-sharp minor Op.27 No.2 “Moonlight”
Adagio Sostenuto
Allegretto
Presto agitato
F. Chopin
Nocturne in B-flat minor Op.9 No.1
Nocturne in C-sharp minor Op.27 No.1
Scherzo in B minor No.1 Op.20
——— Intermission ———
S. Rachmaninoff
Prelude in C-sharp minor Op.3 No.2
Prelude in G minor Op.23 No.5
F. Liszt
Sonetto del Petrarca No.104
Après une lecture du Dante (Fantasia quasi Sonata)
Emilio De Mercato
Italian concert pianist, composer and conductor, Emilio De Mercato holds Master’s Degrees in Piano and in Composition from the Conservatory of Music “Giuseppe Verdi” in Milan, Italy, and the Konzertdiplom in Piano from the Hochschule für Musik in Bern, Switzerland. Since his move to Canada in 2012, he has been a featured pianist and conductor on many stages, performing in numerous tours and festivals. Since 2015 he is the founder and Music Director of the Alberta Symphony Orchestra which presented events such as Symphony of Hope, Celebrate The Season at the Alberta Legislature Building, A Stradivarius for the People, Tribute to Renoir, Music in the Air, Ode to Humanity 2022/23 Series, Verdi-ssimo, and Tribute to Glenn Gould for Canada’s 150th anniversary at the Winspear Centre for Music in partnership with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, featuring 55-piece ASO and Emilio as the pianist and conductor. In 2017 Emilio debuted in a piano recital at the renowned 63rd Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Italy. He is a member of the Piano Faculty at the Mount Royal University Conservatory in Calgary. In 2025 Emilio performed a Piano Tour with stops in Edmonton, Red Deer, Calgary, Ottawa, Vancouver, leading up to his piano recital debut in New York at the Carnegie Hall. Full biography and concerts schedule available at www.emiliodemercato.com.

Lunch Menu | October 30
2025-10-30 00:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Moroccan Peanut SoupMac & Cheese
Salad & Dessert

Muscle in Motion with Anna Kratochvil | In-person or Online
2025-10-30 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-06 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Use Balls, Bands & Weights to Exercise & Laugh
Thursdays @ 11:00a.m.
https://us02web.Zoom.us/j/82287922466
Fee: $7 drop-in or card of 10 classes $60

When the Elephant Goes Rogue: Canada-US relations from 1945-2025
2025-10-30 13:00 - 15:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Instructor: Prof Emerita Elizabeth Smythe Fee: Members $75 Non-members $95
This course will deal with Canada-US relations from the post WWII period to the present.
As Pierre Elliot Trudeau once remarked about dealing with the US. It is like:
sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
That remark captures two aspects of the reality of the relationship. One is the size and capacity of the United States economically and militarily and, thus, given Canada’s proximity and dependence on the US, its capacity to harm Canada. Second, while Canada is often depicted as the closest ally and best friend of the US, that relationship is much more complicated and driven not so much by shared values as material interests. The course will examine relations thematically, rather than chronologically, focussing on three main themes:

Borders, security and defence
Trade, investment and economic integration,
Political and diplomatic issues

The themes will be approached from a Canadian perspective looking at these relationships and key actors including national leaders, parties, corporations and sub-national governments (e.g. provinces). The course will address the perennial question: can Canada be fully sovereign and independent, especially in periods when it is facing unpredictable and hostile actions from the elephant? If so, how?

Lunch Menu | November 3
2025-11-03 00:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Mushroom SoupBagel & Lox
Salad & Dessert

YOGA Classes | Online or In-Person
2025-11-03 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom
YOGA Classes
We are looking forward to seeing all of you on Monday mornings at 9:00am to 10:00am.
Monday mornings @ 9:00a.m.–10:00a.m.
Old and new faces are very WELCOME in-person & via Zoom!
Please register
https://tinyurl.com/297jwcb4

Fee: $7 drop-in or card of 10 classes $60
Instructor:

Sandy Mah

Lunch Menu | November 4
2025-11-04 00:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
Broccoli SoupMushroom Stroganoff
Salad & Dessert

Lunch Menu | November 5
2025-11-05 00:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada

Lunch Menu | November 6
2025-11-06 00:00 | The Centre, 10052-117 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5K 1X2, Canada
BorschtVeggie Au Gratin
Salad & Dessert
