On Wednesday, June 26th, the Boulder JCC will participate in Bike to Work Day Colorado. Walk, bike, or take public transit to celebrate sustainable transportation, improve the region's greenhouse gas emissions, and reduce traffic congestion.
According to two on-site experts, around 15,000 people visited the 28th Boulder Jewish Festival on Sunday, and — almost as a “make-up” for 2023’s deluge — the weather was delightful. Twenty-seven organizations, including roughly ten first-timers, met the crowd on the Courthouse Lawn, while six musical acts entertained on the Pearl St. Mall. Seven artists and five food purveyors rounded out the exhibitors on the Mall and 14th Street. (You can read all about the Festival participants at the Boulder JCC’s Festival page here.)
The start of summer at the Milk and Honey Farm celebrates the first fruits, veggies, and new life on the farm. With the births of the baby goats, we are celebrating the start of summer with Baby Goat Shavuot. Join us at the Milk and Honey Farm for fresh pizza made on the farm with Moxie Bread Company and participate in earth-based Shavuot activities.
Shavuot the “Feast of Weeks,” is celebrated seven weeks after Passover. The Jewish holiday of Shavuot is traditionally connected to receiving the Torah on Mount Sinai, coincides with the biblical wheat harvest, and is a holiday many people associate with eating lots of dairy.
Mark Villarreal, a Boulder-based abstract painter, opened a new exhibition at the Boulder JCC Messinger Gallery. Villarreal, who has been painting for 40 years, draws inspiration through his travels to Europe and Cuba, jazz standards from the 1950s through the 1960s, and the Byzantine paintings of the 13th and 14th centuries. This eclectic framework, with the art of the Italian Renaissance at the center, provided Villarreal with a unique and individual vocabulary of abstraction.