From blintzes to challah, beer brewing to tree planting, the Hazon and Robert E. Loup Jewish Community Center’s annual Celebrate Festival offers something for all ages and interests.
This year’s festival is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 17 at JCC Denver, 350 S. Dahlia St. The cost is $5 per person in advance, $7 at the door, with free admission for children age 2 and under.
The celebration of community, food and family features a full day of do-it-yourself workshops, family programs, food demos and a farmer’s market. The festival honors the Jewish Food Movement, which aims to inspire Jews to lead lives of faith, justice, environmentalism and community through their food.
Participants can eat, drink and savor Jewish culture at workshops such as the Wheat/Barley Harvest, which celebrates Shavuot – the day the Torah was received and the concluding festival of the grain harvest in ancient Israel.
The Challah Workshop takes people on a hands-on journey through the world of challah, from mixing dough to braiding to using allergy-conscious ingredients. Another workshop explores what “kosher” means in a world with GMOs, factory farms and allergies.
Children can experience Ranch Camp, where they’ll meet a llama, goats and chickens. And festival-goers will be able contribute their interpretations of community and family in a daylong communal art project.
The JCC fitness center will feature special programming as part of the festival, such as aquafit, Zumba and yoga classes. The Mizel Arts and Culture Center at the JCC will host a special screening of “Streit’s: Matzo and The American Dream,” a film that tells the story of the Streit’s Matzo factory on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, which opened in 1925.
JCC also is partnering with nearby Ekar Farm – Denver’s urban Jewish farm – for a breakfast event at 8:30 a.m. that includes touring the farm, planting seeds and connecting to Jewish values.
For more information, go to
http://http//hazon.org/calendar/hazon-food-festival-colorado/ or http://http//www.denverjcc.org/celebratefest/.
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