As part of our 25th anniversary celebration, we’re excited to premiere this new 7 minute featurette about the making of the Ashkenaz Parade in 1997 and 1999. In those years, the Parade began in Kensington Market’s Bellevue Square Park and proceeded down Spadina Avenue through the heart of 'old' Jewish Toronto, before culminating at the festival's Harbourfront Centre site. It was a truly astonishing spectacle, audacious in its vision and flawless in execution, with massive participation from the community. The poignant symbolism of this physical and existential journey from old to new was a perfect metaphor of the Ashkenaz Festival itself.

Filmmaker David Hoffert has done a wonderful job of assembling recently-unearthed footage from those years, shot by David A. Stein z"l and Chad Derrick, including interviews with Ashkenaz Parade co-creators Anne Barber and Brad Harley of Shadowland Theatre. This is also a nice setup for the last pop-up show of "Ashkenaz 2020: Live and From the Archive," on Monday at 4pm, in which Toronto Klezmer Society will bring us a parade set from Kensington Market.
Check out more video from past Ashkenaz Parades right here on our YouTube channel.
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