The Chai Folk Ensemble in Winnipeg - North America's oldest and largest Israeli folk dance ensemble

Ethno Fit - Dance/Exercise Workshop

Fantastic Dance/Exercise Workshop - open to everyone 14 years of age and older - all fitness levels! Call 477-7497 to register. Click the graphic above for more details.

Chai Releases 5th Album

We are excited to announce the release of our 5th album “WANDERINGS”.

The album is now available through the Chai Office or McNally Robinson Bookstore in Grant Park. You can also order online by going to our order form. We are set up on CD Baby for downloads of individual songs or our whole album. You can access CD Baby on our order form.

Calling all alumni! Please sign up as a friend to keep informed about our 50th anniversary plans. Encourage all alumni friends to do the same.

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The Chai Folk Ensemble has been widely acclaimed as North America's oldest and largest Israeli folk dance ensemble. Founded in 1964 by the late Sarah Sommer, Chai has built an international reputation for the unique blend of international dance, music and song that gives it its name...Hebrew for "alive".

A truly all-encompassing Jewish cultural experience, Chai is made up of more than 40 dancers, singers and musicians. It is the only Israeli folk ensemble in North America to perform exclusively to live musical accompaniment.

HOLD THE DATE! Sunday afternoon, April 29
Chai and Congregation Etz Chayim and ANNA MAGAZINE! Watch for information coming soon.

HOLD THE DATE! Sunday, June 24, 7:00 pm
Come for a drive to Winkler, Manitoba to their beautiful PW Enns Theatre and see the Chai Folk Ensemble perform. More information coming soon.

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Dare To Dream Tickets Tickets now on sale for Monday, March 19, 7:00 pm at the Winnipeg Centennial Concert Hall. Winnipeg Broadway Theatre presents "Dare to Dream", a charity fundraiser to help fight cancer in Manitoba. Chai is one of the cultural acts that has been chosen to perform in the first half of the show. The second half features "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat" with our own Justin Odwak starring as Joseph. Tickets are $18 each and available in the Chai office.

Photographs by Keith Levit