UK Jewish Film The Venice Ghetto, 500 Years of Life + The Guitar, CCA Wed 22 June, 2016

UK Jewish Film
The Venice Ghetto, 500 Years of Life + The Guitar
Wed 22 June 2016
7.30pm, £8 (Tickets available on the door), Cinema
18+
0141 352 4900
The Venice Ghetto, 500 Years of Life
The remarkable story of Venice, the oldest ghetto in Europe, is reconstructed in this fascinating documentary told through the eyes of a Jewish teenager. Lorenzo, born and raised in New York, is guided through Jewish Venice, exploring its origins and the eclectic panoply of experiences that have formed its glorious history. As Lorenzo enters a world unknown to him, his youthful curiosity melds with a myriad of stories built over centuries of unmatched cultural richness.
Screened with short film The Guitar, one of the two 2015 winning Pears Short Film Fund Shorts.
Tucked away in the North East of England, in the heart of working class post-industrial Tyneside, is something quite remarkable and unexpected: one of the most Orthodox Jewish communities in the world. And yet cheek by jowl with this ancient Jewish way of life is modern, secular Tyneside. An extraordinary story of two different worlds colliding unexpectedly together.
Centre for Contemporary Arts
350 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow G2 3JD
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