Events at this location

Single and divorced moms, join us for an evening of connection! This group is designed to foster a growing need in our community for support around raising children for single and divorced mothers. Members of the group help support each other by sharing their challenges and successes around trying to find a balance between work, life, single motherhood, and raising children. Occasional guest speakers will be invited to join, childcare and dinner is provided at no cost.

5 – 5:30 pm – Dinner together
5:30 – 7 pm – Children in a separate room as moms and moms meet

Tuesday, April 30 | 5 – 7 pm | FREE

During this 4-week “Mindful Aging” group, explore the opportunities and challenges we face as we reflect on the past year and transition into the High Holidays with Rabbi Eva Sax-Boulder. Where have we come and what intentions do we bring into the new year? Open to all those who identify as female age 60 . It is strongly recommended to buy the required reading Wise Aging before the start of the group.

Topics will include tshuva – asking and offering forgiveness; reflecting on what this time in life means – letting go and embracing the new reality; setting intentions for living more mindfully, joyfully and compassionately as part of the aging journey. Together we will explore using mindfulness practices like journaling, meditation, art expression, study, and sharing as tools for connecting to ourselves and others.

Rabbi Eva Sax-Bolder served as the Rabbi of The Shul of New York until moving to Boulder in the summer of 2021. She currently serves as the Rosh Hashpa’ah, head of spiritual direction for the ALEPH Ordination Program, and maintains a private practice as a spiritual companion. Rabbi Eva has facilitated Wise Aging groups in synagogue and community settings for many years, integrating aspects of her training in meditation, mindfulness, mussar and the expressive arts.

Thursdays, May 2 – 30 | 10:30 am – 12 pm | $78

Love to read? Join Women of the J at the Boulder JCC for a casual discussion of To Die Beautiful by Buzzy Jackson. Create new friendships, read more, and have great conversations. Feel free to attend, even if you haven’t finished the book!

Thursday, May 2 | 7 – 8:30 pm | FREE

“Sha-bbat, Sha-lom, Hay!” Join us on the First Friday, November through May, for a Farmside Shabbat Sing. We’ll sing Shabbat songs, read a story, explore the farm, and welcome Shabbat with the blessings of the candles, challah, and grape juice. Celebrate the songs and traditions in an open, inclusive, and accessible environment. Everyone is welcome but geared toward kids 0-5 and their caregivers.

We will plan to be outside just east of the barn or in the Greenhouse unless the weather makes those spaces inaccessible. In the event that we can’t be on the farm, we will email you Thursday evening and let you know to meet in the JCC library.

Advance registration is required once for the November through May series.

First Friday of the Month (November – May) | 9:30 – 10:15 am | FREE

Single and divorced moms, join us for an evening of connection! This group is designed to foster a growing need in our community for support around raising children for single and divorced mothers. Members of the group help support each other by sharing their challenges and successes around trying to find a balance between work, life, single motherhood, and raising children. Occasional guest speakers will be invited to join, childcare and dinner is provided at no cost.

5 – 5:30 pm – Dinner together
5:30 – 7 pm – Children in a separate room as moms and moms meet

Tuesday, May 7 | 5 – 7 pm | FREE

Serendipity isn’t found — it’s made. With no-nonsense advice and practical takeaways for happiness and success in life, motivational powerhouse, Harvard Business Review writer, and Google executive, Jenny Wood, will share with us the truth about what it takes to get what you want. Most importantly, a success mindset comes before success itself.

Wood will present actionable tactics to gain goal-chasing confidence with small yet consistent changes in your mindset—and as a result—minimizing imposter syndrome, empowering yourself, and making the impossible…well…likely.

Jenny Wood is an executive at Google running a large operations team that helps drive tens of billions of revenue per year. She is also the founder of Own Your Career, one of the largest career development programs in Google’s history with tens of thousands of people benefitting, and the author of the popular Big Small Things newsletter where she shares actionable career tips. To learn more about Jenny, please visit her website.

7 – 8 pm: Presentation and Q&A with Jenny Wood
8- 8:30 pm: Dessert Reception

Join us in welcoming the legendary music entrepreneur and Former President and CEO of AEG Presents Rocky Mountains, Chuck Morris for a behind-the-scenes glimpse into Colorado’s rich music history. 

Chuck Morris is a legend in the music industry and has been a driving force in the Colorado music community for over 50 years. From starting the renowned Tulagi nightclub in Boulder in 1970 to founding Colorado State University’s new music-business program, Chuck Morris has brought the best that music has to offer our community.

Social with light fare immediately following the program.

Unite with the people of Israel in commemorating the legacy and sacrifice of fallen soldiers and terror victims.

Using nature as the inspiration, make ceramic flowers and decorate them using a variety of textures and glazes. In this fun workshop with Ceramicist Rita Vali, explore shape, texture, and color in clay. No experience is needed and all materials will be provided.

Rita Vali loves teaching ceramics and making art accessible to a wide audience as a way to give back to the community. Her art projects inform and inspire connection on many levels – beauty, history, and as a celebration of color and life. Rita loves teaching ceramics and making art accessible to a wide audience as a way to give back to the community.

Thursday, May 16 | 10 am – 2 pm | $60

Join us at the Boulder JCC Messinger Art Gallery for an artist opening with Mark Vilarreal. Take part in beautiful art, socialize with art patrons, and nosh on light fare.

Mark Villarreal has been an Abstract painter for 40 years. This ten-year survey of work was inspired by his travels to Europe and Cuba, jazz standards from the 1950’s through the 1960‘s and Byzantine painting of the 13th -14th centuries. It is this eclectic framework, with the art of the Italian Renaissance at the center, that has provided him with a unique and individual vocabulary of abstraction. His compositions retain a unifying lyricism of line, while subsets of interrupted shapes hang in the balance. Shapes collide and are suspended within the picture plane, nearly submerged by overlays of color or visually obstructed by opaque color blocks that recede and come forward with a kinesthetic reflex.

Mark earned his BFA at The Kansas City Art Institute. Upon returning to his home in Colorado, Mark established an extensive exhibition record that includes the Denver Art Museum, The Dairy Arts Center, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art along with several commercial galleries in Denver and Santa Fe. His work is featured in private collections in Colorado and beyond. Mark has served on the The Dairy Art Center board for two years and the Boulder Arts Commission for 5 years, two of these years as the chair.

In this YouTube Original program, hosts Idina Menzel, Ilana Glazer and Moshe Kasher are joined by Jewish leaders in art, culture, faith, food, and entertainment, to dine and discuss their Jewish heritage, the rise of antisemitism and its effects on the Jewish community.  On December 16, “Recipe for Change: Standing Up To Antisemitism” won the Emmy Award for Best Daytime Special. The program, subtitled, “Dinner, Discussions and Jewish identity,” celebrates Jewish culture through the lens of food and conversation. 

Following the screening of this 50 minute documentary, Todd Shotz will be in conversation with Susan Rona. Todd  Shotz isa television producer, Jewish educator, and leading consultant on Jewish representation  in both film and television.  He is the consulting producer Of Recipe for Change.  Shotz is the founder of the Jewish education company Hebrew Helpers, as well as a filmmaker and Jewish technical advisor for film and TV.

Susan Rona is a Strategic Development Consultant. Facilitator. Mediator. and Philanthropic Advisor.  Susan spent 10 years working with the Boulder JCC as a professional and lay leader, having a pivotal role in the funding and development of the new Boulder JCC.

6:30 pm Dinner
7 pm Film Screening
8 pm Conversation with Todd and Susan