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Ben Gorodetsky
Digital Storytellers Lab
2026-2027 Fellow
We Meat Again
Host Ben Gorodetsky has been a vegetarian for 20+ years, but the call of the deli counter has become too powerful to ignore. This humourous doc-series follows Ben as he visits Jewish delis all over North America, sampling their meaty masterpieces and digging into the history, culture, and idiosyncrasies of Jewish deli meat.
Ben Gorodetsky is a Jewish Ukrainian-Canadian theatre, movement, and video artist based in Kitchener. Their work has been presented by The Art Gallery of Ontario, CAFKA, Movement Research at Judson Church, The Tank NYC, and LUMEN. Ben is the founder-director of the award-winning Pinch Arts Company. He was the 2022 artist-in-residence with Guelph Dance Fest, winner of the Edmonton Emerging Artist Award, recipient of the Anna Pidruchney Young Writers Award, and a nominee for a Canadian Comedy Award and a Waterloo Region Arts Award. They’re the creator and executive producer of "MY PET ATE WHAT!?" a docuseries for CTV Wild. Ben holds an MFA from Brooklyn College-CUNY, a BFA from the University of Alberta, and teaches video and performance at UWaterloo.
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