Culture in war: These events give hope in summer
Nine months of war with no end in sight. The Culture Recommendations section returns and hopes to lift spirits with the Meter on Meter poetry festival, a dance festival in Ashdod, a new and fascinating treatise on the stories behind the canonical children’s tales, an illustration exhibition for the book Someone to Run With, a series of exhibitions at the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, and summer activities for children at the National Library.
“Meter on Meter” The 16th Jerusalem Poetry Festival A place to sing
Founded in 2008, the Meter on Meter festival is this time dedicated to celebrating new poetry collections published in the last year and a half. The four days of the festival (July 15-18) will see the participation of 70 poets, artists and lyricists who will take part in 19 meetings, including a poetry party, “beer poetry” events and 14 nano-publications of poetry collections.
The festival will be opened by Yosef Ozer and Lior Sternberg at the award ceremony for the Chaim Gori Tashpad Hebrew Poetry Prize for Poets. The event will take place on Monday, July 15, at 6:00 p.m. in the “Makom Leshira”.
Participants include: Aggie Meshau, Roni Somek, Tehila Hakimi, Amos Noi, Shani Poker, Gilad Meiri, Daniel Oz, Belha Ben Eliyahu, Alex Ben Ari, Noa Shekarji, Tino Moshkovitch, Lee Maman, Kim Midan, Netzer Lau, Maureen Nehedar, Maayan Eitan and more.
The festival events take place in shops, bars and restaurants in the center of Jerusalem. Admission is free
“Ashdodance” – the largest dance festival in Israel Ashdod
The international dance festival “Ashdodance” is starting for the seventh time with the motto “We never stop dancing”. The festival lasts four days, from July 15 to 18. About 2000 dancers from leading dance troupes, folk dance groups and first-class artists will take part in the festival in a mosaic of original productions and unique and fascinating shows.
Sarit Haddad’s participants include Kobi Oz and Rotem Cohen, Odeya, Shiri Maimon, Marina Maximilian, David Broza, Valerie Hamati, Maya Buskila, May Feingold, Einat Sarouf, Or Cohen, Eric Mishali, Livnat Ben Hamo and others. There will also be culinary tours and guided tours of historical sites in the city of Ashdod. The festival events will take place in various centers of the city.
“One act in six stories” | New podcast in “Kan Podcasts”
“One Act in Six Stories,” a new podcast in “Kan Podcasts” about the stories behind the canonical children’s books in Israel. In each of its Rachel episodes, Shira Kadri Ovadia and Yuval Malhi will reveal the unknown stories behind the writing of the classics.
The three will describe the story of how a children’s book came to be through interviews with the authors, illustrators and publishers. In the books, they will explore the history of Israeli culture as a whole: how attitudes towards children and their leisure culture changed over the years of the state, how political and social changes affected the values represented in children’s literature of the time, and how the aesthetics of children’s books changed.
The episodes combine interviews, narrative segments and archive segments, each time merging into a different documentary story.
The first two episodes broadcast: “The Lion Who Loved Strawberries”, in which Nathan Slor, the son of Tirza Atar, is interviewed, and “Ginji”, in which Galila Ron-Feder Amit is interviewed. In an episode of “Ginji”, Ron-Feder Amit reveals the moment when he had the idea to write about the group of children from the Talpiot neighborhood.
A new episode of “The Pot Maker” with Alona Frankel will be released on Thursday, July 11th.
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“Someone to run with”: A new exhibition at Tmol Shilshom | Jerusalem
As part of the events marking the 30th anniversary of the opening of Jerusalem’s unique Tmol Shilshom café, a new exhibition is being presented at the Kir 1 gallery there. Jerusalem artist Leora Weisz created eight illustrations as a tribute to David Grossman’s book Someone to Run With, based on the book’s plot, which unfolds a chase through Jerusalem and reveals the world of homeless boys and girls.
Weisz says, “In the run-up to the exhibition, I wanted to create a spacewalk from the exhibition wall to the rich space of ‘The Day Before Yesterday,’ which is full of objects collected from flea markets and bookshelves. That’s how the painted cats appeared, cats lying everywhere. And just as ‘The Day Before Yesterday’ is very Jerusalem, cats are also Jerusalemites. Far from being cuddly and beautiful, they are hard and hostile, a bit like Jerusalem in Grossman’s book, whose young heroes fight for sympathy and attention.”
Curator: Doron Adar
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Summer activities for children The National Library
A summer of activities for children at the National Library. In a special collaboration with the Jerusalem Street Orchestra, the library will host a series of classical concerts for the whole family and Israeli music in original arrangements in July, sponsored by Janet and Eli Reinhardt.
In the first concert (July 8), the orchestra will perform the magical sounds of Mozart and Mendelssohn; in the second concert (July 15), composer Omri Peled will be the guest and will perform the classical piece “Peter and the Wolf” to the sounds of Sergei Prokofiev. The third concert in the series (July 22) – “Israeli Melody” – will bring a celebration of Israeli musical treasures in original arrangements written especially for the orchestra, from Naomi Shemer to Mashina.
From the end of July to the beginning of August (8.8.-28.7.) there is a special event: “Puff Story – Pillows inspired by children’s stories”. Nine designers, nine pops and nine stories (“The Emperor’s New Clothes”, “Utz-Li Gutz-Li”, Joseph and the Striped Shirt and more) mix together to create a colorful festival of texts and textiles, all of which can and should be touched, climbed on, played with and cuddled.
During the activity, children can also wander among the giant pillows inspired by stories and legends and even take part in a theater performance or design and create their own personalized pouf.
The curator of the exhibition is Hagar Raban, and nine textile and fashion designers work with her: Ofir Ivgi, Bat Dzaveli, Talia Shannon Mozes, Neta Bacharach, Naama Ben Moshe, Stav Forges, Anat Friedman, Tamar Nix and Tamara Efrat.
The activity is aimed at children aged 5-11 years
A new series of exhibitions at the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art Haifa
A new exhibition cluster has opened at the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art in Haifa. The cluster includes three exhibitions, the central one of which is the traveling exhibition of the “JAPAN FOUNDATION” called “Japanese Design Today 100”.
In the exhibition you can see about 110 exhibits designed in Japan, some of them old icons and some new. What they all have in common is the influence of product design on functionality in everyday life both in Japan and abroad.
The second exhibition is the solo exhibition of photographer Michael Sela – “Light on the Skin” – special black and white photographs taken by the artist in Japan. Michael Sela is a young artist living in Japan. When he was 17, his father gave him a Pentax camera, which he used to travel around the world, photographing people he met along the way. The photographs presented by Sela are sensitive, candid and capture moments of life.
“Japanese Sushi Girls” by photographer Hadva Rokah is the third in the series of exhibitions. On view in Dover are 16 photographs in a captivating project by six Japanese-Israeli women who prepared sushi for the fighting soldiers as part of the Swords of Iron War in January 2024.
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