Thursday 08.01
at 20:00

The event is a part of the event programme of the current exhibition, “Silence Over The Abyss”.

Monday 05.01
at 20:00

with Dr. Ariela Azoulai, editor of the book, and “ActiveStills” group members

The event is a part of the event programme of the current exhibition, “Silence Over The Abyss”.

Friday 02.01
at 12:00

Participants: Activestills, Lahav Halevy, Sharif Waked, Gunilla Skold Feiler, David Tartakover, Alex Levac, Sigalit Landau, Avi Mograbi, Dror Feiler, Project “Act of State”, Project “Gaza-Sderot”, Miki Kretsman, David Reeb

Curators: David Reeb, Miki Kretsman, Ishai Menuchin

With: Hagit Keysar and Masha Zusman

Public Committee Against Torture

Program of Events During the Exhibition

Monday 5.1, 20:00
Evening in collaboration with “Etgar” publishers around the book “Act of State: a Photographed History of the Occupation 1967-2007″, with Dr. Ariela Azoulai, editor of the book, and “ActiveStills” group members

Thursday 8.1, 20:00
Screening of the film “Z32″, talk with the film director Avi Mugrabi and “Shovrim Shtika” (”Breaking the Silence)” group representative

Friday 9.1, 10:00
First meeting in the series of meetings on cinema and human rights, organized by PCATI. The meetings will be held at the Kerem Institute and require registration and a symbolic fee. For details, Yoav 054-3368434 / yoav@stoptorture.org.il

Monday 12.1, 20:00
Lecture by Yonatan Mizrachi, “Appearance or Identity: tourism development and its influence on local population. Story of Yemin Moshe neighborhood and Silwan village”. Screening of Natasha Dudinsky’s film “In the Shade of King David”

Thursday 15.1, 20:00
Torture and Representation: a talk with researcher and literary critic Omri Herzog, with Yoav Loeff from PCATI, and others, on torture in reality and literature.

Monday 19.1, 20:00
Project “Gaza-Sderot”
A meeting with Ruby Elimelech (director of Sderot films), Simi Zubib (the project member), Osnat Trabelsi and Arik Bernstein (the project producers)

Thursday 22.1, 20:30
Screening of the film “The Tale of Nicolai and the Law of Return” and meeting with the director David Ofek

Friday 23.1, 11:00
Alternative archeological tour in the ancient Jerusalem: “From Shiloah to Silwan” - www.alt-arch.org. Meeting point: “Givati” parking, in front of the entrance to “City of David” complex in Silwan village

Monday 26.1, 20:00
Screening of the film “Six Floors to Hell”. After the screening meeting with the film director Jonathan Ben Efrat, and the producer Nir Nader, partners in “Video 48″

Thursday 29.1, 20:00
Closing event: Photorgrapher as Archivist. Meeting with Miki Kretsman and the artists participating in the exhibition.

Monday 29.12
at 20:30

After the screening, you are invited to participate in a talk with the film director Shai Carmeli Pollak.

Thursday 25.12
at 19:30

Closing Event of the “Artist Women” Exhibition

Gallery Talk with the curator Pesach Slabosky and the artists participating in the exhibition:

Dvora Agranov, Jenifer Bar Lev, Leora Laor, Smadar Levy, Rina Ezroni, Maya Parnas and Hadas Kedar

Saturday 20.12
at 20:00

Haytham Sharbati - Darbuka,Singing
Tamara Abu-Laban - Singing
Danny Felsteiner - Contrabass
Muhammad Al-Zahayka - Oud, Flutes

Playing traditional arabic music and original compositions, in Hebrew and Arabic

http://www.tariqmusic.com

free entrance

Every Wednesday at 20:00, starting from 17.12

A Close Reading of Plato’s Republic

Instructor: Shlomo Felberbaum

The meetings are conducted in English

Please call 050-5537503 for details

Wednesday 17.12
16:00 - 20:00

Following 10 days of joint workshops on precarious issues, art
students from Krakow, Poland, and Bezalel, Jerusalem are happy to
invite the general public to the performance workshop and talk about
their work

Instructor: Adina Bar-On
free entrance

Thursday 11.12
at 20:30

Ugetsu (’Tales of Moonlight and Rain’ or ‘Tales Of The Pale And Silvery Moon After The Rain’) is a 1953 film by Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi. The film, set in Medieval Japan, stars Masayuki Mori and Machiko Kyō, and is inspired by short stories by Ueda Akinari and Guy de Maupassant. It is Mizoguchi’s most celebrated film, regarded by critics as a masterwork of Japanese cinema.

In the civil wars of 16th century Japan, two ambitious peasants want
to make their fortunes. The potter Genjuro intends to sell his wares
for vast profits in the local city, while his brother-in-law Tobei
wishes to become a samurai. Their village is sacked by the marauding
armies, but Genjuro’s kiln miraculously survives, and they and their
wives head for the city. However, Genjuro soon sends his wife Miyagi
back home, promising to return to her soon, and Tobei, in his keenness
to follow the samurai, abandons his wife Ohama. Meanwhile, a wealthy
noblewoman, the Lady Wakasa, shows an interest in Genjuro’s pots, and
invites him to her mansion.

Japanese with English subtitles | 94 min, Japan, 1953

Thursday 4.12
at 20:30

Jerusalem Cuts
the film by Liran Atzmor

A father bequeaths to his son images of war. But what happens when the pictures are plundered and disappear for 40 years? The film is the search for lost Palestinian photographs of the battle for Jerusalem in 1948. The Journey begins by looking at the photographs of a Life Magazine photographer, John Philips, whose combat photographs were published at the end of the battle. Five years later, Jack Padwa started production of the first big feature in Israel, “Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer”, inspired by the same battle. Today, 60 years after the battle for Jerusalem, rare photographs of the battle, by the first Muslim, Palestinian photographer, Ali Zaarour, are discovered.

Monday 1.12
at 20:15

Forth Meeting of the “Reading for Change” Course of The Social-Economic Academy

Friedman, Hayek and Friends

poster

Thursday 27.11
at 20:30

As a child, Shmuel-Haim Pappenhym would cover his eyes during the Independence Day fireworks in order not to take part in the Zionist celebration. Today, he organizes mass demonstrations against the State and edits the magazine of the extreme orthodox faction that does not recognize the State of Israel.

Ultra-orthodox parliament member, Rabbi Avraham Ravitz, fought in the Lehi underground movement, served in the Israeli Army, and has been part of the Israeli mainstream for many years. A map of the world hangs in the kitchen of the Ravitz home so their 12 children and 88 grandchildren know the exact location of places like Mozambique and Ottawa. When Israel was founded, Ravitz danced in the streets. Today, he sees modern-day Israel and wants to cry.

It is an election year. While Ravitz anxiously awaits to see how many mandates his party will receive, Pappenhym checks to see how many refrained from voting. For Pappennhym, participation in the elections is a grave sin. In Pappenhym’s demonstrations, the announcer shouts “Zionists are not Jews,” and the audience responds “Gevald!” (Disaster!).

500,000 Ultra-Orthodox Jews live in Israel. Many of us regard them as a threatening block—people without faces, names, or biographies. Gevald! is the first episode in the series “Haredim” where prominent figures in Israeli ultra-orthodox society express their views on the secular state and the western-modern culture that threatens to engulf them.

Tuesday 25.11
at 20:00

You are invited to an English-language reading from

NOTHING TO FEAR, a novella of suspense by David Stromberg

Zwi Zwirner, a young stone-carver, travels to Antwerp, Belgium, looking to make his first sale to a Ukrainian businessman. He gets mixed up in a series of intrigues and eventually resurfaces in Jerusalem, where he has turned from artisan to artist. As the consciousness of his past draws him into a deciding confession, he exposes the raw reality of being “broken.”

In the spirit of suspense, there will be a SURPRISE second half of the presentation. Bring your maracas.

David Stromberg is a writer and journalist. His publications include three collections of single-panel cartoons called Saddies, and he has written on art & culture for the St. Petersburg Times, Believer, Jerusalem Post, and Haaretz. Born in Ashdod to ex-Soviet parents, Stromberg grew up in urban Los Angeles and currently resides in Jerusalem.

Monday 24.11
at 20:15

Third Meeting of the “Reading for Change” Course of The Social-Economic Academy

Smith and Marx

poster

Saturday 22.11
at 20:00

Haytham Sharbati - Darbuka,Singing
Tamara Abu-Laban - Singing
Danny Felsteiner - Contrabass
Muhammad Al-Zahayka - Oud, Flutes

Playing traditional arabic music and original compositions, in Hebrew and Arabic

http://www.tariqmusic.com

Friday 21.11
at 12:00

Monday 17.11
at 20:15

Second Meeting of the “Reading for Change” Course of The Social-Economic Academy

Critical Reading - Approaches and Criticism

poster

Thursday 13.11
at 20:30

Plunderphonics*
or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative

Panda Porn/Blondie/Katyusha Kid

Monday 10.11
at 20:15

First Meeting of the “Reading for Change” Course of The Social-Economic Academy

Introduction to reading

poster

Monday 03.11
at 20:00

A musical documentary tragedy. An Israeli ex-soldier who participated in a revenge operation where two Palestinian policemen were murdered seeks forgiveness for what he has done. His girlfriend does not think it is that simple, she raises issues he is yet not ready to address. The soldier willingly testifies for camera as long as his identity is not exposed. While the filmmaker keeps looking for the proper solution for concealing the soldier’s identity he questions his own political and artistic conduct.

Z32 deals with the unbearable gap between a young person’s disturbing testimony of his own experience as an elite soldier in the israeli army and the artistic representation of the very same testimony, about the unbridgeable void between a heartless reality and its transmission as a work of art, about how artifacts cannot become political actions and about the cynicism of making beautiful art from the atrocities of life.

Worldwide premiere at Venice Film Festival, 2008.

After the screening, you are invited to participate in a talk with the film director Avi Mugrabi.

82 minutes, Hebrew with English subtitles

Thursday 30.10
at 20:30

Acre (Akko), a mixed Arab-Jewish town, is one of the leading places in Israel for crime rate and unemployment. During the second Lebanon war, when the town was the target of tens of Katyusha rocket barrages, most of its wealthier citizens fled to a safer place. Those who had no other choice stayed in shelters underground.

The movie was filmed in the Acre shelters during this month of heavy rocket fire. It follows a number of characters that fight a personal war of survival in order to maintain basic human dignity. Documenting a, “war inside a war,” this movie accentuates the social and economic gaps that exist in Israeli society by giving a voice to the weak population that was forced to stay in the rocket inferno.

After the screening, you are invited to participate in a talk with the film director Yossi Rabach.

Friday 17.10
at 14:00

(the concert might be canceled due to closure)
UPDATE: the concert was indeed canceled due to closure

We are pleased to invite you to the performance of

Derech As-Salaam group

Haytham Sharbati - Darbuka,Singing
Tamara Abu-Laban - Singing
Danny Felsteiner - Contrabass
Muhammad Al-Zahayka - Oud, Flutes

Playing traditional arabic music and original compositions, in Hebrew and Arabic

http://www.tariqmusic.com