Thursday 11.02
at 20:00

Public Lecture

Hannah Arendt’s Thinking of the Political

by Eyal Birge Krondorfer/Vienna

Hannah Arendt’s perspective on the human activities differentiates between labour, work and action. She connects action to speech between different individuals, who can only in that way build the world together. To the authoress, this is the ideal of the political. Her appreciation of differences and her criticism of false ideas of equality are very much disputed, yet present a constructive challenge in situations and zones of conflict.

Dr. Birge Krondorfer is a political philosopher and author; she has been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and at all Austrian Universities; she is a specialist for adult education, supervision and trainings

Friday 29.01 at 12:00 New Exhibition Openning:

Come to Rest

by Jumana Manna

Tuesday 26.01
at 20:30
We will be screening the movie

Red Desert

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

1964. Italian, English subtitles.

Saturday 23.01 at 20:30

Nybakat! jazz quartet in Barbur

Ira Mogilevsky (Israel -Sweden) -piano,
Björn Dahlberg (Sweden) -saxophones,
Markus Hängsel (Sweden) -bass,
Vlad Nedelin (Israel - Sweden) -drums

”Nybakat!” means ”just-baked” in Swedish.
The quartet is coming from Stockholm for a short tour in Israel.
Searching for musical adventures “Nybakat!” freely combines jazz
with a variety of different styles from Scandinavian and oriental folk to
modern chamber music. The result is an interesting and dynamic
mosaic full of energy, challenge, humor and spices.

Thursday 21.01
at 20:30
We will be screening the documentary movie

religion.com

Directed by Ron Ofer and Yohai Hakak

At his advertising agency in Bnei-Brak, Yigal Revach is encircled by Haredi (Ultra Orthodox Jewish) men and women in the midst of a brainstorming session. In his youth, Yigal aspired to become a religious sage. Today he is trying to initiate an Internet service that if approved by the Rabbis, will be introduced to the community. Until now, Haredi newspapers have been forbidden to even mention the words ‘Internet’ or ‘Email’.

Rabbi Micha Rothschild is a one-man radical underground movement. He posts venomous leaflets in Haredi neighborhoods and threatens web providers to stay away from the Haredi community. He is aware of the fragility of the world view of young Haredi men and the extreme temptations offered by the world outside.

For Yigal the Internet is a lively oasis in a society that restricts freedom of expression. For Micha, it is a Trojan horse that might ruin Haredi Society from within.

Tuesday 19.01
at 20:30

Screening of the movie

Jaffa

by Eyal Sivan

Jaffa, the orange’s clockwork narrates the visual history of the famous citrus fruit originated from Palestine and known worldwide for centuries as “Jaffa oranges”.

The history of the orange is the history of this land. Through photography and cinema, poetry, paintings, workers of the citruses’ industry and historians, memory and present mythologies, Palestinians and Israelis cross and combine. The close reading of the Jaffa brand’s visual representation is a reflection on western orientalist phantasms surrounding the ‘holy land’ and the ‘State of Israel’ and a tool to reveal the untold story of what was once a commune industry and symbol to Arabs and Jews in Palestine.
(Fr/Israele 2009, 87’)
After the screening there will be the conversation with the director Eyal Sivan.

Thursday 14.01 at 20:30

Wire-tapping: New music at Barbur

We are very pleased to announce the opening of a new music series that will take place monthly at our gallery. The series will present Israel’s finest musicians – improvisers and composers alike – presenting Israel’s various voices and facets of musical activity in the works today, as well as collaborations with artists from other media.
The first show in the series will open with a solo performance by bass player JC Jones, one of the most prominent figures of improvised music, both in Israel and abroad, a prodigious musician, founder of the ‘Kadima’ label. Next in the line-up will perform Trek Duo – Nitai Levi (bass clarinet) and Tom Soloveitzik (tenor sax). The evening will close with an improvisation piece, in a trio including the three musicians.

Tuesday 12.01
at 20:30

Screening of the movie

Gaza–Sderot - life in spite of everything

Short chronicles (2 minutes each) were shot by both Israeli and Palestinian teams, day after day for two months, from October 26 to December 23. The project ended a few days before Israeli bombing of Gaza. These short stories follow six characters from Gaza and six from Sderot, and the viewer is able to follow them intimately for 10 weeks. The stories are aired via the Internet every day, and the viewers are invited to make a direct connection with the project through blogs, forums, links etc.

Gaza Sderot is an original project broadcast by Arte.tv, the official site of ARTE, the French-German cultural television station, in coproduction with an Israeli team - Alma Films/Trabelsi Productions in cooperation with The Sapir College in Sderot, a Palestinian team - Ramattan Studios, a French documentary production company - Bo Travail ! and an interactive production company Upian.com.

This project reports on life as experienced by men, women and children in Gaza (Palestine) and Sderot (Israel): their lives and their survival on a daily basis. Under difficult living conditions and the threat of air attacks and bombings, people do keep on working, loving and dreaming. Life in spite of everything.

http://gaza-sderot.arte.tv/

Thursday 07.01
at 20:00

An evening of performances of various kinds, integrating music, words, clowining, and more

Participants:

Chanan Ben-Simon, Ronnie Gross and Shelly Tsrafi, Rut Chof and Jackie Grinstein, Yonatan Konda, Edgar Groll

The evening is an initiative of Inbar Itskovich, student of literature at the Tel-Aviv University and an editor of the poetry leaflet“Keta”. This is the fourth event in the series, similar events take place at the begginning of every month.

Tuesday 5.01
at 20:30
We will be screening the movie

The Big Sleep

Directed by Howard Hawks

1946. Black&White. English, no subtitles.

Dr. Gideon Ofrat in a series of lectures on Israeli Art
The Seventh lecture: Tuesday, 29.12.09 at 20:00

Generation of 1948 in the Israeli Art

The lectures are in Hebrew.

Thursday 24.12
at 20:30
We will be screening the movie

Black Narcissus

Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

1947. English, no subtitles.

Dr. Gideon Ofrat in a series of lectures on Israeli Art
The Sixth lecture: Tuesday, 22.12.09 at 20:00

“Canaan” Sculpture of 40s

The lectures are in Hebrew.

Monday 21.12 at 20:30

Revolution Girls

Documentary by Nataša Dudinski & Taťána Marková

Revolution Girls is the story of four Czech women of the ‘89 generation. Philosophy students in Prague in 1989, all took active part in a dramatic historic event, the Velvet Revolution, which brought down the Communist regime. The film explores the legacy of the revolution upon their lives almost twenty years later.

Jana Hybášková, a member of the European Parliament, keeps trying to save the world. Alena Ježková writes one book after another, probing the past for inspiration that the free but confusing present doesn’t offer. Alice Rahmanová, a successful if reluctant businesswoman, is channeling most of her energies into raising her three children, including an adopted daughter. Pavla Milcová has totally devoted her life to music and spiritual quests.

What’s left of their revolutionary ideals? How many revolutions must a woman go through before she reaches forty? And what can their stories tell us about the time and place they live in?

Produced by Jarmila Poláková, Film & sociologie Ltd.

Friday 18.12 at 12:00 New Exhibition Openning:

The Quest for the Man on the White Donkey
Chapter One

by Yaakov Israel

Thursday 17.12 at 20:30

Lullaby

Documentary by Natalie Haziza

Lullaby, a 50 min documentary by Natalie Haziza, tells the story of her two mothers, one of them Jewish South-African and the other her African nursemaid.
Rebecca worked for 10 years as Natalie’s nanny while leaving her 4 children in the village with their grandmother.

Elaine, Natalie’s biological mother, pursued a career, but could only do so only because Rebecca could care for her children while she was away.
Natalie, now a woman in her twenties living in Israel, returns to her homeland in South Africa to accompany them both on their journeys to discover the meaning of motherhood.
Sensitively and personally told, a contemporary look at motherhood, the figure of the Jewish Mother and the after-effects of Apartheid.
Click here to watch a trailer

Production: Sapir Academic College
Producers: Natalie Haziza & Yoel Ode

Wednesday, 16.12.09 at 20:00

The lecture is in English.

Dr. Gideon Ofrat in a series of lectures on Israeli Art
The Fifth lecture: Tuesday, 15.12.09 at 20:00

Artists of the German Aliya (1933 -1939)

The lectures are in Hebrew.

Thursday 10.12
at 20:30

We will be screening the movie

Ball of Fire

Directed by Howard Hawks

1941. Black and White. English no subtitles.

Tuesday 8.12 at 20:00
A Reading with Artist Sela Koren as a part of his exhibition titled
“A Line That Starts With Three, Four And..”

Sela Koren, a young artist and Bezalel graduate who is exhibiting his second solo
exhibition at Barbur Gallery will read some of his own original prose writing.