New Exhibition Opening

We are pleased to invite you to the opening event of a new exhibition

Muhammad Julani’s Pigeons

Work by Matan Israeli in cooperation with pigeon grower Muhammad Julani

Screenings at Barbur

Israeli cinema series

Fortuna

Menachem Golan, 1966

Series editor: Raya Brukental

Further screening (in two weeks):

Performance by the ensemble “Waset el-Tariq”

Closing event of the exhibition “Marking the Market”

Performance by the ensemble “Waset el-Tariq”
Local music that warms the heart

Oud - Muhammad Dahayka
Flute and ney - Sharon Shaabi
Darbouka and vocals - Samer Abu Pseysa
Accordion and vocals - Daniela Futterman

Surprise Wire-tappings

Shaul Bustan (Berlin / Guitar)
Nitai Levi (Bass Clarinet)

Shaul Bustan (composer-performer). Multi - talented Composer, Conductor, Performer and teacher, only twenty-eight already behind a rich biography which includes writing music for the most important orchestras and ensembles in Israel (Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, Meitar Ensemble and more), establishment of a conservatory in a distress neighborhood in Jerusalem, performing on Israel important stages and more. Bustan holds a Master’s degree in Composition, Conducting and Mandolin Performance from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.

Nitai Levi plays clarinet since age 7. He studied at the conservatory and high school of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, where he continued his higher studies. Nitai played in various experimental music venues and jazz festivals in Israel and abroad, and recorded with The Yellow Submarine Ensemble, Ensemble 105, Camillion Trio, and Yoni Krechmer Quartet.

Oriental-Arabic feminist film festival

Opening evening of the Oriental-Arabic feminist film festival

“Sh’Chur” (1994), a film by Shmuel Hasfari and Hana Azoulay-Hasfari

Intra-generational cultural tensions between three women from one family, immersed in magic and mysticism

Meeting with the film director and actress Hana Azoulay-Hasfari after the screening

For the full festival program in Hebrew click here
For the full festival program in Arabic click here

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Ido Govrin:

New album release: The Revisit

Dan Weinstein:

Two Poems for Polly for speaking cellist by Péter Eötvös it

Dganit Elyakim:

“Re’afim” for Cello and Electronics

Ido Govrin is a sound artist who investigates the realms of aesthetics and plastic art through sound beings. His work includes film music, sound for intermedia installations and computer generated pieces. He is co-running the experimental record label, Interval Recordings, as well as being half of Duprass.

Dan Weinstein is a Cellist, lecturer and teacher. He is a graduate from the Rubin academy of music in Tel aviv and the “Ecole normale de musique”, Paris. As a versatile musician he performs as soloist, in chamber music and new music ensembles and participates regularly in different projects combining dance, theatre and improvised music.

Dganit Elyakim is a composer and sound artist.er Avital. Shai is a leading bass player and is taking part in various productions, concerts and festivals.

Screenings at Barbur

Israeli cinema series

Siege

Gilberto Tofano, 1969

Series editor: Raya Brukental

Further screenings (every two weeks):

Dudu Geva - the last interview

Dudu Geva - the last interview

Interview: Dov Alfon
Production: Shaul Betzer, Erez Heiman and Roy Chicky Arad

Surprise Wire-tappings

Ehran Elisha (New-York / Percussion)
together with:

J.C.Jones (Double Bass)
Herold Rubin (Clarinet)
Ido Bukelman (Guitar)
Shai Ran (Double Bass)

Ehran Elisha has been an important and prominent avant-garde jazz musician in the United States for over two decades, performing and recording in New York, leading several ensembles including some of the best musicians on the scene. He has been noted as one of the most exciting and original drummers playing this music, and has released six albums of his music, including two discs that came out this year on the new Israeli label OutNowRecordings.

Harold Rubin Jazz musician, artist, teacher, and architect, was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1932. Studied classical clarinet. Formed jazz quartet in South Africa and was responsible for organizing communication between black and white musicians for some years before he immigrated to Israel in 1963. In 1986 formed Zaviot quartette with Mark Smulian, playing original music, which received the prize at Eilat Festival 1987. The group performed in festivals and jazz clubs in Europe in 1988/9. He has developed various groups performing in all major festivals in Israel. He has started working with Mark Smulian again on their own new music. 6 albums of his music have been released and he has taken part in others as a guest. He performs in Europe, U.S.A and South Africa and is one of the founders of the Tel Aviv Art Ensemble and still works with the group. Harold was awarded the Landau prize for the performing arts in 2007.

Jean Claude Jones By the time he emigrated to Israel, Jean Claude Jones had developed a jazz career in France and the US, having played in jazz bands since a young age and having studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and the Music Institute of Technology in LA. As a double bass player he became involved in free improvised music since the 1980’s. Over time he added electronics and computer-manipulated sounds to his musical arsenal. JC Jones served as chair of the Jazz Department at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. He has performed and recorded with many leading international and Israeli musicians, dancers, poets and vocal artists, including Stan Getz, Joelle Leandre and Avishai Cohen. JC Jones’s current projects include the Excited Strings duo with cellist Yuval Mesner, Between the Strings trio with viola player Nori Jacoby and violinist Daniel Hoffman, DoubleTake duo with pianist Ariel, Deep Tones for Peace international telematic internet all basses project, and the Myelin project. The driving force behind JC’s work is “finding one’s space.”

Shai Ran is a double bass player. Born in Haifa, Israel in 1978. Currently living in Tel Aviv. Graduated from the Jerusalem Music academy under Dr. Michael Klinghoffer and Omer Avital. Shai is a leading bass player and is taking part in various productions, concerts and festivals.

Ido Bukelman born in 1981, lives in Jerusalem, Israel. Ido plays in a variety of highly creative musical projects as a leader and as a sideman. Ido Bukelman’s first CD “City Tail” was recorded as a trio, and released 2009. Subsequently, Ido toured in Russia (March 2009) and Turkey in the framework of the “Ankara International Jazz Festival” (February 2010). The CD “Cracked Song” features the trio with the addition of cellist and composer Yuval Mesner. Ido has recently been focusing on solo (acoustic guitar) playing, and is currently exploring the use of refined extended techniques and sounds. He has so far released 5 Cd`s under his own name.

Screenings at Barbur

Israeli cinema series

Woman’s Case

Jacques Katmor, 1969

An advertising executive meets a young and beautiful fashion model at a trendy dance club. He imagines her to be attracted to women, fantasizing about them in an amorous romantic embrace. Helit Katmor plays the fiery model while Yosi Spector is the frustrated executive who can’t seem to get anything right. The two go off together and he contemplates killing her because he knows she will eventually leave him.
Series editor: Raya Brukental

Further screenings (every two weeks):

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Hybrid Spectrums

Emmanuel Witzthum (sound) and Arik Futterman (video) (Percussion)

About the project:
We went out to the streets of Jerusalem in otder to collect field recordings of synagogues’ prayers, mosques and churches around town. With the recordings we’ve created together a collage of the prayers – Jewish, Muslim and Christian meeting and mixing through and by Jerusalemic church bells. The melodies and tones create together a hybrid spectrum of the longing of Jerusalem of below to Jerusalem of above.

New Exhibition Opening

We are pleased to invite you to the opening event of a group exhibition

Marking the Market

Photography exhibition of participants from the photo workshop of Mahane Yehuda market merchants

The workshop was supervised by Wendy Ewald (USA), Bizi Goldberg, and Ronit Porat.

Et la Shinui #5

Dance in the gallery #7

Dance in the gallery

Out of 2nd Choice - Fragments of borrowed essence.
Choreography: Dafi Altabeb
Dancer and creative collaborator: Rosalind Noctor

Zov
Choreographer: Anat Yaffe
Dancers: Alon Karniel and Anat Yaffe

Puddle
Choreographer and dancer: Anat Yaffe

Series editor: Rachel Zohar
Dance in the Gallery creates a meeting between dance, music, and visual arts, between creators from different fields and dancers. Gallery space offers an exposed and intimate glance on the movement of the dance, and opens a possibility of a communication between the performer and the spectator.

The series is a collaboration between Choreographers Association, Jerusalem Foundation and Barbur Gallery.

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Dance in the gallery

Three creator-performers

Borrowed Time - Fragments of borrowed essence.
A firm absence will define its temporality.
By Maya Yogel

Swan in the Gallery
By Yuval Goldstein

Given Situation
My little protest in the Israeli dance world
By Adi Elazam

Series editor: Rachel Zohar
Dance in the Gallery creates a meeting between dance, music, and visual arts, between creators from different fields and dancers. Gallery space offers an exposed and intimate glance on the movement of the dance, and opens a possibility of a communication between the performer and the spectator.

The series is a collaboration between Choreographers Association, Jerusalem Foundation and Barbur Gallery.

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Yoni Silver (Bass Clarinet) and Ofer Bymel (Percussion)

Gallery Talk of the Tzamud exhibition!

Closing event and the gallery talk of the Tzamud exhibition

Celebrating the end of the Tzamud exhibition, we’ll meet at the closing event with the artists and friends. We’ll talk about collaborative art and art in general and warm ourselves with soup and wine.

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Ayelet Lerman (viola) Yossi Mar-Haim (electronics)

Intervention, please!

Intervention, please!

Challenging hegemonic constructions of history through artistic and political action
Meeting and presentation by Sheri Avraham (Israel) and Eduard Freudmann (Austria), members of “Plattform Geschichtspolitik” (Platform for History Politics)

How are hegemonic historical narratives being shaped within public discourse, which images are in use for its representation? Until which extent do they serve to construct national identities, what are continuities and what are the ruptures to perpetrators’ regimes such as Austro-Fascism or Nazism? Which histories are pushed forward, which ones are being repressed? And last but not least: how can artists, cultural workers, political subjects intervene in those history-political conditions?

Plattform Geschichtspolitik is an initiative of students, activists and teachers associated with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, which defines itself as an open collective, according to the logic of the work groups that have been formed within the Academy occupation of 2009/2010. Since October 2009, the group has aimed to evoke a broader discussion of history politics at the Academy, establishing a continuous process of critically reflecting and publicly dealing with the institution’s participation in colonialism, (Austro-)Fascism and Nazism. Over time, the activities of the group have expanded beyond the immediate context of the institution, focusing on debating and contesting historical narratives and manifestations in Viennese public space and discourse.

Sheri Avraham, born in Beit Dagan 1979, studied Psychology at the Open University in Israel and is currently studying art at the Department for Post-Conceptual Art Practices at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her practice lies between visual art and cultural work, contesting institutional and normalized racism and pushing forms of emancipatory education and counter-hegemonic history writing.

Eduard Freudmann lives and works in Vienna. In his artistic practice he researches and intervenes in the intersections of art and politics, power relations and social contexts, history-politics and media mechanisms, strategies of exclusion and the commodification of knowledge. He studied art in Vienna and Weimar. Since 2007, he has been teaching at the Department for Post-Conceptual Art Practices at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

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Adaya Goldevsky (harp) and Amos Elkana (electronics)

New Exhibition Opening

We are pleased to invite you to the opening event of a group exhibition

Tight

Participants:

Abrahm Kritzman and Orr Herz
Naomi Lev and Elad Rosen
Masha Zusman and Gabi Krichli

Dance in the gallery #5

Dance in the gallery

A new dance series at Barbur Gallery

Series editor: Rachel Zohar

Dance in the Gallery creates a meeting between dance, music, and visual arts, between creators from different fields and dancers. Gallery space offers an exposed and intimate glance on the movement of the dance, and opens a possibility of a communication between the performer and the spectator.

The series is a collaboration between Choreographers Association, Jerusalem Foundation and Barbur Gallery.

Surprise wire-tappings

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Inauguration Performance for issuing the CD The Door - Ido Bukelman\ Solo acoustic guitar, Banjo, Percussion

The album The Door was released in the last month in the label Kadima of Jean Claude Jones. In the album are free-improvised pieces - solo works for acoustic guitar, banjo and percussion.

Ido Bukelman born in 1981, lives in Jerusalem, Israel. Ido plays in a variety of highly creative musical projects as a leader and as a sideman. Ido Bukelman’s first CD “City Tail” was recorded as a trio, and released 2009. Subsequently, Ido toured in Russia (March 2009) and Turkey in the framework of the “Ankara International Jazz Festival” (February 2010). The CD “Cracked Song” features the trio with the addition of cellist and composer Yuval Mesner. Ido has recently been focusing on solo (acoustic guitar) playing, and is currently exploring the use of refined extended techniques and sounds. He has so far released 5 Cd`s under his own name.

Israel Eliraz was born in Jerusalem in 1936. From 1936 to 1980, he published three novels, a book of short stories and a number of plays and opera librettos, which have been staged both in Israel and abroad. Eliraz has published his first book of poetry in 1980 under the pseudonym George Mathias Ibrahim. Since then, he has published another 19 poetry books under his own name in French and Hebrew. Eliraz has been awarded the ACUM Prize three times, the Ministry Award of Culture twice, the Prime Minister’s Prize twice and the Natan Alterman Prize for Poetry. He has also been awarded an Honorary Citation by the French Government. His poetry has been published abroad on 11 languages.

Jean Claude Jones was born in Sfax, Tunisia. He moved to France at a young age, where he taught himself to play bass and lead guitar. At the age of 17 he was playing in professional popular music and jazz bands. In 1978 he moved to the US where he pursued formal musical studies. In 1981 he graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he majored in jazz guitar, and moved to Los Angeles where he studied guitar and bass at the Music Institute of Technology for two years. He emigrated to Israel in 1983 and became a key player in the newly developing jazz scene. In 1986 he made a definitive switch from bass guitar to double bass, and became involved in free improvised music. Over time he added electronics and computer-manipulated sounds to his musical arsenal.

Ståle Liavik Solberg (born 1979) is a Norwegian drummer, percussionist and improviser. In the recent years he has established himself as strong voice in the field of improvised music.
He has a masters degree in improvisation from the Norwegian Academy of Music, and has a burning interest for the combination of improvised music in relation to other art forms.

Screenings at Barbur

Luxuries

A documentary by David Ofek

Director David Ofek takes the viewer on a journey to the absurd front of the Israeli blockade on Gaza, revealing the consequences of a blockade that limits the flow of goods.

This is the story of the merchandise itself—kiwis, fresh meat, toys, shoes, notebooks, canned goods—products that have been purchased, stored, expired, spoiled, and ultimately ­—destroyed. It is an ironic observation—sometimes comic, always tragic—that exposes the thin line Israel draws between bare necessities and luxuries.

Producers: Elinor Kowarsky, Edna Kowarsky
After the screening there will be a talk with the director

Dance in the gallery #4

Dance in the gallery

A new dance series at Barbur Gallery

Series editor: Rachel Zohar

“Vertical Composition”- a solo piece inspired by the art work of Jackson Polok
created and performs by: Smadar Cohen

“Buildings Orders”
created and performs by: Irad Mazliah and Ilanit Tadmor

“In a Rolling Conscious”
Performers: Orly Almi, Tomer Boyarski, Galia Lever and Ilanit Tadmor

Dance in the Gallery creates a meeting between dance, music, and visual arts, between creators from different fields and dancers. Gallery space offers an exposed and intimate glance on the movement of the dance, and opens a possibility of a communication between the performer and the spectator.

The series is a collaboration between Choreographers Association, Jerusalem Foundation and Barbur Gallery.

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Michele Mayer (electric guitar) is a musician and guitarist. Michel has been performing for many years in the various genres (Jazz, Free Jazz, Improv.) of the improvised music scene in Israel. Member of a few ensembles among which are Tanaka, Haifa string quartet, 24 limbs, and collaborated with various musicians from Israel and abroad. Organized performances at the Pyramide in Haifa and the Tel Aviv Meetings.

Ronald Boersen(Viola) (1980, The Netherlands) has studied Sonology, Composition and Viola. He has developed a curiosity for ideas on electronic expressivity and human play.

Nori Jacoby(Viola) is a composer, arranger and violist. His work was played in festivals around the world among which in Singapore, Melbourne and Chicago. Released a CD at John Zorn’s label, “Zadik” with the Israeli ensemble Tefillalt. Won the Margalit prize for amplified viola music at the theater show “Go’al” by Ruth Kanner. Recently recorded a CD with Ariel Shibolet at Kadima Collective label.

Carmel Raz(Violin, Viola) is especially interested in exploring tipping points between tones / microtones, acoustic / electric sounds, and written / improvised music. Carmel studied violin at the Hochschule fuer Musik in Berlin, composition at the University of Chicago, and is currently a graduate student in music theory at Yale University. She divides her time between Israel and the US.

Yoni Silver(Violin). Multi instrumentalist and interdisciplinary musician, engages mainly in free improvisation and contemporary music, apart from composing and writing musical arrangements for cinema, theater, contemporary puppet theater and other media. Recently published a solo CD at the Portuguese company Creative Sources.

Roni Brenner(electric guitar), Music and Theater department graduate from the Haifa University. Studies composition with Yuval Shaked. Recipient of the composition scholarship from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation for the year 2006. A member of “Tanaka”, an improvised music ensemble, with which she recorded 3 albums.

Ayelet Lerman(Viola). Artist and musician. Explores emotional lanscapes through sound, matter, body and space. Studied at The School of Visual Theater. Resident artist at Mamuta at the Daniela Passal art and media center. Created performances and installations in “Manofim 2010”, Kibbutz Nachshon, Musrara Mix #11, Under the Mountain festival, Open Space Jerusalem. Editor of Wire Tapping.

New Exhibition Opening

We are pleased to invite you to the opening event of a new solo exhibition by Adam Raanan

Thursday 05.09 at 20:00

Adam Raanan was born in 1946 under the name Raanan Kapara. He arrived to Jerusalem over 30 years ago and has been living and working there ever since. Raanan works as a psychologist but has been making art since childhood and defines himself as a “creative artist”. He has never studied art and despite having made art for over 50 years he has never shown his works to the public. The exhibition at Barbur will be the first time Raanan is exhibiting his work. Barbur Gallery has chosen to display some of the work he has produced over the years.

Screenings at Barbur

When New Year Comes on Shabbat

A documentary by Nikita Pavlov

Created with support of Musrara — The Naggar School of Photography, New Media, New Music, Animation and Phototherapy in Jerusalem, Israel
After the screening there will be a talk with the director

New Exhibition Opening

Barbur Group, “Lev HaIr Community Administration”, and “Supportive Neighbourhood” are pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition

Paintings - exhibition by senior citizens

Participants: Shulamit Mizrachi, Mary Babai, Sara Dasa, Moshe Hai, Hadasa Cohen, Yehudit Cohen, Mazal Ben Hamo, Miriam Carmon, Roza Weissberg

The exhibition will be closed on 12.09