Autumn Evenings in the Old City
Tour, enjoy, experience and get to know the Old City after dark
Mondays and Thursdays, August 28 to October 30th, every evening from 6:30pm – guided tours, musical performances and a culinary feast in the cafés and restaurants of the Old City’s magical alleys and courtyards.
Free admission!
*The Christian Quarter, the Muristan, the Jewish Quarter, Tekuma Park, David’s Citadel and other quaint Old City corners invite you to experience the Old City as never before.
Unique tours of the Old City alleyways combining music, stories and meetings with the Jerusalem’s fascinating inhabitants – past and present.
*Musical performances by the best ethnic and world music
performers in the world –
Dr. Jazz, the Eliav Family, Indian, Balkan, Arabic music, rock & more.
This Autumn, the Old City takes on a new and refreshing look in the evening and at nighttime.
Unique characters, fascinating tales, world music and more amidst picturesque alleyways – all inviting you to two kinds of exciting tours:
Storytelling tours and singing tours – each culminating in a special performance.
Every Monday and Thursday, beginning August 28th, 2008 and ending October 30th, encounter events will take place in the Old City, including guided tours and performances at special locations – a rare opportunity to get to know and experience the Old City’s treasures at night. Activities free of charge!!
The restaurants and cafés of the Old City will be joining in the festival, remaining open till the wee small hours.
The project, an initiative of the Jerusalem Development Authority in cooperation with the Jerusalem Municipality, the Ministry of Tourism and the Ariel Company, aims at encouraging visitors to come to the Old City and enjoy it in the evening hours – a magical time in which the city takes on a unique character.
25 To 30 August 2008 - Secrets and Ties - Wondrous Connections in the Israel Museum Collections
With its campus renewal project fully underway, the Museum begins a program of changing installations in its Youth Wing to showcase masterpieces from its collections in Fine Art, Archeology, and Judaica and Jewish Ethnography, to ensure that major works from the Museum’s vast holdings of 500,000 objects are always available for its visitors. The first such exhibition presents major works from the collections, representing different cultures and periods in dialogue with one another, connected by a common theme – representations of the human being. A ”Zionist” carpet, a Dutch family, an Egyptian foot – all are presented here together, revealing that despite their disparate origins, they are tied visually and thematically to each other. Curated by David Ibgui, Chief Curator of the Ruth Youth Wing, Secrets and Ties proposes to create new connections among works of art and evoke personal interpretations of works already familiar to the public.
11 to 25 August 2008 ”Venice of Wind and Fire”
Venetian glass in the creations of contemporary Israeli artists - A new exhibit at Museum of Italian Jewish Art .
In the year 1291 all the glass blowers in Venice were asked to leave Venice for the Island of Murano close-by, because of the great danger of fire from their furnaces in the wooden buildings of the city.
Very quickly the Island of Murano became the European center of artistic glass works. The artists received many privileges and gained a very high status, but they also paid a very dear price: it was forbidden to them to leave the territories of the Venetian Republic, so as to preserve the secret -the unique techniques of glass-blowing.
The death penalty was instituted for artists leaving the Republic.
The secret has been preserved until today, even if there isn’t any longer such a harsh penalty for revealing them.
Still today, Venetian glass artistic creations preserve their unique look and beauty. Very few people outside of Murano have the privilege of learning the traditional techniques of the great local artists, among them a certain number of contemporary Israeli artists.
Sculptures and jewelry representing the fruit of their creativity will be shown in this exciting and splendid exhibit at the Museum of Italian Jewish Art in cooperation with the Yaniv Gallery of Glass Art.
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