Saturday 23.08
at 21:00
Live music in Barbur
Yoni Silver (bass clarinet), Tom Soloveitzik (soprano & tenor sax) and Ofer Bymel (drums) will perform together at the Barbur gallery in Jerusalem. All three work in an improvised, experimental musical medium which places sound at center-stage, and is based on the interaction between the musicians in real-time. Yoni Silver is a bass-clarinetist, saxophonist, pianist and violinist, a composer and improviser, and was a member of the groups Habiluim and Midnight Peacocks; Tom Soloveitzik is a saxophonist, who deals with improvised music and its connection to other mediums. Works with dancers and is a member of the group Trek Duo; Ofer Bymel is a drummer, pianist, has graduated from the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem in the field of composition, and is a member of the groups ‘Tanaka’ and ‘24 Limbs’.
Sunday 17.08
at 20:00
From August 17 - 24 every evening at 7:00p.m.
MULTISPACE
An art event in the centre of Jerusalem
Dozens of video works will be exhibited on television screens in bars and coffee shops
The week will commence on Sunday August 17 at 8:00p.m. with an exhibition opening at Barbur Gallery
Covering the Sun
Participating in the exhibition:
Tomer Shitrit, Naomi Lev, Roee Rosen, Shay Yehezkeli, Guy Ben-Ari, Ruslana Lichtzier, Avi Sabah, Shay Azoulay, Lior Vilenchic, Tamir Lichtenberg, Eden Bannet
Video works by
Ruti Sela, Daniel Tsal, Ariel Caine, Ben Hagari, Gili Merdinger, robocof, Katrin Thoma, Tamar Shiphoni, Shiri Tarko, Ruslana Lichtzier, Tamir Lichtenberg, Dafna Westerman, Guy Ben-Ari, Eden Bannet, Ronny Karny, Stephen Mathweson, Alma Mia-Hadas, Reut Assimini, Sagi Gorali, Sivan Kidron, Omer Gal, Amir Yatziv, Yael Shemer, Tamar Getter, Boaz Arad, Elad Rosen, Tali Keren, Jumana Manna, Tal Alperstein, Guy Kleinman
Will be on display in
Uganda, Cafe Mizrachi, The Mitbachon, The Tipa (Rosa R.I.P.), Daila
Curators: Ruslana Lichtzier and Guy Ben-Ari
http://www.multispace.co.il
Map
Wednesday 13.08
at 20:30
Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture
presents
Hebrew - Russian:
Perspectives on poetics in the Diaspora
American Jews and Russian Hebrews
David Stromberg speaks about the “Zeek: Russified” project.
Poetry readings by:
Roman Baembaev
Gali-Dana Singer
Vladimir Tarasov (in the original Russian, with Hebrew translations by Gali-Dana Singer)
Mikhail Gendelev (in the original Russian, with Hebrew translations by Peter Kriksunov)
Petia (Pyotr) Ptah
Nekoda Singer
Bilingualism - Translation and Mutation
Open discussion with Mikhail Gendelev, Roee Hen, Peter Kriksunov, and Yoel Regev.
Artwork by Anna Lukashevsky and Nekoda Singer
Belly dancing by Tatiana Perah
Hosted by Petia (Pyotr) Ptah
For more info place call Beit HaSofer at 02-6235382
The evening is organized in cooperation with Beit HaSofer and Barbur Gallery
Thursday 07.08
at 20:00
-Top Secret-
The Smile liberAtion front invites you to a once in a lifetime screening of once in a lifetime movie.
The cool movie was sent by the Elite platoon of the Glasgow clowns especially to the Smile liberAtion Front. After the movie, we will gather and discuss the future of the Smile liberAtion Front in the Middle East.
Please color your noses in red, wear your laugh uniforms and prepare for a meeting that hasn’t seen like for a long time!
General Falafel,
Middle Eastern Clown,
The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army
The Smile liberAtion Front
Jerusalem City Center
http://www.tslf.info
Thursday 31.07
at 20:00
“The Electric Stage” tells the story of a promising rock band from Jerusalem that was active in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. They were considered one of the best rock groups in Israel, but never managed to record an album. In this film we relived with the band their glory days, and follow them as they try to record their first album.
Their story is also the narrative of a short-lived period in Jerusalem, after the Six Day War in 1967, when, within just two years, it went from a dead city to a vibrant metropolis filled with optimism. During this time the varied inhabitants of the city discovered one another, whether they were poor kids from the projects, Arabs from East Jerusalem, or young American students that did not want to miss out on the magic of the city that was known as the - “San Francisco of the Middle East.”
Hebrew without subtitles
Tuesday 22.07
at 20:30
Barbur is pleased to invite you to an evening with filmmaker Katia Lund, co-director of the movie “City of God”.
Katia Lund, who, together Fernando Meirelles, directed the well-known Brazilian movie “City of God”, will show and discuss а documentary, music videos and short film that preceded the Brazilian feature film, preparing the ground for its distinct style of story telling.
The clips will be in Portuguese with english subtitles. The evening will be conducted in English.
we will be screening:
News from a Private War - Documentary directed by Katia Lund and Joao Salles (52 min)
A Minha Alma (My Soul) - Music Video directed by Katia Lund, Breno Silveira
and Paulo Lins (author of City of God) (5 min)
Palace II (Golden Gate) - Short film directed by Katia Lund and Fernando Meirelles (20 min)
Sunday 20.07
at 19:30
Opening of the traveling exhibition
Migrating Lilies
by Lilium group: Maresa Jung | Ellen Sinzig
based at the Women’s Museum, Bonn, Germany
curated by Elizabeth von Samsonow
At 20:00
Presentation by Elisabeth von Samsonow
The Incredible Career of a Flower Blossom
Taking Portraits: Maresa Jung
Closing of the exhibition on 24.07.2008
Friday 18.07
at 12:00
STRANGE MELODIC JOURNEY
blues/folk/rock/psychedelic
Navot Ben Barak - vocals, guitar
Gal Klein - vocals
Tavor Ben David - Sitar
www.myspace.com/navotbenbarak
Wednesday and Thursday 16 - 17.07
between 17:00 - 21:00
Roni Heller
“Hanging Portrait with Salt”
a performance-installation
Tuesday 15.07
at 20:30
In Working Progress
A film by Alexandre Goetschmann & Guy Davidi
After the screening there will be a short talk with the film directors
Monday 14.07
at 20:30
Last Moments of Another Sunset
Gallery talk and closing of the exhibition
with
Avi Sabah, Masha Zusman and Yanai Segal
Another Sunset
The moment the boot of Hernan Cortez stepped on the South American continent for the first time marks the moment that the sun started to set on the Aztec empire. Within two years of his landing at what would come to be known as Vera Cruz Cortez will have annihilated one of the greatest empires the world has ever known. An empire that stretched from the shores of the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico and which had reigned for hundreds of years.
The Aztecs worshipped the sun. They made it offerings of human sacrifice from the summits of their pyramids. The Aztec priests would tear out the victims’ hearts while they were still alive, then decapitate them and finally cut of their hands and their feet. On one occasion 84,000 human sacrifices were counted in only four days. The Aztecs believed these sacrifices were required of them to appease the almighty Sun God and to ensure that the Aztecs would continue to be his favorite children throughout all eternity. However, the zeal with which they let spill their victims’ blood was to no avail when in 1519, after a long and arduous journey through jungles, waterfalls and volcanoes, the Spanish Conquistador Cortez entered the gates of Tenochtitlan, the floating golden city built by the Aztecs on the waters of Lake Texcoco. Cortez’s arrival in the Aztec capital sounded the final chord for the brutal empire.
They considered him a god, Quezalcoatl, the feathered serpent, who had returned from his exile in the east. They lavished him with gifts: Two discs of gold and silver the size of cartwheels – the sun and the moon. They offered him golden idols, colored feathers, beads and flowers. They opened their temples before him and placed their palaces at his disposal but all in vain. Those who had been mighty rulers, the “Children of the Sun”, suddenly found themselves sinking into darkness. Their leader was imprisoned and murdered, their finest warriors slaughtered, their idols smashed and their temples left burning into the night while their women wept. Chaos and darkness had descended upon the great kingdom.
The story of the Aztec empire is a reminder of just how one-sided the contract that we humans have with nature is. It is a contract drawn up, signed and kept by one side only, out of acknowledgement that the other side is a complete mystery with an absolute and cosmic power over our lives. Nothing illustrates this idea better than the setting sun. The sunset is the daily catastrophe we are accustomed to living with. Every day the moment twilight begins is a moment of crises. We learn to get adjusted to and even ignore the nature that is all around us but when we stop and gaze at the setting of the sun we are always brought back to the same sunset people have always been gazing upon since before time. This great cycle reminds us that we don’t have control over our world and that ultimately we can only hope to see the sun rise anew. The search for a way to explain nature to ourselves and the lack of ability to do so is at the core of human experience. The Aztecs were the embodiment of the helplessness and lack of understanding that we humans display in the face of nature. Their ultimate and most terrible act of human sacrifice was supposed to influence nature and evoke in it a response as if it were a person.
Are we too entering the twilight of our world? Maybe all the actions we perform every day, all our rituals for ensuring continuity, are in the end of no consequence… No more than a pile of a thousand human hearts?
The works of Avi Sabah and Masha Zusman exist in this same hour of twilight, or perhaps of first light, when the sun is hidden from view. The feeling of looking at the works is similar to that of observing a sunset. It is a state during which rational human understanding suddenly comes up against nature in all its’ irrational splendor: inhuman, meaningless, rejecting the sovereignty of human thought. The feelings usually accompanying experiences of this sort are a heightened awareness of the passing of time and of our own mortality. Avi and Masha’s works speak of a meeting between the human and nature. Their methods of working are different and sometimes even contrary in terms of the roles that the human and the natural play in their works. They enrich each other and connect in a good and complex manner. The works evoke a feeling of loss or of impending doom… It is unclear whether these are visions of a future catastrophe or memories, patterns of one that has already occurred. Some of the works create a sense of things saved from a disaster, of items that survived the fire, fragments of consciousness from days gone by miraculously saved and borne to us clutching on to pieces of wood or blown to us on sheets of paper. Other works show far away places we may have seen but forgotten or perhaps they speak of the unknown journey yet ahead of us. Most of the works are based on a palette that ranges from red to black, highlighted with pale, dark versions of other colors. The color scheme is of approaching night and whispering embers. With darkness descending every one of us must go alone in search of fire.
Yanai Segal
Thursday 10.07
at 20:30
Screening of short animated films by Jim Trainor
Animated films by Jim Trainor, filmed on 16 mm, exploring the inner world and personal habits of animals, as they copulate, eat, kill, rape, die, and sometimes feel guilty.
Harmony (12 min), The Bats (8 min), The Moschops (13 min)
English without subtitles
Thursday 03.07
at 20:30
We will be screening
Touch of Evil
by Orson Welles
Mike Vargas, a high ranking Mexican narcotics official on honeymoon with his bride Susie is drawn into a murder investigation because a Mexican national has been accused of the crime. Vargas finds himself going up against many forces working against him. Orson Welles dark and twisted movie from 1958.
English without subtitles
Monday 23.06
at 20:00
Prof. Gordon Lafer will talk about:
A New Way of Fighting the Power: How Intellectuals and Workers Can Triumph Over Employers Through Creative Strategic Planning Based on a Case Study of Hawaii Hotel Workers
Prof. Gordon Lafer has a PhD in political science from Yale. He has been a professor in the labor studies research center of Oregon University since 1997. Lafer was a central activist in many workers struggles, including construction workers in Las Vegas, supermarket workers in California, Hotel workers in Hawaii and hospital workers in Oregon. Prof. Lafer was one of the leaders of the junior staff in Yale university in 1995. prof. Lafer’s book “The Job Training Charade” analyzes the political use of non effective job training programs in order to blame the poor for their poverty and release the government from seriously dealing with the poverty problem.
Thursday 19.06
at 20:00
Hanna Ben-Haim Yulzari
video evening. moderator: Yonatan Amir
Barbur group is pleased to invite you to an evening with the artist
IDO BAR-EL
Tuesday 17.06.2008, at 20:00
Download programme here (pdf)
View programme (jpg)
Friday 30.05
at 12:00
We are proud to announce the opening of a new show by Barbur group members
Avi Sabah and Masha Zusman
ANOTHER SUNSET
Curator: Yanai Segal
Wednesday 28.05
at 20:00
“Hakivun Mizrakh” (East-Word) literary review in Barbur
Comix and Three Women – Hakivun Mizrakh, vol. 15
Orly Rahimiyan, Ilana Zafran and Dula Yavne meet for an evening of socio-political comix, satire, black humor, women and their autobiography.
Ilana Zafran and Dula Yavne will be showing their old and new works of comix-art.
Extracts from the film “Persepolis” (2007) will be screened. The film based on Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel “Persepolis”.
Tuesday 27.05
at 20:30
An evening of short films by independent filmmakers from Europe
Part of the Euro-Shalem Festival 2008
The festival site
