Thursday 29.07
at 20:00

Bookieman and Et le Shinui are proud to present:

“Acting Souls”

The third event of the “Et LeShinuy” (Time for a Change) series – meetings whose purpose is to reflect on the connection between art, literature and social change.

Bookieman, an independent publishing house (http://bookieman.org) is coming to the Barbur Gallery to present its debut release from the end of 2009, “Acting Souls” (Nefashot Poalot).

“Acting Souls” is a hand-bound artist book, in which six young illustrators and one young author discuss in an associative manner the theme of “psychoanalysis”; the un-conscious, the therapeutic process, defense mechanisms, memory, torture, repression etc. There are only forty-five hand made copies of the book.

Nino Biniashvili and Omri Grinberg, the founders of Bookieman, will present the background to its foundation and the creation of “Acting Souls”, and the illustrators Idit Engemar, Nir Golan and Kineret Louria will discuss their works featured in it.

Yiftach Ashkenazy, who wrote the foreword to the book, will also take part in the discussion. Ashkenazy, who recently released his debut novel “Persona Non-Grata” in Hargol-Am Oved, discusses in the foreword the relation between illustration and creation in general and the psychoanalytic process.

During the evening the few remaining copies of the book will be on sale.

The fourth “Et LeShinuy” festival will take place in the Nachlaot neighborhood on September 2nd.

Thursday 29.07
at 20:00

Bookieman and Et le Shinui are proud to present:

“Acting Souls”

The third event of the “Et LeShinuy” (Time for a Change) series – meetings whose purpose is to reflect on the connection between art, literature and social change.

Bookieman, an independent publishing house (http://bookieman.org) is coming to the Barbur Gallery to present its debut release from the end of 2009, “Acting Souls” (Nefashot Poalot).

“Acting Souls” is a hand-bound artist book, in which six young illustrators and one young author discuss in an associative manner the theme of “psychoanalysis”; the un-conscious, the therapeutic process, defense mechanisms, memory, torture, repression etc. There are only forty-five hand made copies of the book.

Nino Biniashvili and Omri Grinberg, the founders of Bookieman, will present the background to its foundation and the creation of “Acting Souls”, and the illustrators Idit Engemar, Nir Golan and Kineret Louria will discuss their works featured in it.

Yiftach Ashkenazy, who wrote the foreword to the book, will also take part in the discussion. Ashkenazy, who recently released his debut novel “Persona Non-Grata” in Hargol-Am Oved, discusses in the foreword the relation between illustration and creation in general and the psychoanalytic process.

During the evening the few remaining copies of the book will be on sale.

The fourth “Et LeShinuy” festival will take place in the Nachlaot neighborhood on September 2nd.

Thursday 22.07
at 20:30

Wire-tapping #7

Ariel Shibolet

Improviser and composer
soprano saxophone

The Wiretapping series is happy to host for its seventh meeting the soprano saxophone player Ariel Shibolet, for a solo performance celebrating his new album “Total Music Meeting”. Over the years, Ariel has developed a unique style, incorporating playing techniques that widen the instrument’s possibilities of expression. His style stands out both on the local and international scene, where he performs regularly.

Born in 1972 in Israel. Played cello and received classical education throughout his youth. Started playing saxophone in 1992. In 2004, recorded his first album. Recorded on different labels, collaborating with Israeli and international musicians. A member of the “Kadima Collective” for improvised music, and the “Tel-Aviv Art Ensemble”. Organizer and art director of the monthly “Tel Aviv Meetings”.
In recent years performing regularly in Israel, the United States, and Europe. His CDs and concerts are favourably reviewed and his solo concert at the “Total Music Meeting,” in 2007, was chosen by the German press as the “highlight of the festival” and the best concert of the year. Played at the Moers festival in 2010. Over the years played with many international and local musicians, among them Damon Smith, Joelle Leandre and Birgit Ulher to name a few.

free entrance

Thursday 15.07
at 20:00

Composer Uri Barel, who wrote music for the video work “Sacrificial Specter,” which is featured at the exhibition, will participate and play during the evening.

Monday 12.07
at 20:00

For the last several months a critical struggle has been taking place in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem, creating public impact unprecedented in recent years. It is a cooperative non-violent campaign, raising existential concerns over the future of Jerusalem and the type of society in which we live.
We invite you to come and hear the story of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. Come to listen, learn, express or form an opinion. The evening will include a short explanation about the situation in East Jerusalem, an introduction to the story of Sheikh Jarrah and the struggle raging within it, a meeting with one of the evicted residents and an activist.

Friday 02.07
at 12:30

New exhibition opening

Adam Berg

Correspondence

Curator: David Stromberg

The performance Onilê (The Spirit of the Land) will be performed in the opening day by Ysamur Flores Peňa

Link to the festival website:
www.poetryplace-festival.org

Thursday 17.06
at 20:30

Wire-tapping #6

New music at Barbur

A multi-cultural electro-acoustic musical collaboration, between Korhan Erel (Turkey, Electronics), Kevin Davis (USA, Cello) and Tom Soloveitzik (Saxophones). Korhan and Kevin are both extremely talented and original musicians, active in the Istanbul and Chicago improvised music scenes, and we feel honored to host them. The trio has been working together and performing for some time, and is planned to record during the current visit to Israel.

Series editor: Tom Soloveitzik

Free entrance

Korhan Erel: computer and electronics musician, performer, improviser, composer. Turkish composer / improvisor based in Istanbul. He is a founding member of Islak Kopek, Turkey’s pioneer free improvisation group. He performed and had compositions played in radios, festivals in Turkey, Austria, Australia, Holland, Germany, Finland and Ireland. He performed telematic concerts over Skype in Germany, Spain and the US.
Korhan approaches computer performances from a conventional instrument approach. He refrains from using many sound layers and frequency ranges in order to leave space for acoustic and electric instruments he plays with. He also plays melodica and Cracklebox in ensemble performances. For his solo performances, he augments the computer with other sound sources, such as analog electronics (modular synths, guitar effects, oscillators, digital effects). He plays his computer instruments similar to a conventional instrument player - the laptop is the “sound body” and the “resonators”, the controllers are the “exciters”. The screen is occasionally used for monitoring software status and is not used as a part of the performance, thus avoiding the typical look of the laptop musician, staring at the screen all throughout a performance. He uses Wiimotes and a iPod Touch as the “fretboards” for his instruments.
Korhan’s compositions blend industrial sounds, found sounds, abstract sound textures and acoustic instruments into sound collages. He is currently working on new instrument designs on Audiomulch and Ableton Live that will enable him to create instant compositions and sound collages for solo and group performances as well as playing with dancers, video artists.
Korhan has been recording with Islak Köpek and other improvisers. Among others, Korhan has played with the following artists: Jonas Kocher, Le Quan Ninh, Michel Doneda.

Kevin Davis is an improviser, composer and cellist. Born and raised in Appalachian Tennessee, he earned a degree in music composition from the University of Memphis. After a period of post-graduate study in Memphis and Boston, he began working in the fertile experimental music scenes of Chicago and New York, recording and touring in the United States and Europe. Kevin relocated to İstanbul in 2008. He has recently completed a Master’s degree at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM) and will soon be returning to the United States to pursue a PhD in music at the University of Virginia.
Kevin has recorded, performed, and improvised with many excellent musicians including Pauline Oliveros, Ken Vandermark, and Fred Lonberg-Holm among many others. His own projects include duo recordings with Dave Rempis, and the trio Locksmith Isidore. He now performs with the İstanbul-based Islak Köpek and co-directs the MIAM Improvisation Ensemble.

Tom Soloveitzik: Tom’s music walks the line between improvisation and composition, places the element of sound at center-stage, and is based on the interaction between musicians in real-time. He studied at the University of Haifa and at the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem. Tom has played in Israel, New York and Istanbul and performed with John Butcher, Barre Phillips and J.C Jones, among others. He works with dancers, plays in Trek Duo with Nitay Levi and curates the ‘Wiretapping’ series in Barbur gallery in Jerusalem.

Thursday 10.06
at 20:30

HOLY LAND CARAVAN (2010)

the documentary about the All Nations Café and the meeting with the participants

www.allnationscafe.org

Saturday 29.05
at 21:00

Berlin - Jerusalem

Music at Barbur: Alexander Frangenheim, Harold Rubin, Jean Claude Jones

Alexander Frangenheim: Born in Wuppertal, he studied sculpture at the academy of fine arts in Stuttgart and at the same time classical doublebass with Reinald Schwarz.
CDs: duo with Phil Durrant; duo with Günter Christmann; Vario 34 with Lehn, Munthe, Gustafsson, Lovens, Christmann; Christmann’s „con moto“ (music, dance, sound poetry, film) with David Zambrano, Urs Leimgruber, Fine Kwiatkofski, Elke Schipper (dvd); „screen - festival concepts of doing 1999“ mit Yoshihide, Turner, Leimgruber, Schürch, Parkins, Newton, Frangenheim. several cds with Ensemble Zeitkratzer (Lou Reed Metal Machine Music, Merzbow, Alva Noto, ..). coming up: trio Christmann Schipper Frangenheim
He created the music for the experimental film „Lupinen löschen“ by Sabine Schöbel, which was shown at the Berlinale 2007.
Solo cd „the knife again“ on creative sources, 2010.
Groups: trio with Chris Burn and Axel Dörner, duo with percussionist Michael Griener, quartett with Thomas Lehn, LeQuan Ninh, Frederic Blondy.
Intense work with dancers in diverse performing and rehearsing situations.
Collaborations with Julyen Hamilton, Vera Mantero, Benoit Lachambre, Josè Luis Sultàn. Single spots with Sasha Waltz, Katie Duck, Joachim Schlömer, Nigel Charnock, Anna Huber.
From 1992 to 2003 he organized the festival „concepts of doing – Interaktion Tanz Musik“ which became an important european plattform for the exchange of the arts inviting many notable artists for free collaborations during 4 days. (Please see: www.concepts-of-doing.de).
Lives in Berlin since 2005. Created a space in 2009, which will allow him to continue his work with dance and other media.

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.”

Thursday 27.05
at 20:30

Second event in the series of meetings of “Et LeShinuy”

Children’s literature inevitably contain cultural and social messages, both explicit and hidden, that Israeli society passes on to its children through books.
This lecture is intended for adults interested in the connection between children’s literature and the development of social conscience and sensitivity. We’ll be examining a number of Hebrew-language books that have been published in Israel over the years, and which discuss in various ways the relationship between Jews and Arabs in Israel and outside of it.
The discussion will be led by professionals in the field of children’s literature and community action in Israel:
Dr. Hanna Levant - Director of the Yemima Center for the Research and Teaching of Children’s and Youth Literature at Beit Berl Academic College. The Center and its staff work in the field of children and youth literature throughout the country, especially on the relation between the educational system and public libraries, through large-scale projects and by publishing an academic journal for the investigation of children’s literature, called ‘Small World’.
Bat Shahar Gurfinkel Gormazano and Shira Lapidot - of the Bikurim Initiative, which encourages the use of literature - especially children’s literature - as a tool for social change. ‘Bikurim’ runs the yearly ‘Et LeShinui’ festival every September in the Barbur Gallery area.

Thursday 20.05
at 20:30

Wire-tapping #5

New music at Barbur

The fifth meeting in the ‘Wiretapping’ series will host the ‘Musica Nova’ ensemble, that For the last 22 years has been presenting the Israeli audience all that is new and contemporary in the Israeli and worldwide experimental music scene. The renewed ensemble changed and updated its presentations constantly in accordance with to social changes and processes which form the fabric of modern living. The ensemble’s members comprise of the finest performers and specialists in the field and currently include a group of cross platform artists, from musicians to video artists and chorographers; in addition to being top notch musicians they bring with them wide varieties of additional capabilities that include the use of technology and improvisation.

Series editor: Tom Soloveitzik

Free entrance

Assaf Shatil is a versatile Pianist, composer, improviser and singer/songwriter that has performed in Canada, The United States and Israel. He Holds a Masters degree in Contemporary Improvisation from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where he was a student of Ran Blake and Anthony Coleman.

Giori Politi graduated his master from the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag. He played as a soloist with orchestras including the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra. Giori is a member in various groups such as Israel contemporary players, Panic Ensemble and the Walking Man. He has performed in worldwide festivals including the Bartok Festival, Bath and Lowlands Festival.

Dan Weinstein Cellist, lecturer and teacher. A versatile musician, he performs as soloist, chamber musician and contemporary music interpreter in Israel and around the world. He often participates in cross platform project which combines Dance, Theatre and improvised music. Dan Graduated from the Buchman-Mehta music school in Tel Aviv, in the class of Mr Hilel Zori and continued his studies in Paris with Barbara Marcinkowska and Mark Drobinsky.

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.

Liora Belford is a video artist and a film maker.
In her work, she investigates the aesthetic approach by deconstructing the visual narrative.
She is co-running the experimental record label, Interval Recordings, as well as being half of Duprass.

Amnon Wolman is a composer and sound artist who writes for diversified forces of musicians grounded in an essential interest in experimentation and a belief that music as an art form expresses many dissimilar ideas of beauty.

Danny Felsteiner finished his contrabass studies in Holland, specializing in contemporary music. He is a member of Musica Nova, the Israeli 21st Century Ensemble, and the Revolution Orchestra. Together with Fabienne Van Eck, they run a free music school in East Jerusalem.

Fabienne van Eck studied the cello in The Netherlands. She works with Musicians without Borders to provide music workshops for disadvantaged children in the Middle East and is currently researching cultural exchange in music education. Fabienne played in many ensembles and orchestras in Europe, the USA and the Middle East. Together with Danny Felsteiner, they run a free music school in East Jerusalem.

Karni Postel – Born 1971, learned at the Rubin music academy. Since 1991 composes music for dance, theater and films. Composed for Ohad Naharin, Yasmin Goder, Beit-Lesin Theater and more. In 2009 released the album “Heder” – 10 old songs were re-recorded, acoustically performed, in a rehearsal room style.

Tuesday 17.05
at 20:30

Dance series in Barbur

Duets

A dance and live music evening

with participation of Tarantula dance group

Participants:

Smadar Cohen - Yonatan Niv
Nocham Baitner - Shaul Bustan
Inbar Shifroni - Tom Soloveitzik
Michal Berlatzky - Nitai Levi

No Soul For Sale

A Festival of Independents
Dates: May 14-16, 2010
Location: Tate Modern, Turbine Hall - Bankside London
http://www.nosoulforsale.com/index.php
http://www.nosoulforsale.com/index.php/2010#barbur

Thursday 06.05
at 20:30

A Film by Neta Efrony

Kalandia

a Checkpoint’s Story

Over a span of six years, Neta Efrony, a member of MachsomWatch (Checkpoints Watch), documented an Israeli military Checkpoint - on the road between East Jerusalem and Ramallah - which grew and expanded into becoming a Terminal.

Kalandia’s Checkpoint does not separate between Arabs and Jews; it separates between Palestinians and Palestinians. The film, shot in a cinéma vérité style, is an authentic and disturbing testimony to the daily struggle of Palestinians who wish to continue their routine lives, on their way to work, education, medical care or religious reasons.

Filmed and Directed by Neta Efrony
Script and Editing by Tsipi Raz
Sound Design by Alex Claud
Production by Susan Lourenco, Women’s Fund for Human Rights

After the screening there will be a talk with the director.

Before the screening a survey of the checkpoints around Jerusalem will be presented.

60 minutes. English, Arabic, Hebrew. Hebrew narration & English subtitles.

Thursday 29.04 at 20:00 New Exhibition Opening:

Baeume pflanzen, Baeume abhauen

Du wirst viele Dinge sehen, die ich heute schon kenne

by Hans Stuetzer (Hamburg)

Thursday 22.04
at 20:30

Wire-tapping #4

New music at Barbur

The fourth meeting in the ‘Wiretapping’ series is proud to host Albert Beger - Musician, Composer, Saxophonist and Teacher - a truly innovative Israeli jazz and improvised music artist who makes music without compromises, for music’s sake with great passion and stamina that over the years have awarded him international achievements.

Albert will open the evening with an improvised solo saxophone piece, after which he’ll join forces with J.C Jones - who has produced the wonderful sounds of the first meeting of the series. To end the evening Albert will join Trek Duo players Nitai Levi (clarinets) and Tom Soloveitzik (Saxophones) in a reeds trio.

Series editor: Tom Soloveitzik

Free entrance

Albert Beger: - Albert plays energetic, soulful pieces conveying a confluence of styles: bebop, hard bop and free jazz, contemporary classical and ethnic music, progressive rock and electronica. He has spent years wood-shedding his instrument, a reflection of his penchant for self-discipline and auto-didactic study and an uncanny love for the saxophone and its seemingly endless aural possibilities. He studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem. He currently holds teaching positions at the Rubin Academy, Haifa University and Muzik - School of Creation and Production. Albert has recorded eight albums of original compositions. He has also collaborated on numerous projects with both local and internationally acclaimed musicians, among which are William Parker, Hammid Drake and James Newton. Albert is the recipient of the Landau Award for Performing Arts (2005) and the prestigious Prime Minister’s Award for Composers (2009).

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.”

Nitai Levi: - Began playing the clarinet at age 7. Attended the Conservatory and the Music Academy school in Jerusalem, and continued his studies at the Jerusalem Academy of Music. Played at the Jazz Festival in Eilat, Israel Festival, Shuni Jazz Festival, White Night in Tel Aviv, Vilnius Jazz Festival, and others. Recorded CDs with several groups, among them the Yellow Submarine Ensemble, Ensemble 105, Chameleon Trio, Yonatan Kretchmer Quartet. Playing both original written music (in concerts, theaters, soundtracks), and improvised music and jazz. Currently playing in several groups, including Rona Kenan, Yonatan Kretchmer Quartet, Trek Duo.

Tom Soloveitzik: - Tom’s music walks the line between improvisation and composition, places the element of sound at center-stage, and is based on the interaction between musicians in real-time. He studied at the University of Haifa and at the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem. Tom has played in Israel, New York and Istanbul and performed with John Butcher, Barre Phillips and J.C Jones, among others. He works with dancers, plays in Trek Duo with Nitay Levi and curates the ‘Wiretapping’ series in Barbur gallery in Jerusalem.

Thursday 15.04 at 19:30 New Exhibition Opening:

“Art Class Finals Exhibition”

Barbur Gallery will be hosting the opening of the Rene Cassin Highschool

Thursday 25.03
at 20:30

Wire-tapping #3

New music at Barbur

In the third meeting of the Wiretapping series we will host Harold Rubin, one of the pillars of Free Jazz and improvised music in Israel, the inspiration for a whole generation of musicians due to his freshness and unique musical thinking. He will be joined by Mark Smulian, his musical companion of old, with whom he founded the “Zaviyot” (angles) group in 1986; and Haim Peskoff, a young and promising drummer/percussionist who plays in a variety of groups and musical styles.

Other than playing, Harold - a multi-talented artist - will also be reading some of his poetry.

Series editor: Tom Soloveitzik

Free entrance

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.

Mark Smulian - Musician and Facilitator, Born in England, Mark has been working as a professional musician from the age of 16. From a very young age the music of different cultures affected him deeply and has had a major influence on his music. At age of 16 Mark found himself traveling on a regular basis between England and Israel. The exposure to different cultures naturally found its way into all of his music, be it ‘rock’nroll’, jazz, classical or ethnic cross-over. In 1986 he formed together with Harold Rubin the band Zaviot that performed internationally on a regular basis. With over 30 Albums as a producer, some of which went gold and platinum, and 30 years as a band leader, Mark brings a unique understanding to the world of cross-cultural music. Guided by his steadfast belief in the power of good music, frustrated by the status quo, and seeking opportunities for change, Mark has led the WhiteFlag Project band over the past 11 years. Having lived in the midst of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the past 25 years and as the father of 2 young children, creating bridges for communication through music has become a central part of his life.

Haim Peskoff is an Jerusalem based drummer who performs throughout Israel with some of the best musicians inspanning many styles from Indie rock and funk to moderrn jazz and free music. Haim has played in Israels top venues including the red sea jazz festival in eilat, the international Jazz festival in Jerusalem and the Globus international Jazz festival and the White Nights international modern music festival in Tel aviv, and numerous radio and television appearances.