A Lecture by Uri Gordon

Thursday 30.04
20:00

Anarchist politics are at the heart of today’s most vibrant and radical social movements. From squatted social centers and community gardens to acts of sabotage and raucous summit blockades, anarchist groups and networks are spreading an ethos of direct action, non-hierarchical organizing and self-liberation that has redefined revolutionary struggle for the 21st century.

The activist and author Uri Gordon will present his new book “Anarchy Alive! – Anti-authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory”. The talk will focus on the importance of direct action and the construction of communitarian economies in view of the global financial and ecological crises.

Uri Gordon – Born in Haifa, formerly IDF Radio reporter in the West Bank. Holds a PhD in politics from Oxford University and lectures on environmental politics and ethics at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies.

www.anarchyalive.com

Monday 27.04
20:00

“My life companion has lost his ability to speak, but repeats - lo! - namely - no! - in Hebrew - whenever he wants to express something. Danny, my life companion, is an Army casualty, and somehow I also find this situation poetic.

This performance is about poetic license.”

Free Entrance

Adina Bar-On is a performance artist. Her work holds a discourse about conflicts of identity and conflicting identifications and creates moments of emotion, states of behavior that her audience might share in empathy or criticism.

Adina has been an active performer since 1973, when she was a 3rd year student at the Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Jerusalem.

Over the years, she has presented her work in Israel`s major Art Museums and galleries. Making it her business to emphasize her political and social stand she has insistently performed in social and political events.

In 2001, Adina was awarded a major prize for her contribution to Israeli Art by the American Israel Cultural Foundation, and a biographical book “Adina Bar-On, Performance Artist”, had been published.

Thursday 23.04
20:00

Meeting with the artist Etti Abergel and talk on the artist’s book, “Installation Diary”

Interviewer: Irena Gordon

Monday 20.04
20:30

Director: Tova Kortzcyn

Ezra Peri, Ora Kedem, Leo Luster and Martin Vogel return to 5 Marc Aurel st. in Vienna, where a day center, in which they were able to find some temporary refuge in the dark days of the Nazi era, was located. This center for Jewish children was established and directed by Aron Menczer, a 21 years old active member of the Gordonia youth movement and a central figure in the Youth Aliyah Organization in Vienna. He stayed in Vienna while other youth movements leaders left, following the Kristalnacht.

Aaron Menczer succeeded in saving the lives of many Jewish children. Not his own. He was sent to Theresienstadt and later on with a group of over 1000 Polish children to Auschwitz, where they all perished.