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.