Summers in Jerusalem are infused with a wide variety of cultural events - art gallery openings, theater performances, concerts, film festivals - all over the city. The Jerusalem Foundation promotes cultural events all over the city that give residents a multitude of opportunities to enjoy Jerusalem culture through the summer months.
Visit this web page often to stay up to date on the various activities taking place in Jerusalem this summer.
Rechov B'Lavan - The White Street: July 26, 2010On the vastly popular Emek Refaim Street in the German Colony, there will be a street fair starting at 5:00 p.m. and continuing to nearly midnight. There will be street performances, music, food, and other exciting events.
Hutzot Hayozair - International Arts and Crafts Festival: August 2 - August 14, 2010: For the last 30 years, performers, artists, and musicians from all over the country come to Jerusalem for the annual Hutzot Hayotair festival. It includes workshops, musical performances, a circus, acrobatics, and much much more, all held in various open spaces throughout the city, including the Mitchell Gardens, and the Hassenfeld Amphitheater in Sultan's Pool. To find out about the dates and locations of various events (in Hebrew), click
here.
The International Puppet Festival: The annual and fascinating Puppet Festival will be held from August 8 through 13, 2010, at the Train Theater in Liberty Bell Park.
As part of the festival, there will be a
free performance on August 9, 2010, at 6:00 p.m., using giant puppets, in cooperation with the Marsch Doncurma Brass Band, at the Mahane Yehuda Market.
To secure tickets, call 561-8514.
To access their website for more information, schedule of performances and tickets, click
here.
Summer of Fun for the Family - Liberty Bell Park:
Starting on August 8, 2010, and throughout the entire month of August, every Wednesday there will be performances at the Amphitheater in Liberty Bell Park. On Mondays, there will be a series of children's stories and performances held at the same Amphitheater .
For more information 566-4144.
For more information from the Hebrew website, click here.
Artists Festival in the Jerusalem Theater: August 24-26, 2010:
The Jerusalem Theater will have artistic events for the entire family staged in the wide open spaces outside the theater, including musical and dance performances, video art, and movies. For more information, call the theater at 02-560-5755.
New Exhibit At Art Cube:
An exciting new exhibit called City Slivers, the Jerusalem Photo Project, is now taking place at the Art Cube Art Gallery. The exhibit aims to create a systematic, on-going photographic documentation of various facets of the city. It includes an archival collection of Jerusalem’s features - photographs of the architecture, culture and people in this simultaneously new and ancient city – and how it all contributes to the city's .ethos and social life. Click here to view the website about the project. To find out more about Art Cube, its hours and its location, click here.
The Israel Festival: May 25 - June 1, 2010:
In a three-week period, contemporary performers and artists from around the world will come to Jerusalem hosting artists from the United States, Britain, Argentina, Georgia, Lithuania, Germany, Denmark, France, Korea, Iceland, Poland, India and Japan. The Festival continues the world-wide artistic dialogue between the performing arts and will take place between May 25 and June 11, 2010 in venues throughout Jerusalem including The Jerusalem Theatre's newest hall, the New Studio, Gerard Behar, the Targ Music Center in Ein Kerem, the Mamilla Alrov Quarter Promenade, the Botanical Gardens, the Pavilion in the Talpiyot industrial zone, the Sultan's Pool, the Binyanei HaUma International Convention Center, Brigham Young University, Mt. Scopus, Beit Shmuel and the Lab.
Some of the performers include Jerusalem-Foundation projects like the Vertigo dance group, who are performing Mana, White Noise and Birth of the Phoenix. Another Jerusalem-Foundation project, Under the Mountain, is a mini-festival within the festival, uniting Jerusalem’s leading artists under one conceptual roof with shows, exhibits, master classes, performances, installations and more, at three central events.
To read more about the Israel Festival, click here, where you can find schedules of performances, contact information, and ticket information in English.
One Square Meter – Jerusalem Poetry Festival: June 22-24. 2010
The third Jerusalem Poetry Festival, called "One Square Meter," will take place between June 22-24, 2010 at a variety of community locations in the city. Its uniqueness is that it integrates “high-art” with the community. The festival not only promotes poetry in Jerusalem, it also provides a stage for poets old and young, Jewish and Arab, secular and religious alike and offers famous Israeli musicians as entertainment. Performances take place in a variety of places, including the Nachlaot community, Machane Yehuda market, cafes in the area, and the Barbur Gallery.
To find out more about the One Square Meter festival, call: 02-621-4783, or email mail@poetryplace.org
Art Cube Art Gallery
The Art Cube Art Gallery, recently renovated, now includes a new, state-of-the-art gallery space. Part of its vision is to encourage professional artists to work and earn their living in Jerusalem. Fifteen use the space for their studios and visitors can freely walk around to talk with the artists while they work. The space is also used as a high quality gallery for contemporary artists.
With themes of metallic gray and blue throughout, the Art Cube is designed to mimic artists studios / gallery spaces in characterized by artists lofts in SoHo, New York. Indeed, this space, too, is located in the industrial zone of Talpiot, Jerusalem, surrounded by garages, carpentry workshops and warehouses for ceramic tiling and bathroom appliances. This nit and grit is felt in the Art Cube in its Hebrew name, T(a)asia, which plays both on the Hebrew word 'industry' and the notion of a defined area in which to work. In contrast, Art Cube's architectural design is characterized by its stark, white walls and professional track lighting. At the same time, its half-wall of glass maintains a dialogue and a connection between the workspace and the exhibition space.
To find out more about the Art Cube Studios and their upcoming exhibits, click
here.