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COMMUNITY – Open House Party – Celebrate the opening of the Bnai-Darfur Community Center on March 25, 2011 from 13:00 – 17:00. Traditional Darfuri food, original crafts, Henna tattoos, dance, and live music – admission fee of 20 NIS will directly benefit the center. A house-warming gift of children’s books, games and materials will be warmly welcomed. The center is located in Tel Aviv, behind Sderot Har-Tzion 107, on 2 Hahmei Atuna Street. Bnai-Darfur, an NGO founded by Darfuri refugees in Israel to aid their community.
MUSIC – TONIGHT – Bill Drummond presents The 17 at the Yafo 23 Gallery in Jerusalem.
March 24 – Lazer Lloyd & YOOD with special guest guitarist Andy Watts at the Shablul Jazz Club doors open at 20:00, 90NIS (80NIS advance reservations);
Acollective at the Beat Club in Haifa
March 25 –Sticks and Stones Levontin 7 at 16:30, 40 NIS; The Compromises soon to release their new album produced by Uri Wertheim 21:30 40 NIS; Doron Rapheli at the Mitzpeh Ramon Jazz Club 21:00.
UMLALA will release their first single at Tmuna, 22:30, 40 NIS; Muzik Market, the music school turns into a marketplace from 11 – 16:00, with singers, songwriters, and bands showcasing their wares at 4 Ben Shemen Street, Tel Aviv; Inbal Netzer at the Shablul Jazz Club, night show 23:00, FREE
March 26 –The Heeby Geebys Blues Band – Guy Dagan harmonica & vocals, Asaf Barak vocals & electric guitar, Rafi Yedidya bass, Shaul Eliyahu drums at the Shablul Jazz Club. Doors open at 15:00, show starts 16:00, with the sounds you love from Muddy Waters to B. B. King and more. 50NIS in advance, 60NIS at the door.
Radical Jewish Cabaret – Psoy Korolenko, Daniel Kahn & Oy Division at Levontin 7, 21:30, 70/80NIS. Assif Tsahar, Daniel Sarid, Yoav Beirech & Ariel Armoni at 23:00, Levontin 7, 40 NIS.
March 30 – Ruth Dolores Weiss at Levontin 7, 20:30, 70/60NIS; Rockfour at the Barby with guest Geva Alon, 22:00, 70/80 NIS.
March 31 – The Mark Rashkow Blues Band at the Shablul Jazz Club.
April 1 – Eatliz at the City Winery in NY (yes, it’s not in Israel, but if you’re in the neighborhood – it’s a terrific band that always gives an amazing performance).
April 2 – The Classic and Romantic in the 20th Century – Einav Yarden, piano; Moran Katz, Clarinet; Andrea Hallam, violin; and Ira Givol, cello – performing at 21:00 at the Einav Cultural Center in Tel Aviv with works from Stravinsky, Britten, Berg, Bartok, and Schoenberg.
Drunk Machine release their new EP Hot Flushes at the Ozen Bar 22:30, free download here
ART – March 24 –Gallery talk at the 6th Ceramics Biennale with Curator Shlomit Bauman and participating artists Avner Singer, Ronit Baranga, Miri Fleischer and Aya Margolis. The visually appealing and thought provoking exhibit is currently showing at the Eretz Israel Museum thru June 15, 2011. The talk will take place at 18:00, admission to the museum: 21 – 42 NIS.
The Ground on Which I Stand – a collaborative exhibition between artists Nir Alon and Gazmend Ejupi and curator Michele Robecchi, opens at 20:00 at the Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, followed by a party in the gallery courtyard with DJ MusicBoy.
Casino Ayalon – play roulette and (maybe) win an original work of art to take home at the Bezalel Gallery, 60 Salame Street, Tel Aviv. Free entrance, first game starts at 20:00, gambling, music and more til 23:00.
March 25 – Gallery talk with curator Michele Robecchi and artists Nir Alon and Gazmend Ejupi at the Chelouche Gallery, 12:00.
March 29 – the William Ashbless project will go on display at the Yafo 23 Gallery in Jerusalem. Gabi Kricheli began work on the sculptural installation on March 20, 2011 and the completed work (whose process has been documented by students at Bezalel) will be revealed to the public at the March 29, 2011 opening event at 19:00. The site specific work will be on display through April 7, 2011.
ONGOING – William Kentridge: Five Themes at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem through June 18, 2011 – which should give visitors the opportunity to see this fascinating exhibit several times. The intersection of the different media – animated films, drawings, prints, theatre models, sculptures and books in an excellently designed exhibit offers an opportunity to engage with the work of South African artist William Kentridge.
DANCE – VIVA ESPAÑA! If you love music, if you love dance, if you love Spain, if you love…this is the week for you! Spain’s Compañía Nacional de Danza is performing Nacho Duato’s Multiplicity/Forms of Silence and Emptiness, an all-Bach program at the Israeli Opera through March 25, 2011 – one of the most moving, beautiful performances ever.
March 24 – Dias de Flamenco at Suzanne Dellal through March 26, 2011, with Tauro – Granada’s Flamenco (24.3 at 21:00, 25.3 at 22:00 and 26.3 at 20:30), the second stage of the flamenco competition on March 25 at 14:00, with the finals accompanying the Tauro Gala performance on Saturday, March 26th, and programs for the whole family during the day on Saturday – Israeli flamenco for kids at 12:30 and Neta Shezaf, The Little Spanish Mermaid at 16:30.
Bat Bayit, dance performance at Beit Tami Community Center on Sheinkin, 20:00. 5 women with personal dance works: Aharona Israel, solo; Dana Hirsh Lazer, I Need You; Dania Elraz, Things That I Do Not; Tali Zvilovitch, Girl Girl Girl; Sharona Florsheim, Cecilia Now.
March 27 – 28 – Dede Dance Company celebrates 10 years of creativity with performances at Suzanne Dellal at 21:00, tickets: 120NIS.
March 29 – Fresco Dance Group – Particle Accelerator at Suzanne Dellal, 21:00.
March 30 – Post-Martha by Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor at Suzanne Dellal, 21:00; Dance and Sculpture – innovative dancer/choreographer Anat Shamgar with guest Arkadi Zaides at Tmuna, 20:00.
March 31 – Mana by the Vertigo Dance Company at Suzanne Dellal, 21:00.
FILMS – ONGOING – French Week thru March 25, 2011, with screenings of Jeune homme by Swiss filmmaker Christophe Schaub, J’ai tué ma mère by Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan, Une chaine pour deux by Belgian filmmaker Frédéric Ledoux, and L’odeur de la papaye verte by Vietnamese filmmaker Tran Anh Hung.
March 24 – 19:00 a screening of the excellent documentary Teacher Irena at the Herzliya Cinematheque, with a talk by the film’s creator Itamar Chen
March 25 – Screening of Arab films at Levontin 7, 14:00, 10NIS; a live show by Ziona Patriot and Talula Bonet with a screening of Hairspray at the Herzliya Cinematheque, 21:00; Hippopotam Reunion with madness, mayhem & skits, followed by a screening of the cult film Israeli Intelligence at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque – the fun starts around 23:30, screening around midnight.
March 26 – ; it’s Simon & Garfunkel night at the Jerusalem Cinematheque with The Graduate at 17:45, the 60s documentary Simon and Garfunkel Songs of America at 20:00, and Harmony Game – The Making of Bridge Over Troubled Water at 21:30.
March 31 – Free Screening of Robi Elimelech’s comic/tragic documentary of two brothers, garage mechanics in Sderot (Hebrew with English subtitles) at the First International Bank of Israel on 42 Rothschild Street, Tel Aviv at 20:30; Hippopotam Show & Israeli Intelligence at the Jerusalem Cinematheque, 21:00.
April 2 – French films at the Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Sderot, and Rosh Pina Cinematheques; the great Hippopotam video – If You Don’t Dance You’re a Goof will be screened at the Faux Film Festival (again, Midnight East knows that Oregon is not in Israel, but had to tell you about this one!)
THEATRE: March 24 – 29, The Aristocrats by Edna Mazyeh, directed by Omri Nitzan at the Cameri Theatre – with ENGLISH subtitles. A story of two brothers in Israel’s early days – one an aspiring politician and the other aspires to dress Israeli women in furs. Yehezkel Lazarov lights up the stage as the furrier and Nitzan’s staging recreates this slice of Israel’s past in cabaret style.
March 25 – Adam Geist at Tmuna at 20:30, directed by Lilach Dekel-Avneri, Dea Lohr’s play tells it like it is from the perspective of a young man lost in contemporary Europe
March 26 – Tziporela Derech Hagav at Tzavta at 21:00
March 29 – Odysseus Chaoticus at Tmuna at 20:30 – Ish Theatre presents one man’s crazy & chaotic odyssey through family life via ancient Greece in a wildly funny physical theatre performance – performed in pseudo-Italian, Hebrew, English and gibberish this multi-talented troupe requires no translation.
March 30 – Kvisa Shorah (literally means black laundry = dirty laundry) 5 women meet at a Laundromat and the comic possibilities are endless at 20:30 at Beit Tami – this group has been getting rave reviews & this is a chance to see them for only 25NIS.
*Unless otherwise noted, events take place in Hebrew
ADDRESSES:
Barby, 56 Kibbutz Galuyot Street, Tel Aviv
The Beat Club, 124 Sderot Hanassi, Haifa, 04-8107107
Beit Tami, Shenkin Garden aka 16 Merkaz Ba’alei Hamelacha Street, Tel Aviv
Cameri Theatre, 19 Shaul Hamelech Boulevard, Tel Aviv, 03-6060960
Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, 4 Mazeh Street, Tel Aviv
Design Museum, 8 Pinhas Eilon Street, Holon, 073-2151515
Eretz Israel Museum, 2 Haim Levanon Street, Tel Aviv, 03-6415244
Hakatze, 4 Shushan Street, Jerusalem
Hasimta Theatre, 8 Mazal Dagim Alley, Old City of Jaffa, 03-6812126
Hateiva, 19 Jerusalem Boulevard, Hatzrot Yafo, Jaffa (parking level), 03-6822403
Herzliya Cinematheque, 29 Sokolov Street Herzliya, 09-9513361
Herzliya Museum of Art, 4 Habanim Street, Herzliya, 09-9551011
Holon Cinematheque, 6 Golda Meir Street, 03-5021555
Holon Theatre, 11 Kugel Street, Holon, 03-5023019
The Israel Museum, Ruppin Boulevard (near the Knesset), Jerusalem, 02-6708811
The Israeli Museum of Caricature and Comics, 61 Weizmann Street, Holon, 03- 6521849
Khan Theatre, 2 David Remez Street, Jerusalem, 02-6303600
Levontin 7, Tel Aviv, 03-5605084
Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, 02-6292212
Mitzpe Ramon Jazz Club is located in the Darkei Habsamim neighborhood, on 8/2 Har Boker Street. For additional information call: 050-5265628 Moadon HaBeat,
Nahmani Hall, 4 Nahmani Street, Tel Aviv
Pub Hapara, Moshav Shavei Zion, 04-9525250
Ra’anana Performing Arts Centre, 2A HaPalmach Street, Ra’anana, 09- 9457773
Reading 3, 3 Hata’arucha Street, Tel Aviv, 03-7624000
Rothschild Fine Art Gallery, 140 Rothschild Blvd., Tel Aviv, 077/5020484
Suzanne Dellal Centre, 5 Yehieli Street, Neve Tzedek, Tel Aviv, 03-5105656
Tel Aviv Cinematheque, 2 Sprintzak Street, Tel Aviv. 03-6060800
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 27 Shaul Hamelech Boulevard, 03-6077020
Tmuna Theatre, 8 Soncino Street, Tel Aviv, 03-5611211
Tzavta Theatre, 30 Ibn Gvirol Street, Tel Aviv, 03-6950156/7
Uganda, 4 Aristobolus Street, Jerusalem, 02-6236087
Yafo 23 Gallery, 23 Yafo Street, Jerusalem, 02-6249367
Yellow Submarine, 13 Erkevim Street, Talpiyot Industrial Area, Jerusalem, 02-6794040
Zappa Herzliya, 85 Medinat Hayehudim Street, Herzliya, 03-7626666
