Israeli Poet and writer Yonatan Berg to visit India in September: Kolkata | Delhi
Yonatan Berg was born in 1981 in Jerusalem to a religious family and grew up in Psagot, a settlement in the West Bank. He gave up his religious lifestyle and now lives in Tel Aviv. Berg holds a BA in creative writing and an MA in bibliotherapy. A poet as well as a novelist, Berg writes a weekly opinion column for the popular Walla website and has written literary reviews for the Israeli press. He has published two books of poetry and was the youngest poet to receive the Yehuda Amichai poetry Prize for his debut book Hard Sails (2013). His short story, "Elegy", won the prestigious Haaretz short story competition. Five More Minutes, Berg's first novel, won Am Oved's 'All the Beginnings' competition (2012) and the Ministry of Culture Prize (2015). He is currently working on his second novel.
Books Published in Hebrew:
Hard Sails (poetry), Keshev, 2012 [Mifrasim Kashim]
Hours Beside the World (poetry), Keshev, 2014 [Sha'ot Le-Yad Ha-Olam]
Five More Minutes (novel) , Am Oved, 2015 [Od Chamesh Dakot]
Public readings will be held at The Oxford Book Store in in New Delhi.
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Israeli Animation from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design & Minshar for Art @ India International Animation and Cartoon Film Festival (IIACFF)
October 1-5 Lalit Hotel, New Delhi
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design & Minshar for Art
Screen-Based Arts Department at the Bezalel Academy of Arts
The development of technology and digital communication led to a radical change in our perception of the cultural world. These changes have led to the emergence of a new field of activity, "new media", which enables the individual to create independent, intriguing, fascinating and challenging movies. Animation and movie-making meet one another on the screens of the cellular telephone, the personal computer, the television set and the movie theater, at the gallery and the museum.
The space within which the Screen-Based Arts Department at the Bezalel Academy operates includes the animation, movie-making and video programs and establishes a connection between movie-making and the world of art as an expressive tool.
'Minshar for Art' is an art school and a lively cultural center in the heart of Tel-Aviv. Its goal is to educate through studies and creation in the vast disciplines of art: Cinema, Animation, Photography, Theater, Visual Media, Visual arts and Writing, and to encourage the involvement of the artistic action in its political and social environment.
'Minshar' promotes a constant searching after new ways of expression through art, and wide-scale collaboration between the different disciplines of art, which leads to social, political and public activity, as well as personal, introverted creation that enables a dialogue with public. These principals are manifested in an advanced program, which combines creative work-shops, equipped with high technology devices, theoretical courses that examine the emergence and development of each field through historical aspects, as well as constant guidance and critic relative to the creative process of each student.
More about Israeli Animation:
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Soof - Gil Ron Shama ensemble - India Tour 2015: Jaipur | Delhi
October 9th Hotel Clarks Amber, Jaipur @ Ta Blu Festival
October 16 Purana Quila, Delhi @ Delhi International Arts Festival (DIAF) (Free Entry, no passes required!)
October 17 Kamani Auditorium, Delhi @ International Folk Dance & Music Festival, Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR)
October 18 Dogra Auditorium @ Rendezvous Festival, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi
***ENTRY FREE TO ALL SHOWS***
Acoustic ensemble. An uplifting exciting music journey, including sacred poetry, Sufi music, sacred Hebrew poetry along with North-African & Arab dancing music. Fascinating experience, with Gil as MC, sharing stories from his trips in deserts around the world.
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Visit of Gil Alon, Artistic Director Acco Festival of Alternative Theatre to India: Delhi | Kolkata | Chennai | Mumbai
Israeli Zen master, singer, actor, theater director and teacher. In 2000 Gil was certified as a Zen Master in Japan. A Laureate of the "World Peace Ambassador 2015" award from Save The World Foundation. He has a lifetime honor membership at the Asian Academy for Film & Television (AAFT). Alon will be offering workshops, master classes and lectures about Israeli Theatre.
October 26-28 Asian Academy for Film & Television (AAFT), Noida
Dates TBC Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute (SRFTI), Kolkata
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Yossi Fine, is an Israeli bassist and producer. He fronts the world music/reggae/funk band Ex-Centric Sound System.
October 25 | 8 p.m. | Main Stage Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur City
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Motzeri Music Ensamble India Tour 2015: Delhi | Pilani | Kanpur | MumbaiOctober 27 Delhi International Arts Festival
October 28 Oasis Festival The Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani
October 29 -31 Antaragni Festival, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur
November 1 Indo-Israel Chamber of Commerce, Mumbai
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Acollective - India Tour 2015: Shillong | Delhi | Kanpur October 24th NH7 Weekender, Shillong
October 27th Delhi International Arts Festival (DIAF) Kamani Auditorium, Delhi. (Free Entry, no passes required!)
October 30th Antaragni Festival - Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur
Acollective grew up making music together. In their teenage years, the story started in the way that many others do – with kids making a racket in their parents’ basement. It was an open forum to vent frustration. With no real intention of ever being a full time band, in truth only ever really aspiring to exist as a community of musicians, Acollective’s formative years were spent playing not in gig venues (who books a band that doesn’t have any songs?) but springing up at their own guerilla shows on the streets on their hometown, Tel-Aviv. Crowds started forming, more and more gatherings took place and, with a hook-up in the UK, the band’s first ever real tour was put together. In the confines of a London flat, the songs that would later become their debut album (2011’s ‘Onwards’) were penned and fine-tuned. After an unfortunate deportation saga, the band returned to Israel renewed, and full of purpose, ready to commit all they had learned to tape.
Onwards was released in 2011, produced by Chris Shaw, and cemented them as a band to believe in back in Israel – no small task, particularly for an indie band singing in English. Sold out tours around the country beckoned and it wasn’t long before they were playing international shows and festivals, at the likes of Glastonbury, YNOT, and SXSW.
Acollective will readily admit that the transition from basement dwelling art project to international performers, was a little chaotic. They were their own label, their own management, press and booking agency, and it took time for the dust to settle, and for them to find their feet in making Onwards’ follow-up. Their experiences across the world had exposed them to plethora of differing cultures that they felt all needed documenting in some form.
So, surrounded by “a million different beeping things” the troupe locked themselves away in an old shoe factory and recorded what is now called Pangaea. In spite of all of the album’s intricacies, a priority for the band was to maintain the essence of their environment so everything was recorded live. The mere mention of influences is enough to spark bloody violence within the band. Ask them who they listen to and they’ll tell you Sufjan Stevens, Beck, Paul Simon and Radiohead. Delve a little deeper and you’ll learn about their love of everything from Dixie Jazz, Japanese Pop and old-school hip-hop to modern-Arab-kitsch. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this has meant that Pangaea has become, at its core, quite an unstable album – in keeping with the band’s own unstable creative process. But let it not be said that it isn’t cohesive. As the band’s leader, Idan Rabinovici cryptically offers; “You must keep dancing even if the ground around you is shaking, safe in the belief that things must break apart and shatter in order to reconnect again.” Going on to talk about the album’s lead single ‘OTM’, he says; “It’s a celebration of being left behind, of being insulated from the outside world but deeply affected at the same time - in a state of perpetual limbo. Nothing is more dangerous than staying put, and nothing is more heartbreaking than running away.”
It’s a statement like that, that sets the tone of the album. Pangaea is worldly and wonky, caustic and cohesive, mellow and marauding in equal measure. Acollective could be one of 2014’s most interesting propositions.
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Emuna Elon, Sarah Blau & Ruto Modan @ Kumaon Literature Festival: Danchuli | Nainital
October 3-27 Danchuli, Kumaon
David Gerstein Exhibition @ Visual Arts Gallery: New Delhi
November 6-14 Delhi, India Habitat Centre (Visual Arts Gallery)
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Daniel Pearl @ American CentreNovember 3or4 (TBC) Special Screening and discussion on "The Journalist and the Jihadi" by Ramesh Sharma
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Israeli Art @ Jaipur Art Summit
21-25 Nov Jawahrlal Kala Kendra Jaipur
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Jury Member Oren Tirosh's movie Escapeland will be screened @ Delhi International Film FestivalDecember 5-12 NDMC CONVENTION CENTER, CONNAUGHT PLACE, DELHI
"Escapeland” follows the against-all-odds love story between a young Israeli woman from a kibbutz and a Sudanese Muslim UN refugee, who is not allowed entry into Israel. Along with their children, the woman has constantly been on the move for the last few years between a remote beach in the Sinai and her mother’s home on Kibbutz Ein Shemer, shifting between hope for a future together, and despair from the economic and political obstacles
Oren Tirosh is a Graduate Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel Aviv, With expertise on documentary for the last 20 years he directed, photographed, wrote and produced a variety of movies - from individual projects, through P.R. movies and up to video art. He taught at documentary directing, cinematography and Inaugurated the summery projects at the documentary department at Camera Obscura Film School. Over the last 8 years, he took part in several film festivals as a lecturer and as a member of the jury.