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DJ James Blake at The Selector party

The British Council and Tabac are excited to hold a party featuring the outstanding British DJ James Blake at the Block Club in Tel Aviv, 27th January 2012. We are celebrating one year of broadcasting of the British Council contemporary music radio show, THE SELECTOR, on IDC radio. The Selector is broadcasted every Saturday @ 19:00-21:00 on IDC Radio and online at http://1062fm.co.il/en

The British Film Festival is Back!

We are thrilled to showcase the best new films from Britain by celebrating UK cinematic talent with film screenings and events around Israel. This follows the successful launch of the UK-Israel Film Co-Production Treaty at the Haifa International Film Festival.

February 2012. visit the festival's website and. Follow us on the festival page on facebook for updates.

Shakespeare in Jerusalem
The Israel Friends of The Hebrew University are honored to invite you to a morning with the British actor David Weston. Shakespeare's life story and works including extracts from his plays. Proceeds will support scholarships for students at the University’s Departments of Theatre Studies and English. Friday 20 January 2012, 10:30. Regular ticket (refreshments and performance) 120 NIS, Gold ticket (including lunch reception) 250 NIS. Registration by phone 02-5882840. More details here.

Iwona Blazwick in Israel

Iwona Blazwick, director of Whitechapel Gallery, London is coming to Israel for a professional research trip together with Ms Carolyn Cristov-Bakargiev, the curator of the 13th Documenta taking place in Kassel Germany in June 2012. During the visit to Israel, Outset Contemporary Art Fund facilitates studio visits, visits to institutions, museums, projects meetings with colleagues and professionals across Israel as well as has the two give a talk to a professional Israeli audience.
When: 13-18 January 2012
Where: Tel Aviv, Israel

Israeli Centre for Digital Art, Holon

The BIARTS grant is supporting a cultural exchange program of artists from UK’s The Showroom and Holon’s The Centre for Digital Art.  Israeli curators Ran Kasmy Ilan and Eyal Danon will be visiting London’s Church Street ward and then UK artists Emily Pethick and Louise Shelley will travel to the Jessy Cohen neighbourhood in Holon.  Both arts institutes are devoted to endeavours that speak about and to their communities.  The project not only exposes visiting artists to new communities and inspirations, but it aims to establish a strong artistic network and productive collaboration between the two groups of artists.  The first leg of the exchange will start in December when Kasmy Ilan and Danon fly to London.

The Centre for Digital Art will also be welcoming the UK-based artistic group Mongrel to the Jessy Cohen neighbourhood in Holon.  During their stay, Mongrel will meet with various artists, designers, students and citizens, examining the role of new media in shaping social processes.  Through workshops, meetings, presentations and research, they will investigate how digital media can be used to enrich social relations and participation in community collaborations.

Curious Minds Exhibition – Israel Museum
The Israel Museum will be hosting Curious Minds: Design in the 21st Century, a 1000-square meter exhibition showcasing the most innovative and interesting design projects by over 25 designers from across Asia, Europe and the Americas.  One of the themes of the show is Critical Design, a look at how to explore and bridge partnerships between design and seemingly unrelated fields, such as science and politics.  The exhibition will be accompanied by a One Day International Design Conference at the Israel Museum and a two-day workshop at the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design.  The visit of the UK designers Troika Studio, Studio Glithero, Freddie Yauner, Julian Bond, Raw Edges Design Studio, Alon Meron is supported by the BIARTS grant. The Curious Minds exhibit will be on at the Israel Museum from December 16, 2011 until April 30, 2012.

Jerusalem International Film Lab
The prestigious Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem will inaugurate the Jerusalem International Film Lab, a unique academic platform to train top talented young filmmakers and graduates to write full-length feature films.  The BIARTS grant will support the arrival of Clare Downs as she contributes her expertise in script development and editing at various intervals throughout the creative process.  Clare’s participation will conclude with a pitching presentation to an international panel jury at the Jerusalem Film Festival 2012, where two projects will be awarded production grants.  Downs will be working with the Jerusalem International Film Lab from December 2011 until Summer 2012.

Machol Shalem
Jerusalem-based dance house Machol Shalem welcomes renowned British director and choreographer Nigel Charnock, courtesy of the BIARTS grant.  During his six-week stay in Israel, Charnock will be collaborating with famed Israeli dance artist Talia Paz and an ensemble of professional Israeli performers.  The partnership will not only provide a cultural exchange between the UK and Israel, but it will culminate in a full evening dance program premiering at Machol Shalem and touring internationally, starting at the end of March 2012.

Dance 4 feats Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor

BIARTS is proud to support Israeli performers Niv Sheinfeld, Oren Laor ‘s trip to Nottingham-based dance company Dance4.  The dancers will be participating in an international discourse and professional development workshop in which they will be able to provide their knowledge of social contexts, cultural histories and new trends in dance making across the world.  The weeklong exchange will culminate with a double bill performance of Sheinfeld and Laor’s highly acclaimed works, Big Mouth and Covariance.
When: 14-20 January 2012
Where: Nottingham, UK

Oxford University Wind Orchestra / Tel Aviv University Wind Band

Tel Aviv University Wind Band will host their British peers, the Oxford University Wind Orchestra, for a weeklong concert exploration across Israel.  The bands will play two joints concerts at Tel Aviv University and then the OUWO will perform an education concert for Jewish and Arabic children in Jaffa.  The bands will also be touring the country from the Sea of Galilee in the north to the Dead Sea in the south.  This collaboration will certainly establish a way for future connections between wind orchestras and musical wind ensembles between Britain and Israel.  

The BIARTS grant is supporting the arrival of the OUWO and the bands’ travel within the country.  The OUWO will be in Israel from March 13th – 21st, 2012.

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