Just before Passover, "Homes from Inside Jerusalem events" will be opened in the capital, in which you can visit and tour the most intriguing houses and buildings in Jerusalem, with most of them being opened to the public for the first time.
This year, in the shadow of the war, alongside the usual tours, there will be a number of intriguing and unique tours, for example: a Jeroz tour led by architect Moshe Shapira commemorating his son who was murdered by terrorists, your own studio in the house of the painter Litvinovsky where an exhibition by the artist and curator of the Bari Gallery, Sophie Barzon Mackay, is presented .
House events from the inside of the traditional Jerusalem is inspired by open houses worldwide that take place in major cities such as London, New York and Barcelona. With us, the tours will try to combine the past, present and future of the city. For example, you can visit new and intriguing public buildings such as the National Library, the new Mishkan of Bezalel and more. Tours of significant points in the lives of cultural giants, tours focusing on the architectural aspect of the city and tours of the cornerstones of the capital.
October 7 tours:
Jeroz tour - a tour in memory of Aner Shapira, a native of Jerusalem and a lover of the city, who was murdered on October 7, while heroically protecting his friends in Migunit, fighting terrorists and saving lives.
The tour will be led by his father, the architect Moshe Shapira, a partner in houses from the interior of Jerusalem for the past 18 years and a friend of Derech. The tour will pass through the city center, from the old Bezalel to the new Bezalel, following heritage, personalities and buildings for preservation and will surpass the city that Aner loved so much.
Meeting point: Bezalel alley corner Shmuel HaNagid.
When: Friday, 12.4, 14:00.
Tour is limited to 20 participants with early registration.
Your own studio in the house of the painter Litbinovsky - an opportunity to get to know the Mishlech studio project and the house of the painter Pinchas Litbinovsky on the old Talvia-Katamon border, where the studio operates. The house was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the Arab-Christian Salman family, and its second floor was rented by the British assistant commissioner.
In 1948, at the end of the war, the house passed into the possession of the Jerusalem Municipality, which made it available to the painter Pinchas Litvinovsky - later the Darling of Jerusalem (1970) and winner of the Israel Prize (1980), and he lived there until his death in 1984. The house remained with all its contents for about 40 years, until at the beginning of 2020, young female artists began to work there and established their own studio there - the first center in Israel for women's art.
The exhibition "Silver Water and Starry Land" by the artist and curator of Bari Gallery, Sophie Barzon Mackay, is currently on display there. For the past three years, Barzon Makai has photographed the living room of her home in Kibbutz Bari.
The last photo was taken on 1.10.23. In these photographs, Barzon gave a new interpretation to the familiar and the everyday by photographing her family and bringing into her living room allegorical animals from a favorite children's book and symbols of spirit and earthiness.
On October 7, reality suddenly invaded the delicate photographs, expiring and loading them with memories of everything that was and was lost. And now they touch on questions of time and place, tell the stories of memory of the artist's previous homes, myths and legends, and the personal and collective memory that we are experiencing in recent months.
Guided tours about the history of the house and the exhibition will be held on Thursdays at 2:30 pm and 4:30 pm and on Fridays at 11:00 am.
Thursday, 4.4, 14:00-18:00; Friday, 5.4, 10:00-14:00; Thursday, 11.4, 14:00-18:00, Friday, 12.4, 10:00-14:00.Open house and 6 tours for the first 40 visitors.29 November Street 10 A, Jerusalem
The exhibition furrow // shack # dot. Presents images and symbols in the landscapes of the Western Negev and the surrounding area, the work of artists living in the region. The exhibition will display, among other things, a diary of paintings under the influence of October 7 by the artist Yohanan Drucker, a member of Kibbutz Bari, and ceramic works that the artist Michal Marom rescued from her home in Kibbutz Ra'im.
The exhibition was created during a meeting with the residents and the evacuated settlements, and by a documentation delegation of the Yad Ben-Zvi Department of Curations and Visual Documentation that has been operating in the Gaza Envelope for the past few months.
The meetings are part of an open day at the Yad Ben-Zvi complex during which there will also be a fair of farmers from the south, the Bekaa and the north of the country, in cooperation with "Israeli Agriculture", art booths, coffee and flowers for Shabbat.
Friday, 5.4, 9:30 and 11:00.
2 sessions for the first 40. No pre-registration is required.
14 Ibn Gvirol St., Rehavia.