MUSIC – Harel Shachal & Thomas Moked Blum

“Inspired by Middle Eastern, Turkish Makam Music and Jazz, I found myself searching for my own voice in a very old tradition. After a long journey, my voice became the clarinet voice, and I dedicated my life to learning and teaching the art of living through music.” – Harel Shachal 

Israeli-Brazilian Composer, Multi-Instrumentalist, producer, and arranger, residing in Berlin. Internationally accomplished composer for Theatre and cinema, and a founding member and arranger of the internationally successful Mediterranean folk ensemble “Baladino”. – Thomas Moked Blum

ART EXHIBITION – „Parallax“ Roi Alter & Leila Rose Bari 

Roi Alter (b. 1980, Jaffa), artist (MFA – Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam; BFA – Bezalel Academy for art and design, Jerusalem), art-therapist (MAAT – The Kibbutzim College, Tel Aviv), and translator. Currently lives and works in Jaffa. As an artist, Alter explores the seams and fringes of society and civility through the prism of contemporary material culture and the economy of waste, and while taking into account the imminent human failure and a pending apocalyptic future. Alter’s work has been exhibited throughout Europe and in Israel.

Leila Rose Bari strives to produce an intimate interaction. I take inspiration from the dynamics of such conversations with close friends, where one can touch on the most painful subjects and then burst out laughing at them, where nothing is taboo. I spread over many media and produce works at a fast pace and in large quantities.  Shifting between the variety of media is for me like a possessed little girl wallowing in an amusement park, being under the spell of insatiable craving to swallow everything; exercising her freedom, or rather trying to fill a bottomless hole. It is a place where the only certainty is irrationality. A surreal place. My creative process is playful, intuitive, and seemingly arbitrary. I move between intuition and conceptual polish, between the popular and the esoteric. I draw materials from the narrative of my life, where there is always a relationship with a missing factor. I juxtapose bits of my own identity with symbols and stories containing a cultural and historical charge. I strip them from their skin, mix them, and turn them into a testimony of my being an absorbing, creative human being, who just happens to be alive in a certain moment in time.