Wednesday, January 5, 2011

=== Israel Culture in New York ===

Cultural Highlights - January 5 - January 19
 Welcome 2011
In this Issue
Dance - Out of Israel
Visual Arts - Illustrators 53
Music - City Winery
Film - NY Jewish Film Festival
Visual Arts - Elad Lassry
Visual Arts - Daniel Bauer
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Dance - Out of Israel 
Jan. 7-9 @ 92 Street Y
Part of the 92 Street Y special Out of Israelweekend, featuring new works by Israeli artists working in New York. Excerpts from works by LeeSaar The Company, Neta Pulvermacher and the Neta Dance Company, Deganit Shemy & Company, Netta Yerushalmy, Andrea Miller's Gallim Dance, Michal Samama, Lior Schneior. Come for just a few works, or the whole program!
Friday - FREE
Saturday 3-8pm FREE
The following works are being presented:
FAME, a work-in-progress - LeeSaar The Company
 2280 Pints!, a work-in-progress - Neta Pulvermacher’s Neta Dance Company 
Blink (2010) & 2 Kilos of Sea (2010) - Deganit Shemy & Company
A work-in-progress by Netta Yerushalmy Blush (2009) andWonderland (2010) - Andrea Miller’s Gallim Dance 
Still Life with Seven Stories and a Woman (2010) - Michal Samama 
Drang (2009) & a work-in-progress - Lior Schneior
Sunday - 3:00pm
Israeli choreographer Deganit Shemy brings together a group of colleagues for an afternoon of solos. Shemy has invited Nicholas Bruder, Denisa Musilova and Michal Samama to show work, and will present an excerpt of her own. Q&A with artists following the performance.
Price - $10
For more information please visit www.92Y.org/dance or call 212.415.5552
Illustrators 53: Asaf Hanuka & Koren Shadmi
January 7 - 22 @ The Society of Illustrators
The first of the three-part "Annual Exhibition: Illustrators 53," the Sequential/Series and Uncommissioned Exhibit features works by leading contemporary illustrators worldwide.
Gold Medals are awarded to Asaf Hanuka for The Realist Comics ,
and Koren Shadmi for Ebb & Flow.
Opening Reception: Friday, January 7th. Refreshments 6:00pm , Awards Presentation 7:00pm 
Tickets - $30 Members $35 Non-Members $20 Students (RSVP by January 3rd RSVP@societyillustrators.org 212 838 2560)
Illustration by Asaf Hanuka, The Realist Comics, Gold Medal
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Performances at City Winery -
NOA - Achinoam Nini and Rami Kleinstein
 
Monday, Jan. 10, 8:00pm
Known in Israel by her given name Achinoam Nini, Noa is Israel's leading international concert and recording artist. Born in Tel- Aviv in 1969, Noa lived in NYC from age 2 until her return to Israel alone at the age of 17. Her family is originally from Yemen. After serving the mandatory two years in the Israeli Army in a military entertainment unit, Noa studied music at the Rimon School where she met her long-time partner and collaborator Gil Dor.
Wednesday, Jan. 12, 7:00pm
A special night of music, comedy and arts with the incomprable Israeli pop superstar Rami Kleinstein and the dynamic youngISRAMERICA collective.
This intimate concert will showcase Rami's piano virtuosity as part of his Kleinstein & Piano tour. Isramerica will debut ISRAFEST: A MEGA EVENT. Filled with Israeli and Jewish-American Music, Fashion and Art, this multi-genre bridging show should not be missed.
Tickets are very limited and sell out quickly, please order online or by phone 212-608-0555 ext 714
Tickets purchase here - http://www.citywinery.com/
NY Jewish Film Festival 
 
 
Israeli Films at the Festival:
 
CLOSING NIGHTThe MatchmakerAvi Nesher | Israel | 2010 | 112m
New York Premiere
thu jan 27: 3:15pm
thu jan 27: 8:30pm


As LilithEytan Harris | Israel | 2010 | 78m
New York Premiere
mon jan 24: 3:45pm
mon jan 24: 8:45pm

Black BusAnat Zuria | Israel | 2009 | 76m
New York Premiere
tue jan 25: 1:15pm
tue jan 25: 6:00pm

The Human Resources ManagerEran Riklis | Israel/Germany/France/Romania | 2010 | 103m
New York Premiere
sat jan 15: 6:30pm
thu jan 20: 3:30pm
thu jan 20: 8:30pm

Precious LifeShlomi Eldar | Israel | 2010 | 90m
HBO Documentary Film
wed jan 26: 6:00pm

Sixty and the CityNili Tal | Israel | 2010 | 70m
New York Premiere
tues Jan 18: 9:00pm
wed Jan 19: 3:30pm

Yolande: An Unsung HeroineDan Wolman | Israel | 2010 | 60m
New York Premiere
tue jan 25: 3:30pm
tue jan 25: 8:15pm

For more information and full schedule -
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/nyjff2011schedule
Last Chance -
Elad Lassry in New Photogrpahy 2010
Until January 10 @ MoMA
New Photography 2010 presents four artists-Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, and Amanda Ross-Ho-whose photographs, taken in the real world and made in the studio, mine the inexhaustible reservoir of images found in print media, television, and cinema. Lassry defines his practice as one consumed with pictures, meaning with generic images lifted from the fag-ends of consumer society, such as Hollywood publicity stills and design illustrations. His intensely colored photocollages or newly staged studio pictures never exceed the format of a magazine spread and are displayed in matching frames that derive their color from the dominant hues in the photograph.  
Image: Elad Lassry,  Lipstick, 2009, C-print, 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm) edition of 5, 2AP
Last Chance -
Daniel Bauer: Νεφελοκοκκυγία CLOUDCUCKOOLAND
Until January 8th @ Andrea Meislin Gallery
Cloudcuckooland or Nephelokokkygiais a direct reference to the city conceived and initiated by two dropout Athenian citizens and constructed by birds in Aristophanes' comedy of the same name. Situated in the sky between the terrestrial polis and the Olympian gods, Cloudcuckooland, one of the first utopian constructs, posits a liminal space of critique, escape and resistance, blockading the gods above while threatening to soil the corrupt city of man below.
For more events visit -
 

Office of Cultural Affairs
 
Israeli Consulate, NY

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