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The Institute for Mapping Islands of Consciousness is dedicated to mapping areas that have not yet received recognition in the personal, social, and conscious realms. As part of the Manofim Festival, the public is invited to one-on-one meetings with artist Hadas Duchan, in an attempt to give form to that which still lacks words.

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Open studio events at the Artists’ Studios in Talpiyot, an invitation to wander into the heart of artistic practice, into the unfolding process, and into the streams of consciousness of each of the 17 artists working there.

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Hazira and the Zik Group continue to celebrate 40 years of the group’s creative work together. The Zik Galaxy will run for a week across three spaces at Hazira simultaneously. It’s a chance to experience the group’s unique and rich oeuvre, which spans different fields, periods, and scales.

>> In Hall 1 at Hazira, an exhibition of original models and posters from the group’s archive will be presented for the first time. The exhibition is designed as a look into the rich history of the group, in its 41st year. True to the nature of memory, the exhibition is arranged in a wild manner, like a ‘cabinet of wonders’ where the exhibits remain mysterious and perform their original function as models for shows and exhibitions: they spark the imagination and illustrate experiences that could come to life on a real-size scale. The difference between the display of the models in the exhibition and their original performance is that they actually came true and were realized. You can see and experience this in the Zik Cinema.

>> In Hall 5 at Hazira, Zik Cinema will operate, featuring documentation of the group’s performances, films, and video art created by group members over the years. The films provide a glimpse into the ecstatic and groundbreaking experiences of the group’s works, and delve into the studio, the work processes, the people involved, and the intimacy of the craft itself.

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Rachel Kainy steps out of the studio to wander and sketch in the urban-industrial environment with a unique device that allows continuous drawing with both hands while walking.

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The first piece was created for the sculpture Homage to Jerusalem (1977), the last ‘Stabile’ by Alexander Calder. Its six red steel arches, weighing about 65 tons, were erected as a monumental and eternal testament echoing the surrounding mountain lines. The sculpture is located on Mount Herzl, on a threshold area between the city and Wadi Ein Kerem, and its bright red color is meant to contrast with the opposite mountain landscape. In its exposed existence in the public space, the structure collects graffiti, dust, and remnants of time and urban life. 

In their work with the sculpture, the group will clean the plaza surrounding it. Against the eternal steel of the Stabile, the action of the passing human body offers a formal resonance to the spaces and arches of the structure. The choreography of cleaning seeks to reveal the tension between the weight of the monumental and the sculptural delicacy of the work, and invites passersby to look again at the outlines of the sculpture and the landscape seen through them.

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We’ll start the tour at Hazira Performance Arts Arena, showcasing Zik Galaxy – the project celebrating 40 years of artistic work by Zik Group. We’ll visit an exhibition of original models and posters from the group’s archive, presented for the first time, and watch Zik Cinema – documentation of the group’s performances, films, and video art created by the members over the years. From there, we’ll head to the Art Cube Artists’ Studios and visit a festive event of open studios, inviting you to go behind the scenes of art: meet the artists, peek into their intimate workspaces, and discover how artworks are made. We’ll wrap up with a visit to the group exhibition Drift, which explores creative processes and the central role that not-knowing has in artistic practice, as well as the solo exhibition by Yael Serlin, Four Cubits, where the artist presents an intimate and exposed artistic journey dealing with the profound grief that hit her family after the death of her son, Yosef Haim Tzvi Serlin, during his military service.

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An Imaginary Middle Eastern Opera That Really Happened. A performance of original music, storytelling, and epic poetry, in which the performers tell, play, and sing an imaginary tale that actually took place: the journey to return the Persian fallow deer to the wild in Israel, aboard the last El Al flight from Tehran to Tel Aviv during the revolution.

Created by Nitai Kallay (“The Howl”).

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Warm-up – language exchange meetups and a festive atmosphere

Entering the field – live performance by “Bustanous”: Luay Abbasi – oud, Mousa Abbasi – ney flute, Mahdi Qaisi – violin, Lev Loftus – percussion, Yahala Lachmish – vocals 

Opening whistle – broadcast of the first semi-final on the big screen

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Hazira and the Zik Group continue to celebrate 40 years of the group’s creative work together. The Zik Galaxy will run for a week across three spaces at Hazira simultaneously. It’s a chance to experience the group’s unique and rich oeuvre, which spans different fields, periods, and scales.

>> At the peak of the Zik Galaxy days, in Hall 2 at Hazira, the group will perform “At Sunset in Our Area” which premiered as part of the 2025 Autumn Cult Festival at Hazira, which also produced it.

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The Institute for Mapping Islands of Consciousness is dedicated to mapping areas that have not yet received recognition in the personal, social, and conscious realms. As part of the Manofim Festival, the public is invited to one-on-one meetings with artist Hadas Duchan, in an attempt to give form to that which still lacks words.

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A Rashomon of events from our dystopian reality, moving between past and present to diagnose the state of the heart torn between Gaza and Jerusalem.

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An Imaginary Middle Eastern Opera That Really Happened. A performance of original music, storytelling, and epic poetry, in which the performers tell, play, and sing an imaginary tale that actually took place: the journey to return the Persian fallow deer to the wild in Israel, aboard the last El Al flight from Tehran to Tel Aviv during the revolution.

Created by Nitai Kallay (“The Howl”).

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Yael Serlin presents an intimate and exposed artistic process, dealing with the deep grief her family experienced after the death of her son, Yosef Haim Tzvi Serlin, during his military service. Serlin transforms the gallery space into an inner realm charged with longing and pain, where familiar household objects are combined with archival documentation of Judaica from Jewish communities that were destroyed.

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A group exhibition featuring artists from the Art Cube Artists’ Studios in Jerusalem, focusing on creative processes and the central role that not-knowing has in artistic work. The exhibition ties in with the main theme of Manofim Festival 2026 – ‘Recognition’ – and seeks to explore the space that comes before knowledge and recognition: a zone of searching, experimenting, a patient stay, and coming into being.

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We will begin the tour at the entrance to Hansen House. We will hear the fascinating story of this historic building and then continue to the ‘Victory Arch’ Jerusalem Design Week. We will wander through the many exhibitions that focus on the intersection of sports and design, exploring how ideas of winning, losing, competition, and belonging are translated into a contemporary creative language. At the *Mamuta Art & Research Center*, we’ll see Daniella Meroz’s sculptural video installation ‘Hole in the Heart,’ which transforms the center’s space into a grotesque play gym, where playfulness and ritual are exaggerated and disrupted, and we’ll join a gallery talk with the artist and the curator. Next, we’ll dive into exhibitions I Came to Encourage, The Hall of Fame, The Heat, Sparta, Control Room, and more. Through the dozens of works being presented for the first time, the Jerusalem Design Week offers a fresh reading of sports culture—not just as a stage for achievement but as a social, political, and emotional space.

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In its work with Micha Ullman’s sculpture Water (1996), the group operates alongside the two parts of the artwork, which are hidden in the urban space. The sculpture consists of two cast-iron water system manhole covers set at sidewalk level and bearing a handprint — one in Zion Square in the western part of the city, and the other near the New Gate, in the east.

The action moves in a sequence between the two sites. The act of cleaning, which itself tends to hide in the routine of the street, functions here as a choreography that draws the eye to its awkwardness; it invites passersby to look together at the water system manhole covers and at the space between them. 

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Hazira and the Zik Group continue to celebrate 40 years of the group’s creative work together. The Zik Galaxy will run for a week across three spaces at Hazira simultaneously. It’s a chance to experience the group’s unique and rich oeuvre, which spans different fields, periods, and scales.

>> In Hall 1 at Hazira, an exhibition of original models and posters from the group’s archive will be presented for the first time. The exhibition is designed as a look into the rich history of the group, in its 41st year. True to the nature of memory, the exhibition is arranged in a wild manner, like a ‘cabinet of wonders’ where the exhibits remain mysterious and perform their original function as models for shows and exhibitions: they spark the imagination and illustrate experiences that could come to life on a real-size scale. The difference between the display of the models in the exhibition and their original performance is that they actually came true and were realized. You can see and experience this in the Zik Cinema.

>> In Hall 5 at Hazira, Zik Cinema will operate, featuring documentation of the group’s performances, films, and video art created by group members over the years. The films provide a glimpse into the ecstatic and groundbreaking experiences of the group’s works, and delve into the studio, the work processes, the people involved, and the intimacy of the craft itself.

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Guy Dolev opens his studio at the Art Cube Artists’ Studios to the visitors of Manofim Festival, and reveals, in an intimate performance, the collaborative process with the Save the ArQ movement, the activist group leading the struggle of the Armenian community in Jerusalem over the “Cow Garden”. On the boundary between documentary theater and experimental lecture, the Cow Park performance combines interviews and archival materials with video clips filmed over the past two years across the parking lot in the Cow Garden through a car’s backup camera.

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Within a painful and impossible reality, Tomer Baruch and Daniella Tourgeman send gentle and healing sounds, from a place of compassion and humanity. Music that acts as a protective wall, regulating the senses, a connecting point between the listener and the world

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Jason Danino Holt invites the public to practice the art of human communication through autobiographical confession. Ten years ago, the confessions show ‘Not Letting It In’ premiered – an event that formulated a unique language of communication, exclusively through confessions – and has since been performed dozens of times in Israel and around the world. It is a performative event where it is only allowed to speak in confessions: no responses, no questions, no conversations, and no verbal judgment.

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Hazira and the Zik Group continue to celebrate 40 years of the group’s creative work together. The Zik Galaxy will run for a week across three spaces at Hazira simultaneously. It’s a chance to experience the group’s unique and rich oeuvre, which spans different fields, periods, and scales.

>> At the peak of the Zik Galaxy days, in Hall 2 at Hazira, the group will perform “At Sunset in Our Area” which premiered as part of the 2025 Autumn Cult Festival at Hazira, which also produced it.

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Warm-up – Prize-bearing backgammon championship, language exchanges 

Entering the field – A multicultural DJ set to get the vibes going 

Opening whistle – Broadcast of the second semi-final on the big screen 

Come be part of a night where the game, the media, and human connection create a new shared space. Entrance is free, we’ve got the sunflower seeds and watermelon covered. See you on the roof!

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Guy Dolev opens his studio at the Art Cube Artists’ Studios to the visitors of Manofim Festival, and reveals, in an intimate performance, the collaborative process with the Save the ArQ movement, the activist group leading the struggle of the Armenian community in Jerusalem over the “Cow Garden”. On the boundary between documentary theater and experimental lecture, the Cow Park performance combines interviews and archival materials with video clips filmed over the past two years across the parking lot in the Cow Garden through a car’s backup camera.

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The exhibition presents works by contemporary Israeli artists who explore the local landscape not merely as documentation, but as a space for inquiry and meaning-making. Through the camera and its technical mechanisms, they create new interpretations of familiar environments, sometimes to the point of detaching them from their original context, thereby prompting reflection on the relationship between reality and representation, and between documentation and artistic creation.

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In direct response to the war between Israel and Iran and the ongoing emergency situation in Israel in recent years, artist Yosef Mashiah and musician Ziv Barashi, in their first collaboration, have created a space entirely dedicated to immersion in light and sound.

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A sculptural video installation that transforms the gallery space at Mamuta into a grotesque play gym where playfulness and ritual are exaggerated and disrupted. The exhibition is presented as part of Design Week at Hansen House

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We will start the tour at the Artists House. There, we will visit exhibitions by four artists: The Dread of Isaac by Ronen Siman-Tov, Periodic Report – The Full Vessel by Stav Rozental, Forever | Exhibition in the 25th Nidbach Series by Tohar Gibber, and Fireflies by Guy L. Levy. From there, we’ll head to the ‘Living Gallery’ at the School of Visual Theater, where we’ll visit the exhibition In the Shadow of God and in the Name of the Father, which brings together historical works from the Schatz family collection with the works of three contemporary artists. We’ll wrap up the tour at Shaham Cultural Lab, with the exhibition Nails, an artistic-visual research project that examines the place and complex meanings of gel nail culture in Israeli society and explores how the field influences and is influenced by local culture and art.

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Hazira and the Zik Group continue to celebrate 40 years of the group’s creative work together. The Zik Galaxy will run for a week across three spaces at Hazira simultaneously. It’s a chance to experience the group’s unique and rich oeuvre, which spans different fields, periods, and scales.

>> In Hall 1 at Hazira, an exhibition of original models and posters from the group’s archive will be presented for the first time. The exhibition is designed as a look into the rich history of the group, in its 41st year. True to the nature of memory, the exhibition is arranged in a wild manner, like a ‘cabinet of wonders’ where the exhibits remain mysterious and perform their original function as models for shows and exhibitions: they spark the imagination and illustrate experiences that could come to life on a real-size scale. The difference between the display of the models in the exhibition and their original performance is that they actually came true and were realized. You can see and experience this in the Zik Cinema.

>> In Hall 5 at Hazira, Zik Cinema will operate, featuring documentation of the group’s performances, films, and video art created by group members over the years. The films provide a glimpse into the ecstatic and groundbreaking experiences of the group’s works, and delve into the studio, the work processes, the people involved, and the intimacy of the craft itself.

For more details

Guy Dolev opens his studio at the Art Cube Artists’ Studios to the visitors of Manofim Festival, and reveals, in an intimate performance, the collaborative process with the Save the ArQ movement, the activist group leading the struggle of the Armenian community in Jerusalem over the “Cow Garden”. On the boundary between documentary theater and experimental lecture, the Cow Park performance combines interviews and archival materials with video clips filmed over the past two years across the parking lot in the Cow Garden through a car’s backup camera.

A musical-linguistic performance that was born out of an ongoing dialogue between Neomi Hashmonai and Neta Weiner. Their work deals with language and identity, the relationship between word and sound, and the space between personal experience and socio-political stance

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Jazz that emerges from listening and from the pulse created between four attentive musicians. Wandering through the expanses of India and the Middle East, gently dismantling traditional symmetries of ceremonial music and the groove of modern presence

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Hazira and the Zik Group continue to celebrate 40 years of the group’s creative work together. The Zik Galaxy will run for a week across three spaces at Hazira simultaneously. It’s a chance to experience the group’s unique and rich oeuvre, which spans different fields, periods, and scales.

>> At the peak of the Zik Galaxy days, in Hall 2 at Hazira, the group will perform “At Sunset in Our Area” which premiered as part of the 2025 Autumn Cult Festival at Hazira, which also produced it.

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Guy Dolev opens his studio at the Art Cube Artists’ Studios to the visitors of Manofim Festival, and reveals, in an intimate performance, the collaborative process with the Save the ArQ movement, the activist group leading the struggle of the Armenian community in Jerusalem over the “Cow Garden”. On the boundary between documentary theater and experimental lecture, the Cow Park performance combines interviews and archival materials with video clips filmed over the past two years across the parking lot in the Cow Garden through a car’s backup camera.

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The Manofim Festival is dedicating a special evening to the work of Gedy Ronen: Pianist, singer, composer, and producer, who has been creating songs for two decades that blend poetry, social critique, and raw emotion. The evening will move through key milestones in his work: songs from his solo album, new material, and a one-time special meeting created just for the festival with the members of the two bands he founded with Boaz Reinshreiber, “Devek” and “Echad Chelkei Echad,” marking their first appearance on stage together in over a decade.

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The artistic-visual research NAILS examines the place and complex meanings that gel nail culture has in Israeli society, looking at how the field influences local culture and art and is influenced by them.

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We’ll start the tour at Hazira Performance Arts Arena, showcasing Zik Galaxy – the project celebrating 40 years of artistic work by Zik Group. We’ll visit an exhibition of original models and posters from the group’s archive, presented for the first time, and watch Zik Cinema – documentation of the group’s performances, films, and video art created by the members over the years. From there, we’ll head to the Art Cube Artists’ Studios and visit a festive event of open studios, inviting you to go behind the scenes of art: meet the artists, peek into their intimate workspaces, and discover how artworks are made. We’ll wrap up with a visit to the group exhibition Drift, which explores creative processes and the central role that not-knowing has in artistic practice, as well as the solo exhibition by Yael Serlin, Four Cubits, where the artist presents an intimate and exposed artistic journey dealing with the profound grief that hit her family after the death of her son, Yosef Haim Tzvi Serlin, during his military service.

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The Institute for Mapping Islands of Consciousness is dedicated to mapping areas that have not yet received recognition in the personal, social, and conscious realms. As part of the Manofim Festival, the public is invited to one-on-one meetings with artist Hadas Duchan, in an attempt to give form to that which still lacks words.

For more details

Hazira and the Zik Group continue to celebrate 40 years of the group’s creative work together. The Zik Galaxy will run for a week across three spaces at Hazira simultaneously. It’s a chance to experience the group’s unique and rich oeuvre, which spans different fields, periods, and scales.

>> In Hall 1 at Hazira, an exhibition of original models and posters from the group’s archive will be presented for the first time. The exhibition is designed as a look into the rich history of the group, in its 41st year. True to the nature of memory, the exhibition is arranged in a wild manner, like a ‘cabinet of wonders’ where the exhibits remain mysterious and perform their original function as models for shows and exhibitions: they spark the imagination and illustrate experiences that could come to life on a real-size scale. The difference between the display of the models in the exhibition and their original performance is that they actually came true and were realized. You can see and experience this in the Zik Cinema.

>> In Hall 5 at Hazira, Zik Cinema will operate, featuring documentation of the group’s performances, films, and video art created by group members over the years. The films provide a glimpse into the ecstatic and groundbreaking experiences of the group’s works, and delve into the studio, the work processes, the people involved, and the intimacy of the craft itself.

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Rachel Kainy steps out of the studio to wander and sketch in the urban-industrial environment with a unique device that allows continuous drawing with both hands while walking.

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The Institute for Mapping Islands of Consciousness is dedicated to mapping areas that have not yet received recognition in the personal, social, and conscious realms. As part of the Manofim Festival, the public is invited to one-on-one meetings with artist Hadas Duchan, in an attempt to give form to that which still lacks words.

For more details

Yael Serlin presents an intimate and exposed artistic process, dealing with the deep grief her family experienced after the death of her son, Yosef Haim Tzvi Serlin, during his military service. Serlin transforms the gallery space into an inner realm charged with longing and pain, where familiar household objects are combined with archival documentation of Judaica from Jewish communities that were destroyed.

For more details

Hazira and the Zik Group continue to celebrate 40 years of the group’s creative work together. The Zik Galaxy will run for a week across three spaces at Hazira simultaneously. It’s a chance to experience the group’s unique and rich oeuvre, which spans different fields, periods, and scales.

>> At the peak of the Zik Galaxy days, in Hall 2 at Hazira, the group will perform “At Sunset in Our Area” which premiered as part of the 2025 Autumn Cult Festival at Hazira, which also produced it.

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Hazira and the Zik Group continue to celebrate 40 years of the group’s creative work together. The Zik Galaxy will run for a week across three spaces at Hazira simultaneously. It’s a chance to experience the group’s unique and rich oeuvre, which spans different fields, periods, and scales.

>> At the peak of the Zik Galaxy days, in Hall 2 at Hazira, the group will perform “At Sunset in Our Area” which premiered as part of the 2025 Autumn Cult Festival at Hazira, which also produced it.

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In the middle of the Three Weeks, approaching the twilight of the sixth day of Shabbat Chazon – the evening when Jewish tradition looks straight into the fracture while marking the vision of future comfort – the Manofim Festival invites the public to a communal ceremony that will include performance pieces, singing, and study, accompanying the opening of Yael Serlin’s solo exhibition Four Cubits.

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A group exhibition featuring artists from the Art Cube Artists’ Studios in Jerusalem, focusing on creative processes and the central role that not-knowing has in artistic work. The exhibition ties in with the main theme of Manofim Festival 2026 – ‘Recognition’ – and seeks to explore the space that comes before knowledge and recognition: a zone of searching, experimenting, a patient stay, and coming into being.

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A bilingual experience full of imagination and inspiration at the Artists’ Studios: through a guided tour and creative workshops, we will explore memories, imaginary maps, and miniature worlds together — and discover how art can turn every visit into an adventure. All this with a single ticket.

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The solo exhibition by artist Roni Hajaj at Koresh 14 Gallery present sculptures, sound works and paintings, like the edges of icebergs representing depths that stretch beyond the gallery space and allowing visitors to find themselves within the works

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As part of the opening of his solo exhibition Residence and a Neighboring Ear of Grain at Koresh 14 Gallery, Roni Hajaj will perform a live ambient-noise show based on real-time improvisation using analog synthesizers and drum machines

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The starting point for the exhibition at Hacubia is a completed oeuvre by the late forgotten local artist Ran Harari (1944–2020) and Sharon Livne’s documentary film about him: Suddenly, There’s a Figure (2014). Following the encounter with Harari’s persona, the exhibition curator Dan Orimian embarks on a journey of artistic inquiry and a search for contexts through the works of five contemporary artists. The exhibition expands into an examination of the act of creation itself, unfolding as a system of responses, reformations and reverberations.

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A single figure through whom voices and stories resonate, dripping onto the stage. The live, sung voice breaks apart, replicates, and changes form, resisting the unity of a single narrator. Working with recorded material and live electronic processing, testimonies to stories that never happened and are happening all the time emerge.

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Jimmy Prasad, Avishai Cohen, and Rejoycer. They gathered with them a unique team of musicians and formed a group that moves freely between genres, traditions, and worldviews. At the closing performance of the Manofim Festival, on the rooftop of the Art Cube Artists’ Studios, the Orchestra invites the audience to experience how music serves as a bridge between different parts of the city, and through it, invites us to close the days of the festival with a shared and expansive breath.

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