Vintage vinyl, new CDs, exclusive releases, and audiophile extravaganza, Record Store Day is all about the music, the intimate relationship between you and your record store, and the thrills of finding that one album you must have! The world community of music lovers will celebrate on Saturday, April 20, 2013, congregating at local record stores around the globe, relishing the day’s exclusive releases and in Tel Aviv – enjoying the live in-store concerts.

Record Store Day was founded in 2007 by independent record store owners and artists to celebrate music and …

The 15th edition of the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival is almost here (June 19 – 24, 2013), and in the meantime, the friendly festival folks have some bar snacks to offer.
Free screenings of a selection of the best recent shorts by Israeli film students will be shown at some of the coolest Tel Aviv bars, accompanied by discussions with Assi Dayan, Eran Kolirin, Menashe Noy and other fascinating Israeli film industry members. It all happens next Wednesday, April 10, 2013, so let’s all go out, get drunk & …

Want to live forever, or at least stick around a lot longer than current statistics on life expectancy predict? British researcher Dr. Aubrey de Grey says it can be done.
Even more amazing, Dr. de Grey will be coming to Tel Aviv to give a one-time-only talk about life extension on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 19:30 at the Passage Bar, 94 Allenby Street, Tel Aviv. The event is sponsored by  Hava LeHaba poetry magazine and Utopia – the Tel Aviv international festival for science fiction, imagination and the future. The …

Fat Cows Lean Cows (Israel, 2011, 55 min), a documentary by Meni Elias, will be the second film in the “Cinema Meets Reality” series of free screenings of films at the First International Bank of Israel, as part their “Culture and Community” program. The series focuses on films made in the periphery, five films will be shown in the series, all open to the public free of charge.Fat Cows Lean Cows will be shown on Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 20:00, in the auditorium on 42 Rothschild Avenue, Tel Aviv. …

The classical dance drama of Thailand will come to Israel at the initiative of Thailand’s Ambassador to Israel, Mr. Jukr Boon-Long.  A cast of 16 dancers and 9 musicians will present the epic stories, elaborate costumes and intricate choreography of Thailand’s traditional dance form Khon, with performances in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem on February 27 and 28, 2013. It is a rare opportunity to experience the splendor of Thai dance, and admission is free!
The year 2014 will be the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Israel and Thailand. These dance …

Director Ran Tal’s award winning documentary, The Garden of Eden, will open the 2013 season of “Cinema Meets Reality” – free screenings of films at the First International Bank of Israel, as part their “Culture and Community” program. The Garden of Eden will be shown on Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 20:00, in the auditorium on 42 Rothschild Avenue, Tel Aviv. The film is in Hebrew. Admission is free, but reservations are recommended. To reserve a place, call 03-5130001.
The series will focus on films made in the periphery, the series …

An evening dedicated to works by composer Michael Barolsky will take place on Sunday, December 30, 2012, at 20:30 at Hateiva – the concert is open to the public and admission is free! Reserving a place is strongly recommended, call: 03-6822403.

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, in cooperation with the French Embassy and the French Institute in Tel Aviv, present a talk by Nicolas Bourriaud: Trajectorial forms: The problematic of time in contemporary art on Monday, December 3, 2012 at 20:00. Bourriaud is the Director of the École National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, and was formerly Curator of Contemporary Art Tate Modern (2007 – 2010), and co-founded with Jerôme Sans and was the Director of the Palais de Tokyo (1999 – 2006).
The lecture will take place in English, …

Indie music and Jewish texts come together tonight, November 27, 2012 at Ashan Hazman (19 Ringelbloom Street) in Beer Sheva. “HaYehudi Hameofef” (The Flying Jew) is a new series launched by Hillel Ben Gurion that brings established and emerging musicians from the Israeli indie scene together with Jewish tradition and texts.
Tonight’s theme is “Agadah” (legend). Ronnie Shweika will talk about the midrash of rock music, Yossi Babliki of Punch will perform as will Ryskinder. It all starts at 20:00. Entrance is FREE!
The next event will take place on December 25th, …

Author and film critic Hannah Brown will be reading from her novel If I Could Tell You at Tmol Shilshom bookstore in Jerusalem, Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 19:00.
An emotional adventure – poignant, funny and smart – the novel depicts the lives of four very different women in New York, bound together by a common bond as the mothers of children diagnosed with autism. Drawing on her personal experiences, Brown, the long-time movie critic at the Jerusalem Post, offers insight into the rarely discussed world of the parent endeavoring to …