Love hurts, or so the song says. Well, not always. Sometimes love can make you simply happy…
“A street singer giving it her best”, “I learned to make gefilte fish”, “coffee with a friend” – these were some of the notes hanging between the trees on Rothschild Boulevard last night, September 7, 2010, but most of the notes were about love. A bright pink wool web with loops was woven between two trees by artist Rinetta Klinger, who invited passersby to participate in the installation, writing down: What made you recently …

Simply Happy – an art installation with a purpose will be launched this afternoon from 16:30 to 21:00 on Rothschild Boulevard, corner of Bezalel Yafe. Rinetta Klinger, an artist from Berlin, will weave a web between two trees and invites everyone to write down their own memories of happy moments to hang on the web.
The web represents connection and communication between people, and Klinger would like everyone to practice “The Art of Happiness” – celebrating happy moments and memories and sharing them with others to spread happiness around the world.
Midnight …

If there is anyone who still hasn’t experienced Pecha Kucha in Tel Aviv – I could tell you what you are missing, but really, you should just go for total immersion and head for Hangar 11 at the Tel Aviv Port on September 15, 2010. A Japanese import translated into Tel Aviv by Itay Mautner and Anat Safran, the structure is simple: artists, musicians, film makers, designers and other creative cultural beings each have 6 minutes and forty seconds onstage to present their work and ideas. Think fast: 20 X …

 
Sleepless nights and a sense of wonder are taking ICON TLV where no Science Fiction/Fantasy festival has gone before. A multi-disciplinary cultural event with films, guest speakers, workshops, gaming, discussions and more – all imbued with the desire to experience and explore, connecting people and ideas, the week-long festival will open on September 25, 2010 at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque.
Festival Director Uri Aviv took time out from his surreal schedule to talk to Midnight East about everything from opening film “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” to closing night’s “Mr. Nobody,” …

“We are not visitors, we live in this city,” said Mali Baruch, the artistic director of Art Factory, an experimental urban art project officially launched in Bat Yam last Thursday, August 12, 2010. A cohort of artists from different disciplines will be in residence at #13 Nitzana Street in Bat Yam, creating and interacting with one another and with the city. Baruch explained, “When you live in a place you have time to observe and listen…this happens not only between one studio and another [in the art complex], it’s between …

Mondays in August the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem is the place to be. The colorful atmosphere of the market becomes a street celebration with music, puppets, arts & crafts, games and of course – food!
Market Olympics, a chess tournament and vegetable sculpting are just part of the unusual happenings that can be found at ‘Balabasta’, a joint project of the Mahane Yehuda Market Association and the Jerusalem Season of Culture. To make time to enjoy the fun, the market will remain open until 23:00 on Mondays. There’s even a …

Take off your gloves and jump into the fray – Art Factory, the new multi-disciplinary art space in Bat Yam will have a feisty launch on August 12, 2010. Creating art within an urban space and creating connections with the community, Art Factory invites the public for a first look at this bold project. Performance art, video, sound, installations, physical theatre, drawings, photographs and sculpture will be ongoing in and between the studio spaces, allowing visitors to wander between rooms and create their own experience.
Art Factory is an initiative of …

Any visit to Jerusalem heightens my awareness of history, walking through the city I feel like a wanderer through visible layers of time. On my most recent trip, to see the renovated Israel Museum, I had the privilege of seeing history in the making, as the buildings and grounds were being prepared for the inauguration of the renewed campus scheduled to take place tomorrow, July 26, 2010.
As of last Wednesday, the museum campus still resembled a construction site, with heavy machinery, taped up glass and the large mounds of earth …

Adventurer and water sports photographer, Sammy Ben Ami is in his element on the water or in the air, but White Night Tel Aviv 2010 had Sammy riding a city wave…

 Guitarist and oudist Amos Hoffman played his unique fusion of jazz and Middle Eastern music with selections from his newest release Carvings (RazDaz 2010) in historic Bialik Square, with Gilad Abro on contrabass and Ilan Salem on flute.
Going with the flow from Bialik to the corner of Allenby and the Carmel market

then on past the Breslev Hassidic Center on Shenkin

to …

 Where did you come from, where did you go? Long past midnight, somewhere on Rothschild in Tel Aviv, one of the many bands lining the boulevard starts playing “Cotton-eyed Joe” and everyone is dancing.

I didn’t get where I wanted to go that night, it took me over two hours to get into Tel Aviv. My White Night began waiting at the bus stop for nearly an hour. When the bus finally arrived, it was full of people and didn’t stop. I would have hailed a cab, but all the cabs …