{"id":22000,"date":"2012-09-26T09:43:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T16:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=22000"},"modified":"2012-09-26T09:43:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T16:43:09","slug":"the-big-chew-in-haifa-seeds-of-bliss-%d7%92%d7%a8%d7%a2%d7%99%d7%a0%d7%99%d7%9d-%d8%a8%d8%b0%d8%b1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=22000","title":{"rendered":"The Big Chew in Haifa: SEEDS OF BLISS – \u05d2\u05e8\u05e2\u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd \u2013 \u0628\u0630\u0631"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Seeds of Bliss – Noam Edry and friends take on “The Big Chew”\/Photo: Shula Kovo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Noam Edry\u2019s project Seeds of Bliss will come to Haifa on October 3, 4 & 5, as part of the \u201cArt and Street Culture\u201d Festival, commissioned by the Haifa Museum of Art. A Middle Eastern spin on Ai Wei Wei\u2019s famous Sunflower Seeds exhibition at the Tate Modern in 2010, Edry has been connecting people in a sunflower seed cracking adventure, bringing people together to take part in a local pastime common to all: cracking sunflower seeds.<\/p>\n

Edry intends to create an installation composed of 10 tonnes of sunflower seed shells, testimony to time spent together in a friendly, non-political way by people living in an area rife with politics and conflict. Once complete, the mound of shells will be exhibited in London. The first event took place at the artist\u2019s birthplace, Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan, on August 23 2012, with Kibbutz members and their neighbors from Khawaled, Ibtin, Ras-Ali, Zarzir and Shfaram. On September 9, a group of Jewish and Arab Israelis spent five days in Aqaba, cracking and chewing sunflower seeds with the Jordanians at Al Firdous Caf\u00e9 (Paradise Caf\u00e9) owned by Hasan Selmi in the city center.<\/p>\n

Edry\u2019s project \u2013 \u201cThe Big Chew\u201d \u2013 will take place on Yaffo Street in downtown Haifa, with the participation of a ten person team arriving from Nablus, and everyone else who wants to join in. The event hours are: Wednesday, October 3 & Thursday, October 4 from 17:00 \u2013 24:00; Friday, October 5 from 10:00 \u2013 17:00. See the event page for updates<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Members of the Jordanian team are awaiting visas to travel to Eilat for another cracking session, and future events are planned in Nablus, Jenin and Afula. SEEDS OF BLISS –\u00a0 \u05d2\u05e8\u05e2\u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd \u2013 \u0628\u0630\u0631 is a project by Noam Edry in collaboration with the Haifa Museum of Art and Artis Contemporary. Curator: Ruth Direktor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Noam Edry\u2019s project Seeds of Bliss will come to Haifa on October 3, 4 & 5, as part of the \u201cArt and Street Culture\u201d Festival, commissioned by the Haifa Museum of Art. A Middle Eastern spin on Ai Wei Wei\u2019s famous Sunflower Seeds exhibition at the Tate Modern in 2010, Edry has been connecting people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}