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As 2016 moves towards its close, leaving many of us looking back in horror at the events of the past year, and since, as we know, winter is coming – let’s bring some warmth and light into the month to come and the new year ahead! The BeSveder Festival<\/a> <\/strong>is a musical way to do just that. The annual concert benefit for the homeless has a unique admission price: one item of winter clothing. BeSveder will take place on Friday, December 30th<\/sup> at the Barby (52 Kibbutz Galuyot), doors open at 11:45. Check for updates & lineup of musicians on the facebook event<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Tim Laman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Local Testimony and World Press Photo<\/strong> exhibition reflects the events and mood of the past year through the lens of photographers. On display, side by side, at the Eretz Israel Museum (2 Haim Levanon, TLV) from December 22, 2016 \u2013 January 28, 2017. Local Testimony provides a platform for the best photographs of news and documentary photographers in Israel. Curator for Local Testimony is Micha Kirshner. Tim Laman’s Tough Times for Orangutans<\/em> won first prize in the Nature Stories category of World Press Photo. Come see them all in December!<\/p>\n

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Stav Marin and Merav Dagan\/Photo: Tamar Lamm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

International Exposure in Dance<\/strong> will take place at the Suzanne Dellal Centre from December 7 \u2013 11, 2016. It’s a great opportunity to catch up on all the latest dance shows. Opening International Exposure will be Slug<\/em>, by Avshalom Pollak, “a densely-textured work with vibrant physicality, merging dance with song and spoken word. Love, war, fear, dreams, desire, struggle, the push and pull of relationships, the tension between here and gone, I and other \u2013 all dance upon the stage (full article here<\/a>).”\u00a0Curtain Up will also be featured at the Exposure, recommended: Come Closer<\/em> by Merav Dagan & Stav Marin, and It’s Always Here<\/em> by Adi Boutrous. Boutrous has a fluid, acrobatic movement language, an understated grace with underlying tensile strength Covering vast expanses of stage in backwards somersaults, rhythmic waves of soft undulation, feats of endurance, inscribing delicate circles on the air, the movement language is varied, expressive and always alluring.” Come Closer is “a mesmerizing rapid-fire succession of allusive movement and gesture, meticulous, precise and wildly entertaining. It\u2019s a challenge to the senses to meet the pace of this work\u2019s imagery, a kinetic reflection on the mythology of woman, generating a multitude of associations.” Both works will be performed December 8th<\/sup> at 11:00. (read the full Curtain Up review here<\/a>) Check the Suzanne Dellal website<\/a> for dates, times & tickets.<\/p>\n

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December music \u2013 some really cool shows coming up! Blind Orchestra<\/strong><\/a> (blindfolded musicians in an improvised concert) at the Ozen Bar on December 2nd<\/sup>, The Angelcy<\/strong><\/a> return to the Barby on December 10th<\/sup>, Ronen Green<\/strong><\/a> will be launching his new EP Coincidence<\/em> at Tmuna on December 13th<\/sup> \u2013 all this and more\u2026 details on the Midnight Music Calendar<\/a>.
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