The Arts & Community Task Force focuses on developing relationships between people through creative collaboration, experiences, and professional connections. Our programs include people from creative and professional disciplines including, but not limited to; Theater, Performance Art, Fine Art, Music, Dance, Art Therapy, Photography, Design, Architecture, Film, History, Entrepreneurship, Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnography, Business, and more.
Participants in the Artist in Residency Program
Examples of the Arts & Community Programs :
- The Artist in Residency (AIR) Exchange Program annually brings U.S. artists to the Western Galilee and Israeli artists to the U.S. Central Area Consortium communities to make personal connections with community members through a wide range of artistic disciplines. The AIR program encourages contemporary artistic creation and collaboration in hopes to generate new artistic discourse between participants and local residents. It is designed to encourage the exchange of ideas and enrichment for communities.
- The Community Visionaries Delegation Exchange Program is an opportunity to learn from unique and creative community visionaries who are experts in their fields and share their time through lectures, panel discussions, informal meetings.
- The Performing Art Series and Yom Ha’Atzmaut Performances are programs offered to our US communities as a way to connect local audiences with creative Israeli entertainment including dance, violin concerts, theater performances, and more.
- Professional Seminars including Professors and Business Professionals
Restoration at the Efendi Hotel in Akko, Israel
We continue to offer artists and professionals in our communities exhibition opportunities, lecture opportunities and an ongoing chance to develop new initiatives within the task force. If you have an idea that connects your community to the Western Galilee through Arts & Community themes please contact Noa Epstein, the arts coordinator at: noaep@jafi.org
Artist in Residency (AIR) Exchange Program
Examples of Program Activity
- Artists in Residency – Danny Abekasis: Feb. 5-15th, 2012
- Matte Asher Dance Workshop: Feb. 26th- March 7th 2012
- Artists in Residency – Batya Gil: March 11-21, 2012
- 2013 International Summer Dance Program
Art & Creative Institutions in the Western Galilee
- Kupferman Museum
- Gottesman Etching Center
- KCDC Contemporary Dance Company
- Keshet Eilon Music Center
- The Israeli Fringe Theater Festival
- Artist’s from the Western Galilee
- Shmuel Katz
- Akko and Matte Asher Conservatories of Music
- Art on the Fence Festival (in Hebrew only)
- Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum
- Danny Abekasis, photographer and 2012 P2G US Artist in Residence
- Batya Gil, glass artist and 2012 P2G US Artist in Residence
- The Clil community of artists
- Arts In the Western-Galilee
- 2013 International Summer Dance Program at the Ga’Aton Kibbutz
- The International Conservation Center, Citta di Roma
- Treasure in the Wall, Ethnographic Museum, Akko
- Kivunim: Promoting Youth with Special Needs
- The Shop for Meaning
- Uri (Buri) Jeremias, entrepreneur and developer of Uri Buri Restaurant and Efendi Hotel
Articles
- Jerusalem Post AIR Article
- Blog entry by a participant from Austin, Wendy Corn
- Artists in Residency – Danny Abekasis: February 5-15th, 2012
- Matte Asher Dance Workshop: February 26th- March 7th 2012
Artist In Residency Videos: Artists speak of their experience
