Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA

Musical Director & Conductor: Rafi Kadishson
With (in alphabetical order): Zehava Ben, Maor Cohen, Keren Hadar, Sassi Keshet, Aya Korem, Ivri Lieder, Sharon Roter, Berry Sacharof, Ninette Tayeb, Eran Zur

Emcee: Idan Alterman and Neta Gerty, Special Guest: Haim Topol
Artistic Directors: Udi Dabush, Ben-Zion Shira

As with each year, the Festival is staging an extravagant production in the Sultan's Pool, which this year is dedicated to the songs of Israeli cinema - from its beginnings in 1955 with the film "Hill 24 Doesn't Answer" until the present day. All the songs, that will be performed to new arrangements, will be sung either by the singers who made them famous, or by a new generation of singers. Segments from the films will be screened during the performance. The Israeli film industry definitely deserves this tribute, all the more so because the first ever film and one of the most recent ones, Beaufort (2007), were both Oscar candidates for the Best Foreign Film.

Merril Hassenfeld Amphitheatre, Sultan's Pool
May 28 at 21:00
approx. 2 hrs, without intermission
Ticket price: 10 shekels

In conjunction with the Israeli 60th Anniversary Celebrations Committee, the Israel Film Fund and the Jerusalem Cinematheque
With the assistance of Keren Keshet - The Rainbow Foundation
Ticket price: 10 shekels
Outdoor seating; warm clothing recommended
Photo credits: Alex Lipkin, Gil Raphael, Ronen Ackerman, Ohad Romano, Dan Selzer, Dudi Moskowitz

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The School for Visual Theatre

The Visual Colony", which will be held in the enchanting garden of Jerusalem's Museum of Natural History, is offering an extensive program of shows for all the family. The program combines a large selection of works from diverse fields of the performing arts including dance, performance art, puppet theatre, installations, sculpture, video dance, video art, animation and song. The performers are all students, teachers and graduates of Jerusalem's School for Visual Theatre. Among the performances are:
Human Nature - puppet theatre for children and adults
Leica: : Prophecies and Eulogies - a multi-disciplinary work in 3 parts combining song, dance and video.
The School for Visual Theatre Choir directed by Orna Zakai with a selection of Renaissance songs. A multi-disciplinary work produced in collaboration with students of the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London.

Museum of Natural History
June 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, from 17:00 until 21:30
Entrance fee: 50 shekels

Tami Dance Company/Nimrod Freed & Kaym

Choreographer Nimrod Freed has borrowed the concept of the peep show to provide audiences with a glance into the world of movement, dance and aesthetics. Peeping Toms will be rewarded with outstanding dancers from Israel and Japan dancing completely difference movements to the same music. Seven cubicles, each with 20 peep holes, will be set up in the Sherover Plaza. Each cubicle will contain dancers giving their own interpretation to the music. The spectators are invited to move from cubicle to cubicle to view and judge for themselves the quality of the different dancers. Peep-Dance premiered in Japan in 2007 to great critical acclaim.

Sherover Theatre Plaza
Admission free
June 4, 5 at 18:00 and 20:00
June 7 at 21:00

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