Celebrating the cultural legacy of the city of Izmir and the Sephardic community, which since the 16th century has been an important component of the ethnic mosaic of today’s Konak district area. There will be interesting tours, talks, film screenings, concerts and more during the festival.
Event Tag: Music
EAT Tel Aviv Festival
Eat Tel Aviv is the only food festival that brings together all of the city’s best chefs to one place, with the most amazing dishes in the country. For six days, Charles Clore Park is transformed into a festive market venue with live music, celebrity chefs, colorful food trucks, and innovative food stands. Participating in the festival are some of the best restaurants in Tel Aviv (including Manta Ray, Dixie, Captain Carrie and more) and some of the finest and most famous chefs in Israel chefs (Haim Cohen, Shaul Ben Aderet, Yonatan Roshfeld, David Frenkel, Ronen Skinzis and more). You can expect tastings and delicious street food to try and take away.
Date is subject to change. Please see the official website for the most up-to-date information.
A dialogue through songs of national minorities
A traditional music show presented through songs of Osijek national minorities (22 minorities in total)
Safed Klezmer Festival
Klezmer Festival in Safed is held throughout the alleyways and lanes of the Old Jewish Quarter and Artist Quarter. On each of the 3 nights of the festival, performances begin approximately 9:00p.m. and go through until after midnight. The performances are free and are all located within a 5 – 15 minute walk of each other in the town’s center.
Tamar Festival
The annual Tamar Festival takes place at Masada and the Dead Sea and features some of Israel’s most prominent musicians and artists. It originated in 2000 to promote Israeli music as well as the beautiful desert landscapes. This multi-day festival includes concerts from sunrise to sunset and tickets are available online months in advance.
Jerusalem Jazz Festival
The Jerusalem Jazz Festival features a rich range of original productions, premieres, one-off musical collaborations, surprising mini shows, improvisations, and conversations with musicians, giving a new perspective to the artworks displayed throughout the museum. The artistic program reflects the variety of styles that comprise the contemporary jazz world, from world music, through hip hop, rock, groove, to supersonic jazz, and free jazz, classical chamber music, big band arrangements and more. The original productions were inspired by the artworks in the museum while other productions adapted the show in response to this creative space. This has led to a three-way dialogue between music, art, and cultural consumers.
This year, the festival focuses on original Israeli music from a wide range of styles. The extraordinary encounter between music and art, the festival’s inspiring hallmark from day one, continues to be a central pillar of the artistic program, with several different shows taking place throughout the museum’s magical sculpture garden every evening.
The 7th Jerusalem Jazz Festival, created by the Israel Festival in partnership with Israel Museum, and under the artistic direction of international trumpeter Avishai Cohen, will take place alongside the Israel Festival on 22-24.6.21, in the magical Sculpture Garden of the Israel Museum.
Sababa Music Festival
Sababa Fest is a meeting ground for Jews of all stripes and types, coming together to share an uplifting, rejuvenating, Shabbat experience with food, great music, nature, sports, and creative workshops nestled on the magical woodlands of Woodstock Festival in Bethel, NY.
From June 11-13 we will gather to celebrate Shabbos, eat great kosher food, hear awesome live music (before & after Shabbat), have yoga classes in the mornings, interactive workshops in the afternoon, late night chills by the bonfire, and sing and dance as we welcome the Shabbos queen. As Shabbat goes out, we will gather for an amazing Havdala ceremony, followed by live music from our headlining musical act Yemen Blues!
The Sababa Fest community has grown tremendously and we now host multiple events throughout the year for everyone to stay connected with each other. We also host a winter ski retreat, Rosh Hashana program, as well as Shabbos Nachamu & Rosh Chodesh Elul Camping Trips! Make sure to follow us on Instagram & Facebook to stay up to date on the shenanigans!
Holiday of Holidays
The Holiday of Holidays, also known as Chag HaChagim in Hebrew, is an annual celebration of Haifa’s religious and cultural diversity. This event is held every December to mark the Hanukkah, Christmas, and Ramadan holidays for Jews, Christians, and Muslims living peacefully together in Haifa.
It includes food stands, antique fairs, arts and crafts fairs, music, circuses, and street celebrations.
The festival is an initiative of Beit Ha’Gefen – Arab-Jewish Cultural Center, and the Haifa Municipality, which was founded in 1993 and takes place in Beit Ha’Gefen and Wadi Nisnas and the German Colony in Haifa.
The aim of the festival is to promote and foster tolerance and mutual respect through culture and art.
The festival presents art exhibitions, artist meetings, and various performances with an emphasis on cultural diversity in Haifa and Israel.
The works are displayed both in the public space – the alleys of the Wadi Nisnas neighborhood coming to the German Colony, Haifa, and in the Beit Hagefen Gallery and this year also on billboards throughout the Hadar neighborhood – a special exhibition by Haifa artists!
The Holiday of Holidays festival is the culmination of the year of activity at Beit Ha’Gefen, and is designed in the spirit of the values of Beit Ha’Gefen.
Our activities are based on the belief that interpersonal acquaintance and encounter with another culture, its stories, cultural and spiritual assets, are important for breaking down barriers and building trust between different nationalities, ethnic and religious groups in Haifa and Israel.
Photo credit: Shaula Haitner Pikiwiki Israel
International Sephardi Music Festival
The International Sephardi Music Festival has been held annually in the Botanical Garden of Córdoba since 2002.
This event was originally known as the Festival of the Spanish Jewish Network, “Sephardic Paths”. It is a meeting point where the public can get a deeper understanding of the different traditions of Sepchardic culture. Concerts of the musical genre by Spanish and international artists alternate with talks and conferences about this people. During the festival spectators can enjoy drinks, tea, cakes and typical dishes in the Sephardi tavern.
Hava Nashira
Hava Nashira is the premier Jewish worship and music conference of the Reform Movement, serving diverse populations from a variety of movements, communities, and congregations. Hava Nashira focuses on teaching songleading for religious school as well as leading and crafting meaningful worship, thinking about engagement, music to build community, and broadening our reach using music and prayer as our focus. Hava Nashira brings the best in professional songleaders and worship teachers to hundreds of participants every year.
