First Person: A headphone journey for individuals following in the footsteps of a person who started a movement

Response Modes
Three Years Since October 7

“Response Modes” is an evening of artistic actions reflecting on the ways the city and its residents encountered the years of war: through protest and action, hosting and assistance, mourning and gathering together, and the forces that awakened within a reality that changed again and again.
Artistic direction: Yonatan Blumenfeld

Production: Eliran Paz

The evening will take place in two sessions: 19:30 / 21:00.
Each session will open with the performance “Square Rap,” after which participants will continue to one of three content activities, selected in advance during registration.

Joint Opening Performance | Square Rap: When Action Becomes Voice

Musical direction: Itamar Brill

A major protest is made up of thousands of human moments: an action, a meeting, a glance, a sentence spoken.

“Square Rap” brings rappers together with the people, actions, and reality that shaped the urban space during the years of war. In preparation for the event, the rappers will delve into stories and materials from the City Museum’s story collection, dealing with changes in the urban space, activism, and protest, and will write new versions inspired by them.

Onstage, actions that took place in the street will become voices, and stories of people and moments will become part of the story the city tells about itself.

Featuring: Shir Gabay, Ba’al Zevuv, Roni Hever, N.G.

During the performance, the film “Hostages’ Protest,” curated by Keren Oz, will also be screened. It joins the museum’s protest wall.

Content Activity of Choice (1 of 3)

After the opening performance, participants will continue to one of three activities of their choice, with advance registration*:

Welcome Home: A Tabletop Performance About Hosting, Displacement, and Home

Creator: Ayelet Golan

A performance and storytelling event bringing together guests and hosts, home and displacement, and personal stories and shared experiences.

During the years of war, Tel Aviv became a host city. Hotels, public institutions, communities, and private individuals opened their doors to those who needed a home, even if only temporarily.

In “Welcome Home,” we will gather around a table and meet several of the people who took part in these hosting efforts. Each of them will bring to the table their story and something from the hosting action itself: a gesture, a taste, a movement, or a moment that comes back to life in meeting the audience.

Featuring: Berhane Negasi, Michal Va’aknin and Yair Meyuhas, Racheli Amsalem, and Tamar Belas.

First Person: A Headphone Journey for Individuals Following a Person Who Started a Movement

Creator: Mor Lidor, inspired by and in collaboration with Avichai Brodetz

What causes a person to leave their home and begin a protest? What happens at the moment when the feeling that something must be done overcomes uncertainty or fear?

Chairs and headphones will be waiting throughout the museum, and the audience will be invited to set out, each alone, on a journey following a person who decided to act—before knowing who would join them or where the action would lead.

Through voices and moments of motivation, anticipation, solitude, and connection, we will draw closer to the intimate moment that precedes a public act: the moment when one person begins.

A Full Wail: A Shared-Singing Ritual Around Mourning

Creator and musical director: Noam Inbar

Who and what are we mourning?

In “A Full Wail,” Noam Inbar invites participants to a ritual of voice and shared singing, in which everyone can make space for what has been lost: a person who is no longer here, a lost home, lives that have changed, a shaken sense of security, a period that has ended—or something else that is asking for space.

Together, through voice, listening, and song, the ritual seeks to allow mourning to be a living, open, and changing action, and to gather around the recognition of what was and is no more.

Wall / Tell Me Anything: A Public Processing Space

Creator: Irit Sternberg

As they leave the performances, participants will pass through a quiet processing space. There, they will be able to respond in their own handwriting and share an insight from the evening, or from any other time during the past three years.

They will choose whether to release their words—to place them in a box that will never be opened—or to commemorate them and hand them over to the creator, who will use them to assemble a temporary wall of memory and forgetting.

During the years of war, the walls of public spaces were covered with heartbreaking signs and stickers. The temporary wall seeks to dismantle this practice and reassemble it—to transform the street’s cry into an act of gentle participation, a memory born of choice.

*The event’s content, schedule, or lineup may change according to constraints.