"Modes of Response": An Artistic Evening at the City Museum

An evening of artistic actions exploring the ways the city and its residents encountered the years of war through protest and action, hospitality and assistance, mourning and gathering, and the forces that emerged within a reality that changed again and again. Each session will open with the performance “Square Rap,” after which participants will continue to one of three content activities, selected during advance registration. During the performance, the film “Hostages’ Protest,” curated by Keren Oz, will also be screened; it joins the protest wall at the museum. The event is under the artistic direction of Yonatan Blumenfeld.

Joint Opening Performance | Square Rap: When Action Becomes a Voice

Production and musical direction: Itamar Brill

A major protest is composed of thousands of human moments: an action, a meeting, a look, 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.

On stage, actions that took place in the street will become a voice, and stories of people and moments will become part of the story the city tells about itself.

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

Welcome Home: A Tabletop Performance About Hospitality, 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 temporarily. In “Welcome Home,” we will gather around a table and meet some of the people who took part in these acts of hospitality. Each of them will bring to the table their story and something from the act of hospitality itself: a gesture, a taste, a movement, or a moment that comes back to life through the encounter with the audience.

Featuring: Berhane Neguse, Michal Va’aknin, Yair Meyuhas

First Person: An Individual Headphone Journey Following a Person Who Started a Movement

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

What makes a person leave their home and start 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 person alone—for a journey following someone who decided to act, before knowing who would join them or where the action would lead.

Through voices and moments of motivation, anticipation, loneliness, 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

Noam Inbar in a shared singing ritual around mourning

Through songs written and collected during times of crisis, we will gather together around mourning in its broadest sense, giving voice to the experience of what was and is no longer. This is an invitation to lament something or someone: a person who is gone, a home that was lost, a life that changed, a period that ended, or anything else seeking a place.

Singing and playing: Noam Inbar, Lila Mazal Yinisan, Amit Fishbein, Sapir Rosenblatt

Wall / Tell Me Anything: A Public Space for Processing

Creator: Irit Shternberg

Upon leaving 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 can choose whether to release their words—placing them in a box that will never be opened—or commemorate them by handing them 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 turn the cry of the street into an act of delicate partnership, a memory born of choice.

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