Response States | Three Years Since October 7

The evening will take place in two sessions: 19:30 / 21:00.
Each session will open with the show “Square Rap,” followed by one of three content activities, selected during advance registration.

Artistic direction: Yonatan Blumenfeld

Joint Opening Show | 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 realities that shaped the urban space during the war years. 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 verses inspired by them.

On stage, actions that took place in the street will become voice, 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 show, the film “Hostages’ Protest,” curated by Keren Oz, will also be screened, joining the protest wall at the museum.

Selectable Content Session (1 of 3)

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

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 story and shared experience.

During the war years, 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 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 brought back to life in an encounter with the audience.

Featuring: Berhane Neguse, Michal Vaaknin, Yair Meyuhas, and others.

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

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

What causes a person to 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 visitors will be invited to set out, each on their own, 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, loneliness, and connection, we will draw closer to the intimate moment that precedes the public act: the moment when one person begins.

Full Wail: A Shared Singing Ritual Around Mourning

Creator and musical director: Noam Inbar

Who and what are we mourning?

In “Full Wail,” Noam Inbar invites participants to a ritual of voice and shared singing, in which everyone can make room 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 seeking a place.

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

Wall / Tell Me Anything: A Public Processing Space

Creator: Irit Sternberg

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 will choose whether to release their words—placing them in a box that will never be opened—or preserve them by handing them to the creator, who will assemble them into a temporary wall of memory and forgetting.

During the war years, 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 street’s outcry into an act of delicate participation, a memory born of choice.

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