Jerusalem Arts Festival 2018Thu 1 Mar

Around 34 plays, dance shows and concerts by professional and semi-professional artists take place throughout one week in spring at the city’s major concert halls and theaters including the Jerusalem Theater, the Gerard Behar Center, the Khan Theater, the YMCA auditorium, Beit Shmuel and St. Andrew’s Church.

Free performances include every evening before and after the main performances at the Jerusalem Theater.

Through its promotion and encouragement of a wide range of performance disciplines, the Jerusalem Arts Festival gives the public an opportunity to attend quality shows at affordable prices. The festival, which has been produced annually by the Culture and Arts Department of the Jerusalem Municipality since 2002, has become a cultural tradition in the city, with hundreds of artists participating in dozens of performances.

Jerusalem Arts festival 2018 events will be updated as they become available

Jerusalem Arts Festival 2017 Events

Opening: One. One & One

“Choreographer Noa Wertheim’s new work concerns the individual’s yearning for unity, faced with processes of separation on the human space, on the existential plane and on the spiritual expanse.

The work ”One. One & One” blends the internal with the external, while hearkening to the echo reflected from various directions.”

Where: The Jerusalem Theater, 20 David Marcus Street, Jerusalem
When: March 28, 2017 at 9:00 pm
Cost: 90 NIS
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Divano Swing

A free concert by Jerusalem’s premiere gypsy swing band

Where: The Jerusalem Theater, 20 David Marcus Street, Jerusalem
When: March 28, 2017
Cost: Free

‘An Hour and a Minute’

“You are invited to lose the sense of time, among works from various of artistic media, which are scattered, and sometimes hidden, in the museum’s space”

Where: The L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art, 21 Shmuel Stephan Weiz Street, Jerusalem
When: April 4, 2017 at 9:00 pm
Cost: N/A
Tickets: Box office only

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