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8.6.24
Saturday
11:00

If the world was a child | Hiyuli, Adam, Noam, and Gili

Four boys and girls on a creative journey, Train Theatre

Let's say the earth trembles with fear and we cry an ocean. Let's say the ocean is so angry we could drown in it, and suddenly on the horizon we see a lighthouse that shows us the way, but it looks lonely… let's say that being alone is sometimes what we most feel like and let's say sometimes it’s not.
We are a crew of volcanoes who don’t hold back. When the water is boiling with anger, we make tea and bring cookies. We are a crew of tornadoes that take a different spin on things and fly to the sky. We are clouds that fulfill the dreams in our hearts. We are a group of loving, hating, yearning, wild hearts.
We are Hiyuli, Adam, Noam, and Gili, 4 children, little bodies in the solar system. 
We’ve come to tell you about our inner worlds.
Four ten-year-old children who went on a creative journey with artist Moran Duvshani, let’s see what emerged in the show.

Stagetalk: After the show, a conversation with the children-creators – the actors and the artist who accompanied them.


Approx. 60 minutes, ages 7+ and for the whole family
 

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1.2
Saturday
11:00

The Colour of Ink | Brian D. Johnson

The screening of the film "The Color of Ink" has been postponed by a day, from Friday morning, January 31st, to the following day, Saturday, February 1st, at 11:00 AM.

 

Ink is our primordial medium – it has recorded the evolution of humanity. The film ‘The Color of Ink’ is a poetic and chemical journey, revealing the mystery and power of the medium through the eyes of Jason Logan, a visionary ink maker. Working with ingredients he collects in nature – weeds, berries, tree bark, flowers, rocks, rust – he makes ink from almost anything and sends custom-ordered inks to an eclectic range of artists around the world, from a New York caricaturist to a Japanese calligrapher whose work is a stirring blend of words, illustration, ink and movement. He also visits some of them, such as an artist who creates ochre colors from rocks, or indigenous artists who make red color from beetles in Mexico (he sends the red ink he produces to Margaret Atwood, creator of "The Handmaid's Tale", who draws women in red dresses for him). When the ink and the colors he sent take on a life of their own, his playful alchemy paints a story of color that reconnects us to the earth and returns us to a childlike sense of wonder. A film that delights in the sensuality of ink, in the way it is absorbed by paper, mixes with other colors, influences them, seeps into them, arouses a passion for chemistry, or alchemy and above all, it is a song of praise for craft, for deliberateness, for wonderful control of materials, for the simplicity of creation and life.

 

The film joins a common movement that is growing worldwide, to revive analog media and natural paint, not only as a nostalgic act – in a digital age, when the line between truth and lies has become so slippery, there is a yearning for the indelible substance of ink and the tangible connection of the language of handicraft. Throughout civilization, ink has remained our most enduring documentation, a fossilized human consciousness. And in its quick radiance, one can discover the magic of a medium that still binds us like nothing else – a stamp of authenticity in an age of binary code. 


Director: Brian D. Johnson


Canada 2022 | 105 Minutes | English Japanese and Spanish | Hebrew subtitles 
 
3.2
Monday
20:00

DIS-COVER Yair Assulin and Professor Idan Segev

Yair Assulin, writer and thinker, winner of the Sapir Prize for a Debut Novel in 2011, the Ministry of Culture Prize and the Prime Minister’s Prize for Hebrew Literary Works in 2016. He previously taught Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature at Yale University, writes a regular column in Haaretz newspaper and hosts the thought program on ‘Kan’.


Idan Segev is a professor of computational neuroscience at the Center for Brain Sciences at the Hebrew University, a senior partner in the Blue Brain Project (Switzerland) and the Human Brain Project (EU), and one of the founders of Frontiers, the international scientific journal. His main field of interest is the study of neurons and neural networks in mammalian and human brains, with the aim of understanding “what makes humans unique.” Idan is also interested in the connection between the brain and art, and has run fascinating meetings between artists and scientists.


The dialog will address the revolutionary times we live in – the changing of the world order – the great challenges and opportunities facing humanity today, and the burning questions that lie ahead. It will illuminate the critical importance of partnerships between researchers in the natural sciences and those in the social sciences and humanities, so that we can thrive in a new, fruitful and creative world – humanity as a whole, and Israeli society in particular. 

Under the auspices of The Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities.