Events

The third performance in the Jazz series at Sela Bar, a new show ahead of the release of the Yogev Shitrit Trio’s third album. 
Instrumental music composed, produced and arranged by Yogev: traditional music from the house where he grew up, Andalusian, Moroccan, and Israeli music, combined with contemporary jazz. Melodic, rhythmic music that is full of life.

Yogev Shitrit, drummer and composer, holds a bachelor’s degree in musicology from the Hebrew University. Since 2016, the trio has performed in more than forty countries at festivals and clubs, including the prestigious Panama Jazz Festival and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., one of the most coveted stages in the US. Recorded two studio albums and two live albums.

David Shitrit - piano | Bar Geva - bass | Yogev Shitrit - drums, composition, production and management
Series curator: Matan Jakov

Doors open at 20:30. Show starts at 21:00. Duration: Approx. 75 minutes. The show is in English.
 

The fourth performance in the Sela Bar Jazz Series, features the Turkiz Ensemble, an intriguing group that combines classical Arabic music with Western classical music, with touches of popular music, in original arrangements by the members of the ensemble. 

The Turkiz Ensemble is comprised of six musicians, each with a different musical background, bringing a unique sound to their show. 
The band's musicians specialize in playing Arabic, Turkish, Andalusian, classical music, contemporary classical music, metal, jazz, pop, Indian music and more. The show is a musical tour of the world of the maqam - the scale of the Arab world. 

Some familiar arrangements and some less so, will inspire you to dream and dance. Among the pieces played will be Turkish and classical Arabic compositions, such as Abdel Wahab, Daoud Akram, Bach, Beethoven, Shem Tov Levi, Bustan Avraham, Fayrouz, and others.

Naftali Cohen - Oud | Danielle Sassi -Nai and Flute | Hanan Becher - Piano  | Tamar Deutsch- cello | Tom Mashelnik - Percussion | Matan Jacov - Double bass
 

Series coordinator, Matan Jacov

Doors open at 20:30, Starts at 21:00, approx. 75 mins duration. The performance is in English
 

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