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What’s On Our Radar This Month

Photo: Efraim Golan

Chamber Music The Kol Hamusica Festival | Kfar Blum, the Upper Galilee The Kol Hamusica Festival in the Upper Galilee is this year celebrating its 40 th anniversary with a program chockfull of exciting concerts, including the reenactment of its very first opening concert in 1985 with Bach’s “Art of the Fugue”, Dvořák’s piano quintet, Haydn’s “Divertimento in C major”, and more. Other notable concerts include an evening celebrating Nurit Hirsh’s 80 th birthday, with her orchestrations of beloved Israeli songs by Neomi Shemer, Ehud Manor, Yehoram Gaon, and more. Throughout the festival, rehearsals will be open to audiences, invited to experience music in the making. December 8-13, kol-hamusica.org.il

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Festival The Western Galilee Winter Festival 2025| The Western Galilee After a three-year hiatus the Western Galilee Winter Festival is back for three days of cultural events, guided tours, and food fairs. As it takes place during Hanukkah and just before Christmas, the ubiquitous lights and holiday spirit add an extra layer of magic to the overall atmosphere. Notable shows include the festival’s opening event in Kfar Vradim, a special chamber music initiative called “Fusion Point” that invites audiences to enjoy the concert glass of wine in hand, before going on a guided tour of the area afterwards. The festival program includes many more live shows, workshops, and roundtables with artists, etc., with all events requiring prior booking. December 18-20, winterfestival.westgalil.org.il/en/

Art The Outline Festiva | Jerusalem

The theme of the ninth edition of Israel’s biggest illustration festival, “Outline - Illustration and Words in Jerusalem”, is the notion of “the unusual”. Dozens of exhibitions, performances and events are set to take place across the city. Against the backdrop of the end of the war, the festival seeks to examine what happens when routine is disrupted, when shapes, colors and sounds go off track. The choice of “the unusual” as this year’s theme was conceived as a call for creative unrest, disruption, and questioning. The dozens of solo and group exhibitions will offer visitors the opportunity to explore innumerable interpretations of this notion, in myriad artistic forms, from illustration, to animation to installations, texts and happenings. Entrance is free. Until December 19, outlinejerusalem.com

Illustration by Ovadia Benishu

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