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What’s On Our Radar This Month

Theatre | The Akko International Fringe Theatre Festival Akko

The vibrant and multi-faceted Akko Theatre Festival is back with its 44 th edition. Myriad plays and street performances, including eight premieres and four guest plays will be presented this year. The festival program promises more than 40 (free) shows and like every year, a camping site is made available to festivalgoers. Some of the themes explored this year include PTSD and the current social and political crisis in Israel. Also in this year’s festival: a play entitled “Fixing the World”, with the participation of actors with autism spectrum disorder and/or other disabilities, shaolin performances by Chinese kung fu masters, a beer festival, food trucks, lots of

street performances, and more. October 1 st – 4 th , accofestival.co.il

Photo: Ella Barak

Visual Arts | Rashid Johnson: Broken Crowd The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Broken Crowd presents works by Afro-American artist and creator Rashid Johnson. Johnson is one of the most important voices in contemporary art. He explores the notion of identity, personal and collective, amongst the Afro-American community of the 21 st century. The exhibition presents three of his most significant works that express, through body language, the physical and psychological experience of a Black man in a racist and discriminatory society. His mosaic, “Untitled Broken Crowd”, is one of the exhibition’s most striking pieces. It shows the power of gestural abstraction, particularly in the facial expressions of the figures depicted in the mosaic. (Curator: Orly Rabi) Until December 2023, imj.org.il

Rashid Johnson, ‘Untitled Broken Crowd’, 2019, ©Rashid Johnson | Photo: ©the artist and Hauser & Wirth, by Martin Parsekian

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