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What’s On Our Radar This Month

Riki Gal I Photo: Ilan Besor

Festival The Woman Festival 2025 | Holon To mark International Women’s Day (March 8 th ), the Holon Cultural Center is this month hosting its annual festival of female art and cultural creation. Premiere film screenings, live shows, lectures, plays, roundtables, workshops, and special evenings with some of the most influential women in Israel, will be held at the Holon Theater and the Mediatheque. The program includes a concert with Riki Gal who is celebrating 55 years of music, Orna Banai’s new stand-up show, a Margol concert, an evening of conversation with Michal Ansky, Hana Laszlo, and Maya Dagan, and a special tribute concert to Edith Piaf with singer Tilda Rejwan. March 3-8, mediatheque.org.il/ women2025

Photo: Pini Hamou

Concert A journey back in time to the beginnings of Sephardi music – the Israeli Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod | Across Israel The Israeli Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod is celebrating 30 years of activity with a special series of concerts dedicated to Persian music. Four leading Persian music artists - internationally renowned tar player Sahba Motallebi and fellow tar player Reza Mohsenipour, both Iranian, will be gracing Israeli stages together with Liraz Charhi, an Israeli singer of Persian heritage, and Nissim Lugasi, an Israeli master in Persian and Ottoman singing. (Artistic director: Elad Levi, conductor: Roï Azulay). March 10 th to April 1 st , across Israel, andalusit.co.il Exhibition

“Alma Mater” | The Israel Museum, Jerusalem An immersive, multisensorial experience, “Alma Mater” is a sound installation by artist and musician Yuval Avital that draws on thousands of hours of traditional chants, whispers, and tales by women from diverse cultures and time periods, merging archival recordings and sounds from nature with cutting-edge technology, video, and artistic lighting to create an original piece. The work embodies the nurturing spirit of the Great Mother archetype, creating a metaphorical womb of reconnection and healing, with sound emanating from 100 speakers placed inside concrete and ceramic jugs or hanging from the ceiling, and video installations of soft, floaty dancing. (Curator: Talia Amar, technical programming, synchronization, and installation in collaboration with the OFFBiT Collective, Beer Sheva). Until June 2025, imj.org.il

Yuval Avital © Alma Mater I Photo by Enzo Mologni

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