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Check-in I Local Events I August 2025 I Nava Marton

What’s On Our Radar This Month

Circus Festival The Forest Circus | The Jerusalem Botanical Gardens Spectacular circus performances, workshops, interactive activities, music shows, and a sea of colorful flowers, await audiences at the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens this month. Visitors of all ages will delight in the wonderful clowns and performers of the Circus Monkeys Company, and if they wish to, they may take part in circus and acrobatics workshops. One of the festival highlights is an acrobatic show from a 70m structure. In the evenings the festival will be hosting special light and sound shows and interactive installations, as well as a (kosher) food festival. August 4-31, forestcircus.co.il

Photo: Anne-Sylvie Bonnet

Dance Tel Aviv Dance Festival 2025 | Suzanne Dellal Centre, Tel Aviv This year, the Tel Aviv Dance Festival is dedicated to the memory of Yair Vardi, the festival’s founder, and head of the Suzanne Dellal Centre for over thirty years. For ten whole days, twenty different shows, including seven Israeli premieres, guest performances by two international artists, outdoor performances, and open rehearsals, will light up the stages and gardens of the Suzanne Dellal Centre. Special film screenings are also among the festival highlights, and some of the events will be admission-free. The festival will be focusing this year on the local scene, at a time when artists and creators are having to grapple with intense turbulence and uncertainty. Shows include: “Mid-War Dance Moves” by choreographers Yossi Berg and Oded Graf, “Four Fathers”, by choreographer and dancer Michal Samama and an ensemble of dancers, “Camera Obscura” by dancer and

choreographer Adi Boutrous, and more. August 6-16, telavivdance.suzannedellal.org.il

Photo: Pyromania

Nature Festival Arava Nights | The Central Arava Regional Council Throughout August, the Arava Nights Festival invites nature and music-lovers to enjoy the beauty of the desert, participate in stargazing nights, observe nocturnal fauna in its natural habitat, go for night swims in the pool, take part in creative workshops, and see live performances by leading Israeli artists. Events begin at sunset and last all night long, until the first shimmering rays of light appear at sunrise. Until August 27 th , aravanights.co.il

Photo: Gil Peer-Nitzan

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