Festival: Poalot at Alfred 
Poalot Mikan

Nurit Izak, Irit Eilat, Dan Allon, Yarden Elkayam,
Michal Gil, Maayan Danoch, Oree Holban,
Hakvutza Danceschool, Hachaverot collective,
Idan Cohen, Maayan Cohen Marciano, Maayan Cohen Marciano, Tammy Izhaki, Aharona Israel,
Maayan Liebman-Sharon, Polina Liakhovitskii,
Niv Elik, Merav Sudaey, Or Saadi, Yulia Frydin,
Maya Felixbrot, and Eynat Raveh.

Artistic  Directors: Revital Michali and Efrat Rubin

09 May 2024 - 25 May 2024

At Alfred Gallery, the Atelier, TA Tarbut, and Boaz Aharonovitz studio

Festival Poalot at Alfred - Poalot Mikan

The Alfred Institute is initiating for the second time, a multidisciplinary cultural event showcasing over 20 creators from various fields, featuring dance, theater, music, voice, sound, and performance. This year’s festival relates both to the theme of Alfred’s 2024-25 exhibition year, and to the specific spaces and sites, aimed at broadening and amplifying the gallery’s dialogue with the unique Kiryat Hamelacha area and its characteristics.

The festival will take place at a variety of venues: The Atelier Spaces, TA Tarbut, Alfred Gallery, and Boaz Ahronovitz Studio), over three weekends between 9-25.5.24.

This festival seeks to expand and enrich Alfred's activities, and to provide a unique platform for artists from different fields, to create and present their work at the cooperative institute. The festival is another layer in the exhibition year "Bein Hashmashot: Between Night and Day; End - Edge - Addendum", and its purpose is to expand the reference to the annual theme and offer diverse and performative expressions to it, with an emphasis on a new starting point, from which one can carry on dreaming, creating, expressing and being.

This year the festival will take place under the title "Poalot Mikan". "Kan" (here) is the place where we observe, reflect, process, grieve, and grow. "Kan" is the place from which we move forward, the emotional, conceptual, artistic, and meaningful space we long to reach.

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Bein Hashmashot: Between Night and Day;
End – Edge – Addendum.

The Door in the Wall is the sixth exhibition of the 2023-2014 exhibition season, presented on the subject of the trilogy Bein Hashmashot: Between Night and Day; End – Edge – Addendum. Today’s times are characterized by a sense of urgency which can lead to one-dimensionality, yet also invites a complex, “multi-focal” analysis. One cannot discuss the present without considering the past and building the future. 

End: There is a sense that the imminent end is lingering in the air, boundaries have been crossed, the world order has been upended, and doubt has now been cast on assumptions that were once axioms. That which was once taken for granted is no longer certain. What is good and what is bad? How can one distinguish between the two? The word “end” signifies the finishing part, the point where the thing ceases to exist. 

Threshold: The threshold is a gate, an opening one must pass through in the struggle to restore meaning, decorum, and standards. In order to recover, one must consent to sojourn in threshold spaces, in destruction and uncertainty. One must agree to touch upon loss, compromise, and change. One must push up against the edges and taste the ashes.

Addendum: Lingering within a sense of destruction, anxiety, and horror enables, in the end, hope to sprout. From wallowing in the depths, the cracked and broken areas, and from disease, separation, loss, and collapsed systems, a seed sprouts, breathing new life into the consciousness and the body and helping to identify the strength embodied within them.