Panim- Faces of Art and culture in Israel- September - October 1996

October
1-9	Jerusalem	Leonard Bernstein Jerusalem International Oratorio and Song Competition
1-3	Zichron Ya'akov	"Autumn Sounds" music festival
2	Jerusalem	Jerusalem March and gala parade
3-5	Abu Ghosh	Vocal Music Festival
2-5	Holon	3rd Storytelling Festival
6-13	Jerusalem	International Early Music Festival
14-17	Netanya Choir Competition	Shirat Hayamim: First International
16-22	Tel Aviv	Suzanne Dellal International Dance Competition
November
15 - Dec. 5	Tel Aviv	International Guitar Festival
17-24	Jerusalem	International Sacred Music Competition
20 - Dec. 25	Countrywide	Art Focus

For additional information regarding these events, contact your local Israel Government Tourist Office.

A Sampling of Israeli Cultural Events Around the World

Europe
Sep. 12-Nov. 17	Venice	Israel pavilion at Venice Biennale of Architecture 1996*^
October	Dublin	Exhibit: "Jerusalem Architecture in the 1980's"*
	Copenhagen	Exhibit: "Rabin Remembered," photos
Oct. 1-5	Geneva	Music: Israel Camerata, Rehovot at the Arthur Rubinstein music festival
Oct. 4-5	Vienna	Dance: Vertigo Dance Company
October 10	Linkoping, Sweden	Exhibit: "Spirit of Jerusalem"
	Milan	Concert: Hakol over habibi
Oct. 13-18	Prague	Film: Israel Film Week*
Oct. 15-27	London	Theater: Tmuna Theater in "Dead Hours"*
Oct. 16-Nov. 2	Tour	Concert: Achinoam Nini (Noa) and Gil Dor
October 17	London	Recital: Hagai Shacham (violin) and Arnon Erez (piano)*
Oct. 17-19	Turkey	Recital: Yefim Bronfman, piano
Oct. 18-26	Valladolid, Spain	Film: Jerusalem Film and Television School tribute
Oct. 19-20	Bucharest	Theater: Yiddishpiel: The Yiddish Theater in Israel*
October 27	London	Concert: Chava Alberstein
Oct. 28-Nov. 11	Bonn	Exhibit: "The Absent Photograph," photos of Yitzhak Rabin
November	Leipzig	Exhibit: Neta Dor
	Sardinia	Israel Film Week
Nov. 2-6	Vienna	Theater: Yiddishpiel: The Yiddish Theater in Israel*
Nov. 4-17	Germany	Israel Weeks
Nov. 18-22	Zurich	Dance: Liat Dror and Nir Ben-Gal in "Anta Oumri"
Nov. 23-Dec. 1	Montpellier	Israeli and Jewish Film Festival
Nov. 29-Dec. 3	Belgium, France	Music: Israel Camerata Orchestra Ramat Hasharon*
Eastern Europe and CIS
October	Poland	Recital: Ofra Yerushalmi, piano
	Warsaw	Exhibit: Arieh Bar-Lev, photographs
Oct. 8-15	Dnepropetrovsk	Israel Week
Oct. 13-20	Poland	Literature: Four Israeli Writers*
Nov. 12-28	Ukraine	Exhibit: "Contemporary Israeli Photography"*
North America
Sept. 18- Nov. 2	Tour	Literature: Yehuda Amichai, poet
October	New York	Theater: Motti Lerner's "The Autumn of His Days," La Mama Theater*
Oct. 1-12	Tour	Music: Yair Dalal and Al Ol Ensemble*
Oct. 7-15	Midwest	Literature: Savyon Liebrecht, author
October 10-24	Los Angeles	Film: 13th Israel Film Festival*
October 19	Chicago	Recital: Tzvi Plesser, cello
Oct. 21-29	Canada	Recital: Vadim Gluzman (violin) and Angela Yoffe (piano)
Oct. 24-Dec. 8	Laval, Quebec	Exhibit: "Mountains Round About," prints of Jerusalem*
November	Houston	Meir Shalev, author, at Jewish Book Fair
	Tour	Concert: Avihu Medina
Nov. 2-Dec. 29	Charlotte, NC	Exhibit: "A Delicate Balance: Six Israeli Photographers"*
November 7	New York	Film: Jerusalem Film and Television School Retrospective (MoMA)
Nov. 7-17	Boston	Film: Israeli films and actress Gila Almagor at Boston Jewish Film Festival
November 8	Philadelphia	Batya Gur, author, at Jewish Book Fair
Nov. 9-23	Tour	Theater: Itzik Weingarten in "Dancing with Dad"*
Nov. 12-26	New York	Film: 13th Israel Film Festival*
November 15	San Francisco	Exhibit: "Nine Young Israeli Artists"
Far East and Australasia
Sept. 26-Oct. 9	Tokyo	Film: "Saint Clara" and directors Uri Sivan and Ari Pullman at Tokyo Film Festival
October	Katmandu	Exhibit: "Hall of Light," photos of the Supreme Court building*
Oct. 13-Nov. 24	Hamilton, N.Z	Exhibit: "Unseen Borders"*
Nov. 2-3	Hong Kong	Music: Yair Dalal and the Al Ol Ensemble
Nov. 23-Dec. 6	Taipei	Film: Israeli films at Golden Horse Film Festival*
Nov. 24-Dec. 1	Japan	Literature: Aharon Appelfeld, author*
Nov. 30-Feb. 23	Taipei	Exhibit: Dorrit Yacoby*
Nov.-Dec.	Osaka	Exhibit: David Tartakover
Latin America
October	Brazil	Lecture: David Resnik, architect*
	Brazil	Film: Israeli Film Weeks*
	La Paz	Exhibit: "The Spirit of Jerusalem"
Oct. 3-24	Tour	Recital: The Adam Trio*
Oct. 5-Dec. 8	Sao Paolo	Art: Gabi Klezmer, exhibit at 23rd Sao Paolo Art Biennale*^
Oct. 7-21	San Salvador	Exhibit: Kibbutz Artists*
Oct. - Nov.	Santo Domingo	Exhibit: "Nature and Landscape"
	Panama	Exhibit: "Jerusalem in Your Heart"
November	Asuncion	Exhibit: "The Spirit of Jerusalem"
Nov. - Dec.	Santiago	Exhibit: "Migrating Birds Know No Boundaries"
Nov. 1-Dec. 31	Buenos Aires	Exhibit: "Remembering Rabin," photos

For additional information regarding these events, contact your local Israeli embassy or consulate.

(*) indicates events organized in cooperation with the Division of Cultural and Scientific Affairs, Israel Foreign Ministry.
(^) indicates exhibits organized by the Public Affairs Division, Israel Foreign Ministry.