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Wesleyan
University, Fall 2009
Screening of the Israeli film
The Band's Visit
(Wednesday, November 4) PAC 001, 7:00pm
The Band’s visit
is a film about an Egyptian band which came to Israel to play
at the opening of an Arab Cultural Center and by mistake arrives at
an isolated village where as one of the villagers informs them,
“there is no Arab culture, no Israeli culture, no culture at all”.
The film was
awarded the official Cannes Festival
selection as well as 8 Israeli academy
awards. It is 90 minutes with English subtitles.
Next semester the
Israel and Jewish Studies will present the
Israeli Film Festival.
Wesleyan
University, Spring 2009
Israel in Shorts
Screening of Etgar Keret's
movie $9.99
(Wednesday, March 25)
Goldsmith Family Cinema, 7:30pm After the
screening of the movie, $9.99, guest speaker Etgar Keret
will talk about his film as well as answer questions from the
audience.
Screening Episodes from the TV
series In Treatment
(Thursday, April 23 and
Thursday, April 30)
Goldsmith Family Cinema, 7:30pm
Each screening will be followed by a presentation by the head writer
of the successful Israeli TV show In Treatment (Betipul),
Ori Sivan. Professor Sivan is Wesleyan Jewish and Israel Visiting
Professor.
Wesleyan University,
Fall 2008
Found in Translation
(Tuesday,
September 16)
Russell House, 8pm
Guest speaker: Dr. Miriam Yahil-Wax, an expert in Israeli theater,
will give a multi-media presentation about the immigrant theater in
Israel and how the theater functions as a laboratory of language and
culture.
Reception will follow
Why Didn't You Come Before the
War ?
(Wednesday, October 29)
Memorial Chapel, 8pm
A one woman play by Fabiana Meyuhas, based on Lizzie Doron's book by
the same title. The play exposes with black humor the relationship
between a daughter who was born in Israel and her mother, a
Holocaust survivor. The performances will be followed by questions
and answers from the audience.
Reception will follow
Between Three Identities:
Woman, Israeli, Writer
(Wednesday, November 19)
Usdan University Center, Room 108, 8pm
The acclaimed Israeli writer Judith Katzir will present her path in
writing from the first stories that were written in the late
eighties and gathered into the collection Closing the Sea to
her latest novel Dearest Ann.
Reception will follow
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