I can pretend the house is a shipwreck (Shira Stav)
A dialogue between Hebrew poetry and the exhibition "At home: the abode of love and anxieties". Free entry with advance registration!
Home songs are a source of comfort and also reflect storm; Sometimes safe land, sometimes a shipwreck and sometimes both together. Throughout the day we will peek into some literary houses, against the background of and while talking with the works of the exhibition.
- 10:00 a.m. Tour of the "Earthly Sun Revolve" exhibition
- 10:30 white roses and the smell of bleach
Poets read from their work poems about home and domesticity: the home on its beams and walls and the characters that appear and disappear in it. With participation: Yoram Verta, Chaya Levy, Orit Mittal, Mittal Nissim, Yonatan Konda. - Music: Amir Lev
- 12:00 How is it called that I receive letters from home and the home is not there?
A cover-to-cover reading of the poem "The House", one of the masterpieces of the poet Avot Yeshuron. In the twilight of his days, the poet looks at the house across the street, which is in the midst of a renovation process. The poem accompanies the renovation process, out of sympathy with the house's refusal to be renovated. At the event, poets and researchers will read the poem from beginning to end and talk about Yeshuron's unique poetics.
With the participation of: Roy Greenwald, Halit Yeshuron, Omer Waldman, Lilach Lachman.
- 12:00 The words are a figure of speech
The poet Amir Menshoff and the artist Hila Spitzer in conversation about diary-documentary art, about the house and the role of observation and the gaze in literature and painting.
- 13:30 If we were a curtain: a writing workshop led by Amir Menschoff
A writing workshop that touches a delicate, careful and distant touch on the unspeakable. We will approach non-binding and free writing as much as possible precisely about what is more difficult to deal with now, we will seek to touch the feelings and articulate the end of a thought, from the inner space, of the home, of the thought of the heart.
The independent book fair in Haifa
The literary collective, a place for poetry and the Haifa city museum are happy to invite you and yours to the independent book fair in Haifa for two days of book stands of the best independent publishers, literary events for adults and children, music performances and more!