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Feb 19
Alternative Narratives in Israeli Art: Gender, Identity, and Belonging
Los Angeles, CA
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Feb 26
Ultra-Orthodox Women through Social and Legal Lenses
Princeton, NJ
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Feb 26
"Oslo" Producation and Panel Discussion
St. Louis, MO
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Top Israeli screenwriter to teach at San Diego State
February 15, 2019 -
Israeli screenwriter and filmmaker Ronit Weiss-Berkowitz will teach at San Diego State University during the spring 2019 semester, thanks to the Visiting Israeli Artists Program. Watch Ronit speak about her experience with KUSI News.
Kusi News
Interview, Video - Arts & Culture
From life to dance: Israeli choreographer spending spring semester teaching at IU
February 9, 2019 -

During the spring semester, Shadur is teaching in Indiana University’s department of theater and contemporary dance. Based in Tel Aviv, she came to Bloomington as part of the Visiting Israeli Artists Program, which brings artists from various disciplines to North America for residencies.

The Hoosier Times
Article - Arts & Culture
2019 Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
January 22, 2019 -

Israel Institute Visiting Artist Yael Rasooly (Spring 2019, Trinity College, Hartford) joins Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival founder Blair Thomas for a WBEZ 91.5 Chicago radio interview on puppetry and the international festival.

WBEZ Chicago
Interview, Radio/Podcast - Arts & Culture
Puppet Theater Festival Explodes the Boundaries of Classic Art Form
January 22, 2019 -

"And then, at the Chopin Theatre, there was “Paper Cut,” ingeniously imagined and exuberantly performed by Yael Rasooly, the multi-talented Israeli actress, comedienne, singer and cut-paper artist possessed of a phenomenal talent for capturing male and female voices and a slew of accents."

WTTW Chicago
Article - Arts & Culture
How to speak puppet — and 5 types you'll meet at Chicago's International Puppet Fest
January 17, 2019 -

In “Paper Cut,” from Israeli theater artist Yael Rasooly, at the Chopin Theatre Jan. 18-20, a secretary (Rasooly) falls after-hours into a Hollywood daydream, which Rasooly brings to life through the clever manipulation of old stills of movie stars, using masks and paper dolls and tear-away sheets to create a Hitchcockian suspense tale (with a little “Gaslight” tossed in).

The Chicago Tribune
Article, Event - Arts & Culture
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