we invites you to the mid-project event of The Complete Jessy Cohen Museum
Wednesday, July 20
The Complete Jessy Cohen museum is a project by artists Effi and Amir, who are in a six-month residency at the Digital Art Center since April. It is a museum of a place, built by neighborhood residents in an attempt to capture the “place” in its broadest meaning, beyond the concrete-geographical one.
The project involved joint reflection and planning by Effi and Amir and a group of neighborhood residents, on both the museum design and its contents. It ranges between studies on various subjects related to Jessy Cohen’s past and present and the creation of exhibits together with various populations.
Prior to the tour, artist Rona Yefman will conduct a staged photography session to reconstruct old photographs together with neighborhood residents. The session will be held at 17:00 at Jessy Cohen Commercial Center on the corner of Ha'Tanaim and Ha'Amoraim streets, Holon.
18:15
Assembly and forewords by Effi and Amir
Digital Art Center, 4 Ha'Amoraim St.
18:30
Tour: A Symphony for Housing Projects and a Commercial Center
The tour leaves from the Center for Digital Art
Boaz Cohen tours the Jessy Cohen he grew up in during the 1960s and 70s. Cohen is a radio DJ, musician, author of Little Stories, Great Records and lecturer on contemporary culture. He was born and raised in Jessy Cohen, which plays center stage in his autobiographic book. In this special tour, he will take us to the streets, sounds and smells of his childhood, to the old commercial center, the houses, the people and hidden corners of Jessy Cohen, and read excerpts of Little Stories, Great Records on different stations of the tour.
19:30
What activates the activist?
Lazarus Community Center, 27 Ha'Sanhedrin St.
Rachel Polet and Tikva Sedes – key activists in Jessy Cohen’s renewal project, Erev Rav invites you to a talk with curators and artists working in Jessy Cohen, the Katamon neighborhoods, Wadi Nisnas or Arad, developing new models of artistic work inside neigborhoods, chalenging the common conceptions about the relationships between will talk about the neighborhood’s heyday and what it meant for them.
20:00
Old Jessy
Noah’s Ark Park (Gan Teivat Noah) on Shivat Zion (Ha'Tkuma) St.
At the heart of Jessy Cohen, beneath the public park, lies an ancient mound. What was Old Jessy, what can we know about it and what can we only imagine? Archeologist and researcher Dvory Namdar on finds found and made up stories.
20:30
Sangam – Homage to Cinema Ron
Digital Art Center, 4 Ha'Amoraim St.
Movie, soft drinks and lupines – open sky screening of the classic Indian film Sangam, included in the repertoire of Ron Cinema, active in the local commercial center from 1964-1980. The original projectionist Yossi Milstein will honor us with his presence.
The CDA's archives are operating with the support of the Ostrovsky Family Fund and Artis
