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Red Lounge „Born in Deir Yassin“ – April 8, 2018

Striving to present and reflect on different narratives in Israel and Palestine, the Willy Brandt Center, in cooperation with the Israeli NGO Zochrot, presented the multi-award winning film „Born in Deir Yassin“. The movie features the history and development of Deir Yassin, a former Arab village close to Jerusalem which was conquered by the Jewish […]

Red Lounge: Mulu and Tsegay – March 14, 2018

On March 14th we hosted children from the Ben Yehuda School in Jerusalem at the center. Together, we watched the puppet show “Mulu and Tsegay” performed by Shaharit Yerushalmi and Moria Ben Avot. The performance was based on a children’s book written by Tamar Verete-Zehavi and Ronit Rosenthal and published by Kinneret Publishing in 2014. […]

Falken Delegations & Archiv Arbeiterjugend visits

The Easter holidays are always a busy time for the Willy Brandt Center. This year, Falken delegations from Baden Wurttemberg, Hessen and Berlin, as well as from the Archiv der Arbeiterjugend (Working Youth Archive), visited the center to learn more about the cooperation of the IFM-SEI (International Falcon Movement – Socialist Educational International) movements in […]

New Project Coordinator for “Social Art”

Petra Klose is an Austrian-Czech cultural manager who was initially drawn to Jerusalem by a music festival taking place in Israel and Palestine in 2007. From the very first moment, she was fascinated by the many colors, the immense cultural richness and the uncountable number of fascinating stories from Jerusalem’s past and present. Over the […]

Narratives of Longing – March 12-19, 2018

Five days, eight nations and one show. Twelve young people between the ages of 19 and 22 came together in Jerusalem and Berlin to set up a performance called “Narratives of Longing”, using approaches such as ethnology, fine arts, performance and video-making. After a week in Jerusalem in November, they met again in Berlin for […]

Narratives of Longing in Berlin

Performance of young artists from Berlin & Jerusalem Saturday, March 17, 20:00 Theater Expedition Metropolis Ohlauer Strasse 41, 10999 Berlin (Kreuzberg) In November 13 young people from Berlin and Jerusalem came together in the WBC and practiced for a performance about “longing”. “What do you long for?” was the leading question young adults between the […]

International Women’s Day 2018

On 8th March 2018 we are still having to fight for equal rights for everyone regardless of gender. The WBC in Jerusalem has been working for more than twenty ye…ars with our partners to strengthen the political role of women in society. Without equal rights for men and women, there will be neither social justice […]

Holot Theatre Group performes „One Love“ at the WBC

Nesamama (“One Love”) by Hannah Bernstein A performance by the Holot Theatre Group, based on real-life experiences, was the latest event of the Red Lounge hosted in WBC on 27th of January. A composition of Asylum seekers and Israelis, who initially started working in the Holot Detention Camp in the Negev Desert presented the challenges […]

Intercultural Project “Narratives of Longing” in Jerusalem and Berlin

In November young artists  from Berlin and Jerusalem came together in Jerusalem. They arrived with distinctive backgrounds of five different nations and are trained in fields  such as ethnology, fine arts, performance and videomaking. Together they started working on a performance about „longing“ The project will continue in March 2018 in Berlin. „Narratives of longing“ […]