On the occasion of the International Artists Day on October 25th, the Willy Brandt Center wanted to highlight culture\u2019s contributions to society in challenging times, and to celebrate all the ways in which artists bring their own special view to life.<\/p>\n
We introduced the project „Jerusalem and Europe – Visions for a World of Tomorrow“, a collection of essays and short stories by writers and scholars from Israel, the Palestinian Territories and Europe, inspired by Stefan Zweig’s\u00a0The World of Yesterday<\/em>.\u00a0Hanno Loewy, scolar, writer and director of the Jewish Museum in Hohenems, read his text\u00a0\u201cThe Tale of the\u00a0\u2018Christian-Jewish Occident\u2019\u201d,\u00a0which was part of this project. He also gave insights into an exhibition that has recently\u00a0opened at the Jewish Museum Hohenems, titled \u201cThe Last Europeans\u201d which.<\/p>\n Israeli bassoon player Nadav Cohen presented a premier broadcast of the piece \u201cFour Character Pieces‘ for bassoon solo, by the Jerusalem-based composer Sergiu Shapira.\u00a0A prominent contributor to the local contemporary music scene, Cohen is a founding member and producer of the Tel Aviv Wind Quintet, and a member of the award-winning Meitar Ensemble, in which he also serves as a faculty member of the „Tedarim“ program for contemporary music at\u00a0the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Cohen spoke to the audience about the challenging situation artists are facing during the Corona pandemic, and the many creative ways artists try to cope with it and reach out to their audience.<\/p>\n Following Cohen\u2019s presentation, Johanna Lonsky, an Austrian cinema and theatre actress working for the BBC and ORF, read the text \u201cAlmost Staying\u201d by Julya Rabinowich, which was also a part of the \u201cJerusalem and Europe \u2013 Visions for the World of Tomorrow\u201d project, commissioned in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum Tel Aviv. Lonsky called for solidarity among fellow artists, in order to support each other and to always be aware that we are in this situation together.<\/p>\n We\u00a0were\u00a0delighted to welcome an international audience to this event,\u00a0among them the journalist Pamela Hickman who wrote on her concert critique blog: „Viewing the Willy Brandt Center’s event, one was reassured that the creative spirit is not easily repressed!“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the occasion of the International Artists Day on October 25th, the Willy Brandt Center wanted to highlight culture\u2019s contributions to society in challenging times, and to celebrate all the ways in which artists bring their own special view to life. We introduced the project „Jerusalem and Europe – Visions for a World of Tomorrow“, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n