About Musrara Mix

Musrara Mix is a multi-disciplinary international event held in the Musrara neighborhood of Jerusalem since 2000, initiated and produced by the Musrara, the Naggar School of Art and Society. Musrara Mix serves as a focal point for artistic and social events that embody the cultural and political essence of Jerusalem in particular, and of Israel in general, while engaging with a central alternating theme each year.

Musrara Mix 2025: How to Get Out of the Loop

To get out of the loop we have to ramble.
Switch between languages.
Explore different cultures and ways of life.
Extricate our thought from the arsenal of available possibilities.
Defamiliarize things so we can get to know them anew.
The movement in the “wandering” space is not an axial or linear movement, but rather a curious meandering, without boundaries and in all directions. A continuous oscillation at varying frequencies, which leaves traces and at the same time collects impressions. The act of wandering breaks down the familiar, strips the journey off values ​​of starting point and destination, and reveals hidden spaces.
Ordinarily, the Canada House, which houses Musrara – The Naggar Multidisciplinary School of Art and Society, “drifts” between its various functions as a community center that hosts afternoon and evening classes, an adult day center, a youth center, offices, and an art school. Each of the communities that use the building has its own sound, rhythm, and scale, creating a complex harmony. Evidence of these different uses can be found in every corner: office-classroom-meeting room-studio-reception desk-recording studio. During the festival, the building’s spaces are taken over and transformed into temporary exhibition venues. And so, the meeting room has turned into a breathing workshop boutique, and the classrooms are now noise pavilions and an opera hall. The hallway, corridors, stairs, and elevator, which usually serve as generators of transition, from place to place, are reformulated as a “non-place,” a place of lingering and pause. The works featured in the festival are a type of traveling shows. Rest stops that provide solace and allow one to continue. They are fleeting in nature, like a melancholy tourist spectacle, a traveling circus tent.

Credits

Festival Team

Festival director & chief curator: Avi Sabag Sharvit
Artistic director and Festival curator: Roy Menachem Markovich 
Festival steering committee: Ayelet Hashahar Cohen, Avi Sabag Sharvit, Amir Bolzman, Tali Romem, Yaki Ayalon
Production director: Yaki Ayalon
Technical director: Tomer Azulay
Production: Yali Reichert Mor
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MusraraSonics:

Technical director – The Panther Hall: Ron Sheskin
Advisor to technical director: Ori Kadishay
Lighting design: Tamir Tubul
Sound: Eyal Nachtomi
Stage manager: Ilan Barkani
Technical direction – Studio: Alexei Sudofsky, Nimrod Ben Menachem, Michel Marushkin
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External relations and partnerships: Dana Shahar
Head of educational programs: Hagar Raban
Students coordinator: Hila Ben Hamo
Office manager: Maya Cohen
Technical team: Omer Goldberg, Mordi Klein, Koko Deri
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Head of the New Music Department: Amir Bolzman
Head of the Visual Communication Department: Guy Goldstein
Head of the New Media Art Department: Dor Zelkha Levi 
Head of the Phototherapy Department: Vered Rahat
Musrara Galleries Director: Ayelet Hashahar Cohen
Musrara Gallery exhibition curator: Tali Romem
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Digital Lab: Udi Assaf, Rafi Wolach, Uri Bareket
JerusaLab: David Lockard
Archive and library: Maya Asher
Marketing, social, and branding: Studio Rosetta
Public relations: Mira Ann Beinart 
Graphic design: Avi Bohbot
Motion for Graphic Design: Daniel Nahum
Website development: Taya Sourikov
Targeting: Avihai Rosenberg
Texts copyediting and translation: Maya Shimony