Celebrate Special Purim Events All Around Israel

From performances by beloved celebrity kids' entertainers to classic children's theatre and a slew of artists workshops, Purim is full of fun cultural events for the whole family this year

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Time Out Israel Writers

Sunday March 17 2019

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Purim Events All Around Israel

Pirates © Shuttersrock

Netanya - Celebrating Purim with a Pirate Festival

There will be a crafting area where children can make various pirate shenanigans like ships, swords and more. Each child receives a kit, which he or she can take as a souvenir from the festival. The magnificent pirate photography complex includes a professional photographer and unlimited magnets.

Another exciting area is the Beauty Pirate, a complex that includes two areas where children can enjoy face painting and hairstyle design. During the activity, the children can enjoy artistic face painting and decorate their heads with colorful braids. There will also be a performance by Miri Tishiri.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIN18Pz1XgA- Oren Stalkall Photography

Free entrance. Thursday March 21, 12:00-18:00

Iryamim Mall, 2 Bnei Berman, Poleg, Netanya

Tel Aviv - Purim at the Israeli Opera with Alice in Wonderland

Music
Classical and opera
Tel Aviv - Jaffa

The Israeli Opera will perform the children's opera production "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" on Purim. It will be an entertaining operatic version of the classic Lewis Carroll novel in a special stage production for the whole family in Hebrew. The production was directed by Gadi Schechter, and as in all productions of the Israeli Opera, it combine stunning scenery and colorful costumes. During the opera, the children will join Alice's magical journey, where she falls into the belly of the earth and discovers eccentric figures, including the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Strange Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat and, of course, the ambitious Queen of Hearts.

Alongside this performance, there will be a festival at the Opera House with a variety of shows for the whole family, including circus, clowning, singing and dancing, and a wide open area for children with art stalls, a toddler complex and more, where admission is free.

Wednesday 20.3.19 at 11:00 and at 13:00.

The performances are for children ages 4-9

Ticket price for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: NIS 65

Available at the Israeli Opera office at 03-6927777 and on the Israeli Opera website www.israel-opera.co.il

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Kfar Saba - Geek Out at the OSHICON Festival

Bringing comics, gaming, and anime together, the OSHICON Festival is a fun-filled event featuring it all - including superheroes! It is Israel's local answer to the famed International Comic-Con convention. At the entrance to the festival, guests will be able to battle in a 'fighting arena' with swords where participants can learn to wield swords like medieval knights or the characters from "Games of Thrones." If what you've always wanted to know is how to draw comics like the great artists, Eran Aviani, who wrote a 'How To' comic book guide, will teach you the basics right then and there. Another interesting and intriguing workshop taking place is by the popular Youtuber Aviel Basin, founder of the largest YouTube gaming channel in Israel "Spicycrap".

During the festival, participants will be able to visit the FUNKO POP figures exhibition, featuring vinyl dolls of cute little characters from hundreds of films, series, computer games, bands, politicians and from comic books and anime. There will also be an unusual stand-up comedy show at the festival tapping into super geeky topics from all the related genres.

A "Geeks Festival" can't take place without a gaming complex. In the massive venue, there will also be PlayStation 4 areas with the newest and most popular games such as Fortnight, FIFA and Apex Legends - all ready to be played. You want to enter a different world? Head to the Virtual Reality universe where you can wear a VR headset and become part of the game.
If you love to dress up in costumes from the worlds of manga, comics and superheroes, this is the perfect opportunity to don your wildest garb or favorite character and take part in a costume competition with prizes.

Along with all the activities, a merchandise area will be set up with a variety of products from the genres, in a variety of stands that will offer games, costumes, gaming equipment and electronics, comic books, anime and pop culture, collectible dolls, shirts and board games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHKmSCq13_A

OSHICON, March 21-23, Thursday to Saturday. Open 10:00-20:00.

Entrance is free. Kfar Saba

https://oshiland.co.il/

Beer Sheva - Purim activities in the Negev Museums Complex

Museums
Art and design
Be'er Sheva

The Negev Museums in Beer Sheva will host several exhibition lectures and workshops of high quality artistic work: etching and engraving, weaving bags, a drawing workshop in charcoal, creating masks and more

Fun for the entire family and a variety of creative workshops correlating to the exhibits in the museum. Here are the workshops that will be hosted especially for Purim:

Wednesday, March 20

• Following famous artist Anna Ticho's works. Activities: collage creations, tracing works by Ticho with copy paper and adding dyes with watercolors and other materials.

• Embroidery in traditional Turkey and today - producing an embroidered bag. Activity: Weaving embroidery on plastic mesh using wool threads.

Thursday, March 21

• Masks and Art - Balloon Masks from Paper. Activity: Blowing up balloons and building masks with pieces of colored paper that are dipped in a special solution of water with glue.

• Symbols in Contemporary Turkish Art - Coal Drawing Workshop - Positive and Negative Drawing. Activity: a discourse on working with coal and drawing with coal.

Friday, March 22

• Following the exhibition "Roots and Growth" a work in paper derivatives. Activity: A workshop on paper cut-outs. Copying stencils and starting the cutting process. The cut-outs will be combined to create a three-dimensional work.

• Noam Rabinovitch's line research - creating with etching and collage. Activity: A workshop in etching and engraving, copying through engraving and adding water colored dyes to layers.

Purim activity in the museum complex: 20-22.03.19

The workshops will take place at 10:30 at the Negev Museum of Art and at 12:00 at the Museum of Islamic and Near Eastern Cultures. The workshops are provided with the purchase of a ticket to the museum and will change daily. Suitable for kids and youth aged 4-14.

They will be held at 11:15 and 12:45 and each workshop is conducted in two stations.

Payment for workshops:

For visitors of the museum - NIS 15, single-use ticket for a workshop

Without a ticket to the museum - NIS 25, single-use ticket for a workshop

Multi pass: NIS 50 - for one workshop a day for all three days

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Holon -The Adloyada: Israel's Biggest Carnival

Things to do
Events & Festivals

This year, with inspiration from the spirit of carnivals around the world, Adloyada will host a record number of 50 original art exhibits from fantasy worlds and 4,500 participants - making it the most rhythmic, colorful, craziest and happiest carnival in Israel. Holon's Purim Adloyada is warming up with different bands, acrobats, dancers, orchestras, street theaters, circus artists, roller skaters, dancers, more.

Tel Aviv - a special Purim event for kids at Beit Ariela

Things to do
Events & Festivals

A Purim event at Tel Aviv's Beit Ariela Library is inspired by the masterpiece Mary Poppins, by Pamela Travers Beit Ariela Library is getting festive with a special, colorful and imaginative activity for the whole family on the Israeli version of Halloween, Purim.

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Kiryat Ata, North Israel - Purim Carnival

This huge carnival brings the biggest kids' stars, magic shows, and arts and crafts stations - and it is all for free

Celebrate this joyous celebration in two whole days of colorful carnival events for the entire family with a main performance by Michal Weizman (Michal HaKtana), the biggest kid star in Israel, who will perform a special show including all the favorite kids songs. There will be more performances by children's stars Shai and Roy.

Clowns, dancers and balloons will welcome patrons at the entrance from the morning hours, offering a festive atmosphere of the Purim holiday. Magicians Gustavo and Click will perform a magic and telepathic show, and if you want to upgrade your costume, you can create special masks, weave braids and paste glittering tattoos. Throughout the day, patrons can walk through the performance pavilions and enjoy golf, darting, bowling, basketball, hockey and more.

Wednesday and Thursday, March 20-21, 11:00-19:00

Sha'ar Hatzafon Shopping Center, Kiryat Ata

Entrance is free, activities are free of charge

More details on the website and Facebook page of the mall