The end of February and beginning of March bring with them the start of the not-so-long-awaited spring. Jerusalem won’t have much thawing to do, though – not only because of the less than wintry conditions of the past few months, but because the city has always been hot, with tons of fun events every week. Like this upcoming week, for example.
- Before sharav heat wave conditions set in yet again, Colony is still holding its weekly winter concert series. This Thursday, it’s building material-cum-house band Jerusalem Stone rocking out.
- Hatza’atzua is a favorite Jerusalemite venue for hosting raging birthday parties, so when it is the bar’s own birthday, you know it’s on. The celebrations continue Friday with special drink deals, multiple DJs, and special gifts from the birthday bar to you.
- On Saturday night, adult rocker Yehudit Ravitz (pictured) returns to Jerusalem for a show at Hama’abada with new songs. Although pop music has evolved considerably in the past generation, the classics are timeless, as Ravitz recently conveyed in a bit for local sketch comedy franchise Eretz Nehederet.
- Theodore Adorno famously said that to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. And yet, several survivors have turned their experiences in the Holocaust into creative works, flipping Adorno’s statement on its head. Yad Vashem is displaying artwork from survivors until April, as part of an exhibit titled Virtues of Memory.
- American pop stars and Brazilian soccer players aren’t the only ones who get to go around with one name. Singer Inbal, who has teamed up with Boaz Sharabi in the past, hosts Kfir Epstein for a special night of music at the Yellow Submarine on Monday.
- Bring in March on Tuesday with some hot dance moves from the Antonio Gades Dance Company, headed to the International Convention Center as part of a tour marking the 75th anniversary of Gades’ birth in Elda, Spain. The show includes Flamenco Suite, a showcase of the style’s dynamics as developed by Gades in the 1960s, and Blood Wedding, which Gades first adapted from a Lorca-penned theater piece for a 1981 film by Carlos Saura.
- If, like Yehudit Ravitz, you’re into tweeny-bopper pop music but can’t stand the bubblegum singers themselves, head down to the Yellow Submarine Wednesday for a concert by supergroup project The Last Generation, featuring Kelly Clarkson’s guitarist, Hillary Duff’s drummer and more local talent.
Check out the full events section for everything else happening this week and beyond.
