add to calendar
6.6.24
Thursday
20:00

Tiny Death | Meital Raz

“I want you to know that my mother and I have the exact same hands. Feminine but rough, with very dry skin, and nails that grow long and strong. My Grandma Gracia had them too, and my daughter got them as well. 
I want you to know that with our hands we can do many things: cut vegetables straight over the pot, braid a quick braid, caress, scratch, pinch really hard, and also do theatre shows. We can instill characters in them and also travel with them to different places. 
I want you to know that in this show, you will see my hands, and hear my voice, I will bring you into my house and into my head.
I want you to come and stay afterwards to talk, because we are alive.”

Created and performed by: Meital Raz
Director and dramaturgy: Yael Biegon Citron

Created as part of the Akko Festival, with support from Mifal Hapais. Approx. 45 mins.

Stagetalk: Following the show, a conversation with creator Meital Raz – comic, puppeteer, actor, creator and performer of the Yasminish character in the production of “Michael”. Winner of the Gold Porcupine award.

“She takes death and life in the palm of her hand, as in an expression, and turns them into a game full of surprises and healthy emotion (an element that is usually not addressed in theatre). And this mental health in the play is, above all, the sensitivity to others and the ability to love. It is sensitive and moving, and full of life.” Nano Shabtai, Haaretz
 

More Events

Events More

16.3
Monday
20:00

Illusion: The Placebo Effect and Illusions as an Active Ingredient, a meeting with Prof. Asya Rolls

The second meeting in a new series – dialogues with researchers who have written essays on various aspects of illusion in their fields of research, as appeared in the 2026 edition of ‘Poetry of Science’, a periodical published once a year concurrently with the Weizmann Institute’s annual Ofer Lider prize for encouraging creative writing among scientists award ceremony. The editor of ‘Poetry of Science’ is Idan Barir, a translator of poetry and prose from Portuguese, Arabic, English, and Turkish.


“The neural networks involved in positive expectations, those that incite a sense of hope, satisfaction, and motivation, are not limited to the mental realm. They influence the entire body, activate the immune system, and stimulate healing processes. Placebos, in this sense, serve as a portal to understanding the power of the brain to shape a physiological reality – how thought or faith can stimulate actual biological mechanisms.” (Prof. Asya Rolls)


The placebo effect is a phenomenon in which a patient receives a sham treatment, but the brain and the immune system are stimulated into performing an actual healing process. 


Prof. Asya Rolls in a dialogue with Idan Barir, on the potential of understanding the relationship between body and soul, the extent to which physical reality can be based on illusions created in the brain, and the role of faith and hope in the healing process.
Prof. Asya Rolls – Researcher at the School for Neurobiology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics at Tel Aviv University’s Life Sciences Faculty.

 

Sponsored by the Berginsky Center for the Interface between Science and Humanities
 


Schedule:
16/2 Travels to the Past as Deceptive Illusion, with Prof. Avner Wishnitzer
16/3 The Placebo Effect, with Prof. Asya Rolls
18/5 The Psychedelic Renaissance, with Prof. Shaul Lev-Ran