One man’s junk is everyone’s treasure I An experiential art tour for the whole family

We all had our favorite toy as a child. The one we held in every childhood photograph, the one we used to snuggle with when we went to sleep, the one who was our best friend, that we played with for months and year on end until… one day, it went to toy heaven. Factory City saves these toys from oblivion by giving them another chance at life, and returning them to the child that still lives inside each of us.

Roaming the city, Itamar Shimshony and his team collect old toys and new volunteers from the city’s different neighborhoods, all in the pursuit of creating a factory – a factory that turns old toys into new works of art. Children of all ages are invited to come and follow the various stages of production, participate in the creation, add inspiration, and join in the healing. Factory City is a place where community cooperation, ecological thinking, creativity and a true desire to turn consumerism into recycling meet, all in order to create a small opening for new ideas to seep in.

The factory will be open to visitors of all ages throughout the days of the festival in The New Gallery Artists’ Studios at Teddy Stadium. The work process has also been curated into an exhibition of video and photographs, which will be waiting for you at the Ginogly Center for Visual Arts.

A Jerusalem Municipality Project – Department of Visual Arts with the support of the Jerusalem Foundation in partnership with the Israel Festival

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