Jerusalem Season of Culture

An award-winning, independent arts organization created in 2010 to be a strategic force for the renewal of Jerusalem as a more vibrant, pluralistic and creative city by creating innovative, city-specific content with world-class production standards Our flagship program is Mekudeshet, a contemporary culture festival unlike any other that reclaims Jerusalem’s greatest natural resource—its sacredness—and redefines it as a force for expanding common ground, pluralism and creativity through the transformative power of the arts. Year-round we use artistic tools to imagine Jerusalem’s acute social, cultural and political challenges as opportunities for novel thinking and action, producing experiences that showcase the potential of Jerusalem as an incubator for groundbreaking ideas that can change the world.