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“When you say Tzavta, you say Israeli progressive culture”
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Tzavta is well known in Israel as a center for progressive culture. In three halls with a total capacity of 1000 seats, year round Tzavta presents concerts, theatre, panels and public discussions. Some of the best-known Israeli artists made their debut performances on the Tzavta stage, and see Tzavta as their home. Tzavta serves as a cultural bridge between different streams of Israeli society, and in addition provides a permanent forum for discussions on various topics effecting society. Tzavta has already staged many successful festivals and public events supported by foreign sponsors, such as the “Culture of Peace Festival” and Havatzelet's project, “Pillars of Peace”.
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 | | Gila Almagor |
Tzavta
The Tzavta (Hebrew for “together”) theater and cultural center was founded by the poet Avraham Shlonski in 1958 as a modern culture club. Over the course of time, the club developed into a self-sufficient cultural center that has become one of the leading cultural institutions in Israel, due to the quality of its programs and its professional management.
Above all, Tzavta is a cultural center. More than 100 cultural events, from musical concerts, theater, cabaret and reading programs to art exhibitions, are held here every month. The country’s best artists - musicians, writers, poets - come and go here in a continuous stream: Shlomo Artzi, Nurit Gal Ron, Yossi Banai and Nathan Zach are only a few of them.
But Tzavta also offers a forum for political and social topics. The leading figures in Israel’s leadership, politics and journalism take part in numerous debates, ranging from home affairs and foreign policy through Jewish-Arab relations and up to religion and human rights, so that the participants can discuss with each other and with the audience the subjects that form the Israeli agenda.
The success speaks for itself: about 150,000 people visit the Tzavta theater every year. They prove that the club’s self-assessment is correct: Tzavta is the moving alternative spirit in culture, art and political discourse - in Tel Aviv and for the whole of Israel.
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