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1st Israeli Origami Convention - March 2004
Special guest: Tomoko Fuse

Thursday 18th March - Saturday 20th March 2004
Kibbutz Ein Gedi, on the Dead Sea
(the lowest point on the earth's surface).

We are delighted to announce that Tomoko Fuse will visit Israel from March
16th to 28th, 2004, as the the guest of the Israeli Origami Center.

The public focus of her visit will be a large retrospective exhibition of
her work at a municipal gallery in Tel Aviv.

The focus for origami enthusiasts will be a weekend convention at a kibbutz
on the Dead Sea, attended by many Israeli and Palestinian origami
enthusiasts. International visitors are also cordially invited to attend!

We hope that some of you can come to this unique event, set in a unique
landscape.

Here are the convention details:

CONVENTION VENUE

Where?: Kibbutz Ein Gedi, on the Dead Sea (the lowest point on the earth's
surface). For more information about the venue, please visit
http://www.greenhotels.co.il/ein-gedi.cfm

When?: Friday 19th March - Sunday 21st March 2004, though guests may also
stay before and/or after the convention, at the same special room rate.

For those interested in enjoying the desert landscape around the Dead Sea,
March is the best time of year to visit. The spectacular Spring desert
flowers
will still be in bloom and the temperature will be a pleasant 25-28C.
For more information about the Dead Sea, please visit:
http://www.deadsea.co.il/

CONVENTION PROGRAMME
The programme includes workshops with Fuse
san and with other featured participants, discussions,
much impromptu folding, a reception dinner on Friday night and surely a lot
of silliness.

A convention room is available for our continual use from Friday morning to
Sunday morning, and an open exhibition will be held.
For those interested in exhibiting your models, please use our labels.

We will also have an origami book and paper store.

On Friday afternoon we will have a fun origami competition in the Dead Sea.
A special feature on Saturday morning (for those up to it) will be a journey
to the nearby cliff-top fortress of Massada to see the spectacular sunrise.
We hope to sponsor the attendance of 10 Israeli and 10 Palestinian children
(donations towards costs are welcome).

There will be a small charge to attend the convention, to cover the cost of
a convention pack of useful goodies.

To the full convention programme

SECURITY
The Dead Sea is very isolated and accessible only by one road, which means
that the region is SAFE. A bus travels directly from Ben Gurion
International Airport (the safest airport in the world) to the Dead Sea
hotels,
including to the kibbutz.
The Kibbutz has a security fence and a guarded entrance.
If you wish to travel in Israel before the convention, or wish to stay after
the convention to participate in other events (such as the official opening
of Fuse san's exhibition on the 24th, or to visit some of the many schools
where the IOC teaches origami), you should consult first with Miri Golan,
especially if you have no family here to advise you regarding the booking of
hotels
and making travel arrangements inside Israel. There are certain 'do's' and
'don'ts' and we are keen to advise you to ensure you have a relaxing trip
...and also to save you money!

For Christmas 2001, Miri Golan and Paul Jackson of the Israeli Origami Center
were invited to the 'Megastores' Shopping Mall in Den Haag, Holland
to run public origami workshops under the world's largest origami Christmas tree.
The event was organised by the events team of Ria Wiggers and Jeroen
Hilhorst, known collectively as 'Kleine Kunst'.

The tree was 18m tall and was covered with 10,000 origami decorations and models made by thousands of people from Holland and other countries, including Israel.
This was the largest origami Christmas tree ever made, a fact verified by the Guinness Book of Records.
The decorations were placed on the tree by a team of mountaineers, spectacularly hanging from the roof for more than two weeks on a complicated system of ropes.

The Tree was officially opened on December 22nd 2001,
and dismantled on January 6th 2002.
To meet safety regulations, all the decorations had been sprayed with a fire-proof material, and so had to be destroyed when the tree was dismantled.

Miri and Paul greatly enjoyed their Christmas experience in Holland -- the warmth of the people during this family Festival, the millions of Christmas lights and decorations everywhere and the beautiful snow.

Paul Jackson - A sculptor by training, is a creative artist, who utilizes the basic tools
of the traditional Japanese origami art, as a tool for personal, unique and contemporary creations.
Paul has been practicing origami personally for 20 years.
The way he works turnes the art of origami into a modern art, of designing paper by folding.
His new created forms are original, of a sculpted nature.
During his career, Paul has written 24 books on paper art (translated to many languages),
has taught in well over 120 different courses in design and art universities in Britain, Europe
and in the USA, and visited many countries, including Japan, to meet other paperfolders.
These days, Paul is also teaching at the Shenkar design college.
Paul's folded sculptures has been exhibited around the world, and are included in many private
collections.

Paul Jackson describes his folded sculptures as 'organic abstracts'. They are based on observed
natural forms such as shells, seeds, funghi and bacteria. The method of folding copies the way
such forms grow or ‘unfold’ – both begin as a tight balls which expand to create the final form when
part of one sheet slides past another sheet, following the genetic or folded coding.
Each piece is made from one uncut rectangle of paper, coloured with dry pastel and sealed with varnish.
They take between 4,000 and 6,000 manipulations to complete.

Paul's first exhibition in Israel takes place at the IOS gallery - 55 Ben Gurion Av. Haifa (Tel. 04-8507504).
During the dates: 24/03 - 01/05
Opening hours:
Sun-Thu: 10:00-14:00
Fri: 10:30-13:00

Paul Jackson:
Email - paperart@netvision.net.il
Website - www.origami-artist.com

An exhibition of the Kfar-Saba municipal library
in co-operation with the embassy of Japan in Israel

6.3.2001 - 19.3.2001

The exhibition includes a selection of Japanese childrens' literature,
as well as an origami exhibition, prepared by the Israeli Origami center.

In addition, origami workshops will be held at the library, on Sunday and monday.

The exhibition is opened to the public: 9:00-12:00, 15:00-19:00
Fridays: 9:00-12:00

Address: Sapir house - 33 Jerusalem st. Kfar-Saba.

From the origami exhibits:

The exhibits are origami illustrations of the pictures in the
Japanese books:

From the opening event

A general view of the exhibition

An exhibition of origami books

Miri demonstrates folding the crane, to the sounds of Einat's flute.

Miri uses origami to tell the story: "Grandma's yellow umbrella"


"Coil" Height: 125mm		"POD" & "Blue Opening" Heights: 150mm, 125mm