Past Workshops
Creative Writing Workshop for Women at Risk / Keren Cohen-Israeli
In 2022, the Sholem Asch House hosted a writing workshop led by Keren Cohen-Israeli, for women who experienced domestic violence. The workshop was held as part of MoBY’s collaboration with the Welfare Department of Bat Yam Municipality. At the end of the workshop, the texts were displayed in an exhibition at City Hall alongside documentation of the sessions (photo: Shiraz Grinbaum). The project was made possible for the third year with the support of the BFAMI foundation and in collaboration with the Welfare Department of Bat Yam Municipality.
In 2019, the Sholem Asch House received a grant from Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts in support of creative writing workshops for different populations in Bat Yam. The Sholem Asch House held three different workshops between 2020–2021.
Hand Writing / Nino Biniashvili
Immigration stories writing and illustration workshop for Bat Yam residents led by artist Nino Biniashvili.
Nino Biniashvili, an artist and illustrator whose work explores migration experiences, led a practical art and text workshop at the Sholem Asch House, for people who wished to share migration stories – either their own stories or of their loved ones. In the workshop, the participants got to know various types of biographical writing, examined their own life and immigration stories, and learned to recount them in surprising and poetic ways. The participants practiced different book and booklet binding techniques and created a handmade booklet that shared their personal migration story.
“The workshop with Nino Biniashvili was illuminating, she opened for me as a participant a window into the connection between art and literature, and a new, different and creative view of writing.”
Sharona Butenaro
Home Writing / Yonatan Raz Portugali
In between Covid-19 lockdowns, writer Yonatan Raz Portugali led a practical workshop at the Sholem Asch House, which offered a fresh examination of the place that is the most familiar to us – our home. Each week, the participants completed observation and writing tasks centered on their homes and neighborhoods. Reading and talking about the stories, their conversations often veered into more abstract themes like memory, childhood, intimacy, and neighborly relationships. The participants experienced different writing techniques and styles. At the end of the workshop, we printed a small booklet compiling a selection of short stories that were written in it.
