"If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve significance as human beings.

Dialogue is thus an existential necessity."

                          - Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Opressed

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A time to keep silence is a listening event, for which SEDEK invited sound artists to submit original quadrophonic pieces,

dealing with the concept of dialogue.

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The event included pieces by Ensemble Musica Nova, Talia Amar, Guy Fleisher, Lee Gilboa, Hagai Izenberg, Daniella Ljungsberg, Doron Paris, Shapir Sharon & Eilon Cohen,

and Assaf Shatil .

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The event took place on September 1st, at SEDEK's studio in Alliance House, Jerusalem.

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Curators: Gidon Levy and Ilan Barkani