MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2000
18:30: VISIT AND RECEPTION AT THE ISRAEL MUSEUM
(Group A) - Green card holders

Transportation from the ICC at 18:15 and from the hotels as per schedule.

Participants will have the opportunity to tour the Israel Museum, which is the largest of Israel's museums and in fact fills the role of a national museum. The Museum integrates five different entities: The Bezalel Art Wing, the Bronfman Archaeological Wing, the Judaica and Jewish Ethnography Department, the Art Garden, the Shrine of the Book and the Youth Wing. Our reception will take place at the Billy Rose Art Garden, which houses an impressive collection of sculpture in a natural setting. Among other attractions, participants will visit the Shrine of the Book, which houses the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest biblical books in the world, and finds from the Bar Kokhba period.

Note: Please exchange your voucher at the Social Events Desk if you do not have a specified date for the museum visit.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2000
A limited number of tickets are still available for the following two events. Please apply to the Social Events Desk at the registration tent.

20:30 CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT PERFORMED BY THE JERUSALEM TRIO
At the Jerusalem Theatre (at 20 Marcus st.)

Programme:

D. Shostakovich: Trio in E minor Op. 67 no. 2

1. Andante
2. Allegro con brio
3. Largo
4. Allegretto

A. Dvorak: Trio for Piano Violin and Cello OP.90

1. Lento Maestoso
2. Andante
3. Andante Moderato
5. Allegro
6. Lento Maestoso

The Jerusalem Trio has established a major international carreer based on its thoughtful and passionate music-making. This award-winning young piano trio has thrilled audiences in the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, Israel, Australia, South America, New Zealand, and beyond. Winners of the first prize at the 1999 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, they were also prize winners at the 1995 Melbourne International Competition and have won, as individuals, American-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship Awards. They have performed in such prestigious concert halls as Avery Fisher Hall in New York's Lincoln Center, the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, and the Melbourne Symphony Hall in Australia. All members of the Jerusalem Trio are faculty members of the Rubin Academy at the Jerusalem Hebrew University.

The Trio Members are:

Yaron Rosenthal (Piano)
Roi Shiloah (Violin)
Ariel Tushinsky (Cello)

Tickets: $20 per person

OR

21:00 ANAPHASE
Batsheva Dance Company (at the ICC)

Anaphase is Batsheva's most highly acclaimed dance show with singing, film, magical lighting, explosive percussion and music by the like of Aaron Copland, Iannis Xenakis and Arvo Part and includes 30 performers who are young, passionate and marvellously supple with agile plasticity evident from the beginning.

Tickets: $30 per person

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2000
20:30: VISIT AND RECEPTION AT THE ISRAEL MUSEUM
(Group B) - yellow card holders

For details see MONDAY
Transportation from the hotels as per transportation schedule.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2000
13:15 CLOSING CEREMONY (Hall A)
followed by a
FAREWELL PARTY