The opening of the exhibition will take place at the "Jaffa Museum of Antiquities", Sunday, 14.10.2007, at 20:00; The veteran astronaut, Prof. Jeffrey Hoffman, will arrive in Israel to open the Space Festival events
This coming Sunday, 14/10/2007, the Outer Space Festival will open at the Jaffa Museum of Antiquities.
Precisely in Old Jaffa, and also in the Jaffa Museum of Antiquities, which usually exhibits thousands of years old antiquities, the Society for the Development of Old Jaffa will hold during the month of October the "Outer Space Festival", which is taking place for the first year. The legendary Jewish-American astronaut, Prof. Jeffrey A. Hoffman, who flew into space on six different shuttle missions and was the first to spin a gyroscope in space, will come to Israel specifically to take part in the festival events.
The festival, which is designed to interest young and old in space exploration, as well as expose the Jaffa Museum of Antiquities to new audiences, will focus on art influenced by outer space - painting, cinema, and even music. As part of the festival, the museum will present a permanent exhibition, "Heaven and Earth", from the paintings of the Israeli painter Todor Bar, who paints inspired by the spectacular photographs of the "Hubble" space telescope, using a unique technique of painting with tar.
The opening of the exhibition will take place at the "Jaffa Museum of Antiquities", Sunday, October 14.10.2007, 20, at 00:XNUMX p.m. An hour before the opening, a special observation post will be set up in the museum plaza, where amateur astronomers will help the public to observe nearby celestial bodies through a telescope. At the end of the festive event, and the words of the astronaut Prof. Jeffrey A. Hoffman and the painter Tudor Bar, the pianist Atar Kedem will play Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata".
