"The Global Climate Scream" in the Oasis Art Gallery

What better way to open an exhibit on global climate change than to host a morning of workshops and activities for the sixth-grade classes in the primary school? While actively engaging in recycling and nature-based projects in the courtyard of the Oasis Art Gallery, the children internalized a lesson about their future on a changing planet and their ability to take action.

The kids are already into recycling used materials into art, thanks to Polly Fernhout Soffer, a recycled-art specialist who is a volunteer teacher at the school one day a week. Artists whose work features in the exhibit The Global Climate Scream were there: In addition to Polly, there were Andres Gurwicz, an artist and school art teacher, Nihad Dabeet, a Ramle sculptor who works in iron wire, Michal Mozes , who works with recycled materials, and Alex Erez. The sixth-grade teachers Raida Aiashe Khatib and Hayim Avisror were on hand, as well as Eitan Kremer and nature teacher Voltaire Shamshum.

For gallery curator Dyana Shaloufi Rizek, the exhibit is a call to action: “If we all take responsibility, rather than leaving our fate to the world’s leaders and greedy industrial giants, you and I can contribute to changing humanity’s future. Together, we’ll reduce the use of plastic, cans, fertilizers and toxic materials, petroleum, paper and cardboard ... We can defend trees and plant more of them around our homes ... We can unite to get our electricity provided from solar energy … We reject wars and the use of weapons that are destructive to people, houses, fields, soil, water and atmosphere.”

Shaloufi Rizek invites school groups, youth clubs, groups and individuals to visit the exhibit, through prior arrangement: +972-(0)54-7479430. Groups who are interested may also request a special workshop with recycled materials.