Bar-Kayma [Sustainability] for Culture, Art, Music and Peace is a non-profit organization which fosters art and culture initiatives in and from Jerusalem, we create a protected and supportive environment for the establishment and operation of group and multidisciplinary projects with the aim of establishing Jerusalem as a center for significant, contemporary and relevant creative endeavors for local culture and art, that stimulates discourse and connects people, communities and cultures.
Our Approach
We work to minimize the damage of bureaucracy on culture and art by sharing knowledge, establishing organizational infrastructures, and developing tools for independent and collaborative management, while providing administrative, production, legal, organizational, and marketing support.
Initiative managers join as members of the association, and receive support from the idea stage to establishing a stable, independent, and sustainable community, organizational, and economic model.
What we do
Each initiative operates as an independent unit operating in a closed and separate economy, in an organizational infrastructure that encourages collaboration, resources and knowledge. The association's infrastructure allows it to raise funding from diverse sources - receiving recognized donations according to Section 46A, receiving public support from the Ministry of Culture - about twenty supports in a variety of art fields, and from the Jerusalem Municipality, which supports seven of our institutions, (out of about a hundred in all of Jerusalem). Together, we maintain joint community, organizational and economic frameworks that encourage entrepreneurship and solidarity, and allow initiatives to establish themselves and flourish.
Today, we have over sixty initiatives operating with us, producing hundreds of events a year for an audience of tens of thousands of Jerusalem residents and visitors, and in a constantly changing reality, we continue to grow and develop communities and good spirits in and from the city.
Staff:
Noam Kuzar - General Director
Lidia Maletin - Project Institute Manager
Reinhard Sato - Artistic Advisor
Tali Bogen - Digital Infrastructure Development and Management
Dror Cna’ani - Bookkeeping
Gilboa Weisfish BDSK - Accounting
Moshe Weingarten - Internal Auditor
Bill the Robot and Lucy
Board of Directors:
Emiko Kojima
Nili Perelmuter
Nisim Mossek
Eyal Levit
Core Initiatives - Organizational, Economic and Community Infrastructure
The association's activities are based on core initiatives that provide each initiative with an organizational, economic and community framework, while promoting professional standards and policies in the field of culture.
The Bureau - Studio for Art and Bureaucracy
The Bureau provides a solution to all the bureaucratic needs of an artist or cultural entrepreneur, including support in building work plans, submissions and reports, access to a database of organizational templates and professional advice on legal, accounting, insurance or emotional support. :-)
There are also meetings, lectures, workshops and training programs, some of which participate in professional programs such as the Rothschild Foundation's Designers and Artists Program, the EVE's Hafakatarbut program, courses and programs for art school graduates, professional programs for independent artists and more
BanKayma [Sustain-a-bank] - Financial Infrastructure
BanKayma develops new economic models and organizational and digital infrastructures for collaborative, efficient and transparent financial management that that is based on community and trust.
As part of a global community of developing public and ethical digital and organizational infrastructures, we are developing a platform based on the adaptation and implementation of an open-source based system (OCA Odoo Community Assoc) and self-hosted and secure hosting (YunoHost). This allows us to spread our operating model for independent and efficient management of association's resources, ongoing contact with customers and suppliers, and an intra-organizational economy that encourages collaboration and shared resources, and destiny.
Jerusalemite - Video and Culture Fanzine
We believe in local and independent media as part of the community and cultural fabric Jerusalemite is a monthly video fanzine that reviews the activities of the dozens of organizations and groups operating within Bar-Kayma, and includes cultural centers and creative groups from a variety of backgrounds and media, as well as other artists, groups and organizations operating in the Jerusalem cultural field. The fanzine was live between 2019-2023
How to join us?
Our goal is to create a local arts and culture community that creates and is active on an ongoing basis and for the long term, while establishing Jerusalem as a national and international cultural center.
If you have an initiative in the fields of art, culture, music or peace, operating and based in Jerusalem or with an affiliation to it, you are invited to send information about the goals of the initiative and its members, an annual program and short and long-term goals, and we will be happy to schedule a meeting to examine compatibility.
We do not accept one-time, short-term or projects that are not based in, or have an affiliation to, the city and communities of Jerusalem, but we would be happy to hear from you in any case and see how we can collaborate.
Stay in Touch
If you want to stay updated and connected, you are welcome to follow us on social media, sign up for the newsletter below, visit the website and follow updates, initiatives, and events.
You are also welcome to visit the store, and if you have read this far and liked it, you’re invited to make a new or one-time donation here so that we can continue to build Jerusalem culture, below the surface and at the forefront of freedom of expression.
