Recommendations for cooking and creative workshops and fascinating artist meetings that you can book in advance.
Cooking & Baking Workshops
Sweet Moments — Cooking & Baking Workshops & Home Hospitality — Yanuh-Jat
Nohad Bisan is a cook and confectioner who hosts groups, couples, and families from all over the country in the courtyard of her home in the picturesque Druze settlement of Yanuh-Jat for unique baking workshops as well as for tasting desserts of spectacular beauty and handmade delicacies, in front of a Galilean landscape. The baking workshops include making traditional cookies as well as traditional foods such as stuffed dishes, mansaf, mujaddara, and more!
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Ya’arit — The Art of Taste — Moreshet, Misgav
Enjoy a variety of baking workshops with Ya’arit, at her cozy home at Moreshet in Misgav. It is possible to book a workshop for unique places throughout the Galilee such as wineries, dairies, and even your own home!
You are invited to a fascinating journey into the world of baking where you will learn to bake pastries, cakes, cookies, bread, and traditional goodies. The workshops are kosher.
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Adush — Food Workshops & Experiences — Kibbutz Beit HaEmek
Adush is Adi Shmuel’s business — her heart and soul. Adush offers a unique culinary experience through food and hospitality workshops held in Adi’s warm and cozy home in Kibbutz Beit HaEmek. Adush provides a variety of options such as stuffed dishes and baking workshops, alongside family bonding workshops for all ages. Most workshops include breakfast and/or lunch to complete the experience.
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Kurdish Cooking Workshop with Shula From Shtula — Hoshaya
You are invited to enjoy Shula Giladi’s extensive knowledge of the secrets of Kurdish cooking and her captivating wisdom of life.
Shula offers a variety of workshops on Kurdish cuisine such as the stuffed dishes workshop, kubbeh workshop, or Jalebi workshop. Alongside the workshop, you will also enjoy a rich lunch, at the end of which Shula will tell her moving story. The duration of the workshop is around 3 hours.
Child-Friendly
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Coffee Workshop with Genadi Kozakevich at the Ishu Cafe — Eshhar, Misgav
Come and stay with Genadi at his home in the wonderful town of Eshhar. Genadi, who is also a tour guide by profession, will welcome you with a bottle of wine and an explanation of the place, you will taste the house dishes of the local cuisine and everyone will receive a cup of coffee of their choice. Together we will dive into the world of coffee – and hear about its history, different and strange coffee machines, demonstrations of coffee-making options, acquaintances with the beans, and especially lots of stories, smells, and fine coffee!
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Workshops for the Whole Family
Adush’s Family Bake & Bond Workshop in Kibbutz Beit HaEmek
Experiential baking workshop for parents and children. In the workshop, you will bake together a number of sweet and savory pastries that both adults and children love so much. You will take the products home with you… if you don’t finish them on the way home!
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Visit & Workshop at the Omanya Leather Studio — Kibbutz Afek
Located on Kibbutz Afek is Eldad Bahar’s creative space, a place he founded to make his art – fine leather items.
At his beautiful studio, he teaches and instructs groups, organizations, and families.
During the workshop, each participant learns creative and flattening techniques to turn the natural raw material into a usable product of their choice, such as hairpins, purses, shoes, bags, and more!
Omanya also has a store where different products made by Eldad are available for purchase, such as bags, wallets, shoes, belts, and more. All those interested in the craft have the opportunity to purchase all the tools and materials for self-employment and receive professional advice and guidance.
The place offers plenty of parking, a pastoral environment, a warm family atmosphere, a cup of coffee, and personal treatment for each guest. On weekends, group workshops can be booked in advance.
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Art & Recycling Workshops at the Tin Time Studio — Gilon
At the Tin Time Studio, various design workshops are held in the field of recycling, which allows practical experience in working with recycled materials. The workshops, which are adapted to the composition of the visitors, can be suitable for adults, children, families, businesses, and companies. The workshops, well illustrate the wide range of possibilities inherent in the raw materials that surround us in everyday life. No prior knowledge is required and all that needs to be brought to the workshop is imagination, creativity, and a bit of humor.
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Chocolate Workshops for the Whole Family at the Odette Boutique — Regba
The chocolate boutique offers chocolate workshops for all ages. The workshops teach about chocolate and its production process. Together they temper and create different chocolate products from fine chocolate. The chocolate flows generously and the participants create boutique chocolate products that are carefully packaged at the end of the workshop.
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Creative Workshops
Koby Sibony — Art & Design With Iron Wires — Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta’ot
Koby Sibony is an artist who creates with iron wires. His works straddle the border between design and art — he presents them in exhibitions in Israel and abroad. In his studio in Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta’ot you can meet Koby for an artist talk and get to know him and his work, or for an iron wire crafting workshop intended for all ages!
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Women Sculpting Women at the Yael Sculpture Studio — Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk
You are invited to the cozy studio of the artist Yael Netanel in Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk for a feminine and empowering sculpture workshop. A unique experience in which each participant sculpts a female figure using a fun and easy technique and with close and professional accompaniment. Three hours of creative experience with lots of fun, colors, and imagination.
The workshop is intended for women.
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Visit & Workshop at the Omanya Leather Studio — Kibbutz Afek
Located on Kibbutz Afek is Eldad Bahar’s creative space, a place he founded to make his art – fine leather items.
At his beautiful studio, he teaches and instructs groups, organizations, and families.
During the workshop, each participant learns creative and flattening techniques to turn the natural raw material into a usable product of their choice, such as hairpins, purses, shoes, bags, and more!
Omanya also has a store where different products made by Eldad are available for purchase, such as bags, wallets, shoes, belts, and more. All those interested in the craft have the opportunity to purchase all the tools and materials for self-employment and receive professional advice and guidance.
The place offers plenty of parking, a pastoral environment, a warm family atmosphere, a cup of coffee, and personal treatment for each guest. On weekends, group workshops can be booked in advance.
Click here for all the details.
Art & Recycling Workshops at the Tin Time Studio — Gilon
At the Tin Time Studio, various design workshops are held in the field of recycling, which allows practical experience in working with recycled materials. The workshops, which are adapted to the composition of the visitors, can be suitable for adults, children, families, businesses, and companies. The workshops, well illustrate the wide range of possibilities inherent in the raw materials that surround us in everyday life. No prior knowledge is required and all that needs to be brought to the workshop is imagination, creativity, and a bit of humor.
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Artisan Meetings
In Beit Rima, peace dialogue meetings are held between the various communities in the geopolitical area, in addition to meetings for women and female empowerment through action, conversation, and meetings of multiple workshops and classes (some of them as a contribution to the community).
In the field of workshops, you will find dance, the art of traditional sewing, creation through painting, preservation of heritage and customs through objects and stories, and more!
Visitors are invited to hear Rima’s personal and local story as a child living in the Mukhtar village and a daughter and wife in Fassuta.
We will meet and hear from the village women about the traditional customs, culture, and local holidays
While placing particular emphasis on the feminine and gendered aspects and the conduct in the private and public space in an Arab Christian village in Israel, from then until today.
Beit Rima was established in 2015. It began by dreaming of a place that would allow for action in a neutral space, unaffected by the opinions and meticulous spirit of the local community of Fassuta.
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Experiential Visit to the International Dance Village — Kibbutz Ga’aton
The most beautiful place in the Western Galilee is home to about a hundred dancers from all over the world. A visit to the dance village provides a fascinating glimpse into the kibbutz dance troupe, one of the leading troupes in Israel and around the world. The story of the dance village is conveyed in a guided tour, watching the band’s rehearsals, a meeting with the dancers, lectures, rhythm workshops, and more.
Even for those who do not like dance, an intriguing and exciting surprise is expected!
In the dance village it is possible to hold conferences and teambuilding days, training and study days, as well as various private workshops with the troupe’s dancers.
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Meetings with Creators From the Zikit — Galilean Multicultural Theatre — Tefen
The Zikit Theater invites you to an experiential activity for small groups, sessions lasting about an hour that allows a glimpse into the world of the artists from the Zikit team, each a master in their field: dance, pantomime, flamenco dance, and a conversation with Pablo Ariel — the theater’s artistic director.
An opportunity to meet the creators, the unique art, and the spark that drove their artistic path, through performance clips and stories from their lives, together with a conversation and experiential meeting with the dancers.
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