Get your costumes ready and make sure your mishloach manot are filled with goodies and check out our listing of events to celebrate the holiday.

Leading Up to Purim:

Put On Your Dancing Shoes:

Studio 6 Pre-Purim Party

Get ready for Purim partying with a party a week before Purim. Saturday February 20th at 8:30pm Studio 6 will bring the beat and you can bring your dance moves. The party will give you the Purim vibe for the whole week. Learn to dance and maybe teach your own move or two.
Studio 6: 6 Yad Harutzim, Talpiot

Entrance:

NIS 35 (member)

NIS 40

Studio661@bezeqint.net

www.studio6.co.il

Laugh Out Loud:

The Thursday night before Purim why not go to Off The Wall Comedy for special stand-up humor Purim style? Hani Skutch and Yehezkel Laing want to make you feel jolly for the festive holiday. The show starts at 8:30pm. Also, that Saturday there will be an additional show at 9pm with Kandi Abelson and Boris Melamed. Kandi will be fresh off the boat from her international tour and ready to get you in the Purim mood with her comical styling.

City Center

Entrance:

NIS 45

NIS 40 (students, soldiers & seniors)

*Includes free drink

Erev Purim February 28th, 2010:

Rock Out:

Who doesn’t enjoy rocking out to songs that parody popular music with substituted religious themed lyrics? If you’re a fan of Shlock Rock then make your way to Hashmonaim, just outside of Jerusalem, this Purim Eve and rock out with the Shlock Rock Band. All ages are welcome and the show starts at 8:30pm.

Yishuv Hashmonaim: Rechov HaYahalom 16

Tickets

NIS 20 (reserved)

NIS 75 per family (reserved)

NIS 25 (door)

NIS 100 (door)

To pre-order tickets: arielblacher@yahoo.com or 052-650-3775

Dance the night away:

This Purim you can dance the night away with Boogie. A party from dusk to dawn, Boogie will hold its annual “Music and Movement” Purim Party at the Jerusalem International Convention Center (Binyanei Ha’uma). The night will be filled with Boogie treats and will even have a Megilla reading at 8:30pm that will kick off the night of dancing. Make sure to wear your costume!

Zalman Shazar St. 1

Tickets:

NIS 60-75

http://www.boogienights.co.il/heb/index.asp

Take Purim in:

Café Alexander offers an alternative way to enjoy Purim, with spiked punch, coffee and the traditional cookie treat, hamantashen. The event starts with a late Megilla reading at 8pm and live music at 9pm. There will be a costume contest and the winner will walk away with NIS 75 to spend at the café.

Cafe Alexander: 3 Yanai St, Jerusalem

Contact: marc@cafe-alexander.com

Entrance: 40 NIS

http://tinyurl.com/CafeAlexanderMap

Party like it’s Purim!

If you love Purim and never want it to end then check out the Nachlaot street party that goes all night and then some. The party is located throughout the streets of Nachalot and Gan Sacher. Music will fill the air with street performers and joyous pedestrians belt out songs and dance away the night.

http://www.facebook.com/event.phpeid=295267596385&ref=ts

The Ultimate Purim:

Purim marks the annual Bezalel Art Academy's too-cool for school party. Every year the school throws what seems to be the biggest and wildest celebration in Jerusalem, with outrageous costumes, top DJs and all night dancing. This year the event will definitely be huge as the school unites forces with The Hebrew University's Student Union. However joint the efforts are, the party will still be a competition with two separate circus tents dividing the two schools. Hebrew University's tent will provide the more conventional mood while Bezalel promises to bring a freak show atmosphere. In fact the night may seem more like Avatar, with 3D art and acrobats adding color and excitement to the night's festivities. The party will be at the Jerusalem Theater, a big enough theater to house the rival schools as they compete for your Purim love. The competition starts at 10pm and will probably go all night.

Jerusalem Theater

Entrance to Party:

NIS 50 (students)

NIS 70 – Full Access to all events

NIS 100 at the door

Jerusalem Residents (ID proof needed) receive -20% discount on all cards combined

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=465304665110

Purim:

Purim Carnival!

This year check out Purim costumes and festivities at Mamilla’s carnival. There will be music, games, a mini-circus and carnival every hour from noon to 4pm. The mall is bound to be packed so get ready for large crowds and tons of costumes.

Mamilla: 02-6360000