Music Festivals to suit all tastes in music happen across Israel every year. From the Jacob’s Ladder Folk Festival, to the Abu Gosh Vocal Music Festival, the Safed Klezmer Festival to the Red Sea Jazz Festival, or In-D-Negev indie rock festival to the annual Jerusalem Woodstock Revival, there’s something there for you.

The Beer Sheva Art Experience provides educational tours and workshops for all kinds of groups wanting to experience the capital of the Negev. From short, hour improvisational workshops, to two day environmental tours they insure the best quality programing with lectures, art activities, games, acting and site seeing. Most workshops will be conducted outside the old mosque in the centre of the Old Town, Beer Sheva.

The coastal city of Bat Yam, just south of Tel Aviv has in the last weeks seen the emergence of a makeshift, temporary artists colony and gallery on the city’s main beach. Set to remain in place for about a month, the Bat Yam Artists Colony will host artists from Israel and abroad, ranging in style from visual arts, through to the performing arts. The artists will live in temporary structures along the beach, and the gallery space will be within the abandoned Riviera nightclub. The Bat Yam Artists Colony will live during the month of August, 2011.

The Habima Theater in Tel Aviv is Israel’s national theater, rebuilt and reopened in 2009 as a modern theater of world-class proportions. Whilst almost all productions at Habima Theater are in Hebrew, many are translated simultaneously into English, making it very possible for tourists to enjoy the performances here.

The Jerusalem Season of Culture is a cultural festival running between mid-May and the end of July, in which the magical City of Gold that is Jerusalem will host a series of riveting artistic experiences spanning the worlds of dance, music, poetry, philosophy, visual art, new media, and more. The Season of Culture is modeled on other prominent international cultural festivals and highlights the city’s diverse and flourishing art scene. The festival is set to be spectacular featuring performances from world-renowned acts.

In the heart of the Carmel Forest, just south of the city of Haifa is the wonderful village of Ein Hod, an artists colony with windy streets, phenomenal vistas, and loads of little art galleries, mostly within the homes of residents. What makes Ein Hod special is the involvement of the artists – after all, how often can you chat to an artist in their own home about the piece of work they have just created.

Originally started fifty years ago, The Israel Festival has now grown into one of the world’s leading cultural festivals, a three week spectacular of music, dance and theater across Israel, which takes place between May 23 and June 18. The 2011 festival will feature specially commissioned performances by Israeli artists and groups including a collaborative piece featuring Batsheva Dance Company Creative Director Ohad Naharin and the avant-garde Clipe Theater, and recitals from groups from Chile, Georgia and Japan.

In Tel Aviv’s Jaffa port, there is an old warehouse overlooking the Mediterranean. There you can find the “Nalaga’at” Center, the world’s only professional deaf-blind acting ensemble. The theatre is composed of 11 actors, most of them suffering from genetic disorder called Usher syndrome, which results in acute deafness at birth, followed by gradual loss of vision.

The Israel Ballet is the largest Ballet in Israel performing the great classical and neo-classical ballets of the international repertoire. Based in Tel Aviv but performing across Israel, The Israel Ballet is one of the greatest cultural performances in Israel.

The Druze are a minority group who live peacefully in Israel and are renowned for their hospitality. Their villages in the Carmel and Golan regions offer not only an insight into their interesting religion, but great food as well! Isfiya and Daliyat El Carmel are two such villages located in the Carmel region, just north of Zichron Yaakov, and just over a one hour drive from Tel Aviv.