Other Activities
In June 2006 at the Minshar gallery in Tel Aviv, Maayan creators put on an exhibition named "Doron" (after CEO of O.R.S human resources Doron Sabag - aka first names) which dealt with the relations of art and labour rights.
On March 2012, Maayan curators put on an exhibition named "Iran" in "Spaceship Gallery" against the war with Iran. The exhibition included a wax effigy of Ehud Barak called 'The Most Dangerous Person in the World', and a video about the Israeli Air Force attacking Poland today. The curators had to move Guy Briller’s installation on the roof of the gallery, so it didn’t look like a missile pointing at the neighbouring US embassy.
On July 2007 Maayan group representatives went to the Syrian Embassy in Amman in order to apply for a special Visa to Syria to promote peace between Israel and Syria., .
Maayan group, with Cultural Guerrilla organization, held a joint poetry protest in order to support the "Coffee To Go" waitresses union. After a month long strike the waitresses got their way and the university coffee branch decided to let them have their tips and workers rights, while keeping their job. . Some of the poems were taken from recently published "Aduma" social poetry booklet, 2007. a same event happened in Polgat textile factory in Kiryat Gat after the closing of the factory, under Akirov Tower, the divisive residency of Ehud Barak, the Israeli defense minister, while 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict and in support of the "science garden"'s workers at Weizmann Institute of Science in the city of Rehovot. Among the poets who protested were Aharon Shabtai, Mati Shemoelof, Yuval Ben-Ami and yudit shahar.
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