page_title: Israeli Women Composers & Performers Forum
section_title: The activities that led to the establishment of the Forum
hierarchical_section_title: Israeli Women Composers & Performers Forum / The activities that led to the establishment of the Forum
caption_attribution_description: עברית: משתתפי סאפפו
context_page_description: The Israeli Women Composers & Performers Forum is a non-profit organization, founded to establish, base and promote women composers in the Israeli music scene, and to bring their music to a wide recognition. The foundation was established in 2000 by the composer Hagar Kadima as the Israeli Women Composers Forum. In 2014 the Forum has also expanded to include women performers, thus getting its current name. In the same year, the Forum has become a musical organization uniting composers and performers and is assisted by the Felicja Blumenthal Music Center, Tel Aviv.
context_section_description: Several events have led to the foundation of the Israeli Women Composers Forum. Among them: the creation of a group of several active women composers, initiated by composer Hagar Kadima, a mutual production of the first women composer concert, “Patches” and the first professional gathering of women composers in Israel on July 7, 2000.
  Twenty five composers attended the important meeting, in which it was unanimously decided to establish a foundation of Israeli women composers. As the chairwoman of the foundation the composers chose Hagar Kadima- the first Israeli woman composer receiving a PhD in composition (1988, UCSB- University of California in Santa Barbara). “Patches”, the first concert in Israel dedicated entirely to music composed by women took place at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in August 2000. At the same month, The Israeli Women Composers Forum became a foundation in Israel.
caption: The participants of the annual project of the Israeli Women Composers & performers Forum for 2015, “Sappho’s Poetry”
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