Mitcha Figa Theater Group

Mitcha Pigua is an organization and theater group founded by multidisciplinary filmmaker and creator Yechezkel Lazarov. (Mitcha Pigua - half fig in Romani and the name of the horse with which the creator Pina Bausch worked). The organization's goals are: 1. Promoting arts and culture in Israel through multidisciplinary creation. 2. Engaging and exposing the audience to creative processes. 3. Research and knowledge sharing in the fields of arts and culture and creating a members' club that will care for expanding circles of knowledge and their dissemination. 4. Using technological means including video and digital media technologies as tools for creating and disseminating art. 5. Creating collaborations between artists and creators from various diverse fields in order to create a new artistic language and meetings between diverse culture audiences. 6. Organizing diverse cultural events around a central theme leading to diverse and unifying creation. 7. Providing a stage, guidance, and direction for artists from geographic and social peripheries, and conducting workshops by group members for the local artist community. 8. Integrating local artists and their art in multidisciplinary events in the country and wherever the group performs. 9. Establishing and operating a multidisciplinary study center for training performers. 10. Raising resources and financial support from public entities, foundations, and private donors in order to enable funding of the organization's activities and achieving its goals, including support for producing events, workshops, and cultural activities, awarding scholarships and financial assistance to artists, and promoting the organization's goals in the fields of education, welfare, and integration of diverse populations