Bialik's Youngsters - English

1995

It all started in 1995. A mayor of a little town in Israel near Haifa that named Kiriat Bialik wanted to make a representative band for the city. a band of teenagers between the ages 13 - 16. An advertisement was published in Kiriat Bialik's magazine and some teenagers went to the auditions.

1996

After a year , the band's headmasters decided to make another band.
and this band will have kids between the ages 11 - 14. Another advertisement was published in Kiriat Bialik's magazine. After a while another band was established. When the new band was established,
the band's members started to work very hard and afterwards they have done making their show, their 1st show - "Transmitting With Love". The premiere was seen on May 25th ,1996 at 20:30 o'clock in the "Sapir" theater. The 1st show wasn't so successful, it was only seen twice, first in the "Sapir" theater, second in "Irony H'" a school in Haifa.
Click here to know more about the 1st premiere.

1997

After another year, the band's headmasters made another auditions for the 2 of the bands and they started to make a 3rd band that supposed to replace the older band when some of them will go to the army. So they done making the 3rd band, it's name is "Gozaley Bialik" but the band hasn't shown yet because the older band haven't mobilized yet but some of "Gozaley Bialik" went up a level to the 2nd bands.
On April 29th, 1997 in the "Butterfly Project" at 16:45 was the first show of the year 1997. It was also a new beginning for 2 fresh songs: The Neighbourhood Song and Moral.
Here are some pictures of the event.

1998

After a year and a half from the 1st premiere,
from August, 1997 till February, 1998 the members of the band started to make a new show, the 2nd show. the 2nd show is called "What a Country" because we were closed to Israel's independence celebrations. The director, Alon Solomon made a show that contains songs and scenes of acting together, The musical producer, Ronen Williams processed and wrote songs about the 50 years independence, The choreographer, Ruti Salomon made dances to the songs, And the social manager, Galit Biton was taking care of the members' clothing. At first, the younger group was amed "Ephrochey Bialik" but before the show, the band's headmasters named the older and the younger bands both "Bialik's Youngsters". There were laughing, screaming, happiness, sadness, tiredness, madness, and everything.
It took a very long time to make the premiere but then on February 7th, 1998 at 19:30 o'clock in the "Sapir" theater, the 2nd show of "Bialik's Youngsters" was first seen, even a cassette of the band was sold after the show and 200 cassettes were bought.
Click here if you want to get more information about the 2nd premiere.

After this show, that a lot of people liked, 30 shows were seen to all Kiriat Bialik's schools. On March 23rd, 1998, our mayor, Dani Zak invited all the band's members including their parents, to a big meal . First they were taken to "Yad Labanim's" House.

* "Yad Labanim's" House is a place that perpetuates the soldiers that fought for our country and died.

Then the mayor spoke to all the guests, and Ronen (the musical producer) played some Israeli songs, afterwards some of the kids sang songs, and then the mayor himself sand and all the members of the band sang the mayor's favorite song - "Our Country". We were so tired but also happy...

1999

From September 1998 until March 1999, the band have started to make their 3rd show - "Im Na'amin" (or in English - Believe). This show is about a love between 2 youngsters, an orthodox boy and a secular girl. The show produces the two youngsters' love and the bridge between the 2 kinds of people in our country. Like last year, "Bialik's Youngsters" have published another cassette with all the songs from this show like - "Biglal Ha Ruach", "Bo Nirkod" and some original songs like "Be Shem Ha'ahava" and two more songs: "We Went Out Slowly" and "To The Life Of This Nation Medlay". The premiere was seen on Saturday, March 20th at 19:30. The show will be also seen in front of all the students in the city after the premiere between the dates 25th - 26th of April.
Click here to get more info. about this show (P.S. the pictures in this part haven't been scanned yet).