Free Academy
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The Free Academy (Hebrew: האקדמיה החופשית) was founded in 1999 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Her founders and top executives are Roy Arad ("Chicky"), Joshua Simon, Ari Libsker, Nimrod Kamer, Hagai Boaz, Maayan Strauss, Rinat Berkowitz, Asaf Galay, Vaan Nguyen, Yossi Atia and others.
The Free Academy had organized debates, lectures, cultural demonstrations and diverse exhibitions in several art fields. Its members are either poets, filmmakers or journalists; people that "by walking in the streets alone, manage to fulfil their daily mission" (Roy Arad in a speech, November 2005).
In the winter of 2005 The Free Academy had published a new magazine - Maayan Magazine for poetry, art and ideas, and with its second issue appeared also Maarvon a supplementary magazine for cinema.
The group other's projects are Archisex, a fanzine of sex and architecture (Editor: Rinat Berkowitz) and Maayani, the Maayan web-site, (Editors: Yoni Raz Portugali and Freddy) and Maarvon, a new magazine for cinema.
Another sub-department of The Free Academy Israel is the Avriri Cinema film production unit. "Avriri" is responsible of making screening nights and lectures around Israel and it's founders are Nimrod Kamer and Yossi Atia.
