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travelday back home

Olivier and I hope to go back home today, if at least the announced strike at the Ben Gurion airport is cancelled. I will be back in December, but then not with Music Fund, but with members of the music ensemble Ictus, who will teach Palestinian adolescents...

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25 juillet 2007

one day in Jenin

Olivier and I joined our friends of Al Kamandjati for one day to Jenin. The road to Jenin is beautiful. We drove through mountains and the closer you get to Jenin, the greener it gets. The area around Jenin is rich in agriculture. Al Kamandjati has a...

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24 juillet 2007

one day in Jerusalem

I have spent the whole day in Jerusalem meeting people, not seeing much of the city really, being inside buildings most of the time, except for a few short walks in between meetings in East and West Jerusalem. With Philippe Potjes of the Belgian Consulat...

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23 juillet 2007

Ramallah - day 2

Today Monday, has been another workshop-day for Olivier Marie and his students. Their second one. More students came to today's workshop. I had one interview with the Palestinian newspaper Al Quds to explain about our projects and future ambitions. ©...

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22 juillet 2007

first day in Ramallah

Today Sunday 22nd July, we have started our piano repair and tuning workshop at the music school Al Kamandjati in Ramallah. This morning I could visit the repair workshop which the school itself installed, thanks to the help of a number of private donations...

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21 juillet 2007

from Nablus to Ramallah

Today Saturday was our fifth and last day in Nablus. Our piano expert Olivier Marie succeeded the unexpected: to refurbish the upright piano which was brought into the school when we arrived. The piano is not 100% in order, but can now be used as a study-instrument...

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20 juillet 2007

shooting versus pianos

Today was supposed to be a very quiet day, since Friday is the day of rest for muslims. It was not at all. Already during the night we were woken up by the shooting of heavy artillery, and during the day shooting of guns and machine-guns continued to...

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19 juillet 2007

3rd day piano-repair in Nablus

We are now into our third day in Nablus. Piano-expert Olivier Marie is advancing well with his repair-workshop. He has checked the pianos of the music school of Nablus the Culture and started repairing an upright piano which was brought in from outside...

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18 juillet 2007

piano repair workshop in Nablus

From 16th until 26th July we are back in the Middle East for a project of Music Fund. This time I am in Nablus and Ramallah, together with Olivier Marie, a piano expert working for the Lille based company Nord Piano. On Monday 16th, we first went to stay...

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11 juillet 2007

Music Fund in Kinshasa, Congo

This month, the Brussels based organisation Music Fund has started an important new project in the Democratic Republic of Congo by sending piano-expert Pol De Winter (from Pianomobil, Antwerp) to Kinshasa for an initiation course into repairing and tuning...

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