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4 mai 2006

Music Fund workshops continue

The news of the workshops of Music Fund in Ramallah the last days is very good indeed. Today was the 3rd day of the lutherie workshops ‘piano’ and ‘string instruments’ at Al Kamandjati in Ramallah. Here are some pictures: Eyad (violin and piano student...

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28 octobre 2008

preparing for a new project in Gaza

From 30th October until 9th November, Music Fund is sending a group of instrument technicians to the Westbank and Gaza. Since 2005 and thanks to the excellent collaboration with our partners, the A.M. Qattan Foundation (Gaza, Ramallah, London), Nablus...

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3 novembre 2008

arrival in Nablus

Monday 3rd November 2008: travelling with instrument ‘doctors’ Pol De Winter (piano), Baptiste Argouarc’h (string instruments), Christian Bertram (guitars) and Messaouda Zaouali (coordinator Music Fund) Our first stop in the Westbank is Nablus. We arrived...

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2 mai 2006

first day of Music Fund in Ramallah

Aurele Hardy and Gert Schrijvers, the two instrument experts of Music Fund, arrived in the middle of the night at Tel Aviv airport. I went to pick them up and brought them with a taxi to Ramallah. We were amazed about how easy things went at the Tel Aviv...

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7 mai 2006

back in Ramallah with Aurèle and Gert

Today Sunday 7th May is the last day of our presence in Palestine and Israel. I travelled with François and the filmcrew from Nazareth to Ramallah to join the luthiers of Music Fund there, while the other musicians Jean-Luc Plouvier, Jean-Luc Fafchamps...

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4 novembre 2008

Nablus and Ramallah

Tuesday 3rd November 2008: travelling with instrument ‘doctors’ Pol De Winter (piano), Baptiste Argouarc’h (string instruments), Christian Bertram (guitars) and Messaouda Zaouali (coordinator Music Fund) Today our team split in two: Christian and Baptiste...

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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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12 mai 2006

back in Belgium

It is only a few days that we have been back in Belgium, and we have already made a lot of progress in preparing our upcoming projects in Israel and Palestine. Immediately the day after arriving from Israel and Palestine, I went to Lille (F) and had a...

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3 novembre 2008

shortly in Tel Aviv

Monday 3rd November 2008: travelling with instrument ‘doctors’ Pol De Winter (piano), Baptiste Argouarc’h (string instruments), Christian Bertram (guitars) and Messaouda Zaouali (coordinator Music Fund) This trip started with bad luck: After our flight...

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2 mai 2006

arrival of musicians in Nablus

I had a short telephone contact this morning with the musicians who just arrived in Nablus this morning, arriving there from Tel Aviv by taxi. François Deppe who knows the place was not impressed. It is “comme d’hab”, he tells me. But the others are less...

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4 mai 2006

in Nablus: Darna and Al Najah University

Things went as expected: after rain comes sunshine. Last evening was wonderful. We were invited for a delicious dinner by Sami Hammad of Nablus the Culture and could discuss all our positive as well as difficult experiences of the day amongst eachother....

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13 septembre 2006

Els De Winter about Iyad discovering Antwerp

Here is what Els De Winter - hosting Iyad at her house in Antwerp - tells me about her first impressions with Iyad: "Iyad's stay with us is going really well. The fact that his knowledge of English is somewhat basic is at times frustrating for both of...

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7 novembre 2006

Iyad & Anselmo on Eifel Tour

on 2 and 3rd November, Iyad and Anselmo joined Pol in a cartrip from Antwerp to Paris to go get a piano there. Pol profited from this job to take both of them on this ride and allow them to see something of the big French Apple, taking some time off for...

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26 décembre 2006

concert Ictus at Tel Aviv University

After half a day travelling between Brussels and Tel Aviv, together with my 9-year old daughter Mathilde and flutist Mike Schmid, we arrived just in time for Mike to join cellist François Deppe and harpsicord-player Kimiko Nishi for the concert which...

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27 décembre 2006

visiting music school in Sderot

Today, I visited a music school in the Israeli town of Sderot (or Sederot). This town is only a few kilometers away from Gaza and has become known to the rest of the world for it receiving over the last six years thousands of qassam-rockets launched from...

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9 juin 2008

Olivier Marie at Nablus the Culture: a piano expert for Palestine

I have just spent several days in Nablus, where I visited our piano-tuner Olivier Marie and the repair and training workshop which he is setting up there together with and in the building of our partner in there, Nablus the Culture. © one of Olivier's...

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30 janvier 2008

accordeon for Gaza

This morning I visited accordeon-player Philippe Thuriot and asked him to select an accordeon from our collection which he would advise me to donate to our friends of the Qattan Centre for the Child in Gaza, and he selected this second-hand but wonderful...

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6 janvier 2009

Gaza (Palestine) comes to Antwerp (Belgium)

My friend Karin Heremans called upon me yesterday. She is the director of the Atheneum, the largest secondary school of Antwerpen, Belgium. Last year, Karen Heremans, Mohammed Filali, Aharon Malinsky and myself went together to Israel where I organised...

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7 juillet 2008

Kinshasa: opening of repair workshop

This week Music Fund opened a repair workshop together with and at the Institut National des Arts. For the moment, only Augustin Kadiata - who followed a three months internship with expert Yves Treuttens in Brussels - will be working in this workshop...

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1 mai 2006

masterclass Tel Aviv University

Together with pianist Jean-Luc Fafchamps, I have been spending the night at the home of a young couple of musicians. Sivan Cohen-Elias is composer and her friend and future husband Yaron Deutsch is guitar-player. They are passionate about their art and...

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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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26 juillet 2007

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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28 décembre 2007

arrival in Ramallah

In the afternoon we arrived at Ben Gourion Airport (Tel Aviv, Israel) and were picked up by Jousef, the taxi-driver who drives for the music school Al Kamandjati, our partnerschool in Ramallah. We got to Ramallah very quickly. It took us only about half...

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29 décembre 2007

from Ramallah to Nablus

At noon Pol, Olivier and myself travelled to Nablus where we arrived at the music school of our partner there, Nablus the Culture. We heard several students performing and studying (piano, clarinet, trombone and ud). There were also about 8 candidates...

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28 décembre 2006

beginning of Barenboim-Said Foundation music workshop in Nazareth

François Deppe and Mike Schmid (Ictus) have started working with the young musicians from Nazareth and the Westbank, who have been brought together by the Barenboim-Said Foundation . This music workshop has been organised by the Foundation, in collaboration...

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