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waiting for the instruments to be released from harbour of Ashdod

If you go to this webpage, you will find a selection of pictures of the container, as it was loaded in Brussels, and as I saw it today in the harbour of Ashdod, Israel. I left Pol and Lisa in Tel Aviv and spent today in the harbour of Ashdod, trying to...

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1 janvier 2007

Tel Aviv - Brussels - Tel Aviv

I spent about 10 hours in airplanes on this first day of the new year, flying this morning from Tel Aviv to Brussels to bring back my daughter Mathilde, and then at noon back from Brussels to Tel Aviv together with piano-expert Pol De Winter and his daughter...

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31 décembre 2006

yet another day in Nazareth

I did not expect this, but I stayed another day in Nazareth after all. My plan to go to the harbour of Ashdod was aborted, because the papers are still not in order for the shipment of 311 music instruments which Music Fund is donating to music schools...

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30 décembre 2006

my last day with Ictus in Nazareth

Although they will stay on for another week here, this is my last day with the musicians of Ictus within the music workshop in Nazareth, because tomorrow I will have to move to Ashdod in an attempt to try to get the music instruments of Music Fund out...

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29 décembre 2006

music networking for peace?

I never believed that music can as such bring people to peace, but I do believe that it makes sense that people – young and old – develop and cultivate their cultural and artistic skills, and also that our choice to develop friendships and networks crossing...

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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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27 décembre 2006

first evening in Nazareth

All together, we travelled this evening from Tel Aviv to Nazareth, where to meet our friends Duaibis and Maha Abboud Ashkar, as well as all people working within the music workshop which the Barenboim-Said Foundation is organising the coming two weeks...

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27 décembre 2006

Ictus composition workshop at Tel Aviv University

Today Ictus-musicians François Deppe (cello) and Mike Schmid (flute) worked with composition students of the department of Ruben Seroussi at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music (Tel Aviv University). I have not been with them, as I visited Sderot, but...

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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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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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26 décembre 2006

SCHEDULE workperiod 25.12 -> 7.1 in Israel & Palestine

Yesterday, 25th December, cellist François Deppe (Ictus) and his wife, harpsicord-player Kimiko Nishi, already travelled from Brussels to Tel Aviv to start teaching students there at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music (Tel Aviv University). Today, I am...

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18 décembre 2006

delivery instruments to Palestinian territories goes ahead

After discussing this morning with the Israeli and Belgian authorities I come to the conclusion that we will not store the instruments in Israel, but will make sure that they get into the Palestinian territories sometime during the first week of January....

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17 décembre 2006

delivery music instruments in Gaza, Nablus and Ramallah: alternative scenarios needed?

I follow the situation in Gaza and the Westbank more closely than ever via the media and I wonder whether we will succeed to get through with our music instruments this time. If ever things get worse in the territories and we would at the last minute...

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7 décembre 2006

amateur videoclip of Queen of Belgium visiting Music Fund

On 7th December 2006, Queen Paola of Belgium honored us with a visit. She came to the piano-workshop of Pol De Winter in Antwerp (Pianomobil), where she met with the equipe of Music Fund, members of our board, and especially with students from Ramallah...

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8 novembre 2006

news from Gaza: Qattan Centre for the Child

The war in the Gaza strip continues. More and more people die. It is horrible. In the middle of all this violence, Music Fund hopes - against all odds - to again bring donated music instruments to our partners in Gaza in a few weeks. I recently asked...

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7 novembre 2006

Daphna Golan's book: "Next Year in Jerusalem"

I have just finished reading a very special book, written by our friend and human rights activist Daphna Golan (here talking with Ictus-cellist François Deppe). I have been carrying this book with me wherever I have been going since July. It has travelled...

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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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7 novembre 2006

Palestine and Mozambique

good friends

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7 novembre 2006

Iyad's host in Antwerp: Els De Winter

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7 novembre 2006

Anselmo & Iyad

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