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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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8 novembre 2008

A.M. Al-Qattan Foundation & Music Fund in Gaza

Ramallah, Saturday 8th November 2009. Meeting Ziad Khalaf, the head of the Ramallah office of the A.M. Al-Qattan Foundation, we evaluated our failure to enter Gaza this last week, and agreed upon a number of new initiatives which Music Fund will be developing...

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8 novembre 2008

continuing collaboration with Al Kamandjati, Ramallah

Our partner in Ramallah, the music school of Al Kamandjati, which was only founded three years ago, has developed rapidly with projects in Ramallah, Jenin a.o. cities of the Westbank. Ramzi Abu-Radwan, the school's artistic director, is very succesful...

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3 janvier 2009

Music Fund is in Kinshasa again !

Please go for pictures about our 'mission' to Kinshasa to the blog of the luthiers Jacky Walraet and Karel Dedain - for their blog, click here - both guitar-makers and teaching at the Flemish Lutherie School of Puurs (CMB - www.cmbpuurs.be). This work-period...

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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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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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28 octobre 2008

presentation of "The Exchange" in Vienna

Today I am in Vienna (Austria) for the presentation by the festival Wien Modern of the documentary film "The Exchange" on our projects in the Middle East. Here is a snapshot of the film with surprising words from a young music teacher in Ramallah: This...

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6 mai 2006

musicians in Nazareth

I did not post anything on the blog yesterday, because I was too busy with other things. Arriving in Nazareth was as always as arriving home, my family being Duaibis and Maha Abboud Ashkar. Everything seems easy here compared to Nablus, although it surely...

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8 mai 2006

meeting Daphna Golan

This morning we all met for a breakfast at the beautiful American Colony Hotel in East Jerusalem: the musicians, the luthiers, the filmcrew and myself. As a final moment of reflexion before leaving the region, I invited my friend Daphna Golan, Israeli...

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1 octobre 2006

a weekend with Iyad

I have had the occasion to spend some time with both Anselmo from Maputo - who lives with me in Antwerp - and with Iyad from Ramallah, inviting both of them to my home in the Belgian Ardennes. We talked a lot about all kinds of things. I really like both...

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6 janvier 2007

delivery Mizra and concert Nazareth

You can find a documentary in pictures of 6th January 2007 on this webpage (click here). We are at the end of a mission of two weeks and can now finally call it accomplished. All 311 instruments of Music Fund have been succesfully delivered to the different...

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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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10 novembre 2007

short visit to Maputo

Just before spending one week for Ictus in South Africa (Cape Town and Johannesburg/Soweto), I took two days off to visit our friends in Maputo and prepare some of the projects we are developing further the coming years. I have met with the two teachers...

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6 janvier 2009

last day in Kinshasa

Today is our last day in Kinshasa. These missions of 10 days are long and short at the same time. They seem long, as we are doing so much in such a short time. It feels as if we have been here several weeks in terms of what we have been able to work on....

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5 janvier 2009

difficult, but not impossible

Everything seems difficult here in Kinshasa, because people are so terribly poor. This is our greatest challenge here: We are doing our best to make sure that the project of Music Fund in Kinshasa can end up creating jobs and wealth. This is not easy...

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29 décembre 2007

Ramallah: students making progress

I spent the morning with two of the young students of the music school Al Kamandjati, clarinetist Muntaser and violinist Mahmoed, listening to their playing and attending an interview of them for a documentary which will be broadcast tomorrow on the evening...

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16 novembre 2007

music projects in Soweto

Together with Tom Pauwels - guitarist and staff-member of the Ictus ensemble - I visited a number of music schools in townships near Cape Town and in Soweto. Instead of imagining projects involving the musicians of Ictus, I would like to start partnerships...

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