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permits to Gaza refused

Nablus, Wednesday 5th November 2008. We had 2 plans for this trip with our music instrument 'doctors': Plan A was to go work at the first ever music school of Gaza, created in September by our partner there, the A.M. Al-Qattan Foundation. Plan B was to...

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2 janvier 2008

Nazareth-Ramallah-Jerusalem

This morning I have met with the director of the Baptist School of Nazareth, Mr Ousama Moalem, to discuss with him about the possibility of an exchange project with the Atheneum in Antwerp, so that they would host the Antwerp adolescents during their...

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3 janvier 2008

Jerusalem: meeting piano-technician John Orfali

Before profiting from an extensive visite of the old city of Jerusalem, we had several meetings this morning at the Jerusalem Hotel at Nablus Road where we spent the night before. Our first meeting was with Philippe Potjes, the Deputy Consul of Belgium...

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14 septembre 2008

for Music Fund in Innsbruck, Austria

Yesterday, I have been travelling all day from Belgium to Innsbruck with Pol De Winter's trailer. The music festival Klangspuren is presenting the documentary film "The Exchange" and invited me for a debate following the film. This festival has also organised...

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13 août 2008

Summertime: fetching donated pianos in and around Belgium

I am finally enjoying some time in Belgium, combining office-work for Ictus and Music Fund with staying with my family. It feels great for someone like myself who travels so much throughout the year. Olivier Marie spent several weeks in Europe in order...

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5 juillet 2008

Kinshasa: micro-credit for guitar-workshop Almaz

Today I went back to the guitar workshop Almaz (of Maurice MAZANZA), together with Jérôme Roux (economic and commercial adviser, Belgian Embassy) and Louis-Odillon Alaguillaume (vice-general director of ProCredit Bank Congo), whom I had told about Almaz...

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4 juillet 2008

Kinshasa: guitars Socklo

Together with musician Jupiter, I visited the amazing guitar workshop of Socklo in Lembas (cité of Kinshasa). Jupiter's musicians love Socklo's guitars, and I can understand this. They are original in their conception, and have a special sound. Socklo...

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6 juillet 2008

Kinshasa: repairing Steinway piano

This last week piano-expert Pol De Winter checked all the five pianos which Music Fund donated to the Institut National des Arts to see whether nothing happened to them during the transportation between Belgium and Kinshasa. He also continued to work...

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3 juillet 2008

Kinshasa - creation of "AMIS de l'INA"

Today Thursday was an important day for the partnership which we started to develop between the Institut National des Arts (INA) and Music Fund. Together with the president of the FEC (Fédération des Entreprises Congolaises), Mr Albert Yuma, we convened...

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1 juillet 2008

Kinshasa - first days

I arrived in Kinshasa last Saturday 28th June together with instrument experts Pol De Winter (pianos) and Pierre Helou (wind instruments), as well as with Augustin Kadiata, who followed a 3 month internship as technician to repair wind instruments in...

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26 mai 2008

visit of ITEMM in Le Mans, school for luthiers

Today we visited the Institut technologique européen des métiers de la musique (ITEMM) in Le Mans (France) together with 3 of the apprentices who are now following an internship in music instrument workshops in Belgium: Anselmo Chissaque and Bernardo...

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10 mai 2008

apprenticeships for Congolese and Mozambican students in Belgium

Music Fund is from April to June organising another series of internships for students related to our partnerschools in Maputo and Kinshasa. © student Bernardo Matola in the repair workshop of Joris Buysse in Lokeren (B) During initiation courses in our...

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1 janvier 2008

Nablus: Olivier and Pol repairing and tuning pianos

Pol and Olivier had a very long day of work in Nablus, as they wanted to tune a maximum of pianos in the music school and also at students' houses, but also wanted to prepare the pianos which were bought in Qalqilia yesterday and which arrived already...

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31 décembre 2007

from Nablus to Nazareth

I will be crossing many checkpoints the coming days, as I will be going in and out the Westbank (Palestinian territories). While Michael is continuing his percussion teaching with the students of Al Kamandjati in Ramallah and while Olivier and Pol will...

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30 décembre 2007

Nablus: visiting the old city

This morning we were invited by our host Sami Hammad to visit the old centre of Nablus, something I never had the time to do the last years. It was a real surprise for all of us to discover the very beautiful and lively old quarters of this city which...

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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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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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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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5 janvier 2007

deliveries in Nablus, Ramallah, Nazareth

You can find a documentary in 50 pictures of this crasy but rewarding day of 5th January 2007 on this webpage (click here). What we originally planned to do in 4 days, we finally had to do in 24 hours: delivering all music instruments to Nablus, Ramallah...

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3 janvier 2007

concert programme Ictus in Nablus tomorrow

© this morning's t-shirt I just received the programme which the musicians are going to perform at the Mazri Cultural Centre in Nablus tomorrow evening, Thursday 4th January at 7 pm. Here it is: Georg Philipp Telemann: Sonate in E minor for flute and...

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2 janvier 2007

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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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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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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