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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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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

lesson at Pianomobil

On top of their daily work as interns in the workshop of Pianomobil, learning how to repair and build pianos, every Monday and Thursday evening, Iyad and Anselmo also join lessons given at Pianomobil to a group of students learning to tune pianos. This...

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2 octobre 2006

pictures Festa da Paz

Here are some pictures taken at the Festa da Paz, a party organised in Brussels last Saturday by the Amigos de Mocambique at the occasion of the independence day of Mozambique: Joris Buysse of Papageno, speaking with Anselmo Chissaque Nathalie Buysse...

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7 mai 2006

meeting the mayor of Ramallah

At noon I had a meeting with the new mayor of Ramallah, Mrs Janet Michael. She has been voted in as mayor of Ramallah since January thanks to the support of Hamas. She is not a member of Hamas though. She was leading an independent list and got 6 out...

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30 avril 2006

travel with musicians from Brussels to Tel Aviv

This morning I left Brussels together with the four musicians who will be teaching in Tel Aviv, Nazareth and Nablus this coming week: François Deppe, Jean-Luc Fafchamps and Jean-Luc Plouvier (of the music ensemble Ictus) and Benjamin Dieltjens (of the...

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21 août 2008

music school in Gaza !

One of our partners in Palestine, the A.M. Al-Qattan Foundation, is now all set to start a music school in Gaza, of all places ! They have engaged a coordinator for the school, Mr Ibrahim Al-Najjar, last July. Then they rented spaces in the building of...

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2 septembre 2008

guitars from Barenboim-Said Foundation to Gaza

Guitars which Music Fund donated to the Barenboim-Said Foundation in Ramallah will now be transferred to the new music school which the A.M. Al-Qattan Foundation is creating in Gaza this month. It is wonderful to hear that these instruments which have...

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30 décembre 2007

item about us on evening news TF1

Tonight (Sunday 30th December 2007) you can see a small documentary on the evening-news (8 pm) of the French television-station TF1 (http://www.tf1.fr) about what we are working on in Ramallah and Nablus. They have sent a filmcrew with us yesterday and...

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30 décembre 2007

buying pianos in Qalqilia

Today we visited the home of another piano student of the music school of Nablus to find out about the quality of their pianos and what we should be doing about them. Olivier will need about one day work and this piano will be again in a good condition...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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