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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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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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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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18 avril 2006

presentation: Ictus and Music Fund in Israel and Palestine

I am preparing our next workvisit to the Middle East which will be taking place from 30th April until 8th May. I invite you to visit the websites of the music ensemble Ictus and the organisation Music Fund to find out more about it all. The musicians...

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21 juin 2006

Haaretz on projects Ictus and Music Fund

this is what journalist Noam Ben Ze'ev wrote today in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz: "MUSIC ON WHEELS" By Noam Ben Ze'ev The Balata refugee camp near Nablus is not known for its cultural life. Yet, despite the poverty and ruin there - thousands of families...

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24 septembre 2006

Iyad 2 weeks in Antwerp

Els De Winter, the sister of Pol De Winter of Pianomobil and also host to the young Palestinian Iyad from Ramallah who is now for three months in Antwerp at the invitation of Music Fund to follow a training in how to repair and tune pianos. This is what...

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3 mai 2005

Haaretz on projects Ictus

Today the Israeli newspaper Haaretz published this article on the pedagogical projects which the Belgian music ensemble Ictus has been developing since October 2002 with Palestinian and Israeli music schools and universities: THEIR SECOND HOMELAND Almost...

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6 novembre 2008

Jerusalem - meetings

Jerusalem, Thursday 6th November 2008. While Pol De Winter (pianos) started a 3 day work-period in Ramallah, working on pianos of our partner-school Al Kamandjati and Baptiste Argouarc'h (string instruments) and Christian Bertram (guitars) continued to...

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8 septembre 2008

Music Fund goes to Gaza and Nablus

We have our crew together for our journey to Gaza and Nablus in the end of October: in support of the new music school in Gaza, we will be sending 4 instrument experts to Gaza (Pol De Winter and Olivier Marie, piano, Christian Bertram, guitars, and Baptiste...

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13 avril 2009

Music Fund in Madrid !

The Casa da Madrid and La Casa Encendida are preparing together with the concert organisor Musica d'Hoy a big collecting campaign for Music Fund which will take place in Madrid during the week of 14th December 2009. We expect this collecting campaign...

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27 juin 2009

guitars from Kinshasa being played by musicians

Last night, 26th June, Ottignies, festival Nuit Africaine: jazzmusician Philip Catherine, as well as musicians Daniel Hélin, Bai Kamara and Fred Lani, performed on guitars made in Kinshasa. in the hands of these fine musicians, the guitars from Kinshasa...

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10 septembre 2006

Iyad Jeradat arrives from Ramallah

Today our first student arrived for the 3-month training which Music Fund is proposing in workshops of music instrument experts in Belgium. It is Iyad Jeradat, a young man from Ramallah. Eyad has been selected for this training after following the initiation...

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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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1 avril 2009

an article in El Pais

today an article was published in El Pais (click to read the article) on the projects of Music Fund in the Middle East and Africa. and the journalist of this article, Jesus Ruiz Mantilla, is spending 4 days with me in Israel and Palestine in the beginning...

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13 juin 2009

handmade Congolese guitars for sale

GOOD NEWS FOR MUSIC AFICIONADO’S ! Music Fund is a Belgian organisation that supports young musicians and music academies in developing countries and conflict areas. As of June 12th, we are offering you the opportunity to order one of our popular handmade...

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2 juin 2009

Music Fund sells guitars from Kinshasa - trade not aid

Here you can see Belgian artists playing the guitars from Kinshasa (Congo) workshops which Music Fund is selling on its website from 5th June on: Music Fund is selling these guitars in order to allow the guitar ateliers to develop and expecting that their...

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13 avril 2009

"3rdPARTY" is starting in September

I am really happy to hear that thanks to financial support from the Province of Antwerp, the private project "3rdPARTY" (a 3-year project around Palestinian and Israeli peace-activists) can be started in Antwerp from this Autumn on. It is a private initiative...

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14 février 2009

"3rdPARTY", a project for Antwerp

"3rdPARTY" is a private initiative (not yet an organisation) which wants to create bridges between the population of Antwerp and non-violent peace activists working and living in Israel and Palestine, via public meetings in Antwerp and youth trips to...

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8 janvier 2009

article "A Third Party for the Middle East"

In August 2006 in the middle of the Lebanon war, I wrote the article "A Third Party for the Middle East" (click here to read it). It has not lost much of its actuality, nor do I think very different about it all. These thoughts still inspire a lot of...

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9 novembre 2008

a day in Israel

Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Sunday, 9th November 2008. Today is a day off for everyone. I am on my own, finishing some work on my computer and then off for a few meetings with friends. Unfortunately, my friend Itshak Frankenthal had to cancel our meeting...

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14 septembre 2008

debate on music and political engagement

In the festival Klangspuren in Innsbruck (Tirol, Austria) I attended a debate amongst composers concerning their engagement towards what happens in the world. It was a very interesting debate indeed. It made me think about my own position and ideas concerning...

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18 août 2008

special private gifts to Music Fund

It happens more and more that people propose us special gifts. Recently, we had the following such propositions: More and more people - young and old - propose to their friends and family that, instead of receiving presents for their personal birthday...

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8 janvier 2008

video-clip on Music Fund in Kinshasa

Here you can see a short documentary which Arnaud Zajtman (BBC) and Marlène Rabaud (Reuters) made for the Belgian television RTBF on the partnership of Music Fund and the INA in Kinshasa. Music Fund is not only working in Palestine and Israel, but also...

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23 décembre 2007

a piano-technician for the Westbank

We are initiating a special new project for the Westbank. The music schools in the Palestinian territories have since 2005 received pianos from Music Fund, but miss the know-how to repair and tune them. In the whole of the Westbank there is only one piano-tuner...

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13 février 2007

video-footages on Middle East projects

Here you can find a teaser on the long documentary which the production company Alizé is about to release on the projects which Ictus and Music Fund are developing with music schools in Israel (Tel Aviv, Nazareth) and Palestine (Gaza, Ramallah, Nablus)...

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