This Week in Palestine - Events
Issue no. 10  - June 1999

Events (01 June - 15 June)


Jerusalem

Ramallah

Nablus
Bethlehem

Gaza Strip

Reviews of main events
 
  • Concert: Peter Sulski with Opus Peter Sulski,
  • a frequent visiting teacher at the National Conservatory of Music, always initiates lots of musical activity wherever he goes. Every year he parficipates in different performances with the teachers and students of the Conservatory. Peter is a member of the London Symphony Orchestra and in the Apple Hill Chamber Players as well. As an educator, He has founded the Brighton Youth Chamber Music School. He will be performing this evening with Opus, the classical ensemble of the National Conservatory. Ramallah, Thursday 316 at 20:00, Khalil Sakakini Center
  • Concert: Salim Aboud
  • This virtuoso young pianist from Nazareth is currently in his fourth year of study at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Salim started performing at the age of ten, and since then has participated with many orchestras locally and internationally. He has toured extensively, including concerts in Jordan, Italy, Belgium and Holland. He won the Clairmont Prize for young artists in Israel twice, the gold medal in the Mersala festival in Italy, and recently he won the Palestinian prize for music. Salim will perform in Jerusalem this season, in a concert featuring the music of Beethoven. Jerusalem, Saturday 516 at 20.-OO, YMCA, East Jerusalem
  • Concert: The Oriental Ensemble - Noor AlHussien Establishment.
  • In this season, teachers and students from the National Conservatory in Amman are going to perform Longas and Sama'iat by great Eastern composers. This ensemble has received many awards in Arabic festivals. The oud player, Sakher Hafter gained the 1994 prize for the best player in the Arab countries, in the Opera House in Cairo. The other performers are Emil Haddad on the Qanoun, Firas Hafter on the violin and Mohammad 'Elian on percussion. Bethlehem, Thursday 1016 at 20:00, French Hospital, Jerusalem, Friday 1116 at 20.-OO, YMCA, East Jerusalem; Ramallah, Saturday 1216 at 20.-00, Baladna Center

    Film Reviews
     
  • In Love & War
  • USA 1996, Dir. Richard Attenborough, 1 13 min, colour, English.
    Caught in the crossfire of a world at war, love was the last thing on their mind. but for a beautiful nurse and a heroic young soldier in search of adventure, romance blossomed and changed their lives forever. Sandra Bullock and Chriss O'donnell star in academy award-winner Richard Attenborough's epic love story about Ernest Hemingway and romance which inspired him to write his masterpiese "A Farewell to Arms". a story of desperate love and imminent danger, it chronicles the relatinship between the 18-year-old Hemingway and Agnes Von Kurowsky, the medical aide who nursed him back to health after a devastating injury. El Bireh, Tuesday 116 at 19:30, Popular Art Center
  • The Full Monty
  • Academy award winner for best original music uk 199 7, dir. Peter Cattaneo, 90 min. colour, english cast.- Robert Catyle, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy, Steve Huison.
    The film is a bout a group of men who loose their jobs because of the advanced technology. They do not find a way making their living except in striptease . El Bireh, Monday 716 at 19:30, Popular Art Center
  • Above The Soil .. Under The Sun
  • Syria 1990, Dir. Mohammad Malas, 33 min. colour., documentary and feature, Arabic.
    This film is about prison every where. It is based on a real experience of one of the prisoners in the Syrian prisons. Mohammad Malas in this film mixes different techniques. The film is banned in syria. This film will be screened in cooperation with the cinema production center. El Bireh, Sunday 516 at 19.-30, Popular Art Center
  • Sehora Carrar's Rifles (1953) - 54 min.
  • The play was written during the first year of the Spanish Civil War as a direct show of support for the threatened Spanish republic. In it Brecht deviated from his aesthetic standards. Instead of using a dramatic form, which aimed at producing an indirect effect, Brecht presents in a very direct way an exemplary figure, since Senora Carrar, the main character, recognizes her situation and acts accordingly. Gaza, Tuesday 1516 at 20,-00, Rashad Shawwa Center
  • Galileo (1947) - 30 min.
  • Brecht had written the play, Leben des Galilei" 1938 while living in exile in Denmark. What interested him about it was the survival in times of darkness. Galileo Galilei uses his cunning in dealing with those in power. His realisation that the Copernican system of the universe is correct, drives him into the fangs of the Inquisition. This in the end forced him to retract his defense of the Copernican system. The film is meant to document the methods of acting and the stage arrangements, focal points of the Brecht Workshop. Gaza, Tuesday 1516 at 20:00, Rashad Shawwa Center
  • The Mysteries of a Hairdressees Shop (1 923) - 24 min.
  • A cinematic grotesque with the legendary Mbnich comedian Karl Valentin, who was for Brecht, one of the most strikingly intellectual figures of ttfe,-'day" and who, with his extremely dry and surrealistic humour, had a strong influence on him. The film is cinematic fun created by theatre people who enjoyed breaking with tradition, and in doing so are the only artists in Germany to keep up with the international standards of the grotesque film. Gaza, Tuesday 1516 at 20.00, Rashad Shawwa Center
     
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