Exhibition: Beat Streuli
Streuli works at the edge of cinema, the "outer
limit between the static and the photographic" as he explains. He projects
slides on a huge scale, cross-fading them in and out of view. His subject
matter is very ordinary - groups of people walking down crowded streets-
but the banality of the situation is transformed by his ability to find
beauty in the most unlikely of places. His moody-looking subjects appear
as serene beings moving in isolation.
Streuli has been filming and taking snapshots
of strangers on the streets of the world's major cities for a number of
years.
Jerusalem: Thursday 24 June - 30 June,
Al Mamal Foundation, New Gate, Old City
Concert: Comifo
A French Music group, their music is inspired
by the Mediterranean. They use both traditional and contemporary string
instruments, performing Arab-Andalusian vocals , mediaeval music, and songs
from the French Languedoc area, to the backdrop of Jazz and Reggae rhythms.
Gaza: Wednesday 16 June 19:00, Rashad
Shawa Cultural Center.
Street Concert: Music Brass
For the third music festival organized by
the French Cultural Center in cooperation with the Palestinian Ministry
of Culture, 8 musicians will tour the streets of major Palestinian cities
performing music on brass instruments. They are touring in the Palestinian
territories following a tour of Europe and Africa.
Hebron: Monday 21 June 17:00
Bethlehem: Tuesday 22 June 17:00
Jerusalem: Wednesday 23 June 17:00
Tulkarem: Thursday 24 June 17:00
Gaza: Tuesday 29 June 17:00
Concert: The International Children's Choir
The International Children's Choir features
international costumes and music of many countries in over 30 languages.
The choir debuted at Carnegie Hall, performed at St. Peter's Basilica at
the Vatican, and throughout Italy, Austria, Germany, Hungary, and the Czech
Republic. The Choir's Founder and Director, Dr. Kathy Sorensen, carries
a Phd in Music from the University of Utah, and served as Professor of
music at Brigham Young University and as multicultural music. The choir
features Victoria Morris - Mezzo Suprano, and is accompanied by Sheryl
Laukat - Piano.
Jerusalem: Sunday 27 June 20:00, Brigham Young
University Center & Monday 28 June 20:00,
Augusta Victoria Cathedral.
Ramallah: Tuesday 29 June 20:00, Friends Boys
School, El Bireh.
Photo Exhibition: 33 years of Occupation and Apartheid
Mia Grondahl is a swedish journalist and
photographer who has been covering the Middle
East for years. When the Peace agreement was signed in 1993, she made frequent
visits to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, deepening her understanding
of Palestine, the people, and their land. As a result, she is now based
in East Jerusalem since 1996. The photo exhibition is being shown throughout
Sweden and Palestine, touring major Palestinian cities under the auspices
of the Consulate General of Sweden in East Jerusalem.
Bethlehem: until 06 August, open daily from
15:00 - 18:00, Artas Folklore Center.
Concert: Tania Tamari Nasser (Songs and Memories)
An evening of Arabic and Western songs will
be presented by Tania Tamari Nasser, soprano. Tania has performed on several
national occassions. She has sung to lyrics by well known Palestinian and
Arab poets such as Kamal Nasir, Omar Abu Risheh, Mahmoud Darwish, Samih
al Qassim, Ibrahim Toukan, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, and Bader Shaker as Sayyab.
Jerusalem: Thursday 24 June, YMCA Bethlehem:
Friday 25 June, Bethlehem University
Ramallah: Saturday 26 June, Khalil Sakakini
Center
Film: The Three Penny Opera
The famous Opera of Brecht was from its beginnings
in 1928 a sensational success. This film version, directed by George Wilhelm
Pabst, does not exactly reflect the political intentions of Brecht who
felt that mere sentences attacking capitalism were no longer enough at
that time. Nevertheless, the film has something of the aura of the original
theatre production staged at the Theater Am Schiffebauerdamm.
Gaza: Thursday 17 June 20:00, Rashad Shawa
Culturalcenter.
Play: I Dream of Tomorrow
The play consists of "condensed flashes that
dig into group memory of Palestinian refugees who have walked the Via Dolorosa
for half a century." Twenty actors and dancers and ten children, all of
whom have experienced life in a refugee camp, try to portray in ten scenes
life in the refugee camps and beyond. A dream of tomorrow beginning with
a re-creation of yesterday carries the audience into the painful experience
of the forced migration and experience of refuge in a comic and satirical
style that appeals both to children and adults, Palestinian and foreign.
Director and Scriptwriter: Fatthi Abdul Rahman
Tulkarem: Thursday 24 June 19:00, Khadouri
Theatre.
Nablus: Friday 25 June 20:00, An Najah University.
Gaza: Sunday 27 June 20:00 , Rashad Shawa
Cultural Center.
Khan Younes: Tuesday 29 June and Wednesday
30 June 20:00, Al Amal Center.
Film: Tension
Palestine 1998 dir. Rashid Mashharawi, 26
min. color, documentary
The words in this film are colored images,
charged with emotions and subtle patterns of behaviors engulfed by silence,
details in the depth appearing on the surface. The language is impotent
and a socioeconomic-political crisis is unfolding in the form of suffocating,
small, tense, and intense details.
Ramallah: Thursday 17 June 20:00, Star Mountain
Rehabilitation Center, Birzeit Road.
Concert: Saber Al Riba'e
Saber Al Riba'e is a distinguished singer
who started his career in 1984 in an amateurs club in Tunisia. He won the
first award when he was 15. Saber pursued an education in arts and music
and is currently working on his postgraduate thesis. He is one of the most
promising young singers in the Arab world performing a wide range of Arabic
musical styles appealing to youth and adults alike.
Palestine International Festival, Birzeit:
Tuesday 29 June 20:30.
Concert: Arabic Music Ensemble
Established in Nahaf village - the Galilee
in 1985, this ensemble consisting of 16 musicians and singer performs classical
Arabic music led by singer and artist Isam Kadiri. Their repertoire includes
songs by Um Kulthoum, Abdul Wahhab, and Suad Mohammad.
Palestine International Festival, Birzeit:
Wednesday 30 June 20:30.
Modern Dance performance: "Hotel Nada" performed by Nomad
Dance Theatre
Using dance as the main medium, Hotel Nada
brings the creators of Nomad Dance Theatre's award winning secrets together
again. With sensuous and telling movement, Bosnian Nezirovic-Wiseman and
Australian Nicholas Rowe do not stop entertaining with their bedroom politics
and dynamic stagecraft. An original score, created by an exciting collective
of Bosnian and British musicians on contemporary and ancient instruments
has been created for Hotel Nada. Hotel Nada is a universal tale told in
the most universal of mediums.
Palestine International Festival, Kamal Nassir
Hall,
Birzeit University: Tuesday 29 June 17:30.
Modern Dance Performance: Nacera Belaza
The three women dancers (from France and Algiers)
working with Algerian dancer Nacera
Belaza will dance to the music of a Palestinian
classic song "Unadikum": I call upon you. The poem was written by prominent
Palestinian poet, Tawfiq Zayyad of Nazareth. This piece, which is based
on the revolutionary re-constructed music (by Arab composer Abed Azrie,)
is impressive and breathtaking. It captures the essence of the human struggle
inspired by the Palestinian experience. Palestine International Festival,
Kamal Nassir Hall,
Birzeit University: Wednesday 30 June 17:30.