Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Monday, 2 May 2016
A Circus School for Refugee Children
At this circus school in a refugee camp, kids are learning to juggle, jump and forget their troubles.
Syrian kids turning trash into art in Lebanon
At this circus school in a refugee camp, kids are learning to juggle, jump and forget their troubles.
Wednesday, 20 April 2016
Fighting the Taliban with music
Playing instruments was banned during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan but now the country’s first female orchestra is fighting the taboo and preparing to make its international debut. Full story here: http://reut.rs/22IyCUK
Wednesday, 6 April 2016
The Shawshank Redemption
"Andy: It was in here... That’s the beauty of music. They can’t take that away from you."
Thursday, 31 March 2016
Artist Morehshin Allahyari: Collaborative art in countries of conflict
Art activist Morehshin Allahyari teams artists from the US and Iran in a creative exchange designed to build bridges between the countries. She urges us to take action and think about how we can use our own talents to extend what collaboration can look like.
See complete bio and all TEDxDU Talks at www.tedxdu.com.
Artist Morehshin Allahyari is using 3D printers to save artifacts destroyed by ISIS
3D printing is saving art from ISIS
One artist is using 3D printers to save artifacts destroyed by ISIS
Posted by NowThis on Thursday, 31 March 2016
Wednesday, 30 March 2016
A German orchestra performs music with Jordanian students and young Syrian refugees
German Orchestra Performs with Refugees
An orchestra performs music with Jordanian students and young Syrian refugees — and it's pretty adorable.
Posted by AJ+ on Wednesday, 30 March 2016
Sunday, 13 March 2016
Art as Resistance in War
Jafar Meray wants images to bring hope (Homs, Syria - 2016)
Artist wants images to bring healing and hope to #Syria.Posted by CCTV on Sunday, 13 March 2016
Syrian photographer Jafar Meray captured the photos “to show that life is stronger than death”, that 'Love is stronger than war'. Moving pictures show Syrian bride marrying soldier posing in the ravaged city of Homs - as Russia reveals it has hit at least 400 targets in the country in just two days...
Drone footage over Homs
After years of war, parts of Homs, Syria, are crumbling and deserted. New drone footage shows the extent of the devastation.
Posted by Channel 4 News on Tuesday, 2 February 2016
Pianist plays John Lennon's Imagine outside Bataclan concert hall after Terror attacks (Paris, France - 2015)
Pianist plays John Lennon's Imagine outside Bataclan concert hall, the day after more than 127 people were slaughtered during the Paris terror attacks. An unnamed man plays John Lennon's Imagine on a grand piano outside the Bataclan in tribute to the victims of the Paris attacks.
Posted by The Guardian on Saturday, 14 November 2015. The pianist attracted huge media attention as he performed a jazzy version of the late Beatle's classic ballad.
Ayham al-Ahmad, the pianist of Yarmouk (Damascus, Syria - 2015)
Karim Wasfi, the cellist of Baghdad (Iraq - 2015)
Karim Wasfi, conductor of the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra, had decided to play amid the wreckage to drive home a message.
Iraqis needed to experience beauty, not just endure one bomb after another.
“It’s about reaching out to people exactly where someone had experienced something so grotesque and ugly earlier,” Wasfi said in an interview. “The spot where people lost their lives, the spot where people were still trying to stay alive, trying to function.” More HERE.
Vedran Smailovic, the cellist of Sarajevo (w. Joan Baez, 1992)
On May 27, 1992 news spread throughout central Sarajevo that a bakery had received a shipment of flour. Hundreds of people assembled in the market square waiting hours in line for bread.
Suddenly, shells lobbed from surrounding hills struck the square, leaving a large crater. Among the ruble were 22 dead men, women and children and more than 100 wounded.
Nearby, a man named Vedran Smailovic saw the destruction and ran to the square to help his fallen neighbors. Later he returned home.
Unable to sleep, Vedran struggled with the senseless massacre of so many innocent people. He knew he had to do something, but what?
Dressed in a formal evening jacket, Vedran returned to the square the next day and set a simple chair among the rubble. Although many people had returned to the square to wait in line for bread among the rubble of the previous days massacre, a quiet fell as Vedran played Adagio in G minor, a song known as a musical cry for peace. More HERE.
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
Pink Floyd and Middle East conflict: Wish you were here... or Another brick in the wall....
Jewish men singing Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd (COVER)
Posted by I Love Rock and Metal on Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Friday, 12 February 2016
UK Students Design 3-In-1 Wearable Shelter For Refugees
Students Design 3-In-1 Wearable Shelter For Refugees
This jacket turns into a tent that could be used to help fleeing Syrian refugees.
Posted by The Huffington Post on Wednesday, 10 February 2016
Thursday, 11 February 2016
A Museum Under the Sea
Artist's website.
A Museum Under the Sea
You'll need some diving gear to see the refugee sculptures in this museum.
Posted by AJ+ on Thursday, 11 February 2016
Sunday, 27 September 2015
Knowledge is the Beginning
"The Ramallah Concert - Knowledge is the Beginning" is the story of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, where young Arabs and Jews perform and live side by side. It is a film about what music can do; the way it can transcend cultural barriers, bring people together, defeat prejudice and overcome religious and political differences. It also demonstrates the problems that crop up occasionally and how music can help people from different points of view find common ground. For Daniel Barenboim, founder of the ensemble, the orchestra is a symbol for what could be achieved in the Middle East.
Thursday, 15 January 2015
Saving the Sarajevo Haggadah: sacred Jewish book survives in Bosnia against all the odds
It's one of the most important books in the world, estimated to be worth between seven million and one billion US dollars. The original is housed in Sarajevo's National Museum which was closed in October 2012 due to economic troubles. Now after surviving 2 wars, both World War II and the Bosnian War, the Haggadah is facing another battle of its own...
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| Lotumba Hussein, seen here at home with his family, is the night watchman at the library and risked his life to help save the collection during the siege. ' It would have been better to die together with the books than to live without them,' Hussein says. 'What would be the purpose of my life if I lost what I loved' |
MORE:
- Saved from war, Bosnian trove of books finds new home
- For the Love of Books: A Sarajevo Story – in pictures
Ahmed Ismail Khatib: "The Heart of Jenin" Movie
This is the story of Ahmed Khatib, a Palestinian boy shot by Israeli soldiers. His father decides to donate his son's organs to Israeli children as a gesture of peace. A powerful documentary on Israel's people, who have learned to live with everyday conflict, but have not given up their hope for peace.
- Written by American Film Market
Jewish-Muslim slam poetry duo break stereotypes with words
Source HERE.
By Jessica Steinberg Jessica Steinberg covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center.
This week, the two poets and friends were at Limmud UK, an annual Jewish learning event that drew more than 2,500 participants for a week of lectures, workshops, performances and discussions on a wide range of Jewish issues, ranging from culture, art and psychology to history and politics.
The two 18-year-olds held four poetry workshops, focusing on cultural differences, womanhood, identity and faith.
Sitting around a table, they taught participants the basic concepts of slam poetry, how to take concepts and long-held beliefs, finding synonyms and metaphors for those ideas and then shaping those words and terms into full-fledged poems.
“Who wants to go first,” Iro would ask, thanking each person after they had shared their written words.
The two teens come across as gentle souls, but their own poems are intense, even harsh at times. Iro’s poems, written in her cloth-covered journal, spoke about the difficulties of figuring out her place back home in Bowie, Maryland, and in her new home in Madison, Wisconsin, where she started college this year. Halpern, reading from her iPhone, talked about fellow shul members who assumed she would date non-Jews now that she wasn’t religiously observant and guys who hurt her emotionally.
Iro is a chemistry major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, while Halpern is a first year student at Oberlin College in Ohio. Iro wears a hijab covered with a thick, black wool hat emblazoned with a “W” for her school; Halpern wears oversized hammered metal discs in her ears and silver rings on her fingers.
When they first met both were in high school and ended up being two of the 12 competing members of Split This Rock, the competitive wing of the 2013 DC Youth Slam Team. Their calling? Poetry that called for social justice, evoking changes they wanted to see in the United States and beyond, said Iro.
The two connected over their commitment to religion, said Halpern, despite their obvious differences.
Iro is a religiously observant Moslem, a “BMW (Black Muslim Woman) from DMV” (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia), she quipped; Halpern is grappling with a college campus where many Jewish students support the Free Palestine movement and where liberal Israel advocacy group J Street is considered more moderate.
But when it comes to slam poetry, everything is legitimate.
“It’s about breaking stereotypes,” said Iro. “We look at people for what they are, as opposed to what they’re supposed to be.”
The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is a youth orchestra based in Seville, Spain, consisting of musicians from countries in the Middle East, of Egyptian, Iranian, Israeli, Jordanian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian and Spanish background. The Argentine-Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim and the late Palestinian-American academic Edward Said founded the orchestra in 1999, and named the ensemble after an anthology of poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
The aim of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is to promote understanding between Israelis and Palestinians and pave the way for a peaceful and fair solution of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
MORE HERE.
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