**AL-URMAWI CONCERT: "Isfahan" - Contemporary Music from Palestine / Composed & Performed by KHALED JUBRAN
**THURSDAY 5/6 @ 7:00 PM
Guest: Tamer Abu Ghazaleh
For more information & reservation: Al- Urmawi 02-2342005
Ticket Price: 15 NIS for Adults, 10 NIS for Students

**NCM CONCERT: Kesergo - Folk Music / Sweden
**SATURDAY 8/5 @ 7:00 PM
Three outstanding musicians performing folk music with various sounds and rhythms, playing Hungarian blues filled with love and sorrow switching to wild ancient Swedish and gypsy dances that is filled with happiness and excitement. Kesergo (pronounced KESHERGEH) is a mixture of sounds, rhythms and instruments from different European countries, mainly Sweden, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Romania. The musicians are Torbjarn Westman on the violin and key harp, who currently works as a violin teacher at the NCM, Per Drougge on the Violin, Viola and Gardon (traditional Hungarian instrument) and David Werthuzen on Double Bass. This concert is part of the Spring Season Program for the National Conservatory of Music.
Ticket Price: 15 NIS for Adults, 10 NIS for Students, 5 NIS for NCM Students

**ART EXHIBIT: "Where We Come From" by Artist EMILY JACIR
**SUNDAY 9/5 @ 6:00 PM
"Enormous complexity, of course, underpins the project, but its simplicity could make you weep." -- The New Yorker
"One of the most moving gallery exhibitions I've encountered this season." -- Holland Cotter, New York Times
For the main project exhibited, Jacir asked other Palestinians from around the world, "If I could do something for you, anywhere in Palestine, what would it be?" The artist used her American passport and its accompanying "freedom of movement" status in an attempt to realize desires of people who have limited or no access to their own nation. The exhibition documents in text, photography and video the artist's fulfillment of these requests across artificial and dangerous borders. The presentation is simple and straightforward: photographs record a vista denied, a family separated, a bill paid, a historic district obliterated. A text in Arabic and English records each request and its outcome.
**The exhibit will remain until 21/5.

**4 EXPERIMENTAL /VIDEO/SHORT FILM SCREENINGS
**THURSDAY 13/5 @ 7:00 PM
-"Replay"
Personal and poetic reflection on the childhood of the film maker in a Beirut ravaged by civil war. As the title suggests, the story is repeated. Repeated in order to avert it, to free it from the past, to abrogate the distinction between dream and reality. An attempt is made to re-depict the memories. The film maker closes with a lengthy shot of today's Beirut at the moment of prayer.
(Directed by Lamia Joreige, Lebanon, Arabic with English subtitles, 9 mins, 2002)
-"Saving Face"
The dominance of election posters in Lebanon is undermined by scrapers.
(Directed by Jalal Toufic, Lebanon, Arabic with English subtitles, 9 mins, 2003)
-"Phantom Beirut: A Tribute to Ghassan Salhab"
The Lebanese writer and filmmaker Ghassan Salhab talks about his insomnia, which he would not want to miss, despite all its associated problems.
(Directed by Jalal Toufic, Lebanon, Arabic with English subtitles, 14 mins, 2002)
-"The Sleep of Reason: This Blood Spilled in my Veins"
People sleep at night, while in as slaughterhouse animals bleed to death after their throats have been cut.
(Directed by Jalal Toufic, Lebanon, Arabic with English subtitles, 32 mins, 2002)
**In cooperation with Townhouse Gallery/Cairo

**PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK: "The Artist's Way" by SAMEH ABOUSHI
**WEDNESDAY 19/5 @ 7:00 PM
Can you teach Creativity? "The Artist's Way" is a course in discovering and recovering your creative self. Created by author and teacher "Julia Cameron", this course has altered the lives of thousands of painters, dancers, writers, musicians and others who only dreamed of being somehow more creative. They have discovered the path that led them to live a more creative life.
**Introductory event for a workshop to take place after the summer vacation

**CHILDREN'S ACTIVITY: "Kids Color their Dreams" Supervised by Artist Paula Cox
**SUNDAY 23/5 @ 3:00 - 6:00 PM
The British artist Paula Cox will carry out an art workshop for the children, which will include a showing of her work in a video compilation entitled "Painted World", which is an audio-visual presentation of her paintings with music and it includes much of her work as a painter for human rights with Amnesty International.
Suitable for ages 8-16 / Limited to 50 children
**Funded by the Spanish Cooperation through the Pontifical Mission to Palestine.

**FILM SCREENING: "KANDAHAR"
**THURSDAY 27/5 @ 7:00 PM
Nafas is a young Afghani journalist who has taken refuge in Canada. She receives a desperate letter from her little sister, who has stayed behind in Afghanistan and has decided to end her life before the imminently approaching eclipse of the sun. Nafas fled her country during the Taliban civil war. She decides to go and help her sister in Kandahar and attempts to cross the Iran - Afghanistan border. As the journalist is forced to disguise herself under cover of the traditional burka, the oppression of women under the Taliban regime becomes a central theme. This film has been shown in many film festivals and has received many international awards due to its relevance to the war in Afghanistan.
Ecumenical Jury Prize Description Cannes International Film Festival, France 2001
(Dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Drama, Persian Language, English Subtitles, 85 minutes, 2001)
**In cooperation with MAKAN/ Amman

**NCM CONCERT: Duo Chamorro-Munoz - Classical Spanish Music
**SATURDAY 29/5 @ 7:00 PM
The concert will feature Pedro Chamorro, a virtuoso guitar, mandolin and bandurria (Spanish lute) player, who has been described as the greatest plucked-string instrument player in the world. Chamorro will be joined by classical Spanish guitarist Manuel Munoz. The winner of numerous prizes for his performances in the United States, Poland, France, Italy and Russia, Chamorro was awarded the International Chamber Music Prize for a performance he gave in Germany with Marga Wilden-Husgen.
This concert is part of the Spring Season Program for the National Conservatory of Music. Ticket Price: 15 NIS for Adults, 10 NIS for Students, 5 NIS for NCM Students


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