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Sunday, May 1, 2011

"I Saw Fear in the Eyes of the Children"

Music workshop in Burin
Today is the 6th time that we are giving music workshops in the Nablus area.
Mohamad, Seereen, Amira and I enter Awarta village when we hear lots of shooting just next to our car. Mohamad is brave, gets out of the car and asks someone what is going on: "Nothing special, the Israeli soldiers are just practicing their shooting!" Aha. Good to know.
We continue to the first kindergarten where we start with the music workshop. Two more workshops are given in Awarta and Burin, a nearby village.
Seereen couldn't describe better what we all felt today:

I can not describe my feelings for those villages: Bureen & Awarta. It's heaven places on the ground...I hope go there again and again ♥ 
Settlers and the Israeli army in all Nablus' villages and specifically Bureen& Awarta are spreading fear, panic and horror between people, I saw it in the eyes of children.. yaa I saw it :-(

To learn more about the situation in Awarta, you can read the following blog entry about Awarta from Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh.

The following pictures were taken during music workshops in the Nablus area:

Mohamad gives a rap workshop for 300 girls in Tall

Hisham and Anas check the music before they start the workshop in Beita

Girl from Beita performs a theater show

Girls from Beita dance


Girls from Beita tell a story

Music workshop for 50 girls from five different schools in Beita








Naji conducting

Little girl conducting

Music workshop in a school in Huwara



Music workshop in a kindergarten in Huwara

There is no place in this kindergarten!





At least outside there is lots of space!

Music workshop in a girls school in the Old City of Nablus
Music workshop in a kindergarten in the Old City of Nablus
Music workshop in a school in the Old City of Nablus





Music workshop in a girls school in Tall




Music workshop in one of the kindergartens in Awarta

Burin

Music workshop in a kindergarten in Burin




The weekly music workshops in the Nablus area are made possible by the generous support of CeKaTe Foundation and executed in cooperation with Holy Land Trust and Palestinian Medical Relief Society.
Already 1000 children took part in these workshops!
Many thanks to the wonderful trainees that gave the workshops: Amira, Anas, Anaya, Ahmad, Fadi, Hisham, Khaldoun, Mohamad, Naji, and Rena

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