In November, I performed concerts and workshops for young music students in East Jerusalem, Ramallah and Bethlehem, in conjunction with the National Conservatory of Palestine and the Yabous Concert Series ("Yabous" is Arabic for "Jebusite", the Canaanite founders of Jerusalem and one of the ancestors of modern-day Palestinians).

The National Conservatory has been trying to continue to foster the artistic life in the West Bank, through lessons, concerts of resident and guest artists, as well as workshops, despite the extreme hardships of living under occupation. Though classes are often cancelled due to army incursions and suffocating curfews, the teachers at the conservatory continue to teach whenever they can, sometimes deliberately breaking curfew at high risk to give the children a desperately needed education.

While there I kept and email journal of my experiences and observations, in order to provide an eyewitness account as an alternative to the filtered version you would hear about on the major North American news networks.

Here are the links to my journal entries:

Flowers, Dogs and Squirrels
Spot-the-Camera
The Situation in Ramallah
Jerusalem and Bethlehem
Midnight Explosion
Dheisheh refugee camp and the Peace Center
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