June 14, 2016
Preparation End of the Year Concert
This week, all children of Sounds of Palestine will perform in the End of the Year Concert.
May 26, 2016
Preparation School Exams
The children of Sounds of Palestine have exams in school this month, so our social workers help the children to study together and prepare for their exams.
April 20, 2016
Orchestra Games
One of our favorite orchestra games is ‘Police and Criminal’: One child is the police and waits outside of the orchestra room. Another child is the criminal and makes a ‘musical crime’.
March 21, 2016
Mother’s Day
Today is Mother’s Day in the Middle East. The children played music for their mothers, gave them a flower and expressed one by one why they love their mom.
March 14, 2016
Planting Seeds
Weather has changed, and it’s time to plant seeds: not only in our garden, but also musical seeds in our students!
February 4, 2016
Christmas Concert in the Peace Center
We would like to thank the Municipality of Bethlehem for inviting Sounds of Palestine’s orchestra to perform during the Christmas Festival on the 10th of December. The Peace Center was packed with family and friends, who listened to a mix of Arabic and Western traditional songs. It was a truly heartwarming experience to play on […]
December 19, 2015
Congratulations Retaj and Mustafa!
Cello students Retaj Zboun (al-Azzeh refugee camp) and Mustafa al-Kurd (Aida refugee camp), both 8 years old, participated in the 7th Magnificat String Competition in Jerusalem. We congratulate them with their great accomplishments, winning the 3rd and the 1st prize in their category!
September 25, 2015
Welcoming New Students!
A new school year has started. There are new children in the kindergartens following our weekly music appreciation lessons, and the oldest kindergarten children became first-graders in primary school. Forty of these first-graders joined the after school program and are receiving instrument lessons (violin, cello, double bass, Arabic percussion or clarinet), choir, music theory and orchestra […]
September 1, 2015
Music Summer School
In August, we organized a two-week Music Summer School with daily music lessons, orchestra training, art lessons, folklore dancing and choir. We started a new instrument class: our seven recorder students are now clarinet students. Temperatures were above 40 degrees so to cool down we took the children to a swimming pool. After all these days of […]
June 16, 2015
End of the Year Concert for Afternoon Program
On June the 11th more than 60 children age 6-8 performed in our end of the year concert! It was a long day: at 9.30 the children gathered in Aida refugee camp, from where they travelled to the Peace Center in Bethlehem. They practiced their pieces on stage, ate delicious ‘waraq dawali’ made by women […]