“Sing your song - the roots of Israeli music”
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“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” Writing that famous sentence in the 19th century, Viktor Hugo certainly did not know how fitting these words would be many years later. Today, here and now. Here and now for us in particular means Israel 2010. Last year, young music enthusiasts from Israel and Germany came to Berlin to meet in a summer camp of Action Reconciliation Service for Peace. In 2010, this musical journey continues in Jerusalem.
We are looking forward to meet new faces! You are warmly welcome to join us!
Israel is the homeland for many people who came here from various countries or whose parents and grandparents have brought different traditions. During this year’s summer camp, we want to explore the musical landscape that has been shaped and is being shaped that way and go to the roots of this musical mixture. We want to focus on songs, which are dealing with the issue of exile and which are singing about Israel, as being the homeland. How does music reflect collective and individual identities in a multicultural society? What human destinies are being described in the songs and poems? Together with a contemporary witness and by visiting Yad Vashem and discussing the issue of musicians during the Shoa, we want to explore the German part in Israel’s history.
We are also going to experience music as a central key in interpersonal communication and relationships. We will visit intercultural projects in Israel, especially Israeli-Arab institutions and facilities like the Beit haGefen in Haifa - where music is the medium for an intensive dialogue when words sometimes are not easy to find. Together with students of the Yad-be-Yad school (Hand in Hand) for bilingual and interreligious education we are going to make music. Let’s see in how many languages!
After all it is not only written music we want to focus on. The international meeting place Beit Ben Yehuda provides room for presentations of various kinds. In the beginning of our journey we will invite interested people to a reading night of German and Hebrew poetry. Finally, at the end of our summer camp, we are going to listen to the sound, which YOU have found and created during the encounter in Israel. We are going to listen to what you have discovered on your trips through the country. We are going to listen to those things, on which it is impossible for you to be silent - a concert of self-composed songs, which shall reach a public audience and sound in everyone’s ears.
Come with us, open your mind, sing, play and dance for understanding and tolerance!
Participants: 10 young adults from each Germany and Israel aged between 16 and 23 years who love singing, playing and dancing and who are interested in culture and history
Travel period: Obligatory preparatory meeting on 16/17 July in Berlin; 18 July-1 August in Jerusalem
Language: English
Accomodation: International meeting centre Beit Ben Yehuda, Ejn Gedi Street 28, 93383 Jerusalem
Application: Please apply online via https://www.asf-ev.de/sommerlager/anmeldung/online_anmeldung/.
Additionally please send a motivation letter to Rachel de Boor in the ASF office. Deadline for application: 15 May 2010.
Price: 390 € for German participants (flight, board and lodging as well as the program are included), 200 € for Israeli participants (board and lodging as well as the program are included)
Notes: Travel expenses associated with the preparatory meeting must be covered by the participant. International health insurance is obligatory.
Information: Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste e.V., Rachel de Boor, Israel-Referat, 10117 Berlin, phone: +49 (0)30 28 39 5 179, E-mail: be_israel(at)asf-ev.de
