Tag: Performance

A Dabka and Irish dancing collaboration performance, uniting the two traditional dances from Palestine and Ireland

Palestinian folktale told for children in Scotland

Faris Ishaq playing an original composition on the nay, an end-blown flute originating from the MENA region.

A performance of ‘Majnoun Leila’, a play produced by choreographer and artistic director Philippe Talard, by the Alrowwad theatre company.

Performance of a piece commissioned by the Bethlehem Cultural Festival, based on the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish.

Collaborative video of piping in Glasgow and Bethlehem with the National Piping School, Glasgow and the Scout bands of Bethlehem

Carol service with the Lord provost and Rev. Mark Johnstone. With readings and carols from Amwaj choir and the choir of Talitha Kumi school, including an Armenian Christmas-related song by Amwaj with solo singer Levon Kaladjian.

Musicians Faris Ishaq on Nay and Saied Silbak on Oud will be joining forces to play together for the first time ever.

Hawiyya Dance Company was founded in 2017 as an all-women’s collective that explores identity, culture and resistance through dance. The collective uses Dabke and contemporary dance forms to create interwoven narratives of identity, displacement and resistance. 

This theatrical work is to revive the memory of a Palestinian child who has lived in Beirut during the war in 1982 with all its dimensions.