Tag: Performance

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

Dabke celebrations in Manger Square as the 2021 Bethlehem Cultural Festival is launched.

A Scots story and a Palestinian folktale told for children in Palestine and Scotland.

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.

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

The Galilee Quartet is a classical string quartet comprised of three brothers and one sister from the Sa’ad family. They performed with the great virtuoso violin player Nigel Kennedy in a phenomenal concert in the BBC proms music festival in London at the Royal Albert Hall.

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. 

Cathedral and Manger Square, Bethlehem, followed by a candle-lit procession outside.

Commissioned piece by BCF based on the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish

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