Michael, that really is a beautiful picture you shared with us, thank you! art, especially music seems to be a very powerful phenomena that opens the space immensely... so, this practice of peace in Berlin, is that a dream or a possibility that will happen? I am personally very interested in a practice of peace because I also dream to have one in Turkey one day :)
filiz --- "Pannwitz, Michael M" <mmpa...@boscop.de> wrote: > Dear colleagues, > I was not there, just watched in on Television, > the performance of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra > in Ramallah last > Sunday. > Something happened in Ramallah that is by all > criteria: > political, organisational, cultural, physical, etc. > impossible. > A group of young palestinian, arab and spanish > musicians performing > with > Daniel Barenboim in a place where they could never > be together. > Till the day before the event utter uncertainty > about whether it > would actually work. > After 5 years of work on this project (starting in > Weimar, taking > "West-Eastern Divan" from one of Goethes literary > works and continued > with yearly workshops in Sevilla with its historic > tradition of a > productive collaboration of jews and arabs centuries > ago) equipped > with Diplomatic Passports by the Spanish government > they actually > came to Ramallah. > A musical demonstration of amazing quality > (Beethovens Fifth) > performed by 15 to 30 year old musicians from Egypt, > Syria, Jordan, > Lebanon, Israel and Spain....a glimpse of the future > of people living > together in productive collaboration with > implications far beyond > Ramallah. But what a place to have it take place! > This reminded me so much of the events in Rome (that > lead to > Harrisons book "Practice of Peace") and again in > Cypress this year. > Palestinians and Israelis meeting in a foreign > place, on the > invitation of a foreign government. > There are peacemakers all over the place using such > similar methods > as Music and Open Space Technology and others. > My dream is to have a divergent crowd at the > Practice of Peace > Program November 30 and December 1 and 2 in Berlin > (not to forget the celebration of Harrisons 70th on > the 2nd of > December, when he will actually have completed seven > decades of his > journey on this planet). > Greetings from Berlin > mmp > > > > > Michael M Pannwitz, boscop eg > Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany > ++49-30-772 8000 > www.boscop.de www.michaelmpannwitz.de > > Check out the new Open Space World Map now with 312 > resident Open Space Workers in 57 countries (working > in a total of 115 countries worldwide) > www.openspaceworldmap.org > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > f i l i z www.barakam.blogspot.com "come out of the circle of time, step into the circle of love" Rumi ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist