20th of January : They've got a bomb
20th of January : They've Got A Bomb
Intro
The idea so far is to hold a simultaneous concert in several cities around the world. We initially thought of linking ourselves through the internet, but it would be too complicated, especially for us here in Lebanon. As it stands, we would like to propose a first date: january 20 (also a nice date because this will be the day we will finally get rid of Bush, the biggest criminal of the XXIst century). Flyers and announcements will inculde all the events that will happen in the various cities (at the same time). Ideally the music would be recorded and put up on a website at a later date. Any profit (if any, and even if symbolic) would be sent to Palestine.
I know the time is short especially for those of you living in the modern world where everything has to be planned months in advance. But if you are motivated by this project and are free on this date, and you think you can find a venue (or any kind of place) who would agree to this and understand the special circumstances and emergency of the situation, then please let me know as fast as possible (yes I will be coordinating this as you probably guessed by now).
Finally, you are of course welcome to do this with anyone you would like or you feel should take part. Also, if you think of someone in other cities who also should be part of this please get them into the loop.
I hope we can do this and of course let's wish that by the time we get there this whole madness will be over.
Peace,
Sh..
They've got a bomb!
'They've Got A Bomb' is an occasion for showing our support to victims of massive and blind bombing on Gaza, and also against the experimentation of new american weapons over disarmed populations. The new nickname of the bomb is DIME : [DIME]
The human race ( there's only one race here, 'arab' or 'african' is not a race ) is able to invent more horrors everyday...
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions
Information:
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: A Call from Gaza
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mideast/palestine/FAQshortversion.pdf
http://home.pacbell.net/halnet/Boycott%20Israeli%20Products%20Campaign.htm
http://www.pacbi.org/boycott_news_more.php?id=844_0_1_0_C
THESE ARE THE LISTS OF COMPANIES TO BOYCOTT:
http://boycottisraelnow.com/list.htm
http://home.pacbell.net/halnet/Boycott%20Israeli%20Products%20Campaign.htm
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mideast/palestine/usinvestments.html
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Print flyers, spread the word, educate, organize, agitate!!
http://anotherworldispossiblenow.blogspot.com/2009/01/what-can-you-do-for-gazapalestine.html
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mideast/palestine/FAQshortversion.pdf
http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-israel-brochure.jpg
http://www.whiterevolution.com/aidtoisrael.pdf
where, when, who
Nazareth, Palestine
Alber Mer'eb (oud) sings Al-Shiekh Imam.
Dirar Kalash (saxophone + electronics) measuring silence with noise.
...and more
Beirut, Lebanon
Following an initiative by Dirar Kalash, the 20th of january will see various performances in support for the people of Gaza. Events will be held on that day in Nazareth, Beirut, Paris, Lisbon, Chicago, Oakland CA, Lund, Gävle, Barcelona, Valparaiso and other places.
In Beirut:
BAO:
Mazen Kerbaj - trumpet
Sharif Sehnaoui - electric guitar
Charbel Haber - electric guitar + electronics
The entrance is free, but donations are welcome and will go to the Palestinian Red Cross.
Barcelona, Spain
A performance night with all benefit for Gaza Strip : [They've Got A Bomb BCN]
21h-24h : actuaciones A/V
- Segmentation fault! link
- Diego de leon link
- Mis.fit.bit. + adrikadabri link
- Saxwakuy + m1m0z1nn37 link
- d.R.e.G.S. + terminal4 link
They've got more than one bomb, unfortunately
Valparaiso, Chile
El evento en Valparaíso tendrá lugar el martes 20 desde ESPACIO G en escalera Fischer, pasaje Fischer 25, Valparaíso, desde las 18:00 hrs.
Será un evento simultáneo con Nazareth, Beirouth, Barcelona y Valparaíso.
Desde nuestro lado haremos música y daremos información sobre el problema de la ocupación israeli en palestina.
Programa previsional :
- Julio Lamilla
- Espacio G
- elpueblodechina
- Erzebeth Bathory
- Olimac Sagrav
- Jorge Budrovich
- Felipe Klaue
Brasil
Paris, France
The event will take place in the opening of 'Evil Moisture' exposition in the Miroiterie ( 88, rue de Mesnilmontant ) on the 21st.
Previsional Program ::
- c104 a.k.a. scenophonie [Scenophonie]
- Super SS ( black humor )
- Ancient Astronauts ( binaural warfare ) [Ancient Astronauts]
- Sonic Surgeon
- Erik Minkkinnen a.k.a. eeek ( remote from Nantes ) [eeek]
Lund, Sweden
Music and poetry with:
Per Thörn, Jakob Riis, Peter Henning& James Brewster, Martin Küchen, Maria Küchen, Åsa Maria Kraft, Andrzej Tichy´, Jonas Holgersson.
20:00 at Kastanjegatan 7, Lund, Sweden
http://www.smalands.org
Lisboa, Portugal
Ernesto Rodrigues - viola
Guilherme Rodrigues - cello
Carlos Santos - electronics
20 JANUARY 22:30 at O SECULO - CENTRO CULTURAL
http://www.creativesourcesrec.com/artists/e_rodrigues.html
Gävle, Sweden
Detta är förvisso en politisk manifestation, men ingen partipolitisk eller religiös sådan. Detta är ett tillfälle att mötas, diskutera och ha det trevligt i musikens, litteraturens och poesins tecken! På detta sätt visar vi vårt stöd för dem som lider just nu i Gaza! Vi tar ingen entré, men blir glada för frivilliga bidrag som går till Röda Korset i Palestina! Programmet startar 19.30 och slutar ca 23.00 men kom gärna tidigare och käka gott (meny finns på www.ccpuben.se) ta ett glas eller två och njut av tillvaron!:-) Observera att åldersgränsen är 18 år.
Tisdag kväll 20 januari 2009 kommer musiker, poeter, konstnärer och andra artister som en reaktion mot massakrerna i Gaza att framträda i – vad vi vet just nu - Nazaret, Malaysia, Beirut, Haifa, Lissabon, Brasilien, Paris, Chicago, Barcelona, Valpariso, Oakland CA, Lund och Gävle! Initiativet kommer från musiker i Beirut. Du som vill göra något på någon annan svensk ort, agera självständigt. Det är kort varsel. Det är kort varsel för människorna i Gaza också.
Du som läser det här - var vänlig bjud in alla dina vänner här på Facebook (och alla andra också förstås) som kanske skulle behöva ha lite trevligt en tisdagkväll! Vi skulle uppskatta den hjälpen mycket!
Detta är bara en presentation av kvällen under bearbetning och detaljer kommer att revideras. Håll utkik efter förändringar. Har ni synpunkter eller frågor så hör gärna av er på Mailen eller Facebook!
Prel. program 20 jan 2009
7:30pm - 11:00pm
CC-puben, Centralplan 3 (Bredvid Musikhuset/Sjömanskyrkan)
I. ca 19.30-20.30
1. LENA ERIKSSON
hälsar välkommen
2. PETER ROSENBERG
Representerar Svenska Palestinska Samarbetsföreningen /Gävle <br?
3. VOLODJA
Christopfer Andersson-Bång och Sara Fridholm spelar Vysotskij /Torsåker
4. JAN SJÖLUND
poet, författare /Gävle
5. CHRISTER FORSBERG
singer/songwriter och Joe Hill-tolkare /Gävle
6. MARIE BJÖRK
Poet, författare, kom ut med diktsamlingen "Fragment" i höstas /Gävle
7. TWIGGY FROSTBITE
http://www.myspace.com/twiggyfrostbite /Gävle
II. ca 20.45-21.45
8. SOFIA ELIASSON
samhällskritisk poet/Gävle.
9. LINNÉA, JONAS & BERNT-OLOV ANDERSSON
från Bandavdelningen spelar och sjunger / Sandviken
10. CAROLINA THORELL
Grafiker, konstnär, författare, poet, kommer ut med ny diktsamling hösten-09 /Sandviken
11. HELENE RÅDBERG
Poet, kom ut med diktsamlingen "Det gula rummets små terapistycken" , sept-o8 / Gävle
12. ANNA FRANK
singer/songwriter, kommer med sin debutplatta "Harriet's Grief" den 7 februari /Gävle
13. ANNA JÖRGENSDOTTER
Poet och författare, kommer ut med roman, Bergets döttrar, hösten-09/ Kungsgården
14. MADAME NERUDA
spelar skotsk/irländsk folkmusik, aktuell med ny cd mars-09 /Kungsgården/Sandviken/Torsåker
III. ca 22.00-23.00
15. HANS CARSTENSEN
Gör en Spokenwordakt om världsläget. Ståuppkomiker, författare /Gävle
17. ERIK SÜSS
Egensinnig musiker, ex Transmissionplot /Gävle
18. EVA SVENSK
(bl a Daisy Cutters) och hennes entourage Per Nilson, Andreas Bölling och Fredrik Andersson spelar country/pop/rock /Gävle
19. STOUT
spelar 70-talsrock. Premiärspelning med Andreas Vaple (Wasteland, Monster mm), Aron Coombs, Samuel Edsmyr och Matte Lingman/Gävle/Stockholm/Uddevalla
Välkommen till en supertrevlig kväll!
Anna och Lena
Malaysia
Kamal Sabran
http://kamalsabran.blogspot.com
http://kajisenikaji.blogspot.com
Oakland, USA
Porest -debut of porest group
Liz Allbee -solo
Johnson, Phillips & Glenn - trio in concert
Mark Gergis (Sublime Frequencies) DJ setting - spinning uncommon musics from the Middle East
LIVE at the Totally Intense Fractal Mindgaze Hut, 671 24th Street, Apt B, Oakland, CA 94612
www.porest.com | myspace.com/myspaceporest lizallbee.net
This is a coordinated simultaneous concert/event taking place in several cities around the world : Beirut, Paris, Barcelona, Stockholm, Nazareth, Valparaiso (chile), Chicago, Oakland and Los Angeles.
This is a benefit for the people of Gaza, Palestine –currently under brutal siege. All money will be donated to Gaza via the Red Cross
Here's the brief story about how and why this is happening.
Dirar Kalash is a young Palestinian musician and artist living in Haifa. He operates autonomously and is pretty much the only Palestinian guy doing music of this variety over there. Porest met Dirar Kalash through the internet a while back. He is mutual friends with Lebanese musicians and Porest / Liz Allbee cohorts Mazen Kerbaj, Raed Yassin and Sharif Sehnoui.
Dirar and Sharif contacted Porest last week about their idea to hold this worldwide event on Jan 20. We know that our music won't really rake in the bucks, but ultimately, this is also a symbolic event.
Upon searching for a venue to host the event on such short notice, (many thanks to Ben Bracken for helping make this happen at the Mindgaze Hut) we discovered that holding it on Jan 20th would be problematic, as there is much musical competition in the Bay Area that night- and also much anticipated revelry as many Americans celebrate their new president.
In the end, it made more sense to host it on the 19th. After all, it will be January 20th in Palestine while the event is in progress.
For some information regarding the Gaza situation, please visit livestation.com (download their player and watch Al Jazeera English or Press TV for decent news) and http://electronicintifada.net/
A great article by Robert Fisk on the current crisis is here: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-why-do-they-hate-the-west-so-much-we-will-ask-1230046.html
also http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6604775898578139565 to watch the film: "Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: Media & the Israel-Palestine Conflict"
Hope to see you there Monday night...
Porest
Chicago, USA
Fred Lonberg-Holm - cello myspace page
Ben Boye - harmonium
Tatsuya Nakatani - percussion
19:30 at Myopic Books
1564 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60622
