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Beit
Hagefen Delegation visit
to
France and Belgium
23.2.2007 – 2.3.2007
hailed as great success
Many guests attended
the opening of the Arab
and Jewish children's
drawings exhibition, in
Namur – Belgium, on the
subject of
"Summer
Vacation 2006"
Expressing fear
of Katiousha Rockets and
longing for peace
Lyon – France
Common projects for Beit-Hagefen and international cultural
organizations in
Lyon:
Arab and Jewish
youth delegations to
Lyon and Haifa.
Educators
Meetings on the theme of
"The Other" with
participants from
Lyon, Haifa and Berlin.
Children's
drawings exhibition (see
above) in Lyon.
Meetings
of artists, actors and
directors in Lyon and in
Haifa.
Performances of
Beit-Hagefen Theater
show "The Ugly Duckiling"
in front
of the Jewish and Moslem
communities members in
Lyon.
Namur
– Belgium
Hosting public figures
from Belgium in Haifa,
hosting musical bands
and
leading women within the framework of the International Forum
of Leading
Women to be held at Beit-Hagefen during the Arab Culture
Month Festival
in May 2007.
A delegation of
Arab and Jewish youth to
an International Peace
Camp
in Sambreville - Belgium.
Performances of
the Beit-Hagefen Theater
show "The Ugly Duckling"
in
Namur district.
Beit-Hagefen
Theater and the National
Belgian Theater common
production.
A documentary
film in French on the
City of Haifa and
Beit-Hagefen
(filmed in the course of 2006).
Successful
meetings with cultural
organizations,
ministers, parliament
members, prime minister, governor of the Namur
district, the Belgian
king
representative and senior members of the European
Union.
Hundreds of
guests (representatives
of: the Belgian king,
the government
and the municipality of Namur) took part in the opening
event of the
exhibition on 28/2/07.
Haifa's messages of
coexistence, tolerance
and peace as well as the
messages and ideas of
Beit-Hagefen – education
for peace and
multiculturalism - have
been conveyed by the
delegation.
The visit of the
delegation took place
within the framework of
Beit-Hagefen's
new vision including fostering of international
cultural ties with
European
countries emphasizing the Haifa Model of peace
among all communities
and
religions. |
