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Bethlehem Calling
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Firstly! A reminder that A Kick Up The Arts is live in Aberdeen, at Granite Noir book festival, where my guest will be the fab Dawn Steele, star of Granite Harbour, Monarch of the Glen, Shetland and more - that’s on the 23rd of February, it’s in the afternoon, and we’re love you to join us.
We’re doing another live recording at Glasgow’s Glad Cafe on the 1st of March with award-winning writer Michael Pedersen, and there’ll be live music from Siobhan Wilson and Raveloe - and then the awesome David Keenan will be chatting about his new collection of music writing, Volcanic Tongue, at The Portobello Bookshop on the 27th of March. I’d love you to join us for one of those dates - or all of them! You can get tickets online…
Anyway, onto this episode, and I'm thrilled to be joined by some of the team behind the Scottish-Palestinian collaboration Bethlehem Calling, which is an evening of stories, music and pipers coming to Celtic Connections this weekend...
It's based on the diaries of teenage girls who were encouraged by a teacher to write about their experiences of growing up in the West Bank during the second intifada (early-mid 2000s).
Some of those women are also revisited in this latest production of a show that was first staged by the pupils themselves, and there are also present-day testimonies from current students at the same school.
The resulting musical, audio-visual and verbatim theatre show features artists like Paul Thomson - who's played with Franz Ferdinand - and theatre makers Ben Harrison, Zoe Hunter and Reada Ghazaleh…
And that’s not to mention audio visual designer Dav Bernard, and the spirit of the Palestinian Arab Orthodox Scout Pipers of Beit Jala, who formed 100 years ago - originally taught by Scots Guards - and whose skirling will ring out across the performance, despite several visa rejections this week...
Bethlehem Calling's at Glasgow Tramway this Saturday, January 25th, but I snuck into rehearsals a couple of days ago, and was already thrilled by what I saw...
Before they headed home for the night, Raeda, Zoe and Ben shed more light on the project, and what it means to them - with special thanks to Reada, who'd just touched down in Scotland only a few hours earlier…
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