A Bridge for Peace - Piano Concert
Monday, 08/10/2018
On the second day of our 'Celebrating Syria' Festival 2018, 7th October, a musical performance by Riyad Nicolas was hosted at the Stoller Hall.
On the second day of our 'Celebrating Syria' Festival 2018, 7th October, a musical performance by Riyad Nicolas was hosted at the Stoller Hall.
Celebrating Syria 2018: a Festival of Arts and Culture, was launched on Saturday 6th October by a screening at the University of Manchester of "HOME" - a stirring and engaging film by Rafat Al Zakout.
It was a fantastic and busy start to our festival with the "Origami" workshop and "Future Aleppo" in association with Fun Palaces. The Syrian artist Azmi Shoufan delivered the origami workshop on 6th October at Longsight Library.
As part of ‘Celebrating Syria' Festival 2018, and in partnership with Journeys Festival International and Fun Palaces, Longsight Library hosted "Future Aleppo" workshop on the 6th of October.
BBC Radio 4's William Crawley covered some of the activities of the first day of our Celebrating Syria 2018 Festival on Saturday 6th October and the interviewed were broadcasted on Sunday.
Connor Phillips from BBC Radio Manchester interviewed Mustafa Alachkar, the manger of our Celebrating Syria 2018 Festival on Saturday 6th October. Mustafa talked about the idea of the festival and its main events and activities.
Listen to the Interview which starts at 8 minutes past the first hour (1:08)
RR's Managing Director Dr Haytham Alhamwi has delivered a talk at the Manchester Prevent Champions Network meeting on Thursday 27th of September 2018.
Rethink Rebuild Society joined other Syrian organisations in issuing a brief paper to highlight the grave risks that refugees and returnees have already faced, or will likely be facing, as a result of their return. It also pins down key concerns in the process itself that is being proposed to "facilitate" refugee return.
Dr Haytham Alhamwi was among the panellists on the seminar ‘Plight of Detainees in Assad's Jails’ held on Tuesday 18th of September 2018 at SOAS University of London. The event was organised by Syria Solidarity Campaign and SOAS Syria Society.
We issued a press release regarding our upcoming 'Celebrating Syria' festival which will run between 6-14 October in Manchester. This Festival is the second annual such festival to run in Manchester. Last year’s festival was the first of its kind in Europe.
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