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Istimrar Phase 1

by Irtijal Festival

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This is not an aesthetic space, this is an abandoned space, I saw a green jacket and a toy on the stairs. I thought wow people left quickly to the point that maybe they left their toy or they didn’t manage to take all their clothes. Its yellowish like this, walking in this building asking myself if in a couple of years I’ll come back there is gonna people who squatted here and if I am gonna like see it ugly in that way I will be the one who has a story in this building and not the other way around and it’s a bit scary. We really have to fight the government. Fighters. We have to make use of our space and its efficiency. How a person lives in it as well. And also sitting as one family in a room reminds me of my past. When a space disappears you cannot relate to the… I mean even your memory disappears with it. Everyone in 2020 had a shitty year other than the quarantine like personal stuff and everything that was happening. So it was… I grew up. I mean you know the politics. If your core is solid nobody can do that to you. What I am saying is.. What do you mean by solid core? A community is a multiple group of people who solidly know themselves. It's really important to not forget what happened. It's really important not to forget. The idea of community that you are speaking about is very essential. Violence is rooted in how people are dealing with their ideals. Because these are ideals, when we say solid, for us to be solid, we are tied to a system that really requires us to have self-awareness. When we are denying what we lived and are hiding it, we are accentuating the trauma. I didn’t even debate this destruction because in my opinion it's safe even though it is destruction. Rebirth, it means that you are going to breathe constantly from the same organ, I was just breathing from my mouth. Rebirth, it means that you are going to breathe constantly from the same organ, I was just breathing from my mouth for an hour. Imagine what will happen to your mind. Yes yes. And I was really crying and shouting for an hour and a half. Because they are loud, like loud people always get what they want. Because they're loud. I was shouting but my voice was not going out. That’s so weird, I screamed a lot without a sound. War field seeing two people like phew you know and I wanted to scream and I was doing the shouting but my voice was not going out. I was doing the shouting but my voice was not going out. That was so weird so I screamed a lot without a sound.
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In 2021, Irtijal Festival launched ISTIMRAR, its first series of commissioned works addressed to Lebanese musicians.
The purpose of this series is to keep the creativity of Lebanese musicians alive and robust, and to inject some stimulation into the Lebanese musical sector as a whole.

This first series of commissions went to composers and musicians currently living in Lebanon, including Jad Atoui, Abed Kobeissy, Aya Metwalli, Jawad Nawfal, Julia Sabra, Ghassan Sahhab, Anthony Sahyoun, Jana Saleh, Nour Sokhon Elyse Tabet, and Fadi Tabbal.

Each musician was provided with the necessary tools to produce a musical work of her/his devising. The sole condition being that the work should be composed, recorded, mixed and produced locally.

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released September 16, 2021

Project Coordinators: Sharif Sehnaoui, Gaêlle Khalifé and Ziad Nawfal.
All visuals by Joe Elias.

[ISTIMRAR was co-commissioned with Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in the UK - we thank hcmf// for its generous support, as well as Gwaertler Foundation, Al Mawred Al-Thaqafy and AFAC.

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Irtijal Festival Beirut, Lebanon

Founded in 2000,
Irtijal is presently the oldest music festival of Beirut city & one of the longest standing International festivals of post-war Lebanon.

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