MANA online Newsletter for Summer 2007 page 3 of 12
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The MANA committee is now beginning to plan our concerts for next year, and we hope it may be possible to involve our President and some of our Patrons in these. We would also like to be able to feature jazz and folk music in addition to our classical concerts, as we are conscious of the fact that, for various reasons, these two important areas of music have been neglected by MANA over the years.
A SPANISH CONNECTION
We received an e-mail from one Alba Sanfeliu recently; “ ... I have been working at the School for a Culture of Peace of Barcelona’s Autonomous University for the last four years, where I direct the program of Arts and Peace. In 2004 I wrote you because I asked information about MANA activities, as I was doing a little research on Music, arms and disarmament. Finally, this document is available on our web-site and I thought that maybe you would like to take a look. There’s some information on MANA. The document is only available in Catalan or Spanish.'
The Barcelona Escola de Cultura de Pau web-site is www.escolapau.org and once there it's click you on Programes, then Musica, arts i pau in the drop-down menu and then Musica, armament i desarmament. The section on MANA seems to be a direct translation of the brochure
material we sent in response to Alba’s original query.
In the meantime we wonder if other countries have Universities whose curriculum is in pursuance of the Culture of Peace.
MANA WEB-SITE
Our site www.mana.org.uk is still out there in cyberspace. Members are reminded that the site is intended for members of the public at large as well but there is a secret address area for Members Only.
From 1 June it will be
www.mana.org.uk/elgar
until the Autumn Newsletter.
UNRAVELLING THE IRAQ OCCUPATION
On Monday, 4 June, at 7.00 pm at Toynbee Hall (28 Commercial Street, London, El) TARIQ ALI will discuss with Dahr Jamail, a Middle-Eastern journalist; Haifa Zangana, an Iraqi author and columnist, and Sami Kasouli, a Muslim peace activist, what the occupation of Iraq has meant and unravel some of its many complexities.
Further information from www.iraqoccupationfocus.org.uk