Concert Interculturel - Intercultureel concert
Commémorant le 25ième anniversaire du drame de Tibhirine &
en mémoire des initiatives de rencontres entre les cultures occidentales et arabes.
At the end of April 1996, during the Algerian civil war, seven Trappist monks in Tibhirine were abducted from their abbey and murdered. Nineteen people, including Bishop Pierre Claverie, dominican, his driver Mohammed, father Charles Deckers w.p. and others, underwent this fate.
Kris Oelbrandt composed ‘Tibhirine meditations’ Op. 55, a string quartet in memory of the monks of Tibhirine . They lived for tolerance and respect between religions and cultures while the people valued them and were themselves splintered by discord and strife. Four themes express what it means to be ultimately being given to others. The Arabic artists Sawa – which means ‘Together’ - respond to this homage with music and songs from their various Arabic cultures and nations.
"The Exodus to the other’ says Christian de Chergé, prior in Tibhirine, is the path we take of mutual compassion. Our paths lead to each other when the same thirst leads us to the same well.
For the same reason this concert aims to remind us of the many efforts which – along the history and throughout the world - want to unite different people, colours, genders, religions, states, social groups, cultures, orientations, opinions, and continents. The concert opens with a witness which refers to the conflicts and the encounters between Jewish and Palestinian people.
Brussel, Eglise des Dominicains 19 | 10 | 2021
Liège, Collégiale Saint Barthélemy 21| 10 | 2021
