Great memento of Skies are Weeping - only £2.50

The programme for the event is now on sale. As well as full details of the performers and pieces, there are thoughtful short essays by those who are working for peace, including Joe Carr, ISM volunteer and an eye-witness to the deaths of Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall and Jeff Halper, Coordinator, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
Ruth Tenne, an Israeli, writes on

Eyad El Sarraj - Director, Gaza Community Mental Health Programme reflects

and more. PLUS full text of the five wonderful and touching poems that Gregory Youtz set to music in The Singer of Wind and Rain. Here's one example:

All for £2.50, post and packing is included. Please send cheques, payable to 'The Skies are Weeping' or Postal Orders, to our Treasurer at PO Box 34265, London NW5 2WD.

Skies are Weeping event triumphs

A few shots to remember a great event. But we still need £1,500. Please help us to complete the project. All contributions welcomed. Please send cheques, payable to 'The Skies are Weeping' or Postal Orders, to our Treasurer at PO Box 34265, London NW5 2WD. All contributions most gratefully received.


Cindy Corrie introducing the event.

















Peter Crockford conducting the Coro Cervantes in The Singer of Wind and Rain, five songs on Palestinian poems, by Gregory Youtz.












Some of the Al-Hurriyya Dance Group caught as the group line-danced the traditional Palestinian Dabka.

Tsivi Sharrett adding the piano to the TS Ensemble playing
Near Eastern songs and music
fused with Jazz.








Deborah Fink, soprano soloist, backed by the
London Percussion Ensemble, singing the cantata
The Skies are Weeping, by Philip Munger.






The audience in the Hackney Empire on November 1 was moved, delighted and drawn in to the music and dance as The Skies are Weeping event unfolded. From the opening whispered lament of The Singer of Wind and Rain, through the excitingly different jazz fusion with Near Eastern music of Tsivi Sharrett and the TS Ensemble and the joyous exuberance of the Al-Hurriyya Dance Group to the atmospheric The Skies are Weeping cantata, we joined emotionally with singers and dancers from different cultures and backgrounds, in harmony and peace.

The Skies are Weeping Project thanks all who took part, the patrons and supporters, the Hackney Empire and, not least, the wonderful audience. Please help that little bit more, with a contribution to the project costs.

Please send cheques, payable to 'The Skies are Weeping' or Postal Orders, to our Treasurer at PO Box 34265, London NW5 2WD. All contributions most gratefully received.