Cotham Club Jam: Fundraiser For MAP (Medical Aid For Palestinians) And The Edward Said National Conservatoire Of Music (ESNCM)

A SUPERB JAM SESSION-CUM-PERFORMANCE BY AN ECLECTIC LINE-UP OF BRISTOL MUSICIANS UNITED BY A SHARED HUMANITY; RAISING FUNDS TO PROVIDE IMMEDIATE MEDICAL AID IN PALESTINE AND GIVE HOPE TO BEREAVED AND TRAUMATISED CHILDREN.

Thank you to the following artists who support this event, all giving their services free: Özcan Ateş (baglama, vocals), Ben Badoo (Baraka: balafon, djembe, vocals), Will Broughton (Free Severn Sound: guitar, vocals), Samuel Comber (Plant With Legs: saxophone), Bunja Conteh (AfroWelsh Connection: kora), Liz Conteh (AfroWelsh Connection: guitar, vocals), Nicole Earley (Free Severn Sound: vocals), Ali Elmubarak (Nabra: oud, vocals), Mohamed Errebbaa (Tagna Groove: guembri, vocals), Fabio Ferri (Fabio Ferri Quintet: guitar), Kate Honey (Plant With Legs/Climate Choir: trumpet), Chloe Rose Laing (Tagna Groove: vocals), Simon Leach (Chai For All: oud, percussion), Federico Leonori (Immigrant Swing/BEJE: bass), Michael Loader (Wild Words: spoken word), Lucy Marley (AfroWelsh Connection: percussion, vocals), Louisa Maynard (Free Severn Sound: vocals, spoken word), Chandra Moon (AfroWelsh Connection: flute), Marianna Moralis (Chai For All: vocals), David Mowat (Chai For All/BEJE: trumpet, spoken word, MC), Terry Payne (AfroWelsh Connection: mandolin), Tahmina Rana (vocals), Jonathan Segar (Tagna Groove: piano), Colin Smith (The Regz: piano), Alphonse Daudet Touna (Hélélé: balafon, djembe, vocals), Pete Warner (The Globo Collective: drums) and Richard Williams (Free Severn Sound: guitar). More artists to be announced. Line-up subject to change.

Medical Aid For Palestinians (MAP) has launched an unprecedented emergency response amid growing critical health needs in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, resulting from the current escalation of violence and Israel's ongoing bombardment and complete siege on Gaza. The conservatory team in Gaza of the Edward Said National Conservatoire Of Music (ESNCM) has commenced a programme of activities with Palestinian children, despite the deteriorating conditions, in order to create spaces of hope within the refugee camps.

In light of this desperate humanitarian crisis, Cotham Club, in collaboration with the Palestine Museum And Cultural Centre Bristol, hosts a very special live music event to raise funds for MAP and ESNCM.

After 16 years of siege and blockade of Gaza - restrictions on travel, on employment, access to healthcare, on trade, and even access to the Mediterranean Sea - Gaza and Gazans are being eliminated. In the past three months, more than 15,000 children and women have been killed. The destruction of essential infrastructure - homes, hospitals, schools, universities and food distribution systems - makes Gaza almost uninhabitable. Israel's current disproportionate assault on Gaza seems without end. As humanitarians and as organisers fostering community through music we are appalled at what is happening and want to reach out to all those impacted by the brutal conflict. Whilst we acknowledge the Israeli victims, and suffering of the family and friends of the Israeli hostages, yet the Gazans are in greatest need at this present time and need the material aid most.

Cotham Club Jam aims to replicate the thrills, informality and vibe of a fiery after-hours jam session. Some of Cotham Club's best loved performers, alongside special guests, put their music where their values are with a dynamic and stylistically diverse night of world-class jazz and great global sounds, with freewheeling interplay between inspirational musical pioneers, ascending stars and ardent new generation artists.

Matching this eclectic lineup is an astonishing set of sounds; expect offbeat world music, free-flowing jazz, serene 'sacred sound', spontaneous anything-goes improvisation, impressionistic sound worlds, impressive experimentalism, and radical genre fusions. Music with the gloves off, immediate and unpredictable.

All funds raised from ticket sales, all bar profits, and all donations, go to MAP for its relief efforts in Gaza and ESNCM for its provision of safe play spaces and activities for Gaza's displaced children. We acknowledge that as long as there is no ceasefire, fundraising drives alone are not the solution. We add our voice to all those calling for an immediate ceasefire.

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Medical Aid For Palestinians (MAP) works with Palestinian communities for the health and dignity of Palestinians living under occupation and as refugees. It provides immediate medical aid to those in great need, while also developing local capacity and skills to ensure the long-term development of the Palestinian healthcare system, and campaigning to break down the barriers to Palestinian health and healthcare today and for the future.

[ map.org.uk ]

PLEASE SUPPORT MAP'S EMERGENCY APPEAL.

If you are unable to attend please consider donating directly to MAP here: map.org.uk/donate

The Edward Said National Conservatoire Of Music (ESNCM) is a Palestinian music conservatory with branches in Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nablus and Gaza City. In total, there are more than 1,000 students. It was established in 1993 and is named in honour of the world-renowned Palestinian literary and music critic, classical pianist and scholar Edward Said. The most articulate and visible advocate of the Palestinian cause in the United States, Edward Said was a co-founder and benefactor of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Israeli conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, combining Israeli and Arab musicians, and formed so that young musicians from across the Middle East could gather, talk and perform together. For 25 years its achievement has been to show that mutual cooperation and respect can produce grace and beauty in a world too often defined by bloodshed and cruelty. The ESNCM administrates the Palestine Youth Orchestra and the Palestine National Orchestra, in addition to a number of smaller projects.

[ ncm.birzeit.edu ]

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JOIN THE JAM: open call for musicians to play at Cotham Club Jam.
If you are an individual or group wishing to participate in this fundraiser, we would love to hear from you.

Please email: [email protected] for further details.

In the spirit of a fundraiser, all contributions/performances are voluntary.

Organised by Cotham Club in collaboration with the Palestine Museum And Cultural Centre Bristol. All funds raised in aid of Medical Aid For Palestinians (MAP) and the Edward Said National Conservatoire Of Music (ESNCM). Medical Aid For Palestinians (MAP) is a registered charity number 1045315.

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Venue address:
Cotham Parish Church, Cotham Road ( top of St Michael's Hill ), Cotham, Bristol BS6 6DR

Eat & drink:
choose from a selection of wine, beer, cider, hot drinks, soft drinks and snacks from 30 minutes before performance start and during the interval | free nibbles/sweet treats available at selected events

Toilets:
accessible toilets available

Travel:
bus: Firstbus service 72 (Bristol Temple Meads Station to UWE Frenchay Campus): firstbus.co.uk

train: 10 minute walk from Clifton Down Train Station: gwr.com | 15 minute walk from Redland Train Station: gwr.com

walking: 15 minute walk up St Michael's Hill from Christmas Steps | 10 minute walk from Everyman Cinema, Whiteladies Road | 15 minute walk from The Arches, Cheltenham Road

Car parking:
on-street parking available | limited on-site accessible parking available for Blue Badge holders

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