Palestine International Festival for Dance and Music

Palestine International Festival for Music and Dance (PIF) is a creative cultural and arts project which communicates with the outside world and contributes towards breaking the cultural siege which has been imposed on Palestine and Palestinian people for decades. The festival at its core has a cultural and artistic quality and provides the Palestinian public with entertainment they crave for. The PIF was founded in 1993 to organize the first international festival and the largest annual arts and culture events in Palestine, contributing to the revival and restructuring of the artistic and cultural scene in Palestine. The festival has attracted large numbers from various villages and cities in the West Bank, Gaza, and also from 1948 lands, thus strengthening interaction and ties between the Palestinians from different regions. From the year 2000 till 2005 the Popular Art Centre was not able to organize the festival due to the strenuous political and economic situation. In the year 2005, the centre revived the PIF not only in Ramallah city but in the different cities, villages, and refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza, to overcome the restriction of movement due to the establishment of The Apartheid Wall and military checkpoints imposed by the Israeli Occupation.

Contact: info@popularartcentre.org