Dawrak - Citizens for Dialogue and the Young Arab Voices programmes invite you to attend the launch concert of the Music Debates Caravan initiative that will take place on Thursday 27 June 2013 at 8PM at Rawabet Space for Performance Arts in Downtown Cairo.

LAUNCH CONCERT | Participating artists:
Ahmed Shahin (Shahin El 3abkary)
Ahmed El-Hareedy
Amr Cezar (from Revolution Records)
Badr Dahi (from Y-crew family)
Mohamed El Kashef (Shakur)
Nour El Deen
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ABOUT MUSIC DEBATES CARAVAN INITIATIVE:
In cooperation with the Young Arab Voices, the pioneer region-wide youth debate programme co-managed by the Anna Lindh Foundation and the British Council, DAWRAK is exploring innovative ideas to provide Dialogue Spaces for young debaters and musicians to involve debates and music as a mean to voice the issues that concern them and their communities.

Through the Music Debates Caravan, a year-long action taking place in diverse locations in Egypt and Tunisia, DAWRAK will provide Knowledge and Skills on debating skills, through a series of rap and music debate workshops led by professional musicians and organised in different parts of Egypt and Tunisia. Debating using lyrics and music is a cultural and innovative tool that aims at addressing the issues and concerns of the young citizens using a language and a style that they are familiar with. The outcomes of these workshops will be presented in their communities public local untapped Spaces.

The Music Debates Caravan will organise a series of workshops and performance activities mainly touring four governorates in Egypt and one governorate in Tunisia. The series of workshops in each country will be culminated in a large-scale Music Debate Battle Concert about Citizenship taking place in 2014, focused on social participation and intercultural citizenship preceded by preparatory meetings on innovative tools and urban spaces for participation.

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DAWRAK – CITIZENS FOR DIALOGUE
DAWRAK - Citizens for Dialogue is a programme of the Anna Lindh Foundation, financed by the European Union, to develop the skills for participation in public life for CSOs and for the citizens of Arab Mediterranean countries to contribute with their role in building an open and plural society. It also offers CSOs spaces, opportunities and tools for dialogue and advocacy with their counterparts in the same country or in the Euro-med countries. www.dawrak.org

YOUNG ARAB VOICES REGIONAL PROGRAMME
The Young Arab Voices regional programme in Egypt, since its launch in 2011, aims at providing opportunities, tools, and capacity building for the involvement of youth in running and managing effective debates for the purpose of enriching the pluralistic democratic dialogue existing in the Arab world.
The Anna Lindh Foundation and the British Council jointly develop and manage the programme out of their regional responsibility, co-financed through the Arab Partnership Fund of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the European Union, in addition to receiving the institutional support of the League of Arab States.

www.youngarabvoices.org