Diyar Theatre / Diyar Academy for Children and Youth announce the Bethlehem International Performing Arts Festival (BIPAF) to be held in October 2018 in Bethlehem, Palestine.

During the day participants will take part in a variety of training sessions and workshops.

Groups (performers and staff) of up to 20 people are invited for whom the organizers will provide all meals and accommodation and transport costs within Palestine. 

Applications will be accepted through Nov 30, 2017 . More information via Rami Khader.

Renewing the Joan Sutherland Theatre 

Read more here about the transformation including how lasers help design the acoustic space.

The NAEP arts assessment measured students' knowledge and skills in the arts disciplines of music and visual arts. Average scores for eighth-graders were not significantly different between 2008 and 2016, nor were there significant differences in the percentages of students who reported taking music and/or visual arts classes.​

Typical questions asked include:

• Identify the solo instrument beginning "Rhapsody in Blue"
• Identify a correct time signature for a piece of music
• Identify the name of piano dynamic marking and explain its meaning
• Identify type of note duration​​

In any other context, the “Schalmei” (French chalumai, English shawm) is a completely different instrument: a woodwind forerunner of the modern oboe tracing back to the Middle Ages (see the sidebar) . How the name came to be applied to two such unrelated instruments is not clear, but this otherworldly German cousin to the military bugle is also called a Martin’s Trumpet (named for the inventor Max Martin

At a conference in New York., a group of hackers released files that allows anyone with a 3D printer to produce the eighth and last TSA master key (TSA approved luggage locks allow TSA and other luggage security personnel to unlock and inspect your bags using master keys).

In 2014, the Washington Post inadvertently published an article which included a high resolution photo of all seven Travel Sentry TSA master keys from which someone was able to digitally recreate the keys, and then share the files.

The hackers have said that the purpose of the project was not to scare people but to highlight the dangers of "government key escrow", a data security measure in which a third party is trusted with a cryptographic key that they may only use with the authorization of the entrusting agency. Nevertheless, the net result of their move was that anyone with a 3D printed key could have access to your luggage,

What to Do?
Security experts have long touted that, even before the breech, TSA locks do not fully protect your belongings. Matt Blaze (University of PA computer science professor) told Wired that he sometimes picks his own TSA locks as it's faster than locating his keys.

security consultant Chris McGoey told the Intercept that “TSA locks on luggage [are] only one step above having no lock at all -- especially on soft-sided luggage”  

​So we recommend you continue using TSA-locks, but put high-valued items in your carry-on or arrange to have them shipped via an insured carrier (e,g, FedEx, UPS).