Lyrical Gleam Reaches the Street

The musicians of “Project Wamdda” are urban magicians conjuring melodies from the bustle of downtown Damascus. Note by drawn-out note, they create a mobile, fleeting theater of recognition and response in passersby. According to the group’s founder, Nagham Naasah, “Wamdda”, or “Gleam”, “expresses the creativity of Syrian youth and art, and works to give the Syrian street a new spirit that brings Syrians together without any distinction and puts a smile on their faces.”

Naasah was inspired to make an interactive or “invisible theater” after participating in a drama workshop for patients at the polyclinics center in Zahira. After the success of their first performance in Shaalan, the group organized a second, “Chemical Wamdda” in which musicians wore masks, “to show their ​​solidarity with Syrians everywhere without distinction.” Now, Naasah says, a third Wamdda is in the works, to ask Syrian immigrants “to return to the homeland and to participate in building our home together.”

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