Promoting and developing Andalusian culture, including operating national cultural institutions and projects as follows: The Center for Piyutim and Song in Ashdod with professional study centers for Piyutim and Andalusian music, cantorial music and supplication singing; the Golden Age Festival; the Ashdod Song Festival; the Golden Age Prize; the Metropolis Center for Ethnic Music in Lod; the Maqam-Jerusalem; the Israeli Andalusian Orchestra (subject to a parallel decision by the Municipal Company for Cultural Leisure in Ashdod, within which the orchestra currently operates); Oud competitions; Poetry Radio Station; publication of writings from Jewish Andalusian heritage; establishing and operating a center building for Andalusian culture and Piyutim in Israel that will serve as a home for these cultural projects and a concert hall and gallery for exhibitions
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