CHAI For All, a jazz-tinged Klezmer and Middle Eastern music ensemble from Bristol, will perform their new work, Longing, Belonging & Balfour, at the Central Methodist Church, St Saviourgate, York, on September 22, as part of a ten-date tour.

For this musical re-telling of the Balfour Declaration story of 1917 in its centenary year, Chai For All will be joined by virtuoso clarinetist and kaval (Bulgarian flute) player Katie Stevens, storyteller Michael Loader and British-Israeli record producer Mark Smulian, complemented by the voice of Palestinian poet Alissar Amali. Between them, they will meld together klezmer Arabic and other idioms in music composed and arranged by German-born Knud Stuwe.

Sue Cooke, host for the 7.30pm York show, says: "We're delighted to have the chance to present this new musical perspective on the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the letter which can be said to have set in train the facts on the ground in today's occupied Palestine."

Produced and directed by David Mowat, the show draws on Chaim Weizmann’s autobiography, Trial And Error, to "hear a proto-Zionist narrative and the letters and speeches of Conservative politician and landowner Arthur Balfour to understand something of the British Empire angle".

Palestinian Gazalla Mohamed Abu 'Eid, of Al Ja'una village, in Galilee, near Safad, tells her story of the consequence of the Declaration to her people. She looks to her forebears for premonitions of disaster; her descendants tell of resistance and her translator, Alissar Amali, a Bristol-based Syrian-Palestinian poet born of Al Ja'una villagers, is heard describing what it is to be a Palestinian today.

A pre-show workshop, from 1pm to 3pm at the Central Methodist Church, is open to all to explore four perspectives on the Balfour Declaration. After the show, audience members can share their personal stories evoked by Chai For All's performance.

Booking details for the September 22 show and workshop are available at YorkBalfour.eventbrite.co.uk or by calling 01904 767033. Further performances will follow at the Library Theatre, Sheffield, on September 23 and Carlton Hill Quaker Meeting House, Leeds, on September 24.