4th Sufi Culture Festival – Fez, 2010.

13 01 2010

Whirrrrling Derviches, Sufi Dance

This years Sufi Culture Festival, organized by Par Chemis will take place in Dars, Riads and Gardens of the Fez medina from the 17th to the 24th of April. The 2010 Festival theme of Mystic and Poetry is yet to release its program but assures round tables and a series of high quality concerts.





Reccommended article

11 01 2010

http://riadzany.blogspot.com/2010/01/spirit-of-africa-at-fez-festival-2010.html

The above link has a great post on the African musicians to catch at the Sacred Music Festival in June 2010. Fez.





National Film Festival in Tangier

11 01 2010
The 11th Moroccan National Film Festival -
23 and 30 January in Tangier.
Moroccan Centre for Cinematography presents the largest national film festival in the country. Pioneer film-makers such as Latef Lahlou will present ‘La Grande Villa‘, Abdelkrim Derkaoui his ‘Chroniques Blanches‘,  Mohamed Ismail with ‘Oulad Lblad‘ and ‘The Man who sold the World‘ by the Noury brothers. Short films will also have their limelight.
Tanger Film Fest

Thanks to View from Fez for the enlightenment. riadzany.blogspot.com





This week @ the Institute Francais

11 01 2010

Thank you French Institute for feeding our hungry culture vulture bellies with activities and an exhibition this week to wet the pallete for the coming year. Below is the program of concert, film and visual art not to be missed.

Here’s to much cultural fruition and creativity in 2010.

Création plurielle –  Exhibition – Until 5th of Febuary

The realization of work made in Tetuan from artists invited on the French Institutes artist in residence programm. The selection of works have been selected from French / Moroccan artists Renaud Allirand, M’barek Bouhchichi, Omar Bouragba, Vincent Dezeuze, Astrid de la Forest, Florence Gillet, Ahmed Hajoubi, Tibari Kantour, Bouchaïb Maoual, Saïd Messari and Yanik Pen’du

Film – Wednesday 13th @ 7p.m. Médiathèque de lʼInstitut français

Film – ALGÉRIE, HISTOIRES À NE PAS DIRE

Réalisé par Jean-Pierre Lledo Avec Aziz Mouats, Katiba Hocine, Hamid Bouhrour

 2h40 min. Année de production : 2007

Concert - YANN TAMBOUR KORA @ Inst. Francais

Date to be confirmed

 Yann Tambour, jeune guitariste, chanteur talentueux de musique folk française et anglaise, est tombé amoureux d’un son étranger à sa culture natale, celui de la kora. Il a su s’approprier l’instrument et l’adapter à son univers de poésie, de rêverie occidentale.

Institut Francais www.institutfrancaisfes.com








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