Graffiti Creator at the Inst Cervantes.

27 04 2011

Thursday the 28th of April see the opening of Omar Lula’s exhibition of Graffiti at the Institute Cervantes. Omar has been based inFez for the last few years and challenges himself to survive in the holy city as a graffiti artist. Originally from the once Graffiti friendly Barcelona, Omar spends most of his time here in Fez, and city where spray paints and graphic pens, walls of fame and fellow graffitiers are hard to come by.

Omar L ula @ SPanish Institute Fez

The exhibition, which open at 19h, runs until the 22 nd of May.

Institute Cervantes, 5, Rue Douiat,Résidence Walili. Fez V.N.


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Fes Festival of Sufi Culture, 5th edition.

15 04 2011
The full program for the Fez Festival of Sufi Culture is as follows. All events take place at the Batha Museum, except for the final concert at the Jnan Palace Hotel. Performances by the Sufi brotherhoods are free of charge.

SATURDAY 16 APRIL
16h00 Introduction
20h30 Concert: Karima Skali and the Al Kawthar Ensemble of Granada: Tribute to the Sufi Poets of Andalusia

SUNDAY 17 APRIL
10h00 Feminine archetypes according to Emir Abdelkader, with Bariza Khiari and Eric Geoffroy

And God created Khadija, with Soussan Azarin
16h00 From Hinduism to Islam: the feminine ‘ma’, with katia Legeret and Muhammad Valsan
20h30 Qadiriyya Boutchichiyya Brotherhood, Morocco
MONDAY 18 APRIL
10h00 Writing on the Path: Isabelle Eberhardt and Eva de Vitray Meyerovitch, with Marie Odile Huleu-Delacour, Jean Rene Huleu, Saad Khiari, Jean-Pierre Montagne and Amal Arfaoui
16h00 The Female Teachers of Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi, with Jane Clark and Nick Pearson
20h30 Khalwatiyya Brotherhood, Turkey
TUESDAY 19 APRIL
10h00 Lalla Zahra Al Kouchia, a saint in the shadow of the Koutoubia, with Touria Ikbal
16h00 Sufism, Women and Ecology, with Fattouma Benabdenbi
20h30 Charqawiyya Brotherhood, Morocco
WEDNESDAY 20 APRIL
10h00 Women and Sainthood: Sufi women of West Africa, with Salamatou Sow
Nana Asma’u (1793-1864, Northern Nigeria): an exceptional Sufi woman, with Marie Miran Guyon
20h30 Wazzaniyya Brotherhood, Morocco
THURSDAY 21 APRIL
10h00 Round table: Women’s destiny in sainthood, with Abdellah Ouazzani, Ikram Bennani Rtal, Souada Maoulainine and Thami Lharak
16h00 Round table: The feminine archetype according to Ibn Arabi, with Abdelillah Arafa, Jaafar Kanssousi and Leila Khalifa
20h30 Sama’a evening with the Siqilliyya Brotherhood, Morocco
FRIDAY 22 APRIL
10h00 ‘Life is not short but time is counted’: a mystical woman in her time (Malke Jan Ne’mati, 1907-1993) with Leili Anvar
16h00 Feminine symbols in Sufi poetry with Ahmed El Kheligh
20h30 Concert: Shadya Hamed and Mustapha Said (Palestine/Egypt)
Tribute to Omar Al-Khayyam: spiritual songs of the great Arab voices

SATURDAY 23 APRIL
16h00 Concert: Leili Anvar (narrator), Renaud Garcia Fons (double bass) (Iran/France)
The mystical female voices of East and West
20h30 Premiere: From Melhoun to Spiritual Noubas with the great Sama’a voices of Morocco.

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