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Youth for change
Youth for Change was a project aiming at breaking cultural isolation between Jenin, Palestine, and the rest of the Arab world. It intended to build the capacities of Palestinian youth in circus, drama and street theatre, and to create and present high quality artistic works for Palestinian audiences, by strengthening the partnerships within the Palestinian cultural sector and the larger Palestinian community.
It has been achieved through training youth in combined drama and circus workshops to create a street theatre performance built on their own stories. The project has targeted neglected areas in Palestine, and has offered the opportunity for 10 Palestinian participants to travel, perform, and give training in combined circus and drama sessions for women and children in Casablanca, Morocco. The main activities of the project included: training courses and workshops; the creation of street theatre performances; touring in the West Bank; and mobility and exchange of artists between Palestine and Morocco.
Fragments Theatre is a cultural organisation, founded in Jenin, by a group of actors, filmmakers and technicians. The Fragments Theatre gives young people the opportunity to express themselves using theatre, film, circus and arts in Jenin and the surrounding areas. Over the last few years, several activities with children and youth, have been implemented different theatre plays, short films and puppet workshops.
The project has strengthened the dialogue, brought opportunities for exchange, by developing a creative partnership between Fragments Theatre, the Lama Brother's Theatre in Palestine and Théâtre de l'Opprimé from Casablanca in Morocco, this is theatre company which places art at the core of its activities, representing the social and civic life of Moroccan citizens and trying to preserve the Moroccan identity and its cultural heritage.
Fragments Theatre
Website: www.fragmentstheatre.org/
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%AD-%D8%B4%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7-Fragments-Theatre-761024173945848/
Théâtre de l'Opprimé
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/Masra7Lme7gour/
Published on 6th February 2017 11th June 2018 By leonardo
Tanjil – Concours des Jeunes Talents
The global objective of this project is to support the durability of a permanent cultural cluster aimed at helping young citizens in the development of their artistic and cultural expression through innovative professionalization practices.
Two different components are implemented in the action of the project, to promote young talent in their professionalization:
"Concours Jeunes Talents": an artistic event that opened the stage for 150 young musicians of different backgrounds, seeking a place of expression and dissemination of their arts.
Access to a professional training programme for a selected group of the first component for the building their capacities in different fields: artistic, managerial, technical…
Our actions are oriented also to turn public spaces into a place of free artistic expression for the young people of our urban community and into a convergence to create intergenerational and intercultural mix in the Moroccan society.
Concours des Jeunes Talents Tanjazz is led by Tangiers based association Tabadoul: a versatile cultural platform that welcomes musicians looking to present their work or wishing to settle in residency while developing new artistic creations.
The partners in this project are:
Lorin Foundation is based in Tangiers, and works in the field of transmission of culture and arts, with a specific attention to children from disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Their main projects are the Festival of Tanjazz (10 editions), and the creation of the theatre company "Comedy of Tangier".
Visa for Music (VFM), based in Rabat, is the first professional music market of Africa and Middle-East. The project was born due to the lack of visibility for African and Middle-Eastern artists at an international level, and the presence of a very important artistic dynamism and musical creation in the region.
Tabadoul
Website: http://www.tabadoul.org/
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/tabadoul.tanger
Lorin Foundation
Website: http://tangier.free.fr/Documents/Fondation-Lorin.htm
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fondation-Lorin/1045140965552953
Visa for Music
Website: http://visaformusic.com/
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/visaformusic
Tanjil Festival:
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/concours.tanjil/
Proposal for a Metropole
Tangiers is witnessing a massive urban change, experiencing both significant economic growth and unprecedented evolution of the artistic and cultural scene led by local initiatives coming from artists and cultural programmers. Proposal for a Metropole aimed to work alongside with this local momentum, to build up a creative answer to respond to the major socio-cultural and urban challenges faced by the city due to its mutation, taking into consideration the role of art and culture in its development and urbanization processes.
In order to (re)integrate art and culture in the process of urbanization and development of a city, throughout a one year laboratory based on research and production residencies, the project has brought together artists with city institutions to respond to the major social, cultural and urban challenges faced by Tangiers. The institutions with which the artists worked with are: schools, urban agencies and the local media. Each residency has hosted working sessions with professionals from the different sectors, public open studios/conferences, and master classes. The projects resulting from the residencies were presented to the city council and the city districts as examples for creative approaches to the urban development issues and problems that Tangiers is facing today.
Dabateatr is a multidisciplinary art company initiated by a group of artists from different geographical regions and various artistic disciplines, to promote knowledge and education about "The Citizen Cultural, Artistic and Freedom Action". Building bridges between people, disciplines and cultures. Works with emerging artists and projects by offering them a regular capacity building program, in project management.
Proposal for a Metropole is a project coordinated by Think Tanger, which started in 2016 as a project and is now a platform implementing each year different cultural projects based on artistic work and Tangiers' urban development.
Dabateatr
Website: http://dabateatr.org/
Think Tanger
Website: http://www.think-tanger.com/
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/thinktanger/
MHR programmation
Linkedin: https://ma.linkedin.com/in/mary-rahma-homman-6b33307
Madrassa is a program of curatorial research and practice in contemporary art, and one of the first of its kind in the region. It strives to educate and connect a community of young arts professionals offering them training and networking opportunities. Through a call for applications, Madrassa invited young curators and cultural practitioners from North Africa and the Middle East to participate in a programme based independent curatorial practices, that look beyond the existing modes of production and dynamics of the global art world. It explored socially engaged visual arts practices, promoted collaborative projects and transnational exchanges, offering a platform for experimentation to the region's emerging curatorial talents. The Madrassa program was launched in 2015 by l'Atelier de l'Observatoire (art and research) in Casablanca.
Madrassa has been implemented in this occasion between Amman, Casablanca, Alexandria and Algiers, consisting on a series of talks, visits and workshops in each city, and enable the participants to put their acquired knowledge and training into practice by curating a project in each city.
Spring Sessions is an experiential learning programme and arts residency based in Amman, Jordan. The programme brings together emerging and established cultural practitioners to produce work and share results. The purpose is to encourage participants to question existing paradigms by experimenting outside of traditional models.
Website: https://thespringsessions.com/
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/thespringsessions/
Atelier de l'Observatoire
Website: http://www.atelierobservatoire.com/madrassa
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/AtelierObservatoire
Mass Alexandria
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MASSAlexandriaSpace
Website: http://ariaprojects.org/?page_id=1600
Kibrit
KIBRIT (كبريت) is a collaborative research and production programme dedicated to contemporary artistic and curatorial practices engaged in processes of reactivation of cultural heritage and collective memory (architecture, radio and sound archives, cinema, photography). Curated and implemented by a network of independent art spaces and initiatives based in North Africa and Middle East, KIBRIT embodies the willingness of its partners to build sustainable synergies, and to exchange cultural practices, ideas and activities engaged in the social fabric.
To reach these objectives, KIBRIT has implemented in 2017:
A series of collaborative research projects to reactivate specific physical or ephemeral sites of cultural heritage in each of the partners' locations: led by the local partner, each project proactively involves the others endorsing a methodology based on mutual enrichment through exchange of skills, knowledge and practices, while engaging local communities, researchers and artists to concur onto the reactivation process enacted. A final, major event, in the form of a publication and an exhibition, took place between November and December;
A series of punctual meetings and events in Algiers, Tunis, Casablanca, Marrakech, Ramallah and Barcelona. Through public programmes, workshops, artistic interventions, trainings, research sessions, public presentations and networking, these meetings involved KIBRIT's partners and local communities in the reactivation process of local cultural heritage;
The development of the KIBRIT online research and visibility platform: this platform it is a key tool to support and give visibility to each project and the activities. Secondly, it is a space for critical reflection on how contemporary artistic and curatorial practices engage in processes of reactivation of cultural heritage and collective memory in the region; and finally gathers the researches and cartographies on this topic.
Website: www.le18.weebly.com
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/le18marrakech/
Website: www.atelierobservatoire.com
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/AtelierObservatoire/
Website: http://maisonimage.tn/
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/maisonimagetn/
Ramallah Municipality
Website: http://www.ramallah.ps/english.aspx
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/R.Municipality/
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/Rhizome-1503325383025017/
CeRCCa Centre de Recerca i Creacio Casamarles
Website: https://cercca.com
JISER Reflexions Mediterrànies
Website: www.jiser.org/
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/JISERArts/
Website: http://kibrit.org/en/about.html
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/Kibrit-983630971771456/
Inkylab
Since its establishment, Maison de l'Image works in synergy with a network of collaborators, public and private institutions and associations focusing on the visual arts in Tunisia and abroad. The association has organized a series of workshops, exhibitions and meetings for artists and creative organisations and individuals from Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia.
After becoming well established, a partnership with 2 cultural organisms from the MENA region: Brokk'Art from Algeria and L'Uzine from Morocco, was agreed. Maison de l'Image decided to create Inkylab – a publishing platform, a collaborative print space and a network, aiming to create accessible tools and a networking context to enhance the exposure of talented creative illustrators, and artistic collectives based in the MENA region. Inkylab has constituted a platform for new questions, images, and ideas, to blur geographic and social boundaries, and to open new frontiers for cultural and creative innovation. Through publishing, educational, and curatorial activities, Inkylab gathers artists who seek to create, engage, and communicate topics and issues concerning self-publishing and lead them towards collaboration. The final event in Tunisia as part of the 'Salon International de la Bande Dessinée de Tazarka (SIBDT)', August 2018, will be an ideal opportunity for Inkylab to showcase the work of the talented artists, collective illustrators and artistic based in the MENA region.
Website: http://www.maisonimage.tn
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/maisonimage
Brokk'Art
Website: http://www.brokk-art.com
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/BROKKART-327166565525/
L'Uzine
Website: http://luzine.ma/
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/uzine7/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/inkylabtn/
Arab Comics as Educational tools
This project aimed at creating an Arab comics network for comic artists in the region, to collaborate and share their creations internationally. Arab Comics as Educational Tool aimed to promote the use of comics as an educational and social tool in the community, and share possible sources to finance this kind of projects. It also seeked to build the capacities of different partners through shared experiences and practices, strengthen the abilities of Arab Artists in comics to work as a network, and spread the Arab comic internationally, making it accessible to larger audiences. To reach these objectives, a platform has been established that supports the work of the artists in the region, producing and distributing comics about social issues, artistic exchanges between Palestine, Egypt and Morocco, the translation of comics to English, French and Spanish to make comics accessible to international audience, and by implementing exhibitions to showcase the work of the comic artists involved.
The project is led by Tamer Institute, an association based in Jerusalem, focusing mainly on the rights to education, identity, freedom of expression and access to knowledge. Tamer institute works across the West Bank and Gaza Strip, primarily targeting children and young artists, and developing alternative means to formal education.
Tamer Institute
Website: http://tamerinst.org/
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/TamerInstitute/
Koshk Comics
Website: www.koshkcomics.com/s/
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/KoshkComics/
Khalil Al Sakakini Cultural Center
Website: http://www.sakakini.org/
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/KhalilSakakiniCenter/
SkefKef magazine
Website: http://skefkef.ma/
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/skefkefmag/about/?ref=page_internal
Kawkab Al Rasameen
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/kawkabElRasameen/
MEEM – a Capacity Building and Networking Project
Through a strong network of dance organizations, MEEM aimed to develop and establish a platform for exchange and a solid soil for contemporary dance in the South Mediterranean region. The partnering organizations have worked on building capacities and generating sustainable artistic collaborations based on theoretical and practical activities and practices related to the contexts of their countries and needs.
Throughout the full programme of activities, 24 young and emerging artists from 10 different countries have been directly involved. 18 international presenters, in addition to representatives from a number of different cultural organisations have taken part in the activities, and by doing so have become familiar with both the work and the conditions of the artists working in the region.
The project is led by Maqamat Dance Theatre, an international dance company founded in 2002 and based in Beirut. In a short period of time, the company has been able to emerge as a central organization in the creation and development of contemporary dance in Lebanon and the Arab region. It is considered today as the founder of a Lebanese Contemporary Dance Scene.
Maqamat Dance Theatre
Website: https://www.maqamat.org/
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/maqamat/
Sareyyet Ramallah
Website: www.sareyyet.ps/
Tanween
Website: http://www.tanween.de/?page_id=120
CIE Nacera Belaza
Website: www.cie-nacerabelaza.com/
CIE Chatha
Website: www.chatha.org/
MARSAD – Mediterranean Action and Research for Sustainability and Development
MARSAD – Mediterranean Action and Research for Sustainability and Development aimed to create a collective platform of research, implementation, monitoring and observation of cultural policies in the region, in order to ensure an efficient advocacy of the institutions. The platform plans to grow and include more partners to become a reference in the South Med region.
MARSAD has set-up research and diagnosis on cultural policies in the partners' countries (education, training, diversity, governance, production), to share expertise between partners, to strengthen the network of cultural operators in the region, and to set-up a common platform providing data & information about cultural policies in the region. In the long-term, the goal is to establish a regional Observatory for Cultural Policies providing data, research, studies and recommendations on cultural policies in the region in order to advocate for and strengthen the capacities of cultural actors, to implement cultural policies that are useful for the population, and sustainable for artists in their respective countries.
Racines is a Moroccan non-profit organisation advocating for the integration of culture into public, human, social and economic policies. Racines is born from the desire of Moroccan cultural actors, convinced that the issue of culture is common to African countries (weakness of cultural policies, lack of involvement of the States, non-recognition of culture as a human right, weak creative industries, lack of protecting artists' rights, lack of training in cultural jobs…). Racines' projects are articulated around cultural policies (research, advocacy, mapping), arts and culture for social change, entrepreneurship, cultural management training, artistic freedom, artists' rights and status.
MARSAD is a project lead by Racines and developed in partnership with:
Our Culture First,an association based in Tunis, Tunisia, works on promoting cultural initiatives at national and local level, through capacity development approaches and a national exchange platform.
El Madina for Performing and Digital Arts, based in Alexandria, Egypt, develops projects through training, production, and management of culture spaces.
Me'Zaf, based in Beirut, Lebanon, is a musical cultural initiative whose main focus is the authentic music of the Levant. By implementing research projects and musical activities intends to reintegrate this music in our current scene, as a contemporary creation tool.
Website: www.racines.ma
Website: www.artmap.ma
Website: www.pratiquesculturelles.ma
Facebook pages:
hwww.facebook.com/RacinesMaroc/
www.facebook.com/LaCultureEstLaSolution
Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/107702075957633
Me'Zaf
Website: www.mezaf.org
Our Culture First
Website: www.oct.org.tn
El Madina for Performing and Digital Arts
Website: www.elmadinaarts.com
MASARD
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/Marsad2017/
SubgranteesFirst call
THE GREENHOUSE, a platform for artistic experimentation in Casablanca's public space
This Project will interweave explorations of contemporary creation, modern Casablanca heritage, public space and environment through a diverse but focused range of art and cultural activities aiming to support the potential of art in reviving historic sites and neglected city spaces. Activities will range from training, workshops and networking to an ephemeral art centre in the public space- the greenhouse, and site-specific interventions and lectures by artists and scientists. The project targets the general public, specifically the popular neighbourhood of Hay Mohamedi with the support of non-profit organisations already operating in the area.
The Project is organised by L'Observatoire, a non-profit organisation working at the crossroads of heritage, contemporary art and environmental issues; in partnership with Casamemoire, association aiming to safeguard the architectural heritage of twentieth century in Morocco; and Casapatrimoine dedicated to preservation of Casablanca´s cultural heritage; and in cooperation with EUNIC Casablanca, a network of National Institutes for Culture. All organisations are based in Casablanca.
L'Observatoire:
www.atelierobservatoire.com
https://www.facebook.com/AtelierObservatoire?ref=hl
Casamemoire:
www.casamemoire.org
https://www.facebook.com/CASAMEMOIRE-183463141731033/
https://twitter.com/Casamemoire
Casapatrimoine:
https://www.facebook.com/journeespatrimoinecasa/?fref=ts
EUNIC Casablanca:
http://casablanca.eunic-online.eu/
https://www.facebook.com/EUNICGlobal/
https://twitter.com/EUNIC_Global?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Photo by Atelier de l'Observatoire.
Published on 21st January 2016 23rd February 2018 By leonardo
Promotion of the culture of human rights among youth
The project is using cinema as a tool for raising the culture of human rights among young people, children and families. It will take place in marginalized districts of Casablanca, Salé and Rabat. It includes several recurring events and activities, namely the Thursdays of Cinema and Human Rights, children's morning sessions and the master class on cinema and human rights. The aim is to involve local young people, providing a new tool for dialogue, social integration, cultural change and advocacy for a stronger commitment to human rights.
The project is led by the Association of Mediterranean Meetings of Cinema and Human Rights (ARMCDH), based in Rabat, which is dedicated to promoting the culture of human rights through cinema; in partnership with Centre culturel les étoiles de Sidi Moumen- Fondation Ali Zaoua, based in Casablanca working for social development and psycho-social rehabilitation of young underprivileged Moroccans by facilitating their access to all forms of artistic expression, National Human Rights Council, national institution for the protection and defence of human rights and freedoms in Morocco; Association Al Kachf Al Mounir, contribute to educating of children and youth as responsible citizens; and Moroccan Centre for Cinematography, one of the world's oldest public establishments tasked with regulating and promoting film.
Association of Mediterranean Meetings of Cinema and Human Rights (ARMCDH):
http://www.armcdh.ma
https://www.facebook.com/armcdh/?ref=hl
https://twitter.com/ARMCDH
Centre culturel les étoiles de Sidi Moumen- Fondation Ali Zaoua:
http://fondationalizaoua.org
https://www.facebook.com/ali.zaoua.737?fref=ts
Association Al Kachf Al Mounir:
http://monasso.ma/association/association-al-kachf-al-mounir
https://www.facebook.com/alkachf.almounir
National Human Rights Council:
http://www.cndh.org.ma/an
https://twitter.com/CNDHMaroc
Moroccan Centre for Cinematography:
http://www.ccm.ma/
https://www.facebook.com/ccmaction/
"Une danse pour demain" (A dance for tomorrow)
This Project is initiated by two women choreographers, each working for the development of contemporary dance in their countries. They have identified ten young Moroccans and Algerians they wish to support in their creative process. Dancers will experience an intensive and full training and they will have an opportunity to extend network and visit regional events of importance. Dance will be shared from choreographers to dancers, but also and transmit to youngers amateurs through regular workshops for groups of children and adolescents in partnership with a neighbourhood association in Casablanca and Algiers. The aim is to strengthen the capacities of the young dance scene in South Mediterranean by transmitting the interest to youth and children, and develop a networking the region about dance, but generally art and culture.
This project is led by Espace Darja/Association les rencontres de la danse based in Casablanca, in partnership with Association Jazz Ame/Cie Nacera Belaza, a dance company working between Algeria and France; in cooperation with the Casablanca based Association Initiative Urbaine.
Espace Darja/Association les rencontres de la danse:
http://www.espacedarja.com
https://www.facebook.com/page.espacedarja
Association Jazz Ame/Cie Nacera Belaza:
http://www.cie-nacerabelaza.com/compagny.html
https://www.facebook.com/cienacera.belaza/?fref=ts
Association Initiative Urbaine:
http://www.iuhm.org/
https://www.facebook.com/Association-Initiative-Urbaine-102754409816012/?fref=ts
Photo by Espace Darja.
Participatory research and artistic divulgation of Intangible Cultural Heritage associated to Chefchaouen Mediterranean Diet
This project is framed inside the action plan started by the municipality of Chefchaouen after this city was nominated as emblematic community of the Mediterranean Diet (MD designated by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage). The main objectives are the creation of an Inventory of Mediterranean Diet intangible items; the promotion for the participation of the local population in safeguarding their centuries-old traditions and 'savoir faire' and the development of artistic activities as a means of social dialogue (theatre, stories and videos).
The project is lead by Talassemtane pour l'Environnement et le Développement, a non-profit association based in Tunisia and dedicated to promoting, developing and safeguarding the natural and cultural heritage; in partnership with the Urban Municipality of Chefchaouen; and in cooperation with the international association Diversity & Development, expert in Chefchaouen's Mediterranean Diet Heritage research.
Talassemtane pour l'Environnement et le Développement:
www.assated.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/230172565695/
Diversity & Development:
http://diversity-development.com
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011456649167&fref=ts
The project will gather artists, academic experts and private companies with the aim to build up a creative answer responding to the great socio-cultural and educative challenges faced by the city of Tangiers. Activities, such as artist residency programs, sociological studies, training, public conferences, will be organised aiming to create a debate on urban space between artists, thinkers and entrepreneurs.
Arty Farty Tanger, the main project organisation, is a 'daughter' of the French association Arty Farty, working in the area of culture, entrepreneurship and education. In partnership with Techno Park Tanger, a company based in Morocco with expertise in information, communication, green technologies and cultural industry; and Racines, an NGO based in Morocco promoting culture as a vector of democracy and human, social and economic development.
Arty Farty Tanger:
http://nuits-sonores.com/tanger/
Techno Park Tanger:
http://technopark.ma
https://www.facebook.com/TechnoparkTanger/?fref=ts
Racines:
http://www.racines.ma
https://www.facebook.com/RacinesMaroc/?fref=ts
https://www.facebook.com/thinktanger/?fref=ts
Photo by Hicham Gardaf