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«Awaln’Art» : «Réinstaller le public au coeur des créations»

«Awaln’Art» : «Réinstaller le public au coeur des créations»

Online on 22 June 2009  |  Culture

CULTURE The curtain was lifted Thursday night to fall yesterday in Marrakech on the third international meetings in public places "Awaln'art 2009", by the Organization of a musical show hosted by Mâalem Gnaoui, El Belkani Brahim, molten with the English trapeze artist, Jane Allan.

A large audience and thirsty by the desire to discover art in its different facets, to have been followed with wonder and delight this show offered by these two talented artists, animated by the desire to demonstrate, once again, that art and music can be used as tools for the rapprochement of cultures and peoples.

Subsequently, the public was invited to attend a show graciously offered by artists of the "Djama Buren circus", in Bab Jdid, and at the initiative of the company Etokan (France) and Umane Culture (Burkina Faso).

Initiated by the companies artistic "Splinters of the Moon" and "Seed of Sun" by June 21 in Marrakech and in the province of Al Haouz, the festival "Awaln'Art" is a real window on the international artistic emergence and a meeting point for inevitable between Africa and the rest of the world, shows and performances which draw in the heart of African roots and consolidate more African and Moroccan identity.

Fruit of a partnership with the province of Al Haouz, the Municipal Council of the city of Marrakech and the artistic space "Al Maquam" in Tahanaoute, these meetings are also an opportunity to correct, to allow meeting artists from around the world of valorising the métissages, meetings between the cultures of Africa, North and South of the Mediterranean and South - South tradethrough support to African and Mediterranean contemporary creation and its creators, explain the organisers.

And continued for its third edition, the festival "Awaln'Art" continues to serve space upgrading and promotion of the intangible heritage African and Mediterranean, noting that these Ïuvrent meetings for the exploration of traditional forms of street performance and their synergy with the contemporary creation.

"The Morocco Halqua (circle) was a place of transmission of knowledge as well as dream and poetry, while the artist and his show were driven by a sense and a necessity given by this link with the public, that is why Awaln'art attempts to restore public spaces their role of public spaces and reinstall the public at the heart of the designs and the life in the heart of the show." They said.

An event undertaken throughout the year in local human development, Awaln'Art joined the strategies of development of the local public authorities, through the development of a region rich of its, intangible and natural heritage contribution by its dimensions cultural and artistic to the implementation of the tools necessary for the development of a cultural and rural tourism, explain even organizers.

The menu of this new edition which has invested public places at Marrakech, AIT Ourir, Aghmat, Tameslohte and Tahanaoute, is is wanted rich and attractive with a series of shows and new entertainment programming, and the bet was won!

Therefore, this new edition has seen the participation of a range of Moroccan and foreign artists from Mali, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, France, Italy, Lebanon, Spain and Belgium.

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