the 2014 events calendar

PUBLIC EVENTS
ARTISTS AND AUTHORS IN
RESIDENCE
SEPTEMBER/DECEMBER 2014
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SEPTEMBER
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On-site programs
Off-site programs
On September 20th
Dar al-Ma’mûn / Fellah Hotel
Km13 route de l’Ourika
Tassoultante - Marrakech
Info : +212.5.25.06.50.00
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On September 25th
ESAV
Close to universitarian campus
and Cadi Ayad University
Info : +212.80.20.02.20.06
www.esavmarrakech.com
Saturday September 20th
at 5pm/ Dar al-Ma’mûn
Al Mawred al Thaqafy
Thursday September 25th
at 7pm/ ESAV
Touda Bouanani
On September 27th
Le 18, derb el Ferrane
Derb el Ferrane
Riad Laarouss - Médina
Info : +212. 5.24.38.98.64
Saturday September 27th
at 7pm / Le 18
André Naffis-Sahély + Mohamed Nedali
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Saturday September 20th at 5pm
Voice of the culture: Al Mawred al Thaqafy
As part of Al Mawred Al Thaqafy’s workshop ‘Imkan’ for the future cultural leaders of the MENA region:
Imkan is a new program of cultural leadership development for the young cultural leaders of the Arab
region, run by the Egyptian organization Al Mawred Al Thaqafy. This initiative aims to strengthen the abilities
of young cultural executives and Arab artists through a training in advoacy, leadership, and management;
through encouraging dialogue and open debate on the pertinent questions such as the role in the social
realm of culture, of liberty of expression, of access to culture, in addition to supporting the artistic collaboration
between the participants of the program and connecting them with larger cultural networks, at both the
regional and international level.
Thursday September 25th at 7pm
Ahmed Bouanani : an œuvre in the making - Touda Bouanani
Screening of Mirage, feature film by Ahmed Bouanani (1979, 1h40)
Touda Bouanani is an artist working primarily in the medium of film. She is also the daughter of Ahmed
Bouanani (1938-2011), a writer, director, and artist fundamental to modern Morocco, whose work Touda
has set about preserving and circulating. Dar al-Ma’mûn assists her in this project by putting on a monthly
program throughout the year 2014-2015, which will be inaugurated Thursday September 25th with the
screening of Bouanani’s only full-length film, Mirage, an essential milestone in the history of Moroccan cinema.
Rare documents, film stills, and scanned pages of the screenplay will be presented before the screening.
Saturday September 27th at 7pm
The Residents of Dar al-Ma’mûn: André Naffis-Sahely in conversation with Mohamed Nedali
Mohamed Nedali, born in Tahanaoute, where he still lives today, holds a prominent place in French-language
Moroccan literature. His novels, six to date, received high praise from the public and critics alike, and he was
awarded the Prix Grand Atlas in 2005 and the Prix littéraire de la Mamounia in 2012.
André Naffis-Sahely is a writer and translator from French and Italian to English. In addition to works by
Balzac and Zola, he also translated Les figues de Barbarie (Barbary Figs) by Rachid Boujedra and Le fond de la
jarre (The Bottom of the Jar) by Abdellatif Laâbi. Today he is in residence at Dar al-Ma’mûn translating Morceaux de
choix (Prime Cuts) by Mohamed Nedali (published by Le Fennec in 2003), which will be the first of Nedali’s
books to appear in English translation.
www.andrenaffis.com
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OCTOBER
MONDAY
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On-site programs
Off-site programs
On October 10th and 11th
Dar al-Ma’mûn / Fellah Hotel
Km13 route de l’Ourika
Tassoultante - Marrakech
Info : +212.5.25.06.50.00
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On October 22th
ESAV
Close to universitarian campus
and Cadi Ayad University
Info : +212.80.20.02.20.06
www.esavmarrakech.com
Friday October 10th at
7pm / Dar al-Ma’mûn
Racines
Wednesday October 22nd
at 7pm / ESAV
Anna Della Subin
Khalil Nemmaoui
Saturday October 11th
at 5pm / Dar al-Ma’mûn
Francisco Moscoso
On October 25th
Le 18, derb el Ferrane
Derb el Ferrane
Riad Laarouss - Médina
Info : +212. 5.24.38.98.64
Saturday October 25th
at 7pm / Le 18
Faouzi Bensaïdi
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Friday October 10th at 7pm
Voice of the culture: Racines
Racines is a non-profit Moroccan organization for culture, and for the development and promotion of
creative industry and cooperation in Africa. Racines was created in September 2010 in Casablanca. It is the
Moroccan branch of the African cultural organization the Arterial Network, founded in 2007 in Senegal.
Today this network represents organizations from 35 African countries and strives to establish a cultural
politics in Africa, for the protection of the rights of artists and of intellectual property, for the promotion of
culture and human rights, for human, social and economic development, as well for the establishment of a
perennial creative industry. In addition to ongoing activities throughout the year, most notably a public
program of debates on culture in Casablanca, Racines is currently organizing the next African Creative Economy Conference, put on by the Arterial Network in Rabat in November.
http://www.racines.ma and http://africacreativeconference.com/fr/
Saturday October 11th at 5pm
“Free” Rendez-vous: Francisco Moscoso
Popular poetry performed in the Jebala region
Francisco Moscoso, professor of Arabic and Moroccan Arabic at the Universidad Autonoma in Madrid, is a
specialist of Moroccan literature and popular culture. He is the author of a bilingual Spanish-Moroccan
Arabic dictionary, and the editor of several bilingual collections of Moroccan folk tales. His conference will focus
on the traditional poetry performed in the north of Morocco, specifically on a corpus of quatrains collected by Carlos Pereda Roig in the Jebala region, of which Francisco Moscoso has made a critical edition,
published earlier this year by Edicions Bellaterra in Barcelona.
Wednesday October 22nd at 7pm
The Residents of Dar al-Ma’mûn: Anna Della Subin & Khalil Nemmaoui
A dark room in San Francisco
Anna Della Subin studied philosophy and classics at the University of Chicago and religious studies at
Harvard University. She writes poetic essays on a number of subjects ranging from the occult to cultural
rites, from to laziness to animal rights. Her residency comes out of a partnership between Dar al-Ma’mûn
and the Tamaas Foundation, based in the USA. For this encounter, she invites Khalil Nemmaoui to present
his recent works.
Khalil Nemmaoui, a Moroccan photographer, has just finished a residency at the Headlands Center for
the Arts in California, where he began a collaboration with Anna Della Subin, which continues at Dar alMa’mûn
Saturday October 25th at 7pm
Ahmed Bouanani : an œuvre in the making - Faouzi Bensaïdi
From script to film
Faouzi Bensaïdi is a Moroccan director, screenwriter, and actor. He has staged several plays as well as numerous
short films, including La falaise, Trajets, and Le mur. He has directed three feature films: Mille Mois (2003),
What a Wonderful World (2006), and Mort à Vendre (2012). He has also acted in various films such as
Mektoub by Nabil Ayouch and Le cheval de Vent by Daoud Aoulad-Syad, whose screenplay was written by
Ahmed Bouanani. From this screenplay, Faouzi Bensaïdi evokes his memories of Ahmed Bouanani and
Naïma Saoudi Bouanani, who was the set designer of many of his films.
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NOVEMBER
MONDAY
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On-site programs
Off-site programs
On November 1st, 14th, 15th,
17th and 21th
Dar al-Ma’mûn / Fellah Hotel
Km13 route de l’Ourika
Tassoultante - Marrakech
Info : +212.5.25.06.50.00
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On November 12th
Le 18, derb el Ferrane
Derb el Ferrane
Riad Laarouss - Médina
Info : +212. 5.24.38.98.64
Saturday November 1st
at 5pm / Dar al-Ma’mûn
Anna Della Subin
Wednesday November 12th
at 7pm / Le 18
Mélanie Bouteloup
Friday the 14th and Saturday the
15th of November
from 10am-7pm/ Dar al-Ma’mûn
Creative Time Summit
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Monday November 17th
at 7pm / Dar al-Ma’mûn
Guests to be confirmed
Thursday November 20th
at 7pm / Dar al-Ma’mûn
Najwa Barakat
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Saturday November 1st at 5pm
The Residents of Dar al-Ma’mûn: Anna Della Subin
How to Sleep 300 Years?
Anna Della Subin, a young American essayist, regularly takes inspiration from the works of Arab authors. In this lecture
focused on the theme of sleep, Subin reflects on the possibility of spending one’s life lying down, or of waking up after
having slept for several centuries, bringing to mind two Egyptian authors: Albert Cossery, specifically his novel Les fainéants dans la vallée fertile (1948), and Tawfiq al-Hakim, specifically his play Ahl al-Kahf (1993). This lecture will serve as
an opportunity to meditate on the legend of the seven sleepers and its presence in different cultures.
Wednesday November 12th at 7pm
“Free” Rendez-vous: Mélanie Bouteloup / Bétonsalon
Bétonsalon is an arts and research center started in 2007, directed by Mélanie Bouteloup. Lodged in the
Université Paris 7, at the heart of a neighborhood currently being redeveloped, the ZAC Paris Rive Gauche
in the 13th arrondissement, Bétonsalon offers a program linked to its context, seeking to bring together the
neighborhood’s cultural players, researchers, students, teachers, inhabitants and workers.
The two leaders of this organization are invited to Dar al-Ma’mûn as part of our ongoing reception of international
curators eager to discover the emerging scenes of Moroccan creation.
Friday the 14th and Saturday the 15th of November from 10am-7pm
Creative Time Summit
Each year Dar al-Ma’mûn partners with the New York-based organization Creative Time to live broadcast two
days of debates on the contemporary issues of creation.
This year, for the first time, Creative Time Summit will take place outside of the United States, in Stockholm.
Creative Time Summit 2014 will focus on public practices and the potential of art in the public sphere,
focusing on the practices that have social and political implications. Over the course of the two days, lecturers
from every continent will present. Among these organizations is Ghana Think Tank, a collective of American
artists who were in residence at Dar al-Ma’mûn in 2012. For 40 years, Creative Time has been a major player
in the production of works of art in the public space. The platform also produces a number of reports on
social and political phenomena from the four corners of the earth.
http://creativetime.org
Monday November 17th at 7pm
Voice of the culture: Guests to be confirmed
Following the African Creative Economy Conference put on by the Arterial Network, organized in Rabat by
the association Racines, Dar al-Ma’mûn invites several African artistic and cultural figures to present their
work.
Thursday November 20th at 7pm
“Free” Rendez-vous: Najwa Barakat
How to write a novel?
During the month of November, Dar al-Ma’mûn will host a session of the AFAC Novel Writing Program:
eight young Arab authors are advised for an entire year, each looking to publish a novel at the end of their
journey. Naja Barakat will act as their mentor in this program. We invite you for a conversation with her.
Najwa Barakat is a Lebanese novelist, journalist, and director. She studied film before working as a journalist for
the newspaper, the radio, and the television. She is the author of five novels written in Arabic and published
by Dar al-Adab, as well as one novel written in French, La locataire du pot de fer.
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DECEMBER
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
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On-site programs
Off-site programs
Dates to be confirmed
Dar al-Ma’mûn / Fellah Hotel
Km13 route de l’Ourika
Tassoultante - Marrakech
Info : +212.5.25.06.50.00
www.dam-arts.org
On December 5th
Faculté des Lettres
Université Cadi Ayyad
Friday December 5th
Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences humaines,
Université Cadi Ayyad at 4pm
La Nouvelle Histoire - on Jacques Le Goff
On December 6th
Le 18, derb el Ferrane
Derb el Ferrane
Riad Laarouss - Médina
Info : +212. 5.24.38.98.64
Saturday December 6th
at 7pm / Le 18
David Ruffel
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Friday December 5th – Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences humaines, Université Cadi Ayyad at 4pm
La Nouvelle Histoire - on Jacques Le Goff
Round-table moderated by Mohamed Houbaida and Lotfi Bouchentouf, organized in partnership with the
association Ribat al Koutoub.
Jacques Le Goff, a prolific and influential historian specializing in the Middle Ages, died in April 2014 at the
age of 90. In partnership with Ribat al Koutoub, Dar al-Ma’mûn will organize two days of workshops based
on his book Un long Moyen Age, bringing together students from the Université Cadi Ayyad and students
from other cities in Morocco. These workshops will be concluded with a public round-table on the innovations
that Jacques Le Goff brought to the historic discipline, most importantly the notion of “Nouvelle Histoire.”
Mohamed Houbaida is a history professor at the Université Ibn Tofail in Kenitra
Lotfi Bouchentouf is a history professor at the Université Hassan Il in Casablanca.
Ribat al-Koutoub (www.ribatalkoutoub.ma) is an Arabic online journal of human sciences, founded by
Abdelahad Sebti and Abdelhay Moudden, professors at the Université Mohamed V in Rabat, and directed
by a committee of researchers from different disciplines. It is also an association that works on the training of PhD
students, who get their foot in the door by having the opportunity to write articles and book reviews. Based
on a long-term partnership, Dar al-Ma’mûn invites the Ribat al-Koutoub collective to come three times a
year to share their experiences with students and researchers in the Marrakech area. This work, situated at
the border between training, research, and the dissemination of research, takes on the form of a thematic
workshop behind closed doors, followed by a public round-table.
Saturday December 6th at 7pm
Ahmed Bouanani : an œuvre in the making - David Ruffel
On the fringes of the cinematograph
Based on excerpts from La septième porte, a history of Moroccan cinema written by Ahmed Bouanani and
currently unpublished, David Ruffel will show to what extent words and images are inseparable in the work
of this polyvalent artist.
David Ruffel is a literary critic and independent researcher, specializing in contemporary literature. He lives
and teaches in Casablanca, where he started the experimental festival Masnaâ. He co-founded the Ecole
de littérature, a school without walls and without diplomas, and co-directs the “chaoïd” series at Éditions
Verdier, home to the French republication of Ahmed Bouanani’s L’hôpital.
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