PUBLIC EVENTS ARTISTS AND AUTHORS IN RESIDENCE SEPTEMBER/DECEMBER 2014

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1 PUBLIC EVENTS ARTISTS AND AUTHORS IN RESIDENCE SEPTEMBER/DECEMBER 2014

2 SEPTEMBER MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY On-site programs On September 20th Dar al-ma mûn / Fellah Hotel Km13 route de l Ourika Tassoultante - Marrakech Info : Off-site programs On September 25th ESAV Close to universitarian campus and Cadi Ayad University Info : On September 27th Le 18, derb el Ferrane Derb el Ferrane Riad Laarouss - Médina Info : Saturday September 20th at 5pm/ Dar al-ma mûn Al Mawred al Thaqafy Thursday September 25th at 7pm/ ESAV Touda Bouanani Saturday September 27th at 7pm / Le 18 André Naffis-Sahély + Mohamed Nedali 2 Our Partners: ESAV - Marrakech

3 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 ( ), 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 , 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 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. 3

4 OCTOBER MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY On-site programs On October 10th and 11th Dar al-ma mûn / Fellah Hotel Km13 route de l Ourika Tassoultante - Marrakech Info : Off-site programs On October 22th ESAV Close to universitarian campus and Cadi Ayad University Info : On October 25th Le 18, derb el Ferrane Derb el Ferrane Riad Laarouss - Médina Info : Friday October 10th at 7pm / Dar al-ma mûn Racines Saturday October 11th at 5pm / Dar al-ma mûn Francisco Moscoso Wednesday October 22nd at 7pm / ESAV Anna Della Subin Khalil Nemmaoui Saturday October 25th at 7pm / Le 18 Faouzi Bensaïdi 4 Our Partners: ESAV - Marrakech

5 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. and 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 al- Ma 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. 5

6 NOVEMBER MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 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 : On November 12th Le 18, derb el Ferrane Derb el Ferrane Riad Laarouss - Médina Info : 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 Monday November 17th at 7pm / Dar al-ma mûn Guests to be confirmed Thursday November 20th at 7pm / Dar al-ma mûn Najwa Barakat 6 Notre partenaire :

7 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 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. 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. 7

8 DECEMBER MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY On-site programs Dates to be confirmed Dar al-ma mûn / Fellah Hotel Km13 route de l Ourika Tassoultante - Marrakech Info : Off-site programs On December 5th Faculté des Lettres Université Cadi Ayyad On December 6th Le 18, derb el Ferrane Derb el Ferrane Riad Laarouss - Médina Info : Friday December 5th Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences humaines, Université Cadi Ayyad at 4pm La Nouvelle Histoire - on Jacques Le Goff Saturday December 6th at 7pm / Le 18 David Ruffel AND OTHER DATES COMING... 8 Notre partenaire :

9 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 ( 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. AND OTHER DATES COMING... 9