The activities of the fourth edition of the “Festival of Moroccan Poetry”, organized by the “House of Poetry” of Marrakech, under the patronage of the Moroccan King Mohammed VI, will be launched on Friday in Marrakech, as part of the cooperation between the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication in Morocco and the Department of Culture in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. .
This year’s session pays tribute to poet and researcher Ahmed Belhaj Ait Warham, hassani poet Khadija Labidi Al Naha and Berber poet Mohamed Wakarar, to celebrate Moroccan cultural diversity. The winners of my competition will also be crowned: Best Poetry and Poetic Criticism for Young Poets, Critics and Researchers, in its fourth session.
The inauguration ceremony will see the inauguration of the exhibition “Hroufiyat 7/7”, with the participation of 7 artists in an exhibition, which will be organized in 7 days: Mohamed Teverdin, Abdel Rahim Hamza, Rachid Zizi, Arshkek Lamleih, Abdelilah Al Hilali , Abdullah Burka and Lahcen Al Farsiwi; Calligrapher and researcher, Dr Muhammad Al-Bandawi, presents these activities.
The opening night will see poetry readings by the poets: Abdel-Din Hamroush, Amina Lamrini and Mohamed Al-Saber, followed by a concert with the artist Magda Al-Yahawy, accompanied by the Jilali Emthered Band for Malhoun Art, together with the artist Rachid Zeroual and musical performances on the flute.
The festival activities will continue on Saturday at the Sharkawy Iqbal Amphitheater of the Faculty of Arabic Language in Marrakech, with the organization of the festival forum, on the theme “Poetry and Diversity Issues”, with the participation of critics and researchers: Saeed Al-Awadi, Montana Ma Al-Enein and Mubarak Abaazi, under the supervision of Murad Al-Qadri, head of the House of Poetry in Morocco. The pioneers of poetry will have an appointment with the second poetry session, within the “Difaf” segment, with the participation of the poets: Munir Al-Idrisi, Dalila Fakhri and Asmaa Adali Ed Bahey.
The organizers believe that the choice of the festival’s symposium theme (poetry and diversity issues) translates the desire for cultural diversity to be “a pure and creative horizon and identity for this quality cultural initiative”.
The program of the course proposes dialogues with the winners, to continue in the garden of Arsat Moulay Abdel Salam, the poetic evening, with the segment “Pulse of the Poem”, with the participation of the poets: Noureddine Al-Zwaitni, Fatiha Morshid, Hassan Al -Wazzani, and Boudjemaa Al-Oufi, and presented by the poet and media personality, Mustafa Ghelman, in what will be the trio of “Dar Oud instrument”, in musical accompaniment.
Within the paragraph “Alphabets and choreography”, the artist and poet Al-Saeed Abu Khaled will interview the artist and poet Abdullah Emha, within a fixed paragraph that establishes the depth of the dialogue between poetry and art.
The event will end on Sunday with the organization of a “Moroccan Poem”, with the participation of the poets: Ismail Ait Idar, Abdelhak Adnan, Al-Salama Hamidi and Umm Al-Eid Adnani. In the garden of Arsat Moulay Abdeslam a “Poetry Visions” is organized with the participation of poets: Lahcen Lasaibi, Mohamed Belmou, Zakia Al-Marmouk and Kamal Akhlaki. And the presentation of the poet Maryam Al-Maimouni, while the artist Wesal Hatem, with Mohamed Ait Al-Qadi and Yassin Al-Razi, will illuminate his artistic paragraphs to form the paragraph “ABC and Music”, concluding, with the participation of artist Nabila Maan and her band led by artist Tariq Hilal.
