2024-05-10 02:21:23
This new edition of “Come to My Home”, a true itinerant cultural and artistic festival, is organized by the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (FM6P), the Foundation of World Cultures (FCM), the National Higher Institute of Arts and of Cultural Action (INSAAC) of Côte d’Ivoire and the Moroccan Embassy in Abidjan.
A major cultural week will be held in Abidjan: It testifies to the fraternity and mutual desire for cooperation in all areas, and the implementation of positive partnerships in order to develop and promote the common cultural heritage of Côte d’Ivoire and Morocco, the organizers indicated during a press conference organized Wednesday in Abidjan to present this event.
This festival constitutes an additional opportunity to bring people closer together via this formidable vector that is culture, they underlined.
It was the Moroccan association “Foundation of World Cultures”, chaired by Driss Alaoui Mdaghri, former Minister of Communication and Youth, which launched the “Come To My Home” concept.
According to Foundation officials, while all participants in the activities of this cultural event have talent, not all of them have the same degree of notoriety and professionalism, but all agree to share their know-how with enthusiasm and generosity.
“It is a human, social, cultural and artistic experience whose spirit is the antithesis of commercial events. This is due to artist residency, collaborative creation and permanent interaction between participants,” we specify.
Since its launch in 2012, several cities have hosted this leading cultural event in Morocco, including Casablanca, Marrakech, Bejaad, Mohammedia, El Jadida, Fez, Meknes, Ifrane and Benguerir, and elsewhere such as Lucca and Rome in Italy, in Dakar, Gibraltar and Torremolinos, we read in a document given to the press.
In the spirit of the creative dialogue of cultures, all-out creation is, each time, on the agenda, as are sharing, availability and conviviality in a family and friendly atmosphere without formalism, everyone doing their part. its best for the success of each edition.
The aim for the organizers is to show that art, cultural diversity and the values of tolerance and openness are major contributors to the pacification of minds and hearts.
The Program for the 26th edition in Abidjan includes a whole series of scientific, artistic and cultural activities in which a number of cultural actors from the two countries (Morocco and Ivory Coast), but also from Senegal, participate.
This is a workshop around “Cultural entrepreneurship in Africa” which will allow us to review experiences of entrepreneurship in the cultural field by public and private actors in Africa in order to draw lessons for the promotion of cultural action, a privileged source of wealth and development in African countries.
Also on the program is a plastic creation workshop around the theme of the environment which will bring together around fifteen Moroccan, Ivorian and Senegalese painters to produce original works around the theme of the environment in Africa.
Visual artists Leila Cherkaoui, Abdallah El Hariri, Abderrahman Banana, Kalidou Kassé and six Ivorian artists will lead this workshop.
There will also be a chess tournament initiated in partnership with the Ivorian Chess Federation with prizes for the winners and an FCM trophy. This activity is recurring in all FCM events because of its sporting, fun and educational virtues.
The highlight of this cultural event is the major concert “African Rhapsodies” which will be given at the Palais de la Culture and to which many Moroccan, Ivorian and Senegalese artists, musicians, singers and dancers will contribute on inspired poetic texts which sing about Africa. and its human and natural riches.
This 26th edition will be held under the patronage of Ms. Françoise Remarck, the Ivorian Minister of Culture and Francophonie and under the aegis of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco in Côte d’Ivoire.
2024-05-10 02:21:23