15th World Sacred Music Festival

Concert Program

Friday, May 29

8:30 pm at Bab Makina
Marcel Khalifa and Ensmeble “Al Mayadin”

With Oumaima Al Khalil (homage to Mahmoud Darwish)                                                               Libanon

Saturday, May 30

4:00 pm Batha Museum
Shantala Shivalingapa “Gamaka” Kuchipudi dance                                                                         India

8:30 pm Bab Makina
Marwa Wright “Gospel”                                                                                                                USA

Sunday, May 31

4:00 pm Batha Museum
Mohammed Motamedi (chants – Radif art)                                                                                     Iran

8:30 Bab Makina
Trance Dervishes (from Eternity to Modernity)

Part 1:  Whirling Dervishes of Konya                                                                                       Turkey
Part 2:  Ziya Azazi “Icons” Dervishes Contemporary Dance                                                     Turkey

Monday, June 1

4:00 pm Batha Museum
Yuval Ron & Najwa Gibran

Songs and Music of Arabic and Jewish traditions                                                                       USA

8:30 Bab Makina
“Chords and Souls” Didier Lockwood                                                                                   France

Ihsane R’Miki and ensemble Zaman Al Wasl                                                                        Morocco
Caroline Casadesus arranged by R. Regragui                                                                        Morocco

Tuesday, June 2

4:00 pm Batha Museum
Women Deba of Mayotte (Sufi Music and dance)                                                                Mayotte

8:30 pm Bab Makina
Souad Massi (Musk Rose – Honey Suckle)                                                                        France/Algeria

 
Wednesday, June 3

4:00 pm Batha Museum
I Muvrini: Popular and sacred songs of Corsica                                                                    France

8:30 pm Bab Makina
Melos:  Songs of the Mediterranean

Keyvan Chimirani (Music Director) with
Esperanza Fernadez                                                                                                           Spain
Giorgos Xilouris                                                                                                                 Greece
Samira Kadiri                                                                                                                    Morocco

Thursday, June 4

4:00 Batha Museum       
Divna:  Orthodox Sacred songs                                                                                          Serbia

8:30 Bab Makin
Youth Mediterranean Abed Azrie
(EnsembleThe Gospel According to John)                                                                         Syria/Morocco/ France

Friday, June 5

4:00 Batha Museum
Gabriel Garrido and Elyma group
Sacred Baroque Music                                                                                                   Switzerland

8:30 Bab Makina
Sami Yussef sacred music and spiritual songs
From the Arab world                                                                                                     England

Saturday, June 6

4:00 Batha Museum
Razbar ensemble Ahl al haq Sufi order
Mystical Kurdistani music                                                                                             Iran

8:30 Bab Makina
Loreena McKennitt (The book of secret)
Celtic mystical music                                                                                                   Canada

Fez Meetings

Batha Museum 9:00 to 13:00

Living between the sacred and the secular
The force of things and the might of God

Our age is characterized as much by tremendous scientific progress as by a strong aspiration for the sacred.  To give meaning to his life, the post modern man has to choose between both, or deal with both, in order to find a balance between materialism and spirituality.
This dialectic raises fundamental questions about our origin, our existence and our individuality in a constantly changing world in which we have to adopt without denying our identity. 

 May 30^th:  The origin of the world: “big bang” and divine explanations

May 31^st: The origin of man:  Creationism and evolutionism

June 1^st:  the contemporary issues about life and death

June 2^nd: the sanctity of life

June 3^rd: the sacredness of the woman

Conferences from 6:00 to 8:00 pm Dar Batha Museum

 
Festival in the city

May 30^th to June 7^th – Free admission

Boujloud square 6:30 pm  Ait Skato 8:00 pm

Concerts

Dar Tazi: 9:00 pm

Ritual and songs of Sufi orders

Artistic and pedagogical activities workshops

Al Qods and al Huria Complex 3:00 pm 6:00 pm

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