Festivals
Thaghrast Rocks Mawazine Festival
Thaghrast Rocks Mawazine Festival
Thaghrast, a group of young talented musicians participated in Mawazine Festival on the 18th of May 2009. The group was programmed as it was the winner of 2008 Géneration Mawazine, a competition organized by the Association Maroc-Cultures, which is also the organizer of Mawazine Festival in Rabat. Thaghrast rocked the audience with their unique rhythms ranging from Gnawi, Gharnati, Reggae, Amazigh and other world...
Imetlaa Made a Successful Concert in Mawazine Festival
Imetlaa concert in Mawazine
Imetlaa gave a very successful concert on Sunday, 17th May 2009 in Mawazine festival. Imetlaa sang most of of their famous songs, such as Ag Ijj n U3echi, Nachin Dhimazighan, Izran, Ameqnudh, Seqsix Xam Thaziri, in addition to that Imetlaa sang a new song for the first time on the stage entitled Thlullucht Idurar. As it is part of Imetlaa current project: the bridge between tradition and modernity, the group was accompanied...
An Amazigh Festival is to be Launched in Australia
An Amazigh Festival is to be Launched in Australia
A newly formed community group called “Amazigh Association of Australia” (AAA) in Sydney is preparing for an Amazigh festival to introduce the Amazigh culture to the Australian community.
AAA is a non-political and non-religious organization that seeks to promote the North African Amazigh/Berber culture in harmony and tolerance with the people of Australia as part of the Federal government’s...
Khalid Izri & Thidrin in Concert in Rotterdam
Khalid Izri & Thidrin in Concert in Rotterdam
The 4th edition of the Amazigh festival in Rotterdam will be closing with a special and unique concert of the two leading Rifian bands, Khalid Izri and Thidrin on Saturday, May 9th 2009. This event is organized by Telilli Association, which is a nongovernmental association based in Rotterdam, Nederland. The association has been active in the last four years, the proof for that is the organization of...
Imetlaa gave a successful concert in Brussels
Imetlaa
Imetlaa has given a successful concert in Brussels on the 11th of April 2009. This concert was programmed in darkoom festival, which was organized by a Moroccan and Flemish mission of culture in Brussels. The Daarkom festival offered a mix of music, film, art, literature and conferences.
The majority of Moroccans residing in Brussels (more than 90%) are from the Amazigh backgrounds, mainly from the Rif region. But the artists that contributed...
Azraf Celebrated a Successful Asuggas Amaynu in Bilbao
Azraf Celebrated a Successful Asuggas Amaynu in Bilbao
Azraf and the provincial council of Bizkaia celebrated the Amazigh new year 2959 in Bilbao on the 9th of this month. Idir, the famous Amazigh singer, was invited to perform in this occasion that ended successful. Meanwhile, the celebration of the Asuggas Amaynu in the basque country, meets also with the celebration of the tenth anniversary of Azraf. Huge crowds of public were drawn to this remarkable...
The Nekor Mediterranean Festival of Theater in Al Hoceima
The Nekor Mediterranean Festival of Theater in Al Hoceima
For the first time in Al Hoceima, Thifswin Association takes the initiative to organize a festival of theater: The Nekor Mediterranean Festival of Theater. In its first Edition, the festival puts a spotlight on an important number of artists and musicians. The program of the festival did not consist of theater only, but it included other activities such as: Cinéma, Music, and Conferences....
The Second Rif Cultural Day Report
Rif Cultural Day II
Agraw Club at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, in partnership with Rif Association for Solidarity and Development (ARID), organized the second edition of Rif Cultural Day on Wednesday November 26th, 2008 in Ifrane. The program of the day comprises an exhibition, a conference and a concert featuring the prominent Amazigh singer Khalid IZRI. The exhibition included a large variety of the Amazigh handicrafts from the Rif, ranging...
Amazigh Festival in Gouda
Poster
After two years of absence, the Amazigh workgroup in Gouda is organising an Amazigh festival in Gouda on the 10th and 11th of October. For the first time, this festival is going to include the display of 7 Amazigh films of the most prominent film makers in Arif: Mohammed Amin, Zakaria El Bakkali, and Said Saidi. In Addition to that, two concerts will be given, The first one will be performed by Choukri on the first day of the festival (October...
The Nadorian dream has finally become true
Khalid izri
The two days of festivities that took place in Nador made the dream of the Nadorians become true. This event was organized by ILMAS association in collaboration with Agraw coordination. The menu of artists that participated in this event was rich and various. Khalid Izri, Mabrouk, Benaman, Thifridjas, Noumidia, Ithrane, Omar Boutmazoght and Mimoun Rafroua drew thousands of peoples to the Cornich of Nador.
Thousands of People, coming from...