Calami 2013
Art exhibition
Library
Edoardo Di Muro postcards
Literary meetings

Calami 2013

BERBER TALES, POEMS AND SONGS
Dar Raha

FIVE DAYS OF EXCHANGES AND ARTISTIC PERFORMANCES
in Amazigh, French, Arabic
with
Roberte LAMY
Storyteller, from La Douce Amère Cpy,
Created « Contes berbères »
based on José Féron Romano’s work (éditions du Jasmin)
Mohamed MALLAL
Song writer, music composer, musician and interpret,
poet and painter, from Ouarzazate
Omar TAOUSS
Poet, singer, storyteller, from El Goulmima

Information – advance registration : Calami

Art exhibition

paintings on wood by Lahcen Ouberka,
- re-made objects by Ali Akchbab,
- paintings of Fatima Mellal, Mohamed El Kharassi, Mohamed Bannour,
& Abd El Karim Aït Enajar,
- watercolours and paintings by Mohamed Mallal,
- And also the 4x4, bikes and bicycles Ennajem Maryana.

Lahcen Ouberka

Photo of the Salon Culturel

Library

Dar Raha puts at your disposal a library of a scientific collection (Archeology, Ethnography, History, Linguistics, Paleontology, Philosophy...), a literary collection (Maroccan, Maghreb, Arabic literature) and a general collection ("beaux livres", tourisme, diverse).

To see the collections :
Scientific Collection
Literary / General Collection

Edoardo Di Muro postcards

Great observer and exhilarating drawer of African social life (cf. Afriques Capitales, Africa Capitals , Paris, Sepia, 1995), Edoardo Di Muro came to Zagora at our invitation and sketched out a lot of sites, from the souq to the mountain, for an original postal cards collection.

Mausoleum of Sidi Abdullah Ben Amar

Edoardo Di Muro has published : Afriques Capitales, Africa Capitals (Ed. Sépia, 1995) and recently a cartoon : Noir et blanc en couleurs*, Ed. Roymodus, 2009.
* Noir et blanc en couleurs online.

Literary meetings

Calami 2010

For the first edition of Calami, the Literary Encounters of Dar Raha Zagora, Christina Mirjol and Anne Marsella have participated into exchanges and directed workshops from November 1st to 5th.

The opening of the Encounters was honoured by the presence of many local personalities, M. the Pacha of Zagora, representing M. the Governor of the Province, MM. the Caïds and Moqqqadem of Zagora City, M. The Regional Director of Culture, MM. the Directors of Zagora Primary and Secondary Schools and Colleges, and many neighbours and friends.   

In the framework of those Encounters, deep and cross-cutting exchanges have happened between our guests, teachers and professors of Zagora. These exchanges focused on writing strategies and « spoken language », and the choices of a writing tongue in multilingual situations. The situation in Morocco was assessed in that regard. The Encounters were also an opportunity for many Zagora pupils to participate in workshops directed by our guests, in French and English writing.

The texts of the conferences given by Christina Mirjol and Anne Marsella on November 4th at the Zagora “Maison de la Culture” are accessible online (in French)

Fifth ‘Rencontres de la Nouvelle’ de Zagora

Dar Raha’s welcomed, in March 2007, the Fifth « Rencontres de la Nouvelle » organised by the Club « Marges de la Nouvelle » de Zagora, in partnership with Dar Raha and Long Distance Association, on the topic : Sahara in the writing of young novelists.

Dar Raha welcomed :
- On 24 and 25 September 2005, in the framework of its partnership with the Zagora Club "Marge de la nouvelle", three Moroccan writers :

Noureddine Bazin, author of : Sur la porte de sa majesté la parole (Marrakech : Editions Walili, 2004).
Malika Mostradif, author of : Trente-six (Editions Groupe de Recherche sur la Nouvelle) .
Latifa Baka, author of : Depuis ce temps-là (Department of Culture, Rabat, 2005).

- On 12th-13th March 2005, fourteen Moroccan writers who entertained a packed audience in a Zagora center venue on the topic : “Writing of the South”.

Were invited : Rachida Adnawi, Fatiha Arour, Abdeljalil Azdi, Laïla Bari, Mohamed Chayb, Mohamed Chouika, Hisham Dehmani, Aziz Habib, Hassane El Moudan , Jebran Grnawi, Mohamed Kwindi, Aniss Rafâï, Abdelhamid Rbaoui, Mohamed Tinfou.

A reading workshop took place at Dar Raha on the Sunday morning.

- 24-26 October 2003 : meeting with Mr Ahmed Chikrr & Azdin Maaizi, authors of Touda and of Journal of a mountain teacher.
- 20 December 2003 : evening around the Nobel Price 2003 of Literature, J.M. Coetzee. Lectures of Abdelaziz Errachidi & Antoine Bouillon, connoisseur of South Africa (« J.M. Coetzee : Vendredi’s tongue or the place of the other »).
- 17 January 2004 : evening around late Mohamed Choukri.
- 19-22 March 2004 : Rencontres de la Nouvelle (Short-story festival) with Mustapha Jbali, Ahmed Bouzafour, Abdelmajid Jahfa & Najib Alaoufi.