Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/13/2014 - 06/21/2014
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Location
Bab Boujloud
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The Fes Festival of World Sacred Music, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year with the theme Conference of the Birds: Journey of Cultures. It has been twenty years of a musical, spiritual and artistic journey exploring the cultures and traditions of the world, revealed in ever greater depth through concerts, exhibitions, film screenings and debates.
Just as the last twenty years have been rich in artistic expression and intercultural encounters, the Spirit of Fes Foundation invites you to exceptional music expressions from the different traditions and cultures of the world this year, throughout the week of 13 to 21 June.
Friday, June 13
- Bab Al Makina – 09:00pm
- Opening concert: specially commissioned by the Spirit of Fes Foundation
- Conference of the birds: Journey of Cultures
- Concept and Artistic Direction: Faouzi Skali and Layla Benmoussa
- Director: Thierry Poquet
- Musical composition: Arash Sarkechik
Saturday, June 14
- Batha Museum 09:00 am – 12:00 pm
- Fes Forum – Theme: Our era of transition and challenge: Culture and identity
- Round Table: Mandela’s spiritual legacies: Lessons for our era
- Sacred Music – Batha Museum 04:00 pm
- Rokia Traoré – Mali
- Beautiful Africa
- Sacred Music – Bab al Makina 09:00 pm
- Roberto Alagna – France
- Mediterraneo
Sunday, June 15
- Batha Museum 09:00 am – 12:00 pm
- Fes Forum – Theme: Our era of transition and challenge
- Round Table: culture and identity – Social harmony in plural, multicultural societies: what have we learned?
- Sacred Music – Batha Museum – 04:00 pm
- Luzmila Carpio – Bolivia
- Sacred Music – Bab Al Makina – 09:00 pm
- Youssou N’Dour and Johnny Clegg
- Tribute to Nelson Mandela
Monday, June 16
- Batha Museum 09:00 am – 12:00 pm
- Fes Forum – Theme: Our era of transition and challenge: culture and identity
- Round Table: Morocco: managing and savoring diversity – an ideal, a model, a challenge
- Sacred Music: Batha Museum – 04:00 pm
- Bardic Divas – women poets of Central Asia
- Night in the Medina I: Dar Adiyel – 08:00 pm and 10:00 pm
- Breezes of the Atlas & the Jews’s harp of China – China/Morocco
- Wang-Li and the Amazigh Poets
- Night in the Medina I: Dar Mokri – 08:00 pm and 10:00 pm
- The Choir of Saint Ephraim – Hungary
- Directed by Tamás Bubnó
- Night in the Medina I: Dar Batha – 08:00 pm and 10:00 pm
- Majlis Trio – France
- Night in the Medina I: Batha Museum – 09:00 pm
- Altan Ensemble – Ireland
Tuesday, June 17
- Batha Museum 09:00 am – 12:00 pm
- Fes Forum – Theme: Our era of transition and challenge: culture and identity
- Round Table: What would Mandela counsel today to achieve peace in the Middle East?
- Sacred Music: Batha Museum – 04:00 pm
- Jordi Savall
- Orient – Occident
- Night in the Medina II: Dar Adiyel – 08:00 pm
- The canticle of the birds – a musical lecture by Leili Anvar – France & Iran
- Night in the Medina II: Dar Adiyel – 10:00 pm
- Marifat
- Group Leader: Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Qawali of Pakistan
- Night in the Medina II: Dar Mokri – 08:00 pm and 10:00 pm
- Khalil Abu Nicola – Palestine
- Night in the Medina II: Batha Museum – 09:00 pm
- Tomatito Sextet – Spain
- with the exceptional participation of Omar Bouzmaazought – Morocco
Wednesday, June 18
- Batha Museum 09:00 am – 12:00 pm
- Fes Forum – Theme: Our era of transition and challenge: culture and identity
- Round Table : New ethical and spiritual challenges for modern capitalism
- Night in the Medina III: Dar Adiyel – 08:00 pm and 10:00 pm
- The art of Melhoun music from Fez and Meknes – Morocco
- Night in the Medina III: Dar Mokri – 08:00 pm and 10:00 pm
- Mor Karbasi – Sacred Ladino Song
- Night in the Medina III: Batha Museum: 09:00 pm
- Zakir Hussain, tabla – India
Thursday, June 19
- Sacred Music: Batha Museum – 04:00 pm
- Sacred songs of the Gypsies of Provence – France
- Sacred Music: Bab Al Makina – 09:00 pm
- Judéo-arabe Night with Francoise Atlan and Lior El Maleh
Friday, June 20
- Sacred Music: Batha Museum – 04:00 pm
- Ustad Wasifuddin Dagar – India
- Sacred Music: Bab al Makina : 09:00 pm
- Kadim Al Sahir – Iraq
Saturday, June 21
- Sacred Music: Batha Museum – 04:00 pm
- Raza Khan and Coumbane Mint Ely Warakane – India/Mauritania
- Poetry of the Sands and Words of the Nomads
- Sacred Music: Bab Al Makina – 09:00 pm
- Buddy Guy Legend and Hot8 Brass Band from Chicago blues to New Orleans jazz – USA
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