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Harvest Festival returns to Marrakech for its eleventh edition
From 28 October to 1 November, exhibitions, talks, workshops and a harvest souk around Ri'āya, "to shepherd, to tend".
- Date
28 October–1 November
- Location
Noujoum Jemaa El Fna, Le 18, Dar Bellarj and Um Mami, Sidi Ghanem
- Useful info
Programme and times on the festival website. The address of The Garage is shared on RSVP.
- Booking
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The Harvest Festival returns to Marrakech from 28 October to 1 November for its eleventh edition, built around Ri'āya, "to shepherd, to tend". Across five days and several venues in the Medina and Sidi Ghanem, the programme brings together exhibitions, talks, workshops, a souk and a concert.
Ri'āya is the Arabic word most often translated simply as "care". Its root, ر-ع-ي, also gives rā'ī, the shepherd, and the festival approaches care as inseparable from the act of tending: to a flock, to land, to one another. The edition celebrates the artists, artisans, thinkers, storytellers and rural stewards who sustain the region's culture, building on the High Atlas Cultural Landscapes programme of the Global Diversity Foundation, which founded the festival.
The programme
Wednesday 28 October. The exhibition "The Water Will Carry Us: Azarg, Igrane and Afraw and Azib" opens at Noujoum on Jemaa El Fna (10 am to 5:30 pm). In the evening, the festival opens at Um Mami by Melting Pot in Sidi Ghanem, with Sufra Archive (7 to 10 pm).
Thursday 29 October. At Le 18, "TEN(DER)", a library and archive by arvae (6 to 7 pm), followed by "Mirage", an immersive sonic and visual sharing of work in progress with Hiba Baddou (7:30 to 9 pm).
Friday 30 October. A seasonal sculptural food installation and participatory gathering by Khial Nkhel at The Garage (noon to 5:30 pm, address shared on RSVP). In the evening at Le 18, "Hydraulic Democracies", on the story of Figuig, with Fayçal Lahrouchi, Dounia Mseffer, Fatima Kandar and Zoubida Benali (8 to 9:30 pm).
Saturday 31 October. An apple preservation workshop at Um Mami (10 am to 1 pm), then a day at Dar Bellarj: the Harvest Souk with the Gifted Mothers of Dar Bellarj and others (noon to 7 pm), a talk with Aymen Tahin, Omar Moujane and Fadma Muhend (2 to 4 pm), and "Houses of Living Knowledge: Keeping, Sharing and Transmitting", moderated by Rim Mejdi (6:30 to 8:30 pm).
Sunday 1 November. The souk returns to Dar Bellarj, with "Awqat Altrab, The Times of Soil" with Kimia Collective on the rooftop (2 to 4 pm) and, to close the edition, a tekchbila concert with Tina Tornade and Sarah Mazigh at 7 pm.
