[From the French language press]:Les jeunes talents gnaouas font leur show à Essaouira: le festival souffle sa cinquième bougie et met un accent particulier sur l'esprit du soufisme des confréries.
Par Khadija Smiri,"Les jeunes talents gnaouas font leur show à Essaouira" - Le Matin - Casablanca, Maroc - mercredi 13 août 2008
Young talents make their show in Essaouira: the festival is blowing its fifth candle and places particular emphasis on the spirit of Sufi brotherhoods.
As usual, the Essaouira Festival of Gnawa Young Talents -running from August 20th to August 23rd- promises a rich and varied programming. And among this year's several cultural innovations, it opens to the visual arts through the organization of a double exhibition entitled "Hâl, the whirlwind of genius".
The first exhibition -to be held in Dar Souiri- is conceived as a window on the specific universe of the Brotherhoods while the second, which will mount at the Bastion Bab Marrakech, will bring together works of twenty Moroccan artists (painters, sculptors, photographers, videographers) transcribing the experience of "hâl" or at least the unique and creative vision that each can have.
At the root of the Festival is the Association Essaouira-Mogador and its general director, Mr. Abderrahim Bertai.
Essaouira is a UNESCO World Heritage Site http://www.unesco.org
At the root of the Festival is the Association Essaouira-Mogador and its general director, Mr. Abderrahim Bertai.
Essaouira is a UNESCO World Heritage Site http://www.unesco.org
[See a video of last year's Festival des Jeunes Talents Gnaoua Essaouira 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TsnFIIXw00].
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