To Enlarge Our Conscience

Par Chemins Concepts, *Fez Festival of Sufi Culture* - Fez, Morocco

Book the dates: from the 17th to the 24th April 2010 for the 4th edition of the Fez Festival of Sufi Culture and the Fez Forum “Giving a Soul to Globalisation”

The 4th edition of this Festival will take place in Dar Batha, Riads and Andalous Gardens in Fez, Morocco.

“Mystic and Poetry” and a reflection on “the common goods of humanity” will be the topics of this next edition.

Exchanges of ideas, self-expression through poetry, music and arts will be their frames. This year poetry will be honoured. We rely on it to enlarge our conscience, our thoughts and help us to have another view of society.

A society in which a combination of political scheme and search for beauty could give birth and inspire practical achievements: Poetics of civilization.


The Spirit of the Festival

Aims of the Festival:

-- To allow Moroccan people to discover or re-discover how the Sufi brotherhoods have mainly succeeded in preserving a message of universal spirituality that irrigated the whole of the Muslim culture and nourished its artistic, literary, and even social and economic forms of expression especially in Morocco.

-- To allow people from other cultures to discover another face of Islam thanks to the message of opening and peace inherent to Sufism, far from the image generally spread by the media. To show how Sufism, as a school of spiritual and civic education, can be a mean of human development and a peace mediator.

-- To show the richness and the creativity of the spiritual, academic, artistic and social dimensions inspired by Sufism. To let people know contemporary artists and thinkers, national and international, and with them, to find new ways of social, cultural and artistic expressions that can strengthen the intercultural dialogue and help to the development of the society.

-- To question the role of spirituality nowadays, the connection between spirituality and business, environmentalism and social actions. How the spirituality may, under the present frames of the social and entrepreneurial activity, become a particularly prolific contributor to the human development, in its social, cultural and spiritual contexts.

Click here for the Festival and Forum Program