3rd edition of Riad Art Expo: the outcome

[From the French language press]:

3ème édition du Riad Art Expo: le bilan

La 3ème édition du Riad Art Expo qui a eu lieu du 21 au 25 mars dernier à Marrakech a pu accueillir 9600 visiteurs venus des différents villes du Maroc, de France, d'Angleterre, du Canada, de Hollande...

emarrakech, portal marocain d'actualités - Maroc -samedi le 7 avril 2007

3rd edition of Riad Art Expo: the outcome

The 3rd edition of Riad Art Expo, which took place in Marrakesh from March 21st to March 25th, could welcome 9600 visitors from various Moroccan cities as well as from France, U.K., Canada, The Netherlands...

67 exhibitors were present, from various branches of Moroccan industry: carpets, clothing, decoration, leather, weaving, wrought iron...

Saturday the 24th a ceremony saw the handing over of prizes for "Heritage","Creation" and "Trades" and a celebration of the culture, arts and crafts of Morocco. Ex-aequo winners of the Heritage prize are: Mohamed Bariz and Mohamed Azzedine.

Mohamed Bariz is the storyteller who since forty years, on the place Jemaâ El Fna, adapts large texts such as the biography of Averroes [d. 1198 in Marrakesh] and is considered by his peers a true master of halqa [a public gathering around a performer].

Mohamed Azzedine, a master of the traditional Sufi singing, the sama, is a disciple in the Zaouia [religious school] Abassia of Marrakesh and a preserver of sacred hymns and anthems to Allah and to the Prophet (pbuh).

[picture: all the Winners of Heritage, Creation and Trades prizes]