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Call for volunteers : Festival “La Couveuse des espèces d’incubés”

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The “Racines Carrées” Incubator needs to strengthen its teams by mobilizing volunteers as part of the organization of its festival “La Couveuse des espèces d’incubés”, which will take place from December 1st to December 3rd, 2023 at La Fabrique Culturelle des Anciens Abattoirs in Casablanca.

Are you a motivated, committed young person (between 18 and 35) eager to help us with : reception, logistics, transfers, communication and community management, production, photo and video documentation…?

Are you skillful and do you have a team spirit and the capacity to work in an international environment?

Do you master Arabic but also French, English or Amazigh (at least two of these three languages)?

Are you available from 1st to 3th December 2023 (included)?

Do you have any of the following backgrounds:

– Student or graduate in cultural studies (mediation and cultural engineering, book publishing, cinema and audiovisual, theater studies.. etc.)
– Student or graduate from public or private schools of business, management or marketing
– Student or graduate from public or private schools in communication and journalism
– Student or graduate from public or private school in international relations, political sciences or intercultural project management ?

Candidates may be Moroccan or foreign, and must be able to cover their travel and accommodation expenses in Casablanca.

Meal vouchers will be available to all volunteers throughout the festival.

Interested candidates are required to complete and submit this form by November 20, 2023.

About the festival 

The “Racines Carrées” Incubator will be presenting a preview of the creations of the last three graduating classes during the “La Couveuse des espèces d’incubés” festival, which will be held on 1, 2 and 3 December 2023 at the Fabrique Culturelle des Anciens Abattoirs in Casablanca.
This festival is an opportunity to showcase the artistic works of incubatees, and for them to meet Moroccan and international professionals (directors of venues and festivals, tour organizers, managers, producers, etc.) so that these works and artistic projects can live beyond the incubation period and be promoted in Morocco and abroad.
The program includes: theater, circus, music, exhibitions, art installations, screenings…

Racines Carrées is supported by Racines aisbl and Drosos Foundation

COMING SOON – The festival “La Couveuse des espèces d’incubés”

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The Racines Carrées Incubator will be presenting a preview of the creations of the last three graduating classes during the “La Couveuse des espèces d’incubés” festival, which will be held on 1, 2 and 3 December 2023 at the Fabrique Culturelle des Anciens Abattoirs in Casablanca. 

This festival is an opportunity to showcase the artistic works of incubatees, and for them to meet Moroccan and international professionals (directors of venues and festivals, tour organizers, managers, producers, etc.) so that these works and artistic projects can live beyond the incubation period and be promoted in Morocco and abroad. 

On the programme: theater, circus, music, exhibitions, art installations, screenings…

Join us from 1 to 3 December at the Fabrique Culturelle des Anciens Abattoirs in Casablanca, and enter free!

The detailed programme will be announced shortly!



Call for international volunteers : Assistant coordinator for artistic and cultural projects

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Location : Casablanca, Morocco

Mission suggested by: Racines aisbl, culture for development (Culture is the solution).

Mission duration: 3 months  / 6 months / 12 months
Themes: human rights, individual freedoms, freedom of expression and creation, freedom of association and assembly, migration and forced displacement, gender-based violence, etc.

Racines aisbl 

Racines is an international non-profit association working to integrate culture into public policies for human, social and economic development. The association was born of the common desire of African, European and international cultural operators, who are convinced that the issue of culture is common to all countries. And that cultural action can provide solutions to the problems of peace, sustainable development and cultural diversity. To do this, the cultural operators came together to provide tools for diagnosis and decision-making (research, evaluation, mapping, etc.), advocacy to strengthen creative freedom (freedom of expression, status of the artist, authors’ rights, etc.), professionalisation of cultural operators around the world (training, networking, etc.), and joint work and exchanges between professionals from all countries.

Racines aisbl’s main projects

Article 20

article20.com is an international instrument for monitoring and measuring the state of freedom of association and peaceful assembly around the world. It assesses the application of article 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association”.

article20.com has two components: The Observatory (ORAA20) and the Racines Index:

  • The Observatory for Freedom of Association and Peaceful Assembly (ORAA20), which monitors these two freedoms around the world. It will make it possible to monitor abuses by States of these two universal freedoms.
  • Racines Index: Biennial international ranking of countries according to their respect, application and protection of article 20 of the UDHR.

États Généraux de la Culture in the Mediterranean – EGCM

The Etats Généraux de la Culture in the Mediterranean is an attempt to organise Mediterranean cultural civil society in partnership with the public media, universities and cultural institutions. in the Mediterranean. An autonomous approach to constructive “civil subversion”.

 

 

The aim of the Etats Généraux de la Culture in the Mediterranean corresponds to the dictionary definition of “Etats Généraux”: an extraordinary assembly whose purpose is to deal with a crisis. The Mediterranean is facing several such crises. This first edition will focus on three urgent Mediterranean issues: youth, the environment and migration. 

On the programme: debates, meetings, workshops, live shows, screenings, masterclasses, etc.

Location: Corsica / Date: April 2024

Nachra TV – Satirical programme

Nachra TV is an imaginary and satirical newspaper. Sometimes the imaginary helps to better understand the reality.
Nachra TV produces imaginary interviews with Moroccan politicians, artists, influencers and other public figures.
To watch Nachra TV episodes: www.youtube.com/@NachraTV


ArtmApp – Cultural Agenda in Morocco

The application brings together all of Morocco’s cultural and artistic activities and events in a single website and mobile application.

The aims of the application are to:

  • Provide a regular update of the artistic and cultural events available in the various Moroccan cities;
  • Make it easier for the public to access information about cultural/artistic events available in their cities;
  • Provide artists/organizations with a platform for publicizing their events/activities;
  • Have a statistical tool for assessing the existing cultural offer (by discipline and also by geographical area) ;
  • Support the professionalization of the artistic and cultural sector.

Description of the role
The volunteer will support the Racines aisbl team in setting up its various projects. He/she will be responsible for :
– supporting the team in organizing the various projects;
– supporting the team in translation assignments (English, French);
– updating the various Racines databases;
– assisting the communications team in writing content and managing social networks and newsletters (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok);
– carrying out research assignments (migration and mobility, gender-based violence, human rights, individual freedoms, freedom of association and assembly, etc.).
– supporting the team in drafting grant applications;

Profile requirements
– Students in human and social sciences, political science or communication;
– Thoroughness, efficiency and a sense of humor;
– Fluency in several languages is an asset. 


Interested candidates are invited to send the following documents to [email protected]:
CV + cover letter.

 

Racines Carrées : The Incubation Phase ends

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The second phase of the “Racines Carrées” incubator programme continued with determination and passion.

From July 24th to 28th,  the second series of group training sessions focused on “Cultural media in the press”, led by Driss Baakili. The week also covered “Financial management of cultural projects”, a key theme for our incubatees.

The arrival of September brought other highlights. First, Claudine Dussollier revealed how to position a cultural project in a professional environment and how to choose the right strategy, and Claude Pichot introduced the technical aspects of cultural projects to the incubates.

During the 3rd week of training, Ferdinand Richard took a deeper dive into the intricacies of international outreach of cultural projects and the rights associated with cultural creation (human rights, copyright, freedom of creation, etc.).

The final week of training, organized in the week of 16 October 2023, focused on digital communication with Youssef Meskaoui. The training modules ended with three days on the Moroccan cultural environment and the financing of cultural projects, with Soumia Idba . 

Each of these training courses was built around a synergy between theoretical and practical aspects, guaranteeing active participation and optimum assimilation of the content by the incubatees.

In addition to collective training courses, Racines Carrées gives each incubatee the opportunity to share their know-how at popular education workshops organized by the incubatees for marginalized or disadvantaged communities. The following popular education workshops were organized: 

– From 3 to 5 July, Ismail El Fallahi led the “How to create a monodrama” workshop at the Fondation des Arts Vivants in Casablanca. 

– In August, Youssef and Rachid El Belghiti organized a workshop on “Journalistic writing techniques and how to make a successful photo portrait” at the Tamounte association in Arbaâ Sahel, in the province of Tiznit. 

– In September, Dar Bellarj hosted an “Experimental Documentary” workshop, run by Anas El Hatimi, for young people from the foundation. The workshop culminated in the making of the short film “Danse, ô Terre”, orchestrated by the young people of Dar Bellarj under the supervision of Anas El Hatimi and the experts he called on. 

– Achraf Harkaoui, for his part, passed on his expertise in choreography at the Shems’y national circus school.

Each stage, each workshop, each week strengthens the cohesion and motivation of the incubatees, preparing them for the grand finale of the programme: the festival-market.

Racines takes part in the conference “Education in the face of identity-based and religious movements”

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Aadel Essaadani, Executive Director of Racines aisbl, took part in a round table discussion entitled “Education through the prism of emancipation”, as part of the symposium entitled “”Education in the face of identity-based and religious movements”, organized by Laïcité Yallah on 14 October 2023 in Brussels, Belgium. 

The round table brought together : 

– Karine Houël, Literature teacher and trainer in “Values of the Republic and Secularism” (France)

– Ina Van Looy, Director of the Centre for Citizenship Education at the David Susskind Jewish Secular Community Centre

– Aadel Essaadani, Director of Racines aisbl (Morocco/Belgium)

– Danielle Perez, Psychologist and co-founder of the “D’accord de ne pas être d’accord” collective. 

The symposium was organized in memory of Samuel Paty, a French history-geography teacher who was a victim of terrorism on 16 October 2020. 

Created on 12 November 2019 at the initiative of the Centre d’Action Laïque, the Laïcité Yallah Collective brings together believers and non-believers with a Muslim heritage who share a resolutely secular perspective on societal issues.



Racines at the “DirectedByWomen Turkey” festival 

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Following the selection of the documentary film “Dert Boom” in the DirectedByWomen Turkey festival, Rajae Hammadi, Racines Communications Officer and co-director of the film (with Zakaria Rochdi), attended the festival held from 22 to 24 September 2023, in Istanbul, Turkey. 

Racines would like to congratulate the winning films and thank DirectedByWomen Turkey for the programming and quality of the films nominated and screened.

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Dert Boom is directed by Rajae Hammadi and Zakaria Rochdi, and produced by Racines, within the framework of CUSP (Culture for Sustainable and Inclusive Peace). 

Synopsis: Moroccan women speak out in forum theater workshops. Together, they dissect patriarchy, laugh at its absurdity, and talk about their desire for freedom, their dreams and their aspirations. Overflowing with emancipatory fervor, their life stories are a rallying cry against an insidious patriarchy.

To watch the trailer: https://vimeo.com/806284326?share=copy

 

Look at Me – The Minority Globe testifies to act

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The “Look At Me” project  provides artistic residencies and workshops around documentary photography with women from Moroccan and migrant communities in Casablanca, Rabat and Salé. The outcomes of these artistic actions are shown in the form of exhibitions and restitution sessions (May and June 2022).

The series of portraits reflects on the categories of “masculine” and “feminine” often used in photography and the media, in an attempt to explore the social categories in which vulnerable and/or migrant women are assigned.

Link to read the full story (in french): https://www.racines-aisbl.org/look-at-me-temoigner-pour-agir/ 

Check out other human stories related to migration : https://www.youtube.com/@temoignerpouragir


SOON – “Etats Généraux de la Culture” in the Mediterranean 

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The “Etats Généraux de la Culture” in the Mediterranean represents an attempt to organize Mediterranean cultural civil society, in collaboration with public media, universities and institutions in the Mediterranean. An autonomous approach based on constructive “civil subversion”.

The aim of the “Etats Généraux de la Culture” in the Mediterranean corresponds to the definition given by the dictionary to “Etats Généraux”: an extraordinary assembly whose aim is to deal with a crisis. The Mediterranean faces several crises. This first edition will address three pressing Mediterranean challenges: youth, environment and migration. 

The program includes debates, meetings, workshops, live performances, screenings and masterclasses.

Location: Corsica / Date: November 2024



Dert Boom receives Women International Film Festival Excellence Award

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We are delighted to announce that our documentary film, “Dert BOOM,” has been honored with the Excellence Award at the recent Women International Film Festival (Delaware, USA).

“Dert BOOM” portrays the inspiring journey of Moroccan women who express themselves through forum theater workshops in various regions of Morocco. These women, hailing from diverse walks of life, confront patriarchy while sharing their aspirations, dreams, and desires for freedom.

 

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/806284326?share=copy 

Directed by Zakaria Rochdi and Rajae Hammadi as part of the CUSP (Culture for Inclusive and Sustainable Peace project).