If you were in Marrakech in June, then you couldn’t help but participate in the annual festival Awaln’art . This was the Festival’s fourth year and to date was the richest art festival yet. The Festival team of Awaln’art had decided to make 2010 an atmosphere of live art in public places and called it the Rencontres International Art in Public Places.
The Festival had a circus and cabarets on one side, masks, puppets, poets and entertainers in the center, on the other side were the storytellers and dancers; parades wandered in and throughout with music and fire eaters. The public space or 17, groupement Slimane Ben Zoubir was transformed into a huge, open playground for four days. The diversity of artistic events was stunning, innovative, captured the imagination and was very successful.
The Festival tours Marrakech and some villages of the surrounding valley and many unsuspecting tourists stepping out from their Marrakech hotels were involuntarily incorporated into performance art pieces that were performed at random spots along the festival fair, only to be let loose to go about their way, which they did in protest and instead became participants and joined the 120 artists, 12 companies of street art, 7 nationalities, 20 performances at 5 performance venues, 2 Master Classes and a Battle between acrobatics performers.
Next year’s Awaln’art Festival is already in the planning and promises to be even more spectacular than 2010!
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