2017 Youmein Festival Panel discussion

Presented by Borderline Theatre Project and the American Language Center in Tangier, the 2017 Youmein Creative Media Festival was a co-production with DABATEATR, in partnership with the Tangier-American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM), TechnoPark Tanger, Association Tanger Région Action Culturelle (ATRAC), and Think Tanger. In its third edition, the Youmein Creative Media Festival took up the theme "imitation" or, in Arabic, "taqlid". Reflecting on the question, "how do cultures and society change, if not by imitation?" and [laying on the Arabic "taqlid" (imitation) and its plural form "taqalid," (traditions) many pieces in the festival explored the relationships between imitation and tradition, cultural borrowing and modernity, and mechanical reproduction. TALIM sponsored the annual Festival Round Table, this year with Moroccan-Algerian (and Tangier's own) curator Nouha ben Yebdri (Mahal Art Space; Madrassa Collective) and Ceutí architect, curator, and artist Carlos Pérez Marin (Caravane Tighmert, Marsad Drâa) moderated by festival Artistic Director and anthropologist A. George Bajalia. Artists: Nina Cholet & Boris Carré Ahmed Benattia; Carlos Alcántar; Nadia El Kastawi Loutfi Souidi Adam Raougui M'hammed Kilito Oussama Tabti Nassim Azarzar Mehdi Djelil Maya Benchikh El Fegoun Ramia Beladel & Lena Krause (invited Youmein alumnae artists)