- What about the festival? In 2010 CSM organizes its second Festival for youth in Rabat in the place where kids will have the chance to show off their musical talent by taking part in a week of challenges and artistic high level competitions. Volunteers will engage in preparing organization and promotion of the event. Volunteers who possess outstanding artistic skills will have also the possibility to perform in front of a large audience and make known to spaces other forms of music and dances of their home country
- Dates: 1 - 8 March 2011
- Location: Rabat is the administrative capital of Morocco. The city is situated on the Atlantic coast of the country, on the left bank of the River Bouregreg, opposite the town of Sale.Rabat has become the modern city we can admire today.It still retains the traditional architectural treasures of different civilizations that followed.The old town, that is the medina, fortress preserves traces of Andalusian, Berber and Phoenician, and administrative buildings stand around shining splendor and surrounded by lush parklands, where exotic plants are the setting of a cluster that skillfully combines old and smells modern technology.
- Background information: The project will take place in Youssofia's neighborhood where CSM has been working for many years to promote the cultural development of territory through a lot of volunteer's projects. Allowing local specificity and accomodating the interest between the local culture and cultural background, these 8- days of festival will be useful to promote greater participation of citiziens in the development of intercultural dialogues, supporting ideas of peace and human rights.
- Project task: Volunteers will be committed to get in touch with the local culture trough excursions of the city and getting a course of basic arabic. During the following days they will play an active part in the achievement of music festival, sharing their own artistic skills with those of the local participants. Intercultural meetings and music laboratory will be organized with the aid of volunteers. It will be also important during the festival to write some reports and taking pictures. Everything will be used for CSM’ s website and local press.
- Food and lodging:Volunteers will be hosted by local families and this will be a good opportunity to enter directly in contact with the moroccain’s style of life. It will be realized a real cultural exchange. Each family will provide volunteers to give three meals a day and take care of them for any kind of problem. Volunteers don't need their sleeping bag.
- Who can partecipate? All people over 18
- Skills requested Carrying out activities not require any special individual skills, but requires strong motivational propensities to entering into a new world to discover a culture of peace, traditions, food, music, colors and happiness.For us it is important that the volunteer made the choice to meet meditated, with a sense of personal responsibility, a sometimes difficult situations, or at least uncomfortable, with a spirit of adventure and cooperation.It will be better to have a basic knowledge of French or English.Volunteers who have strong artistic skills will also have the opportunity to perform in front of an audience and relay to other forms of music come from their original country .
- Costs 130 Euros ( it includes food, lodging and cost of the project)
Program
1 March
Welcome ceremony
2 March
Arabic course: CSM will provide the opportunity for volunteers to introduce themselves and engage a first dialogue in arabic language. The course will be taught by faculty members of the CSM, with specific training for this role
Tour of the city: Hassan Tower and Oudeja
Hassan Tower or Tour Hassan is the minaret of an incomplete mosque in Rabat. Begun in 1195, the tower was intended to be the largest minaret in the world along with the mosque, also intended to be the world's largest. In 1199, Sultan Yacoub al-Mansour died and construction on the mosque stopped. The tower only reached 44 m (140 ft), about half of its intended 86 m (260 ft) height. The rest of the mosque was also left incomplete, with only the beginnings of several walls and 200 columns being constructed. The tower, made of red sandstone along with the remains of the mosque and the modern Mausoleum of Mohammed V, forms an important historical and tourist complex in Rabat. Instead of stairs, the tower is ascended by ramps. The minaret's ramps would have allowed the muezzin to ride a horse to the top of the tower to issue the call to prayer.
La Kasbah of Oudaïa is a fortified district of Rabat, situated on a rocky outcrop. It enters through the Bab el Kasbah Qudaia leads Almohade monumental architecture. Entered in the Kasbah you can take the road that leads to the Jamaa el Atiq mosque, situated in a panoramic position. Going up on the nearby wall, you can enjoy a view of the ocean and the nearby town of Sale.
3 March
Arabic course
Tour of the city: Chellah
Chellah was Built on the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Sala Colonia, the necropolis known by the guides “most romantic site of Morocco” has not always enjoyed the passion it arouses today. Away from the city or rather out of the enclosure Almohad south along the marshes and Bouregreg, the remains of the necropolis Marinid thirteenth century were long, as the Hassan Tower, abandoned. This building was destroyed by the earthquake of 1755 and stripped of the finest materials by looters, thus remained in ruins for hundreds of years. This site is now listed and protected by the Moroccan authorities, who seized all the historical and tourist this place like no other.
Dancing night:
4 March
Preparation of competitions: through a series of communication games and short individual exhibition, volunteers will take knowledge of its artistic potentials, they will divide themselves into groups and they will prepare themselves for the achievement of the final competition.
Music laboratory: CSM gives volunteers the opportunity to attend a seminar of traditional music with the collaboration of a music local group.
Traditional moroccain party:
5 and 6 March
Music Rehearsals and International and Intercultural Music Competition
7 March
Evaluation Day and Cerimony of End Project
.......................Contact...................................
Chantiers Sociaux Marocains
Address: BP 456 Rabat, Marocco
00212667443837 Rachad Izzat
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