Moussem Festival 2005

Read the brochure for the 2005 Moussem Festival here.

No multicultural drivel, no hollow slogans, but art straight from the heart of passionate artists. No discourse on integration, no tales of assimilation, no displays of segregation, but simply encounters. No ‘here’ and ‘there’, no ‘foreigners’ and no ‘cars’, but us together here and everywhere. No threatening letters or bullet-filled envelopes, but love letters.

For its 5th anniversary, the Moussem Festival offers culture lovers a captivating and lively programme with an intriguing perspective on the present and the past. For once, we’ll leave apocalyptic or idyllic predictions for the future to the fortune-tellers and marabouts.

Ramsey Nasr takes a poetic journey through Antwerp, ‘the city of everyone’, and Khalid Boudou discusses the Netherlands in the ‘post-Van Gogh’ era. Some things transcend time: Majda Yahyaoui treats us to centuries-old Arabic music and poetry.

The films are reflections on identity and the relationship between traditions and modernity, but also on the tension between generations and the eternal global phenomenon of migration.

Dito’ Dito, with the theatre production “The Cook of Cordoba”, and Imetlaa & NL Mundo, with their Amazigh flamenco concert, each independently delved a thousand years back into our shared history in search of inspiration for their creations. The result is a fresh and contemporary perspective on the present and our shared past.

For children, for whom the world is one big playground, we have surprises in store with “Tutti Timbri Wooden Drums Concert” and “Nopjes and the Giant”…

And if it all gets a bit too much for you, come and party with us at the World Culture Centre. If you can’t, won’t or don’t dare to come, we’ll come to you ourselves – meet us at Mano Mundo.