Festival Day 6 – Friday 24 January

More than a hundred storytellers across the Red City, and the climax of our world record bid.

VENUES AND EVENTS

World Storytelling Café

• 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM: Masterclass: Celebrating Life: Storytelling as a practice of Bahja, focusing on how storytelling can celebrate the beauty of ordinary and extraordinary moments, cultivating a sense of gratitude and joy. Ayse Senem, Donatan Mohan,  Sarah Lloyd-Winder, Brahim Daldali.

• 11:30 PM – 1:00 PM: Heartwork: healing through personal and collective stories. Engage in discussions about usng stories to process grief, trauma and recovery while fostering empathy. Lucie Andersen-Wood,  Stephanie Cavendish

• 3:00 PM – 5.00 PM: Personal stories story round, MC’d by Mohamed Bousekssou, Keith Rogers.

Les Etoiles de Jemaa el-Fnaa

• Piano room  10:00 AM – 12:00 AM: Tamaghrabit, on Moroccan identity and stories. Amal Ayouch, Nadera Rebbah, Ilham EL Manssour.

• Douiria  10:00 AM – 12:00 AM: Masterclass, Page to Stage, telling published stories, Jim Brule, Khadijah Hassala,  Michael Kerins. Zouhair Khaznaoui, Yassine Adnane.

• 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Conference: Finding Bahja, Imane Rmili, Anas Malhouni, Aoife Demel, Mike Wood, Hamid Bentahar

• 8:00 PM: Bahja stories:  Danni Cullen, Iris Skipworth,  Fiona Dowling collaboration with Nikolaus Resler and Sylvenn Conan, Margaux Richet, Abderrahim Al Azalia, Mustapha AL-Hanch, Mohamed Rguibi.

Jemaa el-Fnaa

HIKAYATHON:

• 7:00 PM: Sundown celebration of our new world record.

Hikayathon  Ending ceremony with performers from the Square

Followed by procession to Les Etoiles de Jemaa el-Fnaa for Bahja performance

Henna Cafe

A programme of Storytelling at Henna Cafe from 12.00 to 6.00 PM