FESTIVAL DAY 1 – SUNDAY – 19 JANUARY

Orientation tours for our visiting artists.

VENUES AND EVENTS

World Storytelling Café

•11:00 AM and onwards : Orientation Tours leaving semi-regularly between 11.00 am and 4.00 ppm.   Taking approximately an hour, including the main festival venues

•12:00 PM – 3:00PM: Open Mic chaired by Cosmo Hardy and John Row.

• 3:00 PM – 4: 00PM: Hybrid Session honouring Mohammed Mrabbet, hosted by Zouahir Khaznaoui.

Jemma el-Fnaa

•4:00 – 7.00 PM:  Halqa Story circles: Story rounds of short stories and improvisation. MC’s  Baba C,  Sef  Townsend, Mohammed Bariz, Abderrahim Al Azalia.

Medina Heritage Studio

•5.00 PM: Collaborations, gathering of artists interested in meeting others to collaborate  Chaired by Lucie Andersen-Wood, Dawn Ellis and Maria Gillen

Henna Cafe

A full programme of Storytelling at Henna Cafe from 12.00 to 5.00 PM

•12:00 – 2.00 PM  Evita Story, Catherine Brophy, Fatiha El Haddouchi

•2:00 – 3.30 PM. Kung Jaadee,  Anthony Galvin, Omar Belaarej

•3:30 – 5.00 PM   Danni Cullen, Veronica Chambers, Imane Trari

ARTISTS  AND FESTIVAL TEAM WELCOME DINNER

• Casual dinner from 7.30 PM at a private location, not open to the public.

Storytellers please look in BAHJA daily news ( our WhatsApp group), ask any of the organisation team, or gather at our tent in the Jemma al Fnaa square before 7.00 PM to walk there together.