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MOUSSEM CITIES: Algiers

Festival
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Each edition of the annual festival MOUSSEM CITIES focuses on a different metropolis in the Middle East or North Africa. Each of these cities has a rich and culturally diverse history and they all play vital roles today thanks to their artistic dynamism. Artists from the region and in the diaspora offer insight into their cities and their work. Kaaitheater is a structural partner of the festival, and offers a stage to young generations of performing artists. After editions focused on Beirut, Casablanca and Damascus, this year a spotlight will be cast on Algiers.

Programmed in MOUSSEM CITIES: Algiers:

Events

we dreamt of utopia and we woke up screaming #9

Yasmina Reggad

installation
21—22.02.2020

This durational installation-performance will transport the Kaaistudios to the Algiers of the 60s and 70s, when it was dubbed the Mecca of Revolution. In between broadcasting company and a foreign broadcast monitoring centre, this polyglot and polyphonic performance immerses you in its making, from conception to broadcast.

we dreamt of utopia and we woke up screaming #8

Yasmina Reggad

performance
21—22.02.2020

For Moussem Cities: Algiers, Yasmina Reggad creates two new versions of her  long-term research project we dreamt of utopia and we woke up screaming. #8 is the eighth iteration of the ever-evolving performance inspired by the radio documentary genre.

FIÈVRES

Kheireddine Lardjam

theatre
21—22.02.2020

FIÈVRES is the story of the small streams that coalesced to form the tempestuous torrent of the popular uprising in Algeria in February 2019. Starting from the actual events of the revolution, the author Mustafa Benfodil sketches a universal portrait of resistance and the indisputable role played in it by women.

La Casbah d'Alger demain: problématique du devenir urbain et culturel

Halim Faïdi

talk
22.02.2020

The architect and urban planner Halim Faïdi lives and works in Algiers. In this lecture he will explore the past and future of his city’s internationally renowned Casbah in greater depth. It is UNESCO World Heritage, but is now endangered by decay and overpopulation.