Create in Morocco! New Art Residency Invites the World’s Artists to Tetouan, Morocco Tetouan — Exotic Morocco has long been a favorite destination and inspiration for countless literary, visual, and performing artists and thinkers from around the world. The city of Tetouan, in northern Morocco, with its strong grass-roots art scene and the prestigious National …
Green Olive Arts is proud to promote one of our favorite bands in Tetouan . Blind Rival has been making music with numerous guest musicians from many countries over the past several years. We love to see the collaboration with such global creatives. Our relationship with its members began with Anwar Rtili, the band’s leader and …
The 19th edition of the Tetouan Film Festival, or officially, the International Festival of Mediterranean Film in Tetouan, begins tomorrow March 23rd running through the 30th. The main event of the festival is a competition for films from the Mediterranean region, with prizes awarded in the categories of feature films, short films, and documentaries. For …
I’m new to blogging, so I’m not sure if it’s normal to wake up in the middle of the night thinking about a blog you need to write and not being able to sleep till you do so… anybody? So… last Thursday I attended an event of Festival INBART in Tetouan. This was the first edition …
The students from the National Institute of Fine Arts, here in Tetouan, are putting on a collective exhibition today at La Galerie Mekki Meghara, right on the main walking street in town.
Tetouan, Morocco is the ideal art-making location. Situated in the North of Morocco, nestled up against the Mediterranean Sea in a beautiful valley where two mountain ranges meet, is a jewel of a city, Tetouan. Many travelers I’ve spoken with who have traveled in these parts (and that’s quite a few) have commented on how Tetouan is one …
The ancient and dilapidated train station of Tetouan, famous for its Spanish castle-like architecture and closed for decades, is about to open its doors as a beautiful gem of an art museum. One of my favorite questions to ask taxi drivers is “What are they doing with the old train station?” the answers range from “They are …
In the increasingly dim light of a rainy day I had the rich priviledge of watching five young creatives sit at a table in an unlit side room of a ‘dar shabab’ (youth house) in Tetouan. I savored this opportunity to just be there for this historic event. It was the charter meeting of a new youth art …