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Volunteering at a Traditional Ramadan Celebration: An Experience to Cherish

Ramadan is a holy month of fasting and spiritual reflection for Muslims around the world. During this month, communities come together to break their fast and celebrate their faith. As a volunteer for the Live Room organization, which organized a traditional Ramadan celebration, I had the privilege of witnessing the power of bringing together different generations for a night of fun and entertainment.

The goal of the event was to raise funds to purchase clothing for children in need for Eid Al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan. Even more, it was an opportunity for people of all ages to come together and celebrate their cultural heritage, with volunteers and participants dressed alike in traditional attire. I was in charge of welcoming the guests and putting bracelets on for the young girls.

Omar and LABO kids

One of the highlights of the event was the live music and dance performances that showcased the richness of our cultural heritage. Both young and old folks were up on their feet, dancing and enjoying the festive atmosphere. It was truly heartwarming to see everyone coming together, forgetting their differences, and simply enjoying each other’s company. The event also featured a raffle and silent auction to help raise funds for the children’s clothing purchases.

Kids in the Aamariya

It was inspiring to see how everyone was investing in making the event a success, and how the community came together to support a noble cause. As the night drew to a close, I felt a sense of pride and gratitude for being part of such a wonderful community. The event not only brought joy and entertainment to everyone involved but also helped support children in need. It was an experience I will always cherish.

“Maghrebiya” exclusive song

In conclusion, volunteering at a traditional Ramadan celebration was an eye-opening and rewarding experience. It was incredible to see the power of bringing different generations together for a night of celebration and to support a noble cause. I am grateful for the opportunity to have been part of such a wonderful event and look forward to volunteering for similar events in the future.

By: SANBA Sara, LABO Studio music band resident and Volunteer at Live Room.

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Thank you to everyone who made and still making Live Room a successful project, Thank you Sarah for writing and telling other people about this amazing experience and make it more valuable.

Now you can as well be part of our growing family, Join us now! Connect with us on: Our Instagram or via WhatsApp: +212 603-061730

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Volunteering/Practice offer: Researcher of the project’s social impact

Volunteering/Practice offers for the half-season 2022-2023:

Live Room is a project of human development through the creation of a physical/digital space to promote and explore human LIVE expression.

Live Room Project has a sociocultural center in Tangier “LABO” having over 200 users per month, especially youth and children.

Live Room ONG is opening for the second part of the 2022-2023 season for the following volunteering / Practice position based in Tangier city:

Researcher of the project’s social impact:

Period: April-May 2023

Live Room Association is developing an ambitious community positive impact project by using art and culture and has been doing this for more than seven years. In 2020, we succeeded in opening one of the largest socio-cultural centers in the region in which over a thousand youngsters and children benefit from free activities, events, and training.

To keep improving the quality of our services and to evaluate the impact we’re creating in the community, we will need people like you to help us.

Mission:

In the last season, we started a study to evaluate the achievement of LABO’s first goal: Creative skills development in youths. This year we want to continue the work and also evaluate the general social impact of the Live Room Project on its nearest community (users, family of the users, and neighborhood). Output: Research report on the Live Room Project’s social impact.

Profile:

You share the values of our project; you love art and you are open to new cultures.
You are a researcher/master’s student/graduate of social studies.
With experience in the field for large surveys and door-to-door campaigns, we will need you to help us.
You have good communication skills and know how to deal with different age groups.
You have good writing and reporting skills.
Your English is advanced. French and Spanish are a plus. A translator can help you with Arabic.

The position is full-time with weekends off. You will be working in the LABO center (located in the center of Tangier city and a 5 min walk to the old town) where you can meet many young people and assist in different events.

Join a passionate team and a crazy project in a beautiful city. Join the Live Room!

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Volunteering/Practice offer: Maker Space Coordinator

Volunteering/Practice offers for the half-season 2022-2023:

Live Room is a project of human development through the creation of a physical/digital space to promote and explore human LIVE expression.

Live Room Project has a sociocultural center in Tangier “LABO” having over 200 users per month, especially youth and children.

Live Room ONG is opening for the second part of the 2022-2023 season for the following volunteering / Practice position based in Tangier city:

Maker Space Coordinator (possibility of working in pairs).

Mars – June 2023

To keep developing the project and to better serve our community and reach our social goals, we need people like you to help us launch and manage new programs for creative skills development in youths and kids. Live Room will launch, in the upcoming season of 2023-2024 two new programs of Art and Technology as socio-development tools.

Your mission will be to work with the Live Room Project executive team, the different Labs managers, and our partners to design, test and implement those programs.

Profile:

You share the values of our project; you love art and are passionate about science and technology especially digital/virtual technologies and sustainable projects.
You are a student/graduate in art or engineering.
You have a practical background in maker spaces work/Laboratories and experiments.
You are passionate about new technologies and the digital and virtual world.
You like to work with youth and children.
You are open to new cultures.

Join a passionate team and a crazy project in a beautiful city. Join the Live Room!

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Volunteering/Practice offer: Social Assistant

Volunteering/Practice offers for the half-season 2022-2023:

Live Room is a project of human development through the creation of a physical/digital space to promote and explore human LIVE expression.

Live Room Project has a sociocultural center in Tangier “LABO” having over 200 users per month, especially youth and children.

Live Room ONG is opening for the second part of the 2022-2023 season for the following volunteering / Practice position based in Tangier city:

Social Assistant for young people and children of the LABO center:

March-End of May 2023

Live Room Association is developing an ambitious community positive impact project by using art and culture and has been doing this for more than seven years. In 2020, we succeeded in opening one of the largest socio-artistic centers in the region in which over a thousand youngsters and children benefit from free activities, events, and training.

To keep developing the project, better serve our community, and reach our social goals, we need people like you to help us psychologically assist our members living in hard social situations.

Profile:

You share the values of our project; you love art and you are open to new cultures.
You did social studies with experience in the psychology of change and positive communication.
You also enjoy working with adolescents and children and know how to deal with their problems.
Managing the Arabic language is a need, if not we can provide a translator.
Your role is to be an intermediary between Live Room, the participants of its programs, and their parents (or tutors if orphans) to support them morally in the last months of the season in order to achieve the objectives set by our programs. This period coincides with the exam period and with the good weather offered by spring, which leads to a drop in performance.

Join a passionate team and a crazy project in a beautiful city. Join the Live Room!

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Volunteering/Practice offer: Project Manager Assistant

Volunteering/Practice offers for the half-season 2022-2023:

Live Room is a project of human development through the creation of a physical/digital space to promote and explore human LIVE expression.

Live Room Project has a sociocultural center in Tangier “LABO” having over 200 users per month, especially youth and children.

Live Room ONG is opening for the second part of the 2022-2023 season for the following volunteering / Practice position based in Tangier city:

Project Manager Assistant: Development area.

Mid-February to end of Mid-May 2023.

Live Room Association is developing an ambitious community positive impact project by using art and culture and has been doing this for more than seven years. In 2020, we succeeded in opening one of the largest socio-artistic centers in the region in which over a thousand youngsters and children benefit from free activities, events, and training.

In order to increase the number of beneficiaries and develop cultural productions and social actions, we need to enlarge our network, open new partnerships with other institutions and raise more funds. That’s why we need a person like you to help the project manager with his development tasks.

Profile:

You share the values of our project and you love art and culture.
You are a student/graduate in socials, international affairs, or others related to the subject of the position.
You have an advanced level of English. Arabic, French, and Spanish are a plus.
You are open to new cultures.
You have/want to build an experience in the MENA region and UE cultural networks.
You have/want to build an experience in fundraising campaigns.
You love to work both in a team and on your own.
You have very good editorial skills.

Join a passionate team and a crazy project in a beautiful city. Join the Live Room!

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LIVE ROOM 7TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW: SPECIAL CHRISTMAS

December is always considered as a special month for the Live Room family because it is the month when the Live Room Project saw the light for the first time back in 2015. Seven years of accomplishments and still with big motivation to keep adding new chapters to this beautiful story. A story written with love by our founders, collaborators, members, users, funders and young and less young community who invested time, efforts, and money for this project to see him grow year after year and to keep creating positive social impact through its different projects and initiatives.
Time has come again to blow out the seventh candle and what better occasion to do it than Christmas Eve when the good spirits gather all together!

Theater show

The long-awaited event with our members and close family of the project took place on the evening of December 24th at the LABO center and was attended by 153 persons mostly youngsters, kids and some parents who have came to follow the presentation of what has been done during the seven years of the project, and to commit to the new objectives set for the coming year but also to celebrate in an intimate atmosphere the breath of the seventh year of the baby who today becomes a child ready to change the world.

Team karaoke competition

And as it coincided with the Christmas Eve, decorations, costumes, gifts, shows, karaoke, and music, were themed. Everything was ready to create a cheerful and amiable atmosphere full of love, hope and fun. For the occasion, every Lab was involved in it: the drawing and Graffiti in the decoration; the Theater LAB in a show treating the theme of Christmas in modern world (Gender equality, Climate change, Totalitalism); the dance Lab with a contemporary choregraphy about self-confident, and finally the video Lab with emotional shorts about Live Room. And afteh hearing our President words and greetings, we made our wishes for the project and started the party.

President’s word

The most entertaining part of the program was the Live Room Got Talent where six of our team members showed to the public their skills in singing and amusement in a sort of team karaoke competition. Let’s not forget the presentation of the music produced by our artists in residency.

Dance show

Thank you to everyone who made and still making Live Room a successful project and Happy New Year to y’all !!

Now you can as well be part of our growing family, Join us now! Connect with us in: Our Instagram or via WhatsApp: +212 603-061730

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Music Residency – SARRO

Melanco-Rythm project – Residency

Sarro’s artistic residency at the LABO Studios of Live Room is part of a global project that the artist has named Melancorythm project.
This research project into the ancient broken memories of slaves will take the artist to different port towns where this trade had once created their wealth.

Melanco-Rythm project

Sarro begins his journey from the island of Gorée in Senegal, his native country to Morocco, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Brazil, and North America to finally produce an album with the different melanco-rythms he felt and shared with other artists in each of the cities visited…
In this residency, Sarro discovered a part of the history of the slaves who passed through Tangier from where he created a song through its melanco-rythms. Sarro closed his Moroccan journey in Tangier after visiting other cities of slave ports such as Rabat – Salé, and Essaouira.

Sarro in Visa For Music

Live Room will put in place all the material and human resources for the production of this single. Sarro was also presented inside our stand in Rabat at the international music forum: Visa for Music.

Oumar Sarr a.k.a SARRO

Originally from the suburbs of Dakar, Oumar Sarr alias Sarro is one of the nuggets of Senegalese music. His album “Tomorrow” was released in 2015 where he pays tribute to his parents and devotes the beginning of a promising career.

Sarro in LABO studio

In 2020, he recorded with the Spanish jazz group ST Fusion his second disc named Touki Touki. In July 2021, he released an EP named FEET featuring Derajah, a Jamaican reggae man. Sarro is a performing artist in world music who knows how to connect with the audience.

Watch Residency’s preview here: LABO Studios Music Residency – SARRO

Sarro in LABO concerts venue

Live Room Halloween Shows 2022

Live Room Halloween Show 2022

In the same tradition as Christmas Eve and New Years Eve, “All Hallow’s Eve” is the evening before the holiday proper. In the night of october, the 31th, a large part of the planet celebrate what we call now the Halloween eve: The night where all freaky spirits comeback once in a year to life. A decade ago, Halloween was especially celebrated in US and anglosaxone zone, but lately it became very famous because of its comercial aspect and the big atraction it has on children and adults both and because people love to disguise and have fun about freaky things for a night.

Halloween is therefore also invited to LABO studios, first on Friday, October 28 for a kids party in partnership with Lerchundi center for kids where only fun will be on the top of the program list and then on Saturday, October 29 for yet another edition of the Live Room Show event, a most demonic evening dedicated to night owls in search of thrills, dance show and choreography on electronic music and a cyber freaky show ander the theme: Death brings life!

Among the guests are vampires, psychopaths, undead, witches, sadistic cannibals and your pals!! As if that weren’t enough, it will take place in a laboratory, which is none other than the basement of an old hotel, which is said to be haunted. It promises.

So welcome to all kids (with limitation of places availables) Friday 28 october starting from 3:00pm and youngsters +16 years on Saturday 29 october starting from 6:30pm. And because it’s Halloween, we don’t forget that costumes are MANDATORY, and the scariest ones will be rewarded. You know what you have to do now … pray for your life Uhahahahaha!

By Omar Mok’s.

Launching of the 3rd season of LABO’s sociocultural programs

LABO Programs for creative skills development in youths begin this month

For the 3rd season, the Live Room association opens its seven social/cultural programs for the development of creative capacities among young people and children in the region. 10 to 14 candidates aged 10 to 25 are registered for each program to benefit from 100 hours of coaching, training, guidance and experimentation to finally exhibit their work at the end of the year. Most of the workshops take place at LABO studios which is a cultural center created by Live Room Project in 2020.

For this season, we had over 150 pre-registered person under 25 years old from who we gonna keep only the half. The selection process will end by October 15 and the first sessions will start monday, October the 17th.

Seven LABO Programs for Creative skills development:

Dance program: A program for contemporary afro Dance for >16 years old leaded by coaches Karima El Aidouni and Rod El Padre every Monday and Wednesday from 6h30 p.m. to 8h30 p.m.
Theater program: A program for experimental Theater for >16 years leaded by Coach Omar Mok’s every Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6h30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.
Graffiti program: A program for Graffiti and Street Art for >16 years leaded by coach Ismail Benyamna AKA Sako every Mondays and Thursdays from 6h30 p.m. to 8h30 p.m.
Audio / video program: A program for Cinema and VR experiences for >16 years leaded by coach Mehdi Nabil every Wednesdays and Fridays from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Painting program : A program for drawing and Painting for <15 years leaded by coach Chaimae Kabbaj every Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Handcraft program: A program for handcraft for <16 years leaded by coach Siham Habhab every Fridays from 4 p.m to 6 p.m.
Writing and acting program: A program for Theater for < 16 years old leaded by Coach Aya Elouardi every Wednesdays and Fridays from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Rehearsal of the research residency of EVASION.

Évasion is a contemporary creation of live arts co-produced by Live Room and the Institut Français Maroc dealing with the subject of freedom among young people – and especially young girls – and the oppression exerted first by their families and then by society against ideas and behavior deemed “without any future” and “intrusive culture”.

In this creation that we consider to be of a mixed type (contemporary theatre, contemporary dance, urban dance and projection), we have sought the causes of this oppression and censorship, the means by which it is exercised and the possible solutions to deal with it, but also to raise awareness of the enormous shortfall that society loses through its acts of prohibition and oppression against young girls in our country.

The first lines of the project were drawn at the end of 2021 and the project started in January 2022 and took more than two months for the choice of the final team and the artistic vision of the creation. And after a month of closed residence of choreographic and scenographic research, the team presented the result of their work to an audience composed mainly of young artists, actors and dancers. A discussion was held at the end of the show between the Evasion team and the public for the critics and of which they were in their majority very encouraging to go ahead and complete this creation.

See you after the next scenographic and technical residency rehearsal and till that, we leave you with some comments collected in the discussion with the public:

“The piece really touched me, so as if it spoke about myself. The message was clear and very emotional”

“You could feel the stress among the actors and also the physical tiredness, but congratulations for their first actuation”

“Some acts were perfect, others still need work”

“It’s not just a girl’s problem, I too have been through the same thing, but congratulations once again because I really felt the message so much that my eyes rolled with tears in the first act”

“Bravo for the scenography and the coordination between the different elements: Text, dance, projection”