Launching of the Live Room Gaming Club in Tangier:

When it comes to Videos Games, a wide variety of genres exist to suit each and everyone’s taste : be it role-playing games, shooter games, fighting games, rhythm games, open world games, strategy games, sports games, action games, or virtual reality games. The gaming world has evolved at an incredible rate. From 2-dimensional gaming, to 3-dimensional gaming, to downright Virtual Reality, it truly has been pushing the boundaries of space, and time as well, by making lengthy hours of gaming fly by in the blink of an eye.

It is in the perspective of creating a community of Video Games fanatics like himself, that Mehdi Nabil, our VR & Audiovisual Lab Manager, launched Live Room’s gaming club. The goal of the club is to unite the gaming veterans, and to also introduce the magic of video games to a wider audience, creating a fun, and safe exchange space.

Consoles, Arcade machine, VR, Board games: A game for Everybody taste!

Live Room organized the very first event of the club on the 16th of April for gamers all over the city to gather on a Ramadan afternoon, and make the long hours of fasting effortlessly pass by. The event lasted 3 hours and had everyone excited for playing their favorite games and trying new ones, marking a huge success of the club’s first activity.

The event featured consoles, arcade, virtual reality, and board games. When it comes to consoles, the Nintendo Wii and the Sony Playstation 4 were the guests of honor, with games like Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros on the Wii ; FIFA, Tekken, and Mortal Kombat on the Playstation 4 ; King of Fighters on the Arcade machine ; And last but not least, the star of the show, the Oculus Quest 2 which is the newest Virtual Reality technology that blew everyone’s mind, with games like Beat Saber and Pistol Whig.

Board games on the other hand had quite the wide audience, with games like UNO, Monopoly, parchis, Chess, and Checkers. Chess specifically caught people’s attention, having them gathering up to either practice or learn the how to play. Who knows? Maybe the gaming club will inspire us to open an exclusive Chess club in the future!

New games, consoles, events, tournaments, and much more are on their way in the foreseeable future. Finally, thanks to Live Room for helping us grow this beautiful artistic community, raising awareness on how extraordinary and promising the world of Video Games is.

To subscribe in the Club,please fill this form: bit.ly/3OsHcqw

To Watch the event’s preview: CLICK HERE

By Hajar Allam, Gaming Club general coordinator.

 

 

LIVE ROOM is a project of human development by creating a physical/digital space to promote, share and enjoy live human expression. In 2020, Live Room launched LABO, the biggest artistic hub in Tangier city where we are going to host this upcoming residency.

LOCAL BAND MUSIC RESIDENCY (OPEN CALL)

We are looking for motivated emerging/semi-professional musicians or bands living in Tangier. Category: Pop rock or Fusion. The goal of this residency is to give an opportunity for a formed emerging group or individual musicians who want to work in a group to enjoy experimenting and exploring the universe of Live bands. We are looking for young artists who love being creative and improvising and who work on musical ideas without being tied to the rules. The characteristics and outcome possibilities of this band are unlimited in terms of style, instrument choices and backgrounds; we are looking for a unique combination after all.

Thanks to the support of LABO’s team and facilities, we are able to bring people together and give them the necessary support to bring their ideas to life. The residency will provide consultation according to the needs and expectations of the selected artists, plus needed material.

This residency will take place at LABO Studios starting from April 11th 2022, during a period of 3 months in which the members of the band will be meeting, working on producing their own single/album, covers and at least two live shows including  a concert in the famous Urban Art Week Festival of Tangier.

Available Positions:

• Vocalist
• Guitarist
• Bassist
• Drummer / Percussionist
• Secondary Instrumental player (Keyboard, Guitar, Strings…)

P.S: you can also apply as a band.

Conditions:

• A minimum time of engagement: +/- 6 hours a week
• You should be open to experimenting and trying new styles and flavors
• You should be serious and passionate about Live music
• Teamwork spirit, Singing in Arabic is a plus.

Deadline: 03 April at 6:00pm (Moroccan time)

Apply Now

#NOSKATRAPCHELLENGE – Rap competition of the North.

Live Room ignited the Labo stage on the 12th of February, hosting the finale of the Rap competition #Noskatrapchallenge, which gathered over 100 Rap fanatics in the eliminations phase, bringing together the North’s Rap scene under the theme of “Gender equality” and “Fighting violence against women”.

Rap challenge for women’s rights in Morocco

The first stage of the competition was digital, each rapper who wished to participate was to upload a freestyle of 1 minute under the competition theme. A total of 8 Finalists: Captain Vintag, Nezar, Ayman Achhab, Yassin Sbai, Merry, Atta, Romyo, and I.sam were selected after a rigorous ranking process that involved a committee of well versed judges that consisted of Liveroom’s Music unit, as well as “L3arbé”, and “Bad Flow” who are two Rap icons that have done a lot for the rap movement in the North. The contestant Yassin Sbai however wasn’t able to make it to the finale, and was spontaneously replaced during the event by the charming Kaoutar Amerniss who was among the guests, a real badass who entered the competition with a “bang!”, freestyling her way into the crowd’s heart.

Rap battle of the North of Morocco

The finale consisted of 3 rounds: During the first round the finalists were already given a beat prior to the event, to which they had to rap for 1 minute. 4 Contestants: Nezar, Atta, I.sam, and Merry made it to the second round, where they had to feel the flow and freestyle to a beat they’ve never heard before. Only 2 participants : Merry and Atta made it to the final 1 vs. 1 round, which was the climax and ultimate highlight of the event.
The heated dissing and clashing between the two finalists truly captured the soul of rap, making the entire crowd feel the flow in the heat of the moment, reminding us of one of the most epic rap battle of history from the movie “8 mile”.

The winner of the final round was none other than the Flow Queen Meryem Amor aka. “Merry”, who blew everyone’s mind and lit the stage on fire, exposing the true spirit of the Competition, proving to the world that Urban Culture was never gender specific, and that women are creative, capable, strong, and worthy of respect and acknowledgement.

Big thanks to our engaged public who supported digitally and physically the event. Big UP to the Live Room team who worked hard to achieve the fixed goals. And special thanks to our partners and sponsors for this action: Union de l’Action Féministe de Tanger and AIDA association.

See you soon for brand new challenge!

Live Room ONG is opening for the second part of the 2021-2022 season three volunteer positions based in the city of Tangier:

Fundraising assistant:

Period: March-may 2022.

If you like to do project monitoring and have a good oral / editorial command of English and communication / negotiation qualities, this is the time and the space when and where to put all of your skills in one plate. You can help and follow up with us to promote and to offer the right for young people and disadvantaged children of Tangier region to participate in the creative capacities and development program maneuvered by the Live Room association.

Indeed, the Live Room association succeeded in 2020 in opening the largest socio-cultural center in the region in which more than 200 young people and children benefit from free activities and workshops. And in order to maintain this gratuity we need people like you who will bring their skills in fundraising to help us continue to do social work.

The position requires a work of 6h/day with one day off per week during which you could discover the splendid region of Tangier. We also offer accommodation in town near the LABO center where the position is assigned.

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

Pedagogical guide for young people and children of the LABO center:

Period: March-May 2022

If you are a methodologist with experience in the psychology of change and positive communication, you also enjoy working with adolescents and children with the collaboration with their coaches; you may be able to help us. Your role will be to bridge between the program coach and its participants and to support them to achieve the program’s goal in the last months of the season.

Indeed, the Live Room association succeeded in 2020 in opening the largest socio-cultural center in the region in which more than 200 young people and children benefit from free activities. Live Room has drawn up 7 creative capacity development programs (100h/season) in addition to artistic and social events, and artist residencies. Each of these programs is called upon the end-of-year when participants are expected to introduce their work/projects in an exhibition, show, film forms. This period coincides with the schools exam but also with the good weather offered by spring, which leads to a drop in performance. Your role will be to draw up a monitoring and evaluation method that we can then use in our teaching manual.

The position requires a minimum of 6h/day work with one day off per week during which you could discover the splendid region of Tangier. We also offer accommodation in town near by the LABO center where the position is assigned.

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

Assistant to the director of the Urban Art Week festival:

Period: June-July 2022.

If you are passionate about organizing events with and for young people, familiar with working under pressure and communicating with several parties at the same time, if you know how to be organized and like urban arts, you may be able to help us. Your role will be to assist the director of the Urban Art Week Tangier festival in his mission to successfully organize the sixth edition of the region’s largest urban art hub, i.e. manage a team of 20 people, to receive more than 140 artists and to succeed in a program which is spread over a week and then to assess and report the carried out work.

You might wonder about the relationship between the festival and social work? Well Live Room uses art as an alternative form to education and in a social environment as difficult as that of Tangier; it remains one of the best ways to raise awareness and mediation. And for urban art, Live Room has been taken over the task of bringing young people together for more than five years in the streets of Tangier that takes street art movement as an efficient form of communication with the youth and accompanies them throughout the year in their creations and concerns and offer them each year’s opportunities to show others that they EXIST.

The position requires a work of 8h/day with one day and half off per week during which you could discover the splendid region of Tangier. We also offer accommodation in town near the LABO center where the position is assigned.

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

Live Room 6th anniversary, a celebration day with our family.

Six years ago, on an evening of December 25, 2015.. Omar Mok’s, co-founder of Live Room called for a commitment to launch the Live Room Project in front of 19 of his friends and family at Le Cercle des arts in Tangier. Since then, this date has become an opportunity to blow out the candles for a project that continues to glow in front of a growing family.

The long-awaited event by members of the association and the close family of the project took place on the evening of December 25 at the LABO center and was attended by 135 people of all ages who came to follow the presentation of what has been done during the six 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 sixth year of the baby who today becomes a child ready to challenge the world.

And as it coincided with the feast day of Christmas, we took this opportunity to celebrate it too. Decoration, costume, gifts and music, everything was ready to create a jovial atmosphere full of love and hope. And for the occasion, the team got involved in a show that reflected the spirit of Christmas while integrating our major social theme of gender equality in the welcome theatrical piece “Mama Noel”. A visual presentation of the project followed before moving on to the words of the president and CEO or to the candles and party. Everyone danced, sang, laughed, ate and danced again with pride in belonging to a project that wants to put a positive smile on the face of the world we live in.

Thank you to everyone who made Live Room a successful project and Happy New Year !!

Live is Life !

Launching of contemporary live art creation: Evasion

Live Room has been operating in the performing arts world for over five years, during which time it has created the best mixed shows for young audiences in the region such as Live Room shows or BlaBla + interactive events. From the start, we have put theater at the heart of our creations and carried out several experimental projects of contemporary productions.

After the opening of our LABO studios, Live Room manages contemporary and urban theater and dance programs and produces several shows per year. In 2021, we launched two projects : 14 KM  created by Generation Z and produced by Live Room and Evasion, a 100% creation of Live Room which won the open call of Institut Français for financement of live art creations.

Evasion is a live art show mixing theater, urban dance and digital projections. The piece will be performed by 5 artists/dancers. It will uses projection to complete certain characters and to convey the urban scene experienced by our heroes. The play will last 45-60 minutes and will be adapted to be exhibited in Café theaters and specialized ones. The play deals with the subject of freedom among young people and the oppression exerted first by their families and then by society against ideas and behaviors deemed “without any future” and “intrusive culture”. In this creation, we want to seek the causes of this oppression and censorship, the means with which it is exercised and the possible solutions to face it but also to raise awareness of the enormous shortfall that society loses to. through its acts of prohibiting young girls from participating in culture. Evasion is writed and directed by Omar Mok’s with the help of Mehdi Nabil for special effects and Salhi youssef for dance chreographies.

Evasion tells the story of Houda, a young girl from Tangier who loves Hip-Hop culture and especially urban dance. She exercises it whenever she can in the street with her friends but also as part of a collective with which they organize urban art events. She is so passionate about dance and this culture which is gradually becoming her daily life (language, clothes, haircut, etc.). Her conservative parents refuse this orientation and push her each time to stop it under different pretexts. Finally, they impose themselves and decide that she will never participate in the collective’s activities again and forbid her to perform in the show that was to take place in the most important festival organized by her friends. She decides with them to change her destiny. They made a plan to escape from the house, then find a job first and then a place to live where she can live in freedom. Eventually this separation played for her favor and succeeded in establishing better trust with her family. And after a year she was accepted to an European university to continue her studies.

 

The contemporary dance creation « 14km » is launched

Live Room association is happy to present you the contemporary dance project “14km” which is a production of Live Room jointly with Institut Français of Tangier for the benefit of the association Generation Z. This production joins the efforts of Live Room Project to support local artists and contemporary productions.

14km is a creation of the tangerian choreographer and GenerationZ artistic director Mehdi Dahkan (A.K.A. Xidori) and the French choreographer Marie Bruel, dealing with the subject of L7rig or imigration which started this last October and which has just finished his first research residency in Meknes.

So what is the impact of this stretch line of 14km that seperate the port of Tangier to the port of Tarifa ? How do young people see it and percept it in each continent ? What are their expectations about the other side ? What does the word leave means to them ?

Threw dances and other contemporary technics, 14km will try to discover and translate this universe and will continue its creation process to be presented to the public from July 2022..

Live Room want finally to congratulate the whole team including our two participants in the LABO dance program Karima Elaidouni and Fatima Joudari as well as our two old friends and supporters Ismail Bouh and Reda Abassi for being selected for this project and for the amazing response they give at the first research residency.

Live is Life !

This project is supported by Drosos Foundation.

 

BlaBla + Episode 04: Sex education .. Is it time?

 

The 4th edition of the BlaBla + series took place at the LABO studios on the evening of Saturday, November 20. The BlaBla+ set was full with 70 people who attended and who were able to help answer the question: sex education .. is it time? with an attendance rate of 58% women and 42% men. Our special guest for this episode was the Moroccan comic book artist Zainab Fasiki.

Between seriousness and humor, testimonials and web monitoring, opinions of attenders and experts, BlaBla+ knew as usual how to answer the question asked while engaging the public, both digital and physical, to interact with the subject. At the end of the episode the majority concluded that YES, the time has come to deal with the subject of sex education and that this episode should be followed with another one dealing with the same subject by asking a new question: for who ? and which way?

See you in two months for a new episode of BlaBla+

Thank you for everyone who attended. Thanks to everyone else who shared their opinions with us through our media channels. See you soon 😊

We leave you with this little photo report of the evening.