D-2 for the fifth anniversary of the craziest festival in tangier, who’ll be held from the 5th til 11th July 2021, everyday starting from 3PM.

This year the stakes higher than ever : It will be the first time that the festival will be held in our local at the LABO center and will be mostly indoors.

In addition, it will also be a first to have a program that will last a whole week, with each day assigned to a different discipline of street art. 

We thought this would be ideal, on one hand given the limited space, and on the other hand so that our audience could have plenty of time to soak up their favorite artform, having been deprived of our festival’s past edition given the pandemic.

To give voice to all, we have multiplied the open-mics, scheduled competitive battles, diversified the activities with lots of workshops, and alongside that, artists full of energy and talents will be giving their live shows.

And of course, throughout the festival and just in front of our LABO center will be the pièce of resistance, the painting of the large mural of the Spanish hawma, which will bring together national and international artists and will revolve around the theme of the festival, “HIGH HOPES”.

Everything is more detailed in the program below:

We can’t wait to meet our tanjawi and national audience again, and we’re waiting for them with even more energy, positive vibes, and above all with the immense desire to give them the best time of their lives. 

Our staff are only waiting for the moment when they can start sowing smiles again within the attendees of our festival and see them flourish in the midst of so many colors. 

We are invested body and soul so that everything goes well and that the comfort of visitors is guaranteed.

Also, this festival is now possible thanks to our dear partners, Drosos, American Language Center of Tangier, L’Institut Français, Wilaya Of Tangier, Amendis and finally Tendy’s whom we thank dearly for all the support given.

In 3 words, this edition will be unforgettable, incredible, and unmissable, so see you there!

Live is Life!

End of season of LABO Programs 2020/2021

It’s with the greatest pride and enthusiasm that we are closing this 2020-2021 season with our 7 programs, namely : Writing and Slam Lab, AV VR Lab, Theater and Circus Arts, Youth Theater, Dance,  Handcrafts and Drawing,and finally Street Art.

On top of that, despite the pandemic, we’ve managed to organize covid-friendly meetings, talks, masterclasses and workshops that were all sold out very quickly and have witnessed a great success amongst the youth of Tangier.

Thanks to the huge determination of our participants and the entire team and supervisors of the Live Room, we’ve been able, in just 6 months, to achieve the learning goals that normally took us 9 months to complete.

Despite the difficulties encountered in some workshops, it was a real pleasure to see that our participants left our sessions with a broad smile, strong friendships, a sense of pride in their achievements and most importantly the impatience to arrive at the next session.

Many of our young artists have seen their talents revealed and sharpened throughout the classes, which was proved by their final shows, last Saturday.

This closing event featured the final play of the children group, the one of the older group, a part of the dance show of the dance group, the exhibition of paintings and realization of the art lab, the slam reading of the children of the writing lab, and much more. Parents were also there to witness their children’s works of art, and some of them discovered the insides of our LABO for the first time. It was the perfect occasion to thank them for all the trust they had put in us from the beginning and to show them that they were right to do so . 

In the meantime, our resident artists are preparing to launch their first EPs in early August after months of hard work in our studio.

We are proud and delighted to see that all our efforts, our dedication, our positive energy and our determination have paid off for this first season that our new LABO center has just experienced.

It is with the same attitude and even more hard work that we intend to approach the next season, which will have more programs, more opportunities and above all even more inspiration for the youth of Tangier.

We’ve been fueled by the smiles and satisfaction of all our beneficiaries and the biggest reward was to see them acknowledge how critical artistic expression is to our lives, and most importantly, that LIVE IS LIFE !

Live Room Project continues its accompaniment and support of young local and non-local artists and this time by organizing a series of artistic meetings/ master-classes during the month of May 2021 and in particular for musicians, technicians and visual artists.

This action comes in support of LABO programs for the development of creative skills among the young people and the residencies of musical artists of the Live Room Project. In total, 115 young and less young, beginner or professional artists were able to attend the three Artistic meetings, the main purpose of the workshops was to initiate them into the professional world and to emerge them in a suitable artistic process taking in consideration the development of artistic sector.

Introduction to music and sound techniques:

Masterclass lasting 4 hours organized on May 01 at the LABO center and led by the sound engineer and teacher at Studio M, Mohamed Atouf.

This training targeted control technicians (theater, stage or studio) and musicians who have or want to create their own home studios or who will sooner or later be brought back to work in a recording or mastering space. The workshop was attended by 30 participants who conveyed their satisfaction to us about the meeting and encouraged us to organize more similar events.

Art in relation to humans:

An interactive workshop with a practical part lasting 3 hours organized on May 8th at the LABO center and led by the young artist Nouh Fettah, a student of the INBA in Tetouan.

This training mainly targeted the participants of our Drawing and Handicrafts program and all other young visual artists who are amateurs or who are interested in making a career in this type of art. The workshop was attended by 48 participants who were very interactive with the content and who enriched the meeting with their brilliant questions and thoughts. They thanked us for this action and asked us to organize more workshops in the same direction.

Professionalization of the artist:

This 20-hour master class spread over three days from May 21 to 23, 2021 was organized at the LABO center in partnership with the French Institute of Tangier and led by Mounir Kabbaj, artistic consultant and expert in the music industry.

The masterclass was primarily aimed at our resident music artists who need to understand the world of the music industry, its different professions and the role of each career that could be developed in parallel. It was heavy, a little bit long, but very well attended by the 26 musicians who attended the whole training. It was also the perfect opportunity for us to meet new artists who came from the near region (Tangier, Tetouan, Larache) but also from other far cities (Meknes and Kalaat Magouna).

Special thanks for our team who made this happen.

LABO is supported by the Drosos foundation.

As part of the development of the LABO project, Live Room launched in April 2021 a restricted call for projects to support artistic productions and projects for the development of creative skills among young people for a total amount of € 6,000.

The call for projects was launched on April 2, 2021 for the benefit of member artists and collective partners of the Live Room Project, and closed on Wednesday April 28 after an extension of 5 days from the initial deadline.

Please find the link to the application HERE

After examination of the application files by the project side, the candidates selected for the second round are:

• Generation Z collective for the performing arts – contemporary dance piece “14 Km”
• Yasmina Johaimane for the project to create an Anime and Asian cultural club at LABO
• Mehdi Nabil for the short film “Blades of passion”
• Barlaman crew collective for the production of a shadow effect show

The participants will pitch their project live in front of the selection committee on Friday May 7 to finally select two projects for a maximum grant of 3000 € each. The winners of the grant will be announced on Tuesday 18 Mai in our website and social media.

A second call for the project, this time open for public, will be launched in October 2021.

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After 6 weeks of the launching of LABO programs, Live Room is busy. Over 80 young boys and girls from different social categories are benefiting from the free programs that we’re offering to develop their creativity skills. We also recorded more than 20 visitors per week: youths who want to propose a project/collaboration or who want to benefit from LABO facilities to develop their art; parents who want to subscribe their children and collectives who want to collaborate with the association. And all this even before opening the center to the public because until now, we’re only accepting members of the association/Labo clubs and other interested artists who contact us on appointment.

In total 78 workshop sessions (2h per session) have been organized till today in LABO center, One artistic meeting “Dance Cypher”, and one live streaming from the music studio. Here is a photo resume of the activities.

Programs:

Live Streaming & Dance Cypher:

#LIVEROOM #LABO #LIVEISLIFE

After five months of the Launching of LABO project, here we came to the day we all have been working for. The day that we received the participants of seven LABO programs (participants of music program will start in February):

• Theater program for youths 25<yr<14
• Dance program for youth 25<yr<16
• Street Art program for youth 25<yr<16
• Circus Arts program for kids 14<yr<10
• Drawing and handcraft program for kids 16<yr<10
• Writing and Spoken words program for kids 14<yr<10
• Audio Video and VR program for kids 16<yr<10

See video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSuK1qOhl30&t=2s

The team worked hard to prepare the space and the necessary equipment for the launching of the activity even if the finishing and decorating works are still going. On the other hand, the executive team of Live Room has been preparing the organization of the processes with the managers (and first coaches) for two weeks. We created an amazing team!

The first session was all about networking and knowing better each other’s. After the welcoming words, we concentrate on the motivational part by exhibiting the history of Live Room Project, our realizations and the fixed goal. We also shared with them the vision we want to build in LABO during the next four years: “We are not a school. LABO is a space for artistic experimentation and production. Our goal is not to teach you, but to improve our creative skills. Five years ago, in the start of Live Room Project we took the slogan “Rise of Art” as our vision. With LABO we fixed a new one: Live is Life! Let’s work all together to study and explore live human expression. Now we all become LABO team. Let’s have fun!”

Finally, the participants joined their coaches to talk specifically about each program and to create their respective agenda. Can’t be more excited to see the result of LABO programs.

Live is Life!

By Omar Mok’s – Tangier.