We are Hiring! Communication & Coordination Officer (woman)

Job description: Communication and Coordination Officer

As part of Live Room Project development, and for the launch of its LABO experimentation and production center, the Live Room association is recruiting a full-time / part-time Communication and Coordination Officer (woman) from October 2020.

Tasks:

  • Internal communication (association, LABO center)
  • External communication (users, partners)
  • Digital communication (Web, social media)
  • General assistance and coordination

Essential skills required:

Target and result oriented, interested in culture and art, and possessing a start-up spirit. Knowledge of the cultural fabric of the northern region + history of volunteering with Live Room Project is a plus.

Missions:

  • Help set up and apply the project’s communication policy
  • Internal team communication (Editing press releases, Notes, forms, etc.)
  • Internal communication Center (Design of supports, direct actions to users, parents, etc.)
  • External communication (management of direct marketing actions, design of the necessary supports, relationship with the media and press, partners, etc.)
  • Digital communication (content creation, community management, newsletters, website blog, Data optimization, etc.)
  • Ensure monitoring and reporting
  • Assist direction in the development of the project
  • Coordination with coordinators, volunteers and users.

Qualifications:

  • Successful first experience (2-5 yrs) in communications and marketing
  • Good knowledge of B2B/B2C communication, web marketing
  • Experience in digital marketing
  • Design and creation of advertising content
  • Perfect writing and oral skills in French and English. Fluency in Spanish is a plus.
  • Mastery of computer graphics and video animation tools are a plus
  • Ability to work under deadline pressure
  • Be versatile, social, responsive, creative and autonomous
  • Have a great sense of teamwork

Organization:

Line manager: CEO of the Live Room Project (Executive Director of the association)

Internal functional relationship:

  • Employees of the association
  • All project collaborators
  • Association edge

External functional relationship:

  • Center users
  • Volunteers
  • Users of the project’s digital platforms
  • Partners
  • Press and external media

Contract and remuneration:

  • Position to be held: October 2020
  • Geographical location: Tangier
  • Contract:
  • 2-year CDD contract. Evolution to CDI communication manager
  • ~ 105 k MAD gross annually
  • Insurance

Applications should include:

  • An updated Curriculum Vitae with links for your social media (FB, IG, LinkedIn, TikTok, Ytube, etc.) accounts;
  • A Describtion of the candidate’s motivations.

Applications should be sent in English or French by email to: liveroomofficial@gmail.com

Call for applications for position: Administrative and Financial Officer

Call for applications for position: Administrative and Financial Officer.

Live Room is a project that uses art as an alternative form of education by creating a physical or digital space to promote and share artistic expression LIVE. Since its launch at the end of 2015, Live Room Project has organized + 40 events served +400 artists / amateurs and collaborated with +15 collectives. Today it is considered one of the most promising cultural projects in the region. For more information please visit our website: www.liveroomproject.com

As part of its development, and for the launch of its LABO experimentation and production center, the Live Room association is recruiting a full-time Administrative and Financial Manager from October 2020.

Tasks:

  • Administrative management,
  • Application of procedures,
  • Financial management,
  • Accounting management.

Essential skills required:

Familiarity and inclination to work with different stakeholders, interest in culture and art, and possession of a start-up spirit. Having a history with Live Room Project is a plus.

Missions:

  • Ensures the application of the association’s manual of processes.
  • Administrative and Financial monitoring of the project: Development of dashboards and reports
  • Management of the cash box
  • Drafting of contracts
  • Staff management, social aspects and preparation of payroll
  • Accounting bookkeeping
  • Banking operations
  • Administrative management of purchasing process
  • Archiving and document management, inventories
  • Management of audits

Qualifications:

  • Three to five years of experience in administrative and financial management.
  • Good knowledge of general / cost accounting
  • Good legal knowledge of the laws governing associations
  • Good editorial and communication skills (FR, EN)
  • Mastery of office automation tools
  • Ability to work under deadline pressure
  • Be methodical, organized with great attention to detail
  • Be versatile, responsive and autonomous
  • Have a great sense of teamwork
  • Fluency in French and English

Organization:

Line manager: CEO of the Live Room Project (or Executive Director of the association)

Internal functional relationship:

  • Treasurer and President of the association
  • Employees of the association
  • All project collaborators

External functional relationship:

  • Funders and sponsors
  • Banks
  • Accounting firms
  • Lawyers
  • Consultants

Contract and remuneration:

  • Position to be held: 01 October 2020
  • Geographical location: Tangier
  • CDD 2 years, Executive status. Evolution to CDI A/F manager.
  • ~105 k MAD gross annual

Applications should include:

  • An updated CV in French/English;
  • A letter describing the candidate’s main motivations.
  • Links to your social media

Applications should be sent in English or French by email to: liveroomofficial@gmail.com

Last update: Urban Art Week Fest 4 is postponed

The Coronavirus crisis has deeply affected both the cultural and artistic sectors and more specifically the organization of events; the Live Room Project is no exception. Due to the pandemic, many programs were canceled particularly two episodes of the interactive series BlaBla + (March and June), an Artistic Meeting (April), the Ramadan Show (May) and the fourth edition of the Urban Art Week festival (July).

The 4th edition of Urban Art Week Fest is postponed

We are following the situation with the greatest possible attention. Sadly, the situation in Morocco is not promising. Because of these circumstances, we cannot resume activities in direct contact with the public until next September. In meanwhile, we are hoping to maintain the festival UAW going. In an article subsequent to this one, we explained why we preferred not to embark on digital actions due to the lack of our current resources; the thing that will prevent us from achieving the satisfaction and objectives set for the actions. The association preferred to benefit from lockdown to enhance the activities in order to get ready for the upcoming project and which will see the birth of a physical management center and LABO activity.

But the debate never stopped for the Urban Art Week Tangier Festival. Our artists keep on making the event happen. So, we thought about a 100% digital solution which was to organize the festival only on our social networking sites and focus on digital competitions (digital comics and drawings), individual urban dance, Graffiti sketching, Rap, and Beatbox that our followers can watch and vote on Instagram & Facebook. Before taking the decision and discussing it with the sponsors, we launched a survey with our users to see whether they prefer making a digital edition or postpone it until school entrance to coincide with the opening of the LABO space. The result was sharp.  More than 70% voted for postponing the event in order to maintain physical participation.

We thank you for your confidence and we promise to get back to you more productive and more crazy and funny than ever!

Stay tuned for more updates.

One Love.

Art in times of Corona

Today we have just finished the first week of total containment and more than two weeks of distrust and confusion. The Coronavirus dictates its law on the whole world and that law is very simple: Beware! Stay at home! Protect yourself!

The majority of us acted according to this law – which now seems fundamental to our survival – without being able to worry about the future of our social, cultural, and artistic life.

In our sector, culture and entertainment, we were among the first who read the future that awaits us because of this health crisis: the first official decree coming out in Morocco during the second week of March 2020 was prohibiting sporting events in the first place until further notice. Our activity was directly linked to the exploitation of sharing artistic talents which arose after the public gathered around our events. Also, the timing of the crisis was going to astound our plans because it comes at the start of our activities in the second half of the season which coincides the renewal of our administration committee and preparations of the 4th edition of the Urban Art Week festival. Things got aggravated very quickly. The first decision we had to make within the association is to stop working on the progress of activities for two weeks so that each member can get used to his/her new system during pandemic without stressing about work.  We had to see through the situation before deciding on an action plan.

Indeed, in our annual calendar of activities appeared in the box on Saturday, April 28 the 3rd episode of BlaBla + under the theme “Harassment, what solutions? “. Today, Friday 27th, D-1 of the event, we would have been at full speed to prepare everything for D-Day but we are forced to cancel – or rather postpone – the event. Several questions confuse our vision and prompt us at this time to wonder more and more about the strategy to adopt for this new world which is gradually taking shape on the horizon of this crisis, a very distant and digital world than ever, a world where we may no longer recognize the former interests of human beings.

Live Room Project wants to inform you that its pilot team will continue the work on the structuring of the association and the preparation during this lockdown as far as possible for the project to be launched in the LABO center. Regarding digital actions, we noticed that our technical tools as well as the Moroccan digital platforms cannot provide us with the necessary support to move to the organization and dissemination of live events on the web. At the moment, we will be in charge of raising awareness and disseminating the responsible artistic content that we receive under the current pandemic.  #fuckcorona

To be continued.

2019’s Meeting of Live Room Association

Annual meeting

The Live Room association held its first general meeting in 2019 on Saturday, December 14 in Tangier, in the presence of 7 of the board of directors’ members and 20 other active members of the project.
The agenda for this meeting covers:
– Presentation of the association’s achievements during the 2018-19 season
– Presentation of administrative needs for the structuring of the association
– Set of objectives for next season.
– General strategy adopted by the association.
– Call of commitment to the new Live Room’s Project: LABO

Also, we informed the participants that the period of validity for the current administrative council has ended and that the application is open for the coming season. Omar Mokadem, currently president, and Nabil Bedda, treasurer, state that they will change positions and become office advisers. A second meeting will be held in the coming days to validate the new board of directors’ offices.

4 years of Live Room Project

Finally, we took this opportunity to blow out the candles for the fourth anniversary of the Live Room Project by wishing to see more female members in the association.

Live Room Halloween Show

The program “Show” of the Live Room Project continues to create events in Tangier and this time with Halloween. A special show / party will be held on Friday, November 1 at Darna Theater (in front of the fish market).

Costumes, disguises, horror makeup, and live shows will be waiting for you. But why did we specifically choose the Halloween event to celebrate it? Well, because it’s fun, it’s the only party that celebrates –comically- horror. The children love to celebrate it as well. In addition, collective Live Room wants to express its opinion on this festival that is strange to us but also that becomes very commercial in recent years.

History:

This is not the first time when Live Room Show has Halloween as its theme. Back in 2016, the project organized a Show at the American Legation of Tangier under the theme of “Halloween meets Boujloud” where we tried to make a comparative approach between what is it in the Moroccan culture (Boujloud festival in the region of Sous) with the feast of American origin Halloween. It was one of the most successful events. We were very touched by the joy received from the children and youth who participated. This year, we will set up a new event with a micro show on consumption and advertising presented by the theater team. Then, we will present a welcoming show by the project’s founder Omar Mok’s. We will host for the second time the rock band Tetouan Obsession and will see a dance show from the collective Dance of the North or Ramis who will offer us a premier rock thriller show. Live Room Halloween Show is a disguise party that will take place on November 1st at 7:00 pm and last until 9:30 pm.

About the program:

We would like to remind lectors (what do you mean? Do you mean followers?)  that the Live Room Show is a quarterly festive and educational program launched by Live Room Project in 2016, which aims at revolutionizing the notion of cultural events by creating a show that pleases and teaches the audience. It has a moral theme that directly affects the social situation of the users and a unique program that promotes cultural diversity. The theater team provides an opening to the program presents the theme and integrates the audience. Then, it presents a welcoming show. Later, we pass to the programmed performances while leaving room for an open mic / jam session.

For more information about the show or the project, please click HERE.

URBAN ART WEEK 3° WAS ALL ABOUT HAVING GOOD TIMES

URBAN ART WEEK 3° WAS ALL ABOUT HAVING GOOD TIMES

“Thank you so much Live Room for this event”, “It was the best day of my life!”, “Keep the vibes UP!”, “We can’t thank you enough for this colorfull wall transformation”, “We’ve participated in many others street art fest but this one guys is definetly the coolest one!”… Those were some of the feedbacks we’ve recieved after the event ends and that make us very proud and more motivated than ever. From the start of Live Room Project, we have put the entertainment  of our audience at the head of our priorities but also worked hard to involve them in our events and make them express themselfs freely. In this third edition of the Urban Art Fest Tangier, we had more than a thousand visitors, mostly aged between 13 and 25 years and more than a hundred artists for all categories. Such a plaisure to know that you had guys passed a good time with us.

 

The Fest opening was DOPE

The Urban Art Week turns around the collective Art exhibition and the murals. The opening day was organised at Old British Embassy of Tangier with a full day animation program  containing every urban art style and where we tried to create an utopic piece of the city inside the closed venue so people and artists can feel free to express their creativity without any form of censure. Boys and girls together, family bringing their children to discover street art, people from different places doing networking: Do what do you love now! This was the spirit of the Urban Art Fest 3.

In the program we had: Collective art exhibition (29 artists: Comics, Digital Art, Pop Art, Photography, Drawing, Videos), Xgames and freestyle parade, Dance and choreography,   Music concert, Rap Parade, Two theatre shows, Graffiti workshops, Painting workshop…

19 STREET ARTISTS FOR MURALS

After the open call for participation, we recieved 19 Graffiti and Street artists whom 2 from Spain, 7 from Tangier and the rest from others Moroccan cities. The artists stayed in a residency for 5 days where they met on day one, attended the opening day event and felt the spirit of Live Room Project then started to work on their sketch books to have the best result for the collective wall painting. After 4 days, they have completly transformed Ibn Toumart street. Tangier’s to be very proud of them, and so we are.

PERSPECTIVES

This year’s edition was harder than ever, because we faced schedule & budget difficulties. Next year goal is to have a development team available from november 2019 which mission will be administrative and sponsoring process following.

For the other hand, we will keep working on the structuration of urban groups specialy in Tangier such Graffiti, Street art, BMX, Skateboarding, Freestyling, Parkour, Dance, Rap and underground m:usic. The idea is to encourage artists and amateurs to regroup themselves in collectifs so we can serve them better.

Also, we will keep opening the project to the North region of Morocco, the other cities and to our mediteranean neighbours for more artists exchange. The final goal for next year is to make it 5% better than this year, and especially to make this festival the engine of street art creation in the city of Tangier.

Finally we would love to thank everyone who made this happen. The participants, the team, the partners: Thank you so much and see you next year!

 

URBAN ART WEEK 3 – Infos & Inscriptions

We are so happy to announce you that the third edition of the URBAN ART DAY FESTIVAL will be hold in Tangier from July 6th to 18th 2019.

For all the urban artists who want to exhibit or perform in the third edition of the Urban Art Day Fest, please fill the form in the link bellow before June 14th: https://bit.ly/30YgHAJ

What’s the Fest About ?

For those who weren’t with us last year, The Urban Art Day is a big meeting where people from different races and ages share & enjoy Art. We can read from our visitors feedbacks: “My friend told me a lot about the first edition and I felt like I missed something big, And obviously it is something big.. Something different! I enjoyed like never before in an event. Thank you Live Room Project” wrote Zakaria, a musician from Tangier. Or also what we get from Andii, student, USA: “I discovered The Live Room Project’s Urban Art Festival by sheer luck. I was walking home from Souk D’ Barra one sunny afternoon, and I was drawn to the sound of music and youthful chatter coming from the Villa of old British embassy (Tangier’s House of Culture). Being a Florida-born Moroccan, I struggled to find a creative community when I returned to visit Tangier. I was fortunate, for the first time in my life, to be immersed in the joyful exuberance among my fellow artists, my fellow Moroccans. There was an abundance of activities to take part in at what I discovered to be the Urban Art Festival. There were thrilling dancers, talented musicians, dare-devil skateboarders, thought provoking visual artists, poets, rappers, and much more. I remember being offered the microphone to sing alongside a few very talented guitarists, some jazzy scat. I had never sang with my whole body like that before, I had never felt energy so vibrant rushing through me. I am so grateful for The Live Room project for reminding me of the beauty that we can create in Morocco. I am currently studying Theatre at Florida State University, and I’m excited to bring what I’ve learned to Morocco in the coming years. The Live Room Project and the Urban Art Festival have inspired me to bring my life and my art closer to home.”

Program 2019*

Saturday, July 06th >> Festival in/outdoor at Villa of Mendoubia (2pm to 11pm)

+ Workshops (Graffiti, painting,

+ Djying animation

+ Live painting

+ X-games

+ Open mic stage indoor

+ Rap/Slam/Hiphop parade

+ Dance/freestyle competition

+ Contemporary/hiphop Dance show by Alicia Soto Nie

+ Concert1: Rap

+ Concert2: Fusion/Rock

07 – 09 July @VillaMendoubia: Contemporary dance workshop with Alicia Soto

07 – 12 July 2019 >> Street Art/Graffiti: Murals in the urban center of Tangier

Saturday, July 07th >> Closing

Wednesday, July 15th >> Closing of the gallery exhibition

*The final program will be posted later in our media channels. Stay tuned

Live Room Experience for University students

 

 

Live Room Project is participating in the cultural week of “Ecole National des Sciences Appliquées of Tetouan” which will coincide with the world’s art day.

In the program, we have a visit to a rural elementary school at village Ain Zar9a, to entertain them with music and art, make some workshops and finally surprise them with presents.

And, on Wednesday 17th afternoon at ENSA Tetouan, Our founder and CEO Omar Mok’s will lead a conference-debate on the theme “Art as a driver of personal development” which where he will translate the Live Room Experience to the students and guests.

This project is considered as a beginning of partnership with the artistic institutions of Tetouan and especially with the students of the university, and who can later develop to integrate a project initiated by The American Legation of Tangier, regrouping students of Tetouan in a Live Room Show.

This is a brief description of the event. You can find more details on FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/404194060367301/

“Art is the fruit of the creativity of free people. (John Kennedy) and World Art Day is here!!

And on this theme the group “let’s art” has the immense joy of welcoming you to the 100% cultural and 100% artistic conference, organized as part of the opening activities of the LC module, under the title: “Art as a driver of personal development”

This lecture will focus on the impact of art on academic performance and guide you in balancing art and education.

You will have a memorable appointment with local bands for a new concert and a completely offbeat atmosphere.

This unique event will be held in the amphitheater of the National School of Applied Sciences of Tetouan, a setting quite appropriate for this celebration 😉

We are counting on your presence on Wednesday 17 April from 15h

Do not miss it, be on time.”

Meet Live Room Project @ Le printemps du livre et des arts 23ème edition

We are glad to announce you that Live Room Project will be present in this year’s edition of « Printemps du livre et des arts » at the Italian institutions Palace of Tangier.

This year theme is “ADVENTURE” and there is no bigger adventure to have Live Room Team inside

We will be delighted to welcome you to our booth in the youth area “Espace jeunes” from 18 to 21 April where you can learn more about our project, our past actions and future programs.

Also, we will be performing our experimental theater piece “Choices” and holding a Live Room Show on Friday 19th from 5:00pm

Beside the books, the salon is also holding many other cultural and artistic companies that will offer performances such marionette, robotic games, musical readings, workshops and also debates, round tables and conferences are programmed for the event.

So see you at the 23rd edition of Le Printemps du Livre et des Arts of Tangier !

For more informations please leave us a message on our FB page : @liveroomofficial or IG: @liveroomproject or direct mail to liveroomofficial@gmail.com