Ramadan Nights Festival

Casa Árabe organises, in collaboration with Madrid town hall and the Fabricantes de Ideas cultural association, the Festival of Ramadan Nights 2010. Some different and less known cultural and recreational aspects of the religious festivity are spread through music, conferences, cinema shows and children’s activities.The Ramadan Nights Festival will take place in Madrid, from September 2nd to 10th, and will also be displayed in the Canary Islands, where it is organised with the collaboration of Casa Africa for the second year in a row, and in Alicante, where it will count with Casa Mediterráneo’s support.

MUSIC

Kamel el Harrachi’s Concert

Son of the famous composer Dahmane Amrani el Harrachi, he is heir to the Algerian chaabi style, as well as an innovator and a greatly talented artist.

MADRID. Thursday 2nd September
Place: Parque Casino de la Reina in Madrid (c/ Casino, 3).
Time: 10.00 p.m. Entry doors will be opened at 9.00 p.m. Free admission according to space availability.

BENIDORM. Friday 3rd September
Place: Parque de l’Aigüera Auditorium  (Avda. de l'Aigüera, 1).
Time: 9.00 p.m. Entry doors will be opened at 8.30 p.m. Free admission according to space availability.

Oum’s Concert

The singer Oum, representative of the new Moroccan musical scene, is aligned with eclecticism due to her soul, funk, disco music, fusion, jazz and rhythm and blues influences, without forgetting her roots.

MADRID. Friday 3rd September
Place: Parque Casino de la Reina in Madrid (c/ Casino, 3).
Time: 10.00 p.m., entry doors will be opened at 9.00 p.m. Free admission according to space availability.

LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA. Friday 10th September
Place: Pending on confirmation. Visit www.casafrica.es
Time: 10.00 p.m. Free admission according to space availability.

CONFERENCE

Islam Geographies
Conference by Jordi Moreras, professor at Universidad Rovira i Virgili de Tarragona, on the different Islam branches practiced nowadays, the cultural differences among the various countries and continents with Muslim communities.

MADRID. Monday 6th September
Place: Casa Árabe’s Auditorium in Madrid (c/ Alcalá, 62).
Time: 7.30 p.m. Free access.

ALICANTE Tuesday 7th September
Place: Sala Rafael Altamira de la Sede de la Universidad de Alicante (c/ Ramón y Cajal, 4).
Time: 20:00 horas. Free access.

CINEMA

The Long Journey (Le Grand Voyage), by Ismael Ferroukhi (Morocco and France, 2004, 108 min.).

Reda, a young French man with Moroccan origins, is compelled to accompany his father in the pilgrimage to Mecca. All through the 4.800 kilometre journey, which will cross the Balkans, Turkey and various Arab countries, father and son will get to know who they are, their common points and how they are different in other aspects.

MADRID
Dates and places:
Tetuán: 14th August, Plaza Tenerife.
Centro: 21st August, Plaza Soledad Torres Acosta.
Villaverde: 28th August,  Parque de la Huerta del Obispo, c/ Huerta del Obispo.
Villa de Vallecas: 4th September,  Public space for diverse uses Avda. del Ensanche, 79. (Metro: Las Suertes).
Time: 21:30 h. Open air cinema. Free admission according to space availability.


XÀBIA
Thursday 9th September
Place: Casa de Cultura (Plaza de la Iglesia, 4)
Time: 20:00 h. Free admission according to space availability.

LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
Saturday 11th September
Place: Pending on confirmation. Visit www.casafrica.es
Time: 22:30 h. Free admission according to space availability.

Documentaries Ramadan in the city
Casa Árabe shows a range of documentary films made by Al-Jazeera television channel, where it is shown how Ramadan is celebrated in three cities around the world: Istanbul, Cairo and Karlsruhe (Germany), the traditions and lives of their inhabitants during that month. Furthermore, a session of short films on traditional careers during the Ramadan period in Damascus and Cairo will also be shown.

ALICANTE
Wednesday 1st September: Ramadan in Istambul.
Thursday 2nd September: Ramadan in Cairo.
Wednesday 8th September: Ramadan in Karlsruhe (Germany).
Time: 20:00 h. Original Version with Spanish subtitles.
Place: Sala Rafael Altamira de la Universidad de Alicante (c/ Ramón y Cajal, 4). Free admission according to space availability.

MADRID
Tuesday 7th September: El Ramadán en Estambul.
Thursday 9th September: El Ramadán en El Cairo.
Friday 10th September: El Ramadán en Karlsruhe (Alemania).
Time: 19:30 h. Original Version with Spanish subtitles.
Place: Casa Árabe’s Auditorium in Madrid (c/ Alcalá, 62). Access: Free. Prior ticket collection from 7.00 p.m. on. Maximum 2 tickets per person.

CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES

World Puppets and Games
CUCO’s Association organises in the park during the afternoon puppets and games from all over the world. Those taking part will end the activity making a big three dimensional world map.

MADRID. Friday 3rd September
Time: from 5.00 p.m. onwards.
Place: Tirso de Molina Square in Madrid.
Age: from 7 years old. Children must be accompanied by their father/mother or their legal representative.
Registration: By telephone (666 031041) or by e-mail (cucorivas@cu-co.org).

Azur and Asmar, by Michel Ocelot (Spain, France and Italy, 2006, 99 min.).

Animation film which constitutes a fable on tolerance. Two children; a Moroccan and a French one, are its main characters. Both of them are brought up in France as if they were brothers, but Azur is the son of the family where Asmar’s mother works as nurse maid. Fate separates them although they will meet again when Azur decides to go on the search of the djins’s fairy.

MADRID
Organized by: Servicio de Dinamización de Espacios Públicos (Ayuntamiento de Madrid). Gestiona CEAR.
Dates and places:
Tetuán: 13th August, Plaza Tenerife.
Centro: 20th August, Plaza Soledad Torres Acosta.
Villaverde: 27th August, Parque de la Huerta del Obispo, c/ Huerta del Obispo
Villa de Vallecas: 4th September,  Public space for diverse uses Avda. del Ensanche, 79. (Metro: Las Suertes).
Time: 21:30 h. Open air cinema. Free admission according to space availability.

XÀBIA
Friday 10th September.
Place: Casa de Cultura (Plaza de la Iglesia, 4).
Time: 18:00 horas. Entrada libre hasta completar el aforo.

LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
Saturday 11th September.
Place: Pending on confirmation. Visit www.casafrica.es
Time: 21:00 h.


Boqalas: Algerian oracle tradition
Scenic poem in form of an oracle which combines poetry, interpreting and dancing and that is inspired on the oral tradition and the “boqalas” ritual, poems recited that are part of Algerian women’s traditions and that pass on from generation to generation. Organised by the Centro Hispano Marroquí de la Consejería de Empleo, Mujer e Inmigración (Hispanic-Moroccan Center of Employment, Women and Immigration Regional Department).

MADRID. Saturday 4th September
Place: Centro Hispano Marroquí in Madrid (c/ Argumosa, 28).
Time: 7.30 p.m. Free admission according to space availability.
Age: Open to all public.


Soccer Championship
The cultural and social association Ibn Batuta organises from September 5th to 8th a soccer championship whose matches will be played before breaking fast.

MADRID. From 5th to 8th September
Place: Sport fields at Parque Casino de la Reina (c/ Casino, 3).
Time: from 6.30 to 9.00 p.m.
Age: from 16 to 25 years old.
Registration: at the association headquarters (c/ Casino 12, local Bajo 1) or by telephone (91 4682859).