From the Monday, September 30 to Saturday, October 5the Tamazight universe, Mediterranean culture, folklore and the avant-garde, will shake hands for the third consecutive year in what is undoubtedly a cultural action that the autonomous city needed to project to the world.
Iwa, as we have been saying, is a festival that could only have been born in the North African city, neither to the east nor to the west, only in Melilla Every so often stems this special can sprout, treated with the knowledge of those who truly know what a true melting pot of languages, shapes and smells is.
Beginning of cinema. And from Monday, September 30, several titles will be screened that reflect on different current issues with an integrative vision of past and present, with two daily showings between Monday, September 30 and Wednesday, October 2. Mommy Watta of CJ Obasiwhich premiered at Sundance in 2023, Samsara by Louis Patiño or Argentina Eurekaby Lisandro Alonso will follow one another in UNED the first days of the week in Melilla.
Iwa Fest will give way to its Talks on Thursday, October 3, with the intervention of the illustrator Nadia Hafidwhich has in its publications creations for titles such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Monocle Magazine or El País. Different perspectives in both traditional and innovative cultural fields that reproduce the fusion of tradition and avant-garde that Iwa Fest proposes. A day that will continue with the Ableton Live workshop with Omar EKwhich will later be the first Iwa Fest performance in 2024. The show Prato Green in it UNED Melilla Auditorium will be the performance that closes this first night of Iwa Fest, with the live broadcast of the program Make it look like an accident from Radio 3, official station of the event.
Naima Mohatar and Foler join Iwa Fest
Iwa Fest adds two new names to its lineup for Friday and Saturday, featuring the city’s scene. Naima Mohatar will be in charge of opening the festival on the first day, while producer Foler will do so on the second night of the festival.
He Victoria Grande Fort will concentrate musical performances on the days of October 4 and 5, 2024. On Friday, October 4, after Mohatar’s show, he will present the collective’s Arabic fuzz Al-Qasar. The show of Rocío Márquez and Bronquio will be the next to take the stage on this day. This day will highlight, Gaye Su Akyolevoking the
Istanbul underground scene, the feminine force of Alta Mon Amour or the eclecticism of Kawtar Sadik.
The final day of Iwa Fest on Saturday, October 5, will feature a diversity of sounds. After the Foler show, Lala Tamar will take the stage of the Victoria Grande Fort, recovering traditional sounds, or blues from the desert of Imarhan. Turn after this fusion show the confluence of the ancestral and the contemporary in Baiucathe most current electronics with Faizal Mostrizx or the union of techno and the acid sound of the collective Acid Arab.
Iwa Fest continues its proposal of cultural confluence, recovering the interactions of the Mediterranean basin as the cradle of civilization and origin of great cultural diversity. A cultural area where very diverse influences come together, which also have a place at Iwa Fest.
You have all the information and schedules on the Iwa Fest website.
