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Clock Culture this week 30 January -05 February

adil — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:20:36 +0000

Workshops

Cooking School

Learn to cook traditional Moroccan food in the heart of the medina
with Clock Kitchen. Fez’s first dedicated cooking school.

Dance

Belly Dance with Saida. Private lessons by arrangement

Calligraphy

Discover the sacred art of calligraphy with master
Mohamed Charkaoui.

Fez Download

Let us introduce you to Moroccan culture, customs and language
with Khalid. In 1:30hrs you will wow your way round the souks.

Henna

Give your hands a fancy look with a beautiful henna tattoo.

Oud

Learn to play with master musician Mohamed Semlali. Oud provided.

Djemmbe

Wild Djemmbe rhythms with Yassine. Djemmbe provided.

Jam Session

Every Wednesday from 6pm to 8pm Jam @ the Clock with
Mohammed Jocker. All Musicians Welcome

If in Cafe Clock ask manager for details otherwise call/email using details below

Art Exhibitions

Footprint of Friends All Over the World Photography
exhibition by Omar Chennafi and Robert Harrison.

Cinema

Monday @ 6pm Azmat Charaf Directed by Walid Tabi with Ahmad Fahmi, Ghada Abdelrazak and Tarik Lotfi. The movie is in Arabic with French subtitles. (free)

Thursday@ 6pm Johnny English Reborn Directed by Oliver Parker with Rowan Atkinson, Rosamund Pike and Dominic West. The movie is in English with French subtitles. (free)

Concerts

Sunday Concert @ 6pm

Gnawa Traditional music with percussion (20dh)

Maqbool Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj with
Irrfan Khan, Tabu and Pankaj Kapur. The movie is in Hindi
with English subtitles. (free)

Travel by your Heart – Priyanka Singh

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:58:16 +0000

Priyanka Singh

The city of Ajmer in Rajasthan, India, houses one of the greatest Sufi shrines of the world, that of the sufi saint Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chisty. Founder of the Chisty silsila, his love for the people led him to be called Gharib Nawaz, ‘caretaker of the humble and poor’. The love that reached out to people from the shrine cuts across all frontiers, bringing yearning souls into its presence.

In later years the city of Ajmer developed around this shrine, like a pulse in the body. For many it is part of a pilgrimage – a frontier to be reached – but for others, visiting the shrine is to come in the presence of the Master, where all frontiers disappear and the yearning soul finds refuge. These pictures take the viewer on a journey, a journey of both the external and the internal. The physical site and the human element are joined, their interconnectedness central in attaining an understanding of the self.

The physical shrine attracts more than its share of spiritual seekers and those who derive sustenance in the presence of the great Master, where all thoughts are focused in attaining union with the divine.

Come, journey to this frontier where the doors of the heart will be opened for the soul to transcend.

Join us at the Cafe Clock for the exihibition from 05 July to 04 September

Clock Culture This Week April 26– May 02

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:49:06 +0000

CLOCK CULTURE CONCERTS:

Sunday at Sunset 6:30pm

Zanouba

Pop & Rai music (20dh)

Every WEDNESDAY at 6:30 pm

Jam @ The Clock

Young musicians play live music on the terrace (free)

CLOCK CULTURE MOVIES:

Thursday movie 6:30pm

Hijab El Hob (Veiled Love Story) directed by Aziz Salmy with Hayat Bel Hallofi, Youness Megri, Saadia Ladib, Aziz Hattab, Nora Skalli. Batoul a 28-year old woman falls in love. She is raised in a middle class but conservative family, where it is considered immoral to go out with a man before marriage. But when she meets Hamza, she lets herself go and brreaks all family principles. This story could have ended quickly if the matter of the veil hadn’t slipped in their relationship (free)

CLOCK CULTURE EVENTS:

13^th March 2010 -16^th May 2010

Architectonic Maroc A watercolour and line-drawing exhibition by Mathy Engelen

17^th April 2010 -16^th May 2010

Whirling Dervishes Charcoal + pastel sketches by Aicha Bertrand

Dhiker Photography exhibition by Robert S. Harison

CLOCK CULTURE COURSES:

Dance Belly Dance Workshop with Saida. Private lessons by arrangement

Calligraphy Discover the sacred art of calligraphy with the master Mohamed Charkaoui. Private lessons by arrangement. Speak to café manager for details.

Yoga Speak to café manager for details.

Bazaar Guzzar

Mike — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:25:58 +0000

Butchers Souk (Guzzarine) by Omar Chennafi

BLOGGERS UNEDITED

Cafe Clock encourages writers to send examples of their work for Cafe Clock Online. The following piece by Colleen Cassar really captures the mood and madness found just outside Cafe Clock. This is the first unabridged, unedited story we are publishing. We look forward to receiving your writings, too!

Having settled now very comfortably into my rental riad down in what I call “the small intestine” of the medina, I happily make my way up the Talaa Sghira, amid a sea of umbrella clashes and incessant rain via a couple of cobbled kinks up to my social hub, culture hit, office desk and eatery that is Cafe Clock!

The most interesting stretch of my walk each morning is through the butchers souk (GUZZAR-funnily this moroccan word sounds like a cross between gizzards and bazaar-most appropriate!)…..where cats beg on their hind quarters like dogs for meat scraps, ducks unknowingly ready for the kill roam freely pecking any vegie scraps alongside the begging cats, small rabbits, hardly a meal, sit in cages pacified with sacrificial carrots, goats heads merchandised with all tongues facing left line up for boiling and bone picking, pigeons ‘coo coo’ ready to be coo-cooked!, chickens sit, feet tied as though sleepily awaiting a 3 legged race and the lonesome camel kill pensively looks down on this fantastic scene with heavy lids, coiffed eyelashes and puckered lips. Men and women shop in their warm woollen jellabas and little chocolate donkeys with ever obedient faces carry sacks of vegetables and herbs. Add to the collage of pink, red and maroon flesh more of my favourite colour, large strawberries lovingly placed so as not to bruise one anothers plump beauty atop slow wooden carts. As if this is not enough, mix into this soup of life, a very large group of beautifully dressed Spanish tourists humorously clad in plastic tablecloths knotted over their heads, giggling and poking fun at their collective ridiculousness and improvised attempt to keep dry.

I so so love this place…..the dedication, the simplicity, the hilarity and great inspiration for my pallette, although definately not for the squeamish! When are you coming to Fes?

COLLEEN CASSAR, Melbourne, Australia. – assemblage artist, writer, tour guide and dj!

Clock Culture Week Of February 21-February 28

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:08:56 +0000

CLOCK CULTURE CONCERTS :

Sunday at Sunset 6:30pm
Fes Jdid boys Arabic songs with classic guitar (free)
Every WEDNESDAY at 6:30 pm
Jam @ The Clock

CLOCK CULTURE MOVIES :

Thursday movie 6:30pm Hachiko Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Sarah Roemer, Richard Gere, Joan Allen. A drama based on the true story of a college professor’s bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home (free)

CLOCK CULTURE EVENTS :

13 Jan 2010 – 12 Mar 2010
DREAMINGIN PICTURES photography exhibition by Taha Charkani

SMILE a photography exhibition by Omar Chenaffi