The Remp'Arts Azemmour Festival will put, from May 17 to 19, “street art” in the spotlight with a galaxy of artists from diverse horizons and cultures, announced recently in Casablanca, the organisers.

This edition, the 3rd, will welcome Moroccan and foreign street art artists with a view to giving an urban and current touch to the festival, indicated, during the presentation of this event, the festival's delegate producer Ali Kettani.

This festival, devoted in its first two editions only to the plastic arts, is opening up to new artistic forms and especially to street art, bringing together wall frescoes and graffiti. The artists will have to imagine and prepare together, during a residency (10-17 May) in the Medina, works and canvases of 'classical art' and frescoes for street artists.

Thanks to this new palette of urban arts, the Festival is resolutely turning towards the youth, who will have to discover the talents and musical universes of different DJs with the 'Sound System', and towards this contemporary artistic creation which is imposing itself on the international scene as an art in its own right, he stressed, making it known that an ancient market square where storytellers and other troubadours used to meet will be recreated within the captaincy.

And to specify that Mustapha Zemmouri (1503-1539), originally from the region, a great Moroccan explorer and one of the first North Africans to discover the Americas in the 16th century and known during his lifetime by the name of Estevanico, will serve as a common theme for the different street artists.

The Festival will also stage other urban culture disciplines, notably street theatre, music, or dance, while giving pride of place to the performing arts in the tradition of the Halqa with the ambition of going to meet local audiences, explained Mr. Kettani.