Calle San Luis 72, 3D
41003 Sevilla
Spain
- Arts
- Democracy and community development
- Youth and education
The project was born out of a meeting between two young women and their passion for art. Linked to the Arab world through our stories and life course, we follow very closely the news, the challenges the people have to face, and the tools and spaces of expression that arise in this contemporary context. We are both passionate about art and convinced of its capacity to encourage a better understanding of the other, and thus a greater tolerance. Located between Morocco, Algeria, Andalusia and Marseille, we created a network of cultural actors and artists from the Mediterranean South Shore that allowed us to launch the activities of Azimut in Seville.
Through the organization of multidisciplinary event (Azimut's Creative Encounters on the Arab Worlds) in Seville, AZIMUT aims to show works by young artists, new writings and new formats in order to present realities that are not very visible through official channels. The objective of these Encounters is not to essentialize an Arab identity but to show its diversity. Art has the particularity of being a permanent laboratory of inventions, and in territories in crisis, it seems necessary to invent new forms of expression. Artistic creation allows individuals to speak for themselves, to formulate ideas and feelings that are often difficult to express. Artists are social actors influenced by the cultural, social and political context in which they live, and often engaged in the issues of their time. As much as the artist is influenced by society,his works influence it in return.
The works shown will be selected either for their innovative forms of expression or for the message or information they want to convey. We seek to ensure that each work is the subject of reflection and debate with the public and the artist who will be present.
In addition, the dissemination of these works is for AZIMUT a form of support for the freedom of expression of these artists, for whom it is often difficult to create and express in a free manner, sometimes subject to censorship.
The Creative Encounters on the Arab Worlds are a multidisciplinary event taking place for a week in Seville. These Encounters are an opportunity to give voice to a lively and creative youth. Through these few days dedicated to the creative effusion of contemporary Arab worlds, we wish to create spaces and times for exchanges and sharing with artists from both shores and audiences from diverse backgrounds to become aware of the diversity of faces of these worlds we call Arab.Through the creations of emerging artists, there is the desire to write new narratives, new stories about contemporary Arab worlds, to overtake common beliefs. It is a question of giving to see and hear geographical territories not to enclose them in frozen mental borders. Arts appeared to us as the best medium.
Based between Spain, France, Algeria and Morocco, the AZIMUT team has developed a network of cultural and artistic actors throughout the Mediterranean basin. She would like to be able to share this network and expand her own.
The ALF network seems to us to be a reference network on issues of democracy and living together in the Mediterranean. We would like to share our ideas and enrich them by meeting other actors whose values we share. In addition, we are interested in the voice of today's youth.