3rd Zamane Festival: The trees are also symbolic for different “seeds”!

The trees are also symbolic for different “seeds” that have been sown in the last nine years allowing Joudour Sahara to slowly grow into the Culture Center it is today. The “seeds”: traditional music, local architecture and a sustainable environment have become one within this project, thanks to the hard work of many who have joined in to help develop it.
In 2015 we met with Halim Sbai, now director of JSCC, Thomas Duncan, now director of Program Development with Playing for Change (PFC), Francios Vigui (also of PFC), Aziza Chaouni, architect (Aziza Chaouni Projects) and the Sahara-Roots team to discuss the possibilities of building a music school and culture center.
In 2016 the music school, supported by Playing for Change, started giving music lessons to boys & girls of all ages. Now more than 120 students and more than 130 musicians across the Southern Draa Valley region are engaged in following lessons, recording traditional music and learning new types of music. So very grateful are we that through the hard work of Halim & Thomas, the school has now been running for eight years with many more girls attending lessons! It was incredible to see all the effort that was made to bring so many musicians from different corners of the world, to come together during the 3rd edition of the Zamane Festival!
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