The Spanish Embassy in Morocco and the Cervantes Institute offered their cultural program for 2025 Thursday in Rabat, highlighting a 12 months of continued cultural cooperation between the 2 nations.
Spain’s Ambassador to Morocco, Enrique Ojeda Villa, described the cultural partnership as a part of the broader strategic relations between Spain and Morocco. He emphasised that the collaboration falls inside the framework of South-South relations, in addition to between Africa and Europe, fostering a cultural dialogue primarily based on shared values of peace.
The program contains initiatives to boost cooperation with native establishments and help cultural occasions in literature, music, cinema, video artwork, and dialogue. The Cervantes Institute plans to accomplice with a number of main festivals, together with the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music, the Casablanca Video Art Festival, the International Shared Memory Festival in Nador, the Marrakech International Contemporary Dance Festival, and others throughout Morocco.
The institute additionally goals to collaborate with the Moroccan Ministry of Culture and its regional branches, the National Council of the Architects’ Union, and the High Council of the Moroccan Diaspora.
This 12 months, this system will give attention to selling studying by occasions just like the SIEL International Book Fair and inspiring translation between Spanish and Arabic, whereas celebrating linguistic and cultural variety. Additionally, the institute will improve Spanish-Moroccan dialogue by initiatives centered on shared historical past, similar to Andalusia, flamenco, and Sephardic heritage.
Creative girls, together with scientists and entrepreneurs, will likely be prominently featured in this system, with conferences and workshops organized beneath the “Spanish, a language with values” initiative. Environmental challenges, together with local weather change and biodiversity loss, can even be built-in into this system, with a give attention to sustainability by exhibitions and workshops.
