Culture, Heritage and Living Arts at the heart of our collective identity (André Azoulay)
Monday, December 4, 2023 at 6:37 p.m. Rabat – “Culture, Heritage and Living Arts reflect the beating heart of our collective identity” declared, Monday at Rabat, André Azoulay, Advisor to His Majesty the King.
“An inexhaustible reservoir of new ideas to reinvent our societies, the Moroccan planet-culture is today driven by a dynamic rich in promise and which augurs great tomorrows for our cultural and artistic scene,” underlined Mr. Azoulay who had chosen to address the theme of “Arts and Culture invited to the banquet of thought and modernity” for his inaugural speech of the ISADAC academic year.
“Our cultural heritage in its uniqueness and in the singularity of its DNA nourished by the depth of all our diversities has enabled us, with the leadership of HM King Mohammed VI, to give communities their best chances. agile, innovative and inclusive,” Mr. Azoulay further recalled, highlighting “the historic and decisive contribution of this heritage in motion” to Morocco’s influence within the Community of Nations.
During a broad retrospective revisiting the pioneering choices made by Essaouira for more than 30 years “to put heritage, history and culture at the heart of its rebirth and its refoundation”, the Advisor to HM the King concluded by forcefully emphasizing and conviction that “Culture is a global public good which connects us to each other and which enhances us all when we care to share it with as many people as possible without ever ceding anything of its irrefragability and its historical, spiritual, philosophical and moral legacy”.
For her part, the director of ISADAC, Latifa Ahrar, highlighted the importance of this meeting hosted by Mr. Azoulay, an eminent political personality, a man committed in Morocco and abroad in favor of the promotion of the dialogue of civilizations and religions and for the rebirth of Mogador, a man of dialogue and listening and an activist with civil society for interculturality.
ISADAC has given a lot to the Moroccan cultural scene, contributing to the training of qualified executives in the field of interpretation, scenography and cultural animation, she said.
