Fatima Hamdi - Algeria
At the coffee table, coffee is absent and the son of culture and art arrives in Algeria, where the voices rise to the sound of a poet chanting, and he gives his poem to the audience.
It draws the attention of the marrow. A large crowd of people form a ring of the city center, Bordj Bou Arreridj, east of Algiers, trying to leak among the flesh of the contestants to get the honor of the first row.
Standing in the middle of the ring writer Abdul Razzaq Bokbeh scattered scattered Kjo This cafe, which was thought with a group of members of the "Numidia", carrying pen Badha, which is famous for him, addressing the audience without screaming, although the parade in the street!
The idea of the media café came to mind when the cultural halls of activity began to be devoid of the public because of what it called the stereotype of activism and the lack of involvement of the recipient in the atmosphere of activity provided and not to invest in new media from the angle of marketing for cultural dates.
A five-month-old baby is not like newborns. He speaks, crosses, creates, gathers the scattered, born on his feet before his time, and several states drew attention to him as he is the son of the few months.
Algerian playwright Halim Zaddam says that the cultural sessions open to the public have broken the stereotype of the pioneers of culture and linked the theater to the elite. A large proportion of them do not belong to classical observers, but to young men, doctors, engineers, athletes, workers and unemployed.
In a creative chaos, everyone stands up, following the violin stick, chuckling the strings of the wooden box with the music of Mohammed Shamisa at the cafe of Camp City, where the Oran Theater (west of the country) took off in a street show.
Algerian novelist Fadila al-Farouq said in her statement to Al-Jazeera Net that the real terrorism is to surrender to the fear of breaking habits established in Algerian society because of a black era, "we have overcome it temporally and psychologically.
The Moroccan poet Mohamed Hayari says that culture is a special pleasure, like a drink of a cup of coffee, a day that takes you to all sides of the country on the platform of volunteerism, and when a person consumes culture carries it to the top of the mountain without falling.
"I have to look at you from here, from Morocco, to congratulate Algeria, to build a cultural bridge together, and to drink the coffins," he said, quoting the cultural café owner who likened it to the Palestinian literary salon Mai Ziada (1886-1641). Many ".
The cultural café's aim is to erase the idea that Algeria is a sad country, a stereotype that some people still imagine, despite the fact that the page of blood decapitation has been folded for more than two decades.
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The Cultural Cafe, which started from the city of Bordj Bou Arreridj towards the outskirts of Algeria and its Maghreb, does not comply with the voices of fear of confronting the artist on the street. He took off the isolation that was imposed on him three decades ago. He decided to storm the street without waiting for the public initiative. .
The initiative was chosen by the initiators of Al-Muqrani Castle, which dates back to the second half of the nineteenth century. It is an open space in the middle of the city. The meeting will be a multi-arts meal of poetry, music, composition, short film, theater and books.
The cultural cafe operators are keen to "activate the session spontaneously, ceremoniously and culturally and based on giving and giving with the attendees."
The cultural café is not only a theater, but a multi-tiered project, including prizes for excellence in various fields, including the Mohammed bin Qatif Award and the Mohammed Ould Cheikh Prize in the Desert Texts, the culture.
The cafe in the city of Tlemcen (600 km west of the capital) will launch the Ammar Belhassen Prize in the short story, while Boumerdes Café (50 km east of the capital) will announce the Malik Boukramouh Prize in the Amazigh script.
(500 km west of the capital) for the Bakhti Bin Odeh Prize in Philosophical writings, Tindouf Café (2000 km south of the capital), the Poetry Award and other initiatives.
The artists and intellectuals participating in the first cultural cafes of its kind in Algeria, one of the black pages in the history of isolating the public from art, turn to start a new dream with every cafe that opens.