Maribum Afriqui Festival

Contact

Festival Maribum Afriqui

Pobreška cesta 20, SI-2000 Maribor

Phone386 (0) 2 250 1316, 386 (0) 31 757 393

Founded byPlesna izba - Maribor Dance Room

Organised byPlesna izba - Maribor Dance Room

Frequencyannual

Festival dates3.7.2021

The Maribum Afriqui Festival is a small, Maribor-based festival that focuses on creative exchanges between Slovene and African (especially Malian) musicians and artists, often performing together. It is organised by Plesna izba Maribor and co-produced by the Malian NGO Carrefour des arts.

Formally established in 2012, Maribum Afriqui is a continuation of the short-lived Maribum Festival, which in itself was an expansion of a drumming festival that was set up back in 2004.

Programme

Besides music concerts, the festival also features dance, drumming and painting classes and workshops, theatre shows, and more. Some of the participating artists up till now have been Baba Sissoko, Yero Dicko, Joel Diarra, Lassine Kone, Barou dit Parou Diassana, Tenemakan Keita, Theatre Village Hon (all of them from Mali), Mateja Gorjup, and the band Djembabe.

The festival is also augmented by a "house band", called Maribum Afriqui. It came to be as a result of an artist residency undertaken in 2015 in Bamako, Mali, by drummer Tina Sovuč, dancer Mojca Kasjak and guitarist Igor Bezget. The collective has a changing line-up, yet also features Yero Dicko, Joel Diarra, Lassine Kone, Tamara Povh, and others. The band – about which a documentary was also shot and edited by Barou dit Parou Diassana – played a number of gigs in Slovenia as well as Mali, where they reunited for a show in 2016.

See also

• Plesna izba - Maribor Dance Room
• Vetrinjski dvor
• Art club & cafe Wetrinsky

External links

• Plesna izba Maribor website
• Carrefour des arts Mali Facebook page