This meeting is initiated by The Kolatier to allow professionals from both sides of the continent to whip up the artistic and cultural relations possible. Breaking the borders to promote the exchange and circulation of the continent’s cultural products. Directors of festivals, schools and arts training centers have helped to demystify the bottlenecks and possible clichés, obstacles to good collaboration between Africans. In the Christian Lattier room of the Palais de la Culture on Wednesday, March 14, the experiences are shared. Issues addressed include understanding, functioning, how to attend festivals, access to training centers and schools, etc., among other information.
From the communication of Pr. Lassaad Jamoussi of Tunisia
Pr. Lassaad Jamoussi of Tunisia is the director of the Higher School of Audiovisual and Cinema at the University of Carthage (ESAC). Former director of Carthage Theater Days (JTC), and now director of the SFAX International Festival, he is invited as a member of the MASA International Artistic Committee to bring Maghrebian salt to the Market sauce. He shares his experiences at the cultural meeting North Africa – Africa in the South as a trade – savvy professional. Cultural actors, whether professional or academic, must get rid of the absolute preconditions and take an interest in the opportunities offered by North Africa. He gives the example of the ESAC he runs in Tunisia which is committed to offering up to 30% scholarship to promote the admission of sub-Saharan students. His school is open to students of all nationalities.
Then director of the JTC 2014-2016, he invited about fifteen creations from the south and a kyrielle of professional theater operators who hosted the international symposium and the entire edition. This opening comes from his promise at the Benin International Theater Festival, he added. An effort is made to further open the northern gates. Another proof, he is at MASA to also identify shows for festivals in Tunisia and also in Egypt, including the Experimental Theater Festival of Cairo, whose director Sameh Mehran, prevented, has mandated.
In terms of openness, he surveys the logic of the father-founder of the Carthage Film Festival (JCC), the late Tahar Chéria, who, respecting the appellation of land of Ifriqiya (former Tunisia), strongly favored intercultural exchanges between the two parts of the continent.
Pr. Lassaad Jamoussi wants to continue this work of rapprochement of the African people revived by the MASA 2018. He takes the opportunity to invite creators to review the cultural policies of our states, which increasingly lack the means to support for the creation and promotion of works. Without false modesty, he recommends to the audience a federation of the energies of the African civil society so that the African Confederation of artists.
Interview conducted by ESCKIL AGBO