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Celebrating Diversity and Abundance
لنحتفل بالخيرات و الوفرة Harvest festivals celebrate abundance and liberty in the broadest sense.

Harvest Festival Marrakech draws on the tradition, present in many parts of the world, of holding an annual celebration around the time of the main harvest, which varies from place to place. Beyond the historical bounty of food and seasonal break from agricultural work, they have evolved to embrace a sense of community and a recognition of diversity. Harvest Festival emphasises the “local”: agroecology, biodiversity, culture and gastronomy performed and produced in the Marrakech-Safi region and beyond. As a collective endeavour, its success depends on a coordinated but autonomous effort of many community members and partners.

27/10/2026

Joining us across each day of this 11th edition is the TEND (ER) (ING) (ERNESS) — a curated, moving library&archive initiated by arvae (Kenza Benabderrazik and tara lasrado) and housed at the SAE Greenhouse Art-Lab since 2023.

arvae's offering is an invitation to think about what it means to tend: to care for, attend to, be attuned to, stay with and make space for things as they unfold. moving between tender, tending and tenderness and centering decolonial and feminist perspectives on agroecology, the library&archive becomes a space for holding and being held. it will move with the festival programme on the Bookaroussa borrowed from LE 18, the Bookaroussa is a small free mobile library for children initiated by Meriem Benmhamed. During this edition its legacy is continued and transformed, its making becomes part of the practice of tending and carrying something forward. at times, the library becomes a place for collective rest, reading and conversation; at others, it accompanies walks between spaces, with texts read aloud along the way.

tend - to cultivate the conditions for life to grow and continue.
tender - to be attentive to what is living, fragile and becoming.
tending - the continuous work of nurturing (relationships between) land, people and more-than-human life
tenderness - a form of resistance centering care and reciprocity
moving library schedule:

29.10 | 5pm departs Noujoum Jemaa El Fna 5pm (join for collective walk an reading)
29.10 | 6pm arrives LE 18, collective rest and reading
30.10 | 3pm to 5pm, The Garage, collective rest and reading, address shared on RSVP
31.10 | 12.30pm departs LE 18 (join for collective walk an reading)
1.11 | 4pm to 6pm Dar Bellarj, collective rest and reading

19/10/2026

𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟐𝟗 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 | 𝟕:𝟑𝟎–𝟗 𝐏𝐌
𝘔𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘏𝘪𝘣𝘢 𝘉𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘰𝘶: 𝘈 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴

📍 𝐋𝐄 𝟏𝟖, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐜𝐡

Join us for Mirage, an immersive sonic and visual sharing of a work in progress by artist Hiba Baddou.

Drawing upon the spiritual, scientific and political parallels between women and water, Mirage by Hiba Baddou addresses the gendered realities of environmental collapse through the subject of water scarcity.

Produced during Hiba’s 2026 residency with Harvest Festival Marrakech مهرجان الحصاد فمراكش , the film imagines women in an arid landscape as the seekers and guardians of this sacred resource, offering a glimpse into life beyond collapse and the possibilities held within matriarchal and ancestral practices of care.
With research grounded in abandoned water towers, dried-up rivers and the quiet rituals of women who attend to water, Hiba’s speculative approach builds worlds that bring underseen truths into view.

While the film was developed during Hiba's residency, Mirage forms part of a wider body of work spanning film, photography, sculpture, sound and langauge. Hiba imagines water futures through an eco-feminist lens whilst challenging conventional understandings of time, history, knowledge and sovereignty.

Hosted by our long-term partners LE 18, this immersive sonic and visual sharing brings together sound and moving image, followed by a conversation between Hiba Baddou and Harvest Festival Marrakech مهرجان الحصاد فمراكش curator Lorén Elhili. The project will continue to be supported by Harvest Festival throughout 2027 as it evolves towards a moving exhibition.

Language: The discussion will be held in English. Whispered translation into Darija can be arranged by the Harvest team with prior notice.

16/10/2026

𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟐𝟖 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 | 𝟕–𝟏𝟎 𝐏𝐌
𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘢 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘺 (@𝘴𝘶𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦)

𝟏𝟏𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐔𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐦𝐢 𝐛𝐲 𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐭
📍 𝐔𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐦𝐢 𝐛𝐲 𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐭, 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐢 𝐆𝐡𝐧𝐞𝐦, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐜𝐡

Everyone is invited to join us for the opening of the 11th edition of Harvest Festival Marrakech مهرجان الحصاد فمراكش which takes place at the home of our long-term partners, Um Mami by Melting Pot.

Joining us virtually, Salma Serry, founder of Sufra Archive, will lead us through a performative lecture that approaches the food archive from a point before the recipe: beginning instead with land, seed, water, labour, mills, markets, and the systems that determine what can be grown, circulated, and eaten.

Turning to the colonial agricultural archive of North Africa, the lecture explores how these records document extraction, control, dispossession, infrastructure, and the reshaping of everyday food life. Through archival material, film, and sound, Salma considers how these archives can be critically engaged with and reclaimed: how they reveal the violence they helped normalise, how their narratives can be inverted, and how histories that were never centred might be recovered from within them.
The work draws in part on Salma’s doctoral research on agriculture in Egypt, alongside Sufra Archive’s ongoing exploration of the printed life of food and agriculture across SWANA.

Following the lecture-performance, we’ll gather over a celebratory canapé spread prepared by Um Mami, with time to continue the conversation and reflect together on the questions raised.

Language: The discussion will be in English. Whispered translation into Darija can be arranged by the Harvest team with prior notice.

RSVP through the 🔗 in our bio.

16/10/2026

𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟐𝟖 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 | 𝟕–𝟏𝟎 𝐏𝐌
𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘢 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘺 (@𝘴𝘶𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦)
𝟏𝟏𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐔𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐦𝐢 𝐛𝐲 𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐭
📍 𝐔𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐦𝐢 𝐛𝐲 𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐭, 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐢 𝐆𝐡𝐧𝐞𝐦, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐜𝐡

The opening of the 11th edition of Harvest Festival Marrakech مهرجان الحصاد فمراكش takes place at the home of our long-term partners, Um Mami by Melting Pot, in Sidi Ghnem.

Joining us virtually, Salma Serry, founder of Sufra Archive, will lead us through a performative lecture that approaches the food archive from a point before the recipe: beginning instead with land, seed, water, labour, mills, markets, and the systems that determine what can be grown, circulated, and eaten.

Turning to the colonial agricultural archive of North Africa, the lecture explores how these records document extraction, control, dispossession, infrastructure, and the reshaping of everyday food life. Through archival material, film, and sound, Salma considers how these archives can be critically engaged with and reclaimed: how they reveal the violence they helped normalise, how their narratives can be inverted, and how histories that were never centred might be recovered from within them.
The work draws in part on Salma’s doctoral research on agriculture in Egypt, alongside Sufra Archive’s ongoing exploration of the printed life of food and agriculture across SWANA.

Following the lecture-performance, we’ll gather over a celebratory canape spread prepared by Um Mami, with time to continue the conversation and reflect together on the questions raised by Selma.

🔗 to register your interest in our bio!

Language: The discussion will be in English. Whispered translation into Darija can be arranged by the Harvest team with prior notice.

Image credits: 1, 2 & 3 courtesy of Salma Serry. Images 4 & 5 courtesy of Um Mami by Melting Pot, Morocco..

03/10/2026

☾⋆｡𖦹 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟭𝟭𝘁𝗵 𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗰𝗵 مهرجان الحصاد فمراكش 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 °✩𖤓

Titled and framed around 𝐑𝐢’𝐚̄𝐲𝐚 — the Arabic word most often translated simply as “care” — which carries within it the root ر-ع-ي, from which we also find rā’ī الرّاعي, the shepherd. 🐑

We approach care as inseparable from the act of tending: to a flock, to land, to one another. 🌱

In this 11th edition, we seek to reclaim and recast the word ‘care’, which has become an increasingly emptied term within popular discourse.

We begin by situating it within our own cultural context; by underlining its specificity in maintaining our cultural practices; and by celebrating and thinking alongside artists, artisans, thinkers, dreamers and builders, labourers, storytellers and the rural stewards who sustain and continually reinvent our culture. 🤍

This framing is not a new endeavour, but part of an ongoing inquiry within our cultural programming and our field work through the High Atlas Cultural Landscapes programme 🗻; to make visible, remember and valorise acts, forms of knowledge and communities we often lose sight of, swept up as we are in colonial logics of temporality and the neoliberalisation of our daily rhythms of life.

2026 has been a year of rethinking, re-rooting and relanding for us. 🪾

Hence, this edition, being the only one we organise this year, also comes after a year of re-examining our own pace and rhythm of work. (More will be shared on this later this year.)

𝐑𝐢’𝐚̄𝐲𝐚 has thus also become a framework for us to think about how we organise ourselves, how to be in relationship to the multiple ecologies we work within and alongside, and how we might best respond to these strange times. 🌍

Full programme details shared next week. 📣

This edition’s beautiful visual identity is developed by the amazing فاطمة الزهراء 🖌️.

This edition of Harvest is partly funded by Halaqat Project , a project funded by the European Union and implemented by the Goethe-Institut .

The festival continues to be funded and tended to by Global Diversity Foundation 🏠

29/07/2026

Looking back at Tiwizi Table, hosted and designed by Um Mami by Melting Pot as part of Tiwizi Week 2026.

On a surprisingly cool late June evening in Marrakech, we came together for a summer evening of collective dining on Um Mami's Sidi Ghanem rooftop.

In the spirit of the Amazigh practice of Tiwizi - collective work towards a shared goal or mission - Um Mami by Melting Pot designed an event and menu comprised of the different dishes created by farmersmarrakech and Mimti for Tiwizi week as well as traditional recipes from participating cooperatives Coopérative Imin Taddrte and Taitmatine, alongside Um Mami by Melting Pot own designed dishes including crudités working in Gary Martin veggies.

The evening was a nourishing reflection on the collective role the culinary world plays in supporting rural producers and heritage and opening up our minds to how we can work with these in our contemporary cuisine.

We are really grateful to everyone who made this possible, and who joined us to taste the care, attention and creativity layered onto everyone's offerings.

Thank you deeney_aquila for these perfect captures of the night!

20/07/2026

Last but never least — Tiwizi week's first edition is officially wrapped, but we couldn't let our collaborators go unsung, especially Mimti.

Mimti has long been one of the key players shaping Morocco's sustainable, conscious food scene, and we see a long future of collaborations and co-thinking with them around changing our food systems.

27/02/2026

Visions of Spring in our High Atlas landscapes

💮🌸February 24 marked the end of the winter season according to the Moroccan agricultural calendar.🌸💮

Like the other seasons, winter is composed of seven M’nazel (plural of Menzla), each lasting 13 days with the exception of one summer Menzla, L’Jebha, which lasts 14 days.

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According to this calendar, winter begins on November 26th with a menzla called Sa‘ad Ech’choula. Farmers say about this period:
"إذا جاء المطر في الشولة وجد المطاير للعولة",
meaning “If it rains during Ech’choula, make sure you have enough storage space for the harvest.”

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Winter ends with Sa‘ad El Khbiya on February 24th. Farmers describe it as follows:
"في الخبية تخرج كل من هي مخبية وتفرح كل من هي مربية",
meaning “During Sa‘ad El Khbiya, all animals that have given birth rejoice, and all animals and insects that hibernate come out,” as the cold nights are officially behind us.

February 25th saw the beginning of the spring season with its first two M’nazel: Far‘a Lamqadem and Far‘a Lamakher. This is when farmers roll up their sleeves and return to the fields: clearing weeds, caring for flowering trees, and replacing crops damaged by frost (such as fava beans and peas).
That’s why farmers say of these two M’nazel:
"إذا طلع فرع المقدم، فاخدم ولا تندم",
meaning “When Far‘a Lamqadem arrives, work hard, or you’ll regret it later.”

Words generously put together by our colleague and High Atlas Cultural Landscapes Field agromonist

Selection of images by and

24/12/2025

A vision of a wintery High Atlas - Tachaoukcht village underneath a bed of snow.

Shared with by one of our fellow community members.

16/12/2025

𝕋ℍℝ𝕆𝕎𝔹𝔸ℂ𝕂 𝕆ℕ 𝔼ℂℍ𝕆𝕃𝕆𝔾𝕀𝔼𝕊 | 𝔼𝕍𝔼ℝ𝕐𝕋ℍ𝕀ℕ𝔾 𝕋ℍ𝔸𝕋 𝕀𝕊

→ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐃𝐚 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝟐𝟏 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫! 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫! ←

Lastly 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈𝐒, a film and photo exhibition emerging from Shourideh Molavi’s personal relationships, friendships and comradeships.

If 𝐍𝐨 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 neatly documents and unpacks Israeli ecocidal strategies in “the strip” over decades, 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈𝐒 offers a powerful testimony of the ongoing perdurance of life, culture, teachings, and steadfastness within Palestinian society even in the peak of the last two years genocidal campaigns. ‘Everything that is’ through a cinematic and poetic journey gives voice to the work of puppet maker Mahdi Kariri whilst the photo series Camps on Campus documents the enduring making and remaking of the Islamic University of Gaza as a forum for communal life.

Install shots by

Special thank yous to the and especially for all of his technical expertise in supporting and leading on this installation and all others in our Echologies Programme.

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