12. – 19.03.2023
Khamlia - Merzouga - Erg Chebbi - Morocco
Everything is ready for you.
You're welcome. Merhaba.
MBarak Elboukhari & Zaida Karnowski
Info
This goes out to everyone who loves music, makes music and wants to celebrate a wonderful festival for healing the earth with us.
MBarak is a Gnaoua musician and I am an earth guardian.
We serve with these qualities. We love the earth, which for us is a living being, a soul, a spirit.
Together with you and many people we want to give our heart and our vision to the nature and the whole universe at this very special place and time.
It is the greatest wish and vision of our life to bring together the music of the Gnaoua and the music of our friends, so that we all we can sing together in one voice, dance with our arms reaching to the sky and feel our hearts beat as one.
This is our contribution to delight the heart of Pachamama, our wonderful planet.
We have prepared the Karawanserail for you.
We have been waiting for you since the beginning of our vision: to sing and dance with you under the great firmament, under thousands of stars, around a huge fire. Until we hear the heartbeat of Pachamama and answer her with our drums.
Do you feel the breath of the sun, the sand under your feet, can you smell the desert and feel the wind on your skin? Do you hear the call ?
You are welcome, welcome. Merhaba.
MBarak Elboukhari & Zaida Karnowski
Travel details
Flights go to Errachidia via Casablanca
Arrival on March 12, 2023
Departure on March 19, 2023
For these two days we offer transfer from and to the airport.
You can find direct flights via Munich to Casablanca at Royal Air Maroc.
Due to the current situation we suggest you to book your flights with travel cancellation insurance.
Festival & Accommodation prices
Safety
If you are concerned about your safety, please contact us.
We have information about the current situation.
More accommodation options
Hamad, the founder of the Gnaua group Bambara, has founded a Gnaua Village, which can be reached by foot from our place.
He also rents rooms. There is also the opportunity to study with him and learn more about the origin of this ancient african music.
Everything is possible, from simple to luxurious.
We are happy to make recommendations.
Here is a video straight from the Village:
PROGRAM
Sunday, 12.03.2023
Arrival at the airport in Errachidia around 0:00 am.
From there you will be picked up by shared cabs.
We will drive a good hour to our place in the caravanserail or in the Kasbah Le Berger, where the artists and some participants will be accommodated.
There will be a fine midnight soup and dates before bedtime.
Monday, 13.03.2023 (lucky day)
(no yoga with Monika Adela Camara because everyone goes to bed late).
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8.00 am to 10.00 am - Breakfast.
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10.30 am - We meet all who are staying here in the caravanserail and all from Kasbah Le Berger (for our artists and individual participants) at the place of the stage here in the caravanserail. Welcome. Organizational
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12.00 - MBarak will play Gnaua and Berber music with his friends and Monika Adele Camara will shake the tiredness of the journey out of our bodies with her Afro-Yoga dance.
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14.00 - Lunch
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4:00 PM - We will take a hike on foot to our dunes and enjoy the sunset. (Accompanied by Susanna Schinnerl, Alwin Steinle)
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18.00 - 19.00 hrs - *Free space
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19.00 - Dinner - Followed by camp friends at our fireplace. With each fire the ancestors of the place are honored. Accompanied by Gnaua music and whoever else would like to contribute musically at the campfire.
Tuesday, 14.03.2023 (1st day of the festival)
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7.00 am - Afroyoga with Monika Adela Camara
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8.00 am to 10.00 am - Breakfast
10.30 am - Official welcome of the artists and participants and introduction of the Elboukhari family and opening of the circle accompanied by Alwin Steinle (Handpan).
Afterwards MBarak and his musician friends will welcome you to the desert with the traditional Gnaua music (big performance). -
12.00 - Monika Adele Camara - children's round dance
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14.00 - 15.00 - Lunch
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15.00 - Sound journey with Susanna Schinnerl
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16.00 - Heike Rieck: We travel into silence: breath, voice, movement, presence
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16.30 - Tea ceremony, meeting of Gnaua music and our music. Here we will prepare a song for you together with Nika Hollmann. The music stage will be opened and you are all invited to participate with your voice and your instruments.
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18.00 o'clock - free space
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19.00 - Dinner
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20.30 - The sound mystic & pianist Mitsch Kohn creates an intuitive sound space out of silence, in which inner worlds reveal themselves as if by themselves. Piano melodies delicately touch the soul, heavenly singing opens the heart and archaic rhythms lead to our earthly roots.
MAGIC MOMENTS are spontaneous compositions, melodies and lyrics springing directly from the depth of the soul. The sounds and melodies are timeless. Open End. Bonfire
Wednesday, 15.03.2023 (2nd day of the festival)
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7.00 am - Afroyoga with Monika Adele Camara
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8.00 to 10.00 - Breakfast
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10.30 to 12.30 - Singing circle with Nika Hollmann - Monika Adele Camara - Children's round dance
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14.00 - Lunch
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16.00 - The drums speak: Together with our Gnaua musicians we will drum in the heartbeat of Mother Earth and sing together. (Those who come with campers and can please bring drums) for an intense session, or smaller musical instruments that fit in your carry-on luggage.
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19.00 - Dinner
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20.30 - Peter Andreas Stadel will take us into his world as a holistic sound alchemist and we will dance and dance and dance. open end. Campfire
Thursday 16.03.2023
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7.00 am - Afroyoga with Monika Adele Camara
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8.00 a.m. until 10.00 a.m. - Breakfast
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10.00 a.m. - We walk to our dunes and Alwin Steinle will enchant us with his handpan.
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12.00 p.m. - Picnic in our dunes
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13.00 - Meditation with Heike Rieck - Guitar sounds from and with Nika Hollmann - Monika Adele Camara - Children's round dance
A colorful afternoon in the warm sand -
17.00 h to 19.00 h - free space
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19.00 - Dinner
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20.30 hrs - Gnaua music
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21.00 - DJ Vish will take us on an ecstatic journey to ourselves. From one wave to the next we will float together to the sky. open end. Bonfire
Friday, 17.03.2023
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7.00 am - Afroyoga with Monika Adele Camara
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8.00 to 10.00 a.m. - Breakfast
11.00 - We will ride with the camels into the desert and will stay overnight in a camp.
This is our thank you for the artists and optional for participants to book for 100 euros. -
13.30 - Lunch
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14.30 to 17.00 hrs - free space or hike into the desert together with MBarak
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17.00 - Sunset and sound journey with Susanna Schinnerl in the middle of the desert
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19.00 h - dinner
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20.00 - Shadow theater with Annafabuli
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21.30 h - campfire, music and dance
open end
Alternative: If you don't ride into the desert with us, you will be taken care of in the caravanserail or in the Kasbah Le Berger. A shuttle to Merzouga or Rissani is available.
Saturday 18.03.2023
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7:00 am - Sunrise in the desert. Alwin Steinle, Susanna Schinnerl, Heike Rieck and Nika Holmann will accompany us.
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9.00 a.m. - Breakfast in the camp
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11.00 a.m. - Ride with the camels back to the caravanserail.
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14.00 h - Lunch
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16.00 - A colorful afternoon, distribution of gifts
Alternative: visit, coffee, shopping in Merzouga -
19.00 hrs - Dinner
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20.00 - Bonfire with Gnaua music - We close the circle.
open end
Sunday, 19.03.2023
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4.00 am, farewell and drive to the airport to Errachidia except for all those who stay longer with us in the caravanserail or in Morocco.
Artists
(in alphabetical order)
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AFROYOGA®
African dance in fusion with classical hatha yoga - an innovative method to integrate body and mind.
It combines the liberating, community-building effect of African rhythms with the consciousness-expanding, peace-building techniques of classic integral yoga according to S. Sivananda, inspirations from nature - and forms the core of integrated dance & yoga education according to M. A. Camara.
AFRIKUCO INSTITUTE
Your freelance partner for creative movement since 1990
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Academy for Integrated Dance & Yoga Education
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School for African dance, yoga, nature experience
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Forum for Africa Art Communicatio
Martin-Richter-Str. 13
90489 Nürnberg
0911/5819843
camara-artwork@gmx.de
www.afrikucoinstitut.org
HEIKE RIECK
Old knowledge - new ways
We connect with heaven and earth, carried by the breath deeper and deeper into our inner vastness and presence. And while we can perceive the sound of oneness in this way, we simply become what we are. In this Cosmic Earth Dance we let our bodies move freely and in this timeless space we feel the song of our soul rising from the depths. I Am. I Am. We Are. One.
NIKA HOLLMANN
One whose songs are like good friends who support us, make us thoughtful and tease out our joie de vivre.
Nika is a mother, songwriter, singer and singing group leader, GfG birth preparer and family companion. She not only has a great voice that carries you away. She is a powerful voice in times of change. One who says yes to living with everything that is.
MITSCH KOHN
Free your mind & voice & movement and explore your inner depth & beauty
The intuitive music of the sound mystic Mitsch Kohn develops in the moment of playing and opens the door to levels of being beyond our mind.
Guided by the perceptive intuitive piano playing, free-flowing melo-dies and shamanic voice and drums, in this "ecstatic inner dance" ceremony you will encounter yourself deeply ...
Immersed in sound and conscious breathing, you'll slowly start to allow yourself to be your full "I AM". You feel and express your TRUE impulses, despite all the fears & beliefs that may show up. You allow yourself and the others true and free encounter. You let your body speak to you in free movements and learn to let your voice sound naturally and freely. Your inner and outer freedom and the deep feeling of "being home in your body" will bring inner and outer abundance.
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getting aware of / letting go off controlling and destructive patterns
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release blockages in your body
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release self-sabotating mindsets
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free your voice expression
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re-connect to your essence
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embrace life (yourself) fully
SUSANNA SCHINNERL
Sound and Grace - healing sound meditation
As a channel for divine energy, Susanne Schinnerl plays Tibetan singing bowls and gongs in a very special way. The high vibration that arises in the room allows hearts to open, wounds to heal and souls to shine again.
"Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace." (Saint Francis)
Susanna Schinnerl
ANDREAS PETER STADEL
I am a holistic sound alchemist and ectasy dj with live didgeridoo and live shamanic voice for the body, mind, and soul!
I assist people to achieve a deeper level of consciousness and perception with strengthening the self-healing powers through vibrations!
Contact:
Homepage: klangstadel.com
Homebase: Goethestrasse 30,
68519 Viernheim, Germany, Earth
Fon: +49 06204 3058638
Mobil: +49 1717269709
ALWIN STEINLE
The handpan is the instrument with which Alwin lets his inner being resound.
His melodies have the potential to touch you in a healing way.
They can take you on a journey, be a portal to enter your sacred inner space. The expression of the soul through sound is for Alwin the audible work of the infinite. The sounds take you into the moment, let you feel the invisible, indescribable and unfathomable. Alwin is a metaphysical healer and combines his knowledge of spiritual healing in creating sound spaces in which his intention to manifest a world of peace and healing is the essence of his musical expression.
DJ VISH
Experienced music
for soulful dancers
His love for music, which leads into the depths of the soul, has always accompanied him over the past few decades. While traveling in Asia and South America as well as at festivals and ceremonies, he has experienced and collected powerful music and passes this on as DJ Vish.
His love for music, which leads into the depths of the soul, has always accompanied him over the past few decades. While traveling in Asia and South America as well as at festivals and ceremonies, he has experienced and collected powerful music and passes this on as DJ Vish.
DJ Vish's style is characterized by mystical sounds, ecstatic rhythms and frequencies that can open hearts. Through him and with him healing musical landscapes arise. Women and men are invited to physically experience the different levels of being in dance, to experience contact alone with themselves or with others in dance. It invites you to be alive and its psychedelic-spiritual-shamanic music opens the space into this presence of the moment. When the dancer is danced through his music, his passion is fulfilled. These waves that arise can be tantric, ecstatic and mystical. He is co-founder of Spiritwave Munich and the Wild @ Heart TanzReise.
MICHAELE SCHERENBERG
Listening to the language of the heart. She is a master at that.
As a magical storyteller, she will sit with us in the desert by the fire and exude her joy of life, regaling us with her deep stories, which she will accompany with singing bowls and her rock crystal instruments.
She is a passionate filmmaker, comes from television and knows her way around the big stages of the world. She has narrated at firesides in Mongolia, in the mountains of the Andes, on trail rides, festivals and retreats. This generosity, this vastness, the feeling of well-being are so immediate and that is why everyone at her side is a bit happier than usual.
Her beautiful white Moroccan tent has already traveled ahead. There and under the starry sky, she will reveal to you your own personal life fairy tale.
Contact and booking: