People’s Museum: Presentation and Book Launch by Moroccan Artist & Activist Historian Mohamed Fariji
Nadwat Series
October 12, 2023
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Join us for a book launch and presentation by Moroccan Artist and Activist Historian, Mohamed Fariji.
Mohamed Fariji is the co-founder of L'Atelier de L'Observatoire, an arts organization that develops community-based projects designed to preserve the artifacts and memories of ordinary people. His work documents--and experiments with--an alternative history, offering a counter-narrative to official accounts. He collaborates with artists, researchers, activists and citizens to recover and record, via a range of creative means, things, spaces and memories that are undervalued and that might otherwise be lost.
It is his vision to open a People's Museum of Casablanca which will gather all these artistic products under one roof in order to preserve and display a parallel history in the way its citizens desire to remember it.
Hybrid Event
Fro Zoom link, RSVP: arabamcc@uic.edu
Event is co-sponsored by the Museum and Exhibition Studies and the Casablanca Committee of Chicago Sister Cities International.
Space is wheelchair accessible. For questions and accessibility, email us at arabamcc@uic.edu
Date posted
Oct 3, 2023
Date updated
Oct 3, 2023