HARDZAZAT HARDCORE FEST 

Ouarzazzat is one of the most touristic cities in Morocco, also known world widely for its cinematographic culture. While this culture is based on the professional cinema studios and foreigner movies investment (Hollywood as an example), the local population doesn’t really participate in this culture evolution, specially the youth.

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The Hardzzazat group formed by Ouarzazat college students and local youths, took the challenge of creating an alternative DIY (Do it yourself) project. This is how every year people gather in Ouarazzat in order to exchange cultural experience during “The Hardzazat Hardcore Fest”. The proposed activities are music of bands coming from around the world sharing the same underground and independent spirit, debate spaces where the Hardzazat attendance can talk about different issues (Capitalism, Gender, Autonomy…), documentaries projection, followed by debates with their directors, graffiti murals…”

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The festival is also a “communist holidays”, aiming to emancipate all the attendance, specially as it’s gathering the Moroccan libertarian minorities. The event is autonomous and self-managed, based on a strong relation with the local habitants. The main idea is to create a safe space from the dominant culture, therefor there’s no tolerance for violence, sexism, homophobia or any form of discrimination and where all the participant get to be treated equally.It’s also free and open to everyone as long as they respect the Hardzazat Hardcore Fest values.

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The festival founds are none commercial and eco-friendly, that’s why it refuses to get sponsored by big companies. Hardzazat is against publicity and commercial media promotion.