☾⋆｡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 Tima El Khammas.

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

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