Marrakech International Storytelling Festival

Series overview

This festival reconnects Marrakech’s living hlayqi and hikayat traditions with storytellers invited from Morocco and abroad. Performances may move between Jemaa el-Fna, riads, cafés and cultural rooms, so it should be planned as a distributed oral-arts program rather than one ticketed stage. Language, venue capacity and admission can change session by session; the edition program must therefore drive every schedule, accessibility, transport and ticket field.

Identity and recurrence

• Series status: active recurring series

• John Row is identified as artistic director in the reviewed chronology.

• organizerpartner: The World Storytelling Cafe maintains an event-specific festival page and documents the Marrakech series.

• archivedrecordannouncement: The 2025 edition staged a record-length storytelling session and supplied a fresh, named occurrence.