A Pact with Waters - Commoning with Sejoumi
by Natural Contract Lab : Maria Lucia Cruz Correia, Margarida Mendes, Marine Calmet
Wednesday, 04 october - 10:00 AM
Forêt Ibn Sina
Thursday, 05 october - 10:00 AM
Oliveraie de Séjoumi
Friday, 06 october - 4:30 PM
L'Observatoire de Séjoumi
Natural Contract Lab : Maria Lucia Cruz Correia, Margarida Mendes, Marine Calmet
Séjoumi Guardians : Radhia Louhichi (RET President), Imen Labidi (RET Project Manager), Nabila Khlifi (Teacher), Nabil Aissaoui (Artistic Podium President), Claudia Feltrup-Azafzaf ( Director at AAO), Hichem Azafzaf (Scientific Programme Coordinator), Awatef Mabrouk (Gender and Climate Change Sociologist), Amira Chokri (Psychologist), Adel Azouni (Geologist), The Women of Hay Hlel, Amel Chaibi (ceramist), Mohamed Samer Ben Amar, Riadh Mastouri (Ibn Sina guardian), Mohamed Ben Khedhiri (Ibn Sina guardian), Dorsaf Yakoubi, Sarra Bachtouli (expert in hydrology), Maher Ben Abdallah (architect and urban planner), Souhir Amamou (landscape expert), Baligh Hamdi (farmer)
Designer / Site manager on scenography : Aziz Romdhani
Architect, designer and scenography consultant : Tom Egoumenides
Scenography participants : Houssem Kendil, Mohamed Slim Jelassi, Noa Jacquin, Jeanne Berge
Chorus : Collectif Ankhab
Project coordinator : Cyrine Ghrissi
Project Assistant : Khouloud Hamrouni
Special thanks: All those involved in the project: experts, activists, artists, architects, journalists, students, Séjoumi high school, Cité El Fatah primary school, Séjoumi communities, etc.
L'Art Rue
As part of the BePart project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
With the support of the Gulbenkian Foundation.
In collaboration with Réseau Enfants de la Terre, Les Amis des Oiseaux, the Arab Institute for Human Rights, the Commissariat Régional pour le Développement Agricole, the women potters of Hay Hlel, Podium Artistique and the Al Moussanada Association.
Special thanks: All those involved in the project: experts, activists, artists, architects, journalists, students, Séjoumi high school, Cité El Fatah primary school, Séjoumi communities, etc.
Can we reactivate people’s engaged empathy about the Sebkhet Sejoumi while thinking together about water governance? How may we reconnect to this wetland to foster alliances, desires for commitment, and mobilization, while taking care of the living?
After the first stage of research consisting of mapping and raising awareness for environmental rights, together with activists and local communities, this work engaged in more relational and exploratory formats: landscape observation walks, the creation of a Lake guardians agora, and a series of conversation circles attending to rituals of reciprocal care... Taking the form a nomadic performance, A Pact with Waters - Commoning with Sejoumi is above all a gathering centered around and a common question: how to continue living in a damaged world.
The project has three phases:
▪ Sejoumi Guardians Agora
An encounter between citizens and Sejoumi lake guardians to introduce the rights of nature, weave alliances and Sebkha restoration strategies.
Wednesday 4 October from 10am to 1pm at the Ibn Sina Forest
> open to the public
▪ An alliance with trees
A sensorial and juridical gathering between olive trees along the banks of Sebkha Sejoumi
Thursday 5 October from 10am to 12pm at the Séjoumi olive grove
> reserved for communities linked to Sebkhet Sejoumi
▪ A Shelter, an Offering
Building a communal observatory and sanctuary for birds and lake contemplation through chanting
Friday 6 October from 4:30pm to 6:30pm at the Séjoumi Observatory
> reserved for communities linked to Sebkhet Sejoumi
>> Download the Manifesto "For a wetland at risk: Sebkhet Séjoumi" in French or Arabic.
Practical information
Sejoumi Guardians Agora
October 4 from 10am to 1pm at Forêt Ibn Sina - Sebkhet Séjoumi / Flamingo Forest (map)
Free bus at 9am in front of the ONTT (map) - number of places limited
Free on-site parking (map)
Open to all public
Language : Simultaneous interpreting in French, English and Arabic
Duration
from 120 to 180 mins.
Price information
Free