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Carthage international festival
Specificity
: Polycultural
Session : 37th. Session (july 12th
/ august 23rd 2001)
Periodicity : Annual
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The idea of promoting a festival in carthage
was formed at the beginning of the 60's, exactly in
1963. it was then that the culture department organized
within the site of the antonin baths cultural shows
which were limited, then to jazz and theatre shows.
Very rapidly antonin baths proved to be suitable to
such cultural events which have undergone quite a boom
throughout the years owing to their positive impact
and their valuable content. Henceforth, by the end of
the 60's the transfer of the manifestations to carthage
roman theatre was decided, with appropriate conversions
to the space.
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This was the real beginning of what we call
carthage international festival, which in addition to theatre
and music includes different other shows : ballets, cinema,
music...
Through its vocation and the course it has chosen thefestival
was designed to be universal. However, it aspires to attract
to its stage first of all the arabo-african mediterranean cultures.
As such, carthage spectators could enjoy najet essaghira, faiza
ahmed, warda aljazairia; the most famous world ballets like
the Bolchai, Pekin opera ballet; all who made the history of
jazz : Ella fitzgerald, lois armstrong, ray charles; the tops
of international music hall : Amalia rodziguez, james brown,
Myrian maleba, alpha blondy, Patricia kass; Poetry, song and
music stars : joan baez, leo ferre, Idir, Mikis theodorakis,
manitas del piata, ravi chanka, etc.
Programme : 24 shows (music, jazz,
dancing, theatre ...)
Movie projection (21 unreleased films, first screening programmed
in tunisia )
Place : the ancient carthage theatre
(8000 seats)
Organizers : culture department
Contact : National cultural committee
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