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| status       = NIFERTIK! 
| maintainer   = Anže Zorman
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{{Infobox
| name               = Maribum Afriqui Festival
| local name         = Festival Maribum Afriqui
| street             = Pobreška cesta 20 
| logo               = 
| town               = SI-2000 Maribor
| telephone          = 386 (0) 2 250 1316, 386 (0) 31 757 393
| fax                = 386 (0) 2 250 1317
| map                = 
| email              = 
| website            = https://maribumafriqui.com/maribum_afriqui_festival.html
| founded by         = Plesna izba - Maribor Dance Room
| organised by       = Plesna izba - Maribor Dance Room
| organised by 2     = 
| organised by 3     =
| managed by         = 
| managed by 2       = 
| frequency          = annual
| dates and duration = 
| duration weeks     = 35,36,37,38 (2012) 
| festival dates     = 20.11.2013-23.11.2013, 4.7.2015 - 5.7.2015, 16.9.2016 - 17.9.2016, 2.9.2017 - 3.9.2017, 17.11.2017 - 18.11.2017, 14.7.2018, 7.9.2018, 24.8.2019 - 25.8.2019, 7.12.2019, 18.12.2019, 22.8.2020, 3.7.2021
|contacts            =
{{Contact
|name       = Tina Sovič
|role       = Head of festival
|telephone  = 386 (0) 51 336 145
|email      = tinasovica@gmail.com
}}
}}


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The [[Maribum Afriqui Festival]] is a small, Maribor-based festival that focuses on creative exchanges between Slovene and African (especially Malian) musicians and artists, often performing together. It is organised by [[Plesna izba - Maribor Dance Room|Plesna izba Maribor]] and co-produced by the Malian NGO Carrefour des arts.

Formally established in [[Established::2012]], Maribum Afriqui is a continuation of the short-lived Maribum Festival, which in itself was an expansion of a drumming festival that was set up back in 2004.
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==Programme==

Besides music concerts, the festival also features dance, drumming and painting classes and workshops, theatre shows, and more. Some of the participating artists up till now have been Baba Sissoko, Yero Dicko, Joel Diarra, Lassine Kone, Barou dit Parou Diassana, Tenemakan Keita, Theatre Village Hon (all of them from Mali), [[Mateja Gorjup]], and the band [[Djembabe]].

The festival is also augmented by a "house band", called [[Maribum Afriqui]]. It came to be as a result of an artist residency undertaken in 2015 in Bamako, Mali, by drummer [[Tina Sovuč]], dancer [[Mojca Kasjak]] and guitarist [[Igor Bezget]]. The collective has a changing line-up, yet also features Yero Dicko, Joel Diarra, Lassine Kone, [[Tamara Povh]], and others. The band &ndash; about which a documentary was also shot and edited by Barou dit Parou Diassana &ndash; played a number of gigs in Slovenia as well as Mali, where they reunited for a show in 2016.

==See also==

* [[Plesna izba - Maribor Dance Room]]
* [[Vetrinjski dvor]]
* [[Art club & cafe Wetrinsky]]

==External links==

* [https://maribumafriqui.com/maribum_afriqui_festival.html website]
* [https://www.facebook.com/carrefourdesarts.ml/ Carrefour des arts Mali Facebook page]

[[Category:Festivals]]
[[Category:Music festivals]]
[[Category:Music]]

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