Aita Festival

The Moroccan Ministry of Culture, in cooperation with the prefecture of the Safi province, the regional council of Doukkala-Abda, the municipal councils, and the urban group of the city of Safi, organizes the Aita Festival. Groups and groups of Aita art from the various regions of the Kingdom in which this art originated are participating in this festival: Safi – Casablanca – El Jadida – Beni Mellal – Khouribga – Marrakesh – Kalaat Sraghna – Kenitra – Khenifra, and Taounate. The participating teams of elders and youth are chosen according to the well-known patterns in this art.

Al-Aytah Al-Hasbawiyyah
Al-Aytah Zaaria
Al-Ayta Al-Houzia
Al-Aytah Jabalia
Al-Ayta Al-Gharbia
Al-Aytah Almarsawia
Al-Aytah Almalalia
Cultural events, through organizing this festival, aim to take care of it, document it, preserve it, and protect it, and encourage teams that are interested in this art, especially the groups of sheikhs, by motivating them to give and continue while recognizing the services of sheikhs and symbols of this art, honoring them, taking their hand, and urging them to train young people and teach them the principles and methods of this art. Al-Badi’, and the work of introducing this art and spreading it among circles and regions that still do not know much about it.

its patrons:
Fatna bint Al-Hussein
Welad Benakida
Haja Hamonia
Haja Hamdawia
Khadija Al-Baydawia
Abdullah Al-Baydawi
Bouchaib Al-Baydawi
Hajib
Bouchaib Jdidi
Oulad El Bouzawi
Abdelaziz Al-Stati