The Good Life in Morocco

AiM International Biennale 3rd Edition: Opening Thursday 19th - Monday 23rd November 2009. Arts in Marrakech. This festival was set up by Vanessa Branson and is organised through her team with Riad El Fenn in Marrakech. This year Zamzam Riad has been added to the accomodation list and will be hosting two of the festival artists. People come from all over the world to visit this exciting festival in Marrakech. Below I have listed some information on the festival and a preliminary line up of who will be involved in the festival. These two yearly festivals are growing momentum and are great for the arts in Marrakech and as a promotion for Arts in Morocco and Moroccan artisits in the world. This year's edition promises to be full of innovation, inspiration and intrigue. The program is more ambitious than 2007 with 5 days of discussions, readings, screenings and performances. AiM opens on the evening of November 19th at the Museum of Marrakech with the exhibition Articulating The W

What a whirlwind week. We have been busy at Zamzam , cooking classes and spa- ing not to mention sampling the local tipple. The hammam has been on full pelt and people have been in and out of the pool inbetween . I wanted to post some photos of these fantastic tree sculptures that have appeared in the New Town of Marrakech . These wonderful old Eucalyptus have been turned into works of art and I think they are cool as......... Just like a street of totems, think I need to commission one for the garden.

These are the first edits of Joanna's photoshoot at Zamzam. To see more of the Zamzam shoot visit her website at http://www.joannamaclennan.com/ The carpet in this first shot is available online at Zamzam Boutique together with a larger stock of Beni Ouarain and Azilal, Berber carpets. Click on the link to check them out. In the next two weeks she will be uploading the final edits of the cooking course photos and Yahya's lights from Yahya Creation. Our Master Suite - The Palm Suite.

Well its been a busy week at Zamzam we opened to a full house, but half our staff dissapeared to another riad which wasnt great timing. They were poached by a big riad in Mouassine, gutting when you have spent so long training them. However we now have some fantastic new members of the team already riad trained too with top riad experience so maybe it was meant to be. Zamzam is now one and she has definately grown up this year. Although the week was busy we had a great time with fabulous guests. We did lots of cooking courses and had a magician staying who is a member of the magic circle so we convinced him to give us a magic display which was great but left the staff a little stunned! The photojournalist from Provence has just started posting final edits of the photo shoot she did in the riad a couple of weeks ago. I've posted some photos from the initial photos on her site for you to see. I think the photos for the Boutique below are fantastic, i'm so pleased with them. You