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Morocco World
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Morocco World
Fez Sacred Music Festival Opens with a Spellbinding Tribute to Renewal, Sacred Beauty
Rabat – The 28th edition of the Fez Festival of Sacred Music opens this Friday with an ambitious creation that promises to leave a lasting impression. This year's theme is all about 'Renaissances, From Nature to the Sacred', and it conveys more than just the start of a globally acclaimed cultural event. A lyrical journey into what it means to be human, to evolve, and to reconnect with the sacred awaits those who will attend. This year's opening act brings together dozens of musicians, dancers, narrators, and visual artists from across Africa and beyond. At the heart of it all stands Fez's Bab Makina, the monumental gateway that has become a canvas for the festival's now signature projection mapping. As night falls, its ancient walls will light up with vivid visuals, wrapping audiences in a unique performance. What will bind all performances together is the idea of Renaissance in all its splendor and depth, and not just as a historical period or artistic style, but as a living force. Fez embodies that force. It once gave birth to Al Quaraouiyine, the oldest existing university, and for centuries shaped religious and intellectual life across Africa. Today, it continues to inspire, drawing a line from its multilayered legacy to the rebirths, spiritual, artistic, and cultural, that still define our age. The show draws from its depth and diversity: from the hypnotic rhythm of Burundi's drummers to the ritual dance of the Ivorian Leopards, from the poetic chants of Senegal's Mouride brotherhood to the sacred feminine voices of Mayotte's Deba tradition. Each performance speaks to a different expression of the sacred. Sometimes solemn, sometimes playful, always alive. The stage will also welcome voices from beyond the continent. Omani Sufi chants will echo alongside the mystical Sama dance of Meknes. Corsican mezzo-soprano Battista Acquaviva will breathe new life into Renaissance hymns. Malian actor and storyteller Habib Dembelé will guide audiences through the evening as narrator, grounding the spectacle in the power of spoken word. The result is a carefully crafted narrative, one that moves from elemental nature to spiritual awakening. This opening night stands as a continuation of that effort and as an invitation. Fez does not just host a festival; it opens a space where cultures meet, where memory breathes, and where the soul finds room to rise. The sacred music event will welcome the public on Friday, May 16. Doors open at 6:00 p.m., close at 7:15 p.m., and the show begins shortly after at 7:30 p.m. At its core, the Fez Festival of Sacred Music has long acted as a living platform for South-South dialogue, and the organizers plan for this year's edition to deepen that commitment. The inclusion of spiritual traditions from Mayotte, Oman, Ivory Coast, Senegal, and Mali is no mere happenstance. It shows a deliberate effort to foreground connections between southern societies whose sacred practices often intersect and echo across borders.
CBS News
21-04-2025
- Sport
- CBS News
Check the Boston Marathon 2025 results for winners, times, prize money and more
The 2025 Boston Marathon's four professional races are underway on Marathon Monday . The men's and women's wheelchair races were the first to take off on the course , followed by professional runners a short time later. Stay with CBS News Boston and WBZ-TV throughout the day for complete details on how the top athletes finished. The winner of the men's wheelchair was not much of a surprise. Switzerland's Marcel Hug, known as "The Silver Bullet" for his trademark silver helmet, crossed the finish line first on Monday to win the 2025 Boston Marathon men's wheelchair division for the eighth time. Hug spent much of Monday's race all alone, minutes ahead of the nearest competition. Hug has become a staple of Marathon Monday. He won for the first time in 2015, and has become a regular frontrunner since. In addition to winning Boston eight times, the Silver Bullet has also won nine Berlin Marathon titles, the New York Marathon six times, and Chicago Marathon five times. Winners are rewarded financially for their efforts on the course. In total, there is a pool of $1,214,500 in prize money. The top Boston Marathon finishers of the men's and women's divisions receive $150,000 each. Runners that finish in second place earn $75,000, followed by $40,000 for third place. In the wheelchair division, there is an increased prize for the 2025 race. The top winners will receive $50,000, up from $40,000 in recent years. The second and third place finishers will take home $30,000 and $15,000, respectively, in the wheelchair division. Sisay Lemma of Ethiopia led wire-to-wire and broke the tape with a time of 2:06:17 to win the 2024 Boston Marathon men's division. That was good for the 10th fastest time in Boston history. Fellow Ethiopian Mohamed Esa was second across the finish line at 2:06:58, while 2023 champion Evans Chebet was not far behind at 2:07:22. In the women's division, Hellen Obiri of Kenya pulled away late to claim her second straight Boston Marathon women's race in a time of 2:22:37. She became the first back-to-back Boston Marathon winner since Catherine Ndereba of Kenya won in 2004 and 2005. Sharon Lokedi finished second in 2024 at 2:22:45 while Edna Kiplagat placed third at 2:23:21 to give Kenya the top three spots in the 2024 women's race. Hug took home a seventh Boston win in 2024 with a time of 1:15:33 during the 2024 race. Eden Rainbow-Cooper won the women's wheelchair division in 2024, becoming the first from Great Britain to accomplish the feat with a time of 1:35:11. It was the first World Marathon major win of the 22-year-old's career. The men's record time for the Boston Marathon is 2:03:02, set by Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya in 2011. Ethiopia's Buzunesh Deba holds the women's record from the 2014 Boston Marathon with a time of 2:19:59. Originally, Kenya's Rita Jeptoo held the record after beating Deba that year with a finish of 2:18:57. In 2016, however, Jeptoo was stripped of her title because of doping. As a result, Deba was later awarded the 2014 win and record, but not the prize money. For the men's wheelchair division, Hug's 2024 time of 1:15:33 didn't just set the course record. It also broke his own record that he had set the previous year with a time of 1:17:06. Manuela Schär of Switzerland set the women's wheelchair record in 2017 with a finish of 1:28:17.
