Marrakech- Morocco is well known for cafés everywhere, where people sit daily with drinks reading newspapers, chatting, and watching sports channels. Café Henna Art comes, in a creative light, with a special perspective that café is a cross-cultural, educational, and an artistic gallery place, as well as a place to change stereotypes about Moroccan culture and even religion.
Café Henna Art is located in the heart of Jema Fena, the famous cultural square of Marrakech. It aims at promoting Moroccan-Western cross-cultural activities, as well as promoting youth initiatives that help the impoverished across Morocco.
The café is an open place for Moroccan youth, who belong to several associations working in social issues. Among these is the Basma Chabab Association, which collects donations for kids in remote areas and has been recently helping flood victims in southern Morocco.
Henna Art will be a valuable place for Moroccans where all arts and knowledge can take place and for Western visitors to discover Morocco through such initiatives. It embraces different cultures in a friendly and lovely environment full of smiles, fun, and information. It displays Moroccan hospitality and openness to other cultures and civilizations.
Aside from messages of tolerance and acceptance of the others, Henna Art Café also shows Moroccan culture and traditions in one hand, and western culture in the other hand, in terms of practice, perspectives and products, through two different traditional seating.
Seating areas are surrounded by two artistic galleries, the Hand of Fatima Gallery and the Peacock Gallery. “The Hand of Fatima Gallery offers traditional Western seating with both tables and couches. The walls are decorated with fine art pieces by co-owner Lori K. Gordon, and one wall features a stunning mural of the Hand of Fatima, a design known throughout the region,” says a press release obtained by MWN.
The Peacock Gallery on the other hand, showcases Moroccan culture. The Peacock Gallery draws upon the comfort and style of traditional Moroccan home seating, with carpets covering the tile floor and six low circular tables and wood stools created by Marrakech craftsmen. More art adorns the walls, including a hand colored collection of vintage Moroccan photographs.