The Foundation for the Safeguarding of the Cultural Heritage of Rabat, placed under the Effective Presidency of Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Hasnaa, is taking part in the 3rd edition of the International Book and Youth Publishing Fair (SILEJ 2025), held from 8 to 16 November 2025 at Anfa Park in Casablanca.
As part of this major cultural event, the Foundation is fully aligning its action through a series of artistic and educational initiatives. It is showcasing the contributions of its programs “I Discover My Heritage” and “I Draw My Heritage”, as well as its educational magazine Roya, a true space of expression that brings heritage to life through the artistic, literary, and journalistic creations of young people.
Roundtable Led by Teacher-Mediators of the “I Discover My Heritage” Program
On Thursday, 13 November 2025, the Foundation is hosting a roundtable titled “Heritage in Children’s Words: Roya Magazine as a Bridge for Transmission.”
This gathering brings together teachers committed to the “I Discover My Heritage” program, invited to share their pedagogical approaches and heritage education practices within their schools.
The discussions revolve around four key areas:
- The school as the first space for heritage awareness, where integrating heritage concepts into teaching practices links learning to the memory of places and cultural legacies.
- The shift from observation to writing, by drawing on field immersions, encounters with artisans, and exchanges with bearers of traditional knowledge as sources of discovery, imagination, and pedagogical innovation.
- Roya magazine as a collective creative experience, offering students an editorial platform through which they transform their explorations into stories, reports, dialogues, comic strips, or poems.
- Cultural and artistic education as a vector of citizenship, developing aesthetic and critical awareness, and connecting heritage values to principles of respect, diversity, solidarity, and creativity.
This roundtable highlights the essential role of teachers as cultural mediators and catalysts for creativity, as well as the school’s capacity to make heritage a meaningful tool for learning, transmission, and civic education.
Creation of a “Cultural Heritage Fanzine”
On Friday, 14 November 2025, the Foundation is organizing an interactive artistic workshop for middle school students in Casablanca, dedicated to producing a Fanzine inspired by the creative spirit of the Roya magazine.
Throughout this collective experience, participants will explore writing, drawing, and graphic composition around the theme “Cultural Heritage in Everyday Life.”
The workshop aims to stimulate creativity, nurture artistic sensitivity, and strengthen heritage awareness through storytelling and visual expression.
With this initiative, the Foundation for the Safeguarding of the Cultural Heritage of Rabat reaffirms its commitment to making books, creativity, and reading key instruments of heritage education and citizenship development—consistent with UNESCO’s orientations on cultural and artistic education and with Target 4.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals.
