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We have just finalised dates for our SEPTEMBER 2017  TO MAY 2018 artist-in-residence programme. We have a special Film and Moving Image Programme in Partnership with Alchemy Film and Arts so please visit the website for details. RESIDENCY 1 SEPTEMBER 14 – OCTOBER 11 – open to all disciplines RESIDENCIES 2 AND 3 Film & Moving Image Residency… Continue reading artist-in-residence programme 2017/2018

    Time to talk all things Tissardmine. Project 1: Last year we began to build our own community centre. With the help of funds from various sources including foreign NGO’s and surplus funds from the Friends of  Tissardmine that were collected to pay for the new solar pump for the village well, the village,… Continue reading news in march 2015

A very happy Amazigh new year to all. The year is 2965 and we hope it is a good one. We have added to our menagerie with a 2 year old camel we have named Nico and provided him with a slightly older and trained camel, Bob, who is  to be his mentor and companion.… Continue reading Cafe Tissardmine January 2015

Main news…discounts available for our writing retreats with Linda Cracknell, October 25 – November 02 and Jan Cornall November 06 – 18. These retreats include stays in Fes, Marrakech and Tissardmine and if that doesn’t inspire you enough then maybe the work of our two leaders will www.lindacracknell.com or www.writersjourney.com.au see our retreat pages for more detail. I farewelled… Continue reading News from the cafe June/July

Where did the time go? The desert days are stretching out but time seems to still race away.  With all the comings and goings of the incredibly talented people who have visited our place, we have been super busy and blessed… BOTSO becomes SOTSO. The Brunswick Old Timers String Orchestra came up with a crazy idea… Continue reading April/May News

There are some birds that have started to appear at Tissardmine – they are quite small and with a tail like a swallow (I am not a bird expert!) They come inside the house and bunker down each night for about three nights… Apparently when they arrive it means rain is on the way. they… Continue reading February and March news…

I can hardly get my head around the fact that it is exactly four years to the day since I first came to this part of the world – just a three day sojourn into the desert that started with a camel ride and ended up with a plan to start this venture that is… Continue reading Happy New Year…and anniversary

  Four artists drove from Fes and arrived at Tissardmine with ideas and projects to fulfil. three days later a fifth arrived with her cat and the party was complete, 2 Moroccans, one Australian, an American, a Japanese and a cat from Marrakech. For the following 24 days, they painted, wrote and drew; ate, walked… Continue reading October Artist-inResidence wrap up…

It has been a busy time in the desert where luckily we are unaffected by the debacle of when daylight saving ends in Morocco…where we are, the sun still rises and sets as usual and really it doesn’t matter if it’s 7 or 6… we have just said goodbye to 2 artists who made good… Continue reading October news…(well, it’s nearly October…)

  I am so happy to be back at Tissardmine and preparing for a full house for the next few weeks…the journey was extraordinary to say the least and included thunderstorms and flash floods across the road on the route over the middle atlas mountains…but we made it and it was well worth it! The… Continue reading September News…