Launch of the second edition of the ‘Only through Art’ programme for 2025

On Saturday 8 February 2025, Mr Omar Sentissi, President of the Salé Local Council, supervised the launch of the second edition of the ‘Only through Art’ programme for the year 2025 at the Salé Institute of Hotel and Tourist Technology. The event was attended by the Provincial Director of the Salé Ministry of National Education, Preschool and Sport, the President of the Salé Foundation for Culture and the Arts, the representative of Redal, and representatives of the programme’s partner associations.

On this occasion, after welcoming the participants and thanking the supporting institutions, Mr. Sentissi stressed that the cultural and artistic program “Only through Art” embodies the openness of the municipal council of Salé to associative actors, according to a participatory approach aimed at involving associations active in the cultural, artistic, educational and social fields, by organizing animation activities for the benefit of students from educational institutions in the different districts of the municipality, adding that the implementation of this initiative is done in coordination with the Provincial Directorate of the Ministry of National Education, and the Salé Foundation for Culture and the Arts, with the aim of promoting school life and strengthening the cultural and artistic offer for the benefit of students.

For his part, Mr. Mohamed Nejjar, vice-president of the municipality of Salé in charge of Cultural Affairs, explained that the organization of the second session of the program “Only through Art“ reflects the success of its first edition, which translates into the expansion of the scope of the program, both in terms of the number of its axes and beneficiary educational institutions, which will reach 132 institutions this year, in addition to the increase in the number of participating associations to 67 associations, and it is expected that about 45 thousand students will benefit from this second edition.