Celebrating Rural Life in Mauritania

Join us in honoring the rich pastoral traditions and vibrant culture of rural Mauritania through our festival, where community and heritage come together in a joyful celebration.

The International Shepherds Festival

Vreidy - Tintane

مهرجان الرعاة الدولي

فريدي -الطينطان

Introducing

The ISF-Vreidy-Tintane

It is an annual cultural, artistic, sports and environmental event that presents various aspects of the life of the Mauritanian people in their original environment, especially in the area of Avolle, which is rich in environmental diversity and beautiful landscape. We chose Avolle because it's primarily a pastoral area, where livestock herding was the mainstay of life for the inhabitants until recently. The spotlight will be on the genius of the Bedouin when they were self-reliant by almost 90%. The Festival presents the Mauritanian people in their previous natural habitat, where they managed to proper in their own way as creators of beauty and knowledge despite the harsh natural conditions in which they were living, having a times to roam the land in search for pasture for their herds. .

Why This Festival?

Believing in the message of culture and art and their role in the advancement of people;

Realizing the impact of culture and art that goes beyond mere entertainment, consisting in positive change and the development of the the human being as the first building block in the social edifice;

Desiring to revive culture through lighting a candle instead of cursing the darkness;

Driven by a conviction that the promotion of culture needs to be more decentralized within our country;

Harkening to the the call within each one of us to seek peace and tranquility in nature necessitating the need to preserve the environment and to return to the origins where mother Earth is always to give us back what we thought we'd lost for good;

And out a sense of responsibility towards our nation;

We decided to launch this Festival that celebrates rural life in all its amazing aspects.