Oshtoora festival – Fayoum – 28 April – 2 May 2016

Oshtoora. A temporary state.
Oshtoora is a traveling festival of music and arts, a collective of like-minded initiatives and an ongoing experiment. It is inspired by nature in both its design and operation. This year Oshtoora is located in Fayoum, 100 kilometers southwest of Cairo.
Fayoum is home to some of the few waterfalls around, wonderful rock formations and Egypt’s annual pottery festival. It is also considered a resting ground for thousands of migratory birds, especially around Lake Qarun where large numbers of flamingos, grey herons and grebes can be spotted. The northern side of lake Qarun also hosts important fossil records of terrestrial primates, marine and terrestrial marshland mammals from the Eocene and Oligocene sequences.