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Carthage Contemporary Art Days in Tunis
Carthage Contemporary Art Days, or Journees d'Art Contemporain de Carthage, known by the acronym JACC, is a Ministry of Cultural Affairs initiative for visual and plastic arts based at the Cite de la Culture in Tunis. Since its first edition in September 2018, JACC has grown into a multi-country event, with its third edition in May 2023 featuring around 200 artists from 23 countries.
When the Journees d'Art Contemporain de Carthage opened its first edition at the Cite de la Culture in September 2018, it filled a gap that had long been visible in Tunisia's cultural calendar: while the Journees Cinematographiques de Carthage and the Journees Theatrales de Carthage had decades of history behind them, contemporary painting, sculpture, and installation work had no equivalent national platform of its own.