The 2022 edition of Ch[a]rita, entitled “The Palmgrove is Yet Alive,” unfolded as a multidisciplinary program of artistic interventions, workshops, performances, screenings, conversations, and collective gatherings dedicated to the Palmeraie of Marrakech. Conceived as a poetic and political gesture, the project sought to temporarily reinhabit the palm grove as a shared space for reflection, encounter, and imagination, while drawing attention to the ecological and cultural transformations affecting one of the city’s most emblematic landscapes. Initiated in 2018 and developed by Fondation Dar Bellarj and LE 18 within the framework of QANAT, Ch[a]rita investigates the transmission of knowledge, memory, and cultural practices through site-specific artistic and cultural programming. The project takes its name from the popular game of hopscotch, a network of lines and intersections that creates temporary spaces for play and encounter. Similarly, Ch[a]rita creates opportunities for dialogue across disciplines, communities, and territories, connecting artistic practice with questions of urban transformation, public space, and collective heritage. For the 2022 edition, the Palmeraie became both stage and subject. Once sustained by a sophisticated system of underground waterways and agricultural networks, this landscape has gradually been transformed by urban expansion, privatization, tourism development, and environmental degradation. Against this backdrop, Ch[a]rita proposed a collective exploration of water, ecology, memory, and the commons through the contributions of artists, researchers, activists, filmmakers, farmers, and local residents. The program brought together a rich diversity of perspectives and practices. Workshops for children revisited traditional games and local histories linked to palm cultivation. Artistic interventions examined questions of landscape, tourism, environmental change, and cultural memory. Sound walks, installations, and performances invited participants to engage directly with the natural environment, while film screenings and public conversations connected the realities of Marrakech’s palm grove with broader ecological struggles across North Africa and the Middle East. Topics such as water scarcity, food sovereignty, agroecology, indigenous knowledge systems, and collective resistance formed a common thread throughout the edition. A defining feature of Ch[a]rita 2022 was its commitment to participation and shared learning. By bringing together local communities, cultural practitioners, and international contributors, the program fostered exchanges that moved beyond conventional exhibition formats. Cooking sessions, storytelling, walks, discussions, and collective actions transformed cultural production into a process of encounter and collaboration. The palm grove itself emerged as a living archive of ecological knowledge and cultural memory, capable of inspiring new forms of collective imagination and care. Through this edition, Ch[a]rita reaffirmed the role of art and culture in addressing urgent environmental and social questions. The Palmgrove is Yet Alive invited participants to remember forgotten landscapes, reactivate shared histories, and imagine futures rooted in cooperation, diversity, and ecological resilience. More than a cultural program, it was an experiment in collective dreaming and a reminder that alternative futures can emerge from the stories, practices, and relationships that continue to inhabit the land around us.