À propos
Anfas signifie souffles — les petites pauses entre les efforts, où la clarté se produit réellement.
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Anfas means “breaths” — the small pauses between effort, where clarity actually happens. We named the collective after them on purpose. Too many spaces that claim to be “for women” are, in practice, built for visibility: a stage, a panel, a photograph. Anfas was built for something slower.
We are not a network, and we are not an audience. We are a small, considered circle of women — founders, artists, and women shaping their own paths between Morocco and France — who have chosen to be known by each other, not just seen by everyone else.
Where it began
The first gathering was a dinner that almost didn’t happen — twelve women, a borrowed kitchen in the Marrakech medina, and a guest list assembled less by résumé than by instinct. We had no name for what we were doing yet. We only knew that most of the rooms we’d been in weren’t built for the kind of conversation we actually wanted to have.
What surprised us was not that it worked, but how quickly it became necessary. Anfas grew from that single table, deliberately slowly, one considered introduction at a time.
Who we gather
Our members are founders building companies, artists building practices, and women building lives that don’t fit either category neatly — across Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat, Paris and beyond. What they share is not a sector or a stage of growth. It is a willingness to show up fully, without an agenda, for other women doing the same.
Membership is curated, not automated. Every application is read, not scored. We keep the circle small because presence, the thing we actually promise, does not survive being scaled.
What we ask in return
Belonging to Anfas is not a subscription. It is a shared gesture — what you receive, you are also expected to contribute: a studio offered for someone’s shoot, an introduction made without being asked, an evening simply, fully attended. The collective is held together by these gestures, repeated, far more than by anything we build or organise centrally.