A place of privileged meetings and exchanges between artists, cultural professionals and elected officials, Avignon is part of the festival landscape with a particularity, that of having become, very soon after its creation, a space for the debate of cultural policies. The Jean Vilar meetings are a motor and central event. They are one of the places of construction of cultural policies by the subjects they propose and the figures who speak there. Nevertheless, many other places of debate have developed in Avignon leading to a dispersion of audiences and reducing the impact of the elaborated messages. In a changing context, both from the point of view of territorial organization and the construction of public policies, it is necessary to bring together artists, professionals and elected officials to put into debate, build new thinking and bring ambition to culture.
The Festival d'Avignon, the History Committee of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, the National Federation of Local Authorities for Culture, and the Observatory of Cultural Policies are taking the sixty-first10th anniversary of the festival to organise a day of reflection and debate on 15 July, comparing the history of the festival and its influence on the construction of public policies with current perspectives for cultural policies.
On this occasion, the History Committee reissues in digital version at the French Documentation The birth of cultural policies and the Rencontres d'Avignon under the presidency of Jean Vilar (1964-1970) and the Journal of the Observatory of Cultural Policies dedicates a "special Avignon notebook"in no. 48 (summer 2016) with texts by Bernard Faivre d'Arcier, Florian Salazar-Martin, Emmanuel Wallon, Michel Debeauvais and an interview with Olivier Py.
Program
(subject to change)
10 am : Opening of the day by Olivier Py, Jean-Pierre Saez and Florian Salazar-Martin
10h15 : Dialogue between Maryvonne de Saint Pulgent, Chair of the History and Pascal Ory, Professor of Contemporary History at Paris 1 University: The Jean Vilar Meetings and their roles in the construction of local cultural policies
11:15 am : dialogue between Emmanuel Wallon, professor of political sociology at the University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre and Bernard Faivre d'Arcier, former director of theatre and shows, former director of the Avignon festival: The echoes of the Avignon Festival
12h30 - 14h: Break
2pm : Afternoon introduction by Florian Salazar Martin, Vincent Guillon and Jean-Pierre Saez
In the afternoon, each theme will be the subject of a discussion between elected officials, researchers, professionals, artists and young people and the room
14h15 : A changing culture economy: how to be an actor?
15h15 : Rebuilding a new ambition for culture?
16h15 : Arts and culture, resources to build and live together
17h15 : Conclusion
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The audiovisual recording of this study day is available by appointment at History committee.
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