Better open the media libraries, in coordination with the rhythms of the territories and the inhabitants, develop Media and Information Education (EMI), strengthen the presence of artists especially with the youngest: these are the stakes of the 3rd Contract Territory-Reading signed by MEL and DRAC Hauts-de-France.

On Monday 6 March, Hilaire Multon, Regional Director of Cultural Affairs of Hauts-de-France and Michel Delepaul, Deputy Vice-President for Culture and Tourism of the MEL, signed the third Territory-Reading Contract (CTL) of the European Metropolis of Lille.

A contract to meet the identified needs of the territory

In line with the "Rythme ma bibliothèque" actions to improve the opening hours of the facilities, and in complementarity with BNR label from which the Metropolitan Digital Library benefits, the new Territory-Reading Contract of the European Metropolis of Lille (MEL) has the objective of amplifying the action for Media and Information Education (EMI), for the development and acculturation to digital, and to fight digital fractures.
To achieve this and in order to carry out actions in priority neighbourhoods of the city policy (QPV) as well as in rural areas, libraries will be able to draw on the networks of partners supported by the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs (DRAC) Hauts-de-France.
In this, this new contract is in line with the principles of CTL, as they were conceived in 2010: this mechanism aims to promote arts and cultural education, “living together”, the prevention and fight against illiteracy as well as serving priority territories such as the City’s Political Districts, while continuing the work with the rural white areas and the networking of cultural actors.

FAKE NEWS 2: an infox exhibition that questions the information report to be discovered this spring in Roubaix

From 23 March 2023, at the Condition Publique in Roubaix, the exhibition on «FAKE NEWS 2 ART FICTION MENSONGE» invites us to question our own relationship to information, truth and deception, identity, history and current affairs, media and the Internet as well as social networks. Through the prism of their eyes, artists step aside from reality, inviting us to consider the boundary, so fine, between the “true” and the “false”.

 

A network dynamic

The third MEL CTL will also improve the visibility of libraries and strengthen the presence of authors and authors in the territory, building on existing reading development structures and literary events such as the Story Lab, Cité Philo, Literature etc, From one country to another, Escales des Lettres or the Association the Booksellers of Up, but also on the major events proposed by the MEL or the Ministry of Culture: Library night, Reading Nights, Go to Book,…

 

The contract signed in Sainghin-en-Weppes

To illustrate the regional and metropolitan dynamism in terms of reading, the signing of this contract was symbolically organized at the cultural space «La Scène» in Sainghin-en-Weppes, in the presence of the mayor of the municipality, Matthieu Corbillon: with the support of the DRAC Hauts-de-France, the Département du Nord and the MEL, the city has started the project of construction of a new media library and sketches a project of intercommunal network of public reading federating several municipalities bordering or close.