Launched in 2020 in the context of the health crisis, the Cultural Summer aims today to promote access to culture for all, especially for those who are deprived of it because of their economic, social, geographical, health or disability situation. With particular attention to rural audiences and residents of priority neighbourhoods of city policy (QPV).
In partnership with emerging cultural actors and local authorities, the Cultural Summer wants to connect these audiences to a varied, local and dynamic cultural offer, while fighting against cultural partitioning through a multitude of activities. Proof by five highlights.
Breaths in the heart of summer
It is a program led by three actors: Cultures du coeur, the Federation of Actors of Solidarity and Les Petits Débrouillards. These three entities have been working since 2019 on Breaths, which crosses the worlds of social, cultural and popular education in five regions. The programme aims to develop the place of cultural practices in accommodation structures for people in very precarious situations.
Since 2020, this program has given birth to a little brother: the Respirations support fund, which since 2020, as part of the Cultural Summer, funds cultural, artistic, scientific and sports mediation projects for this same audience composed of homeless people, refugees or women victims of violence, in housing facilities or on the street. « This fund showed how essential it was, in our sector, to accelerate cultural development actions during these low times when there is a need to make society and to live moments of culture and sharing because it is a period when we can feel quite lonely when we are in social structure. It is also another way to create a link between social workers and the people accompanied Tiphaine Guérin, Culture Manager for the Fédération des acteurs de la solidarité, said. Since 2020, Respirations has supported 71 projects 75 cultural structures and 100 social structures in ten regions.
This support fund is open to all of France, with a real complementarity between the social structure and the partners and an alliance between scientific and artistic practice. Nearly 25 projects are planned this summer, in a wide variety of forms, in situ or outside the walls. “ They often take the form of a workshop course linked to cultural outings in social structures but also with cultural partners in the territory », continues Tiphaine Guérin. For example, in Occitanie, these are outings to discover heritage places by public transport for people who cannot move away from their accommodation. It can also be, in the Paris region, food distributions coupled with visits to cultural places and artistic practices or, finally, in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, workshops in fablab open all summer long. Finally, some projects will combine sports such as Aquarius in Brittany, which will offer fifteen unaccompanied minors to overcome their fear of water with aquatic activities (swimming, kayaking, rowing) and psychological follow-up.
Filming to «dream your Olympics» with the Friends of the Comedy Club
This year will already be the fourth edition of Film the future », the introductory workshops to the making of films launched by the Friends of the Comedy Club. Throughout the summer, a large tour will tour 18 cities in several regions of France to allow young people – 25 at each workshop – to learn all aspects of filmmaking on mobile with a 90-second duration. They will be accompanied by emerging Talents en Court figures at the Comedy Club, such as screenwriters Enricka MH, Hélène and Marie Rosselet-Ruiz, all named to the César 2023, or directors Zoel Aeschbacher and Djigui Diarra.
With the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games just one year away, this new edition will focus on sport with a theme, “Dream your Olympics”, which will invite participants to make films about the Games and fair play. Sports clubs and associations will be able to join the event to build bridges between sport and culture and champions like handballer Grâce Zaadi, the athlete Nantenin Keïta or the fencer Ysaora Thibus will invite themselves around certain events in order to transmit sportsmanship to young people.
After these workshops, sixty films will be selected and broadcast on France TV slash. A jury made up of professionals and emblematic figures will deliberate and many prizes will be offered to the winners as accompaniments in the form of a tutorial to realize his next film under professional conditions with the Talents en Court at the Comedy Club.
Figures Livres: a card game to mix sports and reading challenges
Putting reading into everyday life, teaching parents how to read for their children are the objectives of the national “Figures Livres” project proposed by the Youth Book Centre. This program, which is part of the Cultural Summer, accompanies families during the holidays, in line with the project «Des livres à soi» which aims to offer parent-child time around children’s literature. « Some parents do not have time to read, others are not able to because they cannot read books in French, for example. We offer them methods to overcome these obstacles Sylvie Vassallo, Director of the Centre de promotion du livre jeunesse.
«Figures Livres» takes place in two stages. The first one goes directly to the parents' home since 7,000 families will receive a playful kit to play with reading. Inside, a poster, cheques read to build a library, but also a set of forty cards illustrated by the artist Violette Vaïsse and fun by the boxer Sarah Ourahmoune. Each card combines athletic challenge and playback around four types of play: speed, balance, racket or expression. “ The idea is to put the book in everyday life and to make it an object of manipulation that is not only related to reading and therefore make it familiar ” says Sylvie Vassallo. The theme chosen, that of sport, thus resonates with the Olympic and Paralympic Games of Paris 2024 as part of the Cultural Olympiad.
This deck of cards will be distributed in larger format to 250 social structures - in addition to five posters and books - to allow them to organize literary and sports group animations. The structures concerned are spread over 18 regions, with a heightened focus on the city’s priority neighbourhoods, rural areas and ultra-marine areas, since five overseas regions are also concerned.
This summer, Chaillot goes to camp!
Device already used during the year during school holidays, Chaillot Colo This year, four cultural stays will be planned during the holidays. Each time, they take about twenty young people aged 8 to 17 and from different social backgrounds for a week or two to live a unique experience of artistic creation in a specific environment. These young people are supervised by a multidisciplinary team of artists and animators and the whole group shares the organization of collective life and meets the inhabitants of the place of establishment. « This scheme is a response to the fact that some children, for economic or cultural reasons, do not go on holiday, explained to us last October Rachid Ouramdane, President and CEO of Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse. The idea is to fit into their lifestyle by offering workshops around the movement during the holidays. »
Among the summer stays, young people from Seine-Saint-Denis will go to the Mériel Leisure Centre for a program combining circus and sport with acrobatics and slackline. Angoulême’s 2022 camp in Paris will perform its act 2 in July with choreographer Jann Gallois. Young people from Martinique will also be in Paris for two weeks to work on a workshop on the actors Gal Hurvitz and Yannick Kamanzi, artists of the director Aurélie Charon. Finally the last camp will take about twenty young people aged 11 to 14 from the commune of Saint-Laurent du Maroni for a discovery of the arts of movement in Mana in Guyana, in collaboration with Touka Danses. « The work is done on a multiple scale, with regional cultural affairs directorates, cities, local communities, and sometimes also directly with cultural places. Our model is open ” continues Rachid Ouramdane. In all, the camp will benefit 200 children and youth, most of whom live in the city’s Priority Neighbourhood, and 13 artists will be mobilized.
Videos on the energy transition with the ecomuseum network
After the success of their sound postcards last year, the Federation of Ecomuseums and Society Museums (FEMS) is once again involved in the Cultural Summer in a different format: that of the video clips. « During the year we offer more flexible and hybrid formats with exchanges. The Cultural Summer fits perfectly into this approach because it is a project mounted on the scale of our network that gives a good overview of the diversity of our network ” explains François Dossun, coordinator of the network. The federation has nearly 190 members - museums, ecomuseums, society museums - throughout the territory.
For this year, FEMS has chosen the theme that will animate it in the coming years: the ecological transition. Last May, ten projects were selected following a call for expressions of interest. Workshops will be held throughout the summer, supervised by a wide range of artists such as photographers, designers, or documentary filmmakers. “ Our only condition is that they are emerging, newly graduated and in territories they know well The video clip will be the work in itself or a trace of the work carried out.
Another thing in common: these workshops will explore the link between the museum, its public and the territory in which it is located. This is the case, for example, with the departmental museums of Tarn which will use different artists on several sites to highlight the place of water, resources and local know-how. The issues of forestry and climate change will also be very present as for example in the Sainte-Baume Ecomuseum in the South of France or the Monts d'Arrée in Brittanyfacilities that were impacted by fire last year. Finally, the French Oil Museum, in the Vosges, will make the link between past and future.
This year’s ten workshops are expected to reach a rather young and local audience, not going on holiday. “ The idea is to reach these unusual audiences of museums and this Cultural Summer is a way for members to get closer to them in a different way than through their programming. This can lead to longer-term work with museums, early collaborations and exhibition projects As was the case last year with sound postcards, these ten video clips will be shared online on a interactive map.
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