Saturday 13 April 2024, Arielle Fanjas, Deputy Director of Cultural Affairs of Hauts-de-France, Valérie Cuvillier, vice-president of the departmental council of Pas-de-Calais, Christophe Pilch, President of the Hénin-Carvin Agglomeration Community, and Fabienne Dupuis, mayor of Oignies, inaugurated the cultural centre «Mine 2 Culture», in the presence of Cathy Apourceau-Poly, senator from Pas-de-Calais.
An expanded media library
The cultural centre has a media library with over 25,000 documents. Several spaces, sometimes dedicated to comics and manga, self-service, or toddlers, give themselves to live with modern furniture inviting reading.
More than a library, it offers various workshops in the news related to the digital and robotics. It also consists of a grainothèque and a toy library allowing to borrow board games but also video games.
From creation to dissemination
Under the same roof, we find the municipal conservatory, which offers a reworked acoustics. With a large rehearsal room, 5 work studios and 2 music training rooms, all are invited to learn from an instrument, to improve, to meet and to create.
In order to share with the inhabitants of the territory, the place is also equipped with a auditorium more than a hundred spaces, to which are added 16 places for people with reduced mobility. With its retractable seats, the venue can host concerts, theatre, storytelling and even cinema.
“Mine 2 Culture” is a true place of life and well-being that privileges access to culture for all and promotes learning and training.”
- Arielle Fanjas, Deputy Director of Cultural Affairs of Hauts-de-France
The support of the State
The State wishes to amplify the reading strategy, by strengthening the offer of services of the media libraries, relying on the departmental libraries to develop new public reading policies.
In this context, the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs of the Hauts-de-France contributed to the implementation of the cultural centre through investment credits of up to 2.5 million euros under the General Decentralization Allocations.
More broadly, this territory is particularly supported by the State through the “Commitment to the renewal of the mining basin” (ERBM), which has two objectives: change the lives of the inhabitants and make the territory more attractive by acting on all the levers of public action.
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