Signing of the first State - Region Convention on the support of the global transition in the cultural sector

The Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs of Brittany and the Regional Council of Brittany wanted to adopt a global strategy to support as close as possible to their needs the Breton cultural actors in this process of global transition, whereas the latter fall within the heritage, of the creation or thecultural action.

This strategy, formalized in a convention, defines new modalities of support with a specific progressivity to each field while assuming an experimental dimension.

Meeting with the mayor of Rennes and the director of the Opéra ©MC

Visit to the Opéra de Rennes

Awareness of the impact of live performance on the environment is a reality for the Opéra de Rennes, which the Métropole has integrated into its "eco-responsibility" working group.

To limit the impact of cultural equipment on the environment and clean up its activities, the Opéra de Rennes is now working on eco-construction of its sets with the Opéra national de Lyon and the ecological transition agency ADEME. He also gives a second life to his costumes and sets by offering them to amateur companies, through the ADEC-Maison du Théâtre Amateur.

Matthieu Rietzler, director of the Opéra de Rennes, also explained to the Minister his approach to pooling opera productions to optimize their distribution and amortization with Angers Nantes Opéra and the cooperative theatre collective.

In addition to the co-productions that make it possible to increase performances, a second consecutive partnership with the FRAC Brittany has opened the old walls of the Opera to contemporary art. The organization of Trans Musicales concerts at the Opera has also allowed an increasingly diverse audience to pass through its doors.

Trans Musicales concert on Friday, December 8 ©MC

The Trans Musicales: a hotbed of talent, and much more...

A festival recognized for its international programming dedicated to emergence and innovation, the Trans Musicales is a special event in the musical landscape of festivals. They are distinguished by a success of attendance especially with young people and bring together many professionals who take the opportunity to complete their own programming.

The festival is also pioneering and exemplary for the ecological transition and the sustainable development. It is a signatory to the Charter of Breton Festivals Committed to Sustainable Development and has obtained ISO 20121 certification three times.  An environmental contribution to the public set up for 2 years is donated to associations committed to the ecological transition and social support. In 2023, in addition to many actions, including the sustainable transport of festival-goers and the transport of equipment by bike, meals are served in reusable dishes, the share of organic, local and plant is increased and waste recovery and recovery is further strengthened. Many measures to combat gender-based and sexual violence and harassment (SGBV) are implemented through the presence of dedicated associations, the installation of safety zones and risk prevention actions (auditory, sexually transmitted infections, alcohol and narcotics).

Meeting with the Ambassadors of the Culture Pass on the fringes of the Trans Musicales © DRAC Bretagne

Exchange with young Culture Pass Ambassadors

Brittany is the first region fully covered by the pass and the test region for testing the collective dimension of the Culture pass, and is also at the forefront for the percentage of young people in an age group who have opened access to this system: they are currently 90% to have done so.

First testers of the application and "super users" of the Culture pass, the Ambassadors also relay it on social networks, in their universities, in their high schools. They take a precise and valuable look at the evolutions of the application and the offers offered. A dozen of them were present as ambassadors associated with the Trans Musicales festival; they were able to access the backstage of the festival from the layout of the halls for the reception of the festival to meetings with technicians, artists and backstage appearances during concerts. The minister went to meet them on Friday evening to gather testimonies of their involvement in their uses, discoveries and "first times".

Visit of the exhibition The other museum, the treasures of a great collection of contemporary art at FRAC Bretagne © DRAC Bretagne

40 years of Regional Contemporary Art Funds (FRAC) celebrated at FRAC Bretagne

2023 marks the 40th anniversary of the Fonds régionaux d'art contemporain.

Brittany is again a pioneer in this area, because it is precisely its 42 years that celebrates this year FRAC Bretagne.  Created by the State and the Regional Council of Brittany in 1981, initially located in Châteaugiron, it occupies since 2012 a building designed by the French architect Odile Decq in the heart of the Beauregard park in Rennes.

It has been a nationally and internationally recognized contemporary art collection for four decades. It gains to be known and preserves more than 5,500 works by more than 1,500 artists of more than 125 nationalities.

Guided by its director Étienne Bernard, the minister visited the exhibition on Saturday The other museum, the treasures of a large collection of contemporary art which highlights and highlights what the Breton heritage has to offer.

Among these treasures, there are of course great names of French and international art such as Pierre Soulages, Vera Molnar, Martha Rosler or Andy Warhol, whose work FRAC Bretagne had the opportunity to acquire at a time when the art market still allowed it. But there are also many other artists, younger or less renowned, whose works as fascinating as delicate describe and problematize our world.