This Sunday will be the 19th Occitania Festival – a linguistic space of Nissart and Alpine. This festival highlights the Nissart, Alpine, and Provençal dialects, which represent an invaluable heritage for us that requires use to survive.
The Occitan language, which includes Nissart, Alpine, and Provençal, is present in a space called Occitania, with 16 million inhabitants and 190,000 km² (across 4 states: France, Italy, Spain, and Monaco), including 3 million speakers (from Bordeaux to Menton) and which unfolds into different dialects: Auvergnat, Limousin, Vivaro-Alpine, Gascon, Languedocian, Provençal, and Nissart.
Tribute will be paid to the 86 victims of the attack in Nice, and also to the artist Jean-Marc Eusébi (1962-2006), Sciença-Reinat Anfosso (1942-2016), actor and voice of Ràdio Nissa Pantai, and Anhés Cardellini (1971-2016) a brilliant student of Nissart from Nissa Pantai.
The runner-up to the Regina dei Mais, Marion Maertens, will be the guest of honor.
Program:
At 2 p.m. at Pierre Gautier square, the departure of the parade featuring the big head of Jean-Marc Eusébi created by Nissart students of Nissa Pantai-CCÒc, accompanied by musicians Lu Barbalucos from Coarasa, Bendejun, Grassa, and Babazouk, with Nissart and Occitan flags, heading to the Francis-Gag Theater.
At 3 p.m. at Francis-Gag Theater, a concert by Lu Barbalucos, dance and music performances by the artistic workshops of Nissa Pantai, and a concert by the trobairitz Zine, a singer in Nissart who will perform famous foreign songs, like Imagine, in the Nissart version, and will pay tribute to Sciença-Reinat Anfosso.
Second part: Rock concert by the Provençal band from Toulon: Zoumai Aqui. With modern music and a desire to perpetuate our beautiful Provençal Occitan language, these four cheerful Var residents, passionate about our regional values, update the legacy of a millennial language with their dynamic and original sounds…
