Nice-Premium: End of the year = Home Festival. You’re organizing it on Friday, June 20th. Quickly, what will be the ingredients for this Home Festival 2008?
Geoffroy KIRSTETTER: To prepare a good home festival, preheat about twenty student volunteers and make them sweat in the science park for a week so that all the barriers, stages, refreshment stands, and barbecues are set up for the big day. Once everything is nicely heated up, insert a street theater troupe, a troupe of African dancers, a jazz manouche group, and a photo lab, which you’ll mix with responsible volunteers who will organize pétanque tournaments, pilou tournaments, giant twister, and many other games. You’ll get a good mix for the afternoon which you will only have to sprinkle with various volunteer associations from the region before serving hot. After this delicate appetizer, we will have to plan no less than three main courses with an alternative stage gathering Nice’s underground artists, a techno stage entirely set up and hosted by the Var tribe “énigmatik,” and of course the central stage rewarding the best bands in the region. All you’ll need to do is generously sprinkle with good humor, and you’ll have a perfectly cooked home festival.
NP: Let’s talk about the chefs, and therefore about the organization. How many of you are there preparing this event, and how long have you been in the kitchen concocting this appetizing little dish?
Geoffroy KIRSTETTER: We are 9 chefs, and we’ve been preheating the ovens for 3 months already, ensuring that the banquet is ready for the big night. We couldn’t do anything without the help of 80 student volunteer cooks from the university who support us day and night, whom I thank warmly.
NP: What will be the cherry on top of the Home Festival 2008?
Geoffroy KIRSTETTER: The home festival itself!
NP: What happens in the kitchen stays secret. But exclusively for the guests of Nice-Premium, can you reveal any broken glasses or failed mayonnaise in the organization?
Geoffroy KIRSTETTER: Not really any broken plates this year, but a quite crispy anecdote to share with you. One night of heavy drinking, the treasurer of the association bet (oh how foolish) that he would have to attend the home festival in a leopard thong if the next dice roll was a double 5… as you can guess, fate can be cruel, and so it will be that in this simple attire that our dear treasurer will spend the evening. Needless to say, this will bring a smile to the entire team.
NP: Let’s talk resources. Will you be more paper plates and plastic cups, or silver trays and crystal glasses? And what are you missing to have crystal?
Geoffroy KIRSTETTER: Unfortunately, more paper plates.
We thank the FSDIE (the university commission that grants subsidies to associations undertaking student projects) who provide us with funding every year. Without them, we wouldn’t have existed for a long time. The rest of the revenue comes from the entrance fee (3 euros 50), the refreshment stand, and the barbecues.
NP: Finally, at every banquet, the master of ceremonies speaks. What would you say to your guests?
Geoffroy KIRSTETTER: We have done everything to ensure this event is a success from the start of the afternoon until the end of the night. I wish you all to enjoy the evening as much as we enjoyed organizing it.
