Saturday, October 15, 2011 – From 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM at Domaine de la Royrie – Grasse
A collective of actors, gathered around GR CIVAM PACA (Regional Group of Centers for Initiatives to Valorize Agriculture and Rural Areas), and GRAIF (Regional Group for Action and Information for Women), is organizing the 6th annual Festival Champs Libres.
This civic and festive day is offered on the occasion of October 15, declared since 2007 as the International Day of Rural Women by the UN, and celebrated in more than 100 countries.
The goal is to give more visibility to women, highlight their projects, and provide them with a space for exchanging on their challenges and aspirations.
The Domaine de la Royrie in Grasse will host the 2011 edition. The program includes workshops on various themes (multiactivity, Mediterranean olive growing, maintaining agricultural land…), workshops for young and old, artistic installations, short films, organic and local meals…
10:00 AM Debate Workshops
• Workshop 1: Return to the land, utopian or avant-garde approach? What is the place of the economy in these new “enterprises”?
Discussion on the theme of settling, land, and the role of women in maintaining fertile lands. Understanding the importance and meaning of land, in a context like the Alpes-Maritimes, where cultivable lands are disappearing.
With the participation of Jacques Weber – Economist and anthropologist, research director at CIRAD, author of the book “Life, what a business!”
Moderator: Michel Bernard – Researcher at the Sorbonne
• Workshop 2: Women olive growers in the Mediterranean: testimonies and exchanges
Presentation of the experience of a group of Palestinian women in olive growing, a remote meeting via Skype, and exchanges with local women on the role and place of women in these two countries, their projects, and experiences.
With the participation of Jacqueline Bellino – Olive grower in the Alpes-Maritimes
Moderator: Geneviève Legay – Artisans du Monde
• Workshop 3: Diversification and multiactivity in agriculture, what boundary, what tools?
Providing insights into multiactivity. Answering participants’ questions on statuses, legal and tax aspects, etc. Understanding why multiactivity is developing now and the role of women in these new agricultural schemes.
With the participation of Madelyne Samak – Sociologist, Anne Foret – Point info Installation, Julien Tabore – FDSEA, etc.
Moderator: Jean Horgues Debats, Adrets (to be confirmed)
10:00 AM – Children’s activity: Birds, garden auxiliaries, with the LPO
12:00 PM – Inauguration of the day
12:30 PM – Meal prepared with local organic products
(by reservation)
2:00 PM Various activities proposed by partners
• “Portraits of women”, “women in rural areas: what professions?”, works by students of public agricultural education in PACA
• Guided tour of Domaine de la Royrie
• Discovery of perfume plant production methods
• Presentation of short films “portraits of organic farmers” with Agribio 06
• Market of local producers and fair trade products
• Artistic installations, “Land Art”
• Children’s activity: The organic farm, from the field to the plate, with Agribio 06
• Event planning with the Bac Pro Landscape Management class from Antibes Horticultural High School
• Workshop on making a perfume based on orange blossom, with Parfumerie Fragonard
4:30 PM – Summary of the morning workshops
