The bold initiative of “C’est pas classique”, making music accessible to everyone, has been largely successful: from 30,000 visitors for the first edition in 2005, 10,000 more each year… in 2008 more than 60,000 spectators are expected.
More than 100 free concerts, workshops, conferences, master classes, and exhibitions: the General Council invites 1,000 artists, orchestras, soloists… and entrusts them with the Palais Acropolis for three days of open access listening and learning of music. The idea is primarily to make classical music both friendly and accessible.
This year, the program is organized around the theme “voice and opera”. During the day, interactive workshops and small-scale shows create interactions with the public, while the evenings are grandiose to fascinate and reveal the magic of opera.
The creation of new cultural events is one of the key focuses of the cultural policy of the General Council and supports the artistic dynamism of the Alpes-Maritimes. “C’est pas Classique” in the autumn since 2005, “06 en scène” in the spring since 2006, “06 en live” from September to June since 2006, “les voix du Domaine Renoir”, resumed since 2005, thus punctuate cultural life and complement the General Council’s “Summer Evenings”, the two free departmental museums, as well as the traveling cinema circuits.
Making culture accessible to the largest number of department inhabitants is a challenge that is on the verge of being met: 400,000 people have thus attended the shows and exhibitions organized by the General Council of the Alpes-Maritimes in 2007.
The website of “C’est pas classique”.
