Politics is not just a matter for professionals. Politics is about the daily encounters among all citizens, the sharing of ideas, knowledge, and differences.
To promote this mixing, the Chapiteaux of the collective “Aux Urnes ETC…” will set up in Nice, under the eucalyptus trees of Auvare Park, from Thursday, March 29 to Saturday, March 31, 2007.
Three days of dialogues, exhibitions, creations, and meetings around the themes of globalization, the environment, social policies, freedom of information, solidarity, and the sharing of knowledge and skills. Also, three days of festive spirit, with music and encountering all forms of expression for an artistic mix.
As the presidential and legislative elections approach, artists, technicians, associative actors, and citizens of the world plan to make their voices heard by participating in this celebration of politics.
Friday, March 30, 2007
(from 5 pm to 9 pm under the 300)
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm: Afternoon for High School Students: screening/discussions “L’Île aux Fleurs,” introduction to voting, pilo initiation, discovering the city through the language and culture of Nice.
5:00 pm: Screenings/debates: “cyber democracy and electronic voting”
What images of the world do the new media offer us? With Vincent Thomas and Denis Pansu from the Internet New Generation Federation.
7:30 pm: Citizen Cabaret: Artistic encounters around an aperitif chat.
With appearances by Luc Martinez, Frédéric Alemany (multimedia), Serge Pesce (musician), Benoit Seyrat (musician), Sardine (visual artist, actress)
9:00 pm: Hurlements d’Léo [www.hurlements.com]
At the confluence of java, acoustic rock, and Eastern European music, the HDL (Howlers of Leo) sing around guitars, violins, accordions, trombones, drums, double basses, trumpets, saxophones, and piano that meet on stage.
Ministère des Affaires Populaires (festive popular rap) [www.map-site.fr]
MAP brings together two MCs, violin, accordion and machines. They lay their lyrics over Oriental, gypsy, or musette sounds. Militant and committed texts on festive and warm music.
In Vrac (songs with lyrics):
Accordions guitars, percussion, violin, flute, sax, and vocals for festive and sincere texts.
End of evening Videomaton
Saturday, March 31, 2007
From 10:30 am: “consuming differently”
From 11 am to 6 pm: Match and pilo initiation: The opportunity to (re)discover this Nice game or to confront in teams of 2.
Continuously from 11 am to 6 pm: Exchange of odds and ends, associative stands, local producers’ stands, and craft market.
12 pm: shared aperitif/meal (everyone brings something) with “Les Fanfarons des Diables Bleus”
From 2 pm to 4 pm: Roundtable discussions and workshops
Intermittency: Are social rights for artists a luxury?
Organic production: why choose another local production.
The environment: Fight in the Roya valley against the establishment of a waste disposal technology center
Free software: An alternative to Microsoft presentation and discussion
Writing workshop, paper creation workshop, expression wall, Graph performance by the association la Gamelle (continuously over the 3 days)
ALL THESE ACTIVITIES ARE OUTDOORS. IN CASE OF RAIN, PILOU, AND EXCHANGE OF ODDS AND ENDS CANCELED!
(Under the 300-place theater tent, improv match debate culture and social bond), jukurparvati and citizen cabaret)
2:00 pm: Theater Cie Tapenade (6 actors, workers in CAT of Vence) performs a work by Karl Valentine
These Gentlemen-Ladies “everyone” act as a mirror to those observing them. They explain the relationship between placidity, stupidity, and the joy of life.
3:00 pm: Dance Cie Antipode “Escale” A duet of dance theater for a meeting during a waltz.
3:30 pm: Creation performed by the theater workshop grain de Sable/CAT Epis “l’enfant Dieu de Melquiot”
Khalifa, a kid from Dakar, arrives straight to heaven and finds that God has left; he decided to do theater, and no one knows where the keys that open the doors of paradise are.
4:30 pm: Discussion “Culture and social bond” To know the participants RV on Blog 06.
6:00 pm: jukurparvati >> musical fusion, didgeridoo, tablas, Peul flute, Hang, and singing.
6:30 pm: Theatrical improvisation match with the troupe of CLAJ.
Two teams, topics drawn at random (and chosen by you), 3 minutes to think about them, and 2 minutes to play them in turn.
7:30 pm: citizen cabaret
Carte blanche to Johanna Piraino songs, theater, video, with Thierry Lagalla, Aurélie Peglion, and Christel Giumelli… for interactive performances!
9:00 pm: Concerts
Mélonious Quartet, Mandolin Quartet [www.meloniousquartet.com]
Mélonious Quartet shatters clichés about the mandolin, propelling it into a repertoire ranging from Poulenc to Zappa and from Brazilian choro to Mediterranean music.
Lo cor de la Plana, polyphony for dancing [www.myspace.com/locordelaplana]
(pronounced “lou couar de la plâne”) Six vibrant singers, accompanied by percussions (bendir and tamburello) and foot and hand tapping for a collective trance escalation.
Vidéomaton: This is a booth where anyone who wants can come and answer a specific question. Each evening, as part of the concerts, a montage of these interventions at the video booth will be broadcast.
