During the month of August, “Agir pour le Vivant” aims to organize a long-term program of local reflection and experimentation to rethink the way in which all living things interact with each other, and the way we live in the world today. This week will be punctuated by a program of demanding debates, in line with current events, bringing together multiple viewpoints and points of view from French and international speakers.
Are we capable of rediscovering our inseparable link with the living world and creating a new society? This is the question we’ll be tackling throughout the week, through the prism of economics, law, democracy, philosophy and literature.
An inspiring festival, open to all!
This year’s program (full program to follow) includes
>> Saturday, August 23
// EVENING
LA CHAPELLE DU MEJAN
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Free with registration
REVOLUTIONS OF OUR TIME
with the collective Les peuples veulent
Discussion from the Internationalist Manifesto
// PROJECTION
CINEMA DU MEJAN
9:00 pm – 11:40 pm
Méjan cinema box office
Doors open at 8:40 pm
In partnership with ARTE
SOUNDTRACK FOR A COUP D’ETAT
by Johan Grimonprez
>> Sunday, August 24
// SCREENING & DISCUSSION
THE MEJAN CHAPEL
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
8€
LE GRAND ENTRETIEN
Screening of Achille Mbembe’s Le Grand Entretien, followed by a discussion with Achille Mbembe, historian and philosopher.
Moderated by Sarah Marniesse, AFD campus
// ROUND TABLE
THE MEJAN CHAPEL
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
8€
A DETOUR THROUGH UTOPIA
Discussion in collaboration with and moderated by Socialter
With Alice Carabédian, philosopher, Corinne Morel Darleux, author
Moderated by Christelle Gilabert, journalist
// MUSIC
PLACE NINA BERBEROVA
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Free
APERO DJ SET BY THE DISCOTHEQUE NATIONALE DE BELGIQUE
in partnership with Mediathèque Nouvelle
// EVENING
MÉJAN CHAPEL
9:30 pm – 11:00 pm
Full price €13 – Reduced price €10
L’ADN FANTÔME
Performed reading, embodied debate
>> Monday, August 25
// A COFFEE WITH
PLACE NINA BERBEROVA
09h00 – 10h00
Free with registration
WHAT KIND OF NATURE DO WE WANT TO DEFEND?
A café with Emma Bigé, philosopher and translator
Moderator: Clémentine Labrosse, journalist and curator, Censored
// ROUND TABLE
MÉJAN CHAPEL
10:30am – 12:30pm
Free with registration
PRACTICES OF RELATIONAL DISSIDENCE
With Cy Lecerf Maulpoix, author and researcher, Alexandra Picheta, PhD student in Gender Studies, Université Paris 8, Harriet de Gouge, activist and author.
Moderator: Clémentine Labrosse, journalist and curator, Censored
// LECTURE PERFORMENCE
MÉJAN CHAPEL
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
8€
with Emma Bigé, Myriam Rabah-Konaté, Mabeuko Oberty, translators and dancers
// WORKSHOP
CINEMA DU MÉJAN
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Free
HYMNS OF REVOLT
Listening room with Mediathèque Nouvelle
// WORKSHOP
LE DOJO – PLACE NINA BERBEROVA
2pm – 4pm
5€
WHAT OUR BODIES SAY ABOUT THE TERRITORIES WE INHABIT
Body and territory workshop – mixed-gender talking circle with Isabelle Hillenkamp
// WORKSHOP
LE DOJO – PLACE NINA BERBEROVA
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
5€
ECRIRE NOS DISPARITIONS DESIRABLES
Writing workshop with Annabelle and François from La Disparition
// LECTURE CONFERENCE
MÉJAN CHAPEL
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
8€
EDWARD CARPENTER, DREAMS OF A DIFFERENT KIND
With Cy Lecerf Maulpoix, author and researcher, and Simon Guélat, actor
// GROUP DISCUSSION
PLACE NINA BERBEROVA
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Free with registration
BETWEEN FRANCE AND BRAZIL, CONVERGENCES AND SPECIFICITIES IN THE SOCIAL STRUGGLES OF BLACK FEMINISTS.
CROSSROADS FOR A DESIRABLE FUTURE AT THE HEART OF LIFE.
// MUSIC
PLACE NINA BERBEROVA
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Free with registration
APERO DJ SET BY THE DISCOTHÈQUE NATIONALE DE BELGIQUE
In partnership with Mediathèque Nouvelle
// EVENING
LA CHAPELLE DU MEJAN
9:00 pm – 10:30 pm
Full price €10 – Reduced price €10
TALES FROM ANOTHER NIGHT
Carte blanche with Censored and Clémentine Labrosse, journalist and curator
With Audrey Couppé de Kermadec, poet, Léa Rivière, poet, Romain Noël, researcher and poet, and Low Lov, musician.
>> Tuesday, August 26
// SOUND PERFORMANCE
MEJAN CHAPEL
08:30am – 9:00am
Free with registration
PAISATGES SONORS QUE HAN DE PERDURAR
Sound performance by Nahun Saldana
// A COFFEE WITH
PLACE NINA BERBEROVA
09:00 am – 10:00 am
Free with registration
BANZEIRO ÒKÒTÓ
A Café with Eliane Brum, Brazilian journalist, writer and documentary filmmaker
// ROUND TABLE
MÉJAN CHAPEL
10:30am – 12:30pm
8€
LIVING IN A FREE LAND
With Omar Alsoumi, founder of the Collectif Urgence Palestine and farmer, Françoise Vergès, author, feminist anti-racist decolonial activist and independent curator.
// ROUND TABLE
MÉJAN CHAPEL
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
8€
AGAINST THE EXTREME RIGHT: BUILDING A RADICAL ECOLOGICAL FRONT
With Ugo Palheta, sociologist, Association A4, works to build a dynamic of reception, training, access to work and administrative support for people with or without papers in the fields of agriculture and crafts, Charlotte, Soulèvements de la Terre
// WORKSHOP
CINEMA DU MÉJAN
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Free
In partnership with Arte Radio
WHAT TO DO WITH THE SOUND ARCHIVES OF BIODIVERSITY?
Collective listening to the documentary series Le Chant de l’Extinction – followed by a discussion with journalist and author Jeanne-Marie Desnos.
// WORKSHOP
LE DOJO – PLACE NINA BERBEROVA
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
5€
MOBILISATION GENIALE CONTRE LA LIGNE A TRES HAUTE TENSION!
Workshop to create and distribute a collective newspaper with Camille Escoubet, Super Loto Editions
// WORKSHOP
PLACE NINA BERBEROVA
2pm – 4pm
5€
CLIMATOSCCEPTIC FAKE NEWS; UNRAVELING THE HOT FROM THE COLD
Media decryption workshop with Anne Brès, author of Tout comprendre (ou presque) sur le climat, published by CNRS.
// GROUP DISCUSSION
PLACE NINA BERBEROVA
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Free with registration
OUTFLANKING BOLLORÉ
With Clémentine Labrosse, journalist and curator, Censored, Pascale Obolo, editor of the art magazine AFRIKADAA, curator and filmmaker-researcher, Maria Kakogianni, author
// GROUP DISCUSSION
PLACE NINA BERBEROVA
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Free with registration
REPORTING FROM THE COUNTRYSIDE
Discussion with Marion Touboul and Elsa Souchay, journalists with the Champ libre Occitanie collective.
// PERFORMANCE
PLACE NINA BERBEROVA
7:30pm – 8:30pm
Free with registration
APERITIVO ANTIFASCISTA by Floriane Facchini & Cie
With Floriane Facchini, author, director, investigator and culinary artist, Pascal Severa, director of Citron jaune, Thibault Nacam, cook, Clarisse Le Bas, ethnobotanist and wild plant gatherer.
// MOVIE NIGHT
LA CROISIERE
9:30 pm – 11:30 pm
Full price €13 – Reduced price €10
CARTE BLANCHE AUTRES BRESILS – EMPATE, SÉRGIO DE CARVALHO, 2018, 90′
Followed by a discussion with Angela Mendes, environmental activist and defender of the rights of indigenous peoples, and Eliane Brum, journalist and activist, moderated by Patrick Piro, member of the Autres Brésils association.
>> Wednesday, August 27
// A COFFEE WITH
PLACE NINA BERBEROVA
09h00 – 10h00
Free with registration
GETTING OUT OF THE GRIP OF THE MEGA MACHINE
Coffee with Fanny Lopez, technical historian
// WALKING CONVERSATION
DEPARTURE PLACE NINA BERBEROVA
10:30am – 12:30pm
5€
CONVERSATION MARCHEE ABOUT DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES IN THE BOUCHES DU RHÔNE REGION
with Léonce, Anti and Ouarda from the le Nuage était sous nos pieds collective, Jean-Luc Moya from the Stop THT collective and spokesman for the Mediterranean wetlands alliance (to be confirmed) and Bernard Genet, former sales executive at the Port Autonome de Marseille-Fos and member of the association Histoire et mémoire contemporaine du Port de Marseille.
// MEETING
PLACE NINA BERBEROVA
10:00am – 12:00pm
Free
SALT ON STAGE, TERRITORY AT STAKE
THE SALT PROCESS: THE CAMARGUE IMAGINES ITS FUTURE
with Raphaël Mathevet, CNRS research director
// WORKSHOP
PLACE NINA BERBEROVA
10:30am – 12:30pm
5€
TOWARDS A DEMOCRATIC SHARING OF ENERGY
Survey workshop of the Petit manuel de démocratie énergétique with Coop des Milieux
// WORKSHOP
MEJAN CINEMA
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Free
LISTEN TO THE END OF THE WORLD
Médiathèque Nouvelle listening room
For informed public: sensitive content, from 15 years old
// WORKSHOP
PLACE NINA BERBEROVA
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Free with registration
2 one-hour sessions
WHAT IF THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENED?
with the Red Cross
// ROUND TABLE
MEJAN CHAPEL
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
8 €
FIGHTING AGAINST THE DIGITAL WORLD: ELEMENTS OF TECHNOCRITICAL REFLECTION
With David Maenda Kithoko, president of Génération Lumière, Ophélie Coelho, researcher in digital geopolitics, doctoral associate at the Centre Internet et Société (CNRS) Marcelle Dulac, members of the collective Les Soulèvements de la Terre
// ROUND TABLE
MEJAN CHAPEL
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
8 €
A CONTRE COURANT, UN AUTRE NUMERIQUE EST-IL POSSIBLE?
With Noémie Levain, in charge of legal and political analysis at La Quadrature du Net, Agnès Crépet, Software Engineering Manager at Fairphone, Doriane Timmermans, artist, designer and developer, working on sensitive cultures and digital languages.
// ASSEMBLEE POPULAIRE
PLACE NINA BERBEROVA
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Free with registration
REDISCOVERING OUR DEMOCRATIC POWERS
With Tristan Rechid, local democracy agitator, Pierre Leroy, former mayor of Puy Saint André and president of the Pays Grand Briançonnais, Karine Banderier, trainer and facilitator for ecological and democratic transitions, Albane Roussot, agronomist and facilitator of territorial transition projects.
// EXHIBITION – BANQUET
PLACE NINA BERBEROVA
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Free with registration
EXPOSITION – BANQUET DE RESTITUTION DE L’UNIVERSITE DU VIVANT #3
with the 3rd graduating class of the Université du Vivant, the program’s coordinating team: Maxime Robert, animator Marie Messager, coordinator, Valentin Heinrich, programmer and Tom Hebrard, co-founder, cultural and educational development at the Tiers-lieu Paysan de la Martinière.
// CONCERT EVENING
LA CROISIERE
from 9pm
Full price €13 – Reduced price €10
BELEM NIGHT – CARTE BLANCHE AT THE SE RASGUM FESTIVAL
Proposed by Isadora Dartial, journalist and curator
With Félix Robatto, Henrique Maia and Adriano Sousa, and DJ Nat Esquema
