Café des idées

150 minutes
French spoken
COMMENT L’ART ET LES ARTISTES PRENNENT SOIN DE NOTRE DÉMOCRATIE ET DE NOTRE VIVRE ENSEMBLE ?
The Café des idées is a luminous café. It's a multi-faceted and, above all, welcoming place where people can speak out, discuss ideas, share their thoughts or unveil their criticisms. Launched by the new management of the Festival d'Avignon, it is one of the beating hearts of the summer event, and is now resonating in Hauts-de-France, at the invitation of the Region.
For its first stopover in Valenciennes, in partnership with the NEXT Festival, the Café des idées will invite Tiago Rodrigues (writer, director and director of the Avignon Festival), artists, leading figures from civil society and the political sphere, and members of the public, to discuss how artists can help us to think about and understand the crises that are shaking our democracies today. 
With :
Lorraine De Sagazan
- author and stage director, Cie La Brèche
Alexandre Fray - acrobat, Cie Un loup pour l'Homme
Tiago Rodrigues - author, stage director and director of the Avignon Festival
Isabelle Sentis - art therapist, association La Fabric'art
Frédéric Worms - philosopher, director of the Ecole Normale Supérieure-PSL

Moderated by
Zineb Soulaimani
- Programme Manager, Le Beau Bizarre
Organised by Région Hauts-de-France and the Festival d'Avignon as part of the NEXT Festival and the Rencontres du Spectacle Vivant en Hauts-de-France.