See you on 6/09 “Culture and ecology: towards the great change?”

On Tuesday September 6, Think Culture Day will bring together cultural professionals to discuss the issue of climate change and ecological transition. On this occasion, the Foundation has invited its partners involved in cultural and scientific projects to come and share their experience. Registration is open!

A day dedicated to innovation in the management of Culture

The challenges of climate change and the ecological transition are increasingly resonating in the practices and reflections of actors in the world of art and culture. Live performance, cultural industries, visual arts, museums and heritage… All sectors are concerned: what are the profound transformations in production and distribution methods? This is the theme of this annual day of sharing and reflection organized by News Tank Culture on September 6, 2022, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and which will bring together 79 speakers over the course of 20 conferences.

What are the necessary challenges to acquired behaviours and habits, for example in terms of mobility, the circulation of works and artists? How are professionals preparing to face these changes, and what new relationships are resulting from them with the public? Can science, new technologies and digital technology help the cultural sector to adapt, and what public policies are they entitled to expect to guide and support it? Reduce, relocate, slow down? It is indeed a new balance that is sought between freedom of creation and the growing vitality of cultural life on the one hand, and these new imperatives on the other.

” For 12 years, we have been promoting art as the cement of citizenship and an actor of change to meet the challenges of the contemporary world. This is why, to encourage collaborations between artists and scientists and to try to build desirable futures, we have chosen to theme the 2021 “Composing Knowledge” call for projects on this issue of the climate emergency. As the initiator of the manifestos of the philanthropic climate coalitions, the Foundation naturally joined this event for cultural professionals as part of its Citizen Art axis ,” explains Alice Callegarin-Demangeat, Citizen Art Project Manager at the Foundation.

Find the day’s programme https://culture.newstank.fr/thinkculture2022

Sign up! https://culture.newstank.fr/thinkculture2022/register

Citizen Art, mobilizing in the face of the ecological crisis

In order to inspire and fuel reflections on this major subject, the Foundation wanted to give a voice to its partners who think about and implement artistic initiatives, involving several fields of research and practices in order to build new imaginaries allowing our societies to engage in the ecological transition imposed by the degradation of climatic conditions. Winners of the 2021 call for projects “Composing knowledge to imagine a sustainable future”, they will come to testify to their experience and know-how during two meetings.

2:30 pm -3:30 pm “Professionals and ecology: what training, mobilization, organization?”

With Marc Feldman, general administrator of the Orchestre national de Bretagne, whose Ponant project we support.

3:45 pm to 4:45 pm “Artists’ initiatives for a just and ecological transition”

This expert-room will be moderated by Victoire Dubruel, instructor for the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation with:

• Elise Alloin, Visual artist, involved in the “Demain Fessenheim” project at La Kunstalle Mulhouse
• Edwine Fournier and Sébastien Molliex, Archaeographers and co-artistic directors of the Compagnie Tangible, for the project “Les boulets de broyeurs à charbon” in Vitry-sur-Seine
• Chloé Latour, Co-director of the Collectif Where to Land? and Jean-Pierre Seyvos, Composer and director, founder and co-artistic director of S-composition and member of the Collectif Où atterrir? for the project “Critical Zone: Controversies in Action in Sevran” of the Théâtre de la Poudrerie
• Mickaël Chouquet and Balthazar Daninos, directors and actors, members of the n+1 Group and co-directors of the Vélo Théâtre, a subsidized stage in Apt, committed to the zLes banquets du vivant project

No discipline can embrace alone, represent and even less propose responsible solutions to the climate emergency. Researchers, creators, professionals, students from all walks of life can embark together on other paths, freeing themselves from dominant models and frameworks. We are convinced that their common mobilization around the uncertainties that weigh on our vision of the future is necessary for us to imagine tomorrow.

We look forward to seeing you again and discussing it with you on Tuesday, September 6th!