With the Judicial Youth Protection

In autumn, some young people from the Alpes-Vaucluse Youth Judicial Protection set down their bags at La FabricA for a total immersion benefiting from the same conditions as a professional artists' residence. They work on a comic strip chosen by the Alpes-Vaucluse Youth Judicial Protection. 

These young people and their educators are surrounded by members of the Primesautier Théâtre company, Julie Minck, Antoine Wellens and Virgile Simon. A week of writing, theatrical practice and technical awareness.

At the same time, discussion forums are being set up to pool everyone's opinions, feelings and thoughts, thanks to the insight and experience of professionals and witnesses, so that they can deepen their knowledge and debate the themes of their creation. 

The week ends with a performance in front of a hundred or so spectators, followed by a time of exchange with the public.

Participants from the judicial protection of young people experience a creative process, accompanied by three artists from the Primesautier Théâtre company at La FabricA.

The conditions of the residency are identical to those in professional working conditions, to create a space where young people's voices can be heard and valued. This year, young people and professionals from the Alpes-Vaucluse, Alpes-Maritimes and Gard-Lozère youth protection services are taking an interest in a major event that will lead them to dissect and deconstruct the Olympic Games. How and why did this great organised jubilation make us vibrate with joy or anger? How and why does it impact on our lives and our environment? The values of sport, sport as a political tool, sport as spectacle, sport vs physical activity... These notions are taken in hand and put back into play in a strange theatrical and sporting ceremony. Echoing the exhibition History, Sport & Citizenship from the Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris in 2024, the young people and their support team will be immersed in the subject from 20 to 25 October at La FabricA at the Avignon Festival. Enriched by exchanges with experts (top sportsmen and women, historians, journalists), these everyday athletes offer us their views as citizens during these ‘Olympics of argument’ to check whether every medal has its reverse side.

With the support of the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles de la Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, the Préfecture de Vaucluse as part of its urban policy and the Mission de veille et d'information.

With the support of Marie-Hélène Orthous, university professor, Névil Gagnepain, journalist, Sonia Pallin, world karate champion and director of the PJJ Sud-Est, CASDEN, the restaurant Graines de Piment and the association VOLT par l'image et le son.

For a week, several young people under the care of the Protection judiciaire de la jeunesse (PJJ) Alpes-Vaucluse, along with their educators and psychologists, will be working with Julie Minck, Antoine Wellens and Virgile Simon, performers and directors from the Primesautier Théâtre company. Based on the comic strip La Fantaisie des dieux, Rwanda 1994 by Hippolyte and Patrick de Saint Exupéry, they are staging a play combining documentation and fiction. Through the eyes of Patrick de Saint Exupéry, a journalist, and discussions with Kala Neza, a witness to the genocide, and Lionel Boulat, head of priority public partnerships at the Camp des Milles. A unique experience of life and creation. A week in professional conditions, conducive to the development of the word, at the FabricA of the Festival d'Avignon, where everyone living here was able to work and live. A project of the Protection judiciaire de la jeunesse Alpes-Vaucluse and the Festival d'Avignon with the Primesautier Théâtre.

With the support of the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles de la Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, the Préfecture de Vaucluse as part of its urban policy and the Mission de veille et d'information.

With the support of Patrick de Saint Exupéry, Kala Neza, Lionel Boulat from Camp des milles and the VOLT association through image and sound.

With thanks to Éditions Les Arènes.

Young people from Avignon, Carpentras and Orange took part in the work based on the comic book L'Odyssée d'Hakim by Fabien Toulmé © éditions Delcourt, which they all directed. A play between documentation and fiction on the theme of exile. They benefited from the experience of photojournalist Louis Witter, who has documented the evacuation of migrant camps near Calais. 

A professional videographer from the association VOLT L'image par le son made a documentary on this week and creation which was screened after the performance.

With the support of the Direction régionale des Affaires culturelles de la Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, the Préfecture de Vaucluse in the framework of the Politique de la Ville and the Mission nationale de veille et d'information

Young people from Avignon, Montfavet and Carpentras took part in a project based on Robert Badinter's fight and its adaptation into a comic strip L'abolition, le combat de Robert Badinter (NE), by Marie Bardiaux-Vaïente and Malo Kerfriden © Editions Glénat, 2021.

With the Primesautier Théâtre company, they tackled the subject of the death penalty and immersed themselves in history. They discovered the thoughts of Victor Hugo and Albert Camus, without whom, as Robert Badinter wrote: "this fight would not have had the same emotional strength or the same moral intensity".

With the support of the Direction régionale des Affaires culturelles de la Région Provence Alpes-Côte d'Azur, the Préfecture de Vaucluse in the framework of the City Policy and the Mission de veille et d'information. With the support of Ceméa, Amnesty International and Canopé Thanks to Glénat Éditions, Editions Gallimard and the Camus estate