Symbols of the success of cultural decentralisation, of cultural appropriation by local authorities, festivals today represent the most suitable instrument of cultural cooperation and irrigation for the diversity of territories, one of those that have shaped the French cultural landscape as we know it. These exchanges will be illustrated by the presentation of the first national mapping of festivals.

With Edwige Millery, referent of the Territorial Dynamics Unit at the DEPS-Doc, Emmanuel Négrier, research director at the CNRS and director of Cepel, Michel Bissière, regional councillor in charge of artistic and cultural life, South Region, Paul Rondin, deputy director of the Avignon Festival and co-president of France Festivals

Moderated by Alexandra Bobes director of France Festivals