Je ne m’abaisse pas aux marches de ton palais

لا أصغر أمام بلاط أعتابك

  • Café des idées
  • Radio show

Making Waves Avignon

Ten live broadcasts giving voice to a youth engaging with the world.

Making Waves Avignon, Je ne m’abaisse pas aux marches de ton palais, 2025 © Anaïs Bottinelli / Festival d'Avignon

Presentation

Since its creation in 2019, Making Waves has been committed to amplifying the voices of a youth filled with questions, doubts, and aspirations. A heterogeneous and complex generation, caught in the turmoil of the world, overflowing with expectations and contradictions. Each day, in the heart of the Cloître Saint-Louis, microphones will be opened to young adults and their guests — artists, researchers, thinkers, citizens — to question the world and give voice to what, collectively, is unfolding, transforming, energizing, or igniting us all.

Je ne m’abaisse pas aux marches de ton palais
لا أصغر أمام بلاط أعتابك
Mahmoud Darwish

Distribution

With Kubra Khademi, Afghan artist and performer for One’s own room Inside Kabul, Milo Rau, director and head of the Vienna Festival – Wiener Festwochen for LA LETTRE, and Mathilde Schneider, Director of Communications at the French Development Agency
Hosted by Nil Léonce Ben Mbairik, Imane Bensouda, Léa Bardin-Doulière, Clément Chaize, Maylee Fiuzza, Maëlice Joyce Denis, Jade Grandmaire, Noan Hoareau-Muhl, Martin Laurent et Kawtar Waddi
In collaboration with the teams of Making Waves (France) and Les Bonnes Ondes (Morocco): Mohammed Bensaber, Hélène Bensoussan, Antoine Chao, Mehdi El Kindi, Pauline Josse, Fabienne Laumonier, Clément Nouguier, and Alexandre Plank

Production

Production Making Waves
In partnership with the Festival d’Avignon, MC93 Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis (Bobigny), Bonlieu Scène nationale d’Annecy, Les Bonnes Ondes (Casablanca), the Radio Campus France network, and sixty community radio stations
With the support of the French Development Agency (AFD), DILCRAH, DRIEETS 93, the Departmental Council of Seine-Saint-Denis, the French Embassy in Morocco, and the Institut Français of Morocco
Co-funded by the European Union

Practical infos

And…

LA LETTRE

Pièce commune / Volksstück
  • Show
  • Theatre
  • Itinérancy
  • Milo Rau

Le miroir brisé

المرآة المكسورة
  • Café des idées
  • Radio show
Making Waves Avignon

Le don du vide

هبة الفراغ
  • Café des idées
  • Radio show
With Making Waves

Free entrance