Culture: by what right? - 02

The Aix-en-Provence and Avignon festivals are joining forces this year at the Rencontres d'Arles  for a theme-based rendezvous that is in line with the European Year for combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. Exclusion mechanisms are very closely linked to the ideas of access to knowledge or culture, the acceptance of the other and differences, to that of the common good and fundamental rights. A number of artists, artistic projects and cultural operators are directly concerned by these questions and are attempting to find concrete answers, open doors and create links and meaning. These examples question society at the moment when the European Union is making the fight against poverty and exclusion one of the pillars of its policy for the next 10 years.

Certain artists are giving a growing place in their creation processes to people who come from socially excluded milieus: how can the meaning of these approaches be understood? What is the basis of these artists' desires? What enrichment can the participants draw from them?

Proposed by the Festival d'Avignon, the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence and the Rencontres d'Arles
With the support of the Programme Culture de la Commission européenne in partnership with France Culture and Courrier international