VIVANT, A cultural Season for biodiversity

2020-2021
All over France, highlight in Marseille
VIVANT, a Cultural Season for Biodiversity, is an exceptional cultural event conceived and supported by COAL, which took place in the context of the IUCN World Conservation Congress to mobilise public opinion and the public sphere on biodiversity issues through art. It was also part of the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention for Biological Diversity.
The VIVANT Season has evolved in line with covid. Its first stage took place from March 2020 to January 2021 with a national agenda that brought together more than 300 events throughout France. Following the postponement of the World Conservation Congress, from 3 to 11 September 2021, VIVANT reappeared in September 2021 with a series of eco-cultural events in Marseille: an exhibition bringing together twelve artists committed to the living world within the Congress’ Nature Generation Spaces, evening performances at the Marseilles Natural History Museum with the Cie du Singe Debout, a monumental fresco by the artist Fikos in the city centre punctuated by workshops and talks about birds, professional training for Sustainable Culture, a performance by the collective L’Envers d’un monde, winners of the 2020 COAL – Culture & Diversity student prize, a meeting on art and ecology at the Pavillon France, and a calendar of cultural events on the theme of life offered by the Season’s partner structures.
VIVANT, a cultural Season for Biodiversity, is part of the general context of the sixth mass extinction that threatens the diversity of living beings, affecting both species and ecosystems. In France, 18% of species, i.e. nearly one species in five, are already considered extinct or threatened. By weaving a cultural programme for the preservation of life, VIVANT wishes to contribute to renewing representations, to integrate biodiversity into our common culture and thus to contribute to a profound awareness, the only real motor for action on an individual and collective scale.
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