L’article Season VIVANT in Marseille est apparu en premier sur COAL.

On September 9th, 10th and 11th, Jade & Cyril – Cie du Singe Debout invest the Natural History Museum of Marseille with 3 evening performances around the theme: “6th extinction: These Others, what do they have to tell us? In the rooms of the new permanent exhibition “Terre d’évolution”, the artists of the Cie du Singe Debout will propose a singular and original journey in the form of a joyful, serious and poetic bestiary on the theme of the 6th extinction of life and in echo to the collections.

The extinction of life questions our capacity to coexist with the biodiversity that is our foundation; it leads us to redefine the borders, to invent new forms of diplomacy with what, within us and outside us, does not want to be domesticated. The letter ” Message from the Others, sent from: the forest, the desert, the sea, the prairie ” by Paul Shepard, philosopher, will be the red thread of this journey conceived and performed by the Cie du Singe Debout.

In the rooms of the Museum of Natural History, she will evoke the 6th extinction in music, words, images and masks and our link to the living in metamorphoses through humanimals bodies.

Will we be left with only the ghosts of what we loved or feared from this world of the living? It is in a procession of ghostly animals (pangolin masks, golden eagle, polar bear and dragonfly) on the sound of the famous red list of endangered species, with clarinet and concert of bells, that we will be asked this question to us, “concerned living”.

For years, the company has been trying to bring out, through hybridity, the point of view of the other, the non-human, thus becoming a messenger of another relationship to the living.

Conception and direction : Jade Duviquet
With : Cyril Casmèze : actor, zoomorphic performer / Jean-François Hoel : musician, noisemaker / Sandra Abouav : dancer, zoomorphic performer / David Mornet : actor, performer / Jade Duviquet : actor, director
Assistant : David Mornet
Sound and music : Jean-Marc Istria and Jean-François Hoël
Costumes and masks: Jade Duviquet, Marie-Hélène Répetto and Isabelle Le Pors
Construction and lighting advice : Vincent Tudoce
Drawings : Anne Buxerolle

3 evening performances ” 6th extinction : These others, what do they have to tell us ?

September 9, 10, 11, 2021
Duration : 50 mn to 1 hour
Schedule: 6:30 pm and 8:30 pm
Free of charge, on reservation at 04 91 14 59 55

ABOUT THE NIGHT SAFARIS AT THE MARSEILLE MUSEUM

Launched at the beginning of the year 2000, under a new form, evenings called “Night Safaris” were organized by the Museum of Marseille in order to make the public discover its collections under the prism of artistic performances and the questioning, unceasingly renewed, of our relationship with the Living. They take place in the heart of the immense rooms of the permanent exhibition of the bicentennial establishment, in the middle of the naturalized animals and other specimens exposed: Giraffes, elephants, bears, thylacines, fishes, parrots, lions, fossils, skulls of hominids, sea urchins, insects and plants… wild species, endangered species, extinct species…

Initially proposed in the form of storytelling wanderings, by the light of flashlights, these evenings were a great success with the public. Over the course of the editions and the opportunities for artistic collaboration, other forms of representation have been experimented with. The tales have been joined by all the disciplines of live performance to create unusual performances and reach a different audience. In 2021, after more than two years of work and a complete redesign of the Museum’s exhibition spaces, the night safaris will unfold the geological time line up to the 6th extinction and question our ability to inhabit this biodiversity that we are weakening and which is nevertheless essential to us.

THE COMPANY OF THE STANDING MONKEY

Jade Duviquet and Cyril Casmèze mix their universes: she, theater and letters, he, geography and circus. From their common passion for animality and the living; she, raised in the countryside with animals; he, who has been an animal since childhood, they created the Compagnie du Singe Debout. For years, they have been exploring the porosity between human and non-human animals. They apply themselves to disturb the border built between the Man and the Animal to override a disastrous relationship with the living based on domination, domestication and oblivion. The body and the word are summoned and impoverished to make emerge what exceeds a conventional and tired reality. The embodiment of the animal through precise gestures allows us to decentralize our gaze and to reinterrogate our relationship with the living, to find a buried proximity.

The Company has the will toassociate different artistic mediums for multidisciplinary shows in theater where it works with artists (dancers, actors, musicians, visual artists) that it leads into the animality and its questioning on the Living. These are shows based on authors such as Franz Kafka, Edouard Levé, Elisabeth de Fontenay.

Jade and Cyril continue this research in performances around metamorphosis, hybridity and the cohabitation of the living. By investing urban places (bridges, public squares, museums, contemporary art centers) and so-called wild spaces (forests) in packs or alone, the Company creates a less vertical way of treading on what surrounds us: the renunciation of a constant bipedalism in an already humanized setting summons humility and gives rise to a form of de-hierarchized life.

For their shows and their research on animality and the living, they meet philosophers, scientists, historians and writers such as Vinciane Despret, Etienne Bimbenet, Pierre-Olivier Dittmar, Nastassja Martin, Anne de Malleray, Anne Simon. With these researchers in a common desire to transmit and thanks to their curiosity and their availability on stage, Jade & Cyril create then and develop since more than five years the concept of “skidding conferences”. To mix arts and sciences to decompartmentalize and put in movement the knowledge and to create the sensitive, the in situ and the immediate.

Image credits: poster © Cie du Singe Debout ; rehearsals of the Cie du Singe debout : les animaux fantômes ©David TELLO

L’article Three evening performances: the Cie du Singe Debout at the Natural History Museum of Marseille – VIVANT Season est apparu en premier sur COAL.

In the heart of the IUCN World Conservation Congress, the circus collective “L’Envers d’un monde” will question the attention of the spectators through ephemeral events. It is a project of ambulatory circus inspired by the place, in direct link with the space of the Congress and its visitors.

L’Envers d’un monde puts into play and into movement, by a circus performance implanted in the heart of a natural space, the excess and the realism of our world, in this interstice between human freedom and that of the Earth. With this show, circus art takes up the issues of consumption and mass production, which destroy ecosystems, to overturn the strongest symbols and question it in all its aspects, material, relational, physical and emotional. Mixing in turn, acro-dance, tight wire, manipulation of objects, maxillary suspension, this group of five international circus artists gives to see and to retranscribe a dizzying and acrobatic danger, far from the rectilinear ways of morality.

The setting is that of a human zoo, located in a dystopian future but never far from the reality in which we live. By inscribing itself in a defined natural space, and by creating a contrast with it, L’envers d’un monde invites the public to approach this space from a new angle. Around this performance, cultural actions of environmental awareness will be proposed over several days with the local population.

An immersive walk, like a collective expedition, will open the journey bringing the spectators to the place of the show. This one becomes then the junction of the living: an intergenerational public, accomplice of a singular artistic form, registered in a natural space. The contrast between fiction and reality, dreams and nightmares, laughter and despair, are tools to talk about today’s world, stemming from the circus whose very essence is to be a living art, an art of reality.

“L’Envers d’un monde” was the 2020 winner of the COAL – Culture & Diversity Student Prize, which supports the mobilization of art students for ecology.

This show is realized within the framework of a residency in the Regional Nature Reserve of La Massonne, in partnership with the Nature Reserves of France.

Carte blanche to L’Envers d’un monde

IUCN World Conservation Congress – Parc Chanot, Marseille
Meeting at 3pm at the central set of the Espaces Générations Nature
September 7, 2021, 3pm – 6pm

L’article The Other Side of the World: Performance at the IUCN World Conservation Congress – Season VIVANT est apparu en premier sur COAL.

In the French Pavilion, artists committed to ecology, nominated and awarded the COAL Art and Ecology Prize, present their projects as ways to reweave our sensitivity to life, to rethink our relationship with the environment, to be attentive to other forms of life, to renew our images and our collective imaginations, to invent new paradigms and other ways of being in the world All these artists testify, imagine, experiment and work for a world more respectful of the living and the ecological balance. An event in partnership with the Museum of Hunting and Nature and the French Office of Biodiversity with the intervention of Pierre Dubreuil, Director General of the OFB or his representative.

Highlight COAL on the French Pavilion
Pavillon France – Parc Chanot, Marseille
September 6, 2021, 2pm – 2:30pm
Free admission

Image credit: Paul Duncombe, Manicouagan, 2015-2020. Satellite imagery © 2020 Planet for the Planet, Skysat, and RapidEye

L’article COAL highlight on the French Pavilion of the IUCN World Conservation Congress – VIVANT season est apparu en premier sur COAL.

In the Espaces Générations Nature COAL presents an exhibition of twelve artists committed to the living. All of them have been nominated for the COAL Prize, which rewards every year artists committed to ecology, who testify, imagine, experiment and work for a world that is more respectful of life and ecological balance.

IN THE BOWELS OF THE LIVING

The living is made of a multitude of links that weave it, unsuspected and invisible, from the underground of the Earth to the limbo of the atmosphere. Far from being a fixed sum of species and ecosystems, it forms a sprawling and teeming network that is constantly evolving, moving and interacting. We are part of this great living fabric, which surrounds us at the same time as it constitutes us, inextricably linked to it, to the respiration of plants, to the activity of microbes, to the mutations of viruses…

A CULTURAL APPROACH TO NATURE

The ecological crisis we are currently experiencing reminds us of this intimate link, eroded by centuries of mental constructs separating humans from the rest of the living world, which we call “nature”. If this ecological crisis is that of a nature in danger, badly treated by our activities, that of a biodiversity which collapses and a climate which is disrupted; it is especially the crisis of a culture, that of our relation to the living.

Therefore, who better than artists to reweave this sensitivity to lifeTo rethink our relationship with the environment, to be attentive to other forms of life, to renew our images and our collective imagination, to invent new paradigms and other ways of being in the world… to reveal both the fragility of the latter and its extreme richness?

TWELVE ARTISTS FOR THE LIVING

The twelve artists in this exhibition have been nominated for the COAL Prize. Mobilized alongside nature conservationists and in close collaboration with other disciplines, they are generating individual and collective initiatives and offering new exploratory and sensitive avenues to confront this crisis of the living world. They invite us, finally, to invent new ways of being in connection with the living, and thus better defend it.

In connection with a multidisciplinary team, Maria Lucia Cruz Correia seeks to link artistic practice and the ecology of repair. It thus sets up collective action protocols that contribute to the regeneration of lost landscapes. They can take the form of a “Contract for a watercourse”, aiming to activate the potential for attention to the watercourses.

Convinced of the power of images and their capacity to transform collective imaginations, Minerva Cuevas intervenes in the public space with irony and humor, through the distribution of posters. For the Congress, she creates a photomontage, where elements of the animal and mechanical world are superimposed on a National Geographic cover. Omnipresent in our daily life, emblem of freedom and social prestige, but also symbol of alienation, consumerism and pollution, the car obscures the exotic fish. The figure of a prancing zebra alludes to the rebellion and resilience of the living.

Anthony Duchêne presents a set of drawings and sculptures resulting from his collaboration with farmers and wine growers. Together they develop in situ installations that promote the development of biodiversity, making the soil, the plant landscape and the mineral world, the fertile ground of his works and vice versa.

Paul Duncombe unveils a landform of extraterrestrial origin: the Manicouagan impact crater in Canada, nicknamed the Eye of Quebec, formed by a falling meteorite 214 million years ago. It paints an artistic portrait of this teeming territory, from the reclamation of the site by plants, insects and other living species, to the first indigenous cultures.

With Photosynthesis, Lia Giraud shows the thousands of pieces of waste recovered in the port of Marseille, the entry point to the Mediterranean, between 2016 and 2020, during the operations of the Vieux-Port Propre. The work “Photographic Inventory of the Invisible” reveals all these abandoned and neglected objects, submerged in water. It evokes the anguish of a marine pollution that we do not see, and questions the relationship we have with our environment.

The plant as a source of artistic supply, is the heart of Louis Guillaume ‘s project which aims to reconnect artistic practice with the cycle of the seasons by developing know-how around natural materials, specific to each period of the year. The original and monumental work presented here is made from the seeds of Stipa tenuissima, a member of the grass family.

Through a short film that features a Turkish dove rescued by the artists, the duo Hypercomf questions the limits of comfort and discomfort, describes the interactions between organic and inorganic elements, and examines the parallel roles of the hunter and the hunted in our new domesticated reality. The cerebral comfort sessions offered by the internet and technology are superimposed on the images of our vulnerability.

Like the early herbalists and botanists, who collected plants for medicinal study, Lucy + Jorge Orta ‘s character has carefully assembled a colorful and diverse collection of floral species and arranged them on a linen tarp. This figure of the Guardian of Nature, who saves this threatened biodiversity in a Red Cross stretcher, summons the Earth and its vital organ, the Amazonian forest, as a wounded body to be treated and healed.

Spela Petric presents a half-plant, half-digital installation that stages new playful interactions between plants, machine learning and artificial intelligence at a time when computational abstraction and algorithmic governance have become our reality.

Victor Remère ‘s project is to install connected wild beehives on the military grounds of the Saint-Mandrier peninsula. Conceived as artistic, scientific and craft objects, these digital beehives would allow to experiment the cohabitation between production beehives and wild beehives, to observe the interactions and possible benefits of such a neighborhood, and to better understand the behavior of bees and the threats they face.

Éléonore Saintagnan sets out to replay a little-known historical event in the history of China under Mao, which in itself condenses the issues surrounding the disappearance of sparrows, whose population has dropped by 95% in thirty years. It initiates collective actions and encourages the mobilization of young people and artists in connection with associations and scientists, promoting the reintroduction of the species in the city, and recalling the links of interdependence between humans and sparrows. A series of photos retrace these actions.

Exhibition VIVANT
Espaces Générations Nature – Parc Chanot, Marseille
From September 3 to 11, 2021
Inaugural visit on September 4 at 4pm

Špela Petrič, Institute for Inconspicuous Languages: Reading Lips, 2018
Éléonore Saintagnan, The Sparrows of Trégain, 2020. Photography : Benoît Mauras. Éléonore Saintagnan

L’article Living, IUCN World Conservation Congress – Living Season est apparu en premier sur COAL.

After a national agenda in 2020 that brought together more than 300 events throughout France, VIVANT returns in 2021 with a series of eco-cultural events in Marseille. On the program: an exhibition bringing together twelve artists committed to the living within the Espaces Générations Nature of the Congress, the evening performances at the Natural History Museum of Marseille with the Cie du Singe Debout, a monumental fresco of the artist Fikos in the city center, punctuated by workshops and talks about birds professional trainings for a Sustainable Culture, a circus performance of the 2020 winners of the COAL – Culture & Diversity student prize, a meeting around art and ecology on the France Pavilion and a cultural agenda on the living with the events of our partners.

VIVANT, a Cultural Season for Biodiversity, is part of the general context of the sixth mass extinction that threatens the diversity of life, affecting both species and ecosystems. In France, at present, 18% of the species, that is to say nearly one species out of five, are already considered as extinct or threatened. By weaving a cultural program in the service of the preservation of life, VIVANT wishes to contribute to renewing representations, to integrate biodiversity into our common culture and thus contribute to a profound awareness, the only real motor for action on an individual and collective scale.

More than ever, in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is time to support a new culture of nature.

IN THE LIVING PROGRAM

AT THE HEART OF THE CONGRESS

From September 3rd to 11th

Exhibition VIVANT

Rethinking our relationship with living beings, being attentive to other forms of life, renewing our images and collective imagination… This is the proposal of the exhibition VIVANT, through the projects of twelve artists who highlight both the extreme fragility and the immense strength of the living.
Generations Nature areas of the Congress

September 4th 4pm – 5pm

Inaugural visit
Inaugural visit of the exhibition VIVANT in the presence of the curators and some artists.
Generations Nature areas of the Congress

September 6, 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Meeting around art and
and ecology

Artists committed to ecology meet experts in nature conservation for the inauguration of the COAL 2020 Prize.
France Pavilion

September 7th 4pm – 7pm
Performance of the circus collective the other side of a world
These winners of the COAL – Culture & Diversity student award, which supports the mobilization of art students for ecology, are giving their first public performance of a show created during a residency in the Massonne nature reserve. In partnership with the Natural Reserves of France.
Public areas of the Congress

ELSEWHERE IN MARSEILLE

From September 5th

Monumental fresco

The Greek artist Fikos represents a dozen birds threatened by climate change and welcomes delegates to the Gare Saint Charles.
Wall facing the MONUMENTAL staircase of the Saint Charles station.

September 5
Inaugural day around the birds
On the program of this inaugural day of the fresco of Fikos around the birds: workshops for young people, a meeting with the artist and a convivial moment in partnership with the magazine Billebaude.
Café Ecomotive, at the foot of the fresco

September 9, 10 and 11 at 6:30 pm and 8:30 pm

Three evening performances

The Cie du Singe Debout invests the Museum of Natural History of Marseille during 3 evenings for an itinerary performed around the theme: “6th extinction: These Others, what do they have to tell us?
Natural History Museum of Marseille

September 8, 9 and 10, 2021

Professional training for a Sustainable Culture

Three training sessions to integrate the ecological transition in the cultural professions, to integrate culture as a lever of ecological transition and solidarity for companies, brands and promoters, presented by COAL.
On registration, eligible to OPCO

September 3 to 11

A LIVING agenda

The VIVANT agenda gathers a selection of cultural events in Marseille and in France on the issues of life and biodiversity.

L’article VIVANT in Marseille, a cultural season for the IUCN World Conservation Congress est apparu en premier sur COAL.

A look back at the VIVANT agenda, its closing day and its new perspectives.

A VERY LIVELY CLOSING DAY

This Saturday, January 16th, the VIVANT Season ended in beauty, at the same time as CHRONIQUES, Biennale of Digital Imaginations. This closing day took place in exceptional circumstances, at the Friche La Belle de Mai, in Marseille, a rare event in the current context! It brought together artists and thinkers who, through fascinating approaches, make the issues of the living sensitive: installations, performances, round tables took place in turn and in echo, underlining the correspondences between artistic diversity and diversity of the living.

View of the installations of the artist Eva Medin, at the Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille

View of Stéfane Perraud’s work, Sylvia, at the Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille

Round table animated by COAL “Giving shape to the world that is coming: from fiction, imagination, narratives”, at the Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille

BACK TO THE LIVING AGENDA

Like all living things, our Cultural Season has had to adapt to the vagaries of its environment, buffeted by the waves of the pandemic and the storms of confinement. Flexible and resilient, it has contributed to promoting a new culture of nature, engaging ecological actors, artists and cultural actors in the same movement, to bring about, among the general public and political actors, a collective awareness in favor of life.

The VIVANT agenda, through its digital roots, has brought together more than 300 events throughout France, dozens of exhibitions and events of all kinds, as well as virtual tours, webinars and online meetings, from March 2020 to January 2021. So many initiatives that form a great movement, carried by cultural places that place nature at the heart of their artistic projects, environmental institutions and territories, new spearheads of a cultural approach to ecology, and hybrid and transdisciplinary initiatives.

Map of events registered in the VIVANT agenda

REBIRTH OF LIFE DURING THE IUCN WORLD CONGRESS OF NATURE

The VIVANT Season will be reborn during the IUCN World Conservation Congress, finally rescheduled from September 3 to 11, 2021 in Marseille. An exhibition in the “Espaces Générations Nature” of the Congress and a series of art and biodiversity meetings will animate this international event in Marseille, in order to make the Congress live outside the walls and transmit a sensitive approach of ecology.

Lafarge Mediatheque, Charles Plumey-Faye, Rudy Riccio

L’article ALIVE, OUR CULTURAL SEASON FOR BIODIVERSITY COMES TO AN END! est apparu en premier sur COAL.

In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2020 has been postponed to January 7-15, 2021, as well as the VIVANT highlights planned for this occasion in Marseille. The events planned for the VIVANT Season are on break, nevertheless, the agenda of the Season is online, it will allow everyone to discover the places and cultural initiatives that are committed, through the senses and imagination, for the protection and enhancement of the living.

On the program, hundreds of events all over France, led by a plurality of artists, cultural actors and nature conservationists, united to defend a sensitive approach to biodiversity and life.

VIVANT draws an artistic and cultural path everywhere in France and in particular in Marseille to raise public awareness of biodiversity issues in a variety of places and initiatives brought together for the occasion on a common platform: vivant2020.com. These inspiring approaches, whether they are led by cultural venues, natural spaces, artists, communities, associations, or businesses, benefit from the visibility and impact of this common agenda and shared platform.

A DIVERSITY OF EVENTS, PLACES, ACTORS IN THE LIVING AGENDA

Monographs of committed artists and thematic exhibitions on the challenges of lifesuch as Angelika Markul’s immersive installations at the Centre international d’art et de paysage de l’île de Vassivière, Nicolas Floc’h’s spectacular work on underwater landscapes at the Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Cécile Beau’s reconstitution of an original garden using fossil plants at the Abbaye de Maubuisson, the Amazonia Expedition Drawings by Lucy+jorge Orta at the Drawing Lab Paris, the 8th edition of the Littorale, International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Anglet entitled l’Écume des vivants under the curatorship of COAL, or the exhibition Art en eaux troubles, fascinating studies of the representation of wetlands in the arts through the centuries at the Maison du Lac de Grand-Lieu in Loire-Atlantique;

Cultural institutions of reference that now place nature and living beings at the heart of their projects, such as the FRAC Alsace or the Magasin des horizons, which this year deals with the links between environmental and colonial thought, but also environmental institutions and territories, new spearheads of a cultural approach to ecology, such as the active Parc national des Calanques, the Department of Gironde and its art and nature approach, the Haut-Jura Regional Nature Park and its program of residencies and artistic commissions Nature in Solidum, the renewed commitment of the Festival pleine nature de Camargue et du delta du Rhône or the artistic itineraries of the Pays Portes de Gascogne and the international river film festival in the heart of the Drôme valley;

The emergence of new hybrid and transdisciplinary places and modelsThese include the Bureau des Guides Artistes-Marcheurs de Marseille, which in 2020 will conduct an artistic exploration of the Etang de Berre; the Ateliers Jeanne Barret, a new creative space supported by a group of committed artists on the docks of Marseille; the Coco Velten wasteland and the Foresta metropolitan park, two creative and solidarity-based projects in Marseille created by YesWeCamp; and the Parliament of the Loire, a fictionalized process to create a representative entity of the river, supported by POLAU-arts & urbanism cluster ;

Unprecedented collaborations between art and science that renew environmental research, such as the transdisciplinary projects of the Pythéas Institute in Marseille – this observatory of the sciences of the universe formed by five laboratories that actively collaborate with artists to share their discoveries -, the Atmosphères Festival that plans for its 10th edition five days of international meetings, screenings, workshops, performances, exhibitions, creations in La Défense and Courbevoie to think through art and science the environment of the 21st century, or the artistic residences of the Tangible Company in the heart of the thermal power plant EDF of Vitry-sur-Seine;

New educational initiatives and real demonstrators to learn how to do things differently, such as the Bellastock Art Architecture Landscape and Heritage Cluster in the middle of the forest in Evry-Courcouronnes, which focuses on experimenting with construction processes using living organisms, or the Transition Campus in Forges, a new academic site that brings together teachers, researchers and civil society actors to meet contemporary ecological challenges;

Monumental works, immersive experiences, workshops, meetings, festivals, research residencies, these various formats and events for all audiences will take place throughout France and more specifically in Marseille, converted into the nerve center of an international mobilization for the living in June 2020. In the Phocaean city, you should not miss These include the aerial ship designed by the artist Hortense Le Calvez in the Port of Marseille, the multidisciplinary lecture series organized by Opera Mundi with architects, ecologists and physicists such as Etienne Klein, and the 20,000 m2 exhibition devoted to the subject in the Espaces Générations Nature of the World Conservation Congress at Parc Chanot.

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Image credits: SAFI – “insect vision” glasses / © Minia Bibiany, view of the exhibition I killed the butterfly in my ear / Compagnie Libertivore, Silva © Oriane Bajard

L’article Launch of the VIVANT Season est apparu en premier sur COAL.

You can now propose your project via the VIVANT platform, a cultural season for biodiversity launched by COAL, and take part in this collective cultural emulation. Talking about biodiversity through a work of art, an exhibition, performances, projections, workshops… And what if the mobilization for the preservation of biodiversity went through creative and cultural initiatives?

The next IUCN World Conservation Congress will be held in 2020, for the first time in France, in Marseille. After the Paris Agreements, it is a new decisive step to accelerate French public policies and citizens’ awareness in favor of nature and biodiversity preservation.

In the general context of the sixth extinction of life, where a quarter of the species evaluated are already considered extinct or threatened in France, urgent action is needed by public authorities, civil society and citizens.

VIVANT wants to promote a new culture of nature, engaging nature conservationists, artists and cultural actors under a common banner, to bring about a collective awareness and concrete actions among the general public and political actors.

Through the valorization of existing cultural actions on biodiversity issues in all the territories, activated locally and animated by a common agenda punctuated by high-profile events in Marseille, VIVANT aims to build a project of national scope, with strong repercussions, promoting an inspiring and creative approach to the protection of living beings, while reaffirming the central place of culture in the ecological transition.

Born under the impulse of the Ministry of Ecological and Solidarity Transition, VIVANT is carried by the COAL association, which has been working since 2008 to bring art and ecology together, with the financial support of the European Union, the Ministry of Culture, the French Office of Biodiversity and the François Sommer Foundation, in conjunction with numerous partners including the IUCN, the City of Marseille, the French Nature Reserves, the WWF, the Calanques National Park and the Hunting and Nature Museum.

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All initiatives that work to raise public awareness of biodiversity issues and implement concrete solutions can join VIVANT, whether they are led by cultural venues, natural spaces, artists, communities, associations or companies. VIVANT is a platform for change and the emergence of a large-scale cultural movement.

Exhibitions, installations, meetings, performances, screenings, concerts, readings, participatory workshops, competitions or other inspiring approaches on the theme of life will benefit from the visibility and impact of a common agenda and a shared platform.

The VIVANT agenda, which will be online in March 2020, will be the official guide to all cultural events for biodiversity taking place in France and in Marseille on the occasion of the World Conservation Congress. It will benefit from a major media promotion and a reinforced tour in Marseille in June 2020.

COAL will validate the proposed events in agreement with the steering committee, taking into account the artistic value and the relevance of the project for the promotion of biodiversity.

NB: VIVANT does not participate in the financing and production of associated events, which is the sole responsibility of the project leader.

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L’article VIVANT, a Cultural Season for Biodiversity – Register your action est apparu en premier sur COAL.