What to do in Paris this week? October 11 to 15
Quartier Jeunes (QJ), a place of welcome and information for all young people aged 16 to 30 (employment, health, housing, culture, sport, etc.), invites you on October 13 for a special day with discoveries , workshops and activities of all kinds. Discover the program! More informations
Rich in many events, this week of fight against discrimination will be marked by the strong commitment of associative, educational, institutional and economic partners. Screenings, conferences, debates and exhibitions and raising awareness among professionals of the general public of the multiple forms of discrimination that can occur in the public space. Come participate and enrich the initiatives proposed during this week! More informations
This is the third edition of Bédérama, the film and comic book festival of the Forum des images. On the program, four days of meetings between authors, cartoonists, cinephiles and comic book fans, on the occasion of live creations, screenings, conferences and exhibitions, in the spaces of the Forum as well as on the screens. More than twenty artists will be present, with among others Laurent Durieux, Catel & Bocquet, Steven Appleby, Nine Antico, Fabcaro, Lisa Mandel or Gilles Rochier … More informations
The native French and French-speaking podcast festival is back at La Gaîté Lyrique! This year the festival wishes to question the place of the podcast in an increasingly polarized public debate. Between intimate stories and openness to the world, how can we imagine our new common ground? A weekend of intense discoveries, preview listening, dazzling encounters, new experiences … and always the podcast market for professionals, workshops, masterclasses and debates within ‘an abundant and eclectic program! More informations
Does school teach heterosexuality? Do you learn the good and bad manners of being a girl or a boy? In the playground as in the classroom, young people quickly understand which bodies, which types and which attitudes are admissible. The Fessart library invites you to a meeting with Gabrielle Richard, author of the book “Hétéro, l’école”, who scrutinizes a school culture that contributes to renewing the norms of gender and sexuality, sometimes without her knowing it. More informations
Often reduced to a diet or the passing fad of a disoriented era, the animal cause is increasingly publicized but also instrumentalized, recuperated and depoliticized. Denunciation of bullfighting, hunting, breeding or industrial slaughter, defense of vegetarianism… During this meeting at the Recyclerie, Roméo Bondon and Elias Boisjean will present “Animal cause, social struggles”, where they explore its historical roots, to better underline the nonsense of an animalist commitment that would do without questioning capitalism. More informations
How do we picture our body? What impact does this representation have on us? Who forges the canons of beauty? These questions question everyone. Elderly, racialized, overweight, or even disabled men and women are largely excluded from media representations of beauty. In this fascinating meeting-debate, the speakers explain to us where this fracture comes from, and why it is important to reduce and reconcile ourselves with our bodies as they are, that is to say with ourselves. More informations
Technological advances have made it possible to repair our biological body and identify our physical and intellectual potentials. But how far can you go while remaining human? Have we not compromised our own future by abusing the planet in the name of progress? This new exhibition at the Musée de l’Homme invites you to reflect on these questions by bringing together contemporary works of art, museum objects, multimedia devices or even audiovisual projections … More informations
By its strategic location on the passageways and conquest between the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and the oasis of Chinese Central Asia, Tajikistan has been at the heart of trade networks since ancient times. The Guimet Museum offers the largest exhibition devoted in the West to this country, and reveals, with exceptional and rare pieces, all the cultural richness of this little-known nation, in the shadow of its more publicized neighbors that are Afghanistan and the ‘Uzbekistan. More informations
This exhibition on the forests of Congo presents two reports by Guerchom Ndebo on two of the country’s main national parks, the Virunga and Kahuzi-Biega. The illegal charcoal trade in eastern DRC, worth an estimated 35 million euros per year, is controlled by a network of armed rebels who threaten the integrity of the Virunga forests. The photographer followed the process from start to finish, documenting the terrible challenges that rangers face. More informationss
This evening is the great novelty of this return to Supersonic, which invites you to discover 3 foreign groups for their first date in Paris. True favorites of the team, it is this evening three Anglo-Saxon groups which will invest the scene of the club: the Bristolians of Home Counties, between unstructured guitars and old detuned synths, the Memes from Glasgow, kind of Sleaford Mods with a touch of britpop, and the natives of Leeds English Teacher, whose hit “R&B” will wake up the indie dancefloors! More informations
Behind this somewhat barbaric title hides a crazy odyssey, a great tumble, that of a man launched in pursuit of his desire. In an empty world like a black box, shapes and colors will be created, between dream and reality. This chase will make you meet friendly or distressing figures, divine or clownish shapes, masked faces and moving shadows. It is a tale, without words, both funny and poetic, a silent journey where the images have strong voices … More informations
A high-level athlete, body and heart alive, engages in a dynamic and poetic monologue. Boxer is a piece that has translated the fervor inherent in sport, while revealing the antechamber of victory. Every society feels the need to erect elected officials in order to better sacrifice them afterwards… Jab-crochet-cross. Against-against. Uppercut, between reverie and childhood memories, here is Koffi Kwahulé’s last piece, Boxer. More informations