Valentine’s Day. Declare your flame at the Cave Poésie in Toulouse
For Valentine’s Day, the Cave Poésie has installed a mailbox to allow the most beautiful declarations of love from Toulouse residents. Texts that will be read as part of the show-event Love Me Tender, from Sunday February 13 to Monday February 14, 2022.
For Valentine’s Day, offer an unforgettable radio moment! As part of its show-event love me tenderly, a radio marathon offered to love, the Cave Poésie invites Toulouse residents to share their love in an original way. All lovers, lovers, secret admirers and other suitors, whether chilled or inflamed, are invited to drop off their most beautiful declarations of love in a mailbox (rue du Taur). These letters will then be read at the microphone of a program broadcast live, from Sunday February 13 to Monday February 14, on various local stations. For 25 hours, artists and amateurs will take it in turns to read, to music, texts by great authors or anonymous lovers.
Celebrating difference and fantasy
To participate, no need to be called Verlaine or Alfred de Musset. It’s the desire to open your heart and share your feelings that count. “We want to celebrate love in all its forms: heterosexual, homosexual or lesbian. The texts can evoke a torrid, carnal or simply platonic love. Eternal, transient or impossible relationships. Be naughty or deep. See, why not, talk about a passion for a zucchini. This project is open to difference and fantasy,” says Yann Valade, director of the Cave Poésie. The twenty-fifth hour of this marathon program will thus be dedicated to transgender love. “The purpose of this event is to deviate from the mercantile and commercial aspect of Valentine’s Day. And to offer a moment of tenderness in these times when it is particularly necessary”, explains Yann Valade, director of the Cave Poésie which, for the occasion, will be transformed into a radio studio.
An orgy of love literature
For this eleventh edition of Love Me Tender, the Cave Poésie offers carte blanche to the Compagnie Voraces to concoct a voluptuous and crispy program. Epistolary peep-show, musical preliminaries, reading orgy and naughty morning… these 25 hours dedicated to love revolve around seven highlights. “We worked on the concept of correspondence. We are going, among other things, to create a dialogue between literary works that respond to each other, obtain or not”, explains Céline Cohen, responsible for the artistic direction of the event. Letters from amateur contributors will thus alternate with texts by recognized authors such as Frédéric Beigbeder, Marina Tsvetaïeva, Nathalie Clifford and Henry Miller. “As we will not be able to read all the contributions live, we have planned to make a recording of all the letters received so that all the words left are read at a time”, she adds.
Practical information
Cave Poésie, from Sunday February 13 at 2 p.m. to Monday February 14 at 3 p.m.
Program to follow on Radio Campus (94 MHz), RMP (90.1 MHz), Canal Sud (92.2 MHz), in the Gers on Radio Fil de l’eau (106.6 MHz) and in the Tarn on Radio Octopus (radio-octopus.org) and R d’Autan (rdautan.fr).