Toulouse: “Our goal is to make Toulouse people actors in the Rose festival”
The Rose association was created by the duo Bigflo & Oli and their entourage as well as Bleu Citron productions develops associative projects in the Toulouse area. Meeting with Sandra Cremonesi, member of the association.
How are you involved in the Rose association?
I participated in the foundation of the association with Biglo & Oli, their manager Nicolas Raymond, the Bleu Citron team in 2020 to develop all the associative, local and territorial part. We all more or less cut our teeth in festivals by being volunteers and we all got involved in cultural action projects, workshops and meetings with artists. We wanted Rose, even if it’s a big festival with a good gauge, to still retain this local and local anchoring.
So the association promotes social projects including young people and other audiences?
The association is aimed at all ages, either in the direction of childhood or by offering introductory workshops, or in the direction of college and high school students to discover all the facets of the cultural professions the facets of artistic creation but also technical trades, production trades, ticketing, volunteering. The confinement pushes us to develop proposals concerning creation on the Internet. As Bigflo & Oli are artists very present on the networks, we did everything remotely, we set up stays around the Internet to know how to better use the networks and finally move from a more passive posture to a more creative posture. .
How did you work and how many people did you support?
The first year, 400 young people were affected through these actions that we have from the start with the Secours Populaire with whom we have been linked for a long time. We set up showcases, meetings with artists in a somewhat confidential way, but we started to plow, to create a network and we continue this year to take root. We work with many social structures in connection with the county council such as solidarity houses, student associations or associations for the reception of refugees. We are going to look for audiences who are unable to attend, who are distant, those who would not have the possibility or who would not come. On this festival our objective is to reach at least 1,000 people who will be welcomed, with whom we will engage in discussion, forge links and invent everything since this is the first edition!
How do you envision the sequel?
By involving the same partners, we will continue to develop workshops with stays throughout the year for work plus follow-up on the themes mentioned of discovering artists, professions and the possibility of engaging in volunteering. It’s a bit of shadow work, actions that we don’t necessarily highlight but which mean a lot to us because it gives a lot of meaning to what we all do within the association. .
These are the most promising actions since they train the generation to come…
So we are totally in this state of mind, completely! We can easily imagine the perfect path for the kid who will take part in a workshop then who will come to the festival then who will be a volunteer then who will start launching his little projects… We can thus measure the value of the associative spirit that drives us all and when Bigflo & Oli say that the festival is for people from Toulouse, this means that they have to be part of the party, that they participate, that they are players in the festival.
In the program
Friday, September 2:
Zinée, L’Impératrice, Mouss & Hakim, Ben Mazué, Deluxe, Damso, Ziak, Polo & Pan, Bigflo & Oli and their friends.
Saturday September 3:
NTO, Chilla, Luidji, IAM, FKJ, Folamour, Laylow, Paul Kalkbrenner, Bigflo & Oli and friends, Bon Entendeur.
Friday 2 and Saturday 3 September from 4 p.m. at the MEETT – Parc des expositions (Concorde Avenue in Aussonne). 20 minutes by car from downtown Toulouse, secure parking. Tramway T1 to the MEETT stop, available until 2:30 a.m. Bus Line 30. Prices: from 46.00 euros and two-day pass at 72.00 euros. https://rosefestival.fr