Toulouse. The cultural center is back
After more than two months of work, the Soupetard cultural center returned on Monday, September 26. Good news for the inhabitants of the district who will be able to follow its programming and start their activities. “The works, accelerated at the beginning of July, overflowed a little. They had to rearrange the reception area so as to make the reception desk more visible and to enlarge the part dedicated to the exhibitions”, explains Valérie Jacquet- Violleau, deputy mayor in charge of socio-cultural action.
The first appointment on the agenda is the “Rétrofutur” exhibition, which until October 28 will explore the distant lands evoked by science fiction authors such as Jules Verne or Albert Robida. It was imagined from the collections of Caennais Pierre-Stéphane Proust, also known for his personal fund on the history of Japanese manga. On the show side, the season will start on October 8 with “Tandem”, by the company Là Haut which mixes gestural and clownish theater. On October 21, in “Le live en 5.1”, the musicians of Braquage Sonore will invite themselves for a performance at the crossroads of electroacoustics, electronics, noise and image. The next day at 3 p.m., it is Jérôme Hoffmann, the founder of the Hérault company, musician and composer who will be alone on stage in “Mar i Munt”. At these sides, the spectators will leave for a strange journey composed from sound recordings made in a natural environment in Roussillon and an intriguing creation of noises, produced live by the manipulation of blocks of ice and a rock of granita.
In terms of activities, this year the cultural center is offering a new manga comics workshop for 12-15 year olds. The opportunity for young fans of manga drawing and Japanese culture to understand and appropriate the codes and techniques of the genre. Another new feature are K-Pop lessons. France and Toulouse have not escaped the planetary fashion phenomenon of Korean pop, which since South Korea has established itself as a musical genre in its own right, with billions of views and fans. Each week, the workshop will revisit the hits of emblematic groups such as BTS, Blackpink or Twice in original choreographies. J.D.
Practical: Soupetard Cultural Centre, 63, chemin d’Heredia. Tel: 05 31 22 99 70. Information: www.toulouse.fr/web/cultures/centres-culturels