Tunisia: ‘Focus On Tunisia’ during ‘Strasbourg, Unesco World Book Capital 2024’
Tunis/Tunisia — “As part of the first Tunisia-France exchanges in the field of audio books, which began with an experiment in 2019, “La plume de Paon” will endeavor to continue this adventure in new events, in particular during of “Strasbourg, Unesco World Book Capital” in 2024, possibly through a “Focus on Tunisia” in order to make the voices of the Francophonie heard in all their diversity”, declared the president of the association. “La Plume de Paon”, Cécile Palusinski during a press conference. .
The latter was held on Monday at the press center of the Tunisian Village of La Francophonie by the Alliances Françaises of Bizerte (AFB) and Djerba (AFD), to present the first UNESCO Week of Sound in its Tunisian version in partnership with the French Institute of Tunisia (IFT).
Taking the floor, the journalist and founding president of this Tunisian week Christophe Rioux clarified the objective of this event, which has already started with a round table: “Audio, at the heart of new media and cultural and creative industries at the Higher School of Audiovisual and Cinema (ESAC), and with professional meetings in Bizerte, is above all to raise awareness of the importance of sound in all its diversity and in all its forms, by specifying that the book in its audio version is a sort of gateway to the ecosystem of cultural and creative industries and in perfect interaction with all fields of creation (theater, music, cinema, etc.). The week of sound will end on November 15 at the Village de la Francophonie in Djerba with a restitution table entitled: “The revolution of sound: Ambassador of La Francophonie and creator of links”, he indicated.
It will offer a summary of UNESCO’s Sound Week in Tunisia while opening up new perspectives and projects in the making, such as the “Salammbô/Les Mureaux” sound experiment, combining priority neighborhoods in France and working-class neighborhoods in Tunisia.
The director of the Alliance Française de Bizerte (AFB) Nada Najahi underlined that the audio book is now a vector of openness and interculturality, offering infinite possibilities in interaction with the oral tradition very present in Tunisia, adding that this week is an opportunity to establish important partnerships between the literary and audiovisual worlds, which will result in the launch of sound training at ESAC.