World Cup. In Toulouse, alternative events
On the occasion of the launch of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the collective “For another football” is offering several counter-events in Toulouse, from documentary screenings to gatherings, including exhibitions.
” We won’t just passively watch this World Cup “, warns the collective “For another football” (PAF). Since October, he organizes in Toulouse an alternative festival at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
” We Prepare to initiate an event demonstrating that another football is possible: the one that has made it the most practiced sport on the planet, beyond any consideration of origin, age or social class. To question the excesses of football but also to highlight popular and emancipatory experiences and practices, […] to help promote popular, festive and supportive football. explains the collective in its manifesto.
As the World Cup kicks off in Doha this Sunday, here are the events planned in Toulouse as part of the festival.
“The exploited of Qatar”, rally, look back at the World Cup in Brazil…
This Saturday, November 19, from 7 p.m., an evening dedicated to Brazil is organized at the Astronef café. In the program : photo of the opening of the exhibition “Off screen(s), other views on the World Cup in Brazil”, screening of the documentary “Urutau, Resistencia Maraka’na“and Brazilian music concert.
On Sunday, the day of the start of the World Cup, the “PAF” organizes a debate around a documentary exhibition in the presence of Amnesty International Toulouse. The latter will present to the Tilleuls their documentary “The Exploited of Qatar”. An exhibition photograph by Frédéric Lecloux will also be open: “Nepal-Qatar: Empty and Full“.
“PAF” also organizes a “rally against football business and for popular, festive and supportive football“, Saturday, November 26, on the Jules Guesde alleys.