Avignon Université summer programme
From 3 to 18 July 2025
CRILCQ summer seminar at the Avignon Festival "Voir avec les lieux" (Seeing with place)
7/11 July - Avignon University
The CRILCQ summer seminar, "Seeing with place", under the responsibility of Jean-Marc Larrue (co-investigator CRILCQ, Université de Montréal) and Sophie Gaillard (CRILCQ collaborator, Avignon University), organised in partnership with Avignon University, will take place from 7 to 11 July 2025, in Montreal and Avignon.
The most famous and largest theatrical event in the world, the Festival d'Avignon takes place every summer in venues steeped in history (the Palais des Papes, the Cloître des Carmes, the old town) or in emblematic places that have left their mark on the collective imagination (the Carrière de Boulbon, FabricA). Activities include regular seminar sessions, formal lectures, site visits and meetings with artists. Four festival performances are included in the seminar programme. All these activities focus on the role of the venue in the representation of live performance.
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Supporting culture - Proarti meeting
10 and 11 July - Hannah Arendt Campus
2 days of discussions on cultural sponsorship aimed at companies, foundations and those involved in sponsorship.
Inspiring meetings - masterclass - round table
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HEU evaluation webinar
10 July 2pm/3pm
As part of the launch of Horizon Europe's 2025 call for projects, we are offering a one-hour webinar to help you understand the issues involved in evaluating projects.
Isabelle Brianso and David Giovannacci will talk about their experience as expert evaluators and the points to bear in mind when drawing up the project proposal.
ANRAT (Association Nationale de Recherche et d'Action Théâtrale) seminar
From 15 to 18 July - Campus Hannah Arendt
Registration required here
Shows
KiLLT, mauvaise pichenette! by Les Tréteaux de France - Centre Dramatique National
From 7 to 18 July - excluding 13 July
11am, 12.30pm, 2pm and 3.30pm - Duration 1 hour - Pôle sportif climbing hall - Campus Hannah Arendt
This is the story of an evening behind closed doors when everything changes. Anna violently opposes her family when a small group of unaccompanied minors are welcomed into her village. The bomb is detonated: Anna's anger confronts her brother's ideas and her mother's values, bringing us face to face with a reality that is tending to become commonplace in the Western world: the rise of fascist political ideas among young people. KiLLT is a theatrical and visual device that turns reading into a collective game.
More info: patch-culture@univ-avignon.fr
24 seconds by Chahuts
From 7 to 18 July - excluding 13 July
11.15am - Duration 1h35 - Pôle sportif gymnasium - Campus Hannah Arendt
A basketball team during a training session. Between two exercises, the team tells its story. Between two baskets, the individuals reveal themselves. How can we move forward together towards a common goal when we don't have the same objective? Perhaps by understanding what the group has to offer us and what we have to offer it. That's what this show is all about: a bridge between theatre and sport that transforms a gymnasium into a theatre for the time it takes to tell a story, to share a moment.
More info: patch-culture@univ-avignon.fr
The yellow-bellied sounder, or democracy to the rescue of the living, by the company Tomorrow it will be light
From 8 to 18 July, excluding 12, 13 and 14 July
10.30 a.m. - Duration 1h15 - Room 0E32 - North Building - Campus Hannah Arendt
A small rural community led by a group of scientists is trying to save a tiny toad. This amphibian has a peculiar habit: it breeds in the ruts left by forestry machinery. So here it is, in spite of itself, in the midst of human controversy. Foresters, machine operators, ONF agents, hunters, naturalists, walkers, mountain bikers, scientists and experts are all bent over the rut, perplexed... Everyone needs to undertake a genuine revolution. How can we create peaceful democratic spaces that allow all points of view to co-exist? What rights do animals and natural entities have?
Born of a meticulous investigation carried out in Boult-aux-Bois in the Ardennes, the show features a gallery of characters joyously interpreted by Vincent Clergironnet and accompanied on the cello by Eléonore Zielinski.
More info: patch-culture@univ-avignon.fr
Binômes, the poet and the scholar by the company les sens des mots
10, 11, 15, 16 and 18 July
5pm - Duration 1h10 - Cour minérale - Campus Hannah Arendt
Le Bruit des élytres by Compagnie Ulysse Kaldor (Camille Protar)
8/9 July - 6.10pm - Room 0W33
&
19/20 July 9pm at L'éveilleur
It takes place on the banks of the Ganges or the Mekong, on an Atlantic beach, inside a house in the Yvelines or the lobby of an old hotel, in an embassy, in Neauphle, Trouville, S.Thala, Savannah... in Marguerite Duras's house, where the places become blurred, interchangeable, joining those of memory and fantasy.
Between the infinite and the detailed, the places and their atmosphere influence the author's actions, the people who inhabit her books, their feelings and their desires.
Fragments of text carried by the voices of an actress and an actor are mixed with soundscapes to convey the mental turmoil that precedes writing.
An attempt to translate and share, through listening, these spaces with fragile borders, this Durassian "everything is everywhere".
The stars
17 July - 10am - Cloister
Students from the CRR and Avignon University
Directed by Elisa Douteau from a text by Simon Falguières
This is the story of Ezra, a young poet.
This is the story of Ezra's family and the death of his mother Zocha.
Ezra's mother has died and the funeral has to be planned.
Ezra has to write the eulogy for the funeral.
During the ceremony, he loses his words and a storm hits the region.
Rain floods the village.
Ezra, devastated, isolates himself in his bedroom and falls into a deep sleep.
He faces his nightmares in search of the stars.
His bird accompanies and guides him.
Friday 11 July - Hydrogeology
Ocean blue by Alex Lorette, based on his meeting with Konstantinos Chalikakis, Professor of Hydrogeology at Avignon University / UMR EMMAH / GeEAUde Chair, who studies the impact of freshwater sources on coastal environments and therefore the freshwater/saltwater balance.
Zoé, a teenager, suffers from inexplicable loss of balance and repeated falls. Perhaps Zoé is not the crux of the problem. Perhaps she is expressing, through her body language, a concern that her words are struggling to express...
BINÔME created as part of the Year of the Sea (PPR Ocean and Climate, France 2030).
With BINÔME, the researcher becomes the object of study for a playwright who writes a play freely inspired by their encounter. The result is sensitive, often funny, and offers us an unusual look at science and the people who make it happen. The Cie les direction des mots has been developing this collection since 2010, and there are now 64 BINÔMES.
In the presence of authors and researchers
Thursday 10 July Marine biology and ecology
Martin is a fish by Thomas Flahaut, based on his meeting with Daniela Bănaru, a lecturer in marine biology and ecology at the Institut Méditerranéen d'Océanologie / OSU Pythéas (AMU, Univ-Tln, CNRS, IRD), who is working with a chef to create recipes using over-represented or invasive fish species. This helps to balance fishing by relieving the pressure on overfished species.
Solane and Gojo have been hanging around on the ledge for ten years, staring out at a dying sea. Martin, the fisherman's son, joins them in a desperate attempt to save her.
BINÔME created as part of the Year of the Sea (PPR Ocean and Climate, France 2030).
Tuesday 15 July - Artificial Intelligence
The statistical unconscious by Alexis Fichet based on his meeting with Stéphane Canu, Professor at INSA Rouen Normandie and researcher in the LITIS laboratory
A writer goes to see his psychoanalyst because he can no longer finish his sentences. The competition from artificial intelligence hits him hard, and he begins to doubt his choice of words.
Wednesday 16th July - Geography
POTO POTO by Magali Mougel, based on her meeting with Marie-Christine Cormier-Salem, a geography researcher at the IRD, UMR PALOC (MNHN-CNRS-IRD), who is studying local strategies in the face of globalisation in coastal areas of the South, with a particular focus on mangroves.
POTO POTO? It's a sound, it's a texture, it's an environment in which organisms reach for the sky.
POTO POTO? It's life unfolding on a grand scale, with all living things intertwined and interdependent.
POTO POTO ? First and foremost, it's the first note, the first pulse of a poetic oratorio written and carried by a mangrove, a periophthalmus and the mud to express the power of the mangroves of West Africa.
BINÔME created as part of the Year of the Sea (PPR Ocean and Climate, France 2030).
Friday 18 July - Particle physics
Collision(s) by Catherine Tinivella-Aeschimann based on her meeting with Yasmine Amhis, researcher in particle physics (CNRS/CERN)
At the heart of the matter. A mother and daughter. To-do lists. An inventory of fixtures. And intimate thoughts. A fragmented score.
Updated le 4 July 2025