Scientific day of the Observatoire des Industries Culturelles et Créatives Région Sud – Networks & Residences, Cultural data from the research areas
3 July - Chartreuse de Villeneuve les Avignon
This scientific day will bring together researchers, teacher-researchers, cultural professionals and companies from the cultural sector of the Cultural and Creative Industries around an interdisciplinary programme.
Theme #1 - Cultural data from the field in the Cultural and Creative Industries: co-production between researchers and cultural institutions
Theme#2 - Cultural and Creative Industries Networks in France and abroad
Theme #3 - The "Residence" as a frontier object in the Cultural and Creative Industries (academic and professional worlds)
Organised by Avignon University and the Campus des métiers et qualification d'excellence Industries Culturelles et Créatives - Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur as part of the FICCTION - project. Federation of Cultural and Creative Industries for a Territory of Innovation and Orientation
CRILCQ summer seminar at the Avignon Festival "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.
2 days of discussions on cultural sponsorship aimed at companies, foundations and those involved in sponsorship. Inspiring meetings - masterclass - round table More information here
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 10 to 15 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.
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
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.
Campus as a forum for dialogue and experimentation" day
16 July Villa Créative - Hannah Arendt Campus
A day organised by the national networks A+U+C (Art + University + Culture) and TRAS (Transversale des Réseaux Arts Sciences), in partnership with Avignon University and the Festival d'Avignon.
Far from being merely places where academic knowledge is passed on, higher education establishments are living laboratories of citizenship, where critical thinking is forged. Between freedom and commitment, they offer everyone the opportunity to express themselves, to question the world and to build collective responses.
Artistic and cultural practices play a fundamental role in this: they open up spaces for experimentation, freeing up speech, encouraging the diversification of expression and the emergence of new artistic forms. The work of the cultural services, student, scientific and educational initiatives and the presence of a wide range of artists and contributors open up new horizons.
New alliances and collaborative spaces are being developed between campuses and local players, bringing together artists, scientists, students and citizens. These initiatives are also giving rise to new, hybrid forms, at the crossroads of live performance, the visual arts, art in the public space and living spaces.
It is also through these practices that social ties are strengthened. By bringing together a variety of audiences, encouraging the exchange and confrontation of ideas, and giving a place to singular expressions and sometimes marginalised voices, artistic and cultural activities on campus, and their openness to the city, help to build a diverse and plural community.
The day will provide an opportunity to exchange ideas with a wide range of speakers and to discover three works by young artists from universities.
2pm/6pm Shows presented and supported by the Art + University + Culture national network
2.55pm & 5.25pm - Cloister
Camembert: the crowning glory - Collectif Nous indiscipliné-e-s – Theatre
How do you laugh at political and institutional violence? How can we subvert dominant figures? How can we highlight the ridiculousness of the political situation we're in without inflicting violence on the audience?
In the form of a TV zap - tableaux of light interspersed with black - we satirise a capitalist, bourgeois, patriarchal system born of a Christian culture. The tone is direct, sometimes provocative, often parodic. On stage, our queer bodies sing in a choir, lipsync Marlène Schiappa's tirades, read tales to the audience and eat Ostia on their knees, their tongues outstretched towards pious black leather hands.
Every gesture is held back, as if shy of appearing on this stage where camembert boxes and plastic crowns meet, right up to the orgiastic collective scenes where each character seems to reveal their true face. The play is dressed in a burlesque, drag and militant aesthetic: sequins, balaclavas, heels and cardboard signs".
Project supported by the Culture Department of the University of Lille and the Art + University + Culture network (A+U+C)
Photo and visual credits: Jean-François Quais, Malo Baillivet and Eliot Rivierre
3.50pm & 5.40pm Amphitheatre AT01
Papé - Lou Couston – Dance
"In front of me is my body,
I watch him, I watch myself, automated
so I drift".
Papé explores the sensations of a new organic reality that imposes itself and disturbs.
Without seeking to describe or portray these states, Lou attempts to experience them fully. From the slightest surge of stress to the presence of a pathology, this play offers a plunge into the experience of losing control.
"I want to explore the sensation of a foreign body, of a reality that imposes itself and disturbs. That moment when control gives way, when mobility is lost, when the body no longer responds as it did before.
The mind observes, resists or tries to let go. I don't want to recount or depict these states, but to try to feel them fully.
This solo is a plunge into the experience of loss of control, from the slightest surge of stress to the presence of a pathology".
Lou Couston is a high-level student-artist at Grenoble INP Ensimag.
Project supported by the Art + University + Culture (A+U+C) network.
2pm & 4.25pm University Library
Sand - Ulysse Kaldor Company – Theatre
Characters move between two spaces, one far away, the other much closer. Their conversations and thoughts are revealed to us in bits and pieces. Gradually, the past resurfaces, and the stories that link these people are reconstructed before our eyes, stories that are both ordinary and tragic. Some become narrators of the stories of others, interweaving their voices. The plot takes shape, but the ambiguity remains: is it reconstructed, fantasised, invented from scratch by others?
"We chose to start with two authors who haunt us both: Samuel Beckett and Marguerite Duras. In some of their plays we found disturbing echoes, motifs that we wanted to explore: the importance of the seascape, the beach, in the background and its influence on the thoughts and relationships between people, strong relationships very often associated with absence, with lack, and of which we don't know whether they are being told in the present or belong only to an already distant and flickering memory."
Sam Cornu is a researcher, playwright and director, Camille Protar is a director, actor, sound designer and researcher. Both are working on a doctorate in research and creation at Avignon University. Company supported by the Actée network
A project supported by Avignon University and the Art + University + Culture (A+U+C) network.
12e Research and Creation Meetings Crossing secrets
10 and 11 July 2025 - Avignon - Cloître Saint Louis Organised by the Festival d'Avignon and the ANR
Since 2014, the ANR and the Festival d'Avignon have been organising the Rencontres Recherche et Création. By bringing together authors, actors, directors and choreographers programmed at the Festival d'Avignon and researchers from different disciplines, these Rencontres help to bring together the thinking behind the works and the most recent research work. It's a new space for sharing knowledge with the public.
The arts, fiction and live performance never cease to nourish our experience of the world and our thinking, and the scientific approach, through analysis, observation and experimentation, never ceases to push back the frontiers of knowledge. Advances in research provide new knowledge that shows how culture is an essential driving force in human evolution and in the formation of societies. More than ever, both culture and research need to harness their power to describe the world, to reflect and to invent.
The eleven editions have shown how rich the dialogue between artists and researchers in the humanities, social sciences and cognitive neuroscience is in terms of new scientific perspectives. The confrontation between the different currents of research and the concerns of cultural players makes it possible to explore the transformations of creation and its social function, and to think differently about the world today.
In keeping with the primary function of the theatre and the festival as an Assembly, these encounters create a close relationship with the audience that encourages the exchange of ideas and shared reflection.
Since 2014, more than 220 scientists and 77 artists from 20 countries around the world (Austria, Belgium, Brazil, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, the United Kingdom and the United States), 82 cultural professionals have shared their knowledge, experience and thoughts with the Festival's passionate audience.
6e Forum Cultural intelligence Creating and transmitting in a changing world Organised by the ANR and the Festival d'Avignon with Onda and Thalie Santé in collaboration with Afdas and Audiens
This 6e This year's edition will provide an opportunity for cultural professionals and scientists to share their thoughts on the cultural intelligences that contribute to human development and the development of societies. It will explore the essential conditions for the creation and dissemination of works.
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