In Saint-Jean-de-la-Blaquière, stop or for the Restoration festival ?

Premier spectacle avec la Compagnie Marzouk machine.

Les organisatrices jettent l’éponge, malgré le soutien annoncé ce vendredi soir des élus présents. Le dernier festival se déroule ce week-end.

Aurélia Felgines, Sarah Vedrenne and Emilie Lebougault were quite moved when they launched the Remise à neuf festival in Saint-Jean-de-la-Blaquière this Friday evening! The three funny ladies of the office announced that, 25 years later, this rural street theatre event, which attracts up to 2,000 to 3,000 unique spectators, would be the last.

Too hard and too risky to carry all that on the shoulders of simple volunteers. A deficit of 6,000 euros last year, 8,000 euros in view this year, “we will reinvent ourselves differently” promised the president who firmly believes that culture must irrigate rural villages.

Souvenir photo of the volunteers involved in the festival.

Jean-Luc Requi, president of the Lodévois Larzac community of communes, loyal to the event since the beginning, may have said his "regret", but he admitted that he understood. Senator and regional councillor Hussein Bourgi, who came to the festival even before being elected, praised the social virtue of the event without mentioning the support for live performance and proposed a meeting with the organisers “I do not resign myself to the fact that this is the end!”. A thunder of applause greeted these words, while Bernard Jahnich, the mayor, supported “you are builders! The town hall wants this to continue.”

Emilie Lebougault, Sarah Vedrennes and Aurélia Felgines, the three linchpins of the association.

The decision seemed to have been carefully considered by the organizers, who were nevertheless determined to take advantage of this last celebration. After a group photo of the 80 volunteers, it was time for the first Apocalypse show by the Marzouk Machine company. Under the stormy sky, the audience laughed at three funny guys commemorating, in 2074, the fiftieth anniversary of the apocalypse. A “street science fiction” for a subject as philosophical as the announced end of the festival.

This Saturday, first show at 4:30 p.m., La mare où l'on se mire, by Chiendent Théâtre, place de l'Église; More Aura, by the Des Clous association, at the Caveau. 6:30 p.m., The family comes while eating, from the MMM Company, Place de l'Église, 9 p.m., Knowing what this dear monkey is looking for, from the Afag Company, cooperative wine cellar, 11 p.m. Jungle Box concert on the square.