Art as an act of resistance to the debate of the 27th Summer Meetings in Saint-Jean-du-Gard

Une édition rattrapée par l’actualité de la montée de l’extrême droite. D.R. – D.R.

From July 5 to 7, the Abraham-Mazel association will question and illustrate the notion of resistance through art. Three days of debate shaken up by the news of the second round of the legislative elections occurring during the closing of the festival celebrated, on July 7, by the Zingaro choir of Tiziana Valentini

Once again, there is talk of a barrier. Not against the one envisaged on the site of La Borie in 1992, the founding act of the Abraham-Mazel association in Saint-Jean-du-Gard, but, this time, for a republican barrier in the face of the advance of the extreme right in France.
While the association questions in the program of its 27th summer meetings the numerous expressions of resistance through and with art, the electoral evening of the second round of the early legislative elections, and the last day of the festival on July 7, came to shake up its conclusion.

" The people of our association and our public are often people committed to ecology, social values, explains Arnaud Lassire, vice president. We are ;it is said that there, for this time, we wanted to put up a barrier so that the National Front would not pass.
Before that, the first day (July 5) is devoted to discussing the struggle of the miners at the Ladrecht site for which Yannick Louche and Isabelle Fardoux-Jouve will detail the relationship between the miners and the artists. . A precious link of which the fresco painted alongside the national road 106 in Alès offers a timeless testimony.

We hear a huge fed up with “macronism”. People tell us “we have to change”, “the socialists have done nothing” and this change scares us!

The next day (July 6), the Sudanese painter Hassan Musa, the director Renaud Chabrier, Marc Aubaret, founder of the Mediterranean Center for Oral Literature (CMLO), the storyteller Cannelle Labaume and even the writers Patrick Cloux (Marianne Prize) and Bernard Blangenois (Jean Giono Prize) will embody the literary, pictorial or oral facets of resistance through the arts.
A notion physically embodied by the mineral presence of what was the home of the Camisard chef Abraham Mazel, on the site of the hamlet of Falguières, setting for the conferences. A notion of resistance at the heart of a Cévenne, also shaken, upon reading the results of the extreme right in the European elections (June 9).

When we listen to what the RN thinks about associations, we say to ourselves that we are going to find ourselves in the crosshairs…

" The village where I am and around is a left-wing country that we saw RN change. We didn’t understand! At the moment, we go to the bar, we chat with people and we hear a huge fed up with “macronism”. People tell us “we have to change”, “the socialists have done nothing” and this change scares us! And then when we listen to what the RN thinks about associations, we say to ourselves that we are going to find ourselves in the crosshairs…"
While waiting for July 7, the members of the association are fueling by example the fire of this spirit of resistance that we have seen expressed many times . " This year we welcome two foreign artists, one of Sudanese origin and the other Iranian who tell us that it is difficult to enter France. This is not the France that we want and love. "

The 27th Summer Meetings of the Abraham-Mazel association, on the theme “Arts in resistance”, July 5, 6, 7, in the Stevenson room or on the site of the Mazel house in Saint-Jean-du-Gard. Free participation. www.abrahammazel.eu I subscribe to read more