Three weeks to discover and take another look at the press at the Lunel media library

Isabelle Fabre et Isabelle Crema vous convient dans le monde des médias. A. C.

Sur le thème “La liberté d’informer”, expo et rencontres sont proposées à la médiathèque jusqu’au samedi 30 mars.

Crossing views between exiled journalists and professional photo reporters from the famous Magnum agency. It is this context, as aesthetic as it is imbued with significance on the freedom of the press – and, consequently, that of informing – which currently welcomes the public of the intercommunal media library.

Since Tuesday, March 12, staff have set up several events for the 35th national edition of Press Week.

Expand the event to as many students as possible

Rather three, in fact, in the Lunel structure, since the teachers showed their keen interest in what is done there every year at the same period.

« They quickly asked us to expand the event so that as many of their students as possible could benefit from it each year, explain in unison the director Isabelle Fabre and the multimedia manager Isabelle Crema, the two linchpins of the event. Very quickly, the week turned into three so that the as many middle and high school students come to discover this world of media. » A world “apart” and often little known who is registered, this school year 2023-2024, in the Cité Éducative system.

Afternoon “Serious game”

After the exclusive screenings of Olga's film and the meeting with Anderson D. Michel, a Haitian journalist exiled in France a few weeks ago, to the students, all the audiences are now expected for meetings and meetings on the theme of “Freedom to inform” and the entirety of which is freely accessible.

Like the example of the afternoon “Serious game” (from 9 years old) who will animate the media library, this Saturday, March 16, from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., with two board games and two video games.

The first, “36 hours at the editorial” and “Médiasphères”, will immerse players in an investigation around a disappearance and in the world of media, networks, fake news and other image rights…

Screening of “L’Enquête” and debate

On screens and controllers in hand, gamers will try to escape, in “Road 96”, a totalitarian regime and will attempt to reach the border. And in “Hush”, they will put themselves in the shoes of four activists who must change the critical spirit of people who have lost their free will. Good edutainment moments in perspective!

Saturday March 30, the film L’Enquête, by Vincent Garenq, will be screened at 3 p.m. Recommended from the age of 11, the feature film retraces the Clearstream affair, brought to light in 2001 by journalist Denis Robert. The session will be followed by an exchange with journalist and independent documentary filmmaker Hélène Bourgon.

An emotional exhibition

You can't go to either meeting ? So rush to see the superb exhibition full of emotion “ From here. Eight portraits of women and men, yesterday journalists in Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Morocco and Algeria, today exiled for having had the audacity and the courage to practice their profession.

Each portrait is accompanied by a text from the protagonists and in the viewfinder of the camera, the expert eye of a professional photographer from Magnum, a famous photography agency American photographic press. Beautiful, tragic and moving.

Press weeks at the Lunel Agglo media library until Saturday March 30. To be found on mediatheques.lunelagglo.fr