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Festival de la Francophonie — October 2 to 6 in Paris

Backed by the Fran­coph­o­nie Sum­mit to be host­ed by France on Octo­ber 4 and 5, 2024 in Villers-Cot­terêt, Refaire le monde, le Fes­ti­val de la fran­coph­o­nie is an invi­ta­tion to dis­cov­er the vital­i­ty of Fran­coph­o­ne cre­ation in all its artis­tic, cul­tur­al, soci­etal, entre­pre­neur­ial and sci­en­tif­ic facets. Illus­trat­ing the Sum­mit’s theme, “Cre­ate, inno­vate and under­take in French”, this event reveals a Fran­coph­o­nie that is open to the world, live­ly, attrac­tive and inven­tive.

VILLAGE DE LA FRANCOPHONIE — CENT-QUATRE (5 rue Curial — 75019 Paris)

Zone Franche and Nuits d’Afrique pro­duc­tions will be man­ning the Que­bec stand in the Vil­lage de la Fran­coph­o­nie, set up at 104 to show­case the La Per­cée exhi­bi­tion on the Dis­cov­er­abil­i­ty of World Music Online.

Do you have some­thing to say about diver­si­ty ? ==> Come and talk about the issues and chal­lenges involved in pro­mot­ing the diver­si­ty of cul­tur­al con­tent in the dig­i­tal space.
We will be col­lect­ing your tes­ti­mo­ni­als through video inter­views from Octo­ber 2 to 6. To see the inter­view time slots and make an appoint­ment, click here…

Has­san Kouy­até, actor, direc­tor, direc­tor of the Fes­ti­val Les Fran­coph­o­nies en Lim­ou­sin
Alain Bid­jeck, expert on African music and cul­tur­al indus­tries
Yan­nick Drick, Direc­tor of Chad Music Expo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dick Mawu­to, Direc­tor of Lev­el Pro­duc­tion and the Togo Ville Jazz Fes­ti­val
Cha­bela, DJ artist
Pao­la Yoko, pro­duc­er Lev­el Up Cor­po­ra­tion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GAITÉ LYRIQUE (3bis rue Papin — 75003 Paris)

Invit­ed by the Direc­tion générale des médias et des indus­tries cul­turelles of the Min­istère de la Cul­ture, Zone Franche and La Per­cée will take part in the round table :

“Dis­cov­er­ing French-lan­guage cul­tur­al con­tent online : new uses in music, books and train­ing” — Fri­day Octo­ber 4 at 11am in the Audi­to­ri­um

To reach their audi­ences, French-speak­ing cre­ators and cul­tur­al com­pa­nies need to devel­op new strate­gies : Youscribe (books), Deez­er (music), the col­lec­tive lab­o­ra­to­ry La Per­cée (music) sup­port­ed by Zone Franche (France) and Les Pro­duc­tions Nuits d’Afrique (Cana­da) and Youscribe (books). In a world where dig­i­tal plat­forms have become the main point of access to cul­tur­al con­tent, the user’s atten­tion is direct­ed towards a lim­it­ed num­ber of flag­ship prod­ucts or inter­na­tion­al con­tent enjoy­ing a cer­tain pop­u­lar­i­ty and vis­i­bil­i­ty, to the detri­ment of a rich diver­si­ty of French-lan­guage con­tent. The online dis­cov­er­abil­i­ty of French-lan­guage cul­tur­al con­tent aims to coun­ter­bal­ance this trend, and is reflect­ed in con­crete actions devel­oped as part of this debate.

Speakers for Zone Franche and La Percée


Des­tiny Tchéhouali

Pro­fes­sor, researcher and co-hold­er of the Unesco Chair in Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Tech­nolo­gies for Devel­op­ment // Sci­en­tif­ic Direc­tor — La Per­cée

 

 

 

Johan Lau­ret

Project Man­ag­er — La Per­cée

 

 

An online train­ing course (MOOC), devel­oped joint­ly by the French and Que­bec Min­istries of Cul­ture and to be pre­sent­ed at the end of the round table, pro­vides the tools need­ed to enhance the val­ue and online vis­i­bil­i­ty of French-lan­guage cul­tur­al con­tent.

Free admis­sion, sub­ject to avail­abil­i­ty

More infor­ma­tion here…