Nuit Blanche is the must-attend nocturnal event in Paris and the Île-de-France region, taking place on Saturday June 3, 2023. This year's Nuit Blanche promises to be another memorable one, with a program of original exhibitions, installations and performances. It's an opportunity to discover the city of Paris through a new artistic lens, and to stroll through a veritable open-air gallery.
Among the event's key venues is the Gaîté Lyrique, which this year is giving Carte Blanche to Ukrainian label Standard Deviation. A landmark of Parisian cultural life, the Gaîté Lyrique is famous for offering a wide range of events and workshops within its modern auditorium. Initially dedicated to digital culture, it is now as much an art gallery as a concert hall and television recording studio.
For this edition of Nuit Blanche 2023, the Gaîté Lyrique transforms itself into a concert hall and audiovisual performance space, showcasing what are usually underground scenes. It's the perfect opportunity to discover a variety of musical styles, and to immerse yourself in the worlds of the featured artists!
Saturday June 3 is the date to remember for this exceptional event, where Art is the watchword.
One evening a month, the Afrotopiques podcast takes up residence at the Gaîté Lyrique, in public, with the "Penser l'économie depuis les Suds" recording series. This monthly meeting explores the plurality of economies and their power for social transformation. Hosted by Marie-Yemta Moussanang, the event is an opportunity for collective discussion on contemporary issues linking the North and the South. What if we could think of a way out of the ecological and social impasse based on the societies that have best resisted industrialization and capitalist-style development? What can we learn from non-wage-earning societies and their diverse economic practices? How can we imagine and build social justice on the basis of these territories and the alternatives they offer?
To answer these questions, Marie-Yemta Moussanang welcomes contemporary researchers and intellectuals who are working on these issues, drawing on experiences and theories that bring together the issues of the North and the South. On the program: Geneviève Pruvost, Lissell Quiroz, Danouta Liberski-Bagnoud, Jean-Louis Laville... and other guests.
La Déliche, Maria Mollarda, Tata Foxie and Crystal Châtaigne embark on a world where it's not necessarily the prince who saves the princess, where heroes are allowed to cry and heroines to travel the world! One Sunday a month, the drag queens of the Paillettes collective put down their heels at the Gaité Lyrique at tea time (because in "Gaîté" there's "thé"!) and tell their best stories with feathers and steam: princesses with moustaches, others who tame dragons, a long-haired frog who falls in love with a pink toad, a tiny knight, a cat who is a dog or a prince who falls in love with another prince... For everyone and the whole family, Contes à paillettes plunges us into a wacky and benevolent universe where a wind of freedom blows!
Encore heureux is Binge Audio's new program on self-care and mental health. In this podcast, broadcast every 15 days and recorded monthly in public at the Gaîté Lyrique, Camille Teste tackles a very concrete issue that has an impact on our daily lives and well-being. Accompanied by Daniel Batoula, a Strasbourg psychiatrist, and a guest, she tackles a contemporary issue in a frank and caring way. Like a conversation between friends, with the added bonus of expertise. With the help of listener testimonials gathered for each program, she will identify what affects us all, and provide keys to overcoming it. Practical exercises and cultural recommendations are also on the menu.
The exhibition was conceived as a collective work, with photographers and writers working together to combat the silence and obscurity to which war seeks to reduce us.
A project carried out with the support of the Ukrainian Institute in France.
This geopolitical atlas of live culture alternates between speeches from the four corners of the continent, from Porto to Tbilisi, via Kyiv and Budapest, and presents the initiatives, stories and realities of different personalities in the European cultural sphere. It outlines the contours of another Europe, embodied by projects and personalities with artistic visions and alternative narratives capable of responding to the major issues of the day.
A live broadcast format alternating between interventions from the Gaîté Lyrique media platform and speeches from various European cities. To be followed in person and online, in English.
Wednesday April 17: Towards a more inclusive European cultural scene for people with disabilities
19:00 - 21:00
What measures have been put in place by players in Europe's cultural sector to welcome and include people with disabilities? Through an exchange of situated practices, implemented from Belgium to Georgia, We are Europe raises the question of accessibility within contemporary cultural scenes.
ARTE and Grand Continent present a series of six interviews on the major challenges facing Europe, recorded in public and presented by Nora Hamadi at the Gaîté Lyrique.
At a time when the war in Ukraine is forcing the Union to ask itself fundamental questions about its influence, its sovereignty and even its very existence, Europeans are being called to the polls in June. In a series of interviews recorded in public, journalist Nora Hamadi talks to six thinkers specializing in the geopolitics of the continent about these elections, which are fraught with threats.
The reawakening of the superpowers, the return of high-intensity warfare in Ukraine and Gaza, the assertion of a "global South", Donald Trump's campaign in the United States, climate issues, the ecological and energy transition, technological disruption, feelings of declassification, the crisis of values (hospitality, humanism, equality)... All these challenges are putting Europe to the test at a time when it is going through a polycrisis: crisis of its place in the world, domestic crisis with the rise of populism, economic and social crisis against a backdrop of low growth, high inflation and growing inequality.
In order to understand this uncertain world, we need to find the keys to understanding it. ARTE and Grand Continent present L'Europe dans l'œil du cyclone, a series of 6 interviews on the major challenges facing Europe, recorded in public and presented by Nora Hamadi at the Gaîté Lyrique, as part of the Eu.topia programming sequence.
War in Ukraine, record abstentions, the rise of the extremes, women's rights, minority representation, global warming, migration... Europe has never been so shaken and paradoxically so debated as it is today. In June 2024, more than 400 million voters will be called upon to cast their ballots for the 10th time in its history in the world's largest supranational election: the European elections.
The Europe et Sentiment podcast devotes its 3rd season to the European elections from the Plateau de la Gaîté Lyrique. Laetitia Chabannes welcomes European personalities and strangers to recount their first experience of these elections, from 1979 to the present day. These singular testimonies are an intimate and personal echo of the issues and developments that are running through our European society. Because taking an interest in Europe means taking an interest in all the issues that are shaping our society today: ecology, the place of minorities, enlargement, feminism, regionalism and autonomy, the future of democracy, and so on. It means imagining the future of our continent together.
So, why should you vote in 2024?
In dance, the Corps Sismographe® method offers various tools for choreographic composition, based on an awareness of each individual's perceptions, sensations, emotions and imagination. Participants are invited to enter into movement based on their state of mind, usually to music. The aim is to help each participant discover his or her own individuality and way of dancing. No previous skills are required, and Charlotte and Chloé, in addition to distributing Art & Food breakfasts, make sure to take into account the physical and moral state of each participant!
This monumental exhibition, enriched by a wide-ranging program, takes over the emblematic space of the Gaîté Lyrique under the curatorship of Lauranne Germond, co-founder and director of COAL, and Sara Dufour, curator and program director of the association. It brings together works and interventions by some fifty French, European and international artists, both renowned and emerging, men and women in equal numbers, including Angelika Markul, Shaun Gladwell, Hypercomf, Lucy+Jorge Orta, Art Orienté Objet, Fabiana Ex-Souza, Louis Guillaume, Shivay La Multiple, Paul Duncombe, Alex Cecchetti, Flatform, Anaïs Tondeur, Elsa Guillaume, Suzanne Husky, Martine Feipel et Jean Bechameil, Marie Velardi, Clément Richem, Martin Le Chevallier, Thierry Boutonnier, Beya Gilles Gacha, Erik Samakh, Laurent Tixador, Olivier Darné, Éléonore Saintagnan, Marina Gioti, Michael Wang, Momoko Seto, Sara Favriau, Stéfane Perraud et Aram Kebabdjian, Hehe and many others...
Together, they trace the community of imaginaries that has grown up over the 15 editions of the COAL Prize, COAL's flagship initiative for the promotion, support and dissemination of artists around the world who bear witness to, imagine and experiment with the ecological revolution. 15 years ago, bringing art and ecology together, and getting nature conservationists to collaborate with cultural players and artists, was not a matter of course. 15 years later, this rapprochement has become a necessity, exacerbated by the acceleration of environmental issues, which is encouraging in-depth reflection, restructuring and the invention of new ways of inhabiting the Earth. This exhibition presents a panorama of a generation of committed artists through projects that have marked the history of environmental art, and which represent a range of practices and ways of approaching the living through art and the sensitive, from witnessing to activism to community-building and resilience practices.
Testifying to a wide variety of artistic approaches - sculpture, painting, photography, installation, performance, documents - but also and above all participatory projects, protocols, rituals, somatic practices, research-creation, in situ creation, shared experiences... Works, performances and activations tell the story of a different relationship to nature, to materials, to all the components of the living, and invite us to glimpse the perspectives of a world beyond, through an experience marked by discovery and awakening.
COAL
A benchmark association for art and ecology celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2024, COAL mobilizes artists in a multi-disciplinary spirit and
cultural players on societal and environmental issues, in collaboration with a wide range of public and private players, and supports the essential role of creation and culture in raising awareness and implementing concrete solutions. With over 100 international artists honored to date, the COAL Art and Environment Prize and the COAL Award are key initiatives for
the identification, promotion, support and dissemination of artists around the world who bear witness to, imagine and experiment with the ecological revolution. COAL is also behind nearly a hundred contemporary art exhibitions, cultural events and regional programs on the
ecological transition for major cultural structures and institutions in France and around the world, and contributes to the knowledge and dissemination of the theme through European cooperation schemes, the organization of numerous conferences and workshops, publications and a resource medium.
During a fun, participatory workshop, youngsters are invited to think about environmental issues and, more specifically, the regeneration process of living organisms, through experimentation. Louis Guillaume's workshops offer an opportunity to discover different plant materials: poplar flock, stipa tenuissima, hornet's nest... which the children learn to handle and shape together. Using the molding technique, they create an identifiable form, essentially made from these organic materials. Each experiment is linked to one of the pieces presented in the COALITION.... exhibition, and it's up to you to guess which one!
Louis Guillaume is an artist, an explorer, a walker, a self-taught researcher, an inventor guided by a single law, a single principle: that of the materials on which he has set his sights. His practice revolves around seasonal harvests: every month, he sets off on long walks in search of materials, in the countryside or the city, and returns with the foundations for his next works.
In September 2023, the Memorial Human Rights Center launched the "30 Years Ago" project. In collaboration with independent media, human rights activists, experts and representatives of civil society, the project's authors are attempting to understand why the current regime in Russia was possible in the first place. Six months after its launch, the project is presented at the Gaîté Lyrique. "Memorial" will share the initial results of its work, but also proposes to raise questions that seem important about post-Soviet Russia, in the form of meetings, discussions and round tables. Speakers from Russia, Ukraine and France will debate the themes of war, repression, minorities, human rights and transitional justice.
"30 ans avant" at the Gaîté Lyrique also features art, with a staged reading of Yulia Vishnevets's play "Attendre est plus difficile que d'enterrer", as well as the documentary film "Fixeurs de guerre : les invisibles du reportage", by directors Robin Grassi and Arnaud Froger, from the NGO Reporters Sans Frontières.
For Earth Day and the closing of the Nova BiennialXX, and as part of the COALITION exhibition, under the banner of a coalescing and heterogeneous genre, the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, COAL and the Gaîté Lyrique invite you to an evening of performances that will resonate on this EARTH/HEART DAY.
"Whatever the code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, mathematics or music, curves or colors, we are the extractors of new worlds", says McKenzie Wark. Six intercessor artists will leave their mark on the evening with their surges, gestures, presences and rituals. With : Androa Mindre Kolo, Fabiana Ex-Souza, Jean-François Krebs/ Wanda, Michel Jocaille & Charlotte Sarian and Shivay La Multiple.
To celebrate its 15th anniversary, COAL, the benchmark association for art and ecology, joins forces with the Gaîté Lyrique to present a major multidisciplinary exhibition featuring nearly 50 artists representing the rich and varied approaches of the ecology art scene.(+ more info)
NOVAXX - espace liminal - aims to highlight works that enable the potentialization of worlds not yet considered and sinusoidal cartographies. The Biennale desequences and inscribes itself in an aspiration to epistemic disobedience, in a critical reflection on the ethics of separation and dualisms, in an ode to the Pluriverse - pluralitý of heterogeneous worlds that reconciles nature and culture, as much as human and non-human. It is an ode to alien performativities, to the living in its immeasurable.(+ info)
PROGRAMME17h-17h30 Eric Androa Mindre Kolo (forecourt/exhibition space)18h-18h30 Fabiana Ex Souza (exhibition space)18h40 -19h Shivay La Multiple (exhibition space/Forum)19h10-20h Jean -François Krebs/Wanda (Studio)20h-20h30 Shivay La Multiple (Forum)20h30-21h Michel Jocaille et Charlotte Sarian (Forum)
Since 2013, Disco Misr, a trio from Cairo, has been betting on the niche of oriental music, disco and funk. The band's productions put a good spotlight on our childhood memories and focus on bringing back nostalgic emotions for their fans. Their aim? Dredge up the finest nuggets of Egyptian Pop, which make up the country's heritage, and add a zest of Funk and Disco. Add to this a few well-thought-out videos, and you have the recipe for a successful Disco Misr concert: a real trip down memory lane.
Following the release of his latest EP 'Dennis', an electric show at La Maroquinerie on September 15 that sold out in a matter of days, and a tour of France and Switzerland, DAU returns to the stage with an exceptional concert at La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris on Saturday May 04. A veritable tornado on stage, sweeping the crowd along with him in his supercharged, mystical universe, DAU will unveil yet another facet of his art this year and on this unique date. The show promises to be a veritable visual and aural experience, driven by the rapper's power and energy.
The highly acclaimed finalist in season 2 of Netflix's Nouvelle École continues to unfold his rich and powerful artistic universe, bringing rap and melody fans together with fans of stage performances in the broadest sense, as the show promises to be grandiose.
Troubles is a musical dazibao based around queer texts, which are fragments of poetry, activist or philosophical essays - written at different times and from different perspectives, but which articulate the idea of the possibilities of utopia in our hostile environment. Through texts by Dona Harraway, Françoise d'Eaubonne, Alana S. Portero, Mikki Kendall, Paul B. Preciado, Pedro Lemebel, Despentes - the collective seeks to establish a coincidence between prose read and music imagined to make it hypnotic. Guitarist Varoujan (Condense, Peuple de l'Herbe) joins them on stage.
After a concert-reading dedicated to Louis Calaferte's Requiem des Innocents, followed by the magnificent tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini and Viril, (directed by David Bobée) Virginie Despentes, Béatrice Dalle, Casey and the group Zëro are back on the road with this new stage proposition.
Création 2023. New show produced by La Station Service and created in association with La Carène (Brest), Marché Gare and Le Transbordeur (Lyon).
The Cartographie Marine Imaginaire workshop invites you to discover the cyanotype process, a centuries-old monochrome printing technique. It's a fascinating craft process, somewhere between chemistry and magic, just like the exhibition COALITION - 15 years of art and ecology at La Gaîté Lyrique. During a fun, participatory workshop, youngsters are invited to work with the artist to create an imaginary map of the seabed. They'll follow all the steps involved in making cyanotypes, and will of course leave with their own works!
Capucine Vever (born in 1986 in Paris, lives and works in Bobigny) develops contextual work interested in the notion of the invisible, the unattainable and the imperceptible. Whether geographical, social and/or cultural, territory is central to his artistic approach. Her practice attempts to engage with it in a poetic relationship, exploiting the narrative potential of each space. His works are based on collage, analogy and the constant friction between reality and fiction, scientific research and narrative, cartography and legend, displacement and immobility.
On every level, her unique style leaves no one indifferent, and it's in concert that she reveals herself best.
After a sold-out Trabendo in April 2023, we find her on the magnificent Gaîté Lyrique stage, to discover new tracks from her forthcoming EP's and the richness of her live melodies. A concert to celebrate with you!
Born in Portugal to a Belgian mother and Cape Verdean father, Erika de Casier grew up in Denmark from the age of eight. She earned a master's degree at the prestigious Copenhagen Conservatory of Rhythmic Music. In 2019, she released Essentials , her first album on her own Independent Jeep Music label, before joining UK label 4AD in 2021 for the album Sensational . After a world tour and collaborations with NewJeans and Dua Lipa, she released her new album, Still, with contributions from Blood Orange, Shygirl and They Hate Change, Nick León, Jonathan Jull Ludvigsen, Carl Emil Johansen, Niels Kirk, Christian Rhode Lindinger, Kirsten Nyhus Janssen and Tobias Sachse.
Between R&B, garage, house and drum'n'bass, Erika de Casier explores the stages of a romantic relationship, from meeting to breaking up, always in the company of Natal Zaks, aka DJ Central, the Danish house producer who has collaborated with her on each of her albums.
Usky, the poet of French rap, imbues the genre with a rich, melancholy poetry. Revealed to the public through a series of daring mixtapes, he has made a name for himself in the rap world with his unique style. His "Rétina" EP, released on May 25, 2023 on Booba's legendary 92i label, made a lasting impression with its haunting melodies and introspective lyrics. An artist with a singular career path, Usky has forged a musical signature that stands the test of time, far removed from ephemeral trends.
Usky recently shone on "Ad Vitam Aeternam", Booba's latest opus, with the poignant track "Bénigni".
A concert at La Gaîté Lyrique that promises to be a milestone in his career and a bridge to new musical horizons!
During a playful, participatory workshop with artist Paula Valero Comín, youngsters are invited to learn and progress in the technique of drawing, by means of plant drawing, here in reference to European botanical drawing and the Chinese gong bi style, distinguished by its finesse and precision in detail. Can you find this influence in the works in the exhibition COALITION - 15 years of art and ecology?!
Born in 1976, Paula Valero Comín is a Spanish transdisciplinary artist and cultural producer. She is interested in how art can contribute to the collective imagination and help transform situations and realities. Her work, in all its forms, seeks to propose spaces for encounters by creating poetic and political disruptions, and interferences in different areas of public or everyday activity.
Parra for Cuva's sonic identity can be summed up in a single word: Wanderlust. Renowned for his keen sense of the world, his music, combined with stunning visuals, creates a magical realm where the resonance of Caribbean steel drums can intertwine with ancient Zimbabwean instruments and transport the listener to distant lands. With chart-topping singles and two acclaimed albums, Majouré and Darwîś, Parra for Cuva's breakthrough came with the release of Paspatou. Unafraid to blend dancefloor experimentation with acoustic and ethnic soundscapes, his fourth studio album, Juno, involves collaborations with musicians from around the world. Parra for Cuva has graced prestigious festivals and sold-out stages around the world, including Burning Man and Sziget. He has also delivered captivating live sessions, such as Cercle Music's performance in the magnificent Mexican landscape. Expected in 2024, his next album, Mimose, promises another captivating sonic journey.
Based on his new album Qui est l'ami de Zouzou, published by Editions 2024, Hao Shuo invites children to choose an animal from among those in the book to try a new encounter with Zouzou. On the program: drawing, collage, scene creation and paper figures for this meeting between animals!
About the book
Zouzou is a funny dog, with his happy face and his eyes buried under his long white fur. On a visit to the zoo, he arouses the curiosity of his animal companions... who see in this big ball of fur anything but a big dog. The seals spin him around like a ball, the elephant catapults him with its trunk... and here he is, attacked by a goat, tickled by marmosets, adopted by kangaroos! Sometimes at his own expense, Zouzou becomes the darling of the zoo! In these burlesque and refreshing pages, Shuo Hao, a young Chinese author living in Paris, continues to delight us with her humor, both tender and teasing, in the manner of a Benjamin Rabier or a Buster Keaton - with long hair in front of his eyes.
About the author
Hao Shuo was born in China some thirty years ago. After studying at the Beaux-Arts in Beijing, she spent a few months at the Sorbonne and joined the illustration workshop at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg. Always between two countries - and on a plane - she works with French and Chinese friends on the Hors Service micro-publishing collective. Guide de survie dans la jungle was her first book to be published in France, and won her an "Opera Prima" award at the prestigious Bologna Children's Book Fair. Since then, she has also explored the territories of photography, gouache painting and contemporary drawing with her monsters and hybrid creatures.
André Benjamin, better known as André 3000, is one of the most celebrated and admired artists of the last 30 years. A true auteur, his work in music, film, art and fashion continues to influence the cultural landscape.
Half of the iconic hip-hop duo Outkast (alongside Anton "Big Boi" Patton), he invented a new style, a new type of voice that had never before existed within the rap scene. In November 2023, the 7-time Grammy Award-winning artist released his first solo album in 20 years, New Blue Sun, an instrumental album focusing on wind instruments and marking a new stage in André 3000's creative evolution. Widely acclaimed, New Blue Sun was the first instrumental album to reach the Billboard Top 200, and its opening track, "I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a 'Rap' Album But This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time," broke the record for the longest Billboard Top 100 track.
You may not know it (or you may not), but you've listened to Juniore many times. Their melodies have delicately carpeted the landscape of the last decade. Anonymous? Not quite. In all discretion, rather - Juniore has crossed the airwaves of our radios, the soundtracks of our films, our series, our advertisements, the corridors of our planes, our supermarkets, the hype playlists of our nerdy friends, and the stylish ones of the trendsetters we follow, like the soundtrack of our road-trips or our evenings out with friends.
To make a long story short, Juniore began with the release of two singles - first in 2013, then in 2014 (LE PHONOGRAPHE/Entreprise). The band continued its journey with an EP Marabout released in 2015 (LE PHONOGRAPHE/IDOL). A debut album Ouh Là Là was released in 2016 (LE PHONOGRAPHE/SONY) - A cassette was released in the USA at the same time (Burger Records) - And a first EP in the UK in summer 2017 - Magnifique (Outré Disques)- marked the start of a special relationship with the British. The band performs just about everywhere - Tour operator United Talent represents Juniore internationally, and Radical has been their preferred partner in France since the release of their second album Un, Deux, Trois.
A big fan of French rap from the P.L.V.S. neighborhood in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, 93, Ratu$ started rapping at the age of 16. At the same time, he embarked on a career in soccer, which enabled him to live abroad until he was 19. On his return to France, his life oscillated between CFA clubs and a few misdemeanors that kept him away from rap. It was during these years that the Ratu$ spirit developed, a rat's lifestyle on the bangs of society flooded with stories from the neighborhoods...
He decided to devote himself fully to his other passion, rap, on his friends' label, Saboteur Records. This association gave birth to TTMS ("Tout Travail Mérite Salaire"), the fruit of long reflection and teamwork. Ratu$ presents us with his nocturnal universe, his daily life in the 3-8-0 and the corner café. It's a tracklist that thumbs its nose at the corporate world, which is repugnant to him and with which he'll never have to deal, because it's contradictory to the Ratu$ spirit! Accompanied by great kickers such as Infinit', K.S.A, Olazermi, Crones and Alpha Wann on vol.1 and Deen Burbigo, S.Pri Noir and Zamdane on vol. 2, Ratu$ returns in early 2024 for a third and final installment, the darkest of his TTMS trilogy...
Dates and Opening Time
From June 3rd, 2023 to June 4th, 2023
Location
La Gaîté Lyrique
3 Rue Papin
75002 Paris 2
Access
Metro line 3 or 4 "Réaumur-Sébastopol" station
Prices
Free
Official website
gaite-lyrique.net
