Dance shows, performances, music, films, meetings and parties are on the program for the Marseille Festival which will take place in the city from June 14 to July 6, 2024.
Hybrid, festive, traveling, the Marseille Festival is experienced to the rhythm and image of the city. It brings together audiences and artists from elsewhere and here and plays with the city in its plurality and diversity.
The Festival places itself under the sign of multiple connections between the artistic vitality of the territory and projects of international scope, between works and the population, between Marseille and the world.
It encourages cooperation between a young generation of artists rooted in the region and creators from the Mediterranean basin and from all walks of life and welcomes transcontinental productions that speak to contemporary changes and major societal issues.
By involving residents in the creative processes, it continues to drive participatory and inclusive dynamics that mix practices, aesthetics and cultures.
Thus, by combining local and international, artistic demands and accessibility, emergence and recognized authors of contemporary scenes, it offers a living and active dialogue with the world around us, under the sign of joy and sharing.
The Festival makes all bodies visible and goes further in terms of access and inclusion of people with disabilities.
It widely opens its cultural actions and its program to inclusive projects and reaches out to all Marseille’s by offering artistic practice workshops mixing people with disabilities and non-disabilities.
It develops an adapted awareness program throughout the year in partnership with medical and social structures, and its solidarity ticketing allows people with disabilities to benefit from tickets for €1 via the Culture Charter.
Its approach to inclusiveness also translates into exemplary measures to make its programming accessible to all.
A solidarity festival
The Culture Charter, a solidarity ticket office for 1 euro
Thanks to the Culture Charter, solidarity ticketing at €1, people in precarious situations or with disabilities can benefit, via around a hundred relay structures, from easier access to all the shows on the Marseille Festival program.
Your structure can be a relay if it falls into the social, educational or medical field. You will therefore have priority in access to €1 tickets and will be able to take part in one of the free and adapted mediation programs carried out in advance by the Festival’s public relations team.
Founded in 2009 with ARTE, the Marseille Festival Culture Charter receives the support of seven sector town halls (1/7, 2/3, 4/5, 6/8, 11/12, 13/14, 15/16) and the division of people with disabilities of the City of Marseille.
Artistic and cultural education
From primary to university, hundreds of children, adolescents and young adults from the region discover dance and contemporary creation every year with the Marseille Festival.
From the youngest to the oldest, the Festival’s public relations team supports students in encountering the works in order to sharpen their perspective, their sensitivity, their critical thinking and familiarize them with live performance.
Artistic practice workshops led by artists associated with the Festival, mediation sessions, meetings with the Festival team, outings to shows during and outside school hours, meetings with guest artists… awareness-raising actions that extend throughout the school year, allowing nearly forty classes to follow paths of discovery and artistic practice.
Artists Sandrine Lescourant, Clotilde Penet, Valeria Vellei, Greta Sandon and Elias Ardoin, Filipa Correia Lescuyer, Noe Girard, Anne-Gaëlle Thiriot and Mathilde Hannoun are leading the artistic practice workshops this year. Some of these workshops will result in a public presentation in May.
The educational and cultural actions of the Festival in schools this year concern more than 900 children and adolescents from more than 30 establishments from primary to high school.
The La Cloche association acts against the exclusion of people in precarious situations by giving everyone the opportunity to create local social bonds so that everyone can flourish freely and be actors in a society more inclusive. It encourages doing things together between residents, people in very precarious circumstances and traders.
The Festival offers spectators the opportunity to make, when purchasing their tickets, a donation of a free amount: 75% of donations are intended for the La Cloche association, 25% are devoted to tickets. shows for children as part of the Culture Charter.
The Festival supports Navire Avenir
The Navire Avenir is a pioneering tool for rescue and care on the high seas, the first vessel in a global fleet. It is “really made for the 21st century” designed to support the work of sea rescuers and contribute to their recognition as the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. It is an active work to the realization of which we are invited to contribute on the Navire Avenir platform.
The Festival supports SOS Méditerranée
European civil association for sea rescue, SOS Méditerranée was created in 2015 thanks to the mobilization of citizens determined to act in the face of the tragedy of shipwrecks in the Mediterranean. She acts at sea with the Ocean Viking and on land with a large network of volunteers to save, protect and bear witness to this humanitarian catastrophe. For rescue at sea without discrimination.
