15 August 2023

FESTIVAL D’AVIGNON | 2023

Since its creation, Making Waves has endeavored to make audible the voices and words of a youth bursting with questions, doubts, aspirations and hopes. A heterogeneous and complex youth, in touch with the world’s disorders, full of expectations and contradictions. A daring and precarious youth, indocile and vulnerable.

What better place than a major theater festival to put down our microphones and allow young adults to question the world? By giving twelve young people from the Vaucluse and Seine-Saint-Denis regions, from a wide range of backgrounds, the opportunity to talk to directors and actors, elected representatives and activists, academics and associations, we aim to give them the chance to express their views and feelings on where the world is heading. By creating a radio that aims to be a space for singular words and interactions, for unexpected exchanges and conversations, a radio where people who seem so far apart can meet and talk to each other, Making Waves hopes to open up new interstices and create new relationships. To bring out new forms of solidarity and sharing, and to highlight, against all that apparently separates and divides us, what binds us, touches us and animates us collectively.

➞ À la jeunesse les micros on the Festival site

➞ Penser radio, un documentaire d’Hélène Bensoussan et de Christophe Rault sur les coulisses du projet À la Jeunesse les micros

From February to July 2023, a dozen young adults from Barbentane, Rosny-sous-Bois, Graveson, Bobigny, Tremblay and Sevran, from Seine-Saint-Denis and Vaucluse, took part in radio workshops and worked with us to create the program conductors. These were recorded in public from July 11 to 23, 2023. You’ll find them on all platforms, on the Festival d’Avignon website, and all over France on FM on numerous campus and community radio stations.

#1 – LE COEUR EST UN MUSCLE FRAGILE – Vulnerability

#2 – LE CIEL BRÛLE – Sharing the world

#3 – À FORCE DE RÊVER TOUT BAS – Our first times

#4 – PAS D’ÂGE POUR DANSER – Transmitting, but transmitting what?

#5 – CINQ DANS TES YEUX – The group

#6 – TOUTE PERSONNE QUI TOMBE À DES AILES – Social violence

#7 – LE CHEMIN ÉTROIT DE NOS VEINES – The identity

#8 – DEMAIN S’OUVRE AU PIED DE BICHE – Inventing tomorrow

#9 – UN POINT DE LUMIÈRE FLOU – A world at war

#10 – LA VIE QU’ON MÈNE – Life paths and breaking points

A series of programs hosted by Élia Fedjakh, Tanzila Gatsaeva, Camélia Khaznadji, Noah Dimenza, Kenzo Edward Vives, Raffi Razeqi, Nessrine Lecheguer, Mariama Seidi, Robespierre Ganro, Brandy Neumager, Fatoumata Karamoko, Dorian Verloppe, assisted by Hélène Bensoussan, Mohammed Bensaber, Antoine Chao, Sonia Dechamps, Sara Louis, Agathe Morandeau, Alexandre Plank and Jack Souvant. The program theme were composed by Arthur B. Gillette.

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