Carte Blanche Dream City
septembersept 20 – 28
Friday september 20
00h
Saturday september 21
00h
Sunday september 22
00h
Friday september 27
00h
Saturday september 28
00h
With Radouan Mriziga, Selma et Sofiane Ouissi, Sammy Baloji, Manthia Diawara, Samaa Wakim, Samar Haddad King, Winter Family, Nil Yalter, Alsarah & the Nubatones, Eric Minh Cuong Castaing, Michael Rakowitz, Jumana Manna, Sille Storihle, Sophie Bessis.
With the support of Wevioo and of Focus
La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers and The Festival d’Automne à Paris are presenting this Carte Blanche in co-production.
The multi-disciplinary Tunisian festival Dream City is moving to Aubervilliers at the joint invitation of the Festival d'Automne and La Commune, with the shared desire to make this area rustle, resonate and dream through a dozen creations by international performing and visual artists.
An artistic crossroads between the Arab world, Africa and Europe, Dream City examines and sings about a world in motion, attentive to the themes of emancipation, migration and human rights. Created in 2007 in the medina of Tunis, the Dream City festival brings together contextual creations with a direct link to local urban realities and the people who live there. The project was initiated by choreographers Selma Ouissi and Sofiane Ouissi, joined by Jan Goossens, who use artistic creation to design a new urban space. In Aubervilliers, the artistic proposals take over places all over the city, right up to the gates of Paris, to draw a living map of sensibilities and thoughts in action. The programme for this city of dreams, or this dream of a city, includes theatre, dance, performances, music, encounters, visual arts, a sound trail, choreographed clubbin' and a DJ set, all stages of a sensitive journey to be put together over two long weekends.
The Festival d’Automne, La Commune - Centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers and the Dream City festival.
20-28 September
Visual arts
Exile Is A Hard Job, Nil YalterThe Goodness Regime, Jumana Manna & Sille StorihleI’m good at love, I’m good at hate, it’s in between I freeze, Michael Rakowitz & Robert Chase HeishmanAngela Davis: A World of Greater Freedom, Manthia DiawaraEdouard Glissant: One World in Relation, Manthia DiawaraNegritude: A Dialogue Between Wole Soyinka and Senghor, Manthia Diawara
Weekend of 20-22 September
Friday 20th
5.30pm — Conversation with Michael Rakowitz in English, without translation7pm — BIRD, Sofiane and Selma Ouissi10pm — Sous Influence, Éric Minh Cuong Castaing, compagnie Shonen
Samedi 21
3.30 pm — Talk by Sophie Bessis6pm — BIRD, Sofiane and Selma Ouissi8pm — Libya, Radouan Mriziga9.30pm — Alsarah & the Nubatones
Dimanche 22
12h — Libya, Radouan Mriziga15h — BIRD, Sofiane et Selma Ouissi
Weekend of 27-28 September
Vendredi 27
19h — Missa Utica, Sammy Baloji20h30 — Losing it, Samaa Wakim, Samar Haddad King22h — H2-Hébron, Winter Family
Samedi 28
CANCELED I 14h — Conversation avec Manthia Diawara16h — H2-Hébron, Winter Family18h — Missa Utica, Sammy Baloji20h — Losing it, Samaa Wakim, Samar Haddad King22h — Dj Benjemy