Saturday October 12, 2024, the program is busy on the 31ste Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents. Meetings, exhibitions but also the book fair while waiting for the awards ceremony at the end of the day, here are the highlights of this penultimate day.
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The highlights
From 9:30 a.m. Audience Award: look at the photo reports. 10 a.m. public vote, 11 a.m. discussion time with photojournalist Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi. Halle Ô grains, 66, rue Saint-Jean. Reservation required in advance online.
From 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Book fair, place Gauquelin-Despallières. FREE ENTRANCE.
From 10:30 a.m. Media forum: exchanges with the public. 10:30 a.m.: Paul Gogo; 11:15 a.m.: Maria Malagardis; 2 p.m.: Ali Arkady, Simon Rochepeau; 2:45 p.m.: Colette Braeckman; 3:30 p.m.: Olivier Jobard; 4:15 p.m.: Elena Voloshin. Espace Saint-Patrice, rue du Marché. FREE ENTRANCE.
14 h. Humanitarian talk. Forced displacement: lives to rebuild. Halle ô grains, 66, rue Saint-Jean. FREE ENTRANCE.
16 h. Round table. Russia: 30 years of unpunished war crimes. Halle ô grains, 66, rue Saint-Jean. FREE ENTRANCE.
16 h 15. Meeting with Clarissa Ward, president of the jury. Halle ô Grains, 66 rue Saint-Jean. Complete.
18 h 30. Awards evening. Gauquelin-Despallières Pavilion. Complete.
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The eight exhibitions
Crimes without punishment – thirty years of war crimes by the Russian state. Amnesty International exhibition on human rights in Russia. E.Leclerc cultural space, boulevard du 6-Juin. From 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. FREE ENTRANCE.
Avril 1975. Phnom Penh – Saigon. Exhibition on the work of journalists on the end of the Indochina wars. Hôtel du Doyen, rue Léonard-Lambert-Leforestier, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. FREE ENTRANCE.
Heidi Levine. War, healing and resilience. Exhibition on the war between Israel and Palestine. Outdoors in Bayeux.
Donbass – Ten years of wars by Rafael Yaghbozadeh, 2014-2024. Exhibition on the Ukrainian-Russian war. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Liberty Square building. FREE ENTRANCE.
Newsha Tavakolian – And they made fun of me. Exhibition on the lives of women in Iran at the end of the 1990s. Baron-Gérard Museum of Art and History, 37, rue du Bienvenu. From 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. FREE ENTRANCE.
« We dit what we could ». Exhibition on the war between Israel and Palestine. Memorial Museum of the Battle of Normandy. 2, boulevard Fabian-Ware. From 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. FREE ENTRANCE.
Sandra Calligaro – From Kabul with love. Exhibition on Afghanistan. Bayeux Media Library, Les 7-lieux, 1, boulevard Fabian-Ware. From 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Free entry.
Israel Palestine, the territory at the heart of the conflict . Exhibition on the war between Israel and Palestine. Espace le Radar 24, rue des Cuisiniers. From 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. FREE ENTRANCE.
Presentation of the 2024 selection. Espace Saint-Patrice, market street. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. FREE ENTRANCE.
