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To promote social connections and make culture accessible to all, the Les Affluents book festival is organizing two reading sessions on the stairs. The first was held on Wednesday with residents of the building in Varades (Loireauxence). A second will take place on Tuesday May 21 in Ancenis-Saint-Géréon.
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A few days before the opening of the Les Affluents festival in Ancenis-Saint-Géréon, a reading in the staircase of an HLM in Varades (Loireauxence), captivated the public for a day. | WEST FRANCE
A building hall of a senior HLM residence. A few chairs taken out of the apartments and a writer reading in front of the stairwell. This is the winning equation for the second edition of the Pays de la Loire Les Affluents book festival which will officially begin on Friday May 24, in Ancenis-Saint-Géréon.
“Creating connections and collective life”
As a preamble, Wednesday May 15, an operation outside the walls was held in Varades (Loireauxence). Adrien Clemenceau, writer in residence at Maison Julien-Gracq in Saint-Florent-le-Viel (Mauges-sur-Loire) came to share some passages from his travel story with the residents of the building managed by the lessor. .
