Ciclic Centre-Val de Loire is celebrating the tenth anniversary of High school students, apprentices, books and authors of todaya flagship system for artistic and cultural education in contemporary literature. In 2024/25, more than a thousand students will meet authors of novels, comics, and poetry texts throughout the region. The first meetings took place in December.
The comic book author Delphine Panic opened this anniversary edition of the system by going to meet six classes from the region at the beginning of December. She was thus able to discuss her work with the students. Digging (Editions Cornélius), which in ten poetic and inventive stories, portrays feminine and precarious professions in a non-realistic universe. The opportunity to discuss with students the power of evocation and the relationship to reality that drawing can provide. Some students had prepared boards inspired by the work of Delphine Panique, and the latter was also able to offer short practical workshops in a few classes.
The end of the year is also the opportunity to launch the meetings of the laboratory component of the system, which each year gives three classes the opportunity to choose a work which will be programmed in the general component of the system the following year. This year again, the students in these pilot classes will have to decide between three independent comics after meeting the three authors. So, Maïa Hamilcaro-Berlin came from Belgium in December to present and defend The Bear Huntan intimate story full of animal metamorphoses of two friends who meet to talk about their loves and their anxieties. Sensitive to the emotions of the characters and the approach of the author, the students did not fail to ask her many questions to better understand her work.
The meetings of the system will continue from January to end at the beginning of May, with the following authors: Ludovic Villard, Guillaume Nail, Diaty Diallo, Victor Malzac, Juliette Mancini (for the general section), Camille Blandin and Mortis Ghost (for pilot classes).
Delphine Panique met students from the Paul Gauguin (Orléans), Voltaire (Orléans), Albert Bayet (Tours), Grandmont (Tours) high schools, the Blois horticultural high school, and the CFAI at La Chapelle Saint-Mesmin.
Maïa Hamilcaro-Berlin met students from the Jeannette Verdier high schools (Montargis), François Villon (Beaugency), and the La Saussaye agricultural high school in Chartres.
