In Eure, this cultural association is launching new projects

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The Swallows have more than one trick up their sleeve. The association created by three friends for promote art and culture as accelerators of social inclusion, continues its work in Vernon (Eure) and its surroundings.

Since Tuesday September 10, 2024the Piaf choir, open to all and organized at the La Petite surface grocery store in Tourny, has resumed service.

Choir and internship

“This choir is open to everyone, you don’t need to know how to sing to join us, you just need to want to share a moment together. Registration is possible all year round,” explains Marie La Mesta, musician, author, composer, performer and member of the association Les Hirondelles which organizes the choir.

The sessions take place on Tuesdays from 7 p.m. on September 24, October 8 and 22, November 5 and 19, and December 3 and 17.

In October, the youngest will also find the multi-activity courses hosted by Marie La Mesta and various artists performing in Tourny. See you during the first week of the All Saints’ Day holidays, from October 21 to 25.

“For five days, the children do several activities over half-days. This time, we will find, for example, making instruments from recycled elements or writing songs. We try to revolve around all the arts,” explains Marie La Mesta (price: €100 per child for five days, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.).

From Forum Theatre to Apeer

But this year there is also new : Marie La Mesta launches a theater workshop with young people with disabilities who live at the Association for Education and Rehabilitation (Apeer) in Tilly.

Do you know about forum theatre? This interactive format allows the audience to become actors in the play being performed in front of them and becomes a real mediation tool.

“In forum theatre, we create a scene of about ten minutes that presents a problematic situation. In a second stage, we present this problematic situation to the audience and it ends badly. In a third stage, the audience can interact while we play the scene and provide solutions. There is also a game master who explains what we are doing again,” explains Marie La Mesta.

Last year, Marie La Mesta led a forum theatre workshop with Apeer residents as part of the inclusion forum in Rouen (Seine-Maritime). This year, she aims to export it to schools in the area.

Following this first experience, we put together a file and received a grant under the Culture and Health agreement

This project, called Les Forum’idables, therefore aims to go meeting the school public throughout the year: “We are looking for schools, colleges and high schools that would be interested in hosting us.” The call is launched.

Stage edge in October

Before rubbing shoulders with schoolchildren, the Apeer actors will have the opportunity to present their sketches at the next Bord de scène evening. (evening where artists are invited to perform at Apeer, which welcomes people with disabilities, as part of reverse inclusion, Editor’s note).

“This new edition of Bord de scène will be a little special because the company will spend a week in residence at Apeer and will offer workshops to residents before performing on October 11,” announces Marie La Mesta.

The company in question, Le Truc, will present Loversa piece that addresses the theme of love between jealousies and fights “while shaking up the contours of the absurd and the poetically correct.”

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