If the first week of May was rainy, the other four will be significantly sunnier on an intercommunal scale. It must be said that the Luberon Monts de Vaucluse agglomeration, in concert with Akwaba and Coustellet Station, will make Jamaica shine throughout the month with their festival “Les transverses, music in the territory” thanks to a rich cultural program and rhythmic exchanges on the culture of the country nicknamed the Garden of the Caribbean.
In the meantime, other events will once again punctuate the daily life of the network’s media libraries, starting with new workshops. On Tuesday May 21, at 6:30 p.m., the Cavaillon media library offers, for example, a “vinyls to taste” workshop where participants will be invited to multisensory listening to various LPs through several appetizers. Still in Cavaillon, on Saturday May 25, at 4 p.m., the librarians are organizing a geo-sensory tasting of several wines led by knowledgeable oenologist Alfredo Romo, to better understand winemaking.
The 3rd and 4th arts in the spotlight
As for the flagship exhibitions, Bénédicte Hanot will adorn the walls of the Cavaillon media library, from May 17 to 28, with “The Pendihada Family”, which will bring several characters to life thanks to hanging grapes. As for Grégory Lasserre and Anaïs Met Den Ancxt, they will present in Lourmarin, from May 18 to 30, an interactive work, “Phonofolium” where a shrub will react to the slightest human electrostatic contact with sounds.
Finally, several show meetings are scheduled. Léna Casiez will address the history of the Camps des Milles memorial site against a backdrop of today’s identity tensions, at the Oppède media library, on May 24, at 6:30 p.m., while Les Nouvelles hybrides will host a reading aloud on humor at Albert Cahen Friday May 24, at 7 p.m., at the Lourmarin media library. Also note the Aucèls concert, between tales and songs, by the Lézarts du son, on Friday May 24, at 6:30 p.m., in Lauris.
The Transversales, a whole program
This year, the Akwaba, in Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne, the network of Luberon Monts de Vaucluse media libraries and the Gare de Coustellet are joining forces to celebrate Jamaican music and culture, throughout the month of May and even until June 16. “Les Transversales is a collaboration on a departmental scale to promote the territory and its inhabitants through a common subject and several disciplines such as photography, music, an open stage, conferences and a masterclass! And this year, Jamaican music is in the spotlight to introduce the general public to the richness of Jamaican culture, particularly its music.“, testify those responsible.
After the first success of this weekend’s inaugural double concert at the Gare de Coustellet and the Akwaba, the latter is transformed into a temple of reggae music for one evening, on Thursday May 16, at 7:30 p.m., with an open stage for fans of the genre as well as the most seasoned.
For its part, the Maubec media library is offering a conference on “The place of women in reggae” by Maxwell Pix, photographer and speaker from Vaucluse, Friday May 31, at 6:30 p.m. Although traditionally dominated by male artists, reggae has indeed seen the emergence of many powerful female voices who have contributed significantly to this musical genre. Despite challenges and stereotypes, women have managed to find a place for themselves, both on stage and in the music industry.
Note that the Cavaillon media library will also welcome on Saturday June 1, at 3 p.m., Tonton Alex, composer-musician-filmmaker, who will orchestrate a masterclass on the fundamentals of “instrumental” reggae, reviewing the melodic and rhythmic construction of a piece of reggae, instrument after instrument.
Finally, the three sites offer over the weeks a traveling exhibition “artist portraits” signed by Maxwell Pix, which will immerse the visitor in his artistic universe, with portraits of artists from the reggae scene taken throughout the years . Until May 16 at the Akwaba in Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne, from May 21 to 30, at the Gare de Coustellet and from May 31 to June 16 at the media library
