Nantes: the SPOT festival which highlights young talents is back

There 13^e SPOT edition returns on June 14 and 15, 2024. Theater, concerts, workshops, dance, performances, exhibitions… This event is an opportunity for young people to express their talents.

A festive opening night

On June 14, the festival will be launched with a party: numerous rap, hip-hop and singing concerts on the Cours Saint-Pierre, and numerous dance shows and activities during the weekend.

A novelty is expected for this year 2024: “Spot also becomes a space for promoting the words of young people and for exchanges with elected officials,” assured Nantes Métropole. A space will be dedicated for this purpose.

The projects of young people from Nantes will also be highlighted. Indeed, following the call for projects launched last fall by the City of Nantes, SPOT will highlight the projects of the young people selected during this call.

They will be supported by the City of Nantes and its network of associations partners: EclectiC Léo-Lagrange, TriptiC Léo-Lagrange, Atelier des Initiatives, Horizon.

For each of their projects, young people are put in contact with professionals from the theme of their initiative and places adapted to their artistic practices are made available to them to rehearse.

What is the program ?

“SPOT ON STAGE”

• Friday June 14 from 7 p.m. until 12:30 a.m. : with a DJ set which will be followed by a rap and hip-hop evening. The first concert of the festival will be with Tito P, rapper and beatmaker, rapping in French and English. Eclectic concerts will follow, including Kimjo, and Fashion Reeks. The evening will end with the performance of O’burn, with multiple electro influences.
• Saturday June 15 : second concert evening with, from 6 p.m., the Coconut collective, a pop duo
  folk with sumptuously crafted vocal harmonies. At 7:45 p.m., it’s the singer Miel
  which fuses jazz, soul and bossa-nova inspirations in an authentic universe. Place
  then to Nobody’s Fault, between punk math and rock, Pol Mira and his passion for the alternative
  pop or even in Tensing, to close the evening with a concert where percussion and
  overdriven synthesizers meet.

“SPOT Show”

• Opening of theperformance space at 2:30 p.m. with the Mouv Mang project which aims to share his passion for hip-hop dance through wild choreography.
• Several shows will be presented throughout the day, ending with a play by Compagnie Zèle which will evoke our ambivalent relationship to the world of work.

“SPOT Video”: documentaries and short films

• Saturday June 15, the yurt space is open from 2 p.m. with video clips from the Observatory of Inequalities on the point of view of young people from Nantes on inequalities and the place of competition in our society.
• Always on Saturday, the association Un brasier dans mon coeur plans projections on the theme of violence against women, followed by a short film by EclectiC and TriptiC Léo-Lagrange, allowing young people to fully discover the Cannes Film Festival.

“THE SPEECH UNDER THE SPOTS”, space for free expression of young people

• Saturday June 15, meeting of Young People and Elected Officials at 5:30 p.m., a “proximity meeting” will allow young people to meet municipal elected officials and discuss with them.
• THE SPOT info will also be held in this space with the contribution of youth partners present throughout the festival to inform and guide on issues related to youth and on the systems put in place for young people in Nantes.

” THE SPOT “

In addition to this program of shows and concerts, 15 projects mounted by young people are to come and discover Saturday continuously from 1:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. within the village space, cours Saint-Pierre, including: workshops and various podcasts.

Young artists will also be present to be discovered during the exhibitions organized during the weekend: Nolwenn Herbreteau, Céliane Tanneau and Marjolaine Pelé, Jessica Lundi-Léandre and Anna Tiger and Milo Rosebery.

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