It continues to grow year after year. Launched in 2022 by the Halle aux grains – Scène nationale de Blois, the Génération Climat highlight has become a real festival, which will last seven days, one more than last year, from Wednesday January 15 to Tuesday January 21, 2025.
“It is gaining momentum because it completely corresponds to the concerns that populations have on the issue of climate transitionexplains Frédéric Maragnani, director of the Halle aux grains. Our goal as Scène nationale is not to provide answers, but to provide air to these questions and to make them less anxiety-provoking by working on them through art and culture. »
“Make these questions less anxiety-provoking”
The idea is this year again “to exchange thoughts on the climate issue” around new practices, the theme of this 4e edition. For the occasion, the grain market will be open every day to the public (1).
Throughout the event, it will host a bookstore-reading corner and exhibitions produced by pupils and students from different Blais establishments (Camille-Claudel high school, School of Nature and Landscape, Blois-Agglopolys art school, Etic design school) and the La Vitrine itinérante association, which brings together students and residents of Blois. Because, as Sandrine Lhuillier, communications manager for the Scène nationale de Blois, reminds us, Génération Climat is designed “for and by youth”.
So many projects will be presented on Wednesday January 15, at 6:30 p.m., for the opening of the festival. Also on the program: participatory screen printing and tufting workshops (artistic textile technique) and a musical set by the artist-musician JOUBe, who “ combines dancefloor, human encounter and cycling”.
A dense and varied program
The grain market will also host the collective L’Avantage du doubt, who will play in the hemicycle, Even more, everywhere, all the time, Saturday January 18, at 6 p.m. (2). A “gritty comedy” and corrosive, made from recycled materials, on ecology and the place of women in society.
Visitors will be able to participate in “Curious Middays”, which, as their name suggests, take place during the lunch break: one on Thursday, January 16, at 12:30 p.m. (a theatrical reading) and the other on Monday, January 20. , at the same time, on a cooperative solar bike.
Two round tables are also planned: a carte blanche at the La Filerie eco-place, in Fresnes, on the 20th at 7 p.m., and a meeting on new ways of investing in the banks of the Loire, on the 21st at 7 p.m. Without forgetting a coffee meeting around books Dead or alive. Contribution to a practical, theoretical and sensitive ecology of the living arts, by researcher Julie Sermon, on the 18th, at 4:30 p.m.
If the program is dense, we can also mention a film debate at the Les Lobis cinema, on the 16th at 8 p.m., around the film Covas do Barroso, chronicle of a collective struggleor in particular different workshops, including one around plant-based cuisine on Sunday 19, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., before an eco-responsible brunch.
There will therefore be no shortage of exchanges throughout this protean event, “which will continue to evolve” over the years and which contributes to making the Halle aux grains “a shaker of ideas”.
(1) It will open each day at 1 p.m. and close at the end of the scheduled events, except Saturday January 18, when it will close at 8 p.m. and Sunday January 19, at 4 p.m.
(2) The performance on Friday January 17 is sold out.
