Montauban. Great success for this first evening of Autumn Letters

They were welcomed by Dominique Paillarse, president of the organizing association Confluences: “Once again we have woven the countless threads making up this event, thank you to our institutional partners, loyal and convinced long-term partners, the State, the Region Occitanie, the Departmental Council, the City of Montauban, thank you also to our private partners. Your numerous presence this evening attests to your confidence, your curiosity, your appetite. Our partners have understood the issues, the time has come. to budgetary restrictions and despite everything we must give compasses and directions to all those who doubt The written word, the book, reading in our adulterated, manipulated environment, it is thought, stability, civilization. media libraries and our festivals. We warmly thank our guests, let’s join the party!”.

Then a film was shown, each partner was able to explain the challenge of this event: Opening up to unique literary works through meetings, readings and shows. Immerse yourself in the world of words, ideas that promote reading, particularly among young people and audiences far removed from cultural practices. Strengthen the role and economic scope of books for the region.

For Agnès Gros, director in charge of programming: “It’s a joy to see so many of you, it’s not a formula. Knowing so many of you on a November evening with the promise of traveling for a few days with writers and artists, this is not obvious and which continues to impress me The theme of these Autumn Letters ‘Our impulses, our quests’ carries in its formulation the idea of ​​a collective. which allows you to connect singularities. It is indeed a multitude of views and words that will meet over these two weeks. Novelists, historians, musicians, philosophers, translators, illustrators, actors will invite us to travel from Slavic countries to Africa. United States, in Spain, they will invite us to think, to cultivate our imaginations. I thank our guests of honor Jakuta Alikavazovic and Sylvain Prudhomme for their trust and their generosity. The evening concluded festively with a cocktail offered by the City of Montauban.