While the director of the Avignon festival had already sounded the alarm on the political situation “to defend democracy”, a “night” of mobilization will be improvised in this period between the two rounds, this Thursday, July 4.
Corinne Masiero, Jeanne Balibar, Joey Starr will be there this July 4 in Avignon. The director of the eponymous festival had already explained during his opening press conference and a few days before the first round of the 2024 legislative elections his position, he the Portuguese child who fled the dictatorship with his parents: “it“It is a democratic, popular, republican, ecological, feminist, anti-racist festival.”
Lhe Avignon festival announced a “Night” of mobilization against the far right on Thursday, with several cultural actors, so that the outcome of the legislative elections is a “celebration night“rather than”entry into resistance“.
“We are launching the Avignon Night initiative“, declared Tiago Rodrigues, director of the festival, this Monday, July 1, the day after the first round., calling for “barrage against the far right in the second round of the legislative elections“Sunday July 7.
It’s about a “night of unity, (…) of mobilization, a popular night“, of “debates“, bringing together, after midnight and until dawn, in the main courtyard of the Popes’ Palace.
Actresses Jeanne Balibar, Andréa Bescond, Corinne Masiero, actor and rapper Joey Starr, director Alexis Michalik, environmental activist Camille Etienne, among others.
“For one more night, we will fight so that on the evening of July 7, Avignon enters into celebration rather than resistance.“.
Alongside him, the Syndéac (artistic companies, first in the public sector) and the CGT-spectacle called for “to block the extreme right“, via “the withdrawal of all the candidates who came in third position, so as to elect any candidate from a right-wing or left-wing political party who finds themselves in a duel against the RN“.
