The Pink October campaign is launched. For a month, several events linked to the fight against breast cancer will take place throughout the Lille metropolis. Journey around women artists, workshops, self-defense training, theater… we’ll give you a focus on the program at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille from October 1 to 6, 2024.
A pink wave submerged the Citadel of Lille this Sunday, September 29. 8,000 participants walked and ran for the fight against breast cancer across the Challenge Ruban Rose, which launched the Pink October campaign in Lille.
Preventive, festive, sporting events… in the Lille metropolis, there are numerous initiatives to raise funds, understand and detect the disease, of which 61,000 new cases have been diagnosed in 2023 alone. Among them, we find those of the Palais des Beaux-Arts which are distributed between October 1 and 6, combining “art, well-being and feminism“.
Visits, workshops, theater
Each event offered by the Lille museum allows you to make a donation of €10 or more, donated to the CHU Endowment Fund, “au benefit from the socio-aesthetic care program intended for patients treated at the University Hospital for cancer“, indicates the PBA.
Here is their schedule:
- Tuesday October 1 at 6:30 p.m.
- visits dedicated to the history of women artists with “a route designed especially for Pink October“
- self-palpation workshops carried out with CHU nursing staff
- Qigong session, a Chinese practice that combines breathing, meditation and gentle movements, with practitioner Marie-Claire Truong. “Elle helps reduce stress, improve flexibility and strengthen the immune system“, indicates the PBA.
- Registration link
- Wednesday October 2 and Thursday October 3
- 2-hour art therapy workshops with Pascaline Bonnave, art therapist, painter and visual artist
- sessions on Wednesday October 2 at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. (registration link)
- session on Thursday October 3 at 3:30 p.m. (registration link)
- Friday, October 4 at 8 p.m. at the Auditorium
- play “Inside day, a woman is waiting” who questions “the notion of home, space, housewife” and the feminist conceptions of its authors, Esther Mollo and Audrey Chapon.
- Registration link
The PBA also offers self-defense courses on October 5 and 6, but unfortunately, they have been victims of their own success.
