Tourists, refugees? If they landed, what status would be given to the extraterrestrials? We’re talking about it in Quimper…

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What legal status for extraterrestrials on planet Earth? This is the intriguing question that will be asked during the opening evening of the Finistellar festival which will take place in Quimper (Finistère) from November 15 to 17, 2024.

“We are going to rely on the film District 9 by Neill Blomkamp (2009), in which visitors from beyond the stars, parked in District 9, in South Africa, are rejected, their rights violated”, presents Guillaume Volant, from the organizing association La 29^e dimension.

Here is the trailer:

The screening will be followed by an exchange with Claude Arzretired lawyer. “He wrote an essay on the subject in the journal Orbs : in the event that extraterrestrial creatures arrive on Earth, what rights and duties should they be given? Should they be granted citizenship? » (Friday 15 at 7 p.m. at Novomax, free participation).

Several conferences

Finistellaire is an event around imaginative literature: science fiction, fantasy, fantasy. The fourth edition, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, will have the theme: Travels possible (impossible?).

Several conferences are scheduled. They will cover topics like

• Spirituality in the imagination,
• The influence of imagination on youth,
• Science fiction and ecology,
• Time travel,
• The evolution of science fiction from its origins to today,
• Science fiction and thriller...

Festival-goers will also be able to learn about science fiction board games and handling the lightsaber, and taking part in the Finistellium treasure hunt…

Around thirty authors

Three exhibitions will be to discover: Science fiction timeline (at the object library), Remy Toularastel’s wooden robots (at the object library), Around Star Wars (garden workshops, Max-Jacob center).

In addition, around thirty authors will provide signing sessions, including: Nicolas Skinner (The end of the stars), Audrey J. Forest (Moonlight shadow), Samuel Sadaune (Jules Verne and the sea), Azilis Helori (Cyrlane Park)Benoît Le Gall (Chronicles of a Lab Rat), Christophe Siébert (It would be)…

Practical information.
Friday November 15 from 7 p.m., Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Max-Jacob center, 2 bis boulevard Dupleix, and at the Objethèque, 4 rue Jacques-Cartier in Quimper.
https://www.la29emedimension.fr/
It’s free.

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