Lectures

"What makes us happy? What are we afraid of? What amazes us? "These are the questions that Marie Vialle and Thierry Thieû Niang, inspired by a radio interview with Marguerite Duras in the 1970s, asked children and adolescents of today. Through their words, they will wonder about the present time but also about trucks, butterflies, people, bridges and stones ...

"Determined to be free and happy" is the motto of Modesta, the heroine of The Art of Joy by novelist Goliarda Sapienza, which Olivia Corsini will also introduce us to this summer. Beyond the many barriers that 20th century Italian society puts in its way, whether religious, moral or political, the young orphan is building an independent life for herself, ready to enjoy all the joys that come her way.

Or a game of traces. A track in the clay soil of a river. Visible, of course, there is not much "and yet everything is there: the joy of the wolves who meet again, the patience of a panther on the prowl, the intelligence of the bear which erases its own footprints, and our own desire to search. Clara Hédouin sets off On Baptiste Morizot's animal trail and examines the visible signs of these invisible existences, surveying their world shared with ours, "this common, tangled realm", where desires and joys - human and non-human - end up being confused.

The three actresses and directors, resolutely committed, will thus offer us an exploration of feelings, through a large panel of texts from yesterday and today.