Programme

As part of Art Explora, Belsunce Projects aims to inaugurate Le Bar du Crépuscule (The Twilight Bar) in the agora, providing a welcoming, in-person space for the public, the community, and artistic disciplines during the festival. Le Bar du Crépuscule is a tool for bringing creative forces together.

Screening of films from the Marseille International Film Festival. © Photo: Capital by Basma Al-Sharif. Courtesy of the artist and Imane Farès Gallery

Frac Sud - Cité de l'art contemporain is always attentive to the emergence of new talent in the region, and regularly offers cartes blanches at its premises as a resource platform for young local artists. By inviting three young artists who have recently graduated from the École supérieure d'art d'Aix-en-Provence Félix Ciccolini to take part in the Art Explora Festival programme , Frac Sud, echoing its art and sport programming, is thwarting established representations and contributing to the themes explored by the festival, based on current issues affecting the Mediterranean world.

Colonial Marseille: a guided tour through the colonial and commercial history of the 19th century, in the heart of the city. The guided tour covers approximately 1 km and lasts 2 hours around the Old Port, exploring the city's colonial history in the 19th century.

Manu Théron has set to music "La Cantilène de Sancta Maria Magdalena", the score of which was lost over two centuries ago. This composition, inspired by testimonies collected since the end of the 19th century, has enabled this archaic song to reconnect with popular devotion to Madalena, a timeless figure in Provence's Phocaean city, and to free itself from the uniformity of Catholic dogma that had once proscribed it.

With Marseille as a recurring backdrop, the video selection brings together an anthology, a series, an experimental documentary and a film at the crossroads of manga and autobiographical narrative.

After a visit to the "Elles!" exhibition at the Préau des Accoules, the museum staff invites you to a workshop highlighting the work of artist Niki de Saint Phalle. Children will be invited to create their own little Nana, drawing inspiration from existing Nana models—those joyful and colorful creatures that embody the artist's feminist and social ideals.

Kidz-18 competition in Hip-hop Breaking, bringing together the vast majority of schools in the region to create their own regional competition.

The dance performance 'Pré́lude' tells the story of the encounter between Romain Dubois' music and the physicality of the dancers. As a prelude to the establishment of Compagnie Accrorap in the South Region, this piece is an invitation from choreographer Kader Attou to a dozen professional hip-hop dancers from the region to explore his artistic world. This versatile show, presented here for the first time, aims to reach all audiences and take hip-hop dance to unexpected places.

'RÉBÉTIKO - SONGS FROM GREECE AND MINOR ASIA' - 'A contemplative moment of music from a region at the crossroads of East and West

When Maura Guerrera’s luminous and soulful voice meets Malik Ziad’s mandole and guembri, the vocal traditions of Sicily are imbued with the exalted melodies and rhythms of the Mediterranean… Listening to the vibrations that run through it, the duo, enriched by the poetic, sensitive and vibrant presence of Manu Théron, transports us from one shore to the other of the Mare Nostrum, in a deep and intense sonic journey.

For this workshop blending dance and theatre, Dasha Sedova and Omar Aljbaai, in association with the Artists in Exile workshop, invite us to reintroduce the notions of play and joy into our daily movement practices. Over the course of an hour and a half, participants will explore walking, bodily interactions in everyday situations, and ways of occupying space with a fresh perspective.

As a self-taught artist and culinary expert with a particular interest in North African Judeo-Arabic cuisine, Rafram Chaddad transforms the hammam into a place not only for treatment and relaxation but also for food and sharing. One afternoon, he took over the Zein hammam in Marseille, located near the Old Port, and offered to cook and serve dishes to clients during their treatments.

All around us, as we walk through the city, are texts, words, letters. David Poullard invites us to discover this written cacophony, which has a form, an origin, a state of existence that invites questions and offers valuable lessons to those who take the time to look at it with curiosity. He will explore a series of "cases" during a walk that will take us from the Reformed Quarter to the Old Port, passing through three distinct neighborhoods.

Flamenco's history is rooted in the memory of a harmonious Andalusia, where the beauty of nature and the stars, nourished by the wisdom of the Ancients and ancient Arabic poetry, coexisted with Visigothic, Moorish, Jewish, Christian, and Amazigh cultures. Its Gypsy heritage also connects it to an intense and proud music. Andalusia, perhaps even more than a symbol of a civilization founded on the meeting of the three monotheistic religions, symbolizes an idyllic golden age between East and West, far removed from the alarming ecological context of today's Mediterranean.