THE Lyrics Festivalcreated and chaired by Michel Foubert, returns for a third edition From March 14 to 30. Tuesday, January 14, the Maison de l’Europe welcomed the general assembly of the association chaired by Michel Foubert. The opportunity to reveal the program.
“The idea issued in 2022 was part of the perspective of the creation of the International City of the French Language in Villers-Cotterêts, recalls Michel Foubert, former first assistant to Compiègne. Quite naturally, we had materialized around a historical axis between Compiègne, Pierrefonds and Villers-Cotterêts. Strong links have since been woven between my territories. ” In 2024, the Cité de la langue française welcomed more than 260,000 visitors to the François Ier of Villers-Cotterêts castle.
Michel Foubert remembers taking his pilgrim stick “to bring together the budget of this literary festival that we wanted to access as many people as possible”. The Hauts-de-France region, the departments of Aisne and Oise, brought their obole as well as the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs, bringing together a total of € 2,40,000. “It was on the part of the DRAC a recognition of our action towards populations usually far from the French language,” says Michel Foubert.
“Make French discover with humor”
To discover the French language in a fun way is the credo of the Festival Lymes. “We will again demonstrate it, by presenting texts where humor and song will be present,” insists Isabelle Lambert, director of the festival. She confides that the festival has launched the challenge “to emphasize oral with the basis of writing”. And in parallel, to target young people aged 15 to 25 ”.
The next edition will have thirty-six events. Among which many meetings with authors and writers. Director Isabelle Lambert concludes: “You have to reserve the events fairly quickly in which we want to participate because the rooms sometimes have unimportant reception gauges.”
Reservations on Word website.
Lyrics Festival Program
Friday March 14
Afternoon, multipurpose room of Choisy-au-Bac: restitution of residence and show of the theater on the other side with “the album for real”.
6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Saint-Corneille Library in Compiègne: theatrical reading (young adult) of “Carole Trébor Louis Michel I am all in storm” by Guilia de Sia and Juliette de Ribaucourt.
8 p.m., Saint-Corneille library: Reading-meeting with Antoine Compagnon “Reading it pays! And a summer with Proust and a summer with Colette.
Saturday March 15
- 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., Verberie media library: Atelier for teens with Emmanuelle Halgand “30 heroes for the planet”.
- 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Margny-lès-Compiègne media library. Workshops from 11 years old and Slam workshop.
- 10:30 am, media library of Lacroix-Saint-Ouen. Conte “Le Secret du Jardinier” by Murielle Bloch from 7 years old.
- 2 p.m. to 3.30 p.m., Saint-Corneille de Compiègne library. Reading young adult meeting with Nicolas Michel: Oxcean.
- 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Mourichon library in Compiègne. Teen workshop “30 heroes for the planet” by Emmanuelle Halgand.
- 4 p.m. to 5.30 p.m., Saint-Corneille Library in Compiègne. Reading Meeting with Hervé Le Tellier. Prix Goncourt 2020 with the anomaly
- 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., Saint-Nicolas rooms. Dictation of the Rotary “Interlude around…”
- 8 p.m., room in Margny-lès-Compiègne. Humor with “Too good” by Denis Richir.
Sunday March 16
- 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., exhibition hall of the Antoine-Vivenel center in Compiègne. Reading of the Odyssey of Homer in French by Mathieu Marie and in ancient Greek by the translator Emmanuel Lascoux.
- 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., Saint-Corneille library. Reading young adult meeting with Maureen Desmailles and Mélody Gornet.
- 12:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m., Saint-Nicolas rooms-Lunch at the writers table.
- 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m., Saint-Corneille de Compiègne library. Reading meeting around “sleep your brute sleep” with Carole Martinez.
- 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., Saint-Corneille library. Reading meeting with Pierre Assouline around his latest novel “The announcement”.
Friday March 21
- Afternoon-Tracy-le-Mont-Restitution residence.
- 8 p.m., Pierrefonds. Musical reading with piano, Brigitte Fossey reads La Fontaine.
Saturday March 22
- 10:30 am, Cuise-la-Motte library. Tale from 4 years old “they were three times” by praline gay para.
- 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., Tracy-le-Mont, speech to amateurs-theater “Les Nus du Rémor” by Traces et Cie.
- 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Tracy-le-Mont-Word to amateurs-theater “The piece in addition to remember”.
- 2:30 pm to 3.30 pm, Tracy-le-Mont-Word to amateurs-theater-“You want us to talk about it Ismène”.
- 3.30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Tracy-le-Mont-Word to amateurs-Theater-“In Simone car!” by disturbances.
- 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., Tracy-le-Mont-Word to amateurs-Eloquence-“The evening of so-called words”.
- 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Tracy-le-Mont library. Workshops from 11 years old, Slam workshop.
- 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., Cité des Brossiers in Tracy-le-Mont-The theater on the other side. Performance danced and sung in connection with the emancipation of women.
- 8:30 pm, Simone-Veil de Couloisy room-“La Souterraine” Concert by Emily Loizeau.
Sunday March 23
4 p.m., Simone-Veil room in Couloisy. Humor with Michaël Hirsch “I Pionce of which I am”.
Friday March 28
- Afternoon-Inter-municipal music school of Villers-Cotterêts-Restitution of residence.
- 8 p.m., auditorium of the International City in Villers-Cotterêts. Talking sharply of Hélène François and Benjamin Tholozan from 12 years old.
Saturday March 29
- 10:30 am at the Cinema Les Clubs de Villers-Cotterêts. Ciné-concert from 6 years old “the cymbal and the ant”.
- 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Villers-Cotterêts intercommunal music school-Slam workshops from 11 years old.
- 2:30 p.m. at the Cinema Les Clubs de Villers-Cotterêts. Reading-Rencontre Young Adult “Ashes Failling for the Sky” by Nine Gorman and Mathieu Guibé.
- 5 p.m., Chêne de la Cité Internationale – Round Table “Be young and speak! – What words for youth? ”
- 8:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Cité Internationale in Villers-Cootterêts, “immediately” concert by Emma Peters.
Sunday March 30
- 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at the Ferté-Milon Racine Cinema. Reading-meeting with Bénédicte Nécaille around “The Last Perfume”.
- 4 p.m., Vic-sur-Aisne. Humor from 13 years old Typhaine D for “countdown”.
