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Network News no.179 / / / June 2009 |
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16th Meeting of Banlieues d'Europe # 1 : ENROL !! |
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The theme of the 16th Meeting # 1 of the Banlieues d'Europe Network will be "Creativity and Innovation in European Towns - 20 Years After the Fall of the Iron Curtain". It will take place at the French Institute in Prague (Czech Republic) on 26 and 27 June 2009.
During two days interventions, debates, and a Round Table will be centred on different themes: - Resistance and Testimonies, New Cultural Dimensions, New Approaches of Communities, East-West Exchange, Artistic Mobility.
Enrol as soon as possible by e-mail at banlieues.deurope@wanadoo.fr (the number of places is limited).
ATTENTION: please reserve your flights to Prague quickly in order to get the lowest prices!
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Practical Information:
/// Venue: French Institute, Prague
/// Working Languages: French, English, Czech
/// Free upon enrolment
/// Lunch upon Enrolment: 120Kc (4.50 €)
This meeting is being organized in partnership with Banlieues d'Europ'est.
> Contact Banlieues d'Europe : tél. +33 4 72 60 97 80 - www.banlieues-europe.com
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The Resources Centre of Banlieues d'Europe is opened ! |
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Banlieues d'Europe has been collecting information and documents for the last twenty years. This documentary base, rich and specific, was inaugurated on 25 May 2009.
The Banlieues d'Europe Resources Centre is in particular addressed to artists, actors in the cultural and social field, and university researchers, but also to officials of public policies and local councillors at local, national European level, and also to any curious and interested person.
The collection consists of around 3000 documents (books, guides, annuals, reports, press communiqués, websites, flyers, programmes, magazines, CDs, DVDs) in different languages. These supports present innovative and participative artistic experiences and projects, coming from "working class" areas and implicating communities in different European countries, and also numerous analytical works.
/// Principal Themes:
Living Shows / Street Arts, Circus, Music, Dance, Puppets, Performances, Parades, Theatre, Festivals, Opera, Urban Cultures.
Other Disciplines / Visual Arts, Literature, Architecture, Town Development, Fashion, Gastronomy.
Policies / Town Policies, Cultural Policies and European Policies
Topical Subjects and Society Issues / Interculturality, Social Cohesion, Cultural Diversity, Sustained Development, Youth and Adolescence, Relationships Between Women and Men, Digital Culture and Alternative Medias, Economic Solidarity.
You can download the Presentation document. (French version)
> Contact Emilie Wacogne - Banlieues d'Europe : tel. +33 4 72 60 97 80 - banlieues.deurope@wanadoo.fr
- www.banlieues-europe.com
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Banlieues d'Europe, guest of Cap Canal |
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Cap Canal, a television channel devoted to education, invited Sarah Levin, Director of Banlieues d'Europe, to participate in two programmes: "Cap Infos" and "Questions of Education", both on the theme "Towards a European Citizenship". Besides Sarah Levin, Thierry Auzer (responsible for a Franco/German young creation platform), Benoit Courtin (responsible for a group of Young Europeans in Lyon) and Jacqueline Ibrahime (a Inspector from Gabon) also took part in the programmes.
Cap Infos was broadcast each day from 1 - 5 June and will be retransmitted during the week of 15 June (Monday 12 pm, Tuesday 11 am, Wednesday 6 pm, Thursday 3 pm and Friday 12 pm). The programme will also be available online on the Cap Canal website at the beginning of July.
"Questions of education" will also be broadcast in September 2009.
> Contact Cap Canal : Tel.+33 4 72 10 24 70 - capcanal@mairie-lyon.fr - www.capcanal.com
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Territory of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania |
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Territory of Art is an international project developed in the framework of the "Vilnius - European Capital of Culture 2009" programme. Territory of Art is a new space dedicated to creativity, initiated at the University of Vilnius Children's Hospital. The project asks an essential question: Can Art Change the World Around It After Having Changed the Walls of the Hospital? From 14 to 15 June 2009, twenty young European artists will get together in the framework of several workshops devoted to Lithuanian culture, the reading of theoreticians and critics, as well as workshops with Lithuanian participants. All the works of art thus created will be given to the Children's Hospital.
The project also includes an International Conference that took place on 1 and 2 June 2009 in Vilnius, entitled "Art for Health: Experiences and Perspectives". Several countries shared their experiences, the latest research discoveries on the subject and discussed possibilities of co-operation. The project aimed to develop and experiment educational art therapy programmes for children, patients in the hospital.
> Further information : www.manoteritorija.lt/index.php/pageid/493
> Contact Jolita Cibinskaite : jolita@manoteritorija.lt
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Oberlist, Culture of Youth; Art and Cultural Policies |
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Oberliht is an association that regroups young artists in the Moldavian Republic. Since 2002, Oberliht has been developing a Diffusion List on the culture of youth, art and cultural policies, a useful instrument for information and professional development of artists and cultural operators in the country. "Oberlist" is today a portal for art and culture in the Moldavian Republic, and represents a free electronic service, destined for artists, exhibitions commissioners, cultural producers, and cultural managers, etc., in the European space but also in the Caucasus, Turkey and other regions of the world, establishing the premise of future collaboration at European level.
Oberlist offers actors in the artistic and cultural domain an efficient method of medatizing their activities and promoting their structures and their projects, in order to identify new partners and reach a larger public. The Oberlist portal also offers an interactive space open for discussion and debate on the cultural scene in the Moldavian Republic. The moderators of the list encourage the expression of a critical and participative attitude.
> Further information : www.oberliht.org.md - http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/oberlist
> Contact Oberlith - Vladimir Us : vladimir@oberliht.org.md
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European Regional Forum, 4 June 2009 |
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The Association for Cultural and International Development and the EUROMEDINCULTURE network have launched a consultation system in order to influence cultural policies in Europe. A series of Regional Forums have been initiated throughout Europe and the second Regional Forum took place on 4 June 2009 in Marseille, France. With a view to encouraging debate beforehand, a questionnaire was put on line: "give your opinion on the place of culture in your own future". A follow-up system with a group of scientists enabled an accurate restitution of these citizens' declarations.
The main European Forum taking place on 2 and 3 July 2009 in Montpellier, France, will close the phase of meetings and debates with the general public, decision-makers, professionals and specialists. The partners, the Steering Committee and the Scientific Committee, will then produce a Synthetic Report,
accurately reporting the points of view expressed. This document, intended for community institutions, will also be widely diffused to opinion relay points.
Programme et registration form available.
> Contact ADCEI : Tel.+33 4 91 33 65 05 - contact@adcei.org - www.adcei.org
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"Creativity and Innovation" Forum, Dortmund, Germany |
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The next meeting of the EUROCITIES Culture Forum will be held in Dortmund, Germany, from 11 to 13 June 2009. A hundred representatives of large European cities are expected to attend this Forum, of which the main theme will be "Creativity and Innovation." The town of Dortmund is closely linked to Ruhr European Capital of Culture 2010, and the Forum will be an occasion for town members to exchange their experiences on the issues and opportunities linked to the title of European Capital of Culture. Ruhr 2010 will be the first European Capital of Culture to integrate the theme of creative industries into its programme.
The Forum of Dortmund programme will also include meetings of themed EUROCITIES Working Groups (Access to Culture, Financing of Culture and Youth and Culture) and a Round Table bringing together local councillors on the theme of financing culture in a difficult economic context.
The EUROCITIES Forum is presided by Nantes and co-presided by Warsaw.
> Contact Eurocities : julie.herve@eurocities.eu - www.eurocities.eu
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Conference on Art, Culture and Globalization, 10 June 2009 |
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If globalization encourages cultural exchange, mixing and blending of communities, meetings and dialogues, it also renders economic disparities more visible and brings with it a great deal of incomprehension. How can art and artists resist, contribute, and work in this context and at the same time keep their own territorial base? With what issues are artists and culture professionals confronted? How can one continue to be a carrier of reflection and ideas in environments that can become threatening? What avenues in the cultural sector can be followed towards new models (including economic models), reconciling solidarity and development?
To take up this theme, the NACRe has given carte blanche to Yves Michaud, philosopher and Director of the University of All Knowledge, who will give a conference entitled "Art, Culture and Globalization" on 10 June 2009 at the Théâtre Nouvelle Génération, Lyon, France.
> Contact La NACRE : Tel.+33 4 72 77 84 30 - s.belalem@la-nacre.org - www.la-nacre.org
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"Sur les chemins de l'OaSIS" (On the Way to the OaSIS) |
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Bizz'Art Nomade is off again from 9 to 26 June 2009 in the Drôme area of France with the event "Sur les chemins de l'OaSIS".
Two citizens' caravans comprising three horses, five actors including two acrobats, musicians and a projectionist, will be installed on a patrimonial site for two days and will present different events in order to meet the inhabitants and members of association.
The evening events will include a horse show, a piano solo concert, an itinerant theatre presentation and film shows. The creations presented will take up the themes of ruralism, love and ecology. Beforehand, there will be work with school children and young people through an interactive musical show.
Dates and Venues: - La Touche (9 June), Portes en Valdaine (13 June), Poët Laval (16 June), Pont de Barret (18 June), La Batie Roland (19 June), Marsanne (21 June), La Laupie (23 June), Sauzet (25 June).
The two caravans will be present the annual rendezvous of the OaSIS Bizz'art Festival on 10, 11 and 12 July 2009 at the Parc de la Baume, Dieulefit, France.
> Contact Association la Bizz'art Nomade : La Ferme des Dames 26160 Salettes - Tel.+33 4 75 90 45 71 - bizzart@club-internet.fr
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National Meeting "Artistic Demarches and Urban Renewal" |
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The Zutique association is organizing a National Meeting on the theme of "Artistic Demarches and Urban Renewal" on 11 and 12 June 2009 in the Gresilles neighbourhood of Dijon, France. The central problem is oriented towards relationships between operators in the cultural field, urban renewal and social housing. How do urban renewal professionals grasp artistic and cultural fields? What project could emerge between these different actors? How can the possibility to speak and be heard be given back to the inhabitants in these projects? What might be the effects on thee territories (economic, social, cultural and political)?
Enrolment is free.
Programme.
> Practical information : www.zutique.com
> Contact Zutique productions - Charlène Mercier : Tel.+33 3 80 73 29 69 - colloque@zutique.com
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Seminar "Culture, Sustainable Development and Local Authorities: What Priorities for the Next Decade?" |
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The Agenda 21 of Culture is organizing a Seminar on the theme of "Culture, Sustainable Development and Local Authorities: What Priorities for the Next Decade?" to be held on 12 June 2009 in Barcelona, Spain.
Programme.
Registration form.
> Contact : agenda21cultura@bcn.cat
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Master 2 Professional Cultural Development and Project Management, Lyon |
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The Masters 2 Professional Cultural Development and Project Management Course, general and pluri-disciplinary, of the University 2 of Lyon, France, has been training cultural professionals since 1988.
Three possibilities are available:
a full-time Training Course of one year (October to September), a Training Course of 18 months for active professionals, and the Masters Management and Cultural Policies in the Balkans in partnership with the University of Arts, Belgrade.
This Masters Degree is intended in particular for professionals in the cultural sector, both in France and other countries, but also for professionals in other sectors of activity reconverted to the cultural sector and students in initial training, both French and non-French.
The deadline for sending dossiers is 20 June 2009.
The Dossier of Candidature for the Master 2 Professional Cultural Development and Project Management is available on line.
> Contact Université Lyon 2 : Tel.+33 4 78 77 30 07 - celia.sarzeaud@univ-lyon2.fr
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Choreographic Promenades in Saint-Denis |
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From April to June 2009, the Rue de la Danse association is bringing together amateur and pre-professional dancers in Dance and Urban Space workshops.
Together, and through the body, they are exploring urban matter, its history and its architecture. The priority of this artistic and participative project is to study the town and its contemporary use of public space in order to present a choreographic interpretation. Three choreographers are accompanying the dancers in this collective creation process: - Carmen Morais, Laurent Pichaud and Silvia Siriczman.
At 5 pm on 20 June 2009, on the place du Caquet, Saint Denis, France (metro line 13 Basilique Saint Denis) the public is invited to discover three dance shows, presented in the street, a moment of sharing centred on dance and living differently in the town.
> Further information : www.ruedeladanse.com
> Contact Rue de la danse - Claire Diraison : Tel.+33 6 75 99 13 21 - ruedeladanse@gmail.com - www.ruedeladanse.com
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French-German Multimedia Workshop PLAN D'EXIL MARSEILLE 2009 for Young Adults |
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From 8 to 13 July 2009, in Marseille, France, and the Passage & Co. association is organizing a Multimedia Workshop, aimed at French and German young adults (between 17 and 27 years old).
To keep alive the memory of exile, to bring to the attention of passers-by, and to exchange with them, the centre of Marseille will be occupied for three days. Certain streets will be transformed into playgrounds in order to pay homage to exiles, and those who come from far away. Multiple creations will be presented, with the help of artists, photographers and video filmmakers, in order to create imaginary maps, literary texts, photos, pod casts and videos. A Writing Workshop will be run by Marine Vassort (author, sociologist).
Participation Fee for the Workshop (without lodging or meals): 50 €
Registration form.
> Contact Passage & Co. - Sabine Günther : Tel/Fax.+33 4 42 29 34 05 - passageetco@wanadoo.fr - www.passage-co.com
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Intercultural Cities Newsletter |
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In the framework of the Intercultural Cities Programme, several towns will analyse their policies and develop transversal intercultural strategies in order to take up the challenge of a world in movement.
The 6th edition of the Newsletter of the Programme has just been published:
> Contact Cités interculturelles : www.coe.int/interculturalcities
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To Discover on the Internet |
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- www.artfactories.net
- The Resources Platform of Artfactories has been on line since 18 May 2009. This website regroups the announcements of events of members of the Artfactories /Autreparts network, Calls…
- www.culturalpolicies.net
The new on line version of the information site devoted to cultural policies, sectors and markets in Europe has just been published.
- http://maisouvalaculture.wordpress.com
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, the University of Lyon 2 (Department of Anthropology and Sociology -Training Courses in Professions of Art and Culture) and the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs in the Rhône-Alpes area are associating to initiate a debate on the theme: - "Re-invent Cultural Policies" by creating a participative blog entitled "Mais où va la culture?" (But Where is Culture Going?). This is a new space for exchange and debate open to everyone and centred on the re-invention of cultural policies.
> Contact : maisouvalaculture@gmail.com
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Publications |
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- "Intercultural Cities. A Journey Through 23 European Cities (Cités interculturelles. Un voyage à travers 23 cités européennes)" : ouvrage publié en 2009.
Disponible en téléchargement gratuit.
> Contact Eurocités : 1, Square de Meeûs, B-1000 Bruxelles - tél.+32 2 552 0888 - info@eurocities.eu - www.eurocities.eu
- "Terra Cognita "Le nouveau paysage migratoire"(The New Migratory Landscape) : no. 14 - 2009. Trilingual (German, French, Italian).
Terra Cognita is edited by the Federal Commission for Questions on Migration in Switzerland. The magazine is organized as a Forum, enabling the launching of a discussion on modern themes of migration and presents recent scientific discoveries and practical experiences realized.
All numbers of Terra Cognita are available free upon request.
Other themes examined: What Culture? Swiss Creations, Languages, Medias, Identities...
> Contact CFM : Quellenweg 9 - 3003 Berne-Wabern - ekm@bfm.admin.ch - www.ekm.admin.ch
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Call for Candidatures SPACE: Managers in the Art of Show Business |
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SPACE, a European platform initiated by the National Office for Artistic Diffusion, and aimed at supporting the diffusion of living shows in Europe, begins its pilot training programme destined for thirty young people responsible for diffusion in Europe.
Two groups of 15 trainees, from different European countries, will participate in 5 training sessions in five European towns (the sessions are spaced out by 3 to 4 months).
The deadline for sending candidatures is 14 June 2009.
Download the call for candidatures.
> Contact : pam@spaceproject.eu
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Call for Projects and Participation in Na-Mur |
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L'Isolat is launching a Call for Participation to all cultural operators, associations and other socio-cultural organizations for the Na-Mur event, initiated in the framework of the anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
Imagine a wall being constructed in one night (from 23 to 24 October 2009) and dividing the town of Namur, Belgium, in two. Imagine that this symbolic splitting of a town into two will be the occasion for several hundreds of participants, to ask questions about separation and walls - real and symbolic - that continue to exist in the world. Imagine that the circulation of people in the centre of towns pass through Check Points. Imagine that you give life to this wall!
How? By presenting animations to passers-by, tourists, and visitors, and bringing your contribution to the dressing of the structure (the wall itself), by presenting or programming events linked to themes conceived by Na Mur (documentary cycles, concerts, shows, exhibitions, debates, colloquies) or by suggesting any original idea for animation, events or group participation.
Presentation file.
> Contact Isolat - François Moens : Rue des Carrières 46 5000 Namur - Tel.+32 478 57 10 90 - info@isolat.org - www.na-mur.eu
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Call for participation |
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In the framework of the performance "Long Time Passing", the Halles de Schaerbeek is launching a Call for Participation.
80 flowered dresses are suspended in helium balloons and twenty women of all ages and diverse origins sing the lullabies of their childhood. Guided by the English artists Anne Bean, they meticulously cut up the patterns of the multicoloured dresses. During the day, the ground of the large hall becomes covered with a giant carpet of flowers and lastly, the dresses fly away. The artist, particularly touched by the theme of immigration and attachment to roots, already realized this installation/performance in England and in Iraq. Fascinated by the force of these exchanges, she chose Brussels and its multiculturalism for the 3rd edition of "Long Time Passing".
Do you like to sing? Would you like to participate in an original artistic project bringing together 20 women of all ages and diverse backgrounds? Join us on 14 June 2009 at the Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels, for Long time Passing, this installation/performance of six hours duration.
The participants should also be available in the evening o 12 June, and the afternoon of 13 June in (times to be confirmed).
> Contact Halles de Schaerbeek - Anne-Sophie Noël : Tel.+32 2 227 59 53 - mediation@halles.be - halles.be
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"Ma proche banlieue" (My Nearby Neighbourhood) 26 May - 11 October 2009 |
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For the last 30 years, Patrick Zachmann, photographer at Magnum Photos, has been working on themes of identity, memory and immigration, and is taking a sensitive look at French neighbourhoods.
From 26 May to 11 October 2009, Patrick Zachmann presents his photographs in the exhibition "Ma Proche Banlieue" at the Cité Nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration (National Centre for the History of Immigration).
He captures moments in life, between laughs and tears, between dreams and reality, and men and women talk about themselves in a difficult urban universe. Since Patrick Zachmann's first investigation, the neighbourhood has been metamorphosed; the neighbourhoods north of Marseille to la Courneuve in the Paris area, from Sarcelles to Villers-le-Bel, passing through Evry or Dunkirk. His photographer's eye also.
Far from clichés, this exhibition retraces these meetings in 163 photographs, of which nearly half are unpublished. Eleven sequences scan the journey through the exhibition: Vu d'ailleurs (Seen from Somewhere Else), No Man's Land, Paysages de la banalité (Banal Landscapes), Portaits de famille (Family Portraits), Jardins ouvriers (Workers' Allotments),La Pose (The Pose), Lieux de Prière (Places to Pray), Maliens, Ici et là-bas (Malians, Here and Over There), Quartiers nord de Marseille -Neighbourhoods North of Marseille, Implosion, Enquête d'identité (Quest for an Identity).
> Contact Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration : 293, avenue Dausmenil - 75012 Paris - Tel.+33 1 53 59 58 60 - Fax+33 1 53 59 58 66 - info@histoire-immigration.fr - www.histoire-immigration.fr
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Danse Hip Hop Tanz Festival |
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The Danse Hip Hop Tanz Festival is being held from 27 May to 21 June 2009 in Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
Initiated in 1997 in Berlin and installed since 1999 in Seine-Saint-Denis, this festival testifies to choreographic demarches and nourishes the hip hop movement by meetings and exchange at European level.
Danse Hip Hop Tanz is a festival constructed in partnership with different venues in five towns in Seine-Saint-Denis: - Aulnay-sous-Bois, Bagnolet, Bobigny, Pantin, Rosny-sous-Bois and Tremblay-en-France.
Conceived as a choreographic stroll, this Festival presents an artistic programme open to the world without forgetting to highlight the amateur demarches in the different towns of the journey.
> Contact MOOV'N AKTION : 3bis Villa des Lions 93310 Le Pré-Saint-Gervais - Tel.+33 1 40 10 28 06 - contact@moovnaktion.org - www.moovnaktion.org
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This letter was drafted by Myriam Bentoumi, Sarah Levin, Marjorie Fromentin. Sheilah Tanner did the English translation. We would remind you that all the information contained in this document is sent exclusively to members of our association, our partners and by subscription.
The Banlieues d'Europe network is supported by the French Ministry of Culture (Delegation for Development and International Affairs), the Inter-Ministerial Delegation to the Town, the Town of Lyon, the Rhône-Alpes County Council and the European Commission-DGEAC.
The Resource Centre of Banlieues d'Europe is co-financed by the European Union. Europe is committed in the Rhône-Alpes area with the FEDER.
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