To close the 5th edition of the festival "A Weekend in the East" dedicated to Sofia, a look at Bulgaria today and its capital, its place within Europe, its concerns, its hopes. With the writer Kapka Kassabova (The Echo of the Lake, translated from English by Morgane Saysana, Marchialy, 2021) and the political scientists and essayists Ivan Krastev and Jacques Rupnik.

 

A meeting moderated by Thibaut Sardier, journalist in the "ideas" department of Libération.

 

Gender and sexuality. Maïa Mazaurette is an author and illustrator, specializing in gender and sexuality issues for over fifteen years. She is now the regular gender and sex columnist for Le Monde, for the program Quotidien on TMC, and for Grand Bien Vous Fasse on France Inter.

 

In parallel, she has published a large number of short stories, novels (Dehors les Chiens, Rien ne nous survivra), comics (Péchés mignons, Sale Bête) and essays (La revanche du clitoris, Sortir du Trou).

 

Writing life. A not-to-be-missed conference by the extraordinary writer Annie Ernaux. Her texts - including La place, Les armoires vides, La femme gelée, Mémoire de fille, etc. - explore autobiographical material in various non-fictional forms

 

On line and on site

This international colloquium, organized by the ENS and the École du Louvre and Beaux-Arts de Paris, aims to renew the discourse on idleness in art, taking as its object all the artistic forms of idleness (voluntary but also, sometimes, suffered) from the mid-1940s to the present day, also questioning the refusal to make work and anti-productivist strategies.

 

On the occasion of its 10th anniversary and as part of the Beaux-Arts de Paris conference program, the Rubis Mécénat endowment fund invites artists Dhewadi Hadjab and Stéphane Thidet, as well as curator Gaël Charbau, to participate in a discussion moderated by Alain Berland about commissioning works for specific locations.