Montpellier: haute couture, films, workshops to accompany the Africa-France political summit<

The Africa-France political summit is approaching.It will take place in Montpellier.What do you think is it important?

It is very very important that Montpellier welcomes this summit.It is a city where several communities rub shoulders in perfect harmony.For us, it is also a way to focus on the new generation of African artists, with magnificent initiatives from this continent.

How are you going to accompany this summit?

We will intervene on several axes.Already, with fashion designer Karine Lepetit.We met her at the Cannes Film Festival.It does African haute couture.In parallel to the Afrik’Art exhibition, already visible at the greenhouse, the white tree gallery, we will organize a parade with it on October 8 on the esplanade.It will obviously be a very colorful, very festive parade.It will be an opportunity to share this event with good humor.

Do you also organize projections of films and documentaries?

Thursday, October 7, we will project three films and short films.System K evokes the youth of Kinsasha who emancipates himself thanks to contemporary art, based on recovery.This is the only way she has to express herself.A documentary, Sankara is not dead, signed by a director installed next to Montpellier, Lucie Viver, talks about the moral and spiritual heritage of Sankara in Burkina.

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Invitation from Spike Lee in New York

And the king's cane is a fiction of a young Beninese director.It will be Thursday October 7 in the Rabelais room, with free entry.The idea is really to be sharing.And it will be the first stone of a pan -African film festival that we will launch on Montpellier and which will return each year, in partnership with Aminata Diop, which oversees the African Pavilion at the Cannes Festival.

You will be very present on the esplanade during the summit ...

This is where there will be the summit village.We will carry out a fresco and organize workshops on contemporary art ...

At the last Cannes Film Festival, the American president and director, Spike Lee, invited you to New York to organize an event there.Where are you ?

For the moment, we are focused on the summit.Afterwards, we will get in touch to materialize this first link and think about the future.In New York, there is the House of the Occitanie region.We get closer to them.We want to organize a magnificent event there.Everything takes its course.