From July 1 to December 31, it's going to be a party...

European themed balls (electro-disco balls, folk balls, masked balls, children's balls, etc.) will thus be organized throughout France on 12, 13 and 14 July (National Day).

Twenty-seven posters by twenty-seven European designers, from all the member countries of the Union, will be exhibited in very large format in the halls of Paris airports during the months of July and August. Large-scale festive events, aimed above all at young audiences, such as the Technoparade or the Nuit Blanche, will also be Europeanised.

Finally, the closing of the European Cultural Season will be marked by an exhibition including the simultaneous projection of several hundred digital works under the Nave of the Grand Palais, in Paris, from December 18 to 31: “In the Night, images”.

The European Cultural Season also organizes 26 "tandem" projects, based on collaboration between French artists and artists from the other 26 countries of the European Union, as well as on collaboration between European cultural institutions: theatres, opera houses, museums and arts, festivals… Each project will be presented in one or more French cities, as well as in the European partner country. All artistic disciplines are represented, from dance with a choreographic show of hip-hop, under the direction of the German Storm (alias Niels Robitzky) at Chaillot, to music, with a jazz concert by the Belmondo brothers and the Choeur Latvian Latvia and the production of an opera by Hümmel, "Mathilde de Guise", on period instruments, via photography, with the filming of a Thalys train, with productions by the Dutch duo "Exactitudes", the arts of the street, with the creation of the Slovenian company Bunker with the French group Ez3kiel, new technologies with an exhibition bringing together artists, researchers, and Czech and French computer scientists around virtual reality, or literature, with a recital Franco-Portuguese poetics by Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota.

Twenty thematic "panoramas", most often resulting from an order placed with a major French cultural institution, will also be presented throughout France, to reveal the dynamism of European creation in all disciplines: cinema with a European program at the Cinémathèque française, at the Marseille Documentary Festival and at the Amiens Film Festival (animated film), photography with the Rencontres d'Arles and the European Month of Photography, theater with the Avignon Festival and the Autumn Festival, Street Arts with the Aurillac Festival, design with the Saint-Etienne Design Biennale, contemporary music with the Marsatac Festival and the Transmusicales de Rennes, architecture with the Center d'Architecture Arc-en-Rêve in Bordeaux, literature with an exhibition on European children's literature at the National Library of France...

Three symbolic projects concern respectively the city of Brussels (illumination of the Grand-Place by Yann Kersalé), the ten new Member States of the European Union (four-month tour of the Comédie Française with a European program), as well as the French cultural centers and institutes abroad (“Thinking Europe” debate series).

(NGV)