Friday 16 October
6pm → 7:30pm · Église des Célestins
OPENING

• Festival opening.

• Concert by Ensemble 44 (Elisabeth Angot) and Théâtre du Balcon (Jean-Baptiste Barbuscia). L'évasion libre is a musical (four musicians — percussion, electric guitar, flute and clarinet) and staged journey that carries us into the life of a young woman (Marion Bajot) at the heart of a restorative justice process.

• Tasting of organic craft beers and Jean Louis la Bière lemonades.

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Saturday 17 October
11am · Chapelle du temple Saint-Martial
OPENING
Inauguration of the Atelier Marie Laurencin exhibition.

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2pm → 3pm · Église des Célestins
GUIDED TOUR
Trained by the Parcours de l'Art team, students and volunteers lead a tour of the exhibitions and share their perspective on the works.

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3pm → 5pm · Église des Célestins, chapelle des Cordeliers
MEETINGS WITH THE ARTISTS
Several exhibiting artists are present to discuss their works, their approaches, and the questions raised by this edition.

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3pm · Église des Célestins
LA CÉRÉMONIE DU HAUT MONDE - PARTICIPATORY PERFORMANCE BY GIULIA ZANVIT
Through an initiatory rite, the artist stages a collection of elements she gathered at random during her walks in nature. For around twenty minutes, she invites us to share her sense of wonder, without a word. La Cérémonie du haut monde is the sacrament of objects we might call ordinary. Free, booking required.

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5pm · Église des Célestins
Οδύσσεια - PERFORMANCE BY LAURENT DEROBERT
An invitation to journey in the wake of Ulysses. Each visitor is invited to bring a plant, fruit, or seed listed in Homer's Odyssey and to lay it as an offering on a large table set up in the Église des Célestins (find the list of seeds here). Throughout the festival, everyone can continue this performance, taking part in the collective composition of a living landscape, a still life in constant evolution.

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From 8pm · Délirium, 1 rue Mignard
OPENING NIGHT
8pm → 9pm · Screening
Danse ta ville: a screening of dance videos created as part of this participatory project.
9pm · Concert
Le Cluster Ensemble: a multidisciplinary collective of young artists based in Tours and Paris, brought together by Raphaël Guattari around a simple ambition: to celebrate conviviality. Around a table, twelve young musicians unfold an eclectic repertoire that flows like the playlist of an evening among friends: reggaeton, autotuned song, digital flamenco, voice-and-guitar spiralling into techno — an energetic, deeply sensitive concert. As the thirteenth guest at this musical banquet, an actor-narrator shares his vision of the ideal celebration, along with his own struggles and how to turn them into reasons to celebrate.
Entry €10 + €2 membership fee

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Sunday 18 October
2pm → 3pm · Église des Célestins
GUIDED TOUR
Trained by the Parcours de l'Art team, students and volunteers lead a tour of the exhibitions and share their perspective on the works.

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3pm, 5pm · Église des Célestins
LA CÉRÉMONIE DU HAUT MONDE - PARTICIPATORY PERFORMANCE BY GIULIA ZANVIT
Through an initiatory rite, the artist stages a collection of elements she gathered at random during her walks in nature. For around twenty minutes, she invites us to share her sense of wonder, without a word. La Cérémonie du haut monde is the sacrament of objects we might call ordinary. Free, booking required.

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Wednesday 21 October
5pm → 5:40pm · Église des Célestins
L'HOSPITALITÉ - PERFORMANCE BY JEANNE BRED
Carte Blanche to La Maison Folie du Lapin Blanc
Between promise and reality, presence and absence, Jeanne Bred explores the visible and invisible forms of hospitality. The performance questions our capacity to make room for the other, and the gaps between the gesture announced and the gesture accomplished. Text by Sandrine Roche.

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Friday 23 October
5pm → 6pm · Église des Célestins
PLUME - LIVE RADIO SET
Florian Dacheux, for PLUME, the podcast of the Gazette de l'Espace Social et Culturel de la Croix des Oiseaux in Avignon, sets up his broadcast at the heart of the exhibitions. He gathers testimonies from exiled people who took part in Stephan Zimmerli's Studiolo de l'Exil residency.

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7pm · L'éveilleur, 14 impasse Baroni
SEED : TRACES D'UNE EXPÉRIENCE COLLECTIVE - SCREENING AND MEETING
Carte Blanche SEED*
A screening of the film by Florine Clap, retracing the research process behind the SEED project and its collective dynamics, followed by a friendly gathering.

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Saturday 24 October
11:30am → 12pm & 2:30pm → 3pm · Église des Célestins
TUNING IN TO THE SENSES - PERFORMATIVE MEDIATIONS BY ESTELLE BÉZOMBES
Carte Blanche SEED*
Building on her piece Tuning in to the Senses, Estelle Bézombes offers a performative mediation developed with participants from the SEED workshops. Between dance and visual art, this ecofeminist approach invites visitors to experience the exhibition's works through the senses and to imagine more attentive relationships with the living world.

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2pm → 5:06pm · Espace YiiiiiiiY, 10 rue du Chapeau Rouge
LES MARÉES SÈCHES (short version) - PERFORMANCE BY CLARA GROSJEAN
Carte Blanche SEED
A performance for algae and human, inspired by the green algae scandal. Following the rhythm of the tides, Clara Grosjean explores a non-anthropocentric relationship with the living world and questions our way of inhabiting it.

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3pm & 5pm · Église des Célestins
LA CÉRÉMONIE DU HAUT MONDE - PARTICIPATORY PERFORMANCE BY GIULIA ZANVIT
Through an initiatory rite, the artist stages a collection of elements she gathered at random during her walks in nature. For around twenty minutes, she invites us to share her sense of wonder, without a word. La Cérémonie du haut monde is the sacrament of objects we might call ordinary. Free, booking required.

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5pm · Église des Célestins
ÉPILOGUE MATHÉMATIQUE - LAURENT DEROBERT
An equation is like a musical score, a choreographic notation: the charm lies in interpreting it. Laurent Derobert reveals the keys to the mathematical formula for hospitality he created especially for Parcours de l'Art. He offers us a surprising algebraic moment.

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Sunday 25 October
10:30am → 12:30pm · L'éveilleur, 14 impasse Baroni
CHOREOGRAPHIC PRACTICE WORKSHOP
Carte Blanche SEED
A workshop led by Clara Grosjean around the notion of environmental imagination, in the continuity of the performance Les Marées Sèches.
Full price: €14, reduced price: €9 - Information and bookings: rsvp@leveilleur-scop.fr

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11:30am · La Maison Folie du Lapin Blanc, 8 rue Jean-Baptiste Marcet
CROIZADES (JoZef&Zelda) - PERFORMANCE
Carte Blanche to La Maison Folie du Lapin Blanc / Association Perspective Nevski
A performance by writer and actress Sandrine Roche, telling the story of a world invented as dreamed up by two children. With her hands, her eyes, and a few objects, she brings the two protagonists and their unbridled inventions to life, giving birth before our eyes to a new space of joyful hospitalities. The performance will lead the audience toward the city centre to continue the Parcours de l'Art programme. CroiZades (JoZef&Zelda) is published by Éditions Théâtrales, Jeunesse collection.

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2pm → 2:30pm · Église des Célestins
PRESENTATION OF WOMAN ONLINE UNIVERSITY BY NAZIR RAHGUZAR
Founded nearly a year ago and led by dean Nazir Rahguzar, Woman Online University is an online school giving Afghan women access to arts education despite the bans they face. The courses offered include painting, miniature painting, as well as art history, aesthetics and art studies, complemented by individual studio classes.

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2:30pm → 5:30pm · Église des Célestins
PAINTING WORKSHOP LED BY ANISA HABIB ZADAh, FARZAM ABDUL SATTAR AND NAZIR RAHGUZAR
A workshop held in person for 12 Avignon residents, and live via videoconference for Afghan students of Woman Online University. Free, booking required.

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Carte blanche SEED
Parcours de l'Art hosts the European project SEED (Social and Ecological Engagement through Dance), led by l'éveilleur (Avignon) and liminal (Athens), coordinated by Iliana Fylla and Laura-Lou Rey.
Part of a research-creation approach around more sustainable, inclusive and accessible choreographic practices.