Anticipation Festival reopens for a second edition

Following the success of its first edition in 2023 which brought together 6,000 visitors at the Climate Academy in Paris, Anticipation Festival — opened for its second edition at La Gaîté Lyrique on 20-22 September 2024.

To deliver concrete action to address the climate crisis, the festival creates a space to write new narratives and envision a desirable future.

More than 20 artists and speakers are joined the event to educate the public and businesses on planetary boundaries through art and culture-based experiences, and conversations to collectively envision the world of tomorrow.

Over the course of three days, this free and open-to-all event explored the connections between art and sustainability through a multidisciplinary programme: contemporary art exhibitions, design pieces, art performances, projections, concerts, conferences, roundtables and workshops…

Anticipation Festival is a project born of the intersection of two perspectives — art and sustainability — embodied by Philippine Watelet, Founder of togaether — an art production & exhibition design firm — and Romain Peton, Co-Founder of TACTIC/14SEPTEMBRE — a sustainability strategy consultancy agency part of extreme Group.

The event aims at democratising art and sustainability, changing cultural representations to transform our world, both on an individual and a collective scale, raising awareness about the climate emergency, and engaging every visitor into taking an active part in a sustainable transition.

To achieve those goals, Anticipation Festival features art exhibitions, a concert, performances and projections, conferences, roundtables, and educational workshops for the public and companies, with installations entirely made from recyclable materials.

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This year, Anticipation Festival will be hosted at La Gaîté Lyrique, a popular art centre in Paris and a dynamic hub of digital art and contemporary culture.

This iconic landmark of Parisian culture will attract an even more diverse crowds and offer exhibition and performance formats better suited to the event’s vast thematics.

Funded and operated by the City of Paris, La Gaîté Lyrique is committed to addressing the cultural, social, democratic and climate emergencies. With its project entitled ‘Fabrique de l’époque’ straddling the line between creation and commitment, the venue encourages visitors gathered for a concert, a roundtable, a drink, a performance a workshop or a screening, to transform awareness into action.

Exhibitions

• Margaux Desombre: A former architect, Margaux now devotes her time to art, documenting and recreating the memories of places and people associated with social and environmental issues.
• Audrey Galais: Her interest in landscapes has driven Audrey to create installations inspired by zen gardens and artificial environments, exploring the dynamic between humans and nature, the natural and the artificial.
• Jérémy Gobé: Jérémy’s work fuses art and science to raise awareness on environmental issues, and includes works that restore coral reefs.

^{Also featured are: Camille Pozzo di Borgo, Dominique Paulin, Studio Orta, Manon Pretto, Sarah Valente, Jeanne Vicerial, Benjamin Bardou, Mélanie Courtinat, Disnovation.org (Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska), Jérémy Griffaud, Sabrina Ratté, Thomas Vanz…}

Performances and Concerts

• Minuit 12 : This collective of dancers and multidisciplinary artists create sensory experiences focusing on climate and biodiversity issues.
• Blick Bassy : This Cameroon-based musical artist mixes Indie-Pop with Afro-Soul. For the event, he presented his album Madiba — a sustainable tale about water.

Conferences

• Daniel Schmitt : Involved in a number of sustainable projects, Daniel presents ‘The history of VEJA and of its “Clean, Repair, Collect” project’.
• Solène Desbois et Fanny Rubia : The duo will lead ‘À voies hautes’ a conference focusing on environmental challenges.

^{Also featured are: ‘Inventons Nos Vies Bas Carbone’ (Inventing our Low-Carbon Lives) on developing climate-positive actions from visual and intuitive tools, as well as a number of roundtables, including (Steering Sustainability on a Local Scale), (Leveraging imagination for the Common Good), (Leveraging Design for Life), (Placing Nature at the Core of Business)…}