The Villa Gillet
Founded in 1987, the Villa Gillet welcomes in Lyon fiction and non-fiction writers, artists and scholars from over the world to ponder issues relevant to our ever shiflting world. The Villa Gillet makes the work of exciting contemporary thinkers accessible to the largest audience possible, by organizing events during the year, and during its festivals : the International Forum on the Novel — happening every year in May since 2007— co-organized with "Le Monde", Walls and Bridges, a ten-day series of events that happened from 2011 to 2013 and Mode d'emploi : un festival des idées — a festival of public debates — initiated in 2012.
To speak : the risk of dissidence
Place Joannès-Ambre
Lyon 4e
Within the debate season Les Idées en scène, This event has been organized with the Opera of Lyon and the Théâtre de la Croix Rousse
Responding to the opera Lady Macbeth of Mzensk (Jan. 23d. - Feb. 6th/Opera of Lyon)
Whether they denounce alarming political or social situations, reveal judicial or financial scandals or dare counter the fiercest propoaganda, journalists, writers, artists, activists and other indignants sometimes jeopardize their lifes. Who are those people still dare protesting at the risk of their life or liberty ? From Russia to the Middle East by way of China, how do the new dissidents get themselves heard ?
This event is hosted by Michel Eltchaninoff (editor-in-chief of Philosophie Magazine, essayist)
Avec :
Alaa El Aswany (Egypt), novelist / Alexandre Bikbov (Russia), sociologist / Marie Holzman (France), writer.
6€/free : reservations must be booked with the Théâtre de la Croix-Rousse. www.croix-rousse.com or 04 72 07 49 49
