With the association Des Mots & Débats and the support of the city’s cultural services, the first Politéïa festival of ideas will take place from March 16 to 19 in Thionville. Until Sunday, more than thirty round tables and conferences are announced around the theme of Freedom. Everything is free.
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“Politeïa is a festival of ideas around the theme of freedom”, recalled Jackie Helfgott, elected to Culture in Thionville, at the origin of this initiative. “We wanted to give meaning to the word Freedom which had been undermined during confinement. The organizers saw things big. “We managed to rally sixty personalities to our first festival,” says Pascal Didier, president of Les Mots & Débats. Politicians, journalists, great reporters, writers, historians and even former ministers have agreed to take part in this unprecedented event. “We’ve been working on it for a year,” admits Jackie Helfgott. Women’s freedom, to move around, to draw, to express themselves… will be among the topics discussed. Journalists from national media such as L’Obs, Charlie Hebdo, France Inter will lead the discussions.
A biennial around a societal subject
Various events will be added to the interventions which will take place this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the theatre, at Puzzle and at the Casino de Thionville.
There will be a film screening Thursday at La Scala, music, as well as interviews and workshops in colleges and high schools. “It’s a free event,” adds Pascal Didier. “We want to allow everyone to better understand freedom, to remember that it is never acquired, that it supposes a perpetual fight”, estimates Jackie Helfgott. Politéïa was designed to become a unifying event that would take place every two years around a new theme. Liberty will be written in large letters on the walls of Thionville, from March 16 to 19.
For the detailed program: www.thionville.fr
