Political and artistic, intercultural and creative, festive and subversive, Festival des Libertés returns each autumn to mobilise all forms of expression in order to offer an overview of the state of rights and freedoms around the world, to point out lurking dangers, to bring people together in a fun, relaxing atmosphere, to encourage resistance and to promote solidarity.
THE ANTI-CRISIS
From all points of view, our world is going through a crisis. The first reflex in such times is to panic, to lose our senses and to hold on tight to what little we still have. In a crisis, political leaders call on us to stick together and to tighten our belts in order to save the system. The crisis thus becomes a means for perpetuating and reinforcing the very things that caused it...
Festival des Libertés 2012 will invite citizens to view the multiple crises not just as paralysing and blinding catastrophes, but also as opportunities to refine our critiques and to become aware of how our economic, political, social and cultural systems are running out of steam, opening up the field of possibilities for other ways of seeing, doing and articulating liberty, solidarity and equality. It's an invitation to take the risk of novelty, complexity and uncertainty in order to escape the dead ends, the tensions and the denials.