Evening School

Une vie commune — Felwine Sarr

In November 2023, the Festival d'Automne welcomed Angela Davis to a public meeting where reflection on the current state of the arts intersected with global political issues. From this meeting, the idea of an Evening School was born, conceived with the Centre Pompidou and in complicity with the Senegalese thinker and economist Felwine Sarr, around a central question: ‘A common life’.

With its long tradition of conferences, debates and dialogues on ideas, the Centre Pompidou has been a major place for living thought in Paris since the 1970s. In the same spirit, the Festival d'Automne has come up with a new format: a popular Evening School, open to the imaginations, works and questions of the 2025 edition. Conceived as a space for non-academic transmission designed to circulate knowledge, not to freeze it but to make it vibrate. This cycle is open to all who seek, question and invent - far from compartmentalisation, but as close as possible to the voices, gestures and narratives of the world.

Structured in three sessions at different venues, each of these sequences has two formats.

On one hand, major multidisciplinary encounters bring together Felwine Sarr and major figures from contemporary intellectual and creative circles.

On the other, ‘sensitive workshops’ take shape with other artists and other practices, in close collaboration with local dynamics and the associative networks that criss-cross the territories. 

As international divisions and fractures deepen, how can we think about the possibility of living together on a global scale?

Felwine Sarr © Francesca Mantovani - Éditions Gallimard

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