NO FRONTIERS is a charity and friendly event that combines art, culture, and social commitment. Led by students of IESA arts&culture, performing arts professionals, contemporary art professionals, and film professionals, the goal is to donate all the proceeds to partner associations that support the reception and integration of refugees in France.
This year, the 2nd edition of the NO FRONTIERS festival once again exceeded the expectations of its organizers, the Bachelor in Cultural Productions and Mediation students of IESA arts&culture. During the weekend of March 8 to 10, the Cité Internationale des Arts was the meeting place for artists and a public interested in a varied and playful program.
Concerts, films, lectures, exhibitions, theater, and workshops were programmed around an important cause: helping and integrating refugees. Our Bachelors students were extremely motivated; they were in charge of creation, production, graphic design, finding partners… In short, the entire organization of the festival.
All artists participating in the NO FRONTIERS festival are volunteers.
The funds raised for this project were donated to the associations:
- Singa
PROGRAM
March 8
17:00-19:30 / Auditorium
- Opening lecture, Being a Refugee in France: Arriving, Staying, Existing?, moderated by Amandine Spire with the participation of the CIMADE of Belleville, Mortaza Behboudi, journalist at L’Œil de la Maison des Journalistes, and the partner associations Singa, Utopia 56, and Timmy - Team Mineurs Exilés
- Screening of the film Rania’s Odyssey, directed by Rania Mustafa Ali
19:00 / Gallery
- Opening reception for the exhibition over a cocktail
- DJ set
20:00-21:45 / Auditorium
IESA Video Awards: screening of the documentary "L’île au Trésor" (Treasure Island), in the presence of its director Guillaume Brac.
17:00-22:00 / Outdoor courtyard
Food truck by the DODA team serving Middle Eastern cuisine.
March 9
Auditorium
Presentation of the many music groups
-17:00-18:00: KaceKode
- 18:30-19:30: Falaises
- 20:00-21:00: KasbaH
- 21:30-22:30: DAYS IN ORBIT
March 10
Auditorium
15:30: Concert by Eliott de Vry (acoustic guitar).
16:00: Screening of the film Murs de Papiers (Paper Walls) by Olivier Cousin, who decided to place his camera in a Cimade drop-in center in order to film as realistically as possible the difficulties faced by applicants for residence permits and the right to stay in France.
Gallery
15:30 - 16:30: Performance of the play Et les poissons partirent combattre les hommes (And the Fish Went Off to Fight the Men), directed by the company Les Écorchés. Originally written by Angélica Liddell in 2008, it tells the tragedies of migrants who try to cross the Strait of Gibraltar and are washed up on the beaches of the Spanish coast, from the point of view of the tourists who watch helplessly.
