Interventions

First of all, Christian Corne thanks the towns of Royat and Chamalières for welcoming us, and for having, a year ago almost to the day, agreed to respond, along with the Route of Spa Towns in the Massif Central and the European Network of Historic Thermal Towns, EHTTA,replica watches as well as eight other towns and cities, to the latest call for offers from the European Commission’s Culture Programme.

He mentions that the “Cafés” concept has been taken up as a consequence of the informal meetings in the 18th and 19th centuries. Christian Corne says that this story is told in chapters, from Café of Europe to Café of Europe. Everything began in Enghien with the digitalisation. Then, there was the Café of Europe in Ourense about the sacred and legendary aspects of our towns and cities. Afterwards, Christian Corne, referring to the Café in Royat-Chamalières, speaks about the importance of archives, prints, writings that help to understand present. 

He finishes his speech saying that the Cafés are also forward-looking places, from which the European Commission is awaiting suggestions for Europe 2020.

Also, he says that the Cafés are public spaces that allow us to examine how towns were able to innovate in the past.

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The intervention of Dominique Jarrassé focuses on travels, the link with thermalism and the development of a specific culture of spa towns.

Historically, the thermalism is directly linked with the birth of tourism. The spa towns are places of holidays, welcoming the meeting of nations, with its political, economic and intellectual elites. These elites move throughout Europe by stopping in spa towns and meet each other in salons where ideas circulate. Spa towns become places of education, openness and knowledge of each other, sharing values. They have things in common like architecture, culture, movement of writers ... and form all together an "extraordinary big spa town".

Damien draws in groups, be it with the inhabitants of an estate in Villiers-le-Bel (villiersrebel.tumblr.com), in gold mines with journalists from the Argos collective (www.collectifargos.com), or in Shandong, China with the Tribulants (carnettistes-tribulants.com).  He also draws sometimes cartoon strips of them too.

A native of Northern France, Bastien Dubois has experienced programming and animation since his secondary school days.  But it was during his studies at Supinfocom that he came to the idea of becoming an animated travelogue.  Thanks to 3D software, he gave his designs a 3rd dimension, allowing the viewers to immerse themselves in his world.  From there, the idea was born to produce a short-film travelogue: “Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage”.  This film has received numerous prizes and nominations from across the globe, including a nomination at the 2011 Oscars.  He has since created “Portraits de Voyage”, a series that follows a different inhabitant in each country for each episode, who tells the traveller something about his or her culture, history and surroundings.

Elsie Herberstein is an author and designer of travelogues and reportages. South Africa, Tibetan exiles, Zanzibar, Cambodia, Algiers, Namibia, and Guatemala are all distant destinations and subjects on which she has produced books and documentaries, mixing depictions of real life with stories. But her explorations also take her to the street corner, to the Moquette, a different and innovative shelter for the homeless and other marginalised sections of society.

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