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Overflowing with vitality and creativity, the festival takes over the town: its streets, its cafés, the beaches and the sky… a festival which bursts in all its diversity over the four corners of Calvi Corsica, with good cheer, a sense of fun, and intelligence too… Ecology, art, science, sport, new technologies and human rights joyously mix. The atmosphere is warm, a little as if a big family was meeting up in a sumptuous setting to celebrate their joy in sharing fun and powerful moments. From October 26-30, there’ll be, to start with, 19 meetings and debates, 9
The Calvi Wind Festival…
Twenty years on, and still with the wind in their sails!
By Claire Vincent - October 19, 2011
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Events
documentary screening, 12 concerts, 7 street performances, 2 theater pieces, exhibitions, 4 shows, and 25 creative workshops for kids, accessible to the 40,000 or so visitors over 15 different sites. Get carried away by this flurry of events, and become a passenger of the wind by discovering the town and its hundreds of guests: artists, sportspeople, and scientists over the five days … Go to a “café-chat” and listen to Alain Baraton, gardener at Versailles, talk about his love for his profession, or learn about paleoanthropology from Pascal Picq.
The Calvi Wind Festival
Calvi
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At the meetings, get interested in the fundamental issues of water management. Attend documentary film screenings and take off for tremendous expeditions, discover the town’s art circuit… and don’t even think about going to bed early, as in the evening there’s singing and dancing…
Fill up your eyes and your ears and come back bloated with dreams and projects to create a better world, respectful of the environment and of man. The “Festiventu” is the event this fall in Corsica, with as patrons, for this anniversary edition, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, photographer and founder of Good Planet, and Isabelle Autissier, sailor and president of WWF France
Photographie : Eric Gueret
Photographie : Martin Leers
Photographie : Martin Leers
Nano - Photographie : Eric Gueret
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