Marseille 2024

– Thursday May 16th
– Thursday May 23rd
– Thursday June 13
– Thursday June 20
– Thursday June 27

Topic: Healing path that followed acts/episodes of violence against women

Main questions:

• At what point did women who have been victims of gender violence manage to say ‘stop’?
• What was their psychological journey to get out of it?
• How are they living today?

Topic: Weaving of sorority networks and activism in fighting violence against women.

Main questions:

• How has the engagement in the ‘2026WOMEN’ project helped some of us to escape violence?
• How has the network created in the project helped some women find the resilience to rebuild their lives?

Rehearsals for the show “Pilon” with a group of women from Marseille, Colombia and Benin.
Premiere as part of La Criée’s season opening on Saturday September 21 at 12pm.
A sound and culinary experience followed by a tasting.
Performance imagined and directed by Marie-Josée Ordener.

The dislocation of the social and cultural fabric in working-class neighborhoods and large urban centers is generating loneliness, violence and withdrawal for a large part of the population.
To break out of these states, these impasses Because U. Art works with an etnopsychiatrist to organize free discussion sessions based on real-life situations. During these sessions, we focus on different forms of abuse and violence (domestic and other).

“Sangre de mi sangre”, is a participatory artistic initiative born in Mexico and organized by the ‘Colectif Hilos’ that aims to raise awareness of feminicide and disappearances. This international action is based on the collective creation of a fabric, symbolizing the flow of blood and the urgency of solving these problems.
It’s an invitation to weave together a tapestry representing resistance and the search for healing. With each red thread, unity and determination in the fight against violence are expressed.
Thanks to the initiative of Lady Quintero and Ariadna Chavez, the group was able to discover this project at the association in complete privacy, and learn how to weave.

During this discussion group, we tried to link words to gesture.

This workshop took place as part of J’CRAINS DÉGUN, a Marseille event organized to mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Gender Minorities.
Accompanied by photographer Diane Hymans and guide Marielle …. – from the Bureau des Guides, this workshop explored the place of women in public space between Marseille’s 1st and 7th arrondissements.
Armed with disposable cameras, placed like prostheses on their bodies (bras, knee pads, headbands, etc.), the group explored downtown spaces where women’s place is challenged. Here, photography becomes a tool for reappropriation.

On the premises of the Solidarité Femmes 13 association, the group selected the photos that will form part of the exhibition at the town hall in Marseille’s 1st and 7th arrondissements. It was also an opportunity to validate the exhibition’s subtitle:“ خمسة في عينيك – khamsat fi eaynayk” literally translated as “5 in your eye”.
A way of illustrating this reappropriation of space and empowerment by women.
For beware of women who walk…

Danza Madre is a dance with a therapeutic and ritualistic approach. It is practised in a group and restores the place of each woman’s knowledge and culture, enabling them to reappropriate a practice handed down from woman to woman, or one from which women are excluded.
Workshop led by Iri Robledo.

Weaving session in the public space, on the town hall square.

(Cancelled and postponed to Tuesday November 26)

Opening of the exhibition “En corps en ville – خمسة في عينيك” at Marseille’s 1st and 7th arronddt town halls as part of the J’CRAINS DÉGUN press conference.