Workshops

Monday 28, Tuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 August, from 10am to 4:30pm
and Thursday August 31, from 10 am to 8 pm
Practical sound work­shop with Jérôme Girard at Centre Paris Anim’ Eugène Oudiné

Free upon reser­va­tion
For the 8-12 years old
Reservation at http://cen­tre­oudine.goasso.org/ or Centre Oudiné : 01 40 77 46 70

A few snatches of con­ver­sa­tion from passers-by, the wind blowing through the trees in the nearby park, cars honking or speeding along the con­crete, the echoes and vibra­tions under the tunnel in rue Louise Weiss... What clues do these sounds give us about the land­scape around us? Like a sound detec­tive or an urban explorer, set off to dis­cover the sounds that make up the city! In the com­pany of artist Jérôme Girard, you’ll be col­lecting strange and everyday sounds, learning about sound recording and pro­duc­tion, and radio. Together, you’ll create a sound post­card of the neigh­bour­hood!

Born in 1993, Jérôme Girard lives and works between Paris and Haute-Savoie. A grad­uate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, he is inter­ested in lis­tening as a vehicle for meaning and emo­tion, as well as folk­lore and pop­ular tra­di­tions. Using mainly recy­cled mate­rials, he cre­ates sen­si­tive, poetic nar­ra­tives that oscil­late between sound cre­ations, live per­for­mances, instal­la­tions and sculp­tural research.

Past work­shops :

Wednesdays 14 and 21 June, 3.30 pm to 5.30 pm
A’sla Yabsa
Family cyan­otype work­shop, for chil­dren aged 6 and over, as part of the Treize’Estival - the 13th arrondisse­ment’s cul­tural fes­tival - and the exhi­bi­tion "Trab’ssahl" by Abdessamad El Montassir.
Cyanotype family work­shop, from 6 years old
Inspired by the plants of the Sahara col­lected by Abdessamad El Montassir, we will search for plants, those that resist the inva­­sion of con­crete and the city in our imme­­diate envi­ron­­ment. After a stroll through the streets near the art centre, and in the manner of the botanist Anna Atkins, we will create the very first herbarium of the neigh­bour­­hood using her pho­­to­­graphic print tech­nique: the cyan­o­type.

Saturday 1 July, 2.30pm to 4.30pm
Guelmin
Sound cre­ation work­shop, pre-teens and teens, as part of the exhi­bi­tion "Trab’ssahl" by Abdessamad El Montassir
Sound cre­a­tion work­shop, pre-teens and teens
A few snatches of con­ver­sa­­tions from passers - by, the wind blowing through the trees in the park, vehi­­cles honking their horns or speeding on the road... What clues do these sounds give us about the land­s­cape around us? Just like Abdessamad El Montassir in the middle of the desert, let’s close our eyes, put our ears to the ground and col­lect all these noises, whistles and
other whis­pers that cross our daily lives to imagine a sound com­po­si­­tion all together.

Saturday 8 July, from 5pm to 7pm
Cap pour l’île des vivants : Introduction to karate
By Marie Bouard, instructor at Niji-Kan Karaté Do, LGBT karate club
Mixed-gender work­shop, open to begin­ners, reg­is­tra­tion required at info@­be­ton­salon.net

As an exten­sion of Monique Wittig’s col­lec­tive read­ings at Bétonsalon since the begin­ning of 2023, this intro­duc­tion to karate is an oppor­tu­nity to get into shape and put into prac­tice the decon­struc­tion of gender rela­tions. In the long his­tory of the links between fem­i­nist move­ments and self-defence, it is also a nod to the prac­tice of this mar­tial art by many fem­i­nists of the 1970s, including Monique Wittig, who began prac­tising it in 1975 and through it met Sande Zeig, her teacher and later her partner, with whom she wrote Brouillon pour un dic­tion­naire des amantes the fol­lowing year.