the world of culture resolves on the republican front

A vote « sans illusions [mais] without hesitation and without trembling”. While part of the world of culture had expressed its disappointment after the results of the first round of the presidential election, regretting the premature elimination of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a large number of artists and culture have finally decided to come out of the woods and call to vote for Emmanuel Macron in the second round of voting.

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“If for some of us the outcome of this first round was not as expected, if for some of us mistrust remains; there is no hesitation for us today (…). We will never allow ourselves to dismiss a democratic government and the National Rally back to back.writes a collective of more than 400 artists in a forum at the Monde posted Friday 15 April.

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Carried by the actor and director Nicolas Briançon, this text has collected the signature of many headliners, including Jane Birkin and Charlotte Gainsbourg, Guillaume Gallienne, Mélanie Thierry, Sophie Calle, Gérard Jugnot and Thierry Lhermitte, Ariane Ascaride, François Cluzet, Sandrine Kiberlain, Louis Bertignac and Gilles Lellouche. All affirm that they will vote ” without any hesitation “ for Mr. Macron on April 24.

“We do not try fascism”

A little earlier in the week, a hundred managers of cultural places had also signed a platform calling for the choice of the outgoing president. “We know that there is no common world without culture and that there is only culture of difference”they plead in this text unveiled on April 12 by Releaseexplaining that the choice today is between “on the one hand, a living, imperfect, open world, which carries within it difference as an active principle [et], on the other, a closed, deadly world, subjugated by the fantasy of identity”.

Launched by Emmanuel Tibloux, director of the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris, this text was signed by several managers of public theatres, such as Stanislas Nordey (Théâtre national de Strasbourg), Macha Makeïeff (La Criée – Théâtre national de Marseille ), Stéphane Braunschweig (Théâtre de l’Odéon in Paris), Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota (Théâtre de la Ville in Paris), José Manuel Gonçalves (Centquatre-Paris)… Several heads of institutions have also added their signatures, such as Eric Ruf (Comédie-Française), Laurent Bayle (Philharmonie de Paris), Olivier Py (Festival d’Avignon) or Jack Lang (Institut du monde arabe in Paris).

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