The ACCR is organising the ‘Hospitalité & création - Résidences et artistes en exil’ (Hospitality & Creation - Residencies and artists in exile) conference, which will involve sharing experiences, hearing first-hand accounts, presenting referral structures and support tools, and looking at the support given to refugee artists and cultural professionals in France, beyond the residency period. With over twenty years' experience in coordinating residency programmes, the ACCR aims to extend its commitment and encourage encounters between artists and the institutional and cultural players involved in this field.

/ The Nora residency programme

Since 2016, the Nora programme, coordinated by the ACCR, has welcomed over 70 artists in exile, mainly from countries in open conflict including Syria, Sudan, Iraq, Iran, Ukraine, Afghanistan and Russia.

The aim of this programme is to help artists return to cultural and artistic activity, with the help of the Centres culturels de rencontre, places of memory and creation in the heart of France. These residencies are also opportunities to discover the French cultural networks and to forge lasting links with the professionals of the Centres culturels de rencontres and their partners.

/ Programme for Friday 27/09/2024

9.00 am / Welcome of participants

9.30 am / Opening speeches

- Nora HICKEY M'SICHILIi / director of Centre culturel irlandais

- Hubert TASSY / president of the ACCR

9.45 am / Progress in defining the framework for artists' residencies

- Policy in favour of artists and professionals of culture in exile/ Valérie MOUROUX, Sub-Directorate for European and International Affairs, General Secretariat, Ministry of culture

- Defining a strategic framework for residencies of artists and the institutional actualities/ Nicolas VERGNEAU, General Directorate for artistic creation, Ministry of culture

10.30 am / Discussion on the notion of artist residencies: practical approaches (I)

- The PAUSE programme / Laura LOHEAC, Laureen GRANT

- The Refugies.info platform / Marianne GEORGES & Claudia MELEGHI

- Artists at Risk / Marita MUKKONEN, Ivor STODOLSKY

11.30 am / Break

12.00 / Discussion on the notion of artist residencies: practical approaches (II)

- Centre culturel irlandais (France/Ireland) / Carole JACQUET, responsible for documentation ressources

- Zamek Zdar (Czech Republic) / Marie KINSKY, director

- L’ARIA (Corse, France) / Marie-Laure POVEDA, director

1.00 pm / Lunch and visit to the Irish Cultural Centre

3.00 pm / How to learn or improve your French? / Sylvie GILODTS, councilor on training and pedagogy, CDRIML

3.30 pm / Asylum law and the new immigration law / Lucie FEUTRIER-COOK, Consultant in migration and asylum law, Assessor Judge CNDA for UNHCR, Lecturer and Trainer

4.00 pm / Break

4.30 pm / Artists' journeys - sharing the experiences of artists who have taken part in the Nora programme

- Daria BURLESHINA - visual artist

- 'Pinky' Htet Myo Htut AUNG - interdisciplinary artist

- Mahtab GHORBANI - writer

Discussion moderated by Karine BOUTON, Team leader cultural department (Neimenster)

6.00 pm / Opening of the exhibition by Daria Burleshina, Russian illustrator and winner of the Nora 2024 programme

6.30 pm / Cocktail reception 

8.00 pm / End of the day   

Programme subject to change depending on speaker availability.