In Lagrasse, the 30th edition of the banquet of the summer book, devoted to “choice of bodies”, maintains the breath of literature and thought

Thirty years of meetings. However, Discoveries. Moreover, Dialogues. Furthermore, From Saturday July 26. Consequently, until Friday 1^is August 2025, the Lagrasse summer book banquet lives the 30th^e Edition of an event initiated in 1995 by the association Le Marque-Page and Les Éditions Verdier. In addition, A anniversary that the public establishment of Cultural Cooperation (EPCC). Similarly, now at the helm of the Cultural Dating Center (CRC, label awarded by the Ministry of lagrasse, 30th edition banquet summer Culture) “The Arts of Read”, chose to score.

Every day. Consequently, the historian and archivist Yann Potin delivers his impromptus in symbolic places of the history of the banquet: so many spaces that materialize the woven link between the banquet and the village, places where 500 speakers and thousands of participants shared this literary adventure, creating this “Imaginary and collective cartography”. A poetic geographical of a banquet that Hervé Baro. the vice-president of the department and president of the EPCC, registered in “An approach of popular culture. We too often hear reactionary movements talking about elitist culture. The EPCC is anchored in the territory, and we see that local public also participates in the banquet”. In 2024. 3,500 spectators (9,900 tickets sold) had taken part in the banquet: “Same trend in 2025”estimated The director of the CCR, Jean-Sébastien Steil.

Another testimony of past 30 years. with the collection “Thirty -one views of the banquet”, at Verdier: 31 views, 31 votes, 31 witnesses who tell and remember “their” banquet. The 30^e Edition also coincides with the launch of a new collection called “Les Arts de Lire”. in co-edition with the CCR, at the historic banquet’s history, to sleep black on white the words and works born from the meeting: with for two first titles the texts drawn from the conferences lagrasse, 30th edition banquet summer of Laure Murat (“All the eras are disgusting”, Banquet 2024) Girl “, Banquet 2023).

The question of the body is eminently political

One more way of remaining faithful to the ambition of the banquet. recalls Jean-Sébastien Steil: “Disseminate ideas through the book.” To exchange, debate, get rich. With a 2025 theme, “the choice of bodies”, thought of “Not to be only in brain reflection”. Saturday. July 26, it was to the “suspensive performer” Chloé Moglia that the banquet was opened, when the former cyclist Olivier Haralambon, who became author and philosopher, shared on Sunday his thoughts and writings around the body and the effort. Two entrance doors for a “Question of the body which is eminently political”recalls Jean-Sébastien Steil: the land of a “Ideological confrontation”between “Two visions of the world. which can be schematized by an opposition between osbcurantism and progressivism”. Control. liberation of the body, norm or lagrasse, 30th edition banquet summer diversity, feminism, aging, racism, sport, aesthetics, the field of possible debates or questions is vast. In the cellar of the Abbey Sainte-Marie de Lagrasse. the abundant and ephemeral white shadows bookstore also says the richness of the subject, according to the tables bringing together the works, and declining the ways of writing on the body: “body at work”, “colonized body”, “controlled body”, “dancing body”, “born,” born, “.

These are the playgrounds that the speakers of the 30^e Banquet. With. Monday, July 28, a day dedicated to deaf culture, a subject that the CCR explores all year round with the association Art Resonances. A theme magnified by performance, under the hall of Lagrasse, of Erwan Nomad and Arnoldas Matulis, deaf poets. Coming to deliver. with the Visual Vernacular (VV), a visual art mixing sign language and mime techniques, writings created in residence at the abbey, in May 2025. The meeting of lagrasse, 30th edition banquet summer bodies and words, for a universal language.