Disappointed with the elimination of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round of the election, many artists nevertheless end up calling to vote for Emmanuel Macron to the second, in order to braign on the far right.
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A vote “without illusions [but] without hesitation and without shaking”. While part of the world of culture had expressed his 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 professionals from the Culture finally decided to get out of the wood and call to vote for Emmanuel Macron in the second round of votes.
“If for some of us the outcome of this first round has not been that expected, if for some of us mistrust remains; there is today, today, no Hesitation (…). We will never let us go back to back a democratic government and the national rally “, thus writes a collective of more than 400 artists in a platform in the world published on Friday, April 15th.
Ported by the comedian 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 or Gilles Lellouche. All say they will vote “without any hesitation” for Mr. Macron on April 24th.
“We do not try fascism”
A little earlier in the week, a hundred cultural places officials had also signed a forum calling for the outgoing president. “We know that there are no common world without culture and that there is only culture of difference”, do they argue in this text unveiled on April 12 by Release Explaining that the choice is today between “on one side, a living world, imperfect, open, which carries in him the difference as an active principle [and], on the other, a closed, mortiferous, subjugated world by the identity fantasy “.
Launched by Emmanuel Tiblox, Director of the National School of the Paris Decorative Arts, this text was signed by several public theaters, like Stanislas Nordey (National Theater of Strasbourg), Macha Makeeff (the Cree – Theater National de Marseille), Stéphane Braunschweig (Theater of Odeon in Paris), Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota (Theater of the city in Paris), José Manuel Gonçalves (The Centquatre-Paris) … several bosses of institutions also have affixed their Signature, like Eric Ruf (French Comedy), Laurent Bayle (Philharmonie de Paris), Olivier Py (Festival d’Avignon) or Jack Lang (Arab World Institute in Paris).
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