For the first time, the Rencontres d’Arles’ exhibitions will be free and open to the public for one night.

The festival’s cosy venues will host special events featuring famous contemporary writers.

Readings and performances will echo the photographs on display.


Olivia Rosenthal
Reading - Toutes les femmes sont des Aliens, for Scary Monsters!
Grande Halle
7pm and 7:45pm

Franz Kafka
Reading - (by Julia Faure) Le Terrier for Maginot Line.
Magasin Électrique
7pm and 8:30pm

Bambi
Reading – Marie parce que c’est joli, for Sincerely Queer.
Atelier des Forges
7:45pm and 8:30pm

Sylvain Prudhomme
Musical reading - Les Grands, with the Super Mama Djombo musicians, for Swinging Bamako.
Couvent Saint-Césaire
7pm et 8pm

Christophe Fiat
Performance - New York 2001, for Nothing But Blue Skies.
Le Capitole
7pm and 9:45pm

Céline Minard
Reading - Faillir être flingué for Camarguais Western
Église des Frères Prêcheurs
8pm and 9pm

Svetlana Alexievitch
Reading - (by her translator Sophie Benech), La Fin de l’homme rouge for the Danila Tkachenko exhibition.
Chapelle Saint-Martin-du-Méjan
9pm and 9:45pm