Professor Patrick Barbier, music historian and Emeritus Professor at U.C.O. d’Angers, is an Officier des Palmes académiques and author of La Venise de Vivaldi.

This lecture examines Vivaldi’s lyricism within the social and musical fabric of eighteenth‑century Venice, exploring operatic influences, performance practice, and the interplay between sacred and secular genres. Barbier investigates how Vivaldi’s theatrical and instrumental writing shaped Venetian musical identity and offers contextual readings of key works.

In French.

Giulia Angrisani, a futurologist and facilitator, leads participatory laboratories that use storytelling for speculative inquiry and critical reflection on social futures.

The workshop examines storytelling as a tool of resistance, decolonization and transformation, exploring how alternative narratives reconnect past and future, awaken collective imagination, and propose desirable, possible futures. Participants experiment with speculative techniques to reframe dominant stories and imagine practical pathways for social change.

In French.

Join Giulia Angrisani for a captivating session exploring storytelling as a critical tool to envision possible futures. Viewing narrative as a form of resistance and transformation, this talk aims to connect past and future while sparking the imagination. Presented in collaboration with MAH and least.

In French.

Olivier Hamant’s lecture delves into the shortcomings of traditional measurement and evaluation tools in capturing the complexity of artistic and collective processes. Drawing inspiration from living systems, it suggests alternative approaches that are slower, more flexible, and aligned with relational dynamics and unseen transformations, as part of a collaboration between MAH and least.
In French.