The Francophonie Festival, Making a Better World
Taking place alongside the Francophonie Summit, which will be hosted by France on 4 and 5 October 2024, the Francophonie Festival, Making a Better World, will be an invitation to discover the vitality of Francophone creation from every angle: artistic, cultural, societal, entrepreneurial and scientific. Illustrating the theme of the Summit – “Create, innovate and do business in French” – this event will reveal a Francophonie that is open to the world, dynamic, attractive and inventive.
Since 20 March 2024, the festival has kicked off a year of taking pride in the French language, and invites one and all to discover Francophone creativity in all of its artistic, cultural and entrepreneurial glory.
A celebration of the French language
The culmination of this celebration will take place from 2 to 6 October, in a variety of venues including La Gaîté Lyrique, the CENTQUATRE-PARIS, and the Cité internationale de la langue française, in the form of shows and concerts, debates and performances, conversations, screenings and meetings with inspiring French-speaking personalities from around the world. At STATION F, professional meetings will highlight the economic and technological focuses of the festival.
Francophonie, a driver of global transformation
“Making a Better World”: the Francophonie Festival invites artists, thinkers, researchers and entrepreneurs from all over the world to answer this pressing call to dream, reflect and take action.
In a fractured world, threatened by climate, geopolitical, technological and economic challenges, these inventors and architects reveal the power in sharing the French language, as matter for creation, invention and emotion, a tool for thought and dialogue, and a driver of cooperation and solidarity.
From March to October 2024, all around the world, forty countries and more than 400 organizations, not to mention the unsolicited proposals, are getting stuck in, celebrating a living, inventive Francophonie, open to the plurality of other languages.
May the diversity of the initiatives born of this movement, and the power of inspiration of the personalities brought together during this period, enlighten us and give us all strength to take action, individually and collectively, to repair, reinvent and re-enchant the world.”
Valérie Senghor
Commissioner of the Francophonie Festival