Each participant is invited to read. This reading will take place at École d'art de Belfort, 2 avenue de l'Espérance.
To take part in this collective reading (reading in French), please contact Richard Neyroud: r.neyroud@cracalsace.com.

«(...) Eleven-thirty in the evening. My radio is playing. Calypsos, blues, sambas. Bastards have a curse on them: a friend told me so. Bastards have a curse on them. It is a knell, a tocsin drowning the calypsos, the blues, the sambas. Why don't bastards help each other? Why do they avoid each other? Why do they detest each other? Why don't they form a brotherhood? They should be able to forgive each other everything since they all hold the most precious, the most fragile, the strongest, the darkest part of themselves in common: a childhood twisted like an old apple tree. Why are there no matrimonial agencies in existence to help them marry each other? I should like to see written in letters of fire: "Bakery for bastards." Then I needn't feel that stupid prickling in my throat anymore when people ask for the big loaves that French people refer to as "bastards." I have always wished that in that wonderful American film Marty, the two shy people who come together at the end were bastards.»*.

* Violette Leduc, La Bâtarde, Ed. Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1965, p. 38-39. Translation by Derek Cottman.

This collective reading is organised in collaboration with École d'art de Belfort, 2 avenue de l'Espérance, in dialogue with the group exhibition Le couteau sans lame et dépourvu de manche.