Every year in September, the Heritage Days are almost a ritual, a tradition for the French: and with good reason, as it's the opportunity to discover for the very first time places that are only open on this one weekend of the year. Churches, cathedrals, monuments, museums, historic sites, ministries... Many cultural sites (or not) open for the occasion, offering guided tours, events or free visits to visitors who have come especially for the occasion. While Paris is best known for its Journées du Patrimoine, the rest of the Île-de-France region is not to be outdone, with some very fine offerings and a lesser-known but just as exceptional heritage.
In the Seine-Saint-Denis département,Aubervilliers might not be the first town you'd think of to visit during the Journées Européennes du Patrimoine ( European Heritage Days) 2023, but it's certainly worth a visit, as the town boasts many old treasures and monuments to (re)discover. Here's the detailed program for the 40th European Heritage Days, on the weekend of September 21 and 22, 2024!
Heritage Days 2024 at the National Heritage Institute in Aubervilliers
At the Inp Conservators' Department, we will be opening our restoration workshops (painting, sculpture, furniture, graphic arts & books, textile arts, photography & digital imaging, fire arts), research laboratory and library to the public.
The Fondation Culture & Diversité will be presenting the Equal Opportunity program to prepare for the conservators' entrance exam, in two sessions, the first at 11am, the second at 3pm.
Two exhibitions are also on offer this year:
A - the first showcases the best of the competitive entrance exam
B - the second features an exhibition of Pierre Lemaire's photographs, entitled Voyage à la surface d'un souvenir, featuring macro views of alterations to painted MARTIN toys from the collections of the CNAM Paris.
Pierre Lemaire, a photography student at the École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière, completed his end-of-studies internship at the Inp research laboratory. Alongside his scientific work, which focused on the definition of an imaging protocol using UV radiation (financed by the FSP), he produced an artistic work, which will be exhibited during the JEP.
In the field of heritage conservation-restoration, the photographic image often remains confined to its status as a technical document. Heritage photography must be faithful to reality. Its aesthetic characteristics are rarely put to good use. Pierre Lemaire therefore wished to explore this plastic possibility by developing an imaginary world from his 11 photos.
The macro photography technique used to observe the damage to these early 20th-century toys opens up an imaginary world. With no caption, no chart and no scale, macro-photography makes us lose all reference points. At the same time, it is a very concrete extension of the role of imagery in heritage: probing the material to better see the works we are studying. This is a new dimension to explore.
The Martin toy collection is housed at the Musée National des Arts et Métiers in Paris.
Heritage Days 2024 at the Mais d'Ici villa in Aubervilliers
On the occasion of the Journées européennes du Patrimoine & du Matrimoine 2024, come and discover the group exhibition of artists from Villa Mais d'Ici: Rêves sur table. This exhibition offers an original exploration of the table object, used as a common thread both in the scenography and in the works presented.
Rêves sur table allows us to explore different perspectives and interpretations, offering visual and conceptual richness. The artists, each with their own personal mythology, will present authentic works ranging from sculpture to craft, drawing to engraving, and video to installation. As a medium for diverse artistic practices, the table becomes a place of connection between oneself and others, between oneself and one's dreams.
You'll discover works that explore and redefine an everyday object from a new artistic angle.
This year's group show is linked to the carte blanche creation (C)rêve! by Groupe Performatif Famapoil. Drawings from the performances will interact with the works of the featured artists.
Exhibiting artists:
Etienne Boguet - Juli Estrada - Marc Guillermin - Bénédicte Lasfargues - Wandrille Leroy - Lucie Linder - Zsazsa Mercury - Chaabane Mesbah - Clotilde Salmon - Bastien Simon - Baptiste Vandaele
and others...
> Exhibition dates:
From September 21 to 27, 2024
Opening: Saturday, September 21, 7pm
> Villa open house:
Saturday, September 21: 2pm to 12am
Sunday, September 22: 2pm to 6pm
> School groups:
From September 23 to 27
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Each year, the Villa gives carte blanche to a resident company or collective to present a creation produced during the year and supported by the Villa and the DRAC Île-de-France. This year, the Groupe Performatif Famapoil has carte blanche to present (C)rêve!, a performance revolving around dreams and contemporary art.
The GPF's carte blanche is part of the Journées européennes du Matrimoine & Patrimoine and is associated with the collective exhibition of Villa Mais d'Ici residents.
> Saturday, September 21:
Doors open at 2pm
Life is a dream, it's the waking up that kills us (Virginia Woolf): exhibition by Clotilde Salmon, who presents 70 drawings created for the performance (C)rêve! in the form of visual and sound installations in different parts of the Villa.
- Rêves performatifs - dream boxes set to music and gesture by Alice Cathelineau and Richard Cailleux
- Exhibition by the "Auber Cartes Postales" collective
9pm: Performance-creation (C)rêve! 2024 by Groupe Performatif Famapoil, supported by Villa Mais d'Ici, Générateur and DRAC Ile-de-France
Text: Clotilde Salmon
Stage direction: Sonia Kuipers
Music: Julien Haguenauer
Drawings: Clotilde Salmon
Performeu.r.se.s: Sonia Codhant, Clotilde Salmon, Julien Haguenauer
> Sunday September 22:
Doors open at 2pm - until 6pm
- Exhibitions open
- Dreams performed by poets and poetesses from the Poésie is not dead collective in and around the Villa.
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The "Auber Cartes Postales" collective is pleased to invite you to an exhibition and sale of Aubervilliers postcards during the Journées européennes du Patrimoine & du Matrimoine 2024.
Exhibitors :
Collectif 93 Grand Angle - Société de l'Histoire et de la Vie à Aubervilliers - Les Archives Municipales d'Aubervilliers - CVB - Elise Latik - Gautier Daures - Jessica Servières - Juliette Nicot - Le Simon - Léna Pinon Lang - Matthias Bourdelier - Natalia Prokofyeva - Olivier Forest - Romane Tosarelli - Suzane Brun - Sylvie Napolitano - Wandrille
Event organized in partnership with La Ville d'Aubervilliers, La F Compagnie, Les Archives Municipales de la Ville d'Aubervilliers, La Société de l'Histoire et de la Vie à Aubervilliers and Villa Mais d'Ici
Heritage Days 2024 at the Marlène Peratou nautical center in Aubervilliers
For the European Heritage Days, the Compagnie Méliades presents "Les nageuses", a light, visual, sound and theatrical installation at the Centre Nautique Marlène Peratou in Aubervilliers. The public is invited to discover the pool from a different angle. This immersive aquatic journey will be full of artistic surprises. Participants are strongly advised to bring their bathing suits, but some will be able to access areas dedicated to non-swimmers.
The company explores the world of swimming, and seeks to give a poetic, dreamlike vision in its filmic performances, installations, choreographic impromptus and theatrical interventions.
Méliadès draws its inspiration from the places, landscapes and architecture it passes through. She rediscovers the memory of these spaces and transforms them. Each place becomes a playground once again.
This project was supported by the City of Aubervilliers, Plaine Commune and the Ile de France Region
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Heritage Days 2024 at Carbone 17 in Aubervilliers
On the occasion of the Journées du Patrimoines, come and enjoy a guided tour of Carbone 17!
An incubator for artistic and social projects, Carbone 17 is housed in a building built in 1936 and classified as a remarkable architectural heritage site. Within its walls coexist artistic spaces of multiple disciplines and aesthetics, where encounters are the key to inspiration. Photo studio, music studio, sewing workshop, painting studio... Come and discover the premises and meet the artists on September 21 & 22, 2024.
On the occasion of the Journées du Patrimoines, come and enjoy artistic workshops organized by the residents of Carbone 17, for young and old alike!
An incubator for artistic and social projects, Carbone 17 is housed in a building classified as a remarkable architectural heritage site, built in 1936. Within its walls coexist artistic spaces of multiple disciplines and aesthetics, where encounters are the key to inspiration. Photo studio, music studio, sewing workshop, painting studio... Come and discover the premises and meet the artists on September 21 & 22, 2024.
On the occasion of the Journées du Patrimoines, come and enjoy a guided tour and an exhibition of the residents' work.
An incubator for artistic and social projects, Carbone 17 is housed in a remarkable listed building built in 1936. Within its walls cohabit artistic spaces of multiple disciplines and aesthetics, where encounters are the key to inspiration. Photo studio, music studio, sewing workshop, painting studio... Come and discover the premises and meet the artists on September 21 & 22, 2024.
Heritage Days 2024 at Hangar des souffleurs, poetic commandos in Aubervilliers
LE TRÉSOR POÉTIQUE MUNICIPAL MONDIAL D'AUBERVILLIERS is an ethnopoetic epic, a journey around the world in Aubervilliers in search of the dormant poetic lyrics of its linguistic communities (over one hundred and seventeen languages are spoken in the municipality).
Every year, during the European Heritage Days, the Versement des textes dans le Trésor is organized: the lyrics deposited over the past year officially enter the "Grand Livre", preserved and available for consultation at the municipal archives.
This year, thanks to the support of the Département de la Seine-Saint-Denis, our hangar will open its doors on September 21 and 22, allowing the Versement to be extended by a day to further experience this poetization of the territory.
Heritage Days 2024 at Poush in Aubervilliers
Discover the history of a factory, the L.T. Piver perfumery, transformed into an artistic venue, thanks to a guided tour of its heritage and scents. Piver perfume factory, now an artistic venue.
Opened in Aubervilliers in 1869, the former L.T. Piver perfume factory has been home to POUSH since Since 2022, the former L.T. Piver perfume factory has been home to POUSH, an artists' venue for creation and exhibition.
In the heart of monumental buildings, with their red and ochre brick architecture, some 260 artists have reinvested the premises. Visual artists, photographers, performers, video artists, painters, choreographers... the diversity of the disciplines practiced today echoes that of the former perfumery's trades: soap makers, perfumers, carpenters, deliverymen, packaging workers, chemists, powder makers, etc. The effervescence in the workshops has also been perpetuated, as has the spirit of innovation that has characterized L.T. Piver since its foundation. Piver since it was founded in 1774.
This tour will take place in two parts: first, you will discover the site from its historical and architectural angle, then a workshop will plunge you into the heart of the olfactory heritage of the premises: that of L.T. Piver's fragrances, some of which are still produced today. Piver's fragrances, some of which are still produced by the company, and the smells of the factory, between the transformation of fats and plant extracts.
A project initiated by the cultural heritage department of the Département de la Seine-Saint-Denis, in partnership with POUSH, and with the support of the perfume house L.T. Piver and Givaudan France.
For more historical information: l'Atlas de l'architecture et du patrimoine de la Seine-Saint-Denis
Visits led by Sophie Normand, perfume expert, and Antoine Furio, cultural heritage inventory officer at the Département de la Seine-Saint-Denis.
At the Velib station, near the Fort d'Aubervilliers metro station
Renovation and residents, life stories at the cité des 800
From the 1950s to the present day, the cité Émile-Dubois (known as "des 800") has seen many faces and been home to many households. From its construction to its forthcoming renovation, and including the participatory rehabilitation project of the 1980s, you'll discover the living history of a housing estate that is emblematic of large-scale housing projects.
What impact have these urban transformations had on the lives of residents? How do they make their neighborhoods and homes their own? Who, among those who arrived when the housing estate was inaugurated in 1957, still lives in the estate?
Combining archives, personal accounts and current events in the district, this urban walk seeks to shed light on the impact of urban renewal on residents and the place of popular housing in the urban landscape.s and the place of popular housing in the city.
It will be followed by a workshop at the AMuLoP offices, where you can visit the interior of an apartment and discover previously unpublished archives presented by members of the association.
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What is AMuLoP?
The AMuLoP association, which aims to create a museum of the history of working-class suburbs through the prism of housing, has been based in Aubervilliers since 2020 in the cité des 800, where it organized the "La vie HLM" exhibition. Since 2014, it has been collecting archives and testimonies from residents of the housing estate, with the aim of enhancing the memory of working-class life.
Long live JEP in the 93!
Dates and Opening Time
From September 21, 2024 to September 22, 2024
Location
Aubervilliers Town Hall
2 Rue de la Commune de Paris
93300 Aubervilliers
