Extra! the free festival of living literature returns to the Centre Pompidou for its 8th edition

As September marks the start of the literary season in Paris, the Centre Pompidou is back with a new 8th edition of its Extra!festival, bringing literature to life outside the book, from September 12 to 22, 2024. Encounters, exhibitions, poetry, performances... There are as many ways to enjoy books as there are readers.

The Extra! festivalreturns to the Beaubourg Museum for another free edition, highlighting contemporary literary life outside the walls of bookshops. The Centre Pompidou takes us on a journey full of surprises, to meet the great adventurers of literature.

This year's Extra! festival focuses on theimagination, echoing the Centre Pompidou's major exhibition of the autumn, Surrealism. This edition promises to be as magical as it is surprising, thanks to the phantasmagorical staging of artist Alex Cecchetti.

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The book's universe is also revealed in ahypnosis session orchestrated by Raimundas Malašauskas and Marcos Lutyens, in the tarot of Émile Degorce-Dumas and Hélène Garci, in the literary medicine cabinet of Laure Limongi, in the cinema of Jonas Mekas, in poetry, music and opera...

Young and old, confirmed bibliovores or thwarted readers, everyone will be won over by this festival and its boundless energy. It's an opportunity to reconcile with literature, or to rediscover it far from the traditional shackles.

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The detailed program of the festival should be revealed soon: stay tuned to Sortirparis. com to make sure you don't miss out on any details of this event dedicated to book lovers!