Reunited

Radio live 2

Once upon a time, there was a series of radio shows about the engagement of youth in the world.

Journalists Aurélie Charon and Caroline Gillet wanted to go further, to provoke the meeting of the protagonists, to "bring them together in the same place, at the same time".

 Radio Live was born in the form of a public dialogue, bringing together young engaged individuals from Gaza, Rwanda, Syria, Lebanon, and also France.

 Three of them are on stage, sharing, through their personal stories, intimate, familial, artistic, or activist spaces that have been shaken by the violence of conflicts.

Live drawings and filmed testimonies enrich the discussion. Musical accompaniment on stage weaves the fabric that connects their trajectories. Moments of life and memory are reinvented every evening.

This second installment highlights Karam, Sihame, and Yannick. Karam grows up in the Palestinian camp of Yarmouk, south of Damascus, and then balances a dual activity between engineering in Toulouse and running a Palestinian catering service created with two partners. Sihame, born in Avignon to Moroccan parents, navigates between two cultures and gets involved early for social justice before pursuing law studies in Marseille. Yannick is born in Congo, where his parents seek refuge after the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda; an actor and dancer, he creates stage forms that blend movement and word, including Generation 25 and the musical Beyond the Wall.

All three find themselves at the intersection of several cultural legacies. Their meeting in Kigali, during the genocide commemorations, leads them to discover the "gacaca" ("soft grass" in Kinyarwanda), popular transitional justice jurisdictions. The question of reconciliation runs through their exchanges.

This second opus explores the issues of memory, reparation, and forgiveness, as well as the choice of words to express them. The narratives are articulated around a common momentum: to rebuild, to move forward, to bring forth possibilities.

"What does not yet exist is what interests us."

Practical information:

All audiences

Duration: 2h30

Paid: from 10 to 20€