NUITS SONORES 2015 : BACK TO BASICS !
For the 13th Nuits Sonores festival, the Arty Farty team has decided to bring together the values that form the festival’s unique spirit.
Urbanity, freedom and camaraderie shape our event.
Nuits Sonores is investing in Lyon’s hottest spots more than ever, including some remarkable industrial heritage sites and public spaces. "Confluence 2015" (Nuits Sonores + the European Lab held in the same area), is the sequel to the urban project we created in 2014. Nuits Sonores is, for the last time, heading back to an ever-changing neighbourhood which was the backdrop to the biggest chapters of the festival’s history in 2014.
Originality, modernity and high standards frame our program and artistic direction.
Right from the early days in the 2000s, Nuits Sonores’ program has always been produced with high artistic standards, discovery and the desire to win over audiences and reach out to the most curious among them. Nuits Sonores is a festival set in its day and age that brings about a unique, cross-disciplinary panorama of creativity worldwide, for both the present and the future. We are always on the quest for coherence, rather than embarking on a mad rush for headliners, which is key to the festival’s subjectivity and total independence.
Co-construction, mediation and sharing define our festival’s construction method.
With 400 volunteers, over 1000 team members, 500 companies and nearly 150 cultural organisations, Nuits Sonores is a project aiming to combine a strong artistic image with aa much scope as possible for co-construction and external participation through its programs (Extra! and Night 2 in particular), as well as through its overall implementation and its urban deployment. Nuits Sonores is tied very closely to local mediation and relations, yet keeps a very open mind to initiatives and projects throughout Europe.
These three key points guide Nuits Sonores in the festival’s adventure and aim to cultivate its role as a hub for passionate festivalgoers, professionals, projects and artists from all over the world. It is important to us that Nuits Sonores continues to provide unique, quality time and space for everybody, and that it decodes an ever-changing creative era.