In Toulouse, the Nouveau Printemps festival challenges young people to reflect on the promises of tomorrow

The Nouveau Printemps is an environmentally-friendly and inclusive contemporary art festival based in a district of the city of Toulouse. Fueled by the desire to support artists and encourage the most audacious creations, it aims to encourage encounters between artworks and a wide audience, and to be an echo chamber for the issues of its time. This 2024 edition, which takes place from May 30 to June 30, is anchored in Toulouse’s Carmes district, and is sponsored by filmmaker Alain Guiraudie.

The INDIGO Foundation was keen to support the “Promises of Tomorrow” festival’s educational project with local secondary schools. Over a period of several months, art teachers and their students explored the areas of research proposed by Alain Guiraudie and his guest artists. Themes included narrative devices, the archive, forms of resistance and the promises of tomorrow. This was an opportunity for the students to explore these issues in their own way, with complete freedom of artistic practice.

Some fifteen schools took part in this cultural mediation project, and the works created are on display at Cour Baragnon in Toulouse. A booklet available at the following link contains all the students’ productions.

As part of the festival, INDIGO, founder of the INDIGO Foundation, also lent its support by opening its spaces to Art. Mimosa Echard’s Lady’s glove was created on the antenna of the Carmes parking lot, and Neil Beloufa’s interactive installation Toujours Vivants was installed on the parking lot levels.

To find out more about this project, watch the video. :

To find out more about the Nouveau Printemps festival, visit : Le Nouveau Printemps