Creative writing workshops, "demain n'est pas une fin: histoires de Grenoble" (Tomorrow is not an end: stories from Grenoble)

Come and tell the story of Grenoble's future in a transformed world
Training, Research
As part of the "Ecological information through creation" project, which last year included writing workshops ("Demain n'est pas une fin") and the colloquium Littérature et écologie : entre fin du monde et résilience (April 18 and 19, 2024), we are delighted to welcome author Laurent Contamin to our writer's residency from October 7 to December 6, 2024.

Trained in the 1990s at Studio 34, the Parisian conservatories and the Théâtre National de Chaillot, Laurent Contamin is an author renowned for his theater works, haikus, tales and poetry, as well as a director, actor and facilitator of writing and theater workshops.

Since the 2000s, he has frequently written for writing residencies in high schools, colleges, libraries and theaters. This autumn, thanks to funding from SFR Création, he will be in residence atUniversité Grenoble Alpes, and more specifically at MaCI (Maison de la Création et de l'Innovation). The author's residency will take place in two phases: from Monday October 7 to Friday October 18, then from November 25 to December 6, as part of the "Ecological information through creation" project and as a follow-up to the international symposium " Literature and ecology: between the end of the world and resilience " organized at UGA in April 2024.

During his residency, Laurent Contamin will complete the writing of his next novel, provisionally titled Mission Cassini, and offer undergraduate students writing workshops in which they will invent a possible future for our society based on the reading of some of his early works. This experience will revolve around creation, sharing - in order to raise awareness of the part of his body of work in which ecology is the narrative driving force - and transmission. Six writing workshops will be made up of different groups of undergraduate students, and three workshops of some of the student volunteers who had already taken part in the activities organized in the spring as part of the colloquium, in collaboration with Biolab Nemeton. To conclude these workshops, a reading and feedback session is scheduled for Thursday December 5 at the Abbey library.

In addition, as part of the activities organized by the LITEXTRA team, a feedback meeting on its creative writing activities in the classroom is scheduled for Wednesday, December 4. This will be an opportunity for members of the UMR Litt&Arts and the UFR LLASIC, as well as interested secondary school students and teachers, to exchange ideas about her practices in running writing workshops.

Updated October 21, 2024