27-28-29 June

Cahors Mundi - Festival for peace

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Three days of thinking about Peace, celebrating the living and bringing worlds into dialogue

📍 Location: Cahors (Lot, France) - Town centre, Place Bessières , Town Hall, Le Grand Palais cinema and Saint-Cirq-Lapopie (Lot, France)

🗓️ Dates: from Friday 27 June to Sunday 29 June 2025

From 27 June to 29 June 2025, Cahors and Saint-Cirq-Lapopie will be hosting the first edition of the Cahors Mundi Festival, a cultural and civic event designed to revive a visionary story: that of the World Road Without Frontiers, launched here in 1949.

For three days, researchers, artists, citizens, and activists will gather to explore the major issues of our time: peace, migration, ecology, memory, and democracy. The program will feature conferences, performances, screenings, exhibitions, citizen forums, and concerts.

Anchored locally, but focused on the universal, the festival aims to reactivate yesterday's utopias to fuel today's actions.

Cahors Mundi is more than a cultural event. It's a call to think differently about the world, in a spirit of openness and peace.

Provisional programme

FRIDAY 27 JUNE

📍Parvis de l'Hôtel de Ville & Place Bessières - Cahors

4:00 pm Town Hall square

Official opening of the Festival

Placing of the "Globalisation Charter" plaque by Jean-Luc Marx (Mayor of Cahors) and presentation of the Cahors Mundi awards (made by the students of lycée Gaston-Monnerville)

Reading of the Charter by students from the Lycée Clément-Marot

Performance by the Compagnie du Gramophone and Yuliia Nikitiuk

6:00pm Square Jouvenel

Inauguration of the "Poissons d'ici" exhibition

Louis Nespoulous, photographer

6:30pm Town Hall, Henri Martin room

Conference "Il y a 75 ans, Cahors Mundi et la Route sans frontières"

Michel Auvray, historian, author of "l'Histoire des citoyens du monde" (The History of World Citizens)

20h00 Place Bessières

Soirée vigneronne by Lot of Saveurs

20h30 Cinéma Le Grand Palais

Screening-Debate "Resisting for Peace"

Moderated by Nicolas Truong (Le Monde)

Hanna Assouline and Sonia Terrab

Saturday 28 June 2025

📍Place Bessières, Cinéma Le Grand Palais

9:30 am
Welcome for participants

10:00 - 11:00 am Forecourt of the future Resistance museum
Inauguration

Milestone n°1 de la Route Mondiale

Cahors Mundi exhibition

10:30 - 11:00 am Espace Clément-Marot / Place Bessières
Debate "Roads to world peace"

Moderation: Laurent Doucet, President of "La Rose Impossible"

Atsuko Nagaï, professor at the University of Tokyo and
Carlos de los Ríos Möller, Chilean psychiatrist and surrealist artist

11:00 - 11:30 am Place Bessières
Performance "Caminavi"

Conception: Mariette Bouillet, interdisciplinary artist, and Alessandro Monsutti, anthropologist. With the Ashika group and a collective of teenagers from Cadurci.

11:30am - 1pm Espace Clément-Marot / Place Bessières
Debate "Refugees without borders"
Moderator: Julie Chupin (Irrésistible Fraternité)

Alessandro Monsutti, anthropologist, professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Hara Kaminara, artist and film-maker
Max Avis, SOS Méditerranée coordinator

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Cinéma Le Grand Palais
Screening-Debate "Lettre à Nikola"

Directed by Hara Kaminara

2:00- 3:00 pm Espace Clément-Marot / Place Bessières
Conference "Why war, how peace? From a world of empires to a world of nation states"

Jean-François Bayart, political scientist and professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

3:30 - 5:00pm Espace Clément-Marot / Place Bessières

Debate "How can we defend world peace today?  "

Moderator: Jonathan Chalier (Esprit magazine)

Hanna Assouline, "Les Guerrières de la Paix"

Jean-Vincent Holeindre, professor of political science, Paris 2

Christophe Gargot, director of the film colombes sans gravité

3:00 - 4:30 pm Place Bessières

Fresco climate workshop

Run by the Carrefour des sciences et des arts association

4:00- 5:30 pm Cinéma Le Grand Palais

Screening-debate "On the line, les expulsés de l'Amérique" Winner of the Albert Londres Prize

Directed by Alex Gohari and Leo Mattei

5:00 - 6:00pm Espace Clément-Marot / Place Bessières

Debate "La Paix avec le vivant"

Moderated by Nicolas Truong (Le Monde)

Sarah Vanuxem, lecturer and researcher in law at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis

Sébastien Wolf, CNRS researcher, physicist, guitarist with the group Feu! Chatterton.

Patricia Monniaux, PNR Causses du Quercy

6:00-7:00pm Place Bessières

Collective and participative performance "Hayashi 林 - The Forest"

Michiko Fou "Let's plant a forest of Peace together

8.30pm - 10.30pm Cinéma Le Grand Palais

Screening-Debate "Colombes sans gravité"

Directed by Christophe Gargot

22h00 - 00.00: Place Bessières

DJ Sets

Global Industrial Culture (Nasha Petric)

Harome (Hadrien Mouchet)

SUNDAY 29 JUNE 2025

📍Saint-Cirq Lapopie

10:00 am - 12:00pm

Exhibition

Maison André Breton - Centre International du Surréalisme et de la Citoyenneté Mondiale

Maisons Daura and the exhibition ‘La Traversée’ in the presence of Thomas Delamarre, director of the Maison des Arts and Théophile Peris, artist

Morning

Workshop

Creation and invention in global governance at the Maison André Breton

Afternoon Place du Carol
Performance
Ghost speech by André Breton by Laurent Doucet

Debate
UN Trial: Reinventing Peace in the presence of key witnesses: Atsuko Nagaï, Carlos de los Ríos Möller and Michèle Stien, Director of Coop-Cité and Pascal Casonato, at Lycée Gaston-Monnerville de Cahors

Citizens' Agora

Workshop
The Chamber of Utopia: a device for recording dreams and revolts to build peace

Closing of the Festival