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Students’ eco-fest returns to Albi |
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Wednesday, 16 April 2008 |
Organised by students for students, Complot sur le Campus is a free festival started three years ago on the initiative of various associations at the University of Albi.
This eco-festival aims to introduce the public to environmentally-friendly alternatives: organic beer, wine and food are all featured on the menu.
The festival has no state funding: “The mairie doesn’t sponsor us because they think we’re just a group of young people wanting to get drunk,” says Adam, an English 20-year-old psychology student hailing from Oxford and an organiser of the event. “Neither do big companies who are against our ideology, but we get sponsored by other organisations. We want to show people an alternative to the way they live already. We are not at all interested in money-making machines, and we try to favour ‘les petits producteurs’... Having large companies sponsor us would be contradictory. This festival is also a good way for the British living here to break the British circle and see a French part of France that isn’t just farmers and bakers.”
There are activities all through the three days and concerts in the evenings. On Wednesday April 9, there is the ‘grand jeu’ for children of all ages, and a host of other workshops. On Thursday, a debate on sustainable development in school and on Friday an eco-citizens’ village with a farmers’ market and a hydrophile concert (music with water).
Music comes from a great variety of groups including Naive, Freycolo, Dembolo (percussion), The Banyans, Dirty Fonzy, Rageous Gratoons and À bout d’souffle.
This year the theme is ‘Crée ton monde’ create your own world. SM
April 9, 10 and 11 at the FAC Champollion.
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