Festival Résurgence X - Musical Reading "Resistances in the colors of jazz"

Bourg, Eglise

Jazz, for Gaston Monnerville, is Alexandre Stellio, a clarinetist with whom he rose in Cayenne. The “public affair” for Gaston Monnerville is a life’s work, as his political career shows, from Guyane to Lot via Paris. A man of commitment, he participates in the Resistance. He denounces Nazi antisemitism, slavery and racism in speeches some excerpts of which will be echoed with texts by Martin Luther King, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Paulette Nardal, Aimé Césaire, Nancy Cunar…