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 to Cayenne. The 'public affair', for Gaston Monnerville, is a lifetime matter, as his political journey from Guyana to Lot via Paris shows. A man of engagement, he participates in the Resistance. He denounces anti-Semitism of the Nazis as well as slavery and racism in speeches some excerpts will be echoed with texts by Martin Luther King, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Paulette Nardal, Aimé Césaire, Nancy Cunar…