7 January 2015: the date is now etched in stone. It will soon be ten years since the tragic attack on the editorial offices of Charlie Hebdo, French satirical magazine.
As part of the “Les chemins de la République” programme, the Haute-Garonne Departmental Council – in partnership with the Fondation Jean Jaurès, Charlie Hebdo, Le Crayon and Cartooning for Peace – is holding an evening of debates and cartoons to remind us of the fundamental importance of press cartoons and freedom of expression in our faltering democracies.
8 January at 7pm, at the Pavillon République (1, bd de la Marquette, Toulouse, France)
Press cartoons, an artistic and journalistic genre, are a cartoonist’s take on current events. A symbol of freedom of expression, understanding press cartoons has become more important than ever since the attack on Charlie Hebdo.
Why can’t cartoonists from all over the world draw freely? Why are some threatened in countries where there is freedom of expression? Can we laugh at everything in France and elsewhere? Thanks to the Internet, cartoons circulate all over the world, but are they interpreted in the same way everywhere?
This round-table discussion will show that in France, as in many other countries, press cartoons are a historical and cultural heritage and a symbol of freedom of expression.
With Laure Daussy (journalist at “Charlie Hebdo”), Françoise Degois (journalist at Sud Radio), Alexandre Faure (president of “Le crayon”), French cartoonists Pierre Samson, Jiho, Jérôme Sié, cartoonists Cristina (Portugal), and Kak, President of Cartooning for Peace.
Moderator: David Medioni, Director of the Media Observatory at the Fondation Jean-Jaurès – Journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of Ernest, former editor-in-chief of Arrêt sur images and head of the CB News media department.
from 8 to 21 January 2024, on the gates of the Conseil départemental (Av. Honoré Serres and Bd. de la Marquette, Toulouse, France)
Cartooning for Peace presents a series of cartoons on freedom of expression from around the world. Press cartoonists, although pacifist critics of the ills of our societies, are regularly the target of attacks around the world. Often through the beneficial medium of laughter, they are the courageous guarantors of press freedom and help preserve the health of our democracies when it is threatened. “Le dessin de presse dans tous ses États” (Press cartoons: A State of Affairs) is also an illustrated book published by Gallimard.
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Exhibition “Press cartoons: A State of Affairs” at the Conseil départemental @HauteGaronne until 21 January.
🔵 Tonight 👉 round-table discussion “Why press cartoons, freedom of expression and democracy are inextricably linked?”: https://t.co/0aqjBvar6X— Cartooning for Peace (@CartooningPeace) January 8, 2024
Cartoon: Samson (France)
