Closure of the 2024 project in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine

Actively involved in the youth and citizenship plan proposed by the town of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine in the wake of the attack on Samuel Paty, and more specifically around the theme of media and information literacy, the Blaise-Cendrars media library has organised a number of initiatives around press cartoons from 2021, in close partnership with Cartooning for Peace.

The 2024 project was organised around the exhibition ‘Let’s go for sport! Press cartoons and citizenship’ with ten groups of young secondary school students from Conflans-Sainte-Honorine who were able to visit the exhibition and meet a press cartoonist for a workshop-debate and a practical press cartoon workshop.

The residency closes with in a public showcase of the young participants’ work, based on the cartoons they produced during these meetings, at the Simone Signoret Theatre (12 place Auguste-Romagné, 78700 Conflans-Sainte-Honorine) on Thursday 13 June 2024 at 7pm.

The opportunity to discover the cartoons produced as part of the project, to hear feedback from young people and teachers and also to discuss issues around a second round-table discussion entitled ‘Young people and the news’, with the participation of :

• Thomas Huchon, journalist, author, director, consultant and teacher, specialising in the web, infox and conspiracy theories,
• Olivia Villamy, journalist, editor and presenter for France 3, reporter in Seine-Saint-Denis for Le Parisien and lecturer for ELLE magazine, and Okapi journalist for Bayard presse,
• Kak, press cartoonist for the newspaper l’Opinion and President of Cartooning for Peace,
• Mr Bouhours, information teacher at the Lycée Jules Ferry,
• A final-year pupil from Lycée Jules Ferry, editor-in-chief of the school newspaper,

Moderator: Sophie Hoffmann, journalist, production manager at France Inter.

Free admission.