Cultural Olympiad: a collective light fresco at the Hôtel de la Marine!
As part of the Cultural Olympiad, come and admire a large-scale fresco drawn with candles in the monument's Cour d'Honneur on June 21.
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The Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image is joining forces with Swiss artist MUMA and comic strip author Zeina Abirached, in partnership with the Hôtel de la Marine, to create a collective work to mark the Cultural Olympiad.
250 volunteers will be reproducing Zeina Abirached's original creation on the theme of the Paris 2024 Olympics, by placing 25,000 candles in the Cour d'Honneur of the Hôtel de la Marine on Friday 21 June from 8.30 to 10.30 p.m.
From 10.30 p.m., you can admire the final result, while enjoying a concert by the vocal ensemble Sequenza 9.3.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
The event will take place subject to favourable weather conditions.
- 21 June 2024 at the Hôtel de la Marine, place de la Concorde
- Free without reservation
- From 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm: installation of the luminous fresco by volunteers
- From 10.30pm: opening to the public and concert by the Sequenza 9.3 vocal ensemble
