Chronique

Festival d’automne à Paris 2025

Carte blanche à la Casa do Povo

Micheline B. Servin

During the “carte blanche” period offered by the Paris Autumn Festival, the Maison des Métallos became the Casa do Povo de São Paulo, as part of the France-Brazil Year. It was represented by a team led by Benjamin Seroussi, its administrative and artistic director, his main collaborators and facilitators, and a selection of artists who embodied his conception of the Povo. The Casa’s vocation to preserve and transmit African and Afro-Brazilian history and spirituality through creativity merged fully with its original mission of welcoming exiled Yiddish culture (MBS)....